Elie from Aïn Ikrine, Lebanon, is a native speaker of Lebanese, considers himself near-native in French, but does not feel as comfortable speaking Arabic. Yes, Lebanese is a dialect of Arabic - and yet it's quite a different language.We talk

Turkish

Sep 20th, 2015 1h 34m

Özlem from Samsun, Turkey, is not only a native speaker of Turkish, but also deals with Turkish in her work as a researcher in the field of natural language processing. We talk about Istanbul, Turkish–German code-switching, agglutination, gathe

Icelandic (Part II)

Jul 25th, 2015 1h 27m

In this second episode about Icelandic, Björn demonstrates the various ways to inflect different types of Icelandic words, including names. We talk about certain gender issues, dogs biting men (or the other way around?), the evolution of case,

Icelandic (Part I)

Jun 28th, 2015 1h 10m

Björn from Reykjavík, Iceland, has moved around in the Nordic countries quite a bit in his life. As a result, he speaks several languages fluently and is used to constantly switching back and forth between them. In contrast, his native language

Swedish

May 2nd, 2015 2h 20m

This episode's guest Anders comes from the very south of the very north of Europe, namely from Lund in Sweden. We talk about inter-Scandinavian communication, a (not so) Swedish Chef, what makes the Swedes "sing", the definite way to mark defin

Esperanto (Part II)

Mar 21st, 2015 1h 44m

Welcome back to the second part of my interview with Johannes (a.k.a. "two Germans talking to each other in English about Esperanto").We speak about fifteen of the sixteen rules of Esperanto, what makes Esperanto (more or less) easy to learn,

Esperanto (Part I)

Mar 8th, 2015 1h 23m

How does a new language come into existence? Usually, it's a long and slow process in which one language is evolved from another collectively and overall unintentionally by a community of speakers. However, in the case of Esperanto, its grounds

Mandarin Chinese

Feb 3rd, 2015 2h 50m

And so it begins ... In the first episode, Anett and her fearless guest Yi from Shanghai (China) go on an epic journey through the linguistic wilderness of (Mandarin) Chinese, always trying to stay away from the sun. Along the way, they encount

Hello World

Jan 25th, 2015 15m 32s

In this very first episode, Anett gives a brief introduction of herself and this podcast project and delivers some first fun facts about the diversity of the world's languages.

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