Jae DiBello Takeuchi, author of "Language Ideologies and L2 Speaker Legitimacy: Native Speaker Bias in Japan," discusses the challenges faced by second language learners of Japanese, including issues with politeness levels, gendered language, dialects, and native speaker bias. The podcast explores the concept of speaker legitimacy, the discrepancies between media portrayals and real-life language usage, and strategies for addressing bias against non-native Japanese speakers.