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Celebrating the First Female Expedition Leader for National Geographic Travel Tisa Oldham. Making history while traveling the world, bridging cultu...
- Added: Apr 28, 2023
- Length: 25:36
Before you plan to live or study aboard hear from these experts first about considerations, dos and don’ts prior to embarking on life as an expat o...
- Added: Jan 12, 2020
- Length: 29:55
Producer Carla Seidl recalls her experience in Togo, West Africa, through language notes and audio recordings. A sound-rich cultural immersion/aud...
- Added: Nov 30, 2018
- Length: 09:04
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
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
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
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
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
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 travel to China and find ourselves dancing in between the communist government and religion, outsiders and Christianity, parents and the next ge...
- Added: Apr 09, 2017
- Length: 30:53
This special episode talks about the different types of experiences women have while traveling over an expanse of countries. Tune in!
- Added: Jul 05, 2016
- Length: 53:23
- Added: Jun 11, 2016
- Length: 15:45
Cook County teacher and writer Ann Marie Mershon spent nine semesters teaching in Turkey. She's written a memoir of her time there, "You Must Only ...
- Added: May 17, 2016
- Length: 20:40
A West African folktale in which dishonesty is revealed through a dance competition.
- Added: Apr 01, 2016
- Length: 03:19
Film as an opening to unknown cultures, expanded worldviews, and deeply personal adventures. Host Joan Kjaer and her guests take a close look at th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 23:41
Film as an opening to unknown cultures, expanded worldviews, and deeply personal adventures. Host Joan Kjaer and her guests take a close look at th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 26:18
Film as an opening to unknown cultures, expanded worldviews, and deeply personal adventures. Host Joan Kjaer and her guests take a close look at th...
- Added: Jun 15, 2015
- Length: 27:19
COSTA RICA is perhaps Central America's most progressive country.
It is ranked as the "greenest" country on earth. 6% of its land mass in fact is f...
- Added: Feb 11, 2015
- Length: 01:04:38
The first Simmer episode features an interview with Malawi Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and songwriter Dr. Jack Allison and an investigation of t...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
"The Rainbow or the Stick?: Teaching and Discipline Across Cultures" features interviews with Renee Owen, director of the Rainbow Mountain Childre...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
Discovering The Mohawk Trail/ 100th Anniversary
celebrates this part of the Berkshires, from Albany, NY
to Boston, MA. Some of New England's most h...
- Added: Nov 19, 2014
- Length: 01:04:41
Auto Biography is the true story of a '57 Chevy and the 13 people who
owned it. And, modern day pilgrims walk the 500 miles of the Camino de Santi...
Bought by WCNY, Accessible Media Inc. Station Account, WTJU, and KKRN
- Added: Aug 01, 2014
- Length: 53:54
- Purchases: 4
The Bahamas is composed of more than 700 islands and is the
nearest resort destination to the U.S. mainland after Cuba.
It has a varied history.
- Added: Jun 07, 2014
- Length: 01:03:57
EU'sCapitalCitiesofCulture, 2014, include Riga,Latvia & Umea, Sweden. Both are known for Art,Music&Dance, Festivals,Historic Sites.
- Added: Apr 28, 2014
- Length: 01:00:05
Cruising will feature a number of prominent executives who best know
about this exploding market.
- Added: Mar 24, 2014
- Length: 01:01:57