Language and Culture with Dr. J

One of the central topics of this podcast is cultural identity. In this episode Dr. J welcomes a good friend, Nora Heaven, to the podcast and focuses on the question of what it is like to juggle three languages and cultures on a daily basis. Nora’s parents are Hungarian, her husband is English and she was born and raised in Germany. Nora and Dr. J experiment with speaking English, German and Hungarian together to see how their voices, their body language and their general mood and attitude change with each language.

Languages spoken in this episode: The narration and interview summary are in English. Most of the interview is in English, with one brief part in German and a short segment in Hungarian.

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Dr. J interviews students and educators from around the world about saying hello in Romance languages – specifically Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. Adita Gordillo de Buchacher, Verónica Guijas Gento and Melanie Lopez Flores speak about Spanish. Dr. J interviews a group of international university students about saying hello in French and speaks to Faustine Guillard about French in France and Belgium. Arianna Rivero sheds light on speaking Italian, while Ricardo Filho and his students welcome Dr. J to their Portuguese class.

Languages spoken in this episode: The narration and interview summaries are in English. The interviews are in English, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese.

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András Siebold is the Artistic Director of the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel, a well known theater in Hamburg, Germany. He joins Dr. J to talk about working with artists from around the world and the linguistic and cultural opportunities and difficulties this generates. András Siebold talks about Robert Wilson, Jonathan Safran Foer as well as many other artists and performers he has worked with, including La(Horde), Aszure Barton, Josh 'Socalled' Dolgin, Vasya Run and Kuro Tanino.

The Hamburg band Sazou joins Dr. J for the second part of this episode and generously performs one of the songs from their recently released album.

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Senator Ties Rabe starts off this episode with his views on teaching languages in schools. Senator Rabe and Dr. J tackle questions about bilingualism and multilingualism, studying abroad, and the role of parents in language learning. Dr. J then continues discussing language acquisition in children with several educators from Kindergarten to High School—elementary school teachers Esther Sydow and Dr. Tatjana Kuhn, high school teacher Rainer Pieper and kindergarten teacher Diana Cortés.

Languages spoken in this episode: The interviews in this episode are in German. The narration and interview summaries are in English.

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The topic of this episode is saying hello in English and in German. Dr. J speaks to three expats in Hamburg, Germany - Ben Feddersen from the US, Orla Mac Mahon from Ireland and Peter Witchalls from England – as well as to an international group of university students, producer Sarah and a retired Hamburg firefighter. The focus is not the words and vocabulary used in greeting somebody, but the intricate social and psychological aspects of starting up a conversation, whether you do so in your mother tongue or in a foreign language or culture.

Languages spoken in this episode: English. There is one brief interview at the end in German.

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