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Episode: Introducing: Sold a Story en español

Author: APM Reports
Duration: 00:06:19

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A Spanish adaptation of Sold a Story is now available. Hosted by journalist Valeria Fernández, the podcast is condensed into one 58-minute episode, plus a conversation between Fernández and Emily Hanford for Spanish-speaking parents whose children are learning to read English in American schools. - Listen or share: Sold a

Story en español - Learn more: soldastory.es

Summary

The episode introduces 'Sold a Story en español,' hosted by Valeria Fernández, which targets Spanish-speaking parents in the U.S. It addresses the challenges faced by children who learn to read English while speaking Spanish at home. The discussion includes the nuances of the translation process and highlights the need for greater awareness among parents about reading instruction methods used in American schools, emphasizing that English can be a particularly difficult language for young learners.

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00:00:00 Speaker_02
Hey, it's Emily. I'm here to tell you about a couple of things. First, we have new episodes coming. It's been more than a year since Sold to Story came out and a lot has happened to the people we focused on.

00:00:17 Speaker_02
It's just like watching one of those like statues being pulled down from the cold war. And the company too. So what I'm looking at here is a graph that shows since Sold to Story came out, sales have really greatered.

00:00:29 Speaker_00
In 2019, they were almost off the chart, and now it's just barely a blip.

00:00:34 Speaker_02
We're also going to get updates from some of the teachers and parents you met in the podcast, and kids. And how is fourth grade going so far? It's going pretty amazing.

00:00:47 Speaker_02
The other thing I want to tell you is that we have adapted and translated a one-hour version of Sol de Story into Spanish. And there's someone I want you to meet. Her name is Valeria Fernandez. Hi, Emily. Hi, Valeria.

00:01:03 Speaker_02
Valeria is a journalist based in Phoenix, and she is the host of Sol de Story en Español.

00:01:09 Speaker_01
I'm excited about this project. I really want Spanish speakers in the United States, especially parents, to hear Sol de Story en Español.

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So if you know parents, educators, or know people that will be interested in the topic and speak Spanish, please invite them to check the podcast.

00:01:25 Speaker_02
You can find the podcast by searching for Sol de Story en Español, and we will have a link in our show notes that you can share with people. So we have Valeria here. Tell us a little bit about yourself, Valeria.

00:01:37 Speaker_01
I am an independent investigative journalist based in Arizona, originally from Uruguay, and I reported on immigration, issues of social justice and also bilingual education.

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Now I'm also a mom, and I have a four-year-old kid who is about to start school, so I'm really interested in seeing how schools are teaching how to read.

00:01:58 Speaker_01
I think it's really important to make the right choice, especially now that I'm familiar with the findings and investigation of Soul The Story, understanding that reading is really the foundation for the rest of education of my kid.

00:02:11 Speaker_01
And that he faces a special challenges being a kid that speaks Spanish at home and will be learning how to read English at school.

00:02:20 Speaker_02
Yeah, you know, parents know that. I think they know that reading is important. They assume that when they send their kids to school, they'll be taught how to read.

00:02:27 Speaker_02
And I think that's what's been so shocking for many parents to recognize in hearing Sold a Story, that that is not necessarily the case. And that's really why we wanted to translate it into Spanish.

00:02:39 Speaker_02
It was much harder and it took much longer than we thought it would. No one on our core team speaks Spanish.

00:02:45 Speaker_02
And, you know, we have little arguments and debates about the particular word that we choose in English as we're going through and editing scripts.

00:02:54 Speaker_02
And it was fascinating to sort of turn this over and to watch the various Spanish-speaking journalists and translators involved in arguing over exactly the right words to use.

00:03:04 Speaker_01
Yes, I mean, translating is always a challenge, right? Because in Spanish, you may have more choices of words. And also we had another element here that is like how English is thought, how Spanish is thought, the difference in the language itself.

00:03:17 Speaker_01
Like Spanish is a much easier language to learn to read than English. You don't have, you know, all these silent letters. There's only the H. So in English, it's a whole different ballgame. Yeah, absolutely.

00:03:33 Speaker_02
I mean, I've always thought that one of the reasons there's been so much argument in the United States about how to teach kids to read is because it turns out that English is one of the most difficult languages to learn, right?

00:03:44 Speaker_02
It takes two or three years for like a typically developing kid to learn the basics of written English. Whereas if a kid gets some good instruction in Spanish, it usually takes only about a year or so to teach them how to decode the Spanish language.

00:03:56 Speaker_01
But it's important to have a podcast in Spanish talking about English in the context of the United States, because that's where kids are going to be taught.

00:04:04 Speaker_02
You have lots and lots of kids who are speaking Spanish at home but learning to read English in school and I think parents really need to understand some things about what it takes to learn the English language and what schools are not doing in terms of teaching that really well to their children who need to learn how to speak English and read English.

00:04:21 Speaker_01
Yeah, that's why in addition to condensing and translating Soul The Story into Spanish, we also make a second episode where you and I really talk about those special challenges for kids that speak Spanish at home but are learning English at school, which is going to be exactly the case of my son.

00:04:37 Speaker_01
And so I think I found that episode super helpful and I think other parents will too.

00:04:43 Speaker_02
Yeah, we have that, and we also translated into Spanish several in-depth articles that we've written about how reading is taught in American schools, how it's tested.

00:04:53 Speaker_02
We have those in translation so they can be read in Spanish, and I also put together a list of Spanish language resources for parents who might be worried that their children are struggling with learning how to read, and it has some tips and advice and things you can do.

00:05:07 Speaker_02
You can find all of that at soldstory.es. That's soldastory, all one word, .es, and there's a link to that in the show notes.

00:05:18 Speaker_01
Lots of really good information there for parents to check out.

00:05:23 Speaker_02
So thank you very much, Valeria, for doing this. It was so exciting to have someone else be a host of SoldaStory. It was really fun working with you and your team on this project.

00:05:31 Speaker_01
I really enjoyed it, Emily, and I think this is going to be extremely helpful to a lot of parents and families out there. It's an incredibly important story. Thanks, Valeria. Thank you, Emily.

00:05:44 Speaker_02
Sold A Story in Spanish is available now. Search for it in your podcast app or just click the link in the show notes. And please spread the word with the Spanish-speaking people in your life, especially parents.

00:05:58 Speaker_02
And keep an eye out for the new episodes of Sold A Story in English. We'll be dropping those episodes soon. You can sign up for alerts at our website, soldastory.org. Scroll down to where it says email notifications. Thanks for listening.

00:06:15 Speaker_02
We'll be back soon.