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Julie Sedivy’s personal history of language
How composer Leoš Janáček set his daughter’s last words to music
Will Icelandic survive the invasion of English?
The language that gave Missouri its name
Presenting Home, Interrupted
Icelandic, the language that recycles everything
The bilingual edge: what the research says
How Basque speakers saved their language
Chinese sci-fi has crossed the translation barrier
Why the French use the English word ‘black’
The Irish language renaissance
From linguistic shame to pride
Easing into multilingualism
How the brain of an improv performer works
Sugar Sammy’s multilingual comedy
Is Mx here to stay?
Americans, Brits and the foreignness of English
A German-speaking outpost in the American Midwest
Season 4 is coming
Presenting Exile
The precious secrets of Udi
The future sound of Black English
How music has shaped African American speech
Where did African American English come from?
A brief history of death threats
Latin, the undead language
Learning to love apostrophes
Hello, Goodbye
How the Ojibwe language survived the pandemic
Ukraine’s linguistic patriotism
The rare joys of learning Finnish
Presenting More Than a Feeling
Will climate change wipe out French in Louisiana?
When did comedians start saying ‘punching up’ and ‘punching down’?
The language of the outside people
The speechways of the folk
‘Manifesting’ the language of self-help
Why some words are just funny
A mother tongue reclaimed
Teach me your song
Once upon a hyphen…
Season 3 is coming
A language that survived the boarding schools
A tale of edible intrigue
The pleasure and pain of spelling
We are the people
The little pronoun that could
How the alphabet won our hearts
Japan’s mystery language
The dots and their future
The language closest to English
My notorious name
Season 2 is coming
Subtitle presents A Better Life?
We Speak: Tina
We Speak: Ciku
We Speak: Verónica
We Speak: Patrick and Kavita
The birth of a language
‘Sisu’ gets an update
A metaphor for our times
In quarantine with Joe Wong
In quarantine with Joanna Hausmann
At war, and not at war
One virus, many languages
Going Dutch
How to communicate with aliens
Did Katrina kill the New Orleans accent?
The talk of the forest
Is a polyglot’s brain different?
Why Mormons are so good at languages
Gullah Geechee enters the academy
The language of diamonds
Words we love to hate
Not so anonymous
Your next favorite podcast
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The sci-fi of another language
A family divided by English
Poetry thieves
The holes between the dots
How soccer became multilingual
How has Basque survived?
Your brain on improv
My language is my home
Abandoning your mother tongue
If you could talk to the animals
The Story of 'X'
The three-letter-word that rocked a nation
A British Mx Tape
The secretive language of pro wrestling
Could Neanderthals talk?
The rules of bilingual love
Ivanka, meet Stalin
Losing your accent
The words of 2017
My voice is my passport – verify me
Welcome to the American family
Speaking Yiddish to the dead
Bash the Fash