Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Guest Host: Matthew Felling
It’s one of the downsides of globalization: across the world, thousands of languages are on the brink of extinction. We hear about efforts to record and understand endangered languages before they disappear, and look at how threatened languages can be passed down through the generations.
Guests
- David Lightfoot Assistant Director, National Science Foundation
- Kendall King Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Georgetown University; Co-author, "The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language" (Collins)
- David Rood Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder
- Begona Echeverria Assistant Professor of Education, University of California Riverside
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