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A big question we, as linguistics students, have often pondered on is, "what is a way I can be better involved in the linguistics community as a student of linguistics?" Lucky for us, we have a fellow student who is able to give us personal insight regarding our question! Join us this time as we sit down with fellow linguistics student, Yukaiya Nomoto, to discuss his experiences participating in CoLang, the Institute of Collaborative Research, this past Summer 2022. We had a great discussing the structure of the conference itself, as well as Yukayia's project on his native Japanese dialect of Tosa-Ben.

This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann and Jen Ruskauff with special help from Niko Attebery and Sage Moore.

Transcript Written by: Sage Moore

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We obviously discuss the ways in which humans communicate and express themselves rather frequently, but have you ever thought about how animals communicate or if they use language at all? Lucky for you, we have too! Join us this time to hear about a few animals we chose to research and how linguistics can relate to scientific studies such as marine biology! What does it really mean when a cat meows, and how do marine mammals like whales and dolphins communicate? Find out with us! 

This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann, Niko Hudeček, and Jen Ruskauff with special help from Niko Attebery and Sage Moore.

Transcript Written by: Sage Moore

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Many linguistics students study languages different from their mother tongue, or native language, but what exactly does that look like? Well... It's really hard! If you think about it, learners of language are constantly trying to rewire their brains from unconscious native language knowledge. Join us this time as we discuss the eternal struggle of being a second language learner, and how we constantly work to overcome these difficulties.

This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann, Niko Hudeček, and Jen Ruskauff with special help from Niko Attebery and Sage Moore.

Transcript Written by: Sage Moore

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It's November which means applications to Graduate Schools across America are coming up on their due dates! Are you thinking about going to grad-school or are just curious about how the application process works? Join us as we talk about our current struggles applying for grad-school, and how we've navigated the process with very helpful resources!

This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann, Niko Hudeček, and Jen Ruskauff with special help from Niko Attebery and Sage Moore.

Transcript Written by: Sage Moore

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Welcome to the first episode of the Podling, Season Three! Happy spooky season everyone! In this episode we discussed some aspects of Sociolinguistics that is found or used in horror movies. We each prepared our own research, whose citations you can find below, about some ways that linguistics is used to influence an audience in films, specifically horror films. 

Disclaimer(s): This topic includes spoilers to the following films: Get Out and Us by Jordan Peele. Please do not listen to this episode if this is something that is important to you. The contents of this episode do not reflect the views, opinions, or general beliefs of Western Washington University or the WWU Linguistics Department.

This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann, Niko Hudeček, and Jen Ruskauff with special help from Niko Attebery and Sage Moore.

 Transcript Written by: Sage Moore

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Welcome back to the Podling! This season we have some new voices along with some familiar ones, as we continue our talk as to what Linguistics is! Tune in this season for conversations on how Linguistics is applied to the “real world” in different career paths or studies, as well as interviews, and linguistic activities!

This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann, Niko Hudeček, and Jen Ruskauff with special help from Niko Attebery and Sage Moore.

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Join us this week as we say goodbye to the 2021-2022 school year and to our graduating hosts, Niko Attebery and Madison Peyton. This week we were joined by Linguistics Student, Jen Ruskauff, to play a fantastic board game, Poetry for Neanderthals! Speaking only in one syllable words in order to have our partners guess what word is on our card in under a minute is more difficult than one would think and it is safe to say that things got... interesting! 

Edited by Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras

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Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Linguistics student Navor Tercero as we discuss the history of language education in New Mexico. In this episode we talk about how language education was nonexistent in New Mexico until very recently due to lawmakers and tax payers voting against language education because they didn't want to fund it and the government wanted everyone to speak English. A special thanks to Navor Tercero for joining us for this episode!

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Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Linguistics professor Dr. Virginia Dawson (Ginny) and Western student Rosia Aning as we discuss the Field Methods class offered last winter quarter. Rosia was selected to be the consultant for Field Methods where she met with students throughout the quarter and answered questions about her native language, Twi, which is spoken in Ghana. In this episode Ginny and Rosia share their experience with us. A special thanks to Dr. Virginia Dawson & Rosia Aning for joining us for this episode!

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Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Dr. Judith Pine who is associated with the WWU Linguistics department as we discuss linguistics & social justice and how language usage and linguistics is important when thinking of social justice issues, both in education and everyday life. In this episode we also talk about the 30 million word gap and scholarly discourse around that topic (and why it is a problematic ideology). A special thanks to Dr. Judith Pine for joining us for this episode!

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Episode Transcript by Niko Attebery

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