Imesh-Mimesh

Last episode of the first season of our podcast where we share our impressions and discuss BLM movement and racism, constitution change in Russia and reflect on first season of our podcast.

This is the 8th episode of our Imesh-Mimesh podcast, with linguist from University of Buffalo Andrey Drinfeld. Andrey is an absolutely unique person - Ukrainian-American linguist who is fluent in Tatar (and like 8 other languages), and big fan of Tatar and Bashkort music, culture and history. We talk about the origins of modern Tatar language, its interaction with neighboring Finno-Ugric languages and relation to ancient Bulgar language. Also, we discuss the history of Tatars and of course a little bit of Tatar music (with Andrey singing a Tatar song!)  This episode would very informative for most Tatars (and a lot of fun!) Links to the primary sources referred in podcast by Andrey could be found on our Facebook page.

In the 7th episode of our podcast we talk about the stories behind our emigration, the challenges of an immigrant life, as well as discuss the history and geography of Tatar emigration. Our guest is Tatar entrepreneur living in Turkey - Ilshat Nazipov.

Sixth episode of our podcast, where we talk about preservation of native language in immigrant communities, motivation and methods of teaching and learning the language. Our guest is Alima Salakhutdinova, the founder if first interactive Tatar online language school for Tatar people around the world.

Fifth episode of Tatar podcast Imesh-Mimesh by Amir & Marat with special guest - American entrepreneur and Tatar events master Ilmir Akhmetzyanov, where we talk about Tatar cuisine and it's evolution in 21st century. We discuss whether you can successfully sell Tatar food in America and whether you can be a vegan in Tatar village.