Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Martha Summerlin, a self-proclaimed language nerd, proud introvert and cat fan. When she isn’t buried in books or thinking about how language works, you can find her exploring one of North Carolina’s beautiful parks, trying out a new coffee shop or talking your ear off about the marvels of baseball and Formula 1. Having studied sociolinguistics (the study of people’s attitudes towards dialects and accents) she’s passionate about sharing the value of each dialect and ..read more

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Greta Rodney Thompson, born and raised up on the island of St. Martin, the smallest mass of land to be divided into two countries. She considers herself a true St. Martiner with all the benefits of a multi-cultural upbringing, but also cultural confusion that comes along with being in an environment but not necessarily feeling a part of it.  Her maternal side of ..read more

Welcome Language Learners to Part 2 of the Death of Language Compilation! What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you have to think about it for a moment, and really there is no right or wrong answer to this question. Really the question is to get you to think about yourself, your family, someone you know, the language and culture and the immersion of that or maybe the literal death of language. The languages that are dying because it’s not being pa ..read more

Welcome back! It is SEASON 2 YALL! I am your host Alexandria of the Insecurities about Language Podcast. And this season I will continue to talk about individual language journeys, especially mine since I failed to do that last year. I will be diving more into the Death of Language within families and getting my family involved, so ya’ll can hear more about their stories. I will be interviewing folks about Bilingualism and Linguistic and those topics will be little mini-series within this season! and of course anyone who wants to have a conversation about language and what it means to them and ..read more

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to the last episode of season 1, and another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Marcus from Louisiana. He’s a polyglot and currently live in Pamplona, Spain, the place of the famous running of the bulls. He studied both Psychology (Bachelor’s) and Linguistics (Master’s). He has a unique interest in minority language because he is a minority language speaker. His hope is to preserve them and help them gain speakers before they are all gone. You’ll hear Marcus speak about his background with language learning and ..read more

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. This is a special interview with the Hermosas Chicas Negras! In this episode, I spoke with D’anne, Ayo, and Paula of the Hermosas Chicas Negras about their language learning journey with Spanish. Each are leaning Spanish from different Spanish speaking countries. You’ll hear thoughtful explanations about their language environments, how they meet one another, why they chose the specific Spanish language, and of course, their insecurities about the language! Also, they answered one of my most imp ..read more

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jacqueline S. Sadberry, a small-town girl hailing from Texas. She is a poet, self-published author, and passionate language lover. Between studying Japanese, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and writing her second novel, she also assists people with becoming conversational in Spanish, Japanese and English. You can find her on YouTube and Instagram under JSS Media: Langs ..read more

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eliza, who works in language education and is currently based in Vietnam. As a child, her father married her Serbian stepmother, a first gen Yugoslav immigrant. From the age of 5, Eliza grew up with summer and winter holidays around Serbian food, language, and traditions. However, neither she nor her brother nor her cousins carried the language further.  After m ..read more

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shana Inofuentes (Aymara and Ashkenazi), who revels in communication that inspires joy and justice. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish, and is an elementary heritage speaker of Aymara, Quechua, and Hebrew. She is a proud daughter of the Bolivian immigrant community of metro Washington, D.C.—the largest Quechua and the largest Bolivian community in the U.S ..read more

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Pona who lives in Toronto, Canada, is the first child of an immigrant family who grew up exposed to several languages, but only spoke English for many years. She has been working to change that in adulthood and is thrilled to have been able to talk about her heritage language experience on this podcast!  In this episode, you will hear Pona speak about her parent ..read more