A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
Japan is an ethnically homogenous nation where everyone speaks Japanese, right? Not exactly. Other groups including the Ainu also have...
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Will technology make Braille obsolete as a primary reading tool for blind people? Will talking apps and audiobooks win out over embossed...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com You may not have heard of Frisian, but it’s spoken by about...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Digital consultant Ivanka Majic was such an early user of Twitter that...
In our upcoming season, we have stories on notorious names, the future of Braille, a history of alphabetical order and much more. Look out...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Here’s a guest episode from our friends at A Better Life?, a...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Tina Tobey was born and raised in Texas. She’s used to non-Texans...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Why doesn’t Ciku Theuri sound Black? Her friends wanted to know...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Verónica Zaragovia lives in Miami but she was born in Colombia. Although...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com We are how we speak, right? Well, it’s complicated— enough so...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In 1986, Nicaraguan officials invited American linguist Judy Shepard...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Finland has been named the happiest country in the world. So why...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In unsettled times, we reach for metaphors. They help us make sense of...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Joe Wong is a brilliant bilingual comedian. In the US, he does standup...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Bilingual comedian Joanna Hausmann (pictured with her mother Ana Julia...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In this episode, we talk with American medical student Esther Kim...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com We can’t travel. We can’t hug or visit loved ones. But we...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Hassnae Bouazza was born in Morocco. She didn’t speak a word of...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com If there are extraterrestrials out there, what kind of messages might...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In 2005, Hurricane Katrina displaced tens of thousands of New Orleanians...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com In folklore and fiction there’s a rich tradition of trees that...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Susanna Zaraysky, speaker of nine languages, is one of those people who...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Stereotypes about Mormon missionaries tend to overshadow their great...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com There’s a new language class on offer at Harvard. Gullah Geechee...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com ‘Real’ or ’synthetic’? ‘Authentic’ or ‘lab-grown’...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Are you repelled by certain words? Do you get that fingernails-on...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Want to say or write something anonymously? Or pretend you’re...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Coming up in the first season of Subtitle with Patrick Cox and Kavita...
: Acast | Amazon | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Himalaya.com Ever wondered why language simultaneously unites and divides us...