We Are What We Speak - Michela Russo - Part 1

Mon, 11/27/2023 - 3:19pm

When: November 27, 2023

Today in conversation with Michela Russo - lecturer of Italian and Spanish at University of Michigan - about the story of her Northern and Southern Italian accents, what it takes to learn a language, her father’s yearslong documentation of her speech progression and complexities of assimilation. Host: Aliyah Mitchell; Editor: Aliyah Mitchell; Produced in partnership with Ann Arbor District Library and recorded at Fifth Avenue Studios.