Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer

Word For Word is a podcast about storytellers and the languages that made them. Each episode, award-winning journalist and author Sophia Smith Galer sits down with writers, artists and creators to explore the words behind their work: the languages they grew up with, learned, lost and gained that formed their imagination and creative practice. New episodes weekly.

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Episodes (8)

Apr 14th The languages that shaped Roy Bualuan
Apr 7th The languages that shaped Zing Tseng
Mar 31st The languages that shaped Susie Dent

Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer

Apr 14, 2026
1 hour
57 MB

Roy Bualuan - better known online as human1011 - grew up in Indiana with Lebanese Arabic, French and English in his life. He studied physics at Notre Dame, picked up Modern Standard Arabic as a language requirement, and emerged from that first class with a surprise: the Arabic he'd grown up with and the Arabic he was now being taught were almost entirely different languages. In this episode, Roy and Sophia get into the sociolinguistic patchwork of Lebanon - where French, English, and Arabic code-switch in the same sentence - as well as his linguistics...

Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer

The languages that shaped Roy Bualuan

Word For Word with Sophia Smith Galer

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