Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Martha Summerlin, a self-proclaimed language nerd, proud introvert and cat fan. When she isn’t buried in books or thinking about how language works, you can find her exploring one of North Carolina’s beautiful parks, trying out a new coffee shop or talking your ear off about the marvels of baseball and Formula 1. Having studied sociolinguistics (the study of people’s attitudes towards dialects and accents) she’s passionate about sharing the value of each dialect and language and what they have to teach us about each other.

Her podcast has now been out since March 2023 called Shhh...I'm Learning! Make sure you give it a listen!

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Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Karen M. Ricks, a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for over 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade. After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to cook for themselves and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family’s edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at Our Kitchen Classroom dot com

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Welcome Language Learners to Part 2 of the Death of Language Compilation!

What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you have to think about it for a moment, and really there is no right or wrong answer to this question.

Really the question is to get you to think about yourself, your family, someone you know, the language and culture and the immersion of that or maybe the literal death of language. The languages that are dying because it’s not being passed down from generation to generation, not being taught, spoken, not being recognized.

The death of language came from me deciding what I wanted to do with this podcast and having conversations with my mom and thinking about how diverse we are and how like we don’t speak no other language besides English. And so, I have 2 main questions that come from this topic, it’s WHAT HAPPENED? And WHY?

For this episode, I have 7 guest who will provide their answers with thought, emotion, feelings, and relatability, and in no particular order, here is Karen, Kim, Kamille, Adrienne, Joshua, Martha, and the ladies from the Hermosas Chicas Negras: Ayo, Paula, and D’anne with their answers to "What does the death of language with families mean to you?"

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Welcome back! It is SEASON 2 YALL! I am your host Alexandria of the Insecurities about Language Podcast. And this season I will continue to talk about individual language journeys, especially mine since I failed to do that last year. I will be diving more into the Death of Language within families and getting my family involved, so ya’ll can hear more about their stories. I will be interviewing folks about Bilingualism and Linguistic and those topics will be little mini-series within this season! and of course anyone who wants to have a conversation about language and what it means to them and how it relates to their life.

I also want to invite those who would like to answer the question: WHAT DOES THE DEATH OF LANGUAGE WITHIN FAMILIES MEAN TO YOU?

There will be a link in the show notes for you to provide your answer.

Let me know if:

o Yes, share my name and answer

o only share answer

o don’t share

Death Of Language Answers!

For this episode, I will talk about my goals, and if you have been following me on IG during January you would’ve noticed that I’ve been doing this 30 day speaking challenge from my online PT program. I’ll talk about how it went and what those results came to be!

The GOALS are pretty straightforward, I don’t want to overcomplicate it, especially since I'm just getting back into it…

1. I will be doing monthly updates on my progress, and it will involve some speaking in Portuguese.

2. I want to document what I’m using and how I’m using it.

3. I want to start reading, probably will start in April 2023.

4. I’d love to do a day in my life type of podcast… (said it was 5th on the podcast lol)

5. I’d love to have one podcast interview in Portuguese and of course it’ll be easy enough for me to get through. - What topics would you want to hear in Portuguese?

6. My last goal is to test out of the A1 category.

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30 Day Speaking Challenge: Portuguese and English

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to the last episode of season 1, and another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Marcus from Louisiana. He’s a polyglot and currently live in Pamplona, Spain, the place of the famous running of the bulls. He studied both Psychology (Bachelor’s) and Linguistics (Master’s). He has a unique interest in minority language because he is a minority language speaker. His hope is to preserve them and help them gain speakers before they are all gone.

You’ll hear Marcus speak about his background with language learning and his family as well. He lets us know what a minority language is, its importance and benefits. He talks about his minority language, its geographical location, a little history lesson on the Basque language and its evolution. He also talks about how to maintain a minority language. Marcus mentions language isolates. And of course, he talks about his insecurities about language.

***we had some technical difficulties***

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Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. This is a special interview with the Hermosas Chicas Negras! In this episode, I spoke with D’anne, Ayo, and Paula of the Hermosas Chicas Negras about their language learning journey with Spanish. Each are leaning Spanish from different Spanish speaking countries. You’ll hear thoughtful explanations about their language environments, how they meet one another, why they chose the specific Spanish language, and of course, their insecurities about the language! Also, they answered one of my most important questions, “What does the death of language within families mean to you?” And so much more. These ladies are so encouraging, and I hope you all enjoy this special episode!

Dominican Republic Spanish- D’anne

Mexican Spanish- Ayo

Colombian Spanish- Paula

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A few episodes to listen to but listen to them all! You will learn and be entertained!

Visual and auditory learning styles

Traditional learning styles

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jacqueline S. Sadberry, a small-town girl hailing from Texas. She is a poet, self-published author, and passionate language lover. Between studying Japanese, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and writing her second novel, she also assists people with becoming conversational in Spanish, Japanese and English. You can find her on YouTube and Instagram under JSS Media: Langs.

***corrections from Jacqueline: My oldest aunt was the last one who could speak it and she passed last year. (My other aunt was the second or third oldest girl, but she learned through a member at church. That's the one who passed 4-5 years ago.)

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Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eliza, who works in language education and is currently based in Vietnam. As a child, her father married her Serbian stepmother, a first gen Yugoslav immigrant. From the age of 5, Eliza grew up with summer and winter holidays around Serbian food, language, and traditions. However, neither she nor her brother nor her cousins carried the language further.  After meeting her husband from the south Indian state of Kerala, her attempt to learn his mother tongue, Malayalam exposed a massive lack in resources and educational materials. Meeting various heritages speakers across the diaspora, as well as studying the social and economic constraints on language learning, has helped Eliza to create dialogues about social change for language preservation.

Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. You can also leave me a voice message by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shana Inofuentes (Aymara and Ashkenazi), who revels in communication that inspires joy and justice. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish, and is an elementary heritage speaker of Aymara, Quechua, and Hebrew. She is a proud daughter of the Bolivian immigrant community of metro Washington, D.C.—the largest Quechua and the largest Bolivian community in the U.S. An art activist, and communications strategist, she recently founded and serves as President of The Quechua Project using social media activism for Quechua revitalization among her community’s youth. After the passing of her Aymara-speaking grandmother in Bolivia, Shana became acutely aware of Native language loss ramifications. Recognizing the potential for this same loss among friends in her predominantly Quechua community, she sought partners to turn the tide. Shana feels compelled to give back to her community by building a future where youth like her son, Amichai, can thrive without sacrificing their identity, a luxury their ancestors did not have. Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. You can also leave me a voice message by clicking here. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!