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Said & Done

Columbia University Language Resource Center

Said & Done is a podcast from the Columbia University Language Resource Center that explores languages at the intersection of culture and biography. In conversation with host Chris Kaiser, guests share how they have been shaped by the languages they speak.

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34:48

Words and Meanings in Tibetan Buddhism, with Richard R.

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2023/11/02

Richard R. speaks about his journey to and within Tibetan Buddhism, and the central role that the Tibetan language has played in his religious practice and in his life over the past several decades.layed in his religious practice and in his life over the past several decades.

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34:13

Can We Teach Metalinguistic Knowledge? with Skye...

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2023/10/05

Skye Shannon Savage, a Ph.D. candidate in Columbia's Department of Germanic Languages, discusses a project that involved teaching some Yiddish in a German language class, in order to highlight the relationship between the two languages. Skye situates this experiment of linguistic cross-pollination within the broader context of metalinguistic knowledge, which is rarely taught explicitly in the foreign language classroom.

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25:34

Language Learning and AI

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2023/09/07

Simon Zuberek returns to Said & Done to discuss the rise in interest in artificial intelligence, and how it relates to language teaching and learning. We discuss how large language model chatbots like ChatGPT and Google Bard work, and how they might and might not be helpful to a language learner today.

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51:45

Interconnectedness and isiZulu, with Nandi Sipengane

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2023/08/03

Nandi Sipengane, instructor of isiZulu at Yale University, talks about speaking many different languages at home and at school growing up in South Africa. She describes some of the unique features of isiZulu, including the famous click consonants. She also discusses how South Africans think about and understand their complex national, cultural, and linguistic identities. Watch this conversation on Youtube: https://youtu.be/t5jOXjLx_TY

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39:15

What is NEALLT? With Angelina Craig-Florez, Ann...

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2023/07/06

Angelina Craig-Florez of Columbia University, Ann Warner-Ault of the College of New Jersey, and Mike Jones of Swarthmore College are three members of the board of NEALLT, the Northeastern Association for Language Learning Technology. In this conversation, we talk about the paths that they took to becoming language professionals, the role of technology in language teaching, and how a smaller regional organization like NEALLT can be a big help to graduate students and early-career language

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31:32

Upper Levels in English, German, and Italian, with...

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2023/06/02

What challenges do learners face in year 10, year 15, year 20 of studying a foreign language? Chris and Simon talk about their recent victories and ongoing challenges as higher-proficiency learners of English, German, and Italian. This episode was recorded as a livestream on Youtube. You can watch the video version of this conversation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi7lW9yvnpo

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30:37

Inspirations in Yoruba, with Ayomide Tikare

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2023/05/12

Ayomide Tikare, a graduating senior at Barnard College, talks about learning Yoruba over the past four years. She discusses her background as a Yoruba heritage speaker, her language-learning process, and her love of Yoruba-language films and music. Mentioned in this episode: O Le Ku - 1997 film by Tunde Kelani Tunde Kelani, Nigerian film director Kunle Afolayan, Nigerian film director Maami - 2011 film by Tunde Kelani October 1 - 2014 film directed by Kunle Afolayan Ayinla - 2021 film directed by

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29:54

Bengali and Sylheti, with Dwijen Bhattacharya

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2023/04/07

Dr. Dwijen Bhattacharya discusses the history and origin of the Bengali language, a related language called Sylheti, and some of the reasons why a language learner in the US might want to study Bengali.

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31:42

Ukrainian: Speaking in One Voice, with Yuri Shevchuk

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2023/03/02

In his second appearance on Said & Done, Yuri Shevchuk recounts a journey to Ukraine that he undertook in August 2022, and describes what he encountered in a country at war. He then speaks more generally about Russia’s war in Ukraine, about what surprised him and what didn’t surprise him about it, and about the evolving role of the Ukrainian language in this war.

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26:59

Hungarian: Complex and Wonderfully Expressive, with...

