Creating Culture (w/Edith)
In this episode, I sat down with my friend Edith, a food safety consultant, to talk about something surprisingly connected to language learning: culture. What started as an incident with some raspberr...
9 Jun 1h 1min
Star Wars: The Accents in Andor (w/Gerardo)
In this episode I’m joined again by Gerardo to dive deeper into Star Wars accents and this time we’re focusing on the series ‘Andor’. We talk about how different accents influence the “vibe” we get fr...
19 Mai 36min
Star Wars: Language and Voice Learning (w/Gerardo)
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU! Today, I chat with Star Wars fan Gerardo about how voices, accents, and language shape the characters we love in Star Wars. We explore iconic voices like Darth Vader and Yoda,...
4 Mai 43min
Accent Bias and Idiolects (w/Kevin)
In this episode, I sit down with my friend Kevin to talk about accents, identity, and the assumptions we make about people when we hear them speak. I start with a little guessing game about Kevin’s ac...
14 Apr 38min
Podcasts for Teaching and Life (w/Natalia)
In this episode, I sit down with Natalia to celebrate our shared love of podcasts and explore how they’ve evolved over the past decade. We swap stories about how we first fell in love with podcasts, s...
24 Mar 28min
Teacher Burnout (w/Irina)
In this episode, I sit down with my friend and fellow accent coach Irina to talk honestly about burnout. What it actually looks like before you crash, and how sneaky it can be. We unpack the moment sh...
3 Mar 1h 11min
Rs and Ls (w/Natalia)
In this episode I sit down with my friend and fellow accent nerd Natalia Pogodina to talk about one of the trickiest topics in pronunciation: R’s and L’s. These “liquid sounds” are so hard! Especially...
10 Feb 39min
Lyrics in English (w/Dany)
In this episode, I sit down with my friend (and basically family member) Danny Barrera, the lead singer of the band Marlento, to talk about how language, music, and emotion are deeply connected in son...
27 Jan 41min
