A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
In 1986, Nicaraguan officials invited American linguist Judy Shepard-Kegl to observe a group of Deaf children. The kids were using an...
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Finland has been named the happiest country in the world. So why is sisu the word that best describes Finns? Associated with war...
In unsettled times, we reach for metaphors. They help us make sense of the nonsensical—or at least that’s what we tell ourselves. In...
Joe Wong is a brilliant bilingual comedian. In the US, he does standup. In his native China he hosts a popular TV game show. Recently his...
Bilingual comedian Joanna Hausmann (pictured with her mother Ana Julia Jatar-Hausmann) is sitting out the lockdown at her Venezuelan...
In this episode, we talk with American medical student Esther Kim (pictured). She’s trying to overcome her suspicion of people with a...
We can’t travel. We can’t hug or visit loved ones. But we can talk our way through this pandemic — and we’re doing just...
Hassnae Bouazza was born in Morocco. She didn’t speak a word of Dutch when she immigrated to the Netherlands, though today it’s...
If there are extraterrestrials out there, what kind of messages might they be sending us? How might we decipher those messages? And should...
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina displaced tens of thousands of New Orleanians. Many never returned to the city. Others have since moved in...