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What Are You Gonna Do with This Place?Listen now (7 min) | Learning a new language is learning a new way to map your thoughts.
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What exactly is the role of the word "the" in this common expression?
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What a Young Brain Can DoListen now (37 min) | It takes total immersion, typically from childhood, to truly learn a language.
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Plus, features of Black English that are rooted in white dialects.
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Apples Please MeListen now (5 min) | Do you like them?
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What Do You Talk?Listen now (29 min) | What a Broadway musical can teach us about the way we use language.
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Also, why do we say "hold on tight" — shouldn't it be "tightly"?
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Yo!Listen now (5 min) | The interjection made famous by Rocky Balboa may be older than you think.
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The Problem With YouListen now (29 min) | English no longer draws a distinction between its second person pronouns — not officially anyway — yet we keep trying to draw it…
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Rodney Dangerfield ReduxListen now (5 min) | An odd quirk of grammar arises independently in languages all around the world.
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The Rodney Dangerfield PronounListen now (34 min) | In language, redundancy opens up possibilities.
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