Learning Hungarian via Italian opera, neo-Nazis and a phone sex line
Living in Budapest, Magyarország (Hungary) made me think in different ways in order to express myself in Hungarian, see the modern incarnations of a dark chapter of European history and hatred and fend off...
Teaching language learning in areas marred by ethnic violence
The odd irony of giving three presentations about language learning in a city that saw 450 people killed last year in ethnic violence was not lost on me. Via the US Embassy, I was...
Don’t fault innovative musicians!
Instead of criticizing people who are risk takers, we should be applauding their efforts because if we don’t innovate, these languages are going to die.
Why culture and language matter
My friend Eric Blaisdell painted these drawings when he was teaching English in Japan to show important it is to learn cultural norms when in a foreign country. In the case of the clueless...
COVID, это не мистификация (Pусский/Russian)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF5XtLX0994
За статистикой всех госпитализаций
или смертей связанных с COVID
существует много людей похожих на меня
Это члены семьи друзья коллеги и соседи
кого-то кто госпитализирован с COVID
Те кто не смог быть у смертного одра
своего любимого могут прожить
всю оставшуюся...
Putting my money where my mouth is
I was born in a Communist country where you couldn’t speak freely. If you opposed the government, you would go to jail or you’d go to a gulag (prison camp) and may never return,...
Covid nije prevara (Bosanski/Bosnian-Serbo-Croatian)
Iza svake hospitalizacije od COVID-a ili statistike o smrti, pronaći ćete ljude kao što sam ja – članove porodice, prijatelje, kolege ili komšije. Sve nas koji ne možemo biti kraj samrtne postelje onih koje...
It ain’t no hoax: Covid Public Service Announcement in 8 languages
I made a playlist of videos in 8 languages with a public service announcement about how Covid is robbing people of their dignity in death.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm6thK2LTrSnajn9mYuzwBzCXUjztTp30
Intro video text:
Hi! My name is Susanna Zaraysky. You might...
Russian as a colonial language: native Russian speaker sees her language anew
Although I knew that the Russian Empire and Soviet regime spread the Russian language to the countries that were once part of the Russian empire and Soviet Union, I only recently truly felt the...
Covid non é uno scherzo (Italiano)
Dietro di ogni statistica di ricovero o morte per Covid, ci sono persone come me, familiari, amici, colleghi o vicini di qualcuno malato di Covid. Coloro che non possono stare accanto al letto di...
