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Talking to Grandma
by Talking to Grandma
Talking to Grandma is a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their bones stay connected to their heritage languages and cultures. She's a Harvard-educated doctora who has experienced losing, recovering, and passing on her heritage language to her children. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, teacher, researcher, school leader, or simply someone interested in the topics of language learning and language preservation, this podcast is for you. Through interviews with amazing guests and solo episodes, you will find the resources, guidance, and strategies needed to support you in your journey.
Episodes
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AI in the Age of AI: Ancestral Intelligence in Schools | Live from SXSW EDU
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. In this special live episode recorded at SXSW EDU, the Talking to Grandma podcast brings together educators, activists, and innovators for a powerful conversation about AI, ancestral...
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S4 Ep40: Navigating Bilingualism in a Multicultural Family with Elisabet De Miguel
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. I’m Jenn Vargas-Pressman, educator, mother, and advocate for bilingualism in our communities. In this episode of Talking to Grandma, we sit down with Elisabet De Miguel, a bilingual…
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S4 Ep39: The Journey of a Bilingual Educator: Preserving Culture Through Language with Fidel Martínez
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, or just someone who cares about language and culture, this podcast is for you. Together with our guests, we’ll explore how to support...
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S4 Ep38: What Families Really Want: The Truth About Bilingual Education with Dr. Conor P. Williams & Mayra Valle
This week on Talking to Grandma, we’re hitting pause on our alumni spotlight series to bring you an eye-opening conversation about what linguistically diverse families actually want when it comes to bilingualism and dual-language education. Despite common assumptions, new research shows that...
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S4 Ep37: Revisited: Creating Community to Reclaim Indigenous Language with Lizette B. Suxo
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, educator, or simply someone who believes in the power of language and culture, this podcast is for you. Each week, we explore how to nurture…
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S4 Ep36: How to Raise Bilingual Kids with Confidence: Strategies from Dra. Eva Ortiz Benítez
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. In this episode of Talking to Grandma, host Jenn Vargas-Pressman sits down with Dra. Eva Ortiz Benítez, a bilingual educator and instructional coach with K–12 experience in Mexico and...
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S4 Ep35: A Boricua Educator’s Lessons in Raising and Teaching Bilingual Kids with Dr. Andrew Hernández
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, or just someone who cares about language and culture, this podcast is for you. Together with our guests, we’ll explore how to support...
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S4 Ep34: From Language Loss to Legacy: A Bilingual Parenting Journey with Dr. Jonnia Torres Carolan
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, or just someone who cares about language and culture, this podcast is for you. Together with our guests, we’ll explore how to support...
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S4 Ep33: Raising Bilingual Kids: A Parent’s Journey to Find Support and Community with Sofia Sastre
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast about raising and teaching bilingual and multilingual kids. Whether you’re a parent, grandparent, teacher, or just someone who cares about language and culture, this podcast is for you. Together with our guests, we’ll explore how to support...
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S4: Season 4 Teaser: Fresh Voices, Real Stories, Powerful Conversations
Guess who’s back? After a short break, Talking to Grandma returns for Season 4...this time with a twist. For the first time ever, alumni from our Bilingual Generations Collectives are taking over the mic, bringing fresh perspectives, authentic stories, and powerful conversations. Joining producer...
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S3 Ep32: “Two Languages, Twice the Opportunities” Bilingual education advocacy with Gina Rodriguez & Carolyne Crolotte
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep31: Advancing Equity in Multilingual Education with Dr. Conor P. Willams
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep30: Language, Media Representation, and Parenthood with Mike Alfaro from Sí Sabo Kids
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep29: Language learning that is Abuelita and science approved with the Bili Team Part 2
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep28: Language learning that is Abuelita and science approved with the Bili Team Part 1
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep27: The Father/Daughter Bilingual Journey with Dr. Armando X. Orduña & Giuliana Sol Orduña
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep26: Infusing “Wellness Con Cultura” into Healing with Jennifer Velasquez
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep25: Nurturing Language, Identity, and Connection with Dorenyse Díaz
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep24: Embracing Black Language as an act of defiance with Carmen Kynard
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep23: Connecting generations and making language learning fun with Carlos Torres from Yo Sabo The Game
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep22: A Teens Journey to Reclaim and Preserve Heritage Language With Zara Child
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their...
