The most exciting time of the year is upon us – the premiere of the Babel Bureau podcast. The podcast documents the PLURI deep dives, that is conversations with language professionals and people with lived experience of multilingualism.
In each episode Alicja Fajfer interviews a guest about a practical dimensions of language policy. In season 1, we’re talking about these topics with the following guests:
Episode 1: Heremaia Durie makes the most out of the integration programme
Episode 2: Katerina Maadla takes us behind the scenes to the interpreter’s booth
Episode 3: Learn the endangered Karelian language with Niko Tynnyrinen
Episode 4: Dušica Božović illuminates advantages of not being a native Finnish speaker
Episode 5: Jenni Meesit prepares for studying in English, as a Finnish speaker (here’s a photo with Jenni after the recording)
The podcast is available on Spotify and will soon be available on YouTube.
Let us know which topics we should cover next. Season 2 is coming in the spring!