15 Best Linguistics Podcasts
Linguistics Podcasts
Here are 15 Best Linguistics Podcasts worth listening to in 2024
1. Spectacular Vernacular
US
A podcast that explores language and plays with it. Linguist Nicole Holliday and Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer discuss the ways la...nguage is changing, talk to scholars and writers, and set and solve word puzzles.more
slate.com/podcasts..
1.4M 1.7M 87K 1 episode / week Avg Length 38 min Feb 2012
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2. A Way with Words
US and the World
A Way with Words is a fun and funny radio show and podcast about language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett talk with callers from around th...e world about linguistics, new words, grammar and much more. more
waywordradio.org/l..
116.1K 29.1K 1 episode / week Avg Length 54 min Aug 2007
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3. The Allusionist
Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org
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14.2K 18.7K 6.4K 4 episodes / quarter Avg Length 40 min Jan 2015
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4. The History of English Podcast
The Spoken History of a Global Language. Kevin Stroud presents the History of English Podcast for word lovers and history buffs.
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310 11.3K 1 episode / month Avg Length 74 min Jun 2012
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5. Talk the Talk
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Talk the Talk podcast is hosted by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skarsgard. This weekly show is about linguistics, the science of language.
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51 7 455 1 episode / week Avg Length 105 min Nov 2010
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6. Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics
Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more. Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics?
lingthusiasm.com/e..
4.2K 22.7K 5K 1 episode / month Avg Length 41 min
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7. Bunny Trails: A Word History Podcast
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Welcome to our whimsical adventure of idioms and other turns of phrase. Each week, we delve into the origins of phrases to find out how they came into... the English language. We tell the story of the phrase from its beginnings to where it is today. Shauna and Dan are two big nerds, so expect some geek culture references, random trivia facts, and loads of laughs!more
bunnytrailspod.com
44 497 2 episodes / month Avg Length 32 min
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8. The Vocal Fries
The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. C...arrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk.more
vocalfriespod.com
588 7.6K 584 1 episode / week Jul 2017
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9. Conlangery Podcast
Conlangery is a fortnightly podcast focused on conlanging and the conlanging community. Each episode focuses on either linguistics or creative process... topic, or a featured language (natural or constructed). We also put out short episodes on topics that don't warrant a whole hour of gabbing.more
conlangery.com
628 1.3K 1 episode / week Avg Length 40 min May 2011
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10. Slavstvuyte!
A podcast for everyone who is fascinated by Slavic languages
slavstvuyte.buzzsp..
244 2.1K 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 7 min Dec 2020
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11. Words for Granted
Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Host Ray Belli uses linguistic evolution as a way of understanding larger his...torical and cultural changes.more
wordsforgranted.com
546 1.2K 1 episode / month Avg Length 26 min Jun 2016
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12. Field Notes
Field Notes is a podcast about linguistic fieldwork hosted by Martha Tsutsui Billins. Field Notes aims to share the stories of linguists doing fieldwo...rk to document, describe, and understand how languages (especially endangered/minority languages) work!more
fieldnotespod.com
1.1K 1 episode / month Avg Length 39 min
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13. Babbel | Multilinguish
New York, NY
Not multilingual, but language-curious? Explore how language connects us all from the producers at the language-learning app Babbel. In season 1, we d...ig into unsolved linguistic mysteries, sexist robots, the best travel advice you've never heard, if language affects our worldview, which accents are sexist, and more!more
anchor.fm/multilin..
