Fernando Hernandez

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Recent Pieces from Fernando Hernandez

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Episode 66: How Joe Keenan came to write a breakout book on learning Spanish (33:49)
From: Steve Leveen

As a native English speaker who became smitten with Spanish, the American journalist Joe Keenan decided that nobody else had written how to break out of beginner’s Spanish, ...
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Episode 65: How Dario Wolos Turned a Taco into Tacombi. (The secret sauce: a love of language, cu... (21:13)
From: Steve Leveen

Why are Tacombi restaurants winning hearts across the US as America’s taco sensation? And just what is a Tacombi, anyway? Mexican American founder Dario Wolos shows how being ...
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Episode 63: Chef Pati Jinich’s Recipe for Reaching Across Cultures (20:56)
From: Steve Leveen

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 love of her native Mexican ...
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Episode 61: Where Children’s Books Become Bilingual (19:05)
From: Steve Leveen

“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 Levine Querido Publishing, ...
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Episode 60: Crossing the Borderlands of America’s Immigration (23:59)
From: Steve Leveen

“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. In Episode 60 of the ...
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Episode 59: From Fast-Food Worker to Renowned Film Critic: Carlos Aguilar and Why DACA Is Important (25:02)
From: Steve Leveen

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 the US to attend his ...
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Episode 58: Reclaiming the Language That History Wanted Lost (18:50)
From: Steve Leveen

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 have you believe. In ...
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Episode 57: How the New York Mets Turned a Green Beret into a Polyglot (29:59)
From: Steve Leveen

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 my career.” Getting there ...
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Episode 56: For a Star of Classical Piano, Languages Hold the Key (24:52)
From: Steve Leveen

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 professional debut at age ...
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Episode 55: Language learning: why tax your brain when there’s technology? (13:50)
From: Steve Leveen

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 shouldn’t do.