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Being Brown and BoldEp# 4 Eliza Keyton (Elikutty) on Being Brown and Bold PodcastEliza Keyton is an education professional who has worked across the US, UAE, South Korea, and Vietnam since 2009. She is fond of languages and culture, particularly after her father married her Serbian Stepmother and was introduced to the melting pot of Chicago on family holidays. After meeting her Malayalee husband in 2017, She began studying Malayalam and used her language training to make study materials to fill in the gap of accessible resources to learning this language. She currently works as a teacher trainer and educational consultant in Hanoi, Vietnam. In her free time, she advocates for mother tongue education a...
2023-03-1454 min
India with Jessica | Navigating Indian Culture With Love79| Best of 2022 | HIGHLIGHTS AND REFLECTIONS FROM THIS YEARJoin me for a wrap of 2022 with snippets of the best episodes from this year.
I'm very thankful for your support and encouragement through the past four years!
Here are the highlight episodes of 2022!
Episode 68 - Eliza Keyton (EliKutty) - Ethics of Language Learning
Episode 71 - Devika Cariapa - childrens' author and archaeologist!
Episode 72 - What is it Really Like Being Married to an Indian Man? a conversation with two other women married to Indian men about the things they love about being married to an Indian. One woman, Sheida is from Iran, and P...
2022-12-0739 min
India with Jessica | Navigating Indian Culture With Love69 | Ethics in Language Learning with Eliza KeytonEliza Keyton (Eli Kutty) and Jessica Kumar are both language learners of Indian languages. In the years since learning Malayalam and Hindi, Eliza and Jessica have become increasingly convinced that there needs to be greater representation of Indians and proper credit given to those who have taught their indigenous languages to foreigners.
In this episode, Eliza and Jessica talk through the challenges of navigating leftover colonialism which makes learning a language responsibly tricky in today's climate.
Jessica and Eliza both share their clear intentions of uplifting Desi voices and pointing the attention back to native s...
2022-02-2234 min
India with Jessica | Navigating Indian Culture With Love68 | Learning Malayalam vs Learning Hindi with Eliza KeytonEliza Keyton (Eli Kutty) is an American Malayalam learner and dedicated to sharing her learnings with other learners. Jessica and Eliza dive into the complexities of learning Hindi vs Malayalam and the challenges of learning an Indian language.
Jessica and Eliza both share their clear intentions of uplifting Desi voices and pointing the attention back to native speakers of their target languages. They both speak about their unique experiences as white Americans and how one needs to be aware of white privilege while learning a language.
Both women are married to Indian m...
2022-02-0837 min
The Fluent ShowAn Impossible Snapshot of India (with Eli Kutty and Jessica Kumar)Their eyes met at Dubai airport...and it started a love affair with Malayalam!
In this episode, my American-born guests Jessica Kumar and Eliza Keyton (Eli Kutty) share their stories of falling in love with India - well, some of it! You'll hear about
how Jessica and Eliza travelled the world
what family traditions in India mean for independent women like these two
why one person's experience can never show you all that India has to offer
how learning a language can change your experience of India, no matter where you are
why both of them...
2022-02-071h 14
Chat Me Up with TauheeChat Me Up feat. EliKutty aka Eliza KeytonThe Indian language Malayalam, is a very complex language. But as they say, love will conquer all. Our guest today, is not your regular American teacher. An English teacher who passionately loves languages, her love for Malayalam began after she met her Malayali husband. So much so that now she has taken to teaching the language! Your very unconventional American Malayalam teacher Eliza Keyton aka elikutty is on the podcast Chat Me Up today!
Follow her on instagram @eli.kutty
Follow me on @chatmeup_tauhee for more fun updates and conversations! If there is anyone y...
2020-10-1546 min