Does this mean goodbye?

Emily and I had a lot of fun teaching English, teaching radio, and yakking on the podcast. But I'm leaving Seattle now. We hope to keep Radiolingual alive as a multi-city project with a little more focus.

Here's a journey through some of our students' progress. At the end, some unaired content from the Speakers' Bureau about what it feels like, emotionally, to learn English.


It's sad, but celebratory. Listen in.

Music from Jason Bianco at magnatune.com

How is this confusing?

"Everytime they pointed to a banana and said 'yellow,' something wasn't clicking."

Marta explains one of her first memories learning English in a Californian elementary school. Ai interviews. Hammad and Emily act out.


Listen in to hear what's so slippery about bananas.

pic from foundphotoslj and music by Bacilos

Ideal Vox-cation

Armed with a mini-disc recorder and a sunny disposition, Ai weathered the Seattle storms by asking people on the University of Washington campus about vacation. She was so slick with the tape recorder that we hardly edited her tape at all.


Make yourself a pina colada and be an audio tourist for a minute.

Sweet vacation photo from rogilde's flickr photostream.