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Crooked Media
Radiolingo
Radiolingo investigates all the ways language shapes our world and how our world shapes language. Hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar, an audio journalist and James Beard Award-winning writer, each episode introduces a new way of looking at the impact of language across our lives, our relationships, our culture and much more. Radiolingo is a Crooked Media and Duolingo production.
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Ratings & Reviews
4.5 stars from 687 ratings
UPDATE 2/2024 What happened? I have been looking forward to more of this show since it first came out and it just hasn't happened! Give us more Radiolingo!!! I love this show. I can’t say with words how much I love it, which I guess seems ironic? But I love all things linguistic and this...Read full review »
Candixoxo via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 02/22/24
Radiolingo hits all the right notes for an avid reader of the Duolingo blog such as myself. The themes are highly relatable and the discussions thought-provoking. I love how they tie in important topics such as intercultural exchange and gender equality into linguistic problems. The host sounds...Read full review »
ChingFok:): via Apple Podcasts · Hong Kong · 02/06/24
Amazing podcast
I’ve loved every episode of this podcast. As someone who studied language and linguistics in college, I remember my classes being pretty boring at times. This presents linguistics the way it should be- through human experiences. That’s the whole point of language! I really hope they start making...Read full review »
Aisha13130 via Apple Podcasts · United States of America · 08/09/23
Recent Episodes
Published 01/10/23
We say love is love is love is love. And that’s true! But it’s also รัก if you’re Thai. Yêu và quý if you’re Vietnamese. And a lot of hard work no matter where you’re from. In this episode of Radiolingo, the sweet sticky mess that is romance.
Published 01/10/23
Welcome to Part 2 of our Language Lifecycle series: what causes languages to become endangered, or even die? We’ll discuss the role of colonization on language, and the efforts some communities are taking to revive their dying ways of speaking.
Published 01/03/23
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