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A continuation of Bri and author Alin Yasin's conversation on his book of poetry titled "Good Grief: Sixty Poems for Sixty Days". Instead of grief, Alin weighs in this week on love, the idea of home, and travel. 

Find Alin's book Good Grief at www.alinuru.com

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Author, poet, culture specialist, world traveler, and interpreter Alin Yasin sits down with Bri to discuss his collective work of poems from "Good Grief: 60 Days with 60 Poems", written after the passing of his wife. In the first episode of a two-part conversation on the book that contains both the English and Swahili translations of the poems, the two discuss the hard problem of grief, and how language and writing across cultures became an exercise in healing. 

Shop for "Good Grief" by Alinuru Yasin here: https://www.alinuru.com/

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Are English speakers more responsible for spreading coronavirus than other languages? Bri and Dawn explore and discuss studies that say 'maybe'!

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Protests for a language? After learning about language death last week, Bri examines two languages that made the news this week and how they are doing in their current battles against extinction. 

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What does it mean when a language dies? How does it happen? Should we be worried about it? In this episode, Bri takes a deeper look into language death and the way it has shaped out world today. 

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Bri and special guest Dano discuss the origins of Labor Day, and the backseat the holiday's meaning has taken in our cultural consciousness.

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Bri and Dawn discuss the Coronavirus Language Access Act that was introduced to Congress in April and has not yet been brought to a vote. Global's office puppy, Finn, makes a guest appearance. 

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Bri and Dawn discuss easy ways we can make communication more accessible and inclusive to Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. Dawn tells us about growing up with a hard of hearing parent.

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Bri and Dawn sit down to discuss the tidal wave of change that has hit the interpreting industry in response to COVID-19. From working in hospitals at the height of the virus, to navigating "The Mask", get an inside scoop on the post-corona interpreting world.

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Bri and Ken, an interpreter and former culture and language specialist for the United States Special Forces, discuss the use of language, literature, and more in Khaled Hosseini's book "A Thousand Splendid Suns".

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