Language is a Song Your Heart Makes Show Notes Can music help you learn language? This episode features a special guest interview with Sami Halabi, CEO & Founder of the Univoice app which teaches its users languages through song! Sami talks about his experience being multilingual, how he taught himself and others pronunciation and grammar skills through singing, and how rhythm and music can strengthen our brain's ability to learn language. You can learn more about the app at univoice.app...

Vowel Space the Final Frontier Notes This episode of Hooked is about how vowels are made (the basic articulation of vowels) and special properties of how vowels sound (acoustics of vowels). Maxwell Hope and Average Joe make use of vowels when discussing dialects and dialectal differences. There is also a special guest interview with Dreams, a native Arabic speaker and linguistics student.

Episode 3: From Sound Under In this Episode of Hooked, Maxwell recaps his experience at the 2019 International Congress of Phonetic Sciences and then plays three small interviews from the conference with researchers Maria Del Saz who speaks about a variety of Spanish and an interesting sound change currently happening, Matt Carroll who talks about prenasilization (what does THAT mean?) of voiceless stops in an underdocumented language, and Indranil Dutta & Charlie Redmon who give us a...

Episode 2: Don’t Stop Me Now! Don't stop me now! What's the difference bettween a "p" and a "b" sound? What's that thing called behind your upper teeth? Did you know you can make a complete closure at the vocal folds to produde a sound? In Episode 2 of Hooked, Maxwell gives an introduction of the sounds classified as "stops" or "plosives". He talks about articulators involved and the ways to categorize stops based on voicing and place of articulation. Average Joe tries his best to create a...

Episode 1 In this episode Maxwell Hope will go over some of the basics of phonetics, including the definition of phonetics, describing what an articulator is, and explaining phonation. Average Joe will ask about rolling r's and demonstrates his ability to roll his r's. This podcast is powered by Pinecast.