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L’été arrive, il fait 34 degrés à l’ombre, le trottoir colle, tu transpires, et soudain… surprise : t’as pas faim. Même pas un petit sandwich. Même pas une quiche froide. Même pas des frites. T’as juste envie d’un truc : un verre d’eau géant et un melon entier dans un frigo.Mais ... Show More

[SPONSORISÉ] Bienvenue dans Vous d’abord ! Un podcast créé pour la santé des femmes avant tout et pensé par les pharmaciens Aprium. Le mélanome est le cancer de la peau le plus grave, mais aussi l’un de ceux qu’on peut prévenir et traiter efficacement… à condition de le repérer à ... Show More

YouTube, aujourd’hui, c’est des milliards de vues, des tutos pour absolument tout, des clips surproduits, des conspirations lunaires, des gens qui crient “abonne-toi !” dans toutes les langues... Bref, c’est le deuxième site le plus visité du monde, après Google. Et ça tombe bien ... Show More

Almost half the people in the world speak at least two languages. And, it turns out, that includes a lot of But Why listeners! In this episode we talk about what it’s like to speak multiple languages and kids from around the world share phrases in many different languages so we c ... Show More

There are 7,000 languages spoken on Earth. What are the costs — and benefits — of our modern-day Tower of Babel? 

Every year several languages die out. Some people think that this is not important because life will be easier if there are fewer languages in the world. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this opinion?   a number of   become extinct  is lost the death of a language  th ... Show More

What is the strangest language in the world? Many linguists believe that all languages share certain universal rules and features. They believe that humans have innate or natural grammar that we are born with. However, there is a language from South America which is so strange an ... Show More

Ab wann kann man sagen, dass man eine Sprache spricht? 

❓What is the most difficult language to learn? The short answer? It depends! The difficulty of a language depends on a number of critical factors, 6 of which I share in this video. I also explain why certain languages tend to be more difficult than others, and why ONE language ha ... Show More

What goes on in the multilingual mind? And what does it mean to 'lose' your language? Author and linguist Julie Sedivy with a story of losing – and re-discovering – her native language. 

What makes some languages harder to learn than others? In this episode, we attempt to entangle the objective factors - as to why a language is complex - from the subjective ones. We also dedicate a section to talking about our experiences with those languages which we traditional ... Show More

We discuss love languages, what are they, are they real and where did the idea come from? We also talk about recent research done by Hinge on the most common love languages and the modified quiz which now includes two additional love languages.See omnystudio.com/listener for priv ... Show More

Where did language come from? Is it possible to know without traveling back in time? And how do babies learn to speak? Plus: We’ll hear how the word “silly” has evolved over the last several hundred years.