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S3 Ep21: Bridging Home and Classroom for Linguistic Richness with Nawal Qarooni
Welcome to Talking to Grandma, a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, teacher, researcher, school leader, or simply someone interested in the topics of language…
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Mini Bonus Season: Navigating Multiracial Identity, Language and Culture with Sonia Bu
In this episode, we chat with another grandma, Sonia Bu, who, in addition to being an amazing grandma, plays a special role as a board member and mentor to Bilingual Generation. In this conversation, we dive deep into her experience with her multiracial background, the complexities of identity…
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Mini Bonus Season: A Journey from Shame to Joy with Irene Benavides
On this bonus episode of Talking to Grandma, our host, Vero, had the honor of interviewing her mother about how she went from only teaching her children English because she was made fun of for her accent to finding joy in her grandson’s accent. Irene is a mother of four children, grandmother of...
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Mini Bonus Season: Let’s Talk to Grandmas
Over the past two seasons, we have heard from parents, children, educators, researchers, therapists, and museum directors, all dedicated to the work of heritage language preservation. In this mini-season, we wanted to talk to actual grandmas in honor of our podcast name and host, Vero's...
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Bonus Episode: Resonating Voices- Heritage Languages, Culture, and Education at SXSW EDU 2023
In this special bonus episode of Talking to Grandma, producer Beck takes listeners on a journey back to SXSW EDU in March 2023, where Bilingual Generation participated in an enlightening panel discussion and spoke with audience members about language preservation, cultural identity, and equitable...
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Bonus Episode: Preserving Heritage Language in Antonito, Colorado
In this special bonus episode of "Talking to Grandma," we embark on a captivating journey to Antonito, Colorado, a town nestled in the heart of Southern Colorado. Join us as we dive into the stories of students and teachers who are part of the "Spanish for Heritage Speakers" class at Justice &...
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S2: That's a Wrap on Season 2
We hope you enjoyed season 2 of Talking to Grandma! While our season has ended, we aren’t quite done yet! Keep your ears peeled for some exciting bonus episodes coming your way soon. And if you haven’t already, please rate, review, and subscribe to our podcast. It costs you nothing and means...
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S2: The Father/Daughter Bilingual Journey with Dr. Armando X. Orduña & Giuliana Sol Orduña
We have spent almost two seasons talking with parents and educators of children with bilingualism in their bones, but in this episode, we get to hear very special conversations between a father and his daughter, who are both on the journey to preserve their heritage language. Dr. Armando X.…
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S2: Navigating Mixed Heritage with Henry Yau
We each have unique identities that become even more complex when we have mixed heritage. In today’s episode, Henry Yau shares how he heard the question, “What are you?” many times growing up with Chinese & Venezuelan heritage and how the diverse community of Houston welcomed him and continues to...
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S2: Reviving Heritage: An Inspiring Journey of Language Preservation and Community with Anita Sachariah
As many of our listeners know, heritage language learning is hard but made a lot easier when done in community. That is what Anita Sachariah has created with her Instagram account Bhashakids which helps connect the south asian diaspora to their heritage language. In today’s episode, we hear…
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S2: Creating Community to Reclaim Indigenous Language with Lizette B. Suxo Lagos
Dr. Lizette B. Suxo (Sooks-so) shared her journey to connect with her Andean culture and learn Aymara, an indigenous language from the region. Like many people trying to learn their indigenous heritage language, she had to dig deep to find resources, which inspired her to create a hub for people...
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S2: Reconnecting to our whole and unbreakable selves with Robyn Moreno
Over the years, we disconnect from ourselves, our ‘ser’, the person we are before society and family and insecurities tell us who to be. This can mean losing language and culture from our lives. In this episode, we talk with Robyn Moreno about her new book, Get Rooted, and what it means to find…
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S2: Emotional barriers tied to heritage language learning with Wendy Ramirez
If you are a long-time podcast listener, you likely know that the emotional barriers tied to a heritage language can cause pressure or stress that non-heritage language learners don’t experience. In this episode, Wendy Ramirez shares the complexity of language as it's tied to our identity and...
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S2: Shifting the Perception of Multilingual Learners with Josefine Benavides Sherrman
Over the past decade, we’ve seen a shift in schools' perception of multilingual learners. Things like changing our language from “English Language Learner” to “emergent multilingual student” shows how we are moving from a singular focus on English acquisition to a more holistic approach to...
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S2: Relearning your heritage language & culture alongside your parent with Gabrielle & Fran Kotkov
In this episode, we talked with mother and daughter Fran and Gabrielle Kotkov about their experience reclaiming their Italian heritage language after it was lost two generations earlier. Check out Gabrielle's work at www.multilingualmontessori.org!
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S2: How to Heal Generational Language Wounds with Dr. Veronica Benavides
Generational language wounds speak to the idea that languages aren’t lost just by chance or accident across the generations. Rather, there was trauma, discrimination, or deficit narrative that caused this language loss. In this episode, Dr. Veronica Benavides shares four steps you can take to…
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S2: Critical consciousness in dual language and bilingual education with Rhonda Broussard
Welcome back to Talking to Grandma! We are excited to share this powerful conversation with Rhonda Broussard about the double erasure of Black bilingual Americans and the lack of access to dual language programs for the Black community. Rhonda is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist. One Good...
