• 2018

  • August (2)

    • Wheelbarrow to the hospital: Falling in Fes, Morocco
    • Picture essay: Clothing, languages, foods of Morocco

  • July (6)

    • Lisbon: Sights, Language and Communist Signs
    • Watch “Saved by Language” for free!
    • Mixed accent and voices in my head
    • Language gaps: Lived vs. learned languages
    • Free ebooks in July!
    • Portuguese via Spanish, Italian & a little French: different roads to a mellifluous tongue

  • June (1)

    • Le mistral gagnant: Rediscovering my inner Francophile in India and Quebec

• 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 (1)

    • Living in the middle of many worlds