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Insecurities about Language

Alexandria Robinson

Insecurities about Language is about my journey with learning a new language and tackling the death of language within families. I will have many conversations with those on the same journey, from teachers, from those teaching their kids, and really anyone who wants to have a conversation about language! And tackling Insecurities. This podcast is for people who are learning a new language, who want to learn a language, and people who grew up speaking a language but forgot it. If you fall into one of

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00:43:35

Insecurities about Language with Martha: Learning...

Insecurities about Language ·

2023/04/30

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Martha Summerlin, a self-proclaimed language nerd, proud introvert and cat fan. When she isn’t buried in books or thinking about how language works, you can find her exploring one of North Carolina’s beautiful parks, trying out a new coffee shop or talking your ear off about the marvels of baseball and Formula 1. Having studied sociolinguistics (the study of people’s

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00:55:57

Insecurities about Language with Karen: The Love of...

Insecurities about Language ·

2023/04/17

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Karen M. Ricks, a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for over 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents

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00:33:04

Insecurities about Language: The Death of Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2023/04/02

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Greta Rodney Thompson, born and raised up on the island of St. Martin, the smallest mass of land to be divided into two countries. She considers herself a true St. Martiner with all the benefits of a multi-cultural upbringing, but also cultural confusion that comes along

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00:21:41

Death of Language Compilation, Part 2

Insecurities about Language ·

2023/03/14

Welcome Language Learners to Part 2 of the Death of Language Compilation!What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you have to think about it for a moment, and really there is no right or wrong answer to this question. Really the question is to get you to think about yourself, your family, someone you know, the language and culture and the immersion of

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00:14:20

January Update

Insecurities about Language ·

2023/02/19

Welcome back! It is SEASON 2 YALL! I am your host Alexandria of the Insecurities about Language Podcast. And this season I will continue to talk about individual language journeys, especially mine since I failed to do that last year. I will be diving more into the Death of Language within families and getting my family involved, so ya’ll can hear more about their stories. I will be interviewing folks about Bilingualism and Linguistic and those topics will be little mini-series within this season

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00:43:13

Insecurities About Minority Language (Basque) with...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/12/17

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to the last episode of season 1, and another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Marcus from Louisiana. He’s a polyglot and currently live in Pamplona, Spain, the place of the famous running of the bulls. He studied both Psychology (Bachelor’s) and Linguistics (Master’s). He has a unique interest in minority language because he is a minority language speaker. His hope is to preserve them and help them gain speakers

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01:23:04

Insecurities about Language-Hermosas Chicas Negras

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/12/03

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. This is a special interview with the Hermosas Chicas Negras! In this episode, I spoke with D’anne, Ayo, and Paula of the Hermosas Chicas Negras about their language learning journey with Spanish. Each are leaning Spanish from different Spanish speaking countries. You’ll hear thoughtful explanations about their language environments, how they meet one another, why they chose the specific Spanish

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00:23:29

Insecurities about Language: The Death of Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/11/27

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jacqueline S. Sadberry, a small-town girl hailing from Texas. She is a poet, self-published author, and passionate language lover. Between studying Japanese, Spanish and Mandarin Chinese, and writing her second novel, she also assists people with becoming conversational in

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00:37:28

Insecurities about Language: The Death of Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/11/12

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Eliza, who works in language education and is currently based in Vietnam. As a child, her father married her Serbian stepmother, a first gen Yugoslav immigrant. From the age of 5, Eliza grew up with summer and winter holidays around Serbian food, language, and traditions

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01:26:45

Insecurities about Language: The Death of Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/10/29

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Shana Inofuentes (Aymara and Ashkenazi), who revels in communication that inspires joy and justice. She is a native speaker of English and Spanish, and is an elementary heritage speaker of Aymara, Quechua, and Hebrew. She is a proud daughter of the Bolivian immigrant

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00:43:22

Insecurities about the Spanish Language with Kamille

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2022/10/15

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Kamille Lucas, a Social Worker located in the Dallas area who has made a career out of her passion for counseling and the empowerment of youth and adults. She is the proud owner of Radiating Expressions, LLC which is the manifestation of her many creative outlets. A few of her passions include working with marginalized groups, the Spanish language and culture, and

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00:38:37

Insecurities about Language: The Death of Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/10/01

Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Pona who lives in Toronto, Canada, is the first child of an immigrant family who grew up exposed to several languages, but only spoke English for many years. She has been working to change that in adulthood and is thrilled to have been able to talk about her heritage

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00:08:23

Insecurities about Language: The Death of Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/10/01

Welcome to the Insecurities about language podcast: The Death of Language. In this episode I am going to talk about: what is this, where did it come from, what are my goals with this topic, and I will define what does the Death of Language within families mean to me! And so the overall goal of this segment or topic is to talk about and answer the question: What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she

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00:44:11

Insecurities about the Spanish Language with Joshua

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/08/21

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of finally speaking about languages from a males perspective. Joshua was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN. He began learning Spanish in school but desired much more than what he received. He started his solo journey after graduating college to learn Spanish on his own. Trying out many different strategies and failing on the way, he has fallen in love with the

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00:20:37

Insecurities about the Spanish (Mexican) Language...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/07/23

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview with Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Kim! She is currently lives in Mexico and has lived in 3 other countries abroad including Japan, Vietnam, and China. She’s studied Spanish and Japanese and dabbled in Mandarin during her time in China. She teaches English online as her daytime gig, but her passion is showing other Black women how accessible moving abroad can be no matter their

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00:17:31

Death of Language Compilation, Part 1

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/07/09

Welcome Language Learners to a super special topic that I will be tackling on this podcast! Today I have complied answers to a question that I have been asking every guest that you have already heard and will hear soon about a topic that I am very interested in tackling. And so, the question that I’ve asked is…What does the death of language within families mean to you? And you may think that this is an obvious question, or you’re like what does she mean or what does she want to hear, or maybe you

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00:25:48

Insecurities about the Italian Language with Olivia

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/06/11

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview with Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with Olivia, a native of Ohio who's always had an interest in languages. She is currently learning Italian with hopes of being at least 80% intelligible within the next three years. Olivia tells us what her fluency goal is and why! She talks about how we initially learn languages, and that is through LISTENING! Have you ever though about that? She also

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01:10:53

INSECURITIES ABOUT THE RÉUNION ISLAND CREOLE LANGUAGE

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/05/28

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Nelsy (Yseuln), currently living in Amsterdam. She was born and raised in Reunion Island, which is located between Madagascar and Mauritius. French and Reunionese creole are her native languages, and she has a strong interest in language learning. She gave a thorough background about when she began learning languages and her journey. Nelsy talks about the official and

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00:09:37

Language Partner(s)- The Beginning Of My Speaking...

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/05/14

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another episode, where I will speak about the beginning of my speaking journey. I have to mention that this episode was recorded in January of 2022 and I restarted my learning journey with European Portuguese. I made this decision because one of my major regrets with learning this language was that I did not start speaking once I joined the program I'm in. So I felt behind compared to others, even though this is a self paced program, so there is no competition

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01:02:51

Insecurities about the Korean Language with Tiara

Insecurities about Language ·

2022/04/30

Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I had the please of speaking with Tiara Youngblood, an English teacher based in South Korea for about 3 years. She’s studied dead and modern languages, including Spanish, Italian, Latin, Ancient Greek, and now Korean, and she’s learned a lot about the language learning process. She is also the "Card Master" of Speak in Spades, which is a language learning platform she created so that

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