From Where to Here
From Where to Here explores cultural exchange, languages, and connection. Hosted by French Canadian Alexandra Lloyd, each episode shares heartfelt stories and inspiring journeys that bridge cultural gaps and spark understanding. 🌍🎙
From Where to Here
Latest Episodes
E23 The Wedding Where the Groom Has to Guess Which Bride Is His
Louise "Loulou" Guedou grew up speaking a dialect with 63 versions in one country, got sent away from her parents at age 10 for boarding school in Benin, and later found herself standing in front of her groom while he tried to guess which veile...
Between the Words | She Reads Arabic Dialects by Ear and Knows a Word English Will Never Have
She left Syria speaking only "hello" and "how are you" in English. She'd been learning French. Then the passport showed up, and within a month, everything she knew was sold, packed, and gone.Youmna Yassin grew up in Damascus, came to the...
E22 Language Legacy | The Language Kathy Chen Refused to Let Her Daughter Forget
Kathy Chen left China in 1981 with British English in her ears and a country she wouldn't see again for 15 years. Now a PhD-holding grandmother figure in Birmingham, she still speaks Chinese at home and still corrects herself when she spells "c...
Between the Words | From Basque to Catalan — Why Spain Is Not One Language and Never Was
Spain has 17 regions. Most people know one language. What Ruben Raposo grew up knowing, and what he unpacked in his full From Where to Here conversation, is that Spanish is a family, not a single tongue. Basque has no Latin roots. No one knows ...
E21 The Spanish Kid Who Showed Up With a Dictionary and Ended Up Staying Forever
Ruben Raposo left Madrid at 15 with a dictionary, a host family he'd never met, and a one-year plan. Thirty years later, he's still in Alabama, and he never saw it coming.In this episode of From Where to Here, Ruben takes us inside what...