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 Yuckwer.

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.

For some people, a book is a treasure, especially when it's the first edition of one of the most

important novels in Spanish literature.

A book so valuable that in 2015, thieves set out to steal it from a Colombian bookseller.

In this special season of the Duo Lingo Spanish podcast, we'll help hunt down the missing

edition of the book 100 Years of Solitude.

And we'll dig into some of the greatest mysteries of art and literature in the Spanish-speaking

world.

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