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, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and 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 and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.

New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.

This 1976 and Dante Valdes is in a church in his neighborhood in Arequipa, Peru.

He's there to speak with a Franciscan priest who's also a music teacher.

At 12 years old, Dante is already a musical virtuoso.

He knows how to play the piano and the guitar, and he sings classical opera.

But he's also spent time learning how to play the traditional flute of the Andes mountains.

One day I'm talking to my father and I tell him,

I want to learn music.

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