All Pieces for Steve Leveen

 
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As a native English speaker who became smitten with Spanish, the American journalist Joe Keenan decided that nobody else had written how to break o...

  • Added: Aug 30, 2023
  • Length: 33:49
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Why are Tacombi restaurants winning hearts across the US as America’s taco sensation? And just what is a Tacombi, anyway? Mexican American founder ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 21:13
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Martina Castro, the award-winning production impresario behind Duolingual’s popular multilingual podcasts and NPR’s Radio Ambulante, has become a m...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 31:40
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The award-winning star of the popular PBS cooking show, “Pati’s Mexican Table,” and of the PBS docu-series “La Frontera” (“The Border”) brings her ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 20:56
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“If you limit yourself to writers from your own country, you’re missing out on the whole rest of the world.” That’s Arthur Levine, the founder of L...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 19:05
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“I do consider Puerto Rico a borderland of the United States,” says Brenda Piñero of her homeland, which is both a part of, and apart from, the U.S...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 23:59
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My dad died in 2018 and I wasn’t able to go to his funeral. It was too much of a risk.” For the film critic Carlos Aguilar to have left his home in...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2023
  • Length: 25:02
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In 1491, the Taíno people of the Caribbean and their language were thriving. After 1492, both had been extinguished. Or so many history books would...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 18:50
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Long before his college graduation, Jack Clarke had his life mapped out: “I was going to be an Army officer and language capability would enhance m...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:59
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Concert pianist Andrew von Oeyen has been learning languages even longer than he’s been performing with the world’s top orchestras—and he made his ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 24:52
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This is our second of two episodes on what technology can and can’t do for language learning…and perhaps more important, what technology should and...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 13:50
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Everyone, it seems, has an opinion on using technology for learning a language. That includes the many bilinguals Steve interviewed for Episode 54 ...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 11:23
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From sea to shining sea, English is spoken throughout all 3.8 million square miles of the US. Does it make sense to speak anything else?

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 09:41
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Want to learn Japanese? Go to Japan. Portuguese? Portugal or Brazil. Hindi? India. Immersion is absolutely the best way to learn another language…o...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 10:27
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A middle-aged guy named Steve walks into an intermediate-Spanish class for Harvard undergrads and does a quick assessment of their advantages versu...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 32:10
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Are there certain best practices for starting your children on a lifelong path to bilingualism? Absolutely, and in Episode 50, Steve shares the thr...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 20:11
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In Episode 49 of the America the Bilingual podcast, Steve introduces seven bilinguals whose new language came alive for them when they found where ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 23:39
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If how you’re going to learn a new language is the first question you consider on your bilingual journey, Steve has a surprise for you. In Episode ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2023
  • Length: 10:43
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In Episode 47, Steve shares why he decided in midlife to leave behind a comfortable career as CEO of his own company and light out for the long roa...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 20:45
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How will your child (and perhaps you, too) spend some of next summer’s vacation? Consider enrolling in a summer language immersion program. It’s p...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2023
  • Length: 40:44