Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.

I’ve loved this podcast for a long time! So much fun

I could barely make it through half an episode of this drivel. The host is embarrassingly uninformed and seems more worried about virtue signaling than actually understanding how language works.

I teach linguistics and recommend it to my students who also love it! The Patreon community is fantastic! This is my nerd tribe. 🤓

Now that I am out of college but pre-grad school, I found it hard to keep up with the state of the field. I felt as if y’all were heaven sent when I stumbled upon your podcast. Y’all are amazing science communicators, give real times updates on the latest science, and are overall hilarious. Also y’all have awesome politics. It’s like can we be friends?? Anyway, I feel like I just learn so much from y’all as a budding linguist, educator, and science communicator myself. As I like to tell my students: Are you Mario when it comes to turts? Cuz you’re crushing it (perchance). Absolute 10/10 cannot recommend enough.

Because Language is the first podcast I ever fell in love with, and while others briefly supplant it as my favorite, I keep coming back to this gem. The balance of provocative commentary about linguistic attitudes juxtaposed with academic content is informative and entertaining. Daniel is an extremely skilled host, Hedvig’s take is intelligent and quirky, and Ben lends a comedic accessibility to the content which is marred only by how often he interrupts Hedvig 😒