All Pieces for Steve Leveen
In this second episode on the dual-language movement, we hear from six voices of change in America. They trace their heritages to different countri...
- Added: May 09, 2018
- Length: 01:02:30
Imagine there was a new way of teaching that results in most students becoming truly bilingual and biliterate before finishing high school. Imagine...
- Added: Apr 25, 2018
- Length: 28:26
How has a presumably dead language become such a disruptor? Because Latin certainly seems to be just that. It’s one of the most frequently taught l...
- Added: Apr 12, 2018
- Length: 19:04
We're back with Season 2 of America the Bilingual! We open with this episode that features two stories of how people reconstruct themselves in a ne...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 30:30
As we close Season One of America the Bilingual, we are filled with gratitude for the hundreds of interviewees—teachers, scholars, and bilinguals o...
- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 08:13
It’s a gift that can’t go under the tree, it can’t even be seen, but it’s one of the best gifts in life. It is, of course, the gift of bilingualism...
- Added: Dec 30, 2017
- Length: 29:27
Paulina Jedrzejowski was five years old when two airliners slammed into the World Trade Center. She was just a few miles away in Brooklyn and wonde...
- Added: Nov 23, 2017
- Length: 27:16
Bill Weir, travel correspondent and host of CNN Wonder List has his dream job. He gets to jet all over the world to capture images and weave storie...
- Added: Nov 22, 2017
- Length: 13:38
When older adults learn another language, they don’t have the advantages of toddlers, whose minds are wired to learn two or three languages simulta...
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 28:54
He was rich, persuasive — and wrong. But Ron Unz succeeded in leading our most populous state down a dark path in the history of language education...
- Added: Oct 11, 2017
- Length: 30:16
In his junior year of high school, Doug Renfield-Miller was flunking out. It didn’t help to also get ejected from school for passing out anti-war p...
- Added: Sep 27, 2017
- Length: 25:58
America has been called the place where languages go to die. But not always. In episode 8 of America the Bilingual we hear the story of two America...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 20:02
Bettina Young had a remarkable young life — a fairy tale life by the standard of so many American girls who dream of becoming ballet dancers and mo...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 21:19
How hard can it be to go up to the counter at McDonald’s and ask for ketchup? The answer might depend on how confident you are in English.
Michelle...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 14:38
Does the whole world speak English? It seems so when you travel to big cities and stay in major hotels. It seems so when you visit popular tourist ...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 13:27
We hear it before we are born. Before the first air rushes into our tiny lungs, before the first light refracts into our blinking, baby eyes, our m...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 15:21
Nick Staffa was meant to become a rock star — but the kind who works on a somewhat smaller stage. This kid from Long Island of Italian heritage, wo...
- Added: Sep 03, 2017
- Length: 27:17
Linguists call it “shift.” The rest of us would call it “loss.” It’s what happens to the languages spoken by immigrants, and it happens fast. By th...
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 19:12
We’ll follow David Wolf’s journey, with its twists and turns through Paris and the Bordeaux region, learn of a love interest, and a friendship that...
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 19:24
Does the whole world speak English? Not quite, not even in France, if you really want to do business. Meet Ben Macklowe, a New York City kid, who g...
- Added: Sep 02, 2017
- Length: 14:37
