The Pintxos Podcast
By The Pintxos Podcast
By Chloe Wheeler. Fulbright Side Project 2019-2020.
The Pintxos PodcastJul 12, 2020
Trilingualism in Secondary Schools
Episode VI of Season II. In this episode, Hattie and I think about language and language education in our schools. The secondary schools we have been working at as English teaching assistants operate in three languages: Castilian Spanish, Galician, and English. How do these languages intersect in the classroom? What do students and teachers speak outside the classroom? What is the impact of the trilingual system on students' education? These are all questions we ask (and answer) alongside three teachers at Mason's school, IES Valladares, and a bunch of our students.
Thank you for listening to the last episode of the Pintxos Podcast, Season II! Connect with us on Instagram @thepintxospodcast and visit our website www.thepintxospodcastseason2.wordpress.com for more information on this episode.
O Entroido Galego
Episode V of Season II. This week we sat down with Ángel and Patricia to talk about Carnival celebrations - or as it's known in Galicia, Entroido. We reflect on the traditions that are unique to Galicia by walking through the events both in Vigo and a small town in the province of Ourense called Laza. Tune in to hear about some of these fascinating traditions and a peak into one of the most special times of year here in Galicia.
Thank you for listening to this week's episode of the Pintxos Podcast! Connect with us on Instagram @thepintxospodcast and visit our website www.thepintxospodcastseason2.wordpress.com for more information on this episode.
Teachers and Teaching: A Conversation with Natalia
Episode IV of Season II. In this week's episode, Hattie sits down to have a conversation with one of the English teaches at her school, Natalia. Natalia explains the process of becoming a public school teacher in Galicia - a longer and more complicated process than you might think. Along the way, she explains her own experience going through this process as well as the role of teachers in tutoria and some of the emotional aspects of teaching. We had a lovely time getting to know Natalia and we hope you enjoy learning about her and the lives of teachers in Vigo (and Galicia) as much as we did.
For more information on the Pintxos Podcast, visit our new website www.thepintxospodcastseason2.wordpress.com or our instagram @pintxospodcast. See you all next week!
Una Emblema de Casco Vello: el Mesón de Xamón (O Porco) Part 2
Episode III of Season II.
Take a listen to hear the second half of our conversation with Andrea Pérez. In this episode, we take a closer look at dynamics of antiquity and modernization as O Porco attempts to adapt to present day demands while maintaining their traditions. And of course, we can't help but hear more about their delicious food.
Thank you for listening to this week's episode of the Pintxos Podcast! Connect with us on Instagram @thepintxospodcast and visit our website www.thepintxospodcastseason2.wordpress.com.
Una Emblema de Casco Vello: el Mesón de Xamón (O Porco) Part 1
Episode II of Season II.
In part 1 of this two-part episode series we interview Andrea Pérez about her father's restaurant, the Galician tavern O Porco. She shares with us the joys and challenges she faced returning to Vigo to work with her father from Madrid, the evolution of Vigo's historic old town, and even some of her favorite menu items.
Thank you for listening to this week's episode of the Pintxos Podcast! Connect with us on Instagram @thepintxospodcast and visit our website www.thepintxospodcast.wordpress.com for more information on this episode.
An Introduction: Welcome to Vigo
Episode I of Season II. In this episode, we take a first peak at Vigo through the perspectives of three of the city's newest residents.
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Interviews conducted and recorded with interviewees' permission according to the Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. Sponsored by the Fulbright Spain Program (2021-22).
Season 2: Trailer
Welcome back to the Pintxos Podcast! In Season 2, we're excited to bring you to Galicia's largest city, Vigo. Join us in exploring the city through bite-sized, "tapas" bits of conversation about education, trilingualism, and Galician culture.
The Linguistics of Galician Graffiti
Episode V of The Pintxos Podcast. English transcript available at www.thepintxospodcast.wordpress.com for educational purposes.
Topics covered in this episode:
The question of linguistic editing and Galician graffiti. Interview with Delfina Picchio (June 2020), Fulbright 2018-19 alumna about her photojournalism project Palabras na parede as well as her sociolinguistics research (for more information, check out her website: Living Language Learning).
Connect with us on Instagram: @thepintxospodcast.
Sound Editing by Chloe Wheeler.
Music Used With Permission.
- “Adondar a lingua” by A Banda da Loba (2019), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L.
- “Feel The Music #puroestilo” Corti (2016). Youtube Channel: CortiTime.
