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Fluent AF

Fluent AF

By: Priscilla Tovar
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Fluent AF is the podcast for anyone who’s ever mixed Spanglish with trauma, slang with sacred vibes, or cried in multiple languages. Hosted by Priscilla Tovar: language educator, lifelong code-switcher with a background in political science & international relations, Fluent AF explores how language shapes culture, identity, power and healing. From decoding your abuela's shade, to navigating awkward Zoom calls, it's real, raw and ridiculously relatable. If you’re bilingual, bicultural, or just bilingual-adjacent, Fluent AF speaks your language.Priscilla Tovar Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Ep. 25: Frankenstein's Table: How Taste, Language, and Stereotypes Create Monsters
    Feb 25 2026

    Frankenstein was never really about a monster. It was about misunderstanding.

    In this episode, we pull Mary Shelley into the kitchen and ask what happens when taste, emotion, language, and identity collide.

    From avocado toast in Miami to aguacate at the finca.

    From papaya smoothies, to abuela's medicine.

    From "Como Agua Para Chocolate" to neurodivergent sensory intelligence.

    We explore how food carries memory, how stereotypes are born from misinterpretation, and how one sentence without context can ignite havoc.

    Taste is a dialect.

    Sensory data is a mother tongue.

    And when language is misunderstood.

    Monsters are made.

    Welcome to Episode 25: Frankenstein's table.

    #fluentafofficial #food #language #stereotypes


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    5 mins
  • Ep. 24: The Language of Death
    Feb 18 2026

    Humans are obsessed with death.

    True crime. Serial Killers. Murder podcasts you fall asleep to.

    But here's the question nobody asks,

    if death is universal, why do we talk about it so carefully?

    In this episode of Fluent AF, we unpack the language of death.

    The euphemisms that soften it.

    The grammar that hides responsibility.

    The way power rewrites killing. And how silence itself becomes a language.

    From "passed away" to "officer involved shooting" .

    From Spanish and Italian poetry to Russian bluntness.

    From serial killers turned into myths to cultures that refuse to name the dead.

    This isn't about death alone,

    It's about how language protects us, distances us, and sometimes lies for us.

    What does your language do with death, and what does that say about how you culture handles truth.

    Listen. Reflect. Dale

    #death #language #fluentaf #podcast


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    7 mins
  • Ep. 23: Intimacy Isn't Romance-It's Literacy
    Feb 9 2026

    We talk about intimacy like it's chemistry.

    Like its luck.

    Like it's something you either "have"... or you don't. But what if intimacy isn't romance at all?

    What if it's literacy?

    In this pre-valentine's episode of Fluent AF, we unpack how language shapes attachment, why so many of us "love hard" and still feel unseen, and how the way we speak to ourselves become the blueprint for every relationship we enter. Because maybe you're not bad at love. Maybe nobody ever taught you the words.

    We talk:

    emotional vocabulary,

    self-talk and attachment styles,

    why familiar doesn't mean healthy,

    Valentine's Day and the commercialization of being chosen ,

    and yes, a little RuPaul wisdom.

    If you've ever said "I'm fine" when you weren't... this one's for you.

    Fluent AF is where language, culture, and identity collide.

    PRESS PLAY NOW!

    #episode23 #romance #intimacy #language #fluentafofficial

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    5 mins
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