Do you feel different when you speak other languages?

I do and Daniel, my guest in this conversation, does too.

But he also mentioned that he also feels different using dialects in Switzerland. We dove into this and other language identity aspects in this convo.

This conversation is available in audio form (above player OR search for "Geopats Language" wherever you listen to podcasts) AND video form (below YouTube video). 

Today’s episode is not our usual conversation style. Instead we’re going to get a deep dive update from previous guest Von from episode 13 of Geopats Language. Back in November I participated inNational Podcast Posting Month (NaPodPoMo), where crazy Podcasters like myself published an episode a day for a month. For this experiment I invited previous guests from all of the Geopats Podcast Network to come back on the podcast. I asked them to relisten to their original episode and record 2 things: an update on what’s changed for them since that episode and their impressions of that episode (most of which were a couple of years old). Most guests sent about 10-20 minutes of thoughts to me for this project but Von sent 50 minutes. Oh, this was all so interesting to hear. But for NaPodPoMo, I was only publishing mini episodes that were about 10 minutes long. So I used a“brain burn” clip of Von’s that was about this length for NaPodPoMo and saved the rest of his language thoughts for later. Welcome to later.   
 
During this episode he shares: 
-how some people overthink learning Mandarin Chinese tones
-how language learning as an adult can be easier than learning languages as a child 
-how Mandarin Chinese gets more difficult the more you learn it (exponentially so)
-how he got his Chinese name through rather nefarious methods 

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Can learning a new language unlock part of your personality?

This is something I've wondered my entire language play experience. And I've been asking guests flavors of this question more and more lately.
How Kyle and Diane answer this question is really going to tickle your funny bone and get you thinking about this too. They are two Americans who went to Albanian separately to do the Peace Corps.

Yes, yes, we also talk about:
-Albanian & other regional languages
-cultural insights they gained while using these languages
-tips for how to learn limited resource languages, like Albanian

NEW: The unedited YouTube video of this conversation: https://youtu.be/k1Ui1W-XiTA

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Language can be a lens into culture, a way to share our experiences and a tool to help others.  

These are some of the aspects of language that we discuss with guest Elizabeth Gowing. She  worked in primary education in inner London before moving to the Balkans in 2006. From then until very recently she split her time between Kosovo, Albania and the UK. During her time in the Balkans she immersed herself in many of the languages used there and shares the cultural insights that she learned. 

One of these experiences while she was in Kosovo was co-founding the Ideas Partnership non-profit. She is also the owner of the Sapune social enterprise, offering employment to village and minority community women and support to the education of their children. Elizabeth is also an author of five travel books and has translated two books from Albanian.

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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.  

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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. 

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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. 

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​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.
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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. 

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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