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Steve Leveen

Host, America the Bilingual podcast

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Steve Leveen
May 24

America the Bilingual

Episode 5: The CEO and the Polyglot

Does the whole world speak English? It seems so when you travel to big cities and stay in major hotels. It seems so when you visit popular tourist destinations. But what about in corporate conference rooms…

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Steve Leveen
May 10

America the Bilingual

Episode 4: Mother Tongue

We hear it before we are born. Before the first air rushes into our tiny lungs, before the first light refracts into our blinking, baby eyes, our mother tongue is already resident, dreamlike in our waiting minds.

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Steve Leveen
Apr 26

America the Bilingual

Episode 3: Just Call Me Anna

Linguists call it “shift.” The rest of us would call it “loss.” It’s what happens to the languages spoken by immigrants, and it happens fast. By the third generation, and sometimes even the second, the German or Hindi…

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