Language supposedly has all these rules.

Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides

nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,

confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.

In Radio Lingo, a new podcast from Duo Lingo in Crooked Media, we explore how language shapes

our world and how our world shapes language.

I'm Amadella Yuckbure.

I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award winning writer.

I am an awe-void language.

It's complexity and it's simplicity.

The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.

I'm going to be your guide.

Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.

From Crooked Media in Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

It was 1992 and 10-year-old Euphrasi Mamba was living with her grandparents in a small

village in Central Cameroon.

She spent her days going to school, playing with her cousins, and exploring her grandparents

land, a cacao farm, a plantation of cacao.

I would have to spend my days in the plantation and there were trees everywhere.

Between the leaves, I could see the cacao trees.

They were very big, a bit like coconut oil.

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