obsculta Newbie United States Joined 5822 days ago 36 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 9 of 13 07 January 2015 at 5:10pm | IP Logged |
For French speakers, RFI's Danse des mots is excellent. They release a 20-minute episode daily. It's not at all a hard-boiled linguistics podcast; it's more a soft look at general linguistic phenomena.
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soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3909 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 10 of 13 17 February 2015 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
LangWanderer wrote:
The only one I have listened to is The History of English Podcast,
which I thoroughly enjoyed. (website,
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I've been listening to this at work and am really enjoying it, thank you! I especially
like how it goes back before the Norman Invasion (that's where many sources start for
English) and explains a bit about other language families as well.
Does anybody know of a good book that discusses these kinds of things?
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robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 5061 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew
| Message 11 of 13 18 February 2015 at 4:46am | IP Logged |
The Scandinavian countries have a trio of excellent podcasts about general linguistics.
Sweden: Språket
Norway: Språkteigen
Denmark: Sproglaboratoriet
All three have weekly episodes with short interviews or reports followed by listener questions.
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5322 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 12 of 13 26 February 2015 at 9:05am | IP Logged |
I've just discovered The Allusionist, a brand-new podcast about language and etymology by Helen Zaltzman:
The Allusionist RSS iTunes
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 13 of 13 04 March 2015 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
Les langues: un défi is a ten part presentation.
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