15 Best Linguistics Podcasts

1. Slate Debates

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A podcast that explores language and plays with it. Linguist Nicole Holliday and Wall Street Journal language columnist Ben Zimmer discuss the ways language is changing, talk to scholars and writers, and set and solve word puzzles.MORE Producer/Network Slate Podcasts
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 1.4MTwitter 1.6MInstagram 87.6K Frequency 5 ep/month Avg Length 46 min Since Feb 2012 Get Email Contact Get Influential Podcasters ContactsGet access to 100k active Podcasters, Influencers in 1500 niche categories.Get targeted media contact list in your niche at your fingertips so you can focus on running your campaign.Email us the categories of Podcasters you want to reach out for your marketing campaign at anuj@feedspot.com Copy email. We'll share active Podcasters list with verified email contacts in an Excel or CSV format.Email us

2. A Way with Words

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A Way with Words is a fun and funny radio show and podcast about language. Co-hosts Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett talk with callers from around the world about linguistics, new words, grammar and much more.MORE Producer/Network Hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett. Produced by Stefanie Levine.
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Apple Rating 4.6/5Facebook 115.1KTwitter 29.1K Frequency 1 ep/week Avg Length 54 min Since Aug 2007 Get Email Contact

3. The Allusionist

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Adventures in language with Helen Zaltzman. TheAllusionist.org
Host Helen Zaltzman
Producer/Network Helen Zaltzman
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 14.2KTwitter 18.7KInstagram 6.4K Frequency 2 ep/month Avg Length 46 min Since Jan 2015 Video Podcast YouTube
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4. Talk the Talk

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Talk the Talk podcast is hosted by Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skarsgard. This weekly show is about linguistics, the science of language.
Producer/Network Daniel Midgley, Ben Ainslie, and Hedvig Skirgård
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 51Twitter 7Instagram 455 Frequency 1 ep/week Avg Length 115 min Since Nov 2010 Get Email Contact

5. Bunny Trails: A Word History Podcast

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Welcome to our whimsical adventure of idioms and other turns of phrase. Each week, we delve into the origins of phrases to find out how they came into the English language. We tell the story of the phrase from its beginnings to where it is today. Shauna and Dan are two big nerds, so expect some geek culture references, random trivia facts, and loads of laughs!MORE Producer/Network Shauna Harrison, Dan Pugh
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Apple Rating 4.7/5Facebook 52Twitter 497 Frequency 1 ep/week Avg Length 31 min Get Email Contact

6. Lingthusiasm

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Listened to all the episodes here and wish there were more. Want to talk with other people who are enthusiastic about linguistics?
Hosts Gretchen McCulloch, Lauren Gawne
Producer/Network Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 4.2KTwitter 22.7KInstagram 5.7K Frequency 1 ep/month Avg Length 44 min Video Podcast YouTube
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7. EN CLAIR

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A podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, language mysteries, spy codes, criminal slang, fake news, lie-detection, rare book heists and more!
Producer/Network Dr Claire Hardaker
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 2.5K Frequency 2 ep/week Avg Length 41 min Since Dec 2018 Get Email Contact

8. Conlangery Podcast

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Conlangery is a fortnightly podcast focused on conlanging and the conlanging community. Each episode focuses on either linguistics or creative process topic, or a featured language (natural or constructed). We also put out short episodes on topics that don't warrant a whole hour of gabbing.MORE Producer/Network Conlangery Podcast
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 660Twitter 1.3K Frequency 1 ep/quarter Avg Length 46 min Since May 2011 Get Email Contact

9. The Vocal Fries

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The podcast about linguistic discrimination. Learn about how we judge other people's speech as a sneaky way to be racist, sexist, classist, etc. Carrie and Megan teach you how to stop being an accidental jerk.MORE Producer/Network The Vocal Fries
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 588Twitter 7.6KInstagram 613 Frequency 1 ep/month Since Jul 2017 Get Email Contact

10. The History of English Podcast

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The Spoken History of a Global Language. Kevin Stroud presents the History of English Podcast for word lovers and history buffs.
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Facebook 460Twitter 11.1K Frequency 1 ep/quarter Avg Length 76 min Since Jun 2012 Video Podcast YouTube
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11. Multilinguish

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Not multilingual, but language-curious? Explore how language connects us all from the producers at the language-learning app Babbel. In season 1, we dig into unsolved linguistic mysteries, sexist robots, the best travel advice you've never heard, if language affects our worldview, which accents are sexist, and more!MORE Producer/Network Babbel USA
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 1.6MTwitter 3.4K Since Feb 2019 Get Email Contact

12. Words for Granted

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Words for Granted is a podcast that looks at how words change over time. Host Ray Belli uses linguistic evolution as a way of understanding larger historical and cultural changes.
Producer/Network Ray Belli
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 563Twitter 1.2K Frequency 1 ep/year Avg Length 26 min Since Jun 2016 Get Email Contact

13. Slavstvuyte!

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A podcast for everyone who is fascinated by Slavic languages
Host Dina Stankovic
Producer/Network Dina Stankovic
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Apple Rating 5/5Twitter 244Instagram 2K Frequency 2 ep/year Avg Length 13 min Since Dec 2020 Get Email Contact

14. Accentricity

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Why do we love some accents and hate others? Why do we talk differently in different situations? Does learning a new language really teach you to think differently? In this linguistics podcast, she examines how the way we talk connects to who we are.MORE Producer/Network Sadie Ryan
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 357Twitter 1.4KInstagram 245 Get Email Contact

15. Field Notes

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Field Notes is a podcast about linguistic fieldwork hosted by Martha Tsutsui Billins. Field Notes aims to share the stories of linguists doing fieldwork to document, describe, and understand how languages (especially endangered/minority languages) work!MORE Producer/Network Martha Tsutsui Billins
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Apple Rating 4.9/5Twitter 1.1K Frequency 5 ep/year Avg Length 39 min Get Email Contact