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2023/02/02

Professor Carol Rounds, lecturer of Hungarian at Columbia University, speaks about some of the unique and challenging ways in which Hungarian is structured, and why it is so interesting to linguists. She discusses how this agglutinative language creates meaning and allows for play in ways that are surprising to speakers of English, as a consequence of its morphological and syntactic complexity.

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37:21

A Dream, a Flood, and an Archimedean Point, with...

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2023/01/05

Professor Millicent Marcus of Yale University speaks about her life and work as a scholar of Italian literature. We focus in particular on her witnessing of and participation in two world-historical events: the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom and the 1966 flood of the River Arno in Florence. She describes her experiences as one of the “Angeli del fango,” the young people who helped to recover books, manuscripts, and works of art from the damage of the floodwaters.

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01:50

Giving Thanks and Season's Greetings

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2022/11/25

Chris Kaiser thanks the listeners and guests of the Said & Done podcast and announces a new schedule for 2023.

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36:06

Legends of Place in Tamil and Sanskrit, with Jay Ramesh

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2022/11/11

Professor Jay Ramesh of Columbia University discusses his knowledge of and experiences in three languages of India: Sanskrit, Tamil, and Malayalam. He describes the myths and stories associated with Hindu temples, and in particular a certain kind of text called a Sthala Purana, some of which are written first in Sanskrit and then later given a unique kind of translation into Tamil.

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29:04

Endangered Languages in the City, with Ross Perlin

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2022/10/27

Ross Perlin, professor at Columbia in the Linguistics program and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, discusses how large cities are often home to endangered languages from around the world. He talks about the challenges of preserving and revitalizing languages with few speakers, and gives the examples of Seke, a language of Nepal, and Lunaape (also called Lenape or Delaware), a Native American language of the Algonquian family. Learn more about the Endangered Language Alliance here:

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32:01

Balinese: A Thousand Temples, with Yudis Nugraha

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2022/10/13

Yudis Nugraha, instructor of Indonesian at Columbia University, talks about growing up speaking both Indonesian and Balinese. He discusses the relationship between language, tourism, culture and religion in Bali, focusing in on the unique religion of Balinese Hinduism. Approximately 90% of people living in Bali identify as belonging to this religion, whose origins trace back to traders and priests from India coming to the Indonesian archipelago 2000 years ago.

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37:33

Italian and American Journeys, with Felice Beneduce

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2022/09/29

Felice Beneduce discusses growing up in an Italian family in Providence, Rhode Island and speaking standard Italian at home. He talks about how his love for the Italian language has figured prominently throughout his life, from his time serving in the Italian army, to living in northern Italy, to studying Italian literature, and now to passing this knowledge on to his students and his family as a teacher of the language.

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13:40

Ukrainian Resistance: Six Months, with Yuri Shevchuk

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2022/09/15

As the war in Ukraine passes its six-month mark, we look back on our conversation with Yuri Shevchuk from March 2022. This episode highlights two moments from that interview in which Yuri discusses Ukrainian speakers' strategic use of language in recent decades, as well as in the ongoing invasion.

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26:58

Bilingual Binds in English and Polish, with Simon...

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2022/09/01

In this conversation, Simon talks about growing up speaking both Polish and English, as well as learning several other languages along the way. We then explore different facets of the experience of bilingualism, in particular how certain situations cause him to choose one language over the other, and how trying to use the other language when it’s not the right situation for it can sometimes cause problems.

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31:18

Dominican Spanish: Life in Two Islands, with Luana...

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2022/08/18

Dr. Luana Ferreira is a linguist, educator, and host of the podcast Bocona: All Things Dominican. In this conversation, she talks about growing up in the Dominican community in New York, as well as in the Dominican Republic. She discusses some of the characteristics of the Dominican variety of Spanish, and shares how her podcast is seeking to amplify, uplift, center, and empower Dominican voices. https://boconaallthingsdominican.buzzsprout.com/

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17:31

Italian Letters in a Shoebox, with Chris Kaiser

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2022/08/05

Chris Kaiser talks about how discovering a box of letters in his grandmother's house as a child inspired him to undertake a lifelong journey of language learning. This episode is also available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zIyVO0vjGc

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