Insecurities about Language

Welcome to the Insecurities about language podcast: The Death of Language. In this episode I am going to talk about: what is this, where did it come from, what are my goals with this topic, and I will define what does the Death of Language within families mean to me!

And so the overall goal of this segment or topic is to talk about and answer the question: 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 you immersed yourself in, or maybe the literal death of language. The languages that are dying because its not being past down from generation to generation, not being taught, spoken, not being recognized or respected.

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, its WHAT HAPPENED? And WHY?

Make sure to tune into this episode to here more!

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Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of finally speaking about languages from a males perspective. Joshua was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. He began learning Spanish in school but desired much more than what he received. He started his solo journey after graduating college to learn Spanish on his own. Trying out many different strategies and failing on the way, he has fallen in love with the process and with languages. His passion for language learning has taken him to Mexico, the Dominican Republic twice, a Spanish church, and serving the Latino community as a volunteer distributing food where he lived. Now, he is on a new chapter of his journey learning a new language, French, to add to his toolbelt but also wants to learn German in the future. Also, he has created a YouTube channel called Spanish Blueprints which is dedicated to helping Spanish learners by giving them study strategies, language learning resources, and his personal experiences with the language learning. He desires to one day be a language coach or a language teacher to fulfill his passion for helping others.

Introduction to the Spanish language and culture

Self-learning with Spanish

What was most impactful

Strategies of language learning

Travels to Mexico and the Dominic Republic

Environment and tools used

Insecurities about the Spanish language

and his favorite word and phrase in the language.

Make sure to check out his YouTube channel and his Instagram to connect!

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. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview with Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kim! She is currently lives in Mexico and has lived in 3 other countries abroad including Japan, Vietnam, and China. She’s studied Spanish and Japanese and dabbled in Mandarin during her time in China. She teaches English online as her daytime gig, but her passion is showing other Black women how accessible moving abroad can be no matter their current financial situation.

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. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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Welcome Language Learners to a super special topic that I will be tackling on this podcast!

Today I have complied answers to a question that I have been asking every guest that you have already heard and will hear soon about a topic that I am very interested in tackling. And so, the question that I’ve asked is…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?

So, for this episode, I have 7 ladies who will provide their answer with thought, emotion, feelings, and relatability

This is the order of speakers and a few points that stuck out for me. Make sure to check out their episode if you haven’t had the chance to hear or want to listen again! Also, check out Erin’s episode we actually delve a bit more into the death of language.

Shahidah- Language families

Christine- Lost of History

Tiara- Culture/ Language within families

Niyah- language and intelligence equivalency, language deprivation

Erin- ME, 1st generation American

Nelsy- …managed to keep our language alive within our family, the Death of Language can happen with ME

Olivia– You don’t notice it until later, Regretful

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. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview with Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Olivia, a native of Ohio who's always had an interest in languages. She is currently learning Italian with hopes of being at least 80% intelligible within the next three years.

Olivia tells us what her fluency goal is and why!

She talks about how we initially learn languages, and that is through LISTENING! Have you ever though about that? 

She also talks about how practicing is the hardest part about learning a language.

Olivia also talks about being blind and learning languages.

She also co-captains the social commentary podcast Intersectional Insights where she and her cohost Raven discuss issues from the intersection of race, gender and disability.

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. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Nelsy (Yseuln), currently living in Amsterdam. She was born and raised in Reunion Island, which is located between Madagascar and Mauritius.  French and Reunionese creole are her native languages, and she has a strong interest in language learning. She gave a thorough background about when she began learning languages and her journey. Nelsy talks about the official and unofficial language of Reunion Island, French and Reunionese Creole. She mentions joining Twitter was a big turning point in her language journey with English. Nelsy has learned many languages and has a tendency to take on languages with a different writing system, like the Korean language.

We get a history lesson for Nelsy about Reunion Island and the language and discusses about some of her own fears or questions with her local language, such as the lack of written literature and therefore most people including herself cannot write the official/conventional way as historically due to slavery it was a spoken language, also the "value" of the language with French, as creole languages are also seen as not a real language.

Nelsy has provided some music, poetry and literature of her island. Be sure to check it out and her on instagram, below are the links.

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. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

Traditional/Folk Music : it is called Maloya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SadOY4sUOo&ab_channel=BourbonCuivre-Topic (this song basically explain what is Reunion Island and Creole language)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nP6Tz45K_U&ab_channel=PsykoPictures%3Acha%C3%AEneofficielledesr%C3%A9alisateursHonoretKeran (old song but super famous the group itself is one of the most known face in this genre for my Island - language is primarily creole )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3sMYRKFga0&ab_channel=mru95 (another famous one group)

New/Urban/Club music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTvqYrbwEjQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPJY12NW7R4&ab_channel=DjSebb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pclj6rDIETM ( a bit more lover music like we call it)

In regards to poetry it's a bit tricky but there are some

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fonnk%C3%A8r-Libert%C3%A9-Laetitia-Boqui-Queni/dp/2343087792 (for example also bilingual ones with French)

https://halldulivre.com/livre/9782910791285-zordi-an-kase-brize-alain-armand/

This is a website for Author in the area but usually most are in French. Literature wise it's just more common.

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the please of speaking with Tiara Youngblood, an English teacher based in South Korea for about 3 years.  She’s studied dead and modern languages, including Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, and now Korean, and she’s learned a lot about the language learning process. She is also the "Card Master" of Speak in Spades, which is a language learning platform she created so that others could feel more confident and have fun with the way they choose to study languages.

(More about Speak in Spades)

Speak in Spades is a platform where language learners can find tips, resources, and language bootcamps promoting the idea that there's no right way to learn languages, and each person has their own language learning style. 

We talked about her love for learning language and how that came to be.

How she became an English teacher and the difference of learning a language in person versus online.

What keeps her motivated to continue learning and of course her insecurities about language. 

You can find all the ways to contact Tiara and about her website, make sure to check it out and take the Language Learning Style quiz!

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. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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