America the Bilingual Steve Leveen

While the whole world does not speak English, it’s nevertheless a ubiquitous language worldwide.

Is that a good thing or bad? Or is it, perhaps, more complicated than that?

Professor Rosemary Salomone, both linguist and lawyer, knows how to answer this question perhaps better than anyone. In this episode, she and Steve discuss her newest book, The Rise of English: Global Politics and the Power of Language, where she takes readers around the world to see just what kind of a global player English really is.

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

Music Credits, in order of appearance


Koi - discovery - beer blues
https://bit.ly/3pIQxmi


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

TRG Banks - evening journey
https://bit.ly/4bzZZur

Holizna cc0 - advertisements
https://bit.ly/4eTrXEl

Soft and furious - you’re magic
https://bit.ly/3LjJYhq

Soft and furious - game on
https://bit.ly/3VUuRjz

Koi Discovery - Spike protein
https://bit.ly/3S1leya

Wax liricyst - big green
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/wax-lyricist/the-wax-lyricist/big-green/

He can jog - Prelude (Two Hour Delay, Dane County)
https://bit.ly/3zBaq3G

Soft and furious - When the blood driving the self
https://bit.ly/4aaMt0H

Maarten Schellekens - free classical theme
https://bit.ly/4cXxSXj

Hear why Kim Potowski, a professor of linguistics at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has a passion for preserving heritage languages, and how she teaches speakers of these languages. De-stigmatizing the way that a Spanish bilingual speaks his or her home language, in Kim’s view, “is a question of social justice.” Listen now to Episode 72 of America the Bilingual.

MUSIC CREDITS

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

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

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

John Bartmann - Heart of acceptance
https://bit.ly/JohnBartmann_Heartofacceptance

Frederic Lardon feat. Laura Palmeé - Dans la piscine
https://bit.ly/3xiKf0I

Koi-discovery - Oxforf by night
https://bit.ly/3xn39Ua

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