Multilingual Literature

** This is the link to my AllPoetry platform (cited with permission): https://allpoetry.com/Dr._Jarrow/

In this episode, I narrate a mix of old and new original poems from the AllPoetry website in addition to narrating a few poems from 19th century poet Abram J. Ryan. His poems narrated in this episode were: "Far Away," "Listen," "Wrecked," and "Dreaming." As previously mentioned, some of...

[This podcast episode has Christian undertones and I hope the Gospel is shared and accepted by all who listen]. This episode is a tribute to my father, who passed last Monday...I wrote a poem about his legacy. He will never be forgotten and will always be in my heart. I will never forget his life lessons and will always apply them to my life. Enjoy the time you have with loved ones and cherish good memories with them. The separat...

I go on a tangent about learning and mastering a new language or multiple languages with an experimental concept I coined as "language collection" or becoming a "language collector." I use several analogies in the episode to better explain my theory on acquiring a few languages and I give some strategies on persevering on your own language collection journey. I also discuss some theological and faith-based topics in tandem with the...

This is the first of my original bilingual short story podcast episode series. In each episode, I narrate an original short story, initially in a foreign language of my choice, and then in English.

The stories are targeted more towards a younger audience (middle school level), but anyone can listen if they are interested in increasing their language listening and comprehension skills. The stories have some Christian principle...

I wrote this Spanglish poem a while back. The recording was like a freestyle rap with the rhyming and rhythmic narration. Some words, in addition to English and Spanish, had influences from Turkish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Esperanto peppered into the poem. Some of the themes are faith-based and expressed interesting emotions and random images. In summary, I thought it was a pretty unique sounding poem, but there's always roo...

This is the third episode of the Saturday Sonnets series of the Multilingual Literature podcast. I narrate an original English sonnet every Saturday for the summer of 2024. This week's Saturday sonnet is in Spanish, so the third section of the episode will be bilingual in both English and Spanish. The first component is the anecdote, the second is the actual narration of the sonnet, and the third part is an introspective inter...

[English]-In this episode, I used AI to create an episode in Interlingua and Catalan languages. I give some detailed advice on writing tips for your creative writing endeavors, a very brief overview of the history and origin of Catalan, and I share my thoughts on journaling in a second or third language. Additionally, I talk about setting achievable and measurable goals for your writing journey, whether you want to write poems, sho...

This episode discusses language learning tips at a more surface level. I describe it as 'tinkering' with a language, meaning that you are just analyzing the mechanics of how your target language functions, how it sounds and how its words are written. Usage of the International Phonetic Alphabet is mentioned in this episode and I explain what it is in a nutshell for newer language learners or linguists who aren't familia...

I'm launching a new series of narrating an original English sonnet every Saturday for the rest of the summer (until late August), either in the traditional iambic pentameter or more of an irregular metrical pattern, but still keeping the traditional ABAB CDCD EFEF rhyme scheme. There will be three parts to each episode: the first will be a short anecdote of my writing process throughout the week, the second is the narration of ...