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S1E9 Language is a Door: Lindsay Szper of Culture Without Borders (Part 2)

Are children really better at learning language than adults? Is an unknown language a "barrier," or a door to another culture? What is an idiom, anyway? Lindsay Szper and Rose Thomas refer to Hannah Arendt on the mother tongue, James Baldwin on good bread, and the power of friendship to learn a language and to repair the world. Lindsay studies language pedagogy at The New School and is working on a masters in Oral History at Columbia. Listen to Certificate in Teaching English program at The New School.More information about the "affective filter".Lindsay also referred to the language scholar Dianne Larson Freeman in Part 1 of the interview. Lindsay's favorite three minutes on the internet begin at 36:51 during this interview with Hanna Arendt, broadcast in 1964.Lindsay presented on the Walter Benjamin essay "The Translator's Task" with her friend Ana María Belique, a leader and founding member of the the Reconoci.do movement,  an independent national civic network that promotes human rights and the full integration of Dominicans of Haitian descent in Dominican society.
Lindsay mentioned this 15-minute video on Youtube by Robin Waldun that summarizes the Benjamin essay. Reflections on the French word maman come from Waldun’s video.Lindsay learned the saying "Cada cabeza es un mundo" from her friend Florencia Ruiz Mendoza, a researcher, lecturer, activist, and longtime advocate against forced disappearance in Mexico. This is the James Baldwin quote about bread from The Fire Next Time.Should Modo di Bere make a spinoff podcast all about different cultural conceptions of the word "bread"? Send your opinion in an Instagram DM or an email through the Modo di Bere website.If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E8 ”What I Need is a Friend”: Lindsay Szper of Culture Without Borders (Part 1)

Lindsay Szper and her pals believe the best way to learn language is through friendship. Modo di Bere agrees! Lindsay is a language teacher and a language learner by vocation. She’s studying language pedagogy at The New School and working on a masters in Oral History at Columbia. In this deep, funny, sweet and smart interview, Lindsay tells Rose Thomas about the community-based language school she started with her friends. She also shares stories about her remarkably multilingual grandparents, the playground "exam" for the language Lindsay invented as a child, and tons of incredibly encouraging advice for acquiring--no, developing!--new language skills. Stay tuned for the second part of the interview!To find out more about Culture Without Borders and to learn about their events in the New York City Area, you can get in touch with Lindsay at cwblanguagecollective@gmail.com. This is the book Lindsay mentioned: Rethinking Oral History and Tradition by Nepia MahuikaHere is a YouTube video featuring the language scholar Dianne Larson Freeman, and a paper that she wrote about language learningOne of the friends Lindsay mentions, Reina, advises studying language through media about a topic that is fun for you. Reina is a small business owner in New York City, check out Reina's Cleaning Services LLC.If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E7 Wine Makes Blood: Sicilian-American Folksinger Michela Musolino

As a drummer, storyteller, singer and culture-keeper, Michela Musolino is heir to sacerdotesse, the Sicilian priestesses depicted on ancient vessels leading the party with their jingle-bedazzled drums. As a Sicilian-American child in New Jersey, Michela couldn't stand not understanding what all the grown-ups were laughing about. She made the study of Sicilian language and culture her life's work even before she started to sing. Michela shares her deep experience with Sicilian folk instruments, Italian poetry, the history of wine as medicine, and a sweet vision of every pre-commercialization Italian farmer who made--and still makes--wine for "family consumption."Download Michela's records and check out her tour schedule at her site: www.michelamusolino.comThe fairly new denomination of Gutturnio, a region in Emilia Romagna where Michela reports they drink wine out of a bowl.Another Sicilian band that Michela has worked with, I BeddiHere is an interesting paper about the high proportion of women included in Alberto Favara's "Corpus Favara," the ethnomusicological document of 1,090 Sicilian folk songs that Favara documented at the turn of the 20th century.If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E6 Spew Assertively: Wine Fair Wisdom with Rose Thomas

