Atlas Linguae

At Ochenta, we've just released a new audiobook for Valentine’s Month: Love, Gods, and Other Intelligent Systems, based on our podcast Love Items . If you've already listened to Cloe and Eloc's story about finding true love, don't worry. In this audiobook, you’ll delve deep into the most intriguing questions of Love Items: Why did Eloc gain all of her magical powers in the first place? What was at...

Studio Ochenta presents: Ochenta Cuentos Season 5! Bringing 10 brand new stories from Colombia 🇨🇴, Argentina 🇦🇷, México 🇲🇽, Chile 🇨🇱, Ecuador 🇪🇨 and Paraguay 🇵🇾. This time, we’re showcasing stories about endings - the end of a journey, the end of a trail road, the end of a flight through space... First episode drops on November 30th, 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informatio...

Este es un episodio especial en español de Atlas Linguae en el que hablamos con Bryan Rey (@bryanreyy_). Bryan es un creador de contenido de Colombia y se ha vuelto famoso en sus redes sociales por su habilidad para hablar con mucha precisión en acentos de otros países de habla hispana, así como de diferentes regiones de su propio país. En este episodio hablamos con Bryan sobre de dónde surgió su...

What’s the story behind the word Latinx and why is there so much reporting about how divisive it is? On this week’s episode we talk to writers and comedians Michael Díaz (@juanbago) and Jaime Fernández (@jfernz) about their work, including a video they worked on about the term Latinx, and about how they seek to lift up creative Latinx voices. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more informa...

For this episode, we have not one, but TWO guests: two Latinos who are great writers, actors, comedians, collaborators, but above all, friends: Michael Díaz and Jaime Fernández. Michael ( @juanbago ) is the creator behind the hilarious Juan Bago, a Dominican New Yorker best known for his candid “man-on-the-street” style of comedy. He and Jaime ( @jfernz ), who co-wrote and co-directed the Aud...

The city of Houston, Texas, has a large and culturally very active Nigerian population. When we talked to Nigerian-American content creator Beverly Adaeze for Atlas Linguae, who was born in Lagos and raised in Houston, we decided to learn more about why this city has become such a cultural hub not just for Nigeria, but for West Africa in general. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more inf...

Beverly Adaeze is a content creator, travel vlogger, wedding MC, and hairstylist born in Lagos, Nigeria, and raised in Houston, Texas. Her content is a mix of travel tips, Nigerian culture, and humor. In our conversation, we talked about her different talents and how they benefit each other, as well as some of her favorite trips.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know that the tradition of arguing over who pays the bill, an all too common scene in Arab families, has a cultural significance? Our latest guest on Atlas Linguae, Toufic Braidi, talks about how one of the things he misses the most from his life in Beirut are these heated, but ultimately wholesome and well-meaning arguments over who pays for a meal at a restaurant. Hosted on Acast. See ac...

Toufic is a Lebanese content creator based in London. His content is funny, hilarious, and as much as culturally specific as it can be. In our conversation, we talked about what he misses the most from his hometown of Beirut and how he has found his voice for his mostly arab speaking audience. Arabic Humor with Toufic Braidis Toufic is a Lebanese content creator based in London. His content is fun...

Did you know that, up until just a couple months ago, if you travelled to Korea, you would suddenly become a year or two older? This has to do with the unique way in which Koreans traditionally counted their age. Learn more about it in this snippet from our conversation with @bustermxxn for Atlas Linguae! Atlas Linguae is a show produced by Studio Ochenta. Excecutive Producer: Lory Martinez. Hoste...

The rise of Korean pop culture on a global scale, with everything from BTS to Squid Game, has gotten many people around the world excited about learning Korean, despite its challenges in terms of learning a new alphabet and grammar rules. And Buster Moon, today’s guest on Atlas Linguae is working to maintain his students’ enthusiasm for the language. Buster Moon is a Korean language teacher and co...

