America the Bilingual
Series produced by Steve Leveen
Image by: Carlos Plaza Design Studio
America the Bilingual
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An America proudly bilingual will be a country capable of truly hearing the world — and, therefore, an America the world truly wants to hear.
America from sea to shining sea, united with one language…and united with hundreds more. No country comes close to America in the quantity and diversity of our immigrant citizens. In time, we will come to appreciate the treasure contained in the voices of our immigrants and other bilinguals, and view these voices as International Language Capital, an important subset of the nation’s Human Capital.
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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
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
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
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
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
It’s easy to see why it seems so. We see Spanish signs when we shop at Walmart and Home Depot, and on our cocktail napkins on JetBlue. When we phon...
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- Added: Aug 20, 2017
- Length: 21:51
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Twenty-five percent of American Latinos don’t speak Spanish, because they can’t. The erosion of Spanish and other heritage languages will continue ...
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- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 32:14
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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
With millions of Latinos wanting to improve their English and millions of Anglos wanting to improve their Spanish, you’d think there would be lots ...
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- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 22:06
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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
