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  • 2017

    • June (6)

      • As problemas da visão binocular
      • Проблемы с бинокулярным зрением
      • Problèmes de la vision binoculaire
      • Problemas de la visión binocular
      • Binocular vision problems explained in six languages
      • I problemi della visione binoculare
  • 2016

    • December (1)

      • Seeing in 2D in the 3D world
    • September (1)

      • CBS television interview about my new book, “One-Eyed Princess”
    • February (1)

      • Watch “Saved by Language” and other Judeo-Spanish documentaries for free!
  • 2015

    • October (2)

      • Healing with words: tribute to Dr. Oliver Sacks
      • FREE: San Francisco & Berkeley presentations and screenings of “Saved by Language”
    • September (1)

      • Watch “Saved by Language” online or on DVD
    • April (2)

      • Don’t fault innovative musicians!
      • Why I Hate Interpreting and Translating: multilinguals are not “natural” interpreters and translators
    • February (1)

      • Brazil: A Failing State
    • January (1)

      • You are not your language. Linguistic snobbery blocks language learning
  • 2014

    • December (1)

      • Gift for the holidays: how a language saved a life
    • August (1)

      • Music can bridge the income gap in education
    • June (1)

      • TEDx: Music + language (songs) activate our brains, hearts and souls.
    • May (2)

      • The Portuguese language has many homelands
      • What does it take to keep a language alive?

    • February (3)

      • Upcoming presentations on language learning via music
      • Sweating to the future subjunctive
      • New year, new books on language learning
  • 2013

    • December (1)

      • At what price, monolingualism?

    • November (1)

      • Music and Mandarin
    • August (1)

      • Education: It’s the music, stupid!
    • June (2)

      • Improving my Portuguese, one (lost) calorie at a time
      • Rediscovering Budapest and reveling in the Polyglot Conference
    • May (2)

      • Vote for a language education start-up to get a $100,000 grant
      • Beyond Gangnam Style: Learning Korean via Korean Music
    • April (2)

      • The Language of Race and Gender
      • Why you should care about endangered languages
    • March (2)

      • What Facebook executive’s new book tells about women, success & foreign languages
      • Accents matter. Which one to choose?
    • February (1)

      • Russia through French eyes: Experiencing life anew in a different language
    • January (3)

      • Polyglot dreaming: In which language do you dream?
      • Ladino saved my life in the war
      • Ladino and the beauty of Sarajevo, Bosnia
  • 2012

    • December (1)

      • MTV, here we come! 17 polyglots redo “Call me Maybe” in 30+ languages
    • November (1)

      • Language confusion: 3 funny polyglots explain how to avoid mixing up your languages
    • October (5)

      • Learn Portuguese and Brazilian history with samba, “Apesar de você”
      • Review of Rosetta Stone (Arabic), $1 tea lesson is better than $500 Rosetta Stone
      • Free and inexpensive resources to learn Arabic
      • Portuguese via Brazilian music
      • Where are the female and non-white polyglots?
    • September (3)

      • How to learn a language: surrender to it
      • A musician and polyglot discuss how to learn languages with music
      • Polyglots discuss learning languages with music, TV and films
    • August (1)

      • Three polyglots meet in Poland
    • July (1)

      • Como pronunciar las palabras con “th” en inglés (these, this)
    • June (3)

      • Univision: La letra “t” en las contracciones negativas en inglés
      • Learn Spanish and Portuguese via Roberto Carlos’ song “Amigo”
      • How to learn languages and make them stick
    • May (4)

      • Como pronunciar la forma condicional en inglés
      • Video: Simple tips for learning languages
      • Como pronunciar la “r” en inglés (Cry me a River)
      • La “z” en inglés: no es una “s”
    • April (5)

      • How to raise kids in a different country and maintain two languages
      • Ai, Se Eu Te Pego! Learn a catchy Brazilian song, learn Brazilian Portuguese
      • Aprender inglês com música, “For the Longest Time”
      • How to learn Turkish
      • How deaf people can learn foreign languages with music
    • March (6)

      • Making language learning free and available to all
      • How Russian speakers can sound harsh in English without realizing it
      • Multilingualism: Being a Russian heritage speaker in the former USSR
      • Mi proprio segmento, “El idioma es música”, en Univision. My own “Language is Music” segment on Univsion.
      • The importance of female role models for female language learners
      • Learning Portuguese with rap and Brazilian music, Don Blanquito and Idahosa Ness
    • February (7)

