1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Wesley Doucette is a Ph.D. student at the CUNY Graduate Center in the French Doctoral Program. In this conversation, Wesley talks about his long-standing interest in studying both French and Turkish. He discusses what it was like to learn Turkish at Columbia through an inter-institutional partnership called the Inter-University Doctoral Consortium. He shares his views on the benefits of studying a less commonly taught language, what was easy and what was difficult about learning Turkish, and his experiences with learning Ottoman Turkish at Columbia in addition to Modern Turkish.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; Turkish at Columbia: https://mesaas.columbia.edu/language-programs/turkish/ Ottoman Turkish at Columbia: https://www.lrc.columbia.edu/language/turkish-ottoman/ &amp;nbsp; Said &amp; Done https://www.lrc.columbia.edu/podcast/ <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/32016407/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/88AA3C/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/174113887