America the Bilingual
Series produced by Steve Leveen
Image by: Carlos Plaza Design Studio
America the Bilingual
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An America proudly bilingual will be a country capable of truly hearing the world — and, therefore, an America the world truly wants to hear.
America from sea to shining sea, united with one language…and united with hundreds more. No country comes close to America in the quantity and diversity of our immigrant citizens. In time, we will come to appreciate the treasure contained in the voices of our immigrants and other bilinguals, and view these voices as International Language Capital, an important subset of the nation’s Human Capital.
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As a native English speaker who became smitten with Spanish, the American journalist Joe Keenan decided that nobody else had written how to break o...
- Added: Aug 30, 2023
- Length: 33:49
Why are Tacombi restaurants winning hearts across the US as America’s taco sensation? And just what is a Tacombi, anyway? Mexican American founder ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 21:13
Martina Castro, the award-winning production impresario behind Duolingual’s popular multilingual podcasts and NPR’s Radio Ambulante, has become a m...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 31:40
The award-winning star of the popular PBS cooking show, “Pati’s Mexican Table,” and of the PBS docu-series “La Frontera” (“The Border”) brings her ...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 20:56
“If you limit yourself to writers from your own country, you’re missing out on the whole rest of the world.”
That’s Arthur Levine, the founder of L...
- Added: Apr 27, 2023
- Length: 19:05
“I do consider Puerto Rico a borderland of the United States,” says Brenda Piñero of her homeland, which is both a part of, and apart from, the U.S...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 23:59
My dad died in 2018 and I wasn’t able to go to his funeral. It was too much of a risk.” For the film critic Carlos Aguilar to have left his home in...
- Added: Apr 26, 2023
- Length: 25:02
In 1491, the Taíno people of the Caribbean and their language were thriving. After 1492, both had been extinguished.
Or so many history books would...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 18:50
Long before his college graduation, Jack Clarke had his life mapped out: “I was going to be an Army officer and language capability would enhance m...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 29:59
Concert pianist Andrew von Oeyen has been learning languages even longer than he’s been performing with the world’s top orchestras—and he made his ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 24:52
This is our second of two episodes on what technology can and can’t do for language learning…and perhaps more important, what technology should and...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 13:50
Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on using technology for learning a language. That includes the many bilinguals Steve interviewed for Episode 54 ...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 11:23
From sea to shining sea, English is spoken throughout all 3.8 million square miles of the US. Does it make sense to speak anything else?
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 09:41
Want to learn Japanese? Go to Japan. Portuguese? Portugal or Brazil. Hindi? India. Immersion is absolutely the best way to learn another language…o...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 10:27
A middle-aged guy named Steve walks into an intermediate-Spanish class for Harvard undergrads and does a quick assessment of their advantages versu...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 32:10
Are there certain best practices for starting your children on a lifelong path to bilingualism? Absolutely, and in Episode 50, Steve shares the thr...
- Added: Apr 21, 2023
- Length: 20:11
In Episode 49 of the America the Bilingual podcast, Steve introduces seven bilinguals whose new language came alive for them when they found where ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 23:39
If how you’re going to learn a new language is the first question you consider on your bilingual journey, Steve has a surprise for you. In Episode ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2023
- Length: 10:43
In Episode 47, Steve shares why he decided in midlife to leave behind a comfortable career as CEO of his own company and light out for the long roa...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 20:45
How will your child (and perhaps you, too) spend some of next summer’s vacation?
Consider enrolling in a summer language immersion program. It’s p...
- Added: Apr 12, 2023
- Length: 40:44
