A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
How did Basque survive Spain’s military dictatorship under Francisco Franco when speaking, writing and reading it were illegal? With...
A podcast about languages and the people who speak them.
How did Basque survive Spain’s military dictatorship under Francisco Franco when speaking, writing and reading it were illegal? With...
Netflix’s lavish new adaptation of Liu Cixin’s The Three-Body Problem is the latest ‘translation’ of one of this...
The French language is replete with words borrowed from English, like ‘weekend’ and ‘podcasting.’ But French...
Irish is among Europe’s oldest languages. It’s a near miracle that anyone speaks it today. Patrick talks with online Irish...
Israel Jesus used to be ashamed of being from the Mexican state of Oaxaca and speaking the local indigenous tongue, Triqui. When he moved...
Mastering six languages sounds like a slog, right? But in some corners of Europe, it happens—maybe not effortlessly, but more easily than...
Does the brain of an improv comedian or freestyle rapper function in a particular way? Is it processing language faster than a regular...
A conversation with comedian with Samir Khullar who grew up speaking Punjabi, Hindi, English and French. He does standup in all those...
When a word first enters the language, it sounds weird to some, radical to others and comforting to just a few. Only later does it seem...
American English and British English aren’t different languages. But they’re not the same either, even if they’re getting...
German used to be one of the most widely-spoken languages in the United States. A survey in 1900 listed 613 US-based German-language...
In our upcoming season, we have stories about voice clones, tongue twisters and small languages fighting back. We’ll hear from...