15 Best Linguistics Podcasts

1. Slate Debates

A podcast that explores language and plays with it. Linguist Nicole Holliday and Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer discuss the ways language is changing, talk to scholars and writers, and set and solve word puzzles.
Podcast cms.megaphone.fm
Producer/Network Slate Podcasts
Email ****@slateam.co
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 1.4MTwitter Followers 1.6MInstagram Followers 87.4K Frequency 5 episodes/month Avg Length 45 min Since Feb 2012 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. A Way with Words

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 the world about linguistics, new words, grammar and much more.
Podcast waywordradio.org
Producer/Network Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.
Email ****@waywordradio.org
Apple Rating 4.6 / 5Facebook Followers 115.1KTwitter Followers 29.1K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 54 min Since Aug 2007 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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3. The Allusionist

Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org
Podcast bbc.co.uk
Host Helen Zaltzman
Producer/Network Helen Zaltzman
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 14.2KTwitter Followers 18.7KInstagram Followers 6.4K Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 45 min Since Jan 2015 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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4. Bunny Trails: A Word History Podcast

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!
Podcast bunnytrailspod.com
Producer/Network Shauna Harrison, Dan Pugh
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.7 / 5Facebook Followers 44Twitter Followers 497 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 31 min Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

5. Lingthusiasm

Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more. Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics?
Podcast lingthusiasm.com
Producer/Network Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
Email ****@lingthusiasm.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 4.2KTwitter Followers 22.7KInstagram Followers 5.6K Frequency 3 episodes/quarter Avg Length 42 min Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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6. EN CLAIR

A podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, spy codes, criminal slang, fake news, lie-detection, rare book heists and more!
Podcast wp.lancs.ac.uk
Producer/Network Dr Claire Hardaker
Email ****@lancaster.ac.uk
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 2.5K Frequency 2 episodes/week Avg Length 41 min Since Dec 2018 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

7. 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.
Podcast conlangery.com
Producer/Network Conlangery Podcast
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 660Twitter Followers 1.3K Frequency 1 episode/quarter Avg Length 42 min Since May 2011 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

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. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk.
Podcast vocalfriespod.com
Producer/Network The Vocal Fries
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.4 / 5Facebook Followers 588Twitter Followers 7.6KInstagram Followers 606 Frequency 1 episode/month Since Jul 2017 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Get Email Contact

9. Talk the Talk

Talk the Talk podcast is hosted by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skarsgard. This weekly show is about linguistics, the science of language.
Podcast talkthetalkpodcast.com
Email ****@rtrfm.com.au
Facebook Followers 51Twitter Followers 7Instagram Followers 455 Frequency 1 episode/week Avg Length 108 min Since Nov 2010 Listen on Spotify Play Get Email Contact

10. Slavstvuyte!

A podcast for everyone who is fascinated by Slavic languages
Podcast slavstvuyte.buzzsprout.com
Host Dina Stankovic
Producer/Network Dina Stankovic
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 5 / 5Twitter Followers 244Instagram Followers 2K Frequency 4 episodes/year Avg Length 9 min Since Dec 2020 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

11. 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.
Podcast historyofenglishpodcast.com
Host Kevin Stroud
Producer/Network Kevin Stroud
Email ****@historyofenglishpodcast.com
Facebook Followers 460Twitter Followers 11.3K Frequency 2 episodes/quarter Avg Length 76 min Since Jun 2012 Listen on Apple Spotify Video Podcast YouTube
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12. Multilinguish

Not multilingual, but language-curious? Explore how language connects us all from the producers at the language-learning app Babbel. In season 1, we dig 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!
Podcast podcasters.spotify.com
Producer/Network Babbel USA
Email ****@babbel.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 1.6MTwitter Followers 3.4K Since Feb 2019 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

13. 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 historical and cultural changes.
Podcast wordsforgranted.com
Producer/Network Ray Belli
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 563Twitter Followers 1.2K Frequency 1 episode/year Avg Length 26 min Since Jun 2016 Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact

14. Accentricity

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 think differently? In this linguistics podcast, she examines how the way we talk connects to who we are.
Podcast accentricity-podcast.com
Producer/Network Sadie Ryan
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.8 / 5Facebook Followers 357Twitter Followers 1.4KInstagram Followers 245 Listen on Apple Spotify YouTube Play Get Email Contact

15. 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 fieldwork to document, describe, and understand how languages (especially endangered/minority languages) work!
Podcast fieldnotespod.com
Producer/Network Martha Tsutsui Billins
Email ****@gmail.com
Apple Rating 4.9 / 5Twitter Followers 1.1K Frequency 5 episodes/year Avg Length 39 min Listen on Apple Spotify Play Get Email Contact