15 Best Linguistics Podcasts

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
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1.4M 1.7M 86.5K 8 episodes / year 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
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116.1K 29.1K 3 episodes / month 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 1 episode / week Avg Length 36 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 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 70 min Jun 2012
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5. 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
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1.6M 3.4K Feb 2019
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6. 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
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44 497 1 episode / week Avg Length 32 min
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7. Slavstvuyte!

A podcast for everyone who is fascinated by Slavic languages
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244 2K 1 episode / month Avg Length 11 min Dec 2020
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8. 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?
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4.2K 22.7K 4.9K 1 episode / month Avg Length 40 min
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9. 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 / month Avg Length 97 min Nov 2010
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10. 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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11. 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
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628 1.3K 1 episode / year Avg Length 40 min May 2011
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12. 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 4 episodes / quarter Jul 2017
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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 his...torical and cultural changes.more
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546 1.2K 2 episodes / quarter Avg Length 25 min Jun 2016
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14. 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 / quarter Avg Length 37 min
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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 fieldwo...rk to document, describe, and understand how languages (especially endangered/minority languages) work!more
fieldnotespod.com
1.1K 1 episode / week Avg Length 38 min
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