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S2: Welcome Back for Season 2 of Talking To Grandma
Welcome back for a new season of Talking to Grandma! We hope you enjoyed our first season and the amazing guests that brought us stories of resilience, joy, and hope on their language preservation journeys. This season, we hear stories from people who envision a world where heritage languages are...
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S1: Reclaiming Your Family’s Heritage Language, Even if Your Elders Never Taught You from Forum KQED
Trying to preserve heritage languages in a monolingual society is hard! For decades, languages have been lost for the sake of survival by many newcomers to the U.S. Now, there is a generational readiness to reclaim what was lost, but where do we begin? In February, Talking to Grandma host, Dr....
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S1: Denver Voices: Stories of Language Loss and Preservation in the Denver Community
Last year, our work with the Language Preservation Project took us to Denver, Colorado. As we began to design and think about our programming for educators and families, we met with a lot of great people in the community who all had their own journeys with language preservation and loss. In this...
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S1: Overcoming a Complex Relationship with Heritage Language with Dr. Vanessa Santiago Schwarz
The reason for language loss in a family can be deeply personal and complicated. In this episode, we talked with Dr. Vanessa Santiago Schwarz about the complex history of both her heritage languages, how that impacted her own relationship with language, and how she uses what she’s learned as an...
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S1: Language Preservation Project Team Stories with Nansi Guevara & Maried Rivera Nieves
Creating resources that bring beauty and joy to the people we serve has become a goal for The Langauge Preservation Project. In this episode, two LPP collaborators, Maried Rivera Nieves and Nansi Guevara talk about creating art and design with equity and representation in mind. Listen to how...
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S1: Language Preservation Project Team Stories with Jennifer Pressman and Irene Vergara
As we start year 2 of our work with the Language Preservation Project, we want to share the stories of some of the other amazing folks we have worked with over the past year. The work we do is truly by us and for us. In this episode, Vero talked with Jenn Pressman & Irene Vergara, about making...
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S1: Language Learning from the Black Perspective with Errol de Jesus of Morenita Mommy
In this episode, we talked with Errol de Jesus from Morenita Mommy about her commitment to raising her autistic son multilingual. Errol’s journey shows that while the complexities of life can take expectations and flip them upside down, forming community and connection can make language learning...
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S1: Passing on heritage language while still learning with Annie Lee
The journey of passing on a heritage language you are still learning can be scary. In this episode, Annie Lee shares with us how she reimagined bilingual parenting from a place of fear to a place of joy. If you have doubts and fears about your own bilingual parenting journey, join us in this...
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S1: Racializing the Latinx experience and language learning without shame with Dr. Gloria Rosario Wallace
Dr. Gloria Rosario Wallace shared how she grew up rejecting the harmful narratives about her language and identity and how she continues to affirm language and culture as an educator, leader, and parent. Listen to the many nuggets of wisdom Dr. Gloria has to share in this episode! You can find…
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S1: Multilingual parenting with enoughness, grace, and accountability with Tamar Lawrence-Samuel
Parenting can be a juggling act. Throw in the hard work of passing on one or more heritage languages, and it can feel impossible. In this episode, Tamar Lawrence-Samuel shares her experience balancing grace and accountability on her multilingual parenting journey. If you need a reminder that what...
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S1: Bilingual Parenting Mental Health with Diandra Morse of Bilingual Playdate
The process of raising bilingual children in a monolingual society is incredibly difficult and can take a toll on the mental health of a parent. In this episode, we talk with social worker Diandra Morse, LCSW, not only about parenting and bilingualism but the language of the heart and the mental...
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S1: A story of language loss and preservation with Dr. Veronica Benavides
Linguistic oppression has plagued many cultures over the years, leaving generations unable to speak to older generations. Dr. Veronica Benavides shares her family’s story of language loss and how she is reclaiming her heritage language and culture. Are you also on the journey to reclaim what was...
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Talking to Grandma is a weekly podcast that elevates stories, science, and strategies to help you raise and teach multilingual and bilingual children. Hosted by Dr. Veronica Benavides, founder and CEO of Bilingual Generation, an organization that helps children with bilingualism in their bones stay connected to their heritage languages and cultures. She's a Harvard-educated doctora who has experienced losing, recovering, and passing on her heritage language to her children. Whether you are a parent, grandparent, teacher, researcher, school leader, or simply someone interested in the topics of language learning and language preservation, this podcast is for you. Through interviews with amazing guests and solo episodes, you will find the resources, guidance, and strategies needed to support you in your journey.
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