Podcasts

Russian Popular Culture: Experiments in Consolation and Anti-Glamour

An interview with Professor David Macfadyen, UCLA Slavic Department

Ruminations on Heritage Languages: A Few (Semi)Radical Thoughts

Podcast by Guadalupe Valdes, Stanford University

Multilingual Education Policy and Practice: Ten Certainties

Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania

Why Bother with Heritage Speakers?

Maria Polinksy, Harvard University

Special Presentation: Using Translation in the Heritage Language Classroom

Michael Heim, University of California, Los Angeles

The Heritage Language Discourse: Making Headway in Policy

Joseph Lo Bianco, University of Melbourne and President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities

10 languages and counting. Part 2

Michael Heim tells us the importance of learning languages.

10 languages and counting. Part 1

Michael Heim, professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA, says he's never learned a language just for the sake of learning it, and he tells why experts write the worst textbooks.

What Is It About Swahili, Tom Hinnebusch?

A UCLA professor emeritus of linguistics talks about language-counting, what makes Swahili special, and what becomes of manuscripts in East Africa.

What Is a Heritage Language, Olga Kagan?

The director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center at UCLA (and of CWL) answers some frequently asked questions.

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