Coming up in the first season of Subtitle with Patrick Cox and Kavita Pillay: Words we love and hate. Words that solve crimes. Words we lose and find. Words that resist translation. Subtitle brings you stories about languages and the people who speak them, starting in November 2019.
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...
