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.

It was February 2020 and 18-year-old Hugo Buele was working on a mayoral race in his hometown

of Vanzioe, a tiny village in the southeast of France.

He was in the old part of town with its church, stone houses, and slanted streets, de Rues

en Pantes.

To Hugo, these streets were home.

I arrived in Vanzioe when I was a baby. I grew up here.

I put myself in my house.

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