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The Story of Human Language
- Written by: John McWhorter, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
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Language defines us as a species, placing humans head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators. But it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries, allowing us to ponder why different languages emerged, why there isn't simply a single language, how languages change over time and whether that's good or bad, and how languages die out and become extinct.
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Content is good. But it is not captivating.
- By Shivakumar on 02-06-20
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The Story of Human Language
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Series: The Great Courses: Linguistics
- Length: 18 hrs and 15 mins
- Release Date: 08-07-13
- Language: English
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Written by: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Through vivid stories studded with insights, award-winning author Tamim Ansary tells the story of how humans invented history, from the Stone Age to the Virtual Age. Fifty thousand years ago, we roamed the world as countless autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers, each one telling itself a story...
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Pretty interesting read
- By Saleel Sunder on 30-08-23
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 17 hrs and 4 mins
- Release Date: 01-10-19
- Language: English
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Language and the Mind
- Written by: Spencer D. Kelly, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Spencer D. Kelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
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What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of Homo sapiens - one that has allowed us to change the physical and social world around us in every conceivable way, and an invention that has fundamentally changed us, as well.
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Great listen
- By Dr. Manoj on 20-08-22
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Language and the Mind
- Narrated by: Spencer D. Kelly
- Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
- Release Date: 27-03-20
- Language: English
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Written by: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users. The Dawn of Language provides a fascinating survey of how grammar came into being and the differences or similarities between languages spoken around the world, before exploring how language eventually emerged in the very remote human past.
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The Dawn of Language
- The Story of How We Came to Talk
- Narrated by: Richard Burnip
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
- Release Date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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American English Podcast
- Written by: Shana Thompson
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The American English Podcast teaches the language and culture of the United States. Through common expressions, pronunciation tips and interesting cultural snippets or stories, I hope to keep this fun, useful and interesting! All bonus material can be accessed at http://americanenglishpodcast.com/
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The Interpretation Of Cultures
- Written by: Clifford Geertz
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is With The Interpretation of Cultures, the distinguished anthropologist Clifford Geertz developed the concept of thick description, and in so doing, he...
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The Interpretation Of Cultures
- Narrated by: Tim Dixon
- Length: 21 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 09-09-25
- Language: English
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Yiddish with Rukhl — A Forverts Podcast
- Written by: Rukhl Schaechter
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Yiddish with Rukhl is a limited series podcast for people who love spoken Yiddish, brought to you by the Forward/Forverts. In a 15-20 minute podcast, Forverts editor Rukhl Schaechter shares engaging articles written in conversational Yiddish. She explains how listeners can benefit from the experience of hearing Yiddish, even if their knowledge of the language is at the intermediate level.
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The Modern Scholar
- A History of the English Language
- Written by: Prof. Michael Drout
- Narrated by: Prof. Michael Drout
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Professor Drout addresses the foundation of language and its connection to specific portions of the brain. The components of language are explained in easy-to-understand terms and the progression of the language from Germanic to Old, Middle, and Modern English is fully illustrated - including such revolutionary language upheavals as those brought about by the Norman Conquest and the Great Vowel Shift.
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The Modern Scholar
- A History of the English Language
- Narrated by: Prof. Michael Drout
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Release Date: 22-09-09
- Language: English
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Original Public Meaning
- Written by: Charles McNamara
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Where do our modern English words come from? And what do their long histories tell us about our own ideas and the wider world? On Original Public Meaning, we unearth the ancient foundations of our language and consider how its vast, rich literature—fiction, essays, science, and more—can help us savor our words today.
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma
- The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
- Written by: Jack Lynch
- Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
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In its long history, the English language has had many lawmakers - those who have tried to regulate or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Dilemma poses a pair of questions: What does proper English mean? And who gets to say what's right? Our ideas of correct or proper English have a history, and today's debates over the state of the language - whether about Ebonics in schools, the unique use of language in a South Park episode, or split infinitives in the Times - make sense only in historical context.