1.6M 3.4K Feb 2019
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14. EN CLAIR
Lancaster, England
A podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, spy codes, criminal slang, fake news, lie-detection, rare book heists an...d more!more
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2.5K Dec 2018
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15. Accentricity
Glasgow, Scotland
Why do we love some accents and hate others? Why do we talk differently in different situations? Does learning a new language really teach you to thin...k differently? In this linguistics podcast, she examines how the way we talk connects to who we are.more
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357 1.4K 245 1 episode / year Avg Length 37 min
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Linguistics Podcasters
Podcaster Name | Podcast Link | Total Episodes | |
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Dina Stankovic | slavstvuyte.buzzsprout.com | 48 | |
Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produ | waywordradio.org | 40 | |
Shauna Harrison | bunnytrailspod.com | 21 | |
vocalfriespod | vocalfriespod.com | 16 | |
Helen Zaltzman | bbc.co.uk | 10 | |
Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne | lingthusiasm.com | 7 | |
Daniel Midgley | talkthetalkpodcast.com | 7 | |
Kevin Stroud | historyofenglishpodcast.com | 5 | |
Martha Tsutsui Billins | fieldnotespod.com | 5 | |
Conlangery Podcast | conlangery.com | 5 | |
Daniel Midgley and Hedvig Skirgård | talkthetalkpodcast.com | 2 | |
Accentricity | accentricity-podcast.com | 1 | |
Daniel Midgley and Ben Ainslie | talkthetalkpodcast.com | 1 | |
Dina Stankovic/Dragana Valent | slavstvuyte.buzzsprout.com | 1 | |
Eltinchile | eltinchile.com/episodes | 4 | |
Machine Learning Street Talk (mlst) | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/machinelearningstreettalk | 3 | |
Brandon Sanderson | writingexcuses.com | 2 | |
Justin Grammens | appliedai.buzzsprout.com | 2 | |
Kathy Nelson | ordinarily-extraordinary.com/blog-2 | 2 | |
Mark Liberman | languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll | 2 | |
New Books Network | listennotes.com/podcasts/new-books-in-the-history-of-science-new-LhADXz8jNWS | 2 | |
Sol Good Network | spreaker.com/show/chat-gpt-podcast | 2 | |
The History Of Africa Podcast | historyofafricapodcast.blogspot.com | 2 | |
The New Mainstream Podcast | soundcloud.com/think-now | 2 | |
Viki Voice Coach | anchor.fm/v-v09 | 2 | |
Acid Horizon | feeds.buzzsprout.com/1064269 | 1 | |
Aphasia Access | aphasiaaccess.org/podcasts | 1 | |
Azren The Language Nerd | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/polyglotazren | 1 | |
Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | cms.megaphone.fm/channel/SBP9328962318 | 1 | |
Fluent In 3 Months | fluentin3months.com/podcast | 1 | |
Heather | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-future-is-bilingual | 1 | |
Hpg | accordingtohpg.com/breast-less-life-podcast | 1 | |
Jason Heron & Jordan Piano | shows.acast.com/parentingtoolspod | 1 | |
Josh Elledge Of Upmyinfluence.com | upmyinfluence.com/podcast | 1 | |
Louise Kulbicki | studylegalenglish.com/#episodes | 1 | |
Lukas Biewald | soundcloud.com/wandb | 1 | |
Mathias Nordvig And Daniel Farrand | nordicmythologypodcast.buzzsprout.com | 1 | |
Nick Quient | splitframeofreference.com/podcast-2 | 1 | |
Pankaj Jain | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pankaj-jain | 1 | |
Ptorpey | podcast.eyesonsuccess.net | 1 | |
Redfox Ai | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-artificial-podcast | 1 | |
Rnz | rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/voices/library | 1 | |
The 80000 Hours Team | 80000hours.org/podcast/episodes | 1 | |
The John Howell Show | wlsam.com/john-howell | 1 | |
The Psych Review | spreaker.com/podcast/the-psych-review--2788829 | 1 | |
The Pwc Network/pwc Llc | thepwcnetwork.podbean.com | 1 | |
Theology In The Raw | theologyintheraw.com/theology-in-the-raw | 1 | |
Uncle Fox | rss.com/podcasts/fight4ourexistence | 1 | |
University Of Illinois Research Park | podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/uiresearchparkpodcast | 1 | |
Virginia Langhammer | speakingbrazilian.podbean.com | 1 |