The Five Minute Linguist
by Rick Rickerson
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Description
"The Linguist" is not a single person, but a cross-section of the language profession that has come together to produce this show. Talkin' About Talk is a collective effort by language experts from all parts of the country.
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What's Special About Language? | "The Linguist" is not a single person, but a cross-section of the language profession that has come together to produce this show. Talkin' About Talk is a collective effort by language experts from all parts of the country. | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Many Languages are There? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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3 |
What was the First Language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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4 |
Do all Languages Come from the Same Source? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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5 |
Why Should Americans Learn Languages? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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6 |
Where did English Come From? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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7 |
Whatever Happened to Esperanto? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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8 |
Is British English Superior to Ours? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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9 |
Do All Southerners Have the Same Dialect? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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10 |
Is there a Language Crisis in America? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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11 |
What Does it Take to Learn a Language Well? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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12 |
What's the History of Language Study in the US? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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13 |
Should We be Learning Arabic? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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14 |
Is Sign Language a Universal Language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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15 |
Are Dialects Dying in the US? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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16 |
Why Do Languages Change? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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17 |
Is Pidgin English just Bad English? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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18 |
How do Babies Learn to Talk? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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19 |
Was German Almost the Language of America? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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20 |
Can Monolingualism be Cured? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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21 |
Why is Chinese so hard to learn? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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22 |
Should we teach languages in elementary schools? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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23 |
Where did writing come from? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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24 |
What causes foreign accents? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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25 |
How do you keep languages in a museum? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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26 |
How many native American languages are there? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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27 |
Should we be studying Russian? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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28 |
How are language and thought related? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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29 |
Where did Cajun come from? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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30 |
How are Dictionaries Made? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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31 |
Is there a right way to use language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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32 |
Is Spanish in the US to stay? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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33 |
What's the difference between dialect and language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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34 |
Is Japanese related to Chinese? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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35 |
Why do Linguists love Icelandic? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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36 |
What's the language of Africa? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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37 |
How good is machine translation? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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38 |
Are Spanish and Portuguese really the same language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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39 |
Can you use language to solve a crime? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What does it take to be an interpreter? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Who speaks what languages in the US? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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42 |
Do you have to go abroad to learn a language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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43 |
What does language have to do with national security? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How many languages is it possible for a person to speak? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is there such a thing as too much language learning? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What does it mean to be bilingual? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why do languages die? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Can threatened or dying languages be revived? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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49 |
Does anybody here speak Klingon? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Is language important enough to fight about? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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51 |
Can you make a living loving languages? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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52 |
What don't we know about language? | -- | 8/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
| Total: 52 Episodes |
