Life in a Second Language with Spring Day

This episode features winner of the World Series of Comedy, Egyptian American Tamer Kattan. We talk about the role language plays in family, authority and finding out who we are.

Italian Comedian in the UK Luca Cupani on being fluent in Ancient Greek and Pretending to be Polish.

Film producer and pioneer street performer in Japan—Brian Hulse on the art of bucking the system while assimilating to the new culture and language around you.

Nigerian comedian in the UK Benjamin Bello AKA President Obonjo on speaking Pidgin English, learning to speak Yoruba in the UK and how it possibly started his comedy career.

Venezuelan comedian in Australia Ivan Aristeguieta on doing comedy in a second language, finding your path through ”failure”, and dating in a second language. Plus, Zoom installation inspired profanity!

Impro expert and co-founder of the Tokyo Comedy Store on navigating opportunities for a career abroad and being yourself in a second language.

Japanese comedian in the UK and winner of the BBC New Comedy Award —Yuriko Kotani talks about Hollywood-induced expectations of studying abroad in high school and doing comedy in a second language.

Actor and DJ Meesh Samman on being a polyglot, the unexpected opportunities of speaking many languages and why a clip of himself on the Late Late Show with James Corden went viral in Saudi Arabia.

French comedian Arielle Souma talks to Spring Day about her experience learning English and raising a bilingual son in London.

Spring Day interviews fellow American and comedian David Mills about studying abroad in Bolivia as a teenager and wanderlust.