Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Martha Summerlin, a self-proclaimed language nerd, proud introvert and cat fan. When she isn’t buried in books or thinking about how language works, you can find her exploring one of North Carolina’s beautiful parks, trying out a new coffee shop or talking your ear off about the marvels of baseball and Formula 1. Having studied sociolinguistics (the study of people’s attitudes towards dialects and accents) she’s passionate about sharing the value of each dialect and language and what they have to teach us about each other.

Her podcast has now been out since March 2023 called Shhh...I'm Learning! Make sure you give it a listen!

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Hey Language Learners! Welcome back to another amazing interview about Insecurities about Language. In this episode, I spoke with Karen M. Ricks, a Christian wife, Worldschooling mom, and a nomadic chef. Teaching for over 25 years, she has been a Montessorian since her own preschool days. She holds Montessori teaching certifications for guiding children from infancy through elementary. She has cooked professionally, in restaurants, commercial kitchens, and private homes on four different continents over the last decade. After 10 years of teaching in central Japan, where Karen founded and operated her own international Montessori school, she sold it all to begin a nomadic life of full-time travel with her family. Karen spreads her message of embracing a Slow Food Lifestyle, a lifelong love of learning, and education for peace by teaching people of all ages how to cook for themselves and why they need to share that gift with those they love. You can learn more about her, her family’s edible exploits, and the lessons they are learning on their Culinary Worldschooling Adventures as they gallivant around the globe over at Our Kitchen Classroom dot com For more fun and deliciousness from Our Kitchen Classroom, find us all over the web!
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Subscribe to Our Kitchen Playground: http://ourkitchenclassroom.com/subscribe-to-our-kitchen-playground/; A few topics that was discussed during this interview: Traveling to Mexico before we needed passports Her early memories of languages Her language journey in 2007 to Japan Her nomadic life in many different countries and her explanations about the related languages Motivations for learning a new language Her insecurities Fun times with sayings/ phrases/ and words Of course there is much more in between!! Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll! Click the links below for:

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Welcome Language Learners to the Insecurities about Language podcast: The Death of Language and to an exciting topic I am tackling called the Death of Language...within families! In this episode, I had the pleasure of interviewing Greta Rodney Thompson, born and raised up on the island of St. Martin, the smallest mass of land to be divided into two countries. She considers herself a true St. Martiner with all the benefits of a multi-cultural upbringing, but also cultural confusion that comes along with being in an environment but not necessarily feeling a part of it.
Her maternal side of the family is French and a significant portion moved to Guadeloupe and France. From a very early age Greta realized that there was a disconnect in that she was a part of this family but not able to communicate using the language. Greta decided to make it her goal to improve her French language skills to reconnect with family and inherently learn more about herself. The journey is still ongoing but has led to many gains socially and professionally. Greta is working on bringing more awareness to others about the benefits of multilingualism by sharing stories of others who are bilingual or multilingual and encouraging bilingual education. She does this through her YouTube, Facebook and Instagram page called The Linguistic Isle. She also works with an association called Les Pepites which promotes culture, education and communication in the community. Make sure to support this podcast by following and leaving a review/ rating wherever you listen to your podcast. You can follow on Instagram at Insecurities about Language and say Hi! You can send me a message if you are interest in being a guest to talk about your language learning journey or the death of language(s) within your family. I look forward to hearing from ya'll!

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