Speaking of Language

Dustin Crowther discusses the ins and outs of intelligibility when speaking a second language, and how it relates to fluency.

#genki

#元気

#sumimasen

#すみません

Kelly Moore, PhD candidate in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell, describes her process of integrating the target language more deeply into her beginner-level language courses, both in person and online.

#negocio

Rachel Beatty Riedl, the new director of Cornell's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, illuminates the Center's new Migrations Initiative, as well as her investigations as a scholar and podcast host into life and politics on the African continent.

Listen to Rachel's podcast, Ufahamu Africa, at https://ufahamuafrica.com. 

#jamm

Sergio Pedro joins us from Ithaca College to discuss some of his favorite language-related topics from pronunciation to Miguel Cervantes, as well as his "other life" as a musician in the Ithaca area.

#barroco

Heather Rowley joins us to discuss how studying Spanish, and her early inclination to teach, led her down a path toward migrant aid, social work, and immigration issues.

#duende

In honor of Thanksgiving, we asked language students at Cornell to thank their teachers for their hard work, particularly through the transition to remote learning in 2020. We share what a few of them had to say (in their target languages, of course).

In order of appearance:

Nandi Ndoro for Nandipa Sipengane, Zulu

Alejna Gjakmani for Banu Ozer Griffin, Turkish

Maxwell Wang for Zhihong Chen, Chinese

Corinna You for Damien Tissot, French

Ria Castaneda for Aleksandar Bošković, Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian

Jack Liufu

Gregory Green, curator of the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia at the Cornell University Library, talks about his Android app, Study Lao, and the inspiration behind its creation.

#ເງືອກ

Christopher Hromalik follows up his talk, “Inclusive by Design: Universal Design for Learning and the World Language Classroom,” with a conversation about Universal Design for Learning and what it means for the language classroom.

To watch Chris's talk and see his presentation slides, please visit our Speaker Series archive at https://lrc.cornell.edu/speaker-series.

View a written transcript of this episode here.

#family

Julio Rodríguez joins us to discuss AMPLIFY, a resource aggregator of professional learning experiences for world language education.

#Gemütlichkeit

#itdepends

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David Forman talks all things Yiddish at Cornell, and shares some history of the language in New York and the United States in general.

Join David for Yiddish Conversation Hour on Fridays from 12-1pm.

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