We are joined by Fatema Sumar, former Obama administration official and current Executive Director of the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Fatema discusses her past as a Cornell student, the challenges in combating global poverty, and the transformative power of language.

https://cid.harvard.edu

#abas

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For this year's Thanksgiving special, we are joined by friends and colleagues reading poetry celebrating gratitude.

Sara Goto (Freshman, Cornell): Thank You by Shuntaro Tanikawa

David Ortega (Language Technology Specialist, Yale): Oda a las gracias by Pablo Neruda

Jeremy Urbaniak (Freshman, Cornell): Dziękuje Ci (author unknown)

Krystyna Golovakova (Ukranian instructor, Cornell): Вечірнє сонце, дякую за день! by Lina Kostenko

#gratitude

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Don Vosburg, Academic Technologist of Learning Innovation (and former Language Center Director) at Carleton College in Minnesota, joins us to discuss all things gamification and language learning through gaming. 

https://www.carleton.edu/directory/dvosburg/ 

#Feierabend

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We meet with Anthony Ng’ang’a, a representative from the East Africa-based Safal Group. Anthony discusses he Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize, an award to recognize writing and translations in African languages and help proliferate them around the globe.

https://www.safalgroup.com/cornell-kiswahili-prize/ 

https://kiswahiliprize.cornell.edu/ 

#GutiriWaIregiUtuire

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We revisit Cornell’s World Languages Day, which took place earlier this month. Participant Anna Marchetti is a senior in high school in Victor, NY (just under two hours northwest of Ithaca), and student volunteer Sebastian Young is a sophomore here at Cornell and one of our LRC student assistants.

https://lrc.cornell.edu/world-languages-day

#animero

#yaourter

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Dr. Catherine Baumann follows up on her talk from our monthly LRC Speaker Series. Cathy dives into reverse design and how to better center language curricula and lessons around the goals and needs of students.

https://languages.uchicago.edu/2021/03/04/cathy-baumanns-interview-on-reverse-design/

#skärgård

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Simon Zuberek returns to Speaking of Language. Simon is a senior educational technologist, linguist, and language educator, and we will talk today about corpora, data, and their applications and validity in the language classroom.

https://www.zuberek.net/

#ubuntu

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McKenna Norton and Jack Donnellan are undergraduates in the Class of 2025 cohort of Cornell's Robert S. Harrison College Scholar Program. They describe their projects that focus on responses to alienation across cultures and on the role of language in the application of the rule of law around the world.

https://as.cornell.edu/education/college-scholar-program 

https://as.cornell.edu/mckenna-norton

https://as.cornell.edu/jack-donnellan

#刀子嘴豆腐心

#يلا

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Dr. Mari Noda talks about the “game” of language learning, and how each of us can endeavor to “fail better” in our interactions with other cultures.

https://nihongonow.byu.edu/ 

Watch the video of Mari's talk: https://youtu.be/2l5ufdeKoD8

#やっぱり

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We meet some of the teams behind two other Cornell-based language and culture podcasts. Daniel Bass and Shavin Seneviratne are the co-hosts of The Next Monsoon, a series by Cornell's South Asia Program examining artistic and cultural responses to climate change in South Asia. Francine Barchett and Emily Falica are involved with Gatty Lecture Rewind, a podcast by the Southeast Asia Program centered on conversations and interviews with visiting scholars working in and around that region.

Gatty Lecture Rewind: https://gattyrewind.libsyn.com/

The Next Monsoon: https://nextmonsoon.podbean.com/

Listen to a brief trailer for The Next Monsoon: https://nextmonsoon.podbean.com/e/welcome-to-the-next-monsoon-1679507165/

Next Monsoon conference: https://events.cornell.edu/event/the_next_monsoon .

Daniel's Monsoon Radio show: https://www.wrfi.org/wrfiprograms/monsoon-radio/

#chảnh

#ஊர்

# נחת

#hati-hati 

#치맥 

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