Get Multilinguish

Get Multilinguish

Author: Babbel USA February 1, 2019 Duration: 3:18
Join the editorial team at Babbel as we nerd out about all the fascinating, fun and sometimes weird ways language connects us all. Together, our team has almost 50 years of language education, and we're finally ready to put it to use.

Coming March 2019.

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Ever wondered why some words feel impossible to translate, or how a single accent can tell a story of migration and history? Multilinguish, from the team at Babbel USA, digs into the curious, human side of how we communicate. This isn't a language lesson, but a deep dive into the ways language shapes identity, culture, and our everyday lives. Each episode feels like a conversation with experts, linguists, and everyday polyglots, unpacking topics from the hidden rules of slang to the neuroscience behind learning a new tongue as an adult. You'll hear about the fascinating origins of common phrases, the social power of dialects, and why certain sounds exist in some languages but not others. The Multilinguish podcast is for anyone who's ever been intrigued by a foreign film's subtitle, puzzled by a regional idiom, or simply wants to understand the invisible threads of connection speech weaves between people. It's an educational journey that proves you don't need to be fluent in five languages to appreciate how profoundly they color our world. Tune in to find your own place in the vast, buzzing conversation.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 33

Multilinguish
Podcast Episodes
Sapir-What?! [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:44
In the same ways language connects us, it can just as easily divide us. Producers Thomas Moore Devlin and David Doochin debate the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is the idea that different languages create different world…
Sexist Robots [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 50:54
We teach robots everything they know — including our own human idiosyncrasies when it comes to language. Computational linguist Kate McCurdy joins producers Thomas Moore Devlin and Dylan Lyons to explain the consequences…