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America the Bilingual — 89 episodes

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80 - Season 6 - You Can Finally Learn That Next Language You’ve Been Thirsting to Speak

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79 -Season 6- “What Language Barrier?” Meet the Indiana Jones of Language Learning

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78 - Season 6 - Meet Ilan Stavans, a Tocqueville for our century

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77- Season 6 - A trumpeter's tale

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76 - Season 6 - Meet the maestro behind the new language gym

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75 - Season 6 - Recipe: Mix Jewish with Mexican, Add Maine

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74 - Season 6 - The unexpected truth about languages in America

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73 - Season 6 - Global English: Blessing or Curse?

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72 - Season 6 - Kim Potowski’s master class in heritage languages

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71 - Season 5 - The Surprise in That Subway® Sandwich: Languages

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70 - Season 5 - A whisper to god

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69 - Season 5 - What is life when you leave the U.S. and become United Stateless?

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68 - Season 5 - Amy Chua, the Original Tiger Mom, Has Bilingual Stripes

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67 - Season 5 - Meet a Spanish Teacher in Maine Named Mohamed

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66 - Season 5 - How Joe Keenan came to write a breakout book on learning Spanish

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ATB EP65v2

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64 - Season 5 - A global audio storyteller: the journey of Martina Castro

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63 - Season 5 - Mexican American chef Pati Jinich takes time out from PBS for a podcast conversation

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S6 -Episode 62- Writing in Two Worlds: How a Peruvian American Novelist Embraces Her Bilingualism

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61 - Season 5 - Where Children’s Books Become Bilingual

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60 - Season 5 - Crossing the Borderlands of America’s Immigration

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From fast food worker to renowned Film Critic: Carlos Aguilar and why DACA is important

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58 - Season 5 - Reclaiming the Language That History Wanted Lost

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57 - Season 5 - How the New York Mets Turned a Green Beret into a Polyglot

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56 - Season 5 - For a Star of Classical Piano, Languages Hold the Key

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55 - Season 4 - Language learning: why tax your brain when there’s technology?

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54 - Season 4 - To App or Not to App: That is the Language Learner’s Question

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53 - Season 4 - America is too big for bilingualism. Fact or fiction?

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52 - Season 4 - True or false? The best way to learn a language is total immersion

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51 - Season 4 - What they don’t teach you in Harvard’s Spanish classes

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50 - Season 4 - How to give your kids the gift of two languages

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49 - Season 4 - How Bilinguals Find Their ‘Where’

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48 - Season 4 - How should you learn your new language?

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47 - Season 4 - When Becoming Bilingual Becomes Irresistible

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46 - Season 3 - Summer Language Camps: A Short-Course on Six We Love

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Bilingual Child Month: Children of a Silent God

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Bilingual Child Month: North Carolina's impressive rise in bilingual schools

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45 - Season 4 - Top Tips from Teachers for Adult Language Learners

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Hispanic Heritage Month - Ed de la Torre doesn't speak Spanish

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Summer Light Series: In case you thought Latin was dead

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Summer Light Listening: “With money, the dog dances,” and other wise words

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Summer light series: Let’s go to the movies…in another language

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Summer light series - How to Learn a Language Without Studying It

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Summer light series: American outliers

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44 - Season 3 - Africa’s Relaxed Multilingualism: A Model for America?

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43 - Season 3 - Buds of Bilingualism

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42 - Season 3 - North Carolina: A Dual-Language Success Story

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41 - Season 3 - French Immersion at Université Sainte-Anne: A Bubble of Joy

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ATB - EP40 - ASL2 - V2

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39 - Season 3 - America the Bilingual goes to Morocco

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38 - Season 3 - STARTALK: Another Peace Corps for the 21st Century

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37 - Season 3 - Concordia Language Villages: Waltzing with Mops, and Other Adventures

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36 - Season 3 - A Tidal Wave of Love: The John Rassias Legacy

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35 - Season 2 - The Magic of Middlebury

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34 - Season 2 - Parents, Give Your Child Bilingual Wings

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33 - Season 2 - Let’s Go to the Movies…in Another Language

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32 - Season 2 - Why a World War II Survivor Adopted the Enemy’s Language

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32 - Season 2 - A dispatch from France (Minisode)

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31 - Season 2- Not your uncle's language class

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30 - America the Bilingual podcast season 2 - A New Generation of Cherokee Speakers Rises

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29 - America the Bilingual Season 2 - When Baby’s First Words Are Not Spoken

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28 - America the Bilingual Podcast Season 2 - And Crown Thy Good with Brotherhood

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27 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - How to Learn a Language Without Studying It

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26 - America the Bilingual Season 2 - Are you too old to learn another language

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25 - America the Bilingual Season 2 - Dual language education: Winds of change

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24 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - The Dual-Language Revolution Begins (Part I)

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23 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 - In case you thought Latin was dead

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22 - America the Bilingual podcast Season 2 — A language to reveal —or conceal— your true self

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21 - America the Bilingual podcast - Preview of Season 2 (a minisode)

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20 - America the Bilingual podcast - Twelve gifts of Bilingualism

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19- America the Bilingual Podcast - When America went to war against the German language

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18-America the Bilingual podcast - Bill Weir Loves Language Teachers--Wishes he had Listened to His

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17- America the Bilingual Podcast - When a Gap Year Becomes a Bridge Year

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16- America the Bilingual Podcast - Bless the Late Blooming Bilinguals

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15- America the Bilingual Podcast - Sealed with un beso

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14-America the Bilingual Podcast - The vanishing high school year abroad

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13- America the Bilingual Podcast - Hurricane Irma: a dispatch from Delray Beach and an invitation

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12-America the Bilingual Podcast - Eastern Star: The Nick Staffa story

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11-America the Bilingual Podcast - The power of language exchange

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10-America the Bilingual Podcast - The Joy of speaking Spanish

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9- America the Bilingual Podcast - Ed de La Torre doesn't speak spanish

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8- America the Bilingual Podcast - American Outliers

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7- America the Bilingual Podcast - The Bella and the Bold

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6- America the Bilingual Podcast - Little Ketchup Girl

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5- America the Bilingual Podcast - The CEO and the Polyglot

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4-Mother Tongue

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3- Just call me Anna

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2- With a little help from his friends —and good french wine

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1- The Lamp of empathy