All Pieces for Steve Leveen
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When adult language learners start out, they might sound (a) like a native speaker, (b) like Taylor Swift, (c) like they’re ...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 14:37
In the west African country of Cameroon, it’s not unusual for youngsters playing a neighborhood game of soccer to encounter different languages amo...
- Added: Jun 20, 2019
- Length: 12:10
None of us can master every language, but we can all learn phrases that extend a symbolic hand in greeting and say, “To show I respect you, and the...
- Added: May 16, 2019
- Length: 17:27
In 2005, North Carolina had seven dual-language schools; in 2018, there were 140. A 2018 graduating class at one of these dual-language high school...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 14:24
This fifth episode in our series on some of the finest summer language immersion programs takes us to Université Sainte-Anne in the tiny village of...
- Added: Apr 11, 2019
- Length: 27:06
While bilingual schools for spoken languages are becoming more popular in America, fewer children are attending bilingual schools for signed langua...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 14:18
n the United States, we hear periodic news reports about people being accosted for speaking another language in public. In order to be a patriotic,...
- Added: Mar 17, 2019
- Length: 33:57
On September 11, 2001, the value of knowing another language was probably the last thing on the minds of most Americans. But 9/11 revealed another ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2019
- Length: 28:43
In our continuing series of dual language summer immersion programs, in Episode 37 of the America the Bilingual podcast, we learn what it means to ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2019
- Length: 29:50
In our continuing series of episodes featuring the most well-known summer language immersion programs in America, in Episode 36 we travel to Dartmo...
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 24:50
World War I shattered a way of life for millions. But one positive result, invented by a German-American immigrant, continues to deliver blessings ...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 27:45
Jenny K. Messner credits the high school cultural exchange program of AFS with transforming her life. Living in Brazil for a year in the 1970s, Jen...
- Added: Nov 21, 2018
- Length: 14:23
Immersion, say many who’ve done it, is the best way to learn another language. But moving to Florence or Fez isn’t the only way to achieve it. Movi...
- Added: Nov 05, 2018
- Length: 20:03
My talk with Bill Davis — journalist, editor, radio and television host, speechwriter and jet-setter — on bilingualism, being cheeky with the Queen...
- Added: Oct 23, 2018
- Length: 17:04
What older generations may remember from their language classes—drills of verb conjugations, constant corrections of grammar and sentence structure...
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- Added: Sep 06, 2018
- Length: 18:56
- Purchases: 1
Among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina, there are fewer than 200 first-language speakers of Cherokee. In Episode 30 of Americ...
- Added: Aug 16, 2018
- Length: 11:50
“The hearing community tends to see deaf people and signing as something that’s on the sidelines of our society rather than in the mainstream….[but...
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- Added: Jul 13, 2018
- Length: 12:17
- Purchases: 1
“We have ground rules,” said Amjad, an Arab American speaking about his family of five, “and the ground rules say in public places we don’t speak a...
- Added: Jun 24, 2018
- Length: 18:52
When people find out I’m learning Spanish, they frequently ask me, “How are you doing it?” It’s an obvious question. But over the years I’ve discov...
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 16:06
Even at 16 we may be too old to learn a new language and speak it without an accent. So what about us adults over 50? Should we even bother trying?...
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- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 20:03
- Purchases: 1
