America the Bilingual Steve Leveen

Want to know what really goes into that Subway® sandwich? Localization. Internationalization. And one more: transcreation. Hear how Subway’s Carrie Fischer is making languages part of Subway’s linguistic palate worldwide, in this new episode of the America the Bilingual podcast.

This episode was written and directed by Mim Harrison, the editorial and brand director of the America the Bilingual project. It was sound designed, mixed and produced by Fernando Hernandez Becerra produced.

Karla Hernandez at Daruma Tech manages our website.


Music credits:

Komiku - Hélice’s theme
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Komiku/Helice_Awesome_Dance_Adventure_/helices-theme/

Kevin Macleod - Quasi Motion
https://bit.ly/KevinMacleod_QuasiMotion

TRG Banks - City
https://bit.ly/43pM2g4

Komiku - Everything is groovy (how to move your body)
https://bit.ly/3xejA4I

HoliznaCC0 - 20 Minute meditation 1
https://bit.ly/492XPlN

TRG Banks - Horse ride 2
https://bit.ly/3LRPuZv

Komiku - In the restaurant
https://bit.ly/3OfJTOs

Soft and the furious - Superconnected sleep
https://bit.ly/3rN902r

Wax Lyricist - A bad death
https://bit.ly/3WbFwG7

Kai Engel - Holiday gift
https://bit.ly/3TL05cX

The American journalist, linguist, and author Michael Erard (Babel No More) has lived in South America, Asia, and now in Europe. He’s always had an ear to the native languages as much as for them.
A deep researcher of language, he shares in this episode why he believes that “human beings are meant to have very complex linguistic systems in their brains.” He also explains why he likens learning a language to weaving a rope.

Thanks to members of the America the Bilingual Project team who worked on this episode: Fernando Hernández, writer for this episode, and his production house in Guadalajara, Mexico, Esto No Es Radio, which provides sound design and mixing; Mim Harrison, editorial and brand director of the America the Bilingual Project; and Karla Hernandez at Daruma Tech, who manages our website.
Meet the entire America the Bilingual team—including our bark-lingual mascot, Chet—here.

Music in this episode, in sequence:
Demoiselle Döner, - Des têtes trop pleines
https://bit.ly/421rrhp

John Bartmann - African Moon
https://bit.ly/47Avvqe

Kevin Macleod - QuasiMotion
https://bit.ly/KevinMacleod_QuasiMotion

Loyalty Freak Music - Waiting TTTT
https://bit.ly/3HEwICx

TRG Banks - Michael Landon
https://bit.ly/47ytYkp

TRG Banks - Horse Ride 2
https://bit.ly/3LRPuZv

Jorge Mario Zuleta - En Detención
https://bit.ly/JMZ_detencion

John Bartmann - Bouncy Gypsy Beats
https://bit.ly/4aR7RZv

The 20th-century novelist Thomas Wolfe famously pronounced that “you can’t go home again.” But what if you have little choice?
This is what a number of Latino immigrants, who have long made their home in the US, face when immigration laws require that they return to their country of birth.

In this episode of the America the Bilingual podcast, Alexandra Rivera relays how an Uber driver in Mexico City startled her into realizing that these were important stories to be told. And even though she is a US citizen, she has faced her own challenges in balancing life in America as a Latina. She understands how important it is to find your place in wherever you may choose to—or have to—call home.

Thanks to members of the America the Bilingual Project team who worked on this episode: Fernando Hernández, writer for this episode, and his Mexican production house in Guadalajara, Mexico, Esto No Es Radio, which provides sound design and mixing; Mim Harrison, editorial and brand director of the America the Bilingual Project, and Karla Hernandez at Daruma Tech, who manages our website.

Join Steve for a lively, upbeat and often surprising conversation with first-generation Chinese American Amy Chua. A Yale law professor who gained fame as the Tiger Mom, she made sure that her children grew up as she did: bilingual. Listen as Amy describes three traits American immigrants share that help them excel. She also explains what the reviewers got wrong about her controversial bestseller “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” and explores how American bilingualism could bolster what Amy’s parents taught her was “just the greatest document in the world”: the American Constitution. Plus: why Amy’s newest book is nothing like her others. Join us now for this episode of America the Bilingual.

