Le pouvoir des réseaux sociaux (The Power of Social Media)

Duolingo French Podcast

Duolingo

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

As a little person, Douchka Volaric didn’t grow up with any media representation of people like her. When she discovers TikTok, she decides to use it as a tool to educate others, spread a positive message, and be the change she wished to see.

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0:00.0	Language supposedly has all these rules.
0:04.8	Most of us never have to think about those rules, but the hidden hand of language guides
0:08.6	nearly every interaction we have with other people, determining whether we connect, entertain,
0:14.2	confuse, insult, or dazzle the people we communicate with.
0:18.1	In Radio Lingo, the new podcast from Duo Lingo and Crooked Media, we explore how language
0:23.6	shapes our world and how our world shapes language.
0:27.2	I'm Amadella Yuckbure.
0:28.4	I'm an audio journalist and James Beard Award winning writer.
0:32.0	I am an awe-void language.
0:33.9	It's complexity and it's simplicity.
0:36.1	The way we can use it to create both distance and understanding.
0:39.6	I'm going to be your guide.
0:41.4	Join us as we take you on a linguistic journey.
0:44.7	From Crooked Media and Duo Lingo, this is Radio Lingo.
0:48.9	New episodes of Tuesdays on your favorite podcast apps.
0:56.4	In April 2020, Douchka Volarik was 28 years old and she worked as an executive assistant
1:02.6	in a small town in the heart of France.
1:05.7	She lived alone with Falco, her German shepherd.
1:08.6	When the pandemic hit and France went on lockdown, she found herself stuck at home.
1:13.3	She was bored to death.
1:15.6	El San Nuyet a murir.
1:20.6	I had a person who spoke.
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