We say love is love is love is love. And that’s true! But it’s also รัก if you’re Thai. Yêu và quý if you’re Vietnamese. And a lot of hard work no matter where you’re from. In this episode of Radiolingo, the sweet sticky mess that is romance.

A Language Well Lived” (Language Lifecycle Part 2: Death)

Jan 3rd, 2023 29m 42s

Welcome to Part 2 of our Language Lifecycle series: what causes languages to become endangered, or even die? We’ll discuss the role of colonization on language, and the efforts some communities are taking to revive their dying ways of speaking.

Congrats! It’s a Language.” (Language Lifecycle Part 1: Birth)

Dec 20th, 2022 29m 56s

Constructed Languages and New Languages In the first of our two part series on the life cycle of languages, we address how language is born. We’ll dive into the creation of constructed languages – languages made for film or TV (or even just for

Foul @#$%ing Language

Dec 13th, 2022 24m 42s

What is the oldest swear word in English? Does swearing help manage pain? We bring you 6 fun lessons on swearing and cursing.

Speaking of Gender

Dec 6th, 2022 22m 17s

Language can reflect and reinforce gender expectations. Are there ways to make language more inclusive?

Lights! Camera! Translate!

Nov 29th, 2022 27m 50s

From "Seinfeld" to "Squid Game", thanks to streaming, audiences worldwide have access to more TV shows and movies from other countries than ever before, and that includes content in other languages. As such, the localization industry is booming

What Accent?

Nov 22nd, 2022 29m 14s

How and why do we make assumptions based on the way people speak? What is considered “proper,” or “correct” language – and who decides that, anyway?

What’s In A Name

Nov 15th, 2022 31m 2s

Host Ahmed Ali Akbar has always had trouble getting people to say his name “correctly.” Why? This episode explores how second generation immigrants choose names, and how a name can impact our lives in more ways than we’d think.

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Introducing Radiolingo (coming November 15th)

Oct 31st, 2022 1m 33s

From Crooked Media and Duolingo, this is Radiolingo, a new limited series that investigates all the ways language shapes our world and how our world shapes language. Hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar, an audio journalist and James Beard Award-winning w