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72 plays 0In this episode, we meet Esra Ibil, a Graduate Student in IU’s School of Education where she is studying curriculum and instruction with a special interest in…
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28 plays 0In this episode, we talk with Gedun Rabsal, a Senior Lecturer in the Tibetan language in the Department of Central Asian Studies at Indiana University. Rabsal tells us…
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53 plays 0In this episode we meet Ben Priest, who is a PhD candidate at Indiana University working on his dissertation on Kurdish Nationalism and Islam. Ben is also the…
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62 plays 0After a brief pause in recording over summer break, we’re back! In this episode, we meet Malik Hodjaev, a Senior Lecturer of Uzbek in the Department of Central… -
56 plays 0In this episode, we welcome Azadeh Aghighi, a native Persian (Farsi) speaker from Tehran, Iran who teaches Arabic at Indiana University and is working on her Ph.D. in…
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29 plays 0In this episode, we welcome Froozan Amir, an Afghan woman who came to the United States as a political refugee after the Soviet-Afghan war. Froozan tells us about her…
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34 plays 0In this episode, we meet Kathryn Graber. Dr. Graber is an Assistant Professor in the Anthropology Department in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as the… -
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30 plays 0In this episode, we meet Gulnisa Navaroza, a senior lecturer of Uyghur at Indiana University. Gulnisa represents a significant population of ethnic Uyghurs who live in… -
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20 plays 0In this episode, we meet Dr. Shahyar Daneshgar, a senior lecturer in IU’s Department of Central Eurasian Studies. Shahyar is a native Azerbaijani from… -
166 plays 0Our inaugural episode introduces the listener to Turkmen, a Turkic language from the Central Asian region. Our guest, Shahlo Seidmedova, reads a poem by famous Turkmen…
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26 plays 0In this episode, we meet Professor Golshat Safiullina, an associate professor at the Leo Tolstoy Institute of Philology at Kazan Federal University in Kazan which is the… -
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60 plays 0Our guest today is Zia Khoshsirat. Zia is a doctoral student at UCLA, studying Linguistic Anthropology. His research interests include language… -
213 plays 0Learn about Pashto, an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and NW Pakistan, from our guest, Dr. Rahman Arman. Dr. Arman will read an original poem and teach us…
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86 plays 0This episode will explore Kyrgyz, a Turkic language spoken mostly in Kyrgyzstan, a mountainous country in the heart of Central Asia. Our guest, Dinara Abakirova, will…
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125 plays 0In this episode, we meet with Mustafa Durmaz and Tahirhan Aydin, two Kurds who to talk about Kurmanji Kurdish, a dialect of Kurdish spoken in southeast Turkey, northwest…
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61 plays 0In this episode, we meet Tserenchunt Legden, Senior Language Instructor of Mongolian at Indiana University. Tserenchunt tells us about Mongolian’s and the deep…
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113 plays 0In this episode, we talk with Mustafa Aksu, a graduate student studying language policy and linguistics. Mustafa tells us about his native language Uyghur, a Turkic…
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34 plays 0Dr. Rahman Arman returns to teach us about the Dari language, spoken in Afghanistan. He reads us an original poem about Navruz and tells us more about the holiday and…
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70 plays 0In this episode, we talk with Assem Sagi (Izmukhanova), the Kazakh Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant here at Indiana University. Assem tells us about Kazakh, a…
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115 plays 0In this episode, we talk with Ardasher (Sher) Khashimov, a Graduate Student in IU’s School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) where he is currently a…
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59 plays 0"The Faces of CeLCAR" - Annual Reception
On the Silk Road with CeLCAR is an educational podcast brought to you by the Center for Languages of the Central Asian Region at Indiana University. Each month, we bring guests from different parts of Central Asian to talk about the people, the culture, and of course the languages of their country! This podcast is perfect for the Central Asian enthusiasts out there, linguaphiles, and all of those who just generally have a thirst for knowledge and a curiosity about other cultures. We hope you will follow along with us as we journey through this exquisitely colorful area of the world, so rich in history and ancient cultures!