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How can a blind person learn and engage with language?
Kavein, who has been blind since birth, is here to help us understand more about language learning and usage while being blind. We als touch on accessibility issues with technology, specifically screen readers. Kavein grew up using 3 languages in Malaysia: Tamil, Bahasa Malay and English. He has a fascination with the evolution and history of language. We also dive into a really fun tangent about emojis that I think you'll enjoy. The second part of this episode is about Kavein's podcasting obsession and will be on Geopats Podcasting next week. Sign up for the Stephfuccio.com Newsletter: www.stephfuccio.com Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/geopats
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If you've ever wondered what it's like to live and do linguistic research in Kathmandu, Nepal, this episode is for you!
Big & White, their podcasting nicknames, are two American Linguists who, until very recently were living in Nepal and creating a rather hilarious audio account of their daily lives on their podcast (The Big & White podcast). Their connection and how they bounce off each other is so much fun to listen to. This is the main reason I became a fan of The Big & White Podcast in the first place and definitely why I asked to interview them for the show. This episode is a part of a podcast pair. How apt. Most of the podcasting chat is over on Geopats Podcasting and the language chat is in this episode. Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. Buy us a coffee: www.buymeacoffee.com/geopats
It makes my heart soar when someone I am interviewing quotes a previous guest. This is what happened with then Mandarin Chinese language learner Von and his "brain burn" description on Geopats Language podcast back in 2018. So even though Von had a lot more reflections that he sent me for this episode, I am sharing his brain burn in this episode. It. is. fascinating. In January 2021, I will have the other 40 minutes of Von's reflections for you.
Would love to hear from you! Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn & you can even leave a voice message on Speakpipe. This is a replay from our Geopats NaPodPoMo, National Podcast Posting Month, from November 2020. You can listen to all of the episodes from last month here: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo OR by searching for "Geopats NaPodPoMo" on your podcast app.
This episode is really special for me. Last month for NaPodPoMo I had the extreme pleasure of chatting with Damon Castillo for this episode. Yes, THE Damon Castillo of the Mess of Me album that we've been using for the past 2 years in all of the Geopats Podcast Network shows. We talk about the longevity of the Damon Castillo Band, his geopatness, my favorite song on the Mess of Me Album (Saint Cecilia), his recording studio in San Luis Obispo, what music he listens to and some creative struggles. In short, we cover the elements that make up the language of music, lovely, lovely music.
This is a replay from our Geopats NaPodPoMo, National Podcast Posting Month, from November 2020. You can listen to all of the episodes from last month here: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo OR by searching for "Geopats NaPodPoMo" on your podcast app.
Matthew Boyle wants to make language learning magical for you. We met on YouTube about 2 years ago and he was my first remote Geopats Language podcast guest. It was so much fun to dig into his relationship with language and his experiences learning Mandarin Chinese in China. In this episode for NaPodPoMo he reflects on our episode from December 2018 and shares many of the wonderful things he is doing in the language world nowadays. And he dares YOU to be bold about your language learning process.
This is a replay from our Geopats NaPodPoMo, National Podcast Posting Month, from November 2020. You can listen to all of the episodes from last month here: https://www.stephfuccio.com/napodpomo OR by searching for "Geopats NaPodPoMo" on your podcast app.
Matthew's full interview from episode 11 can be found here:
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On September 30, 2020 I was thrilled to lead a language learning Podcasters panel for International Podcast Day. You can watch the video of this panel on YouTube, https://youtu.be/hR8fr0Hapo0, OR you can listen to this on this episode. Thank you to Dave and Steve, the geniuses behind IPD, for holding yet another amazing year's sessions of Podcasters from around the world. And for allowing us to use the audio versions of our panel on our podcasts. Since you are language lovers, you may want to check out the other IPD sessions on YouTube IN other languages.
More info: www.stephfuccio.com/geopatspolanguage/33
In this episode we are talking to Ken Hirano, who was born in Japan but his family moved to the U.S. before he started school. He has returned to Japan to live a few times in his life, and now is one of them. He moved back to Tokyo about a year ago and recently wrote a post on LinkedIn on this geographic anniversary about his cultural and language identity. And that is what we are digging into today. This identity path took us through how he feels in different languages, why he feels more simple and defenseless in Japanese than English, how Japanese locals versus expats in Japan treat his Japanese & Americanness and where he is the most comfortable. Spoiler: none of these issues have a clearly defined answer and that is what made this nuanced discussion with Ken so interesting to have.
You can find the full show notes, links, etc to this episode at https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopatslanguage/32
Welcome to a language learning conversation in 3 acts with Kerstin Cable of The Fluent Show Podcast. Act 1 is where Kerstin and I share our empathy for the language learner during the sometimes arduous process. But then we hit heads in act 2 by arguing (respectfully, of course) about natural ability when it comes to learning languages. But don't worry, by act 3, we shift to swooning, with languages being the things we fall in love with.
Do you want to learn German? Try the German Uncovered Course. I am! https://school.fluentlanguage.co.uk/p/german-uncovered/?affcode=28114_oc64fynv & Here is the freebie course which gives a lesson sample and introduces the learning method. https://school.fluentlanguage.co.uk/p/storybasedgerman?affcode=28114_oc64fynv
This is our first before and after language follow up episode. Cameron and I chatted about his Mandarin Chinese language learning process and progress in September 2019, in episode 21 (https://www.stephfuccio.com/geopatslanguage/21). At the end of that episode we had him write his own questions for this six month follow up chat.
29: Beyond the Words: German Language Ponderings with Steph from Transcontinental Overload7/16/2020
Steph Cook was born near Munich, Germany, As a true Geopat, she moved to the UK in her twenties, met her English husband, had two kids, and moved to the U.S. 10 years ago. For the past 4 years, she's lived in Austin, Texas. She loves languages, multicultural living and the stories that emerge from talking about these experiences. You can read and hear these stories in her blog and her podcast with the same name: Transcontinental Overload. In this episode, we address 3 aspects of German that strike me (Geopats Steph) as strange. Her insights and humo(u)r about these differences is a sheer delight. You will never hear the German language in the same way again.
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