Thanks to members of the America the Bilingual Project team for this episode: Fernando Hernández and his production house in Guadalajara, Mexico Esto No Es Radio, which provides sound design and mixing; Mim Harrison, editorial and brand director of the America the Bilingual Project who wrote and directed this episode; and Karla Hernandez at Daruma Tech, who manages our website.

Music artists and selections, in order of listening:

HoliznaCC0 - Dream pop
https://bit.ly/3ZNXhx4

Loyalty Freak Music - Friend to friend
https://bit.ly/3 iMYXWs

Kevin Macleod - Quasi motion
https://bit.ly/KevinMacleod_QuasiMotion

Loyalty Freak Music - Shoepop
https://bit.ly/3RMh9yM

Pictures of the floating world - Nomadic
https://bit.ly/3LVlpYV
Loyalty Freak Music - One cool minute
https://bit.ly/42WvMlk

TRG Banks - Horse ride 2
https://bit.ly/3LRPuZv
Soft and furious - Superconnected sleep
https://bit.ly/3rN902r

John Bartmann - Secret agent rock
https://bit.ly/3ZMr0X8

Call him señor Mo. That’s what Mohamed Kilani’s third-to-fifth grade students in Falmouth, Maine, call him. Mohamed is an Iraqi by birth, a Jordanian by virtue of war, and now an American by virtue of a selfless and brave mother. Listen to this Arab refugee’s odyssey of finding home and the many languages he speaks that have played a role. Among them: Spanish, which señor Mo delights in teaching his young Maine students.

Thanks to members of the America the Bilingual Project team who worked on this episode: Fernando Hernández and his Mexican production house in Guadalajara, Mexico, Esto No Es Radio, which provides sound design and mixing; Mim Harrison, editorial and brand director of the America the Bilingual Project, who also wrote and directed this episode; and Karla Hernandez at Daruma Tech, who manages our website.


Music in this episode, in order of appearance by
John Bartmann - Somewhere nice
https://bit.ly/3ZqUpGv

Kevin MacLeod - Quasi motion
https://bit.ly/KevinMacleod_QuasiMotion

Monplaisir - 66666666
https://bit.ly/3Rt4dxM

Kai Engel - Wake up
https://bit.ly/45Xu9Wy

Jason Shaw - River Meditation
https://bit.ly/48iOY0f

Kevin MacLeod - Back vibes clean
https://bit.ly/3sYnYmD

As a native English speaker who became smitten with Spanish, the American journalist Joe Keenan decided that nobody else had written how to break out of beginniner’s Spanish, so he would have to do it himself. That’s just how he titled his first book, back in 1995. It became a bestseller, one that continues to sell more than 20 years later, and in an updated edition.

In this exclusive interview, hear some of the author’s best tips for giving your Spanish a turbo boost, plus other tips that apply to learning any language.

Along the way, learn some Mexican Spanish dichos, or sayings crafted from popular wisdom. You’ll get to know what false cognates are and how to avoid them on your own journey to intermediate and advanced levels of Spanish.

Thanks to members of the America the Bilingual Project team for this episode: Fernando Hernández, who wrote and directed this episode, and his Mexican production house Esto No Es Radio, which provides sound design and mixing; Mim Harrison, editorial and brand director of the America the Bilingual Project; and Karla Hernandez at Daruma Tech, who manages our website.
Music artists and selections, in order of listening:

Loyalty Freak Music - One cool minute
https://bit.ly/42WvMlk

Kevin Macleod -Quasi motion
https://bit.ly/KevinMacleod_QuasiMotion

Koi Discovery - Beer blues
https://bit.ly/3pIQxmi

Komiku - In the restaurant
https://bit.ly/3OfJTOs

The new mystikal troubadours - NMT_the lonely hunter pt. 1_11.21.20
https://bit.ly/3pKr6AL

Wax Lyricist - A bad death
https://bit.ly/3WbFwG7

HoliznaCC0 - Endless Grind
https://bit.ly/3MxdT7r

Pictures of the floating world - Cycles
https://bit.ly/41L8uxT