Chosen Tongue

By Eleonora Balsano

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Episodes: 53

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A podcast about translingual writers and their journeys.

Episode Date
Ariel Dorfman: I had to fall in love with my doubleness
Apr 12, 2026
Hoangmai Pham: Piecing the self together
Apr 05, 2026
Vanessa Fabiano: Bringing my other languages into English
Mar 29, 2026
Ova Ceren: I gained freedom and lost some confidence
Mar 22, 2026
Sophie Lewis: On translating Angst by Hélène Cixous
Mar 15, 2026
Costanza Casati: I still struggle with imposter syndrome
Mar 08, 2026
Gonzalo C. Garcia: English gave me the distance
Mar 01, 2026
Ledia Xhoga: The pleasure of a many-flavoured language
Feb 22, 2026
Cristina A. Bejan: Romanian the soul, English the freedom
Feb 15, 2026
Daniel Peña: We're products of everything
Feb 08, 2026
Tayyba Kanwal: Identity is what you have, not who you are
Feb 01, 2026
Heidi Marjamäki: There is no such thing as good enough
Jul 13, 2025
Sneha Subramanian Kanta: The Cartography of Language
Jul 06, 2025
Lidija Hilje: Doubting and doing it anyway
Jun 29, 2025
Leila Farjami: Persian is the river, English the sea
Jun 22, 2025
Vesna Main: Belonging is overrated
Jun 15, 2025
Balsam Karam: The known becomes more beautiful when the foreign enters
Jun 08, 2025
Thea Lenarduzzi: Stay Open to All the Languages
Jun 01, 2025
Ani Gjika: The Language of Freedom
May 25, 2025
Julie Irigaray: The Hidden Dangers of Feedback
May 18, 2025
Elizabeth Torres: Every Language is a Codex
May 11, 2025
Sulaiman Addonia: Writing is Not Just About Language (Bonus Episode)
Nov 29, 2024
Ruben Quesada: Bridging Cultures through Translation
Oct 27, 2024
Noémi Kiss-Déaki: English is My Allspice
Oct 20, 2024
Viviana Fiorentino: We are Collectors of Others
Oct 13, 2024
Yael van der Wouden: English Gave Me Control over My Experiences
Oct 05, 2024
Pegah Ouji: Glimpsing the Chosen Tongue through a Keyhole
Sep 28, 2024
Sumitra Singam: Learning and Translating Trauma as a Language
Sep 21, 2024
Aleksandar Hemon: When a Mother Tongue Stops Being Enough
Sep 14, 2024
Miriam Calleja: The Imposter Syndrome and the Dangers of Translating Velvet into Plastic
Sep 08, 2024
Grace Loh Prasad: I Don't Have Instructions for the Language I've Lost
Sep 01, 2024
Leila Aboulela: My Story Can only Be Told in English
Aug 25, 2024
Lucy Tan: Give Yourself Permission to Tell Your Stories
Aug 18, 2024
Hisham Matar: Literature as a Translation of Humanity
Aug 11, 2024
Jesse Lee Kercheval: Spanish brought poetry alive for me again
Mar 24, 2024
Jenny Liao: Losing a Mother Tongue
Mar 17, 2024
Avra Margariti: The Freedom of a Non-Gendered Language
Mar 10, 2024
Alina Stefanescu: The Child in Me is Always Romanian
Mar 03, 2024
Ana Maria Caballero: Languages as different bone structures
Feb 25, 2024
Alison Mooney - Choosing Tongues to Understand People
Feb 18, 2024
Mordecai Martin: Reclaim your chosen tongues!
Feb 11, 2024
Victoria Buitron: A Body (and Mind) across Two Hemispheres
Feb 04, 2024
Pim Wangtechawat: Owning one's multiculturalism
Jan 28, 2024
Andrea Jurjević: English as Freedom
Jan 21, 2024
Mathieu Cailler: a Frenchman in America, an American in France
Nov 26, 2023
Mileva Anastasiadou: Living in Greek, Writing in English
Nov 19, 2023
Francesco Dimitri: Translating the soul into English
Nov 12, 2023
Melissa Llanes Brownlee: English as a colonising language
Nov 05, 2023
André Aciman: Chiselling the Foreignness Away
Oct 29, 2023
Nabeela Ahmed: The Importance of Writing Authentically in a Second Language
Oct 22, 2023
Elvis Bego: English as a Safe Haven
Oct 15, 2023
Rajia Hassib: The Emotional Impact of Switching Tongues
Oct 08, 2023
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Oct 03, 2023