Madagascar, mon amour (Madagascar, My Love)

Duolingo French Podcast

Duolingo

Society & Culture, Education

4.5 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2021

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The first time Onja Razafindratsima stepped foot in the Madagascar rainforest, she fell in love with the unique plants and animals that call it home. But when she realized all these species could go extinct, she decided to protect her home country’s incredible biodiversity.

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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.
0:57.4	This 1998 and 14-year-old Onz Razafindrat Sim is taking careful steps.
1:06.2	She's following a park ranger on a trail in the Madagascar Rainforest.
1:12.3	The park ranger stops in his tracks.
1:15.4	He motions for Onz and her classmates to be quiet and listen.
1:22.4	Onz takes it all in.
1:27.0	The dense green rain forest missed drifting through the treetops.
1:33.2	There are trees everywhere around me.
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