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Biblical Hebrew and Benjamin Suchard
Season 2 Episode 18
The third episode of this second series is a Biblical bonanza, as Dr Benjamin Suchard comes on the show to introduce the linguistic world of Biblical…
2 years, 7 months ago
Bulgarian and Leonid Motz
Season 2 Episode 17
Episode 17 of ALILI is a linguistic and historical voyage into the Bulgarian language, as Vienna's Leonid Motz guides us through the language's many …
2 years, 8 months ago
Mari and Jeremy Bradley
Season 2 Episode 16
ALILI is back for a second series! Here's episode 16 with Jeremy Bradley, who takes us on a journey into the Mari language. This is a linguistic tour…
2 years, 8 months ago
Old Irish and Danny Bate
Season 1 Episode 15
It's episode 15 and the finale of the first series of ALILI! To mark the occasion, the tables have been turned and your usual host now finds himself …
2 years, 10 months ago
Tigrinya and Gioia Cacchioli
Season 1 Episode 14
It's time for the fourteenth and penultimate episode of the first series of ALILI, in which Gioia Cacchioli joins me to talk about Tigrinya, a Semiti…
2 years, 11 months ago
Welsh and Victoria Noble
Season 1 Episode 13
Here's episode 13 and it's all about Welsh! Victoria Noble, a PhD researcher in the semantics of Welsh and Arabic, joins me to share her enthusiasm a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Czech and Radek Šimík
Season 1 Episode 12
For episode 12, I popped along to Charles University in Prague, to interview Dr Radek Šimík, a linguist, lecturer and researcher there, and to talk a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Lithuanian and Francis Young
Season 1 Episode 11
Episode 11 of ALILI sees us back beside the Baltic Sea, where Dr Francis Young guides us into the story of Lithuania and the Lithuanian language. Fra…
3 years ago
Persian and Alexander Jabbari
Season 1 Episode 10
ALILI has made it to ten episodes, and this tenth instalment is a suitably sensational journey into the linguistic and cultural cosmos of Persian. Al…
3 years ago
Mexican Spanish and Gilly Marchini
Season 1 Episode 9
Episode 9 is here and it's all about Mexico! The wonderful Gilly Marchini, a PhD researcher at Edinburgh, guide us into the linguistic landscape of M…
3 years ago