The weight of expectation
In this podcast I talk about the positive and negative effects of the weight of expectation, and how living the in past or the future might be stopping you from getting fluency in English.
5 Nov 202012min
Touch wood
In this episode you'll learn why touching wood, throwing salt, and car accidents can help you to see the truth about learning a language.
30 Okt 202015min
How many holes does a straw have?
In this episode you'll learn why culture connects London taxi drivers, donuts, smiling Japanese people, and Australian shop assistants.
29 Okt 202014min
Immersion is a state of mind
In this episode you'll learn the hard lessons of my army father-in-law, who failed to learn a language after 14 years of 'immersion'.
26 Okt 202019min
Question everything to get fluency
In this episode you will learn about the differences and similarities between humans and animals, and why you shouldn't take everything you know about language learning for granted.
22 Okt 202014min
Why you need to learn slowly to get fluency
In this episode I talk about what mathematics really means, why Mathematicians asked schools to stop teaching calculus, and the parallels between maths and language. In this episode you might be surpr...
21 Okt 202014min
Construction grammar and language learning (with Remi van Trijp)
Recently I had the pleasure of talking to Remi van Trijp, head of the Language Research Unit and the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris, and one of the main developers of Fluid Construction G...
1 Sep 202050min
How Language Began | The Story of Language | Episode 6
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about how language began, including language evolution vs lang...
1 Sep 20201h 15min
