For the Love of Language

By EJ and StacieEducation

For the Love of Language episodes

April 23, 2022 Multilingual Belonging at Schools with Taylor Simmons
Taylor tells how she started a multilingual book program at her school and other ways to help multilingual students know they belong.
42 min
April 16, 2022 Q&A: Colors and Corpora
Are we all seeing the same blue? What is a corpus? We answer your questions.
27 min
April 11, 2022 Stacie's Research in Optimality Theory
We dive into optimality theory and Stacie's plans for her dissertation.
41 min
April 03, 2022 Programming Languages and Red Pandas
In which we digress through ideolects, linguistic accommodation theory, and conlangs to answer the question of whether programming languages are languages.
28 min
March 06, 2022 The Hardest Language
What is the hardest language to learn and why?
29 min
February 21, 2022 The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
Do the languages you speak impact how you think?
35 min
February 20, 2022 Globalization
From conquests to song contests, what makes languages global and is it a good thing?
31 min
February 12, 2022 Descriptivism vs Prescriptivism
Why are linguists so against language rules? Should language academies have a say in how people speak? These are some questions we touch on in our discussion of descriptivism and prescriptivism.
28 min
February 05, 2022 Linguists vs Polyglots
What is the difference between a linguist and a polyglot? And why does it matter?
30 min

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The podcast where linguists discuss all things language. We address the questions you've always wondered about, like, "what is the most difficult language?" or "which language learning app is best?"

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