During our conversation with comedian Ahmed Al-Kadri for Atlas Linguae, he shared an idea for a sketch inspired by a little known fact to people who aren’t Arab-American. Did you know that Americans with roots in the Middle East and North Africa have to identify as “white” on the US Census? Learn more about the history of how this happened, and the current efforts to change it!   Hosted...

Ahmed al-Kadri is a Yemeni-American comedian who loves to delve into all sorts of topics in his content, from your usual millennial angst to the unique situations that arise when you are a Muslim in the United States. Everything from fasting for Ramadan to having to identify as white on the US census is fair game in his content on social media (@ahmedlovesbread). In this episode we hear about how...

Mexicans really love VW Beetles, and they call them “vochos.” Our latest interview for Atlas Linguae is with @yoandy_official, who is from Puebla, basically the unofficial capital of Volkswagen production in Mexico, and she originally became interested in learning German to work in a place like that. She didn’t, ultimately, but that made us want to explore the curious story of how this German car...

When Mexican YouTuber YoAndy left for Germany, she thought she would spend a short amount time of there, basically to practice the language for a little bit before returning to work in her hometown of Puebla. Now, several years later, she’s raising a family in Germany and fluent in German, though she’s still fascinated by the ways that the language behaves from her own mother tongue, which she mak...

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Dominicans have been a crucial part of New York for a long time. How long? Try over 400 years! We talked to actor, comedian, and unofficial online Dominican ambassador @gadieldelorbe, who told us about his upbringing in New York City's "Dominican Times Square". So we couldn't help but share the story of how the very first non-indigenous person ever to live in Manhattan...was in fact Dominican. Hos...

If there’s one part of our interview with Gadiel del Orbe that encompasses what he’s all about, it’s that he will sometimes literally dream of Dominican food. The actor, comedian, and content creator talks to us about his work at Buzzfeed’s Pero Like, where he became well-known for both his multicultural comedy and deep dives into culture and politics. We also talk about his improvisation-heavy ap...

When we began our interview with @bernadette.kirwan, we knew she had Irish, Palestinian, and Australian cultural roots, but we were surprised to learn that she also had a great deal of exposure to Nicaraguan culture! She told us she often had gallo pinto for breakfast, and we couldn't help but break down the dish, its history, and its importance in Latin American cuisine. Hosted on Acast. See acas...

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, to a Palestinian mother and an Irish father, content creator Bernadette Kirwan’s upbringing was, while fascinating, a lot more complex than that of even most multicultural people. Bernadette ( @bernadette.kirwan ) makes shortform video content on Instagram and TikTok, where she often both celebrates and finds humor in her different cultural backgrounds, and in...

Atlas Shorts: Why Brazil has the largest Japanese population outside of Japan How did Brazil become the country with the largest Japanese population outside of Japan? For Atlas Linguae, we talked to UK-based, Japanese-Brazilian content creator @kenzomizumoto about his cultural background, among other things, and we wanted to tell the story of how South America's largest country became a hub for Ja...

Both in his everyday life and in his videos, comedy content creator Kenzo Mizumoto ( @kenzomizumoto ) loves to challenge stereotypes in a fun way. Born in Brazil to a family of Japanese descent, and currently living in London, Kenzo has found success on Instagram and TikTok, where he has made hilarious videos about Asian stereotypes in martial arts movies, cultural peculiarities of life in the UK,...

Atlas Linguae Season 3 is all about the language of culture online, and for our first episode we talk to Maya Murillo (@mayainthemoment ), who truly embodies the joys and challenges of exploring your identity on the internet. Originally from Phoenix and based in Los Angeles, Maya is an actor, musician, and content creator who worked for several years as a producer at Buzzfeed’s “Pero Like” ch...

Announcing Season 3 of  Atlas Linguae!   Atlas Linguae is Studio Ochenta’s leading podcast about language, culture, and communication. Host Luis Lopez explores Kpop song translation with BTS army, what makes a story successful across languages with folks from Disney Pixar’s writers, how to translate what your cat is trying to tell you with an animal therapist, and so much more. Its a sho...

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