Polyglots discuss learning languages with music, TV and films
Last month, I was in Poland and was thrilled to speak in various languages with Richard Simcott and Luca Lampariello.
We recorded various videos about language learning. There are more videos in other languages to...
A musician and polyglot discuss how to learn languages with music
While in Sarajevo last month filming the documentary Saved By Language (about how the endangered language of Ladino saved a Jewish boy's life in World War II), I spent time with my dear friend
Damir...
How to learn a language: surrender to it
The word "surrender" conjures up images of defeat and submission. But when it comes to language learning, the more you give yourself up to your target language, the more successful you will be.
Why do...
Learn Portuguese and Brazilian history with samba, “Apesar de você”
Luciana Lage and I are back with a new lesson in learning Portuguese with Brazilian music. This time we're examining the serious subject of the Brazilian dictatorship through the song, Apesar de você,...
Ladino and the beauty of Sarajevo, Bosnia
"Sarajevo has a soul. It has a heart."
My passion for Ladino/Judeo-Spanish is no secret. In this video, Richard Simcott (the hyperpolyglot extraordinnaire) and I speak in Bosnian/Serbo-Croatian (or whatever else you like to call...
Ladino saved my life in the war
At long last, I am posting the demo to Saved by Language, the documentary I'm co-producing about how the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language saved a boy's life in Bosnia in World War II. Ladino is...
Polyglot dreaming: In which language do you dream?
I have heard on several occasions that the sign of fluency in a language is when one dreams in the language. That can't be true. Or else I'm fluent in Arabic without being aware...
What Facebook executive’s new book tells about women, success & foreign languages
Sheryl Sandberg, cover of Time Magazine
The TIME Magazine "Confidence Woman" cover story on Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, and her new book, Lean In, about women, success and careers made me...
Why you should care about endangered languages
Endangered species. Endangered whales. Endangered languages?
What's an endangered language?
About half of the world's 6000 languages will be extinct in 100 years unless we act to preserve them.
In this video, I explain why you should...
The Language of Race and Gender
By Umar Alim Al-Junaid
One of the hardest things to be is an American citizen who speaks other languages, but being an African- American who speaks several languages has its own unique set of issues....