A happily exhausted Rose Thomas, still in Verona for the Vinitaly fair, records an episode of wine fair wisdom, including: Verona taxi tips, how to spit, how to pack for an Italian wine fair, how to find balance, and how to joyfully accept that there's no "winning" Italian wine knowledge--the diversity of Italy is too vast. And that's the fun: you might as well just jump into the river. Phrases from today's episode: "Una gatta frettolosa fa i gattini ciechi"Far more colorful than the English equivalent, "haste makes waste"sputacchiera=spittoon"Grande, spingi": Milanese for "Go go, great one!"A person who wants "la botte piena e la moglie ubriaca" wants to have their cake and eat it too (not possible). (Also, Rose Thomas mispronounces botte in the episode: it should be "botte" not "bota.")equilibrio=balance"Piove sul bagnato": it rains on the wet.The two main piazzas in Verona are Piazza delle Erbe and Piazza Bra, the second has the taxi stand. :-)Some grape and wine discoveries from Vinitaly's Micro Mega area:NascettaTazzalengheCool producer from Pantelleria, VinisolaIf you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E5 Horse-crazy: Roberto di Filippo on Traditional Farming in Umbria and Romania

Bebe, Diamante, and Pioggia are a team of Italian horses who practice organic viticulture in Umbria with Roberto di Filippo. Roberto got into working with horses when he and his wife Elena opened a second winery in Romania with their partner Roberto Pieroni. Naturally, he made friends with a couple of Amish farmers to ask for advice. Roberto tells Rose Thomas the whole story as they taste and discuss wines made from the local grapes of Umbria and Romania's Danube Delta.www.planiarche.itwww.lasapata.comIf you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com Audio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E4 Dialect is a Luxury: Peppe Voltarelli Sings in Calabrese

Peppe Voltarelli is a songwriter and actor who travels all around the world singing in Calabrese, the Calabrian dialect. He and Rose Thomas taste a wine from the Cirò DOC. They discuss moving from Cirò to Bologna, and from Nebraska to NYC. They swap sayings, and both Peppe and Rose Thomas perform live songs! Peppe demonstrates how the tarantella rhythm changes from region to region all over the south of Italy, and shows how the spiky—spigoloso—Calabrian dialect is perfect for expressing that you are not joking around. Don't miss this delicious episode.Peppe's Music:https://linktr.ee/peppevoltarelliWe were drinking a wine by Sergio Arcuri:https://golden-vines.com/producers/sergio-arcuri/Read more about Peppe's Tribute to the Italian folk singer Otello Profazio: https://italoamericano.org/peppe-voltarelli-singer/Learn more about that Sicilian folk tale in the book Peppe mentions by Italo Calvino:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_FolktalesThis is the Russian songwriter Peppe mentioned, Vladimir VysotskyHear more music by Rose Thomas Bannister: https://rosethomasbannister.bandcamp.com/
If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano.Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.comAudio recorded and edited by Rose Thomas Bannister with assistance from Steve Silverstein. Steve also mixed the live song recordings for this episode.ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E3 Presidents, and Friends: Teresa Bruno & Ilaria Petitto

Raised in the purest air, where waterfalls cascade down the forested hills of Campania, Teresa Bruno and Ilaria Petitto became friends by chance. Now Teresa is the president of the consorzio for the Southern Italian wine region of Irpinia, and Ilaria is the vice-president. The two winemakers introduce the historic local grapes of Irpinia: Greco di Tufo, Fiano di Avellino, and Aglianico (including Taurasi). They explain their work for the consorzio and impart their best advice for discovering new wines.
Learn more about Irpinia:
https://consorziovinidirpinia.it/
 
Discover the wines Teresa makes with her brother Roberto:
https://aziendaagricolapetilia.it/en/
Discover Ilaria’s wines:
www.donnachiara.com/
 
If you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano.
Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.com
Audio files mastered by Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net

S1E2 Dr Rebecca Lawrence Dons Her Wine Jacket

Dr. Rebecca Lawrence is a wine educator, running enthusiast, podcaster, and the Head of Editorial for Wine and Hip Hop. She and Rose Thomas discuss minor(?) wording differences in insults from Verona and Friuli, Rebecca's BBC accent, rap in wine study, and the best advice for people with dreams to get started in wine or any other grand adventure. For more information on Rebecca's work with Jermaine Stone at Wine and Hip Hop, check out the Wine and Hip Hop website: www.wineandhiphop.com. Listen to Rebecca's podcast, Running for the Wine: https://kite.link/running-drinking-and-knowingIf you love the show and want it to continue, please support Modo di Bere on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/MododiBereFollow Modo di Bere on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, and find out more about the project at www.mododibere.com.Puoi ascoltare questa intervista in italiano! Cerca Modo di Bere Italiano ovunque ascolti i podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/modo-di-bere-italiano/id1675575364Music composed by Ersilia Prosperi for the band Ou: www.oumusic.bandcamp.comAudio files mastered by Steve Silverstein. ssilverstein@earthlink.net