{"id":13919,"date":"2026-02-27T14:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/?p=13919"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T12:38:14","slug":"balkan-threads-e3-exploring-identities-and-languages-across-macedonia-and-kosovo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/podcasts\/balkan-threads-e3-exploring-identities-and-languages-across-macedonia-and-kosovo\/","title":{"rendered":"Balkan Threads \u2013 E3: Exploring Identities and Languages Across Macedonia and Kosovo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the third episode of the Balkan Threads podcast, we explore Macedonia and Kosovo with Lura Pollozhani. Lura takes us on a journey from the shores of Lake Ohrid, moving through the dialects of Albanian and Macedonian, to the streets of Skopje and Prishtina. We discuss what it means to grow up speaking multiple languages, why multilingualism matters, and how governments can better support citizens in linguistically diverse societies.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf99\ufe0fHosted by Lazar Tripinovic.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa7Listen on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/episode\/5g1QnpQRGeipYNVFslpf4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the third episode of the Balkan Threads podcast, we explore Macedonia and Kosovo with Lura Pollozhani. Lura takes us on a journey from the shores of Lake Ohrid, moving through the dialects of Albanian and Macedonian, to the streets of Skopje and Prishtina. We discuss what it means to grow up speaking multiple languages, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":13376,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[2616,624,2708,682,2706,1081,2707],"ppma_author":[2433],"class_list":["post-13919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-balkan-threads","category-podcasts","tag-balkanthreads","tag-kryesore","tag-multilingualism","tag-north-macedonia","tag-ohrid","tag-prishtina","tag-skopje"],"authors":[{"term_id":2433,"user_id":643,"is_guest":0,"slug":"lazar-tripinovic","display_name":"Lazar Tripinovi\u0107","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-22-at-15.13.30.jpeg","url2x":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-01-22-at-15.13.30.jpeg"},"user_url":"","last_name":"Tripinovi\u0107","first_name":"Lazar","description":"Lazar was born and raised in Belgrade, Serbia. He received his education in a bilingual grammar school in his hometown, before moving to an international school in Tanzania. He is pursuing a double major in International Affairs and French Studies, with a minor in Political Economy at Lewis &amp; Clark College. Expatriation from a young age provided him with a dynamic education and ensured a cross-cultural perspective. He is currently studying parallely at Middleburry Cameroon and Universit\u00e9 catholique d\u2019Afrique centrale in Yaound\u00e9, Cameroon."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13919"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13925,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13919\/revisions\/13925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13919"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbunker.org\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=13919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}