How language, identity, and patience shape our healing and humanity. In this deeply personal episode, Sharon Williford returns to the podcast nearly five years after her first appearance. Then, she was freshly navigating life after a massive stroke that left her with severe aphasia—a loss of language that profoundly impacted how she communicated and how others saw her. Now, years later, Sharon shares her ongoing journey: the challenges of expressing herself, the patience required to rebuild i...
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How language, identity, and patience shape our healing and humanity. In this deeply personal episode, Sharon Williford returns to the podcast nearly five years after her first appearance. Then, she was freshly navigating life after a massive stroke that left her with severe aphasia—a loss of language that profoundly impacted how she communicated and how others saw her. Now, years later, Sharon shares her ongoing journey: the challenges of expressing herself, the patience required to rebuild i...
Episode 122 Your Language Niche: A Conversation with Gregory Nedved
It's About Language, with Norah Jones
39 minutes
1 year ago
Episode 122 Your Language Niche: A Conversation with Gregory Nedved
Welcome to Episode 122 of "It's About Language"! In this episode, we sit down with Gregory Nedved to explore his unusual linguistic journey. Starting as an adult language learner, Gregory's path led him to become an award-winning Chinese specialist, author, language instructor, and an historian of language events and Presidential mono- and multilingualism. In this conversation, Gregory Nedved challenges us straight on to question the traditional boundaries of language learning and life ...
It's About Language, with Norah Jones
How language, identity, and patience shape our healing and humanity. In this deeply personal episode, Sharon Williford returns to the podcast nearly five years after her first appearance. Then, she was freshly navigating life after a massive stroke that left her with severe aphasia—a loss of language that profoundly impacted how she communicated and how others saw her. Now, years later, Sharon shares her ongoing journey: the challenges of expressing herself, the patience required to rebuild i...
