Multilinguish

Travel is one of the biggest motivators for Americans to learn a foreign language. But what if the words you need to express yourself don’t actually exist? Producer Steph Koyfman shares what she learned from speaking with solo female travel advocates, LGBTQ* identifying travel bloggers as well as Babbel’s own team of linguists. Later on, the entire team joins for a roundtable of our own solo travel anecdotes and advice.

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Special thanks to Amanda Kendle, Francesca Murray and Bani Amor for sharing their advice with us.

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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 worldviews. This episode also features insight from academic and linguist John McWhorter, who wrote the book “The Language Hoax”. Later on, the entire team joins for a round of What We Learned This Week to talk about origins of color words, how languages and history are intertwined in South Africa and the pseudoscience of using crystals for language learning.

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Special thanks to John McWhorter for taking the time to speak with us.

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babbel.com/magazine/sapir-what

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 our own language can have on artificial intelligence. Later on, the entire team joins for a round of What We Learned This Week, featuring Chinese typewriters, the world’s oldest language, Marie Kondo, and more. We, for our part, welcome our new robot overlords.

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Special thanks to Kate McCurdy for taking the time to speak with us.
For more info about what we discussed in this episode, visit Babbel Magazine:
babbel.com/en/magazine/sexist-robots/

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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