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Russian Is My Mt. Everest

Episode 217

How the novel Anna Karenina sparked a quest to learn Tolstoy's native tongue.


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Languages of Northern Africa

Episode 216

From vowelless words to complex poetry, Berber to Somali.


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Languages of Northern Africa

Episode 216

Berber, Somali and other fascinating languages of the region.


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You're Gonna Hafta

Episode 215

Deconstructing a single line of dialogue from Netflix's "The Crown."


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You’re Gonna Hafta

Episode 215

Linguistic inspiration from a television series about the Royal Family.


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The Languages of Southeast Asia

Episode 214

Why are so many of the languages of Southeast Asia "like Chinese"?


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The Languages of Southeast Asia

Episode 214

Are Vietnamese, Thai and others of that region a lot like Mandarin?


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Irregardless Make You Cringe? Relax.

Episode 213

English is full of redundancies—so why are we bothered by only a select few?


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Irregardless Make You Cringe?

Episode 213

Some other words that perhaps should bother you but probably don't.


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Nine Nasty Words

Episode 212

John McWhorter teases his new book about off-color English expressions, starting with c!#k.


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