      • Review of Babel No More: what makes people learn many languages?
      • Learn Portuguese, not portunhol/ portuñol, by listening to Brazilian music
      • Being multilingual: Is my language my homeland?
      • Learn Portuguese: The joy of just “being” in Portuguese and not speaking
      • Human spirit is stronger than politics. Music feeds the spirit and teaches us languages..
      • El espiritú humano es más fuerte que la política. La música alimenta el espiritú y nos enseña idiomas (CALA CNN)
      • Aprender idiomas con canciones
    • January (4)

      • Foreign language skills = $. How to motivate English speakers to learn languages
      • Use Music to Learn a Foreign Language
      • Sensual Brazilian music —> Learn Portuguese
      • CNN interview: Why maintain an ancestral language like Ladino
  • 2011

    • December (11)

      • Video: How music can save a language like Ladino
      • Video: How the Ladino language saved a Jewish boy’s life during the Holocaust
      • Turkish delights: Food in Istanbul
      • Wearing Kyrgyz national dress and kalpak hat
      • (Linguistic) ignorance is bliss, sometimes
      • Alphabet politics: Change your alphabet, alienate people
      • Ladino: The “other” Spanish, is dying but saved a life
      • Ladino, el otro español, una lengua en extinción salvó una vida.
      • Teaching language learning in areas marred by ethnic violence
      • Bride kidnapping in Central Asia, Is an English speaking woman less likely to be kidnapped?
      • Could speaking English empower female sex trafficking victims to escape?
    • November (6)

      • Spaceman: Being in between languages
      • Special “foreigner treatment”: please no! I’m a heritage speaker.
      • Being in limbo: Difficulties of a Russian heritage language speaker going to a Russian speaking country
      • Uzbek and Kyrgyz foods in Kyrgyzstan: Vodka cheaper than Fanta
      • Russian as a colonial language: native Russian speaker sees her language anew
      • Language is Music. Songs help Rep. Gabrielle Giffords regain speech
    • October (3)

      • Learn Portuguese with Brazilian songs
      • Video: Why learn Portuguese? Brazil’s economy is flourishing and its culture and people are inviting
      • You don’t have to go to Brazil to speak Portuguese or move your hips like a Brazilian!
    • September (5)

      • Defense Language Institute: “We learn foreign languages so you don’t have to”
      • Multilingual San Francisco: You don’t have to leave your town to learn a new language
      • Will there be more military linguists when homosexuals can serve in the military?
      • Why the CIA needs me and other 1st and 2nd generation immigrants for language needs
      • Proposed cuts in funding for foreign language programs in US
    • August (8)

      • Lives lost in wars because GI Joe and GI Jane can’t speak foreign languages
      • Music = learning languages and staying in school
      • Multilingual California beaten by Rhode Island, offering trilingual school
      • How to raise a bilingual or multilingual kid
      • Why It’s Smart to Be Bilingual: The brain’s real super-food may be learning new languages.
      • Older Students Learn FAKE Language Rules Faster. What about real languages?
      • Learn Spanish, English & Japanese with songs (chords, Spanish, English & Japanese lyrics included)
      • Learn Any Language By Treating it as Music
    • July (2)

      • Susanna quoted in San Jose Mercury News
      • 5 ways to save on airline tickets
    • June (8)

      • Why Hearing (The Unexpected) Is Often Not Believing
      • Ode to imperfection: why trying to be perfect is counter-productive to language learning
      • Como y porque evitar el Spanglish, Susanna Zaraysky en “Al Despertar” (2da entrevista)
      • Evitar el Spanglish utilizando canciones y los medios, “Al Despertar”, 1ra entrevista
      • Bring the World to Your Children Without Leaving the Country
      • Need an alarm clock to remember who you are? Music awakens our brains, “Music Never Stopped”
      • The Power of Music to affect the brain and foreign languages
      • Вы хотите говорить на иностранном языке?
    • May (5)

      • Mutlilingual identity: diversity of languages and ways of being
      • Luca Spaghetti (from Eat, Pray, Love) learned English with American pop songs
      • Multilingual identity: I have to speak all my languages to be ME
      • Why female foreign language students or speakers may not practice or show their languages
      • Famous Women who speak foreign languages, Do you know of any?
    • April (22)

