Speaking Tongues Podcast: Celebrating Voices, Stories, and Flavors From Around the Globe

This week's conversation with Marissa centers on North American French and North American Spanish. Marissa is a multilingual content creator and champion for all language learners! For this episode, we focused on dialects of French and Spanish spoken, and often marginalized, in North America. We were both eager to shift the French discussion away from Europe and talk about our French speaking neig...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. This week’s episode is packed with languages, 11 of them to be exact so get ready! I couldn’t even get them all into the title! In this episode, I’m speaking with Petra, who is a hyperpolyglot and a translator from Belgium about how she has come to learning all of the languages she speaks...

Hello Language Lovers. Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. This week I am joined by Desta, the founder of Languages Through Music to talk about her language journey through so many languages that I  couldn’t fit them all in the title! While Desta has studied and spoken and taught different languages in her lifetime, in...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. This week I’m joined by Kerstin Cable of The Fluent Show and I must say, I can barely believe it. I’ve been such a fan of The Fluent Show for a long long time. So what does one talk about with another language podcaster who has seen it all?! We talked about her language journey through lo...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. My guest today is Gloria, an Italian teacher and founder of SpeakIta. In this episode, Gloria and I talk about having patience when learning another language and she tells me a strategy that she used to help her learn English while living in the UK. We talk about mindfulness not as a prac...

I’m so excited to bring you this episode where I’m speaking with Rebecca, a student at Georgetown University and the founder of Project Olas, student-led social impact venture that provides sustainable income opportunities for moms in vulnerable Central American communities, by offering Spanish language lessons live via WhatsApp. In this conversation, Rebecca talks about how her experience studyin...

My guest this week is Sausan the creator of Learn Bangla and online resource for learning the Bangla language and for learning about culture in Bangladesh. In this episode, Sausan tells me about the ways Bangla stands out as a language in south Asia, we learn about how she typically approaches language lessons with her students and we learn how the Bangla language became the catalyst for Unesco’s...

This week I’m so happy to bring you this truly awesome conversation I had with Kris Broholm of Actual Fluency about the Danish language. Kris was delightful to talk with and I learned a lot about the Danish culture and language. In this episode, Kris tells us some of the nitty gritty things about the language including Danish pronunciation, some fun facts about counting in Danish and we learn a th...

For this episode, you long time listeners will find something different. For the first time in doing this show for one year now, I have two guests in one show. This week, I am joined by my friends over at Diversilingua Podcast, Diego & Renata and they are talking to us about Brazilian Portuguese. Diego & Renata are both members of a polyglot club in Brazil and in this episode, they are tel...

Today, I’m speaking with Carol, a Levantine Arabic teacher and the founder of NASMA of New  York and the host of Levantine Arabic Made Easier Podcast. Friends this conversation was so much fun because as you know by now if you’ve listened for a long time, I love the Arabic language and am always happy to learn about Arab culture from my arabic speaking friends. In this episode, we talk about...

Today, my guest is Mickael, founder of FrenchClass NYC and we are talking about creole spoken in Martinique and French spoken in France. Actually, in this episode, we’re talking about a multitude of topics that include the perception versus reality of people of color in France, diversity and the expression of black voices  in France. I’m asking Mickael about  representation of French Car...

On this first episode of the new year, I’m speaking with Anike, a writer, storyteller from London about her heritage language of Yoruba. In this conversation, we’re not just talking about Yoruba language, friends. Oh no no…. We’re talking about Nigerian heritage and the culture of British Born Nigerians & how their culture is expressed in the UK.  We discuss the connection between storyte...

My guest today is Yoko, the creator of Foodstory, a Japanese food experience that offers cooking classes in Los Angeles & Culinary Tours in Japan. In this episode, I talk with Yoko not just about the Japanese language and vocabulary but also about the culture. We discuss the differences between men’s and women’s vocabulary, dialects throughout Japan and the influence of indigenous people in Ho...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. My guest today is Sarah, joining me from London to talk about the Danish language. This is the first time I’ve featured Danish on the show and I’m really excited to have had this opportunity to learn a bit about it from Sarah’s perspective. In this episode, Sarah tells us about growing up...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. Today I’m speaking with Tyler, a language lover who began his road to speaking a second language as an adult and if you love to read or love literature, you’re going to love this conversation. In this episode, Tyler tells us how his mormon upbringing helped spark his curiosity with foreig...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multi linguals. Today I’m speaking with Dr. Carlos Yebra-Lopez of Ladino 21 and The Hyperpolyglot Activist, about the endangered Judeo-Spanish language also known as Ladino. In this episode, Carlos gives us all an overview of Ladino starting from its origins and its spread throughout the diaspora. If yo...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. This episode we are talking with Wairimu, creator of Mwalimu Wairimu about Swahili, Kikuyu and Sheng. Friends, I loved having this conversation and in fact we talked for over two hours and I still didn’t get to talk about all of the things that were looming in my mind -- but more on that...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. Today we are going on a linguistic journey around the world speaking Wenzhou, French and Mandarin with Lihui Ke, the founder and creative director of Kerisma Knits, a family owned, Los Angeles based knitwear design company. In this episode, Lihui tells us some of her story from her time g...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. Today’s conversation we are talking about Mexican Spanish with the founder of Speak Like a Mexican. In this episode. Ricardo talks to us about some specific things that make Mexican Spanish stand out from Spanish spoken in other regions of the world. We talk about how he’s able to teach S...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. Today’s conversation we are heading back to one of my favorite regions in the world to talk about Papiamento with Keisha Weil, a PhD candidate and Linguistic Anthropologist. In this recording Keisha was talking to me from Aruba where Papiamento is widely spoken and she has been conducting...

Thank you for joining me for this episode of Speaking Tongues- the podcast in conversation with multilinguals. Today’s episode is quite the departure from the norm in one specific way! My guest today is Katie from The French Wine tutor and we are talking all about the French language, French culture and of course, French wine. This is the time you may want to pause here, go grab a glass of wine an...

In today’s conversation, I’m talking with Juliana of The Language Mindset about her journey through three romance languages- Spanish, French and Italian. In this episode, Juliana --who is so full of adventure!- guides us around the world from her time studying abroad in Europe college to her very immersive experience with Spanish in Buenos Aires! Juliana talks to us about how she started The Langu...

Today’s conversation is one of firsts because this is the first time we’re speaking about a language from India and my guest today, Vivek, is the first guest that I’ve recorded with over a huge time difference! I’m so grateful to Vivek for being able to make the time to coordinate our schedules for this conversation. In this episode, I learned a LOT and I think Vivek was the perfect person to have...

Today I’m talking with Nadia and this is my third episode talking about Sicilian. If you notice and listen to each of the episodes, all three of my guests have had different perspectives on the Sicilian language. This is one thing I love about this show is that no matter how many times we talk about one language, we’ll always have different stories to share our experiences. In talking with Nadia t...

Welcome back to another episode of Speaking Tongues. Today  I’m speaking with Acacia, the founder of Ethnic Ties, a travel company specializing in pre-departure preparation so you can have an authentic and comfortable travel experience. But that’s just one role that this entrepreneur has. She also hosts language meetups and she’s developing a Black Travel App which she’ll tell us more about i...