Join us this week as we say goodbye to the 2021-2022 school year and to our graduating hosts, Niko Attebery and Madison Peyton. This week we were joined by Linguistics Student, Jen Ruskauff, to play a fantastic board game, Poetry for Neanderthals! Speaking only in one syllable words in order to have our partners guess what word is on our card in under a minute is more difficult than one would think and it is safe to say that things got... interesting!  Edited by Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p >Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License Elevator Music by Lesfm from Pixabay

Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Linguistics student Navor Tercero as we discuss the history of language education in New Mexico. In this episode we talk about how language education was nonexistent in New Mexico until very recently due to lawmakers and tax payers voting against language education because they didn't want to fund it and the government wanted everyone to speak English. A special thanks to Navor Tercero for joining us for this episode! Edited by Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Linguistics professor Dr. Virginia Dawson (Ginny) and Western student Rosia Aning as we discuss the Field Methods class offered last winter quarter. Rosia was selected to be the consultant for Field Methods where she met with students throughout the quarter and answered questions about her native language, Twi, which is spoken in Ghana. In this episode Ginny and Rosia share their experience with us. A special thanks to Dr. Virginia Dawson & Rosia Aning for joining us for this episode! Edited by Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Dr. Judith Pine who is associated with the WWU Linguistics department as we discuss linguistics & social justice and how language usage and linguistics is important when thinking of social justice issues, both in education and everyday life. In this episode we also talk about the 30 million word gap and scholarly discourse around that topic (and why it is a problematic ideology). A special thanks to Dr. Judith Pine for joining us for this episode! Edited by Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras Episode Transcript by Niko Attebery Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Join us this week for an engaging conversation between our hosts Emma, Niko, and Madison as we discuss the very important role that sociolinguistics plays in internet language & slang, and how that language interacts with society!  Episode Transcript by Emma Ahmann and Niko Attebery Edited by Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Join us this week for an engaging conversation with Dr. Anne Lobeck of the WWU Linguistics department as we discuss the very important role that linguistics has in the world of education, and how that landscape is changing! A special thanks to Dr. Anne Lobeck for joining us for this episode!  Anne Curzan's work covered in this episode can be found here Episode Transcript by Emma Ahmann and Niko Attebery Edited by Jess Costanza Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

In this episode, we explore identity and the self through the lens of linguistics with a fellow WWU linguistics student, Nathan Shepard. Join us as we unravel what identity means in a linguistic landscape and how we can use linguistics to navigate self identity and social justice! A special thanks to Nathan Shepard, our first guest of season 2! Nathan's paper can be found here Episode Transcript by Emma Ahmann and Niko Attebery Edited by Fawn Dupras and Jess Costanza Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

This week on The Podling, we dive into some interesting idioms from the different languages we are learning, and try to guess their figurative meanings based on the literal meanings. Join us and try to guess alongside the hosts! Episode Transcript by Emma Ahmann and Niko Attebery Edited by Jess Costanza Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Season 2 Episode 1 of The Podling is finally here! Grab a snack, relax, and tune in as we discuss some fun etymology and histories of words that you may not have known before! We had a blast researching and sharing these interesting origins, and hope you will have just as much fun listening! Episode Transcript by Emma Ahmann Edited by Fawn Dupras Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License

Welcome back to The Podling everyone! In this season we have new hosts taking over for Jess and exploring even more of the linguistic world we live in. Tune in for fun conversations, linguistics activities, interviews, and much more! This project is developed and hosted by linguistics students Emma Ahmann, Niko Attebery, and Madsion Peyton with special help from Jess Costanza and Fawn Dupras.   Stay up to date with the WWU Department of Linguistics! Website | Instagram Music: "Downtown Walk" by FSM Team feat. < e s c p > Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License