Accent and identity (with Erik Singer)
If you know me and my work then you know that I talk a lot about identity, and especially how your accent is a big part of your identity: yo...
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Canguro English
Canguro English presents a podcast about language for people learning languages. Just another part of my mission to change the way the world learns English. Education should be FREE and FUN.
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The state of modern linguistics | The Story of Language | Bonus episode
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this bonus episode we t...
Embodied cognition | The Story of Language | Episode 12
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we discuss...
Dark matter of the mind | The Story of Language | Episode 11
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we discuss...
The cognitive revolution | The Story of Language | Episode 10
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...
Endangered languages | The Story of Language | Episode 9
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...
Language acquisition | The Story of Language | Episode 8
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...
Metaphor in language | The Story of Language | Episode 7
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk ab...
Learn English with a dictionary (with Peter Sokolowski)
People are passionate about language, especially language change, and words matter. And nobody knows this better Peter Sokolowski, who is an...
1 powerful mind trick to get fluency
In this podcast you will learn how Pygmalion and the Wizard of Oz can teach you the secret to fluency in English that has been causing contr...
Destroying language myths (with Shana Poplack)
It’s an unfortunate fact that many people don’t know the truth about how language works outside of their grammar books, in the real world, b...
Where words come from and how to remember them (with Mark Forsyth)
There are few people in the world who know as much about where words come from as Mark Forsyth. His first book, The Etymologicon, was a jour...
Grammar based on the unfamiliar (with Robert Van Valin)
It’s an unfortunate fact that most of linguistic theory is based on a few major European languages, especially English, which actually damag...
How to speak English faster
In this podcast you will learn the connection between Pixar, red triangles, information, thought, and fluency. Enjoy!
The weight of expectation
In this podcast I talk about the positive and negative effects of the weight of expectation, and how living the in past or the future might...
Touch wood
In this episode you'll learn why touching wood, throwing salt, and car accidents can help you to see the truth about learning a language.
How many holes does a straw have?
In this episode you'll learn why culture connects London taxi drivers, donuts, smiling Japanese people, and Australian shop assistants.
Immersion is a state of mind
In this episode you'll learn the hard lessons of my army father-in-law, who failed to learn a language after 14 years of 'immersion'.
Question everything to get fluency
In this episode you will learn about the differences and similarities between humans and animals, and why you shouldn't take everything you...
Why you need to learn slowly to get fluency
In this episode I talk about what mathematics really means, why Mathematicians asked schools to stop teaching calculus, and the parallels be...