All other sound effects and jingles are either made by Chloe or from Apple's Garageband free stock supply. Interviews conducted and recorded with interviewees' permission according to the Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. This podcast has been made possible by the Fulbright Spain Program Side Project Stipend (2019-20), with help from Galicia's Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) as well as Lugo's Vocational Training School, CIFP As Mercedes. None of the views expressed in this podcast are a reflection of the Fulbright Spain Program.
Bite-Sized Pintxos Trailer
I’m Chloe Wheeler, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Galicia, Spain. Welcome to The Pintxos Podcast! Each episode is a bite-sized “tapa” about trilingualism and education.
Xoias: Hidden Gems of Lugo
Podcasts are time capsules not only back to normality but also back to the 3rd century BC when the first stones of Lugo’s Roman past were just being laid.
Let’s go backwards in time today, with some interviews my student Artai recorded just two months ago— with the art historian Guillermo Tort Vázquez.
Hidden gems we discuss:
Galician Baroque Paintings in Lugo’s Cathedral
Sound Editing by Chloe Wheeler.
Music and Interview Recordings Used With Appropriate Permissions according to the Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. Sponsored by (but not representative of) the Fulbright Spain Program (2019-20), with help from Galicia's Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) as well as Lugo's Vocational Training School, CIFP As Mercedes.
- “Adondar a Lingua” by A Banda da Loba (2019), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L.
- “Feel The Music #puroestilo” Corti (2016). Youtube Channel: CortiTime.
- Birds Castle Sound: “Birds in Spring” BurghRecords from freesound.creative commons license
- Typing: vckhaze typing and click (freesound)
- Walking: Hitmount walk (freesound)
- Sword fight: Bellick machetes-close (freesound)
- Piano music by Andrea Valori, Wikimedia Commons.
Full transcript available at chloetryblog.wordpress.com under "pintxos" tab.
Bolboreta - Mariposa - Butterfly: Thoughts About English, Galician, and Spanish
Episode III of The Pintxos Podcast. English transcript available here for educational purposes.
Topics covered in this episode:
- The question of "native languages" and the answer by students from Venezuela (Carlos Febres and Alejañdro Fandiño), Argentina (Kevin), Lugo (Carmen, Artai, and Carlos Casás), and California (Chloe).
- The observation that Galicians are more language-conscious in a way that Americans generally aren't
- Points about language of instruction for Mechanics classes vs. Marketing classes in As Mercedes, Lugo (and Galicia in general)
- The realization that speaking Galician is preserving a cultural memory
- The concept of "Castrapo" vs. Normative Galician: What's correct?
- A discussion of our favorite Galician words: Bolboreta, Sanxenxo, Orense
- The question: Google Translate or plurilingual education?
Connect with us on Instagram: @thepintxospodcast.
Sound Editing by Chloe Wheeler.
Music Used With Permission.
- “Pepa” by A Banda da Loba (2017), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L.
- “Feel The Music #puroestilo” Corti (2016). Youtube Channel: CortiTime.
All other sound effects and jingles are from Apple's Garageband/iMovie free stock supply or made by Chloe. Interviews with conducted and recorded with interviewees' permission according to the Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. Sponsored by the Fulbright Spain Program (2019-20), with help from Galicia's Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) as well as Lugo's Vocational Training School, CIFP As Mercedes.
Part 2: Entrevista coa profesora Maria Quiroga Mosquera sobre o patrimonio lingüístico galego e os nenos pequenos
Neste podcast, imos seguir falando do tema do patrimonio linguistico a través da lente da profesora Maria Quiroga Mosquera. Ela traballa cos nenos pequenos e está preocupada polo futuro da lingua na educación.
Séguenos no Instagram: @thepintxospodcast.
Moitas grazas ao meu alumno Artai Marco Gude, quen fixo a entrevista con Maria. Grazas a Maria polo seu tempo.
A música empregada có permiso de:
"Adondar a Lingua" por A Banda da Loba (2019) e "Fábrica de luz" (2019), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L..
“Feel The Music #puroestilo” Corti (2016). Youtube Channel: Cortitime.
Outros sons de Apple Garageband/iMovie (gratuíto).
As entrevistas feitas segundo a Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. Patrocinado polo Fulbright Spain Program (2019-20), co apoio do Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) e tamén coa axuda do CIFP As Mercedes.
Part 1: Entrevista co escritor Manuel Celso Matalobos sobre o patrimonio lingüístico galego
Séguenos no Instagram: @thepintxospodcast.