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The Lexicographer's Dilemma
- The Evolution of 'Proper' English, from Shakespeare to South Park
- Narrated by: Anthony Gettig
- Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 21-03-13
- Language: English
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Written by: Bård Borch Michaelsen
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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With the invention of printing, reading books moved from being an act performed only by priests and aristocrats into an individual, even private activity. This change helped spark the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution - in which punctuation played a crucial role. As long as texts were read out loud by only an educated elite there was no need for punctuation to mark pauses, full stops or questions.
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Signs of Civilisation
- How Punctuation Changed History
- Narrated by: David Timson
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 04-11-19
- Language: English
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- Written by: Aristotle
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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All effective debaters, whether they know it or not, employ Aristotle's 3 basic principles of effective argument that form the spine of Rhetoric. In Poetics, Aristotle draws a dramatic distinction between poetry and history. This collection also includes Aristotle's body of work that has come to be identified as Logic.
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Rhetoric, Poetics and Logic
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release Date: 05-10-99
- Language: English
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- Written by: Christopher R. Fee
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
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The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. Now, this series invites you to explore your heritage from an unconventional angle: through the origin and development of the English language. Leading your expedition is Christopher R. Fee, an award-winning professor and medievalist whose expertise spans Old English, Old Norse, and historical linguistics. With flair and gusto, he draws from this well of knowledge to help you trace the evolution of English across a fascinating range of cultures.
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The History of English: The Biography of a Language
- Narrated by: Christopher R. Fee
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release Date: 24-04-19
- Language: English
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Around the World in 80 Words
- A Journey Through the English Language
- Written by: Paul Anthony Jones
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is a must-listen for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world - if you know where to look.
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Around the World in 80 Words
- A Journey Through the English Language
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 01-09-20
- Language: English
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold History of English
- Written by: John McWhorter
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
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A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar. Why do we say "I am reading a catalog" instead of "I read a catalog"? Why do we say "do" at all? Is the way we speak a reflection of our cultural values? Delving into these provocative topics and more, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue distills hundreds of years of fascinating lore into one lively history.
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Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue
- The Untold History of English
- Narrated by: John McWhorter
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release Date: 03-11-09
- Language: English
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Say Ask Do JESUS Conversations
- Written by: Will B Randolph
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Say What JESUS Said Ask What JESUS Asked Do What JESUS Did Luke 24:17; Luke 24:44 NKJVPray What JESUS Prayed Luke 11:1-13 Learning To Make A New Life In Christ JESUS Messiah John 6:63 John 10:10 Journey With JESUSExhort With JESUSServe With JESUSUnite With JESUSSave With JESUSLearning To Make A New Life In Christ JESUS Messiah John 6:63 John 10:10
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Written by: Michael Erard
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
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We all learn at least one language as children. But what does it take to learn six languages...or seventy? In Babel No More, Michael Erard, "a monolingual with benefits," sets out on a quest to meet language superlearners and make sense of their mental powers. On the way he uncovers the secrets of historical figures like Italian cardinal Giuseppe Mezzofanti, who was said to speak seventy-two languages; Emil Krebs, a pugnacious German diplomat, who spoke sixty-eight languages; and Lomb Kat, a Hungarian who taught herself Russian by reading Russian romance novels.
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Babel No More
- The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners
- Narrated by: Robert Blumenfeld
- Length: 9 hrs and 3 mins
- Release Date: 03-06-13
- Language: English
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Lost English
- Words and Phrases that have Vanished from Our Language
- Written by: Chris Roberts
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
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Would you receive a ‘char and a wad’ with a grateful smile? If asked to take a ‘dekko’, would you be offended? And if spotted reading the ‘yellow press’, would you be embarrassed?The meaning of these and many other intriguing phrases are defined, and their loss lamented, in this wonderfully nostalgic look at how language has changed over the past few decades.
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Lost English
- Words and Phrases that have Vanished from Our Language
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 4 hrs and 13 mins
- Release Date: 02-07-10
- Language: English
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