Silly Linguistics - A podcast about language, society and culture

I ask a series of increasingly difficult language related questions to Erik from Camp Netherside and see how many he can get right. We also discuss the questions and have a bit of a chat at the end of the quiz.

I speak to the creator and host of the History of English Podcast, Kevin Stroud and talk to him about why he decided to make a podcast and how we went about doing it.

I talk to Ignacio Bergkamp who is an English teacher to Spanish native speakers. I talk about what his life is like as an English teacher and what sorts of problems he runs into as a language teacher and how his job has affected his language life.

We discuss how we got into languages, which languages we have learned, and how we went about learning them. We then discuss some of the many ways dialects of a language can differ from one another.

We discuss related languages, from the Scandanavian languages, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese, to Arabic's groups of dialects to Chinese languages.

Check us out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/sillylinguistics/ And check out the website http://sillylinguistics.com/ We talk about language in education, East Asian languages, preserving minority languages and we touch on conlangs

Check us out on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/sillylinguistics/ And check out the website http://sillylinguistics.com/ In this episode, we talk about Google Translate, websites for learning languages and how to organise your conlang