Moitas grazas ao meu alumno Artai Marco Gude, quen fixo a entrevista có estimado Sr. Manuel Celso Matalobos, o vicesecretario del Círculo de Las Artes en Lugo, profesor de lingua galega, e escritor da obra Sentimentalismo (2018) e moitas obras máis sobre o galego e escritores lucenses.
A música empregada có permiso de:
"Adondar a Lingua" por A Banda da Loba (2019) e "Fábrica de luz" (2019), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L.
“Feel The Music #puroestilo” Corti (2016). Youtube Channel: Cortitime.
Outros sons de Apple Garageband/iMovie (gratuíto), feitos por Chloe.
As entrevistas feitas segundo a Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. Patrocinado polo Fulbright Spain Program (2019-20), co apoio do Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) e tamén coa axuda do CIFP As Mercedes.
Unha aperta,
Chloe
The Main Idea: A Small, Perfect Place to Call Home
English transcript available here for educational purposes.
Connect with us on Instagram: @thepintxospodcast. Music Used With Permission.
"Adondar a Lingua" by A Banda da Loba (2019), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L.
“Feel The Music #puroestilo” Corti (2016). Youtube Channel: CortiTime.
All other sound effects and jingles are from Apple's Garageband/iMovie free stock supply.
Interviews conducted and recorded with interviewees' permission according to the Ley Orgánica 15/1999 de Protección de Datos de Carácter Personal. Sponsored by the Fulbright Spain Program (2019-20), with help from Galicia's Centro Autonómico de Formación e Innovación (CAFI) as well as Lugo's Vocational Training School, CIFP As Mercedes.
The Pintxos Podcast Trailer
Transcript:
Although at the mention of “Spain” many Americans think of delicious tapas and flamenco dancing, a unique region in Northwestern Spain is full of cultural and linguistic diversity that many haven’t heard of: This place is called “Galicia.” Here, I’ve been immersed in the world of tri-lingualism —the questions, words, and careers it raises.
So far, I’ve learned not only that a regional Galician language exists alongside Spanish, but also that in this Galician language, the letter “x” stands for a “sh” sound--as in “shamon” for jam or “xavier” for the name Javier. With my students, co-workers, and flatmates, I am constantly asking questions: how do you say "octopus" in Spanish? Does it sound the same in Gallego? For the word "example," do you say “ejemplo,”or Eshemplo?” Is there a specific Galician word for a forest of chestnut trees? (there is, as it turns out). And finally, how do you spell “pincho” in galician—is it the same as in Spanish?
In the process of learning any language, all of us at some point come across several letters or words or sounds that remain difficult: For my students in English, it’s often the letter “w” as in words like “jewelry” or “drowning.” For me, in Galician, it’s the “x.”
Galician as a language is fond of taking Spanish “j's” and replacing them with x's—but only in certain cases.
When attempting to say Spanish words in Galician, I am never entirely certain about how to say the “x's” or the diphthong-laden vowel sounds.
I waver: Is it a j sound? A “sh” sound? Or something else entirely?
I call this moment of linguistic questioning a moment of having “sudden insecurities about the x."
This applies not only to my attempts at learning Galician but also anyone’s efforts to communicate in a foreign tongue. On a deeper level, these spontaneous encounters with sounds, verbs, words, and thoughts that are all new to us create intersections of their own, in an “x”-shaped crossroads (or, in Galician, "un cruceiro") of ideas.
OK. Back to the delicious tapas for a moment. Lugo is famous for its tapas, because they come with every drink you buy: first, you are offered a “pincho,” a slice of spanish tortilla, or bread with cheese; then, you are given a selection of “tapas” from the kitchen--small, cooked dishes of sausage, or rice, or pasta. Pinchos and tapas are accompanied by lots of good conversation with friends. In fact, many people in Lugo spend hours dining on tapas, because, often, they are enough for dinner.
So: Welcome to The Pinchos Podcast, bite-sized “tapas” bits of conversation NOT about the pinchos themselves but about trilingualism and education.
I’m Chloe Wheeler, a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant in Galicia, Spain, and I’ll be hanging out with my talented students at Lugo’s vocational school, As Mercedes.
You can join us for free on Apple podcasts, or Spotify, or wherever you like to listen.
March 2020.
Music Used With Permission: "Pepa (ft. Tanxugueiras)," A Banda Da Loba (2018), SEISPÉS PRODUCIÓNS CREATIVAS S.L. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=990IlOqwj34; "Feel The Music #puroestilo," Corti (2016), Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7gBycgPQcE.