Fluent AF

Fluent AF is a podcast about language, culture, identity, and the stories that make us human.Hosted by Priscilla Tovar, each episode explores the hidden ways language shapes memory, relationships, belonging, food, superstition, and culture.Whether you’re bilingual, bicultural, or simply curious about people, Fluent AF will leave you seeing the world a little differently.New episodes every other Wednesday.

Fluent AF is a education podcast hosted by Priscilla Tovar, with 40 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Priscilla Tovar hosts Fluent AF, a education show with 40 episodes published.

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  Episode #40

  Episode 40: Are We Becoming One with the Bots? AI, language, creativity and what stays human

  Sep 23, 202613 minS1

  What if Artificial Intelligence doesn't destroy humanity, what if it reveals us? Our brilliance. Our laziness. Our tenderness. Our greed. And our willingness to hand over the very things that make us human. In this 10 minute episode, I follow a thread from fire to WALL-E, from Yuval Noah Harari to linguist Emily H. Bender, and from personalized AI tutors to nuclear war. As an educator, translator, writer and someone who isn't opposed to those using AI to organize their brains, I'm not interested in fighting the bots. I'm interested in figuring out what humans should never hand over. Can a machine produce language without understanding it? Can it imitate intimacy? Could AI transform medicine, education, farming, and disaster response-or are we teaching something how to live without us? This isn't an argument for AI. And it isn't an argument against it. It's an argument for paying attention. I'm not asking for consensus. I'm asking for conversation. Are we becoming one with the bots? And if we are, what part of us should never become machines? Listen before the future answers for us.

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  Episode #39

  Ep. 39: When Humanity Interrupts the Argument

  Aug 26, 202610 minS1

  What happens when something interrupts everything we think divides us? We spend so much time hearing about how divided we are; politically, culturally, religiously, linguistically. Then the ground moves. Someone needs help. And suddenly. nobody cares who you voted for or what language you speak. After witnessing the aftermath of the Colombia earthquake that happened on August 12, 2026, I came home thinking less about the earthquake itself and more about what happened around it: People checking on each other, strangers connecting, laughter returning, and life carrying on. In Episode 39 of Fluent AF, we're talking about joy, solidarity, fear, language, and the quiet ways humanity continues to show its face-even when the world feels determined to convince us otherwise. Because maybe compassion is a language. Maybe humor is. Maybe grief is. Maybe reaching for another person is. Division is loud. Humanity is usually quieter. But it's still there. And maybe the most important language we speak is one nobody ever had to teach us. How much of being human actually needs translation?

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  Episode #38

  Episode 38: Our First School is our Home

  Aug 21, 20266 minS1

  Before the world taught us how to behave, love, communicate, spend money, argue, celebrate, grieve or even what “normal” was, our families did. In this episode of Fluent AF, we’re talking about the culture before culture: home. From immigrant-family chaos and showing love through errands, food, and acts of service, to the things we thought every family did until we grew up and realized… oh. Apparently not. Because your first language isn’t just the one you speak. It’s also the way you learned to love, survive, communicate, and understand the world. And then adulthood happens, and you get to decide what you keep, what you question, and what you unlearn. Your first school was home. What did yours teach you? Episode 38: Our First School Is Our Home OUT NOW

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  Episode 37: The People We Almost Meet

  Jul 22, 20265 min

  What if life is less about CASUAlidades and more about CAUSAlidades. Years before Tony and I ever spoke, we found ourselves in the same room at a roller derby party in Bogotá. Same night. Same place. Different lives. We never met. Years later, we got married. In this episode of Fluent AF , we explore the difference between casualidad (coincidence) and causalidad (cause and effect), why language shapes the way we recognize people, and how the smallest, most ordinary moments often become the biggest turning points in hindsight. Because maybe the people who will change your life are already closer than you think. Maybe you’ve already shared a room with them. You just haven’t met… yet.

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  Episode #35

  Ep. 35: Why Do We Hate the Sound of our Own Voice

  Jun 24, 20267 minS1

  In Episode 35 of Fluent AF, we ask a question almost everyone has asked after hearing a voice note, video, or recording: Why do I hate the sound of my own voice? From bone conduction and brain science to identity, storytelling, folklore, and the strange power of hearing ourselves from the outside, this episode explores why our own voice can feel so unfamiliar. Because maybe the voice in your head was never the voice the world heard. Episode 35 out now. Spotify • Apple • YouTube #language #voice# #folklore #sound #FluentAFPodcast

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