      • Making lemonade from lemons, turning the burden of being a polyglot into a skill set to share with others
      • Susanna’s interview on the Polygot Project Podcast
      • Speaking your native (heritage) language despite ridicule
      • Cómo aprender idiomas con los medios, entrevista en Tu Desayuno Alegre
      • Do you need musical talent to learn languages? No.
      • Los idiomas se aprenden más fácil cantando, Miami Herald
      • I’m on MTV: Author Susanna Zaraysky Teaches Language Through Music
      • Música como herramienta, entrevista sobre El Idioma es Música en CNN con Susanna Zaraysky
      • Tareas para aprender un idioma: música, radio, TV, cine, Internet
      • Aprende inglés como un niño
      • ¿Aprender idiomas cómo si fueran música? ¿En serio?
      • ACTFL recognizes Language is Music as foreign language learning resource
      • El poder de la música para aprender lenguas
      • I can learn language with music and TV? Really? CBS interview with Susanna Zaraysky
      • Porqué los inmigrantes deben hablar inglés
      • Prevenir el uso del Spanglish, Preventing Spanglish
      • Two polyglots discuss how to learn foreign languages
      • Susanna Zaraysky speaking in 7 languages
      • Being Bilingual May Boost Your Brain Power
      • When to start speaking a foreign language, conversation with Steve Kaufmann
      • How languages change the psychology of multilinguals
      • Free tips on learning languages, Polyglot Project
    • March (1)

      • Don’t speak like your neighbor’s cow, Why a good accent is important
    • January (5)

      • Suzuki method: similar to language learning
      • Learn a language. Change your mind.
      • El Gringo Mariachi: Learning Spanish through song
      • Brain Power: Repeating sounds
      • Primero Hay Que Aprender Español. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen.
  • 2010

    • November (1)

      • Article about “El Idioma es Música” printed in over 10 countries
    • October (4)

      • Science of language learning
      • Rosetta Stone or a teacher? Foreign language learning technology
      • Multiculturalism failed? Change your educational system!
      • Speaking in Tongues documentary on public television
    • August (11)

      • Listening: the key element to foreign language learning
      • Foreign Language Courses, Brushing Up or Immersion
      • Speaking in tongues: cutting primary school foreign language education in New Zealand
      • Even the Ivy League cheats students on foreign language education
      • Foreign language education: keeping us from being stupid
      • Links between languages and music
      • Learning languages on a budget and on the Web
      • Kobe Bryant helps kids learn Chinese
      • Why culture and language matter
      • SF Schools teaching heritage speakers
      • Music therapy effects the brain
    • July (9)

      • Not learning languages reduced job prospects
      • Integrating parents in language education
      • Colleges strive to make foreign languages relevant
      • Even spies need to read my book!
      • Raising a child in 5 languages
      • Computer programs replace foreign language teachers in N.J. classrooms after budget cuts
      • Low creativity in education is bringing the country down
      • Language debate: Why speak English in Miami? Porqué hablar inglés in Miami?
      • Learning English tied to Immigration Status
    • June (6)

      • Support a reality show on learning languages and cultures!
      • Technology for language learning
      • Learning Chinese doesn't make you a Communist!
      • How memory helps you learn language
      • How To Use Your Spanish To Learn Portuguese
      • Listen first, learn later! Research proves my thoughts
    • May (8)

      • Learning a Foreign Language Can Help You Live Longer
      • More free teaching resources
      • Free Materials for Language Teachers, Mis Cositas
      • Speaking in Tongues
      • Free foreign language lessons
      • Some advice on learning languages
      • Bridging the Online Language Barrier
      • Listening to (and Saving) the World’s Languages (New York Times)
  • 2009

    • November (1)

      • Video on relationship between Language and Music, “Music, Language and the Brain”
    • September (2)

      • Web based foreign language lessons
      • Good videos about accents and language learning
    • June (2)

      • Dr. Oliver Sacks on language and music
      • The art of the staycation
    • May (1)

      • Learning languages is like the Matrix
    • April (2)

      • Political barriers shouldn’t be linguistic barriers
      • Living in multiple realities
    • March (2)

      • Living in the middle of many worlds
      • Island Fever or Island Hopping, Moon Handbooks South Pacific

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