Said & Done is a podcast from the Columbia University Language Resource Center that explores languages at the intersection of culture and biography. In conversation with host Chris Kaiser, guests share how they have been shaped by the languages they speak.
Learning Armenian, Eastern and Western - with Sato Moughalian and Ryan Nazari
Sato Moughalian and Ryan Nazari, both Ph.D. students enrolled in Armenian classes at Columbia, speak about their experiences and reasons for learning the language. They discuss the complex background of Armenian, which forms its own distinct, independent branch within the Indo-European language family. They also detail how their own personal and family stories intertwine with histories of genocide, forced migration, music, art, ceramics, weaving, and what it means to be Armenian today.
To learn more about Armenian at Columbia, check out https://mesaas.columbia.edu/armenian-studies/
The music featured on this episode is from the Perspectives Ensemble's album Oror/Lullaby: Armenian Music for Flute and Harp, featuring Sato Moughalian and Alyssa Reit
7 Nov 2025
On Music and Language, with Denzell Ivery
In this episode of Said & Done, Denzell Ivery, a master's student at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, talks about learning multiple languages—including Turkish, Russian, Azerbaijani, and Hungarian—and how his background as a musician has shaped his approach to communication. From the concert stage to deployments abroad with the U.S. Marines, he's found that sound and meaning follow the same patterns of play, discipline, and discovery.
3 Oct 2025
Talking about Afrolatinas en Estados Unidos, with Leyre Alejaldre Biel
In this episode of Said & Done, Leyre Alejaldre Biel, Lecturer in Spanish at Columbia, speaks about her Intermediate Spanish course, Afrolatinas en Estados Unidos. The class centers the voices and experiences of Afrolatina women, as students research and learn about members of this community.
The episode also points to how this project extends beyond the classroom, with student-created podcasts available on Spotify and student-generated content relating to the class on Instagram.
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If you’d like to see and hear more of the student work, visit Afrolatinas en Estados Unidos on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5tneZgWTsNUQO7Xw7xAv67
And Afrolatinas in Spanish on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/afrolatinasinspanish/
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