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Researching international and traditional music for various kinds of radio projects I sort of stumble upon a YouTube channel one evening. And there is a clip in which a woman by the first name of Daria and with an unpronounceable last name performs a children's song in Quechua, the predominant indigenous language in Peru. So, I bookmark the website and let it rest for a while, in a manner of speaking. Then, weeks, maybe even months, later, I go back to that YouTube channel and explore it a bit more. Finally I come to the conclusion that the woman behind that project must be a real character and would be nice to do an interview with. So, I use a contact link on her website to send her an interview request which gets a quick response. Eventually, on a hot summer evening, we sit down in different parts of the world to have a nice chat for quite a while. Daria is speaking from a little home studio in a farm in rural Pennsylvania... --- www.youtube.com/user/DariaMusic www.dariamusic.com --- So, the following narrative includes excerpts from a collection of testimonies and interviews entitled "Let's Talk About It Anywhere In The World...", where it is all about people's voices, accents and speech patterns, hand in hand with my own personal anecdotes and observations. In addition to that, people are allowed to introduce themselves in their respective, often indigenous, languages and dialects, and to speak their minds freely, without any paraphrases or expectations. So, let the story go on from there... --- At the moment, Radio Aula Mundi is an evolving podcast station where no language and all languages are spoken... It's a multilingual mix of music, poetry, lectures, languages, interviews, documentaries, recipes, and a lot more, co-produced with the students of the 'Aula Mundi International Cultural Center'... --- Radio Aula Mundi Centro Cultural & Turistico Aula Mundi Aula Mundi Cultural Travel Center castbox.fm/channel/