101 Places To Get Enthusiastic About Linguistics

101 places to get enthusiastic about linguistics

In honour of Lingthusiasm's 100th episodiversary, we've compiled this list of 101 public-facing places where linguists and linguistics nerds hang out and learn things! 

17 podcasts about linguistics

Lingthusiasm — A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics! 

The Vocal Fries — Language discrimination and how to fight it

The History of English — From Proto-Indo-European to Shakespeare in 180 episodes (and still running!)

A Language I Love Is — Guests (some linguists, some not) talk about languages they love and why

En Clair — Forensic linguistics and literary detection

Because Language — New guests every episode discuss their linguistic interests

The Allusionist — Stories about language and the people who use it 

Subtitle — A podcast about languages and the people who speak them

Field Notes — Five seasons on linguistic fieldwork 

Tomayto Tomahto — Language meets cog sci, politics, history, law, anthropology, and more

Word of Mouth — A long-running and wide-ranging linguistics program on BBC 4.

Words Unravelled - A new and very well edited etymology podcast with popular creators RobWords and Jess Zafarris

Something Rhymes with Purple — Learn the background behind another word or phrase each episode

Lexitecture — A classic etymology podcast with a huge back catalogue

A Way with Words — A "lively and upbeat" public radio call-in show about language and culture

Språket — A radio program in Swedish answering listener questions about language. We don't speak Swedish, but this was the most-mentioned non-English content in our listener survey!

Living Voices — A podcast in Spanish about endangered languages of the Amazon

12 nonfiction books about linguistics

Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch (Amazon; Bookshop) — A linguist shows how the internet is transforming the way we communicate

How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning and Languages Live or Die (Amazon; Bookshop) by David Crystal — A journey through the different subsystems of language 

That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships by  Deborah Tannen (Amazon; Bookshop) — A pioneering researcher on conversations gives advice on how they can go wrong

Memory Speaks: On Losing and Reclaiming Language and Self by Julie Sedivy (Amazon; Bookshop) — Scientific and personal reflections on nostalgia, forgetting, and language loss

The Art of Language Invention: From Horse-Lords to Dark Elves to Sand Worms, the Words Behind World-Building by David J Peterson (Amazon; Bookshop) — an accessible guide to making your own conlang 

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme—And Other Oddities of the English Language by Arika Okrent (Amazon; Bookshop) — The history behind English's many oddities

Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell (Amazon; Bookshop) — A well-researched pushback on sexist language ideology

Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries by Kory Stamper (Amazon; Bookshop) — A lifelong lexicographer discusses the job and the things she's learned along the way 

Lingo: Around Europe in Sixty Languages by Gaston Dorren (Amazon; Bookshop) — A quick, funny tour of the quirks of 60 European languages

Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New by Felicity Meakins, Gari Tudor-Smith, and Paul Williams (Amazon; Bookshop) — The story of Australian indigenous languages' resistance and survival

Says Who?: A Kinder, Funner Usage Guide for Everyone Who Cares About Words by Anne Curzan (Amazon; Bookshop) — A writers' style and grammar guide focused on real usage, not made-up rules

The Language Lover's Puzzle Book: A World Tour of Languages and Alphabets in 100 Amazing Puzzles by Alex Bellos (Amazon; Bookshop) — Solve puzzles about writing, grammar, and meaning drawn from real and fictional languages

Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages (Amazon; Bookshop) — An anthology of poems in endangered languages, with commentary

6 linguistically-inspired novels

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang (Amazon; Bookshop) — Imagine a world where linguistics was as vital — and as ethically compromised — as engineering is in ours

True Biz by Sara Nović (Amazon; Bookshop) — Love, friendship, and struggle at a residential high school for the Deaf

Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by by Mark Dunn (Amazon; Bookshop) — "A progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable" full of wordplay and weirdness

Semiosis by Sue Burke (Amazon; Bookshop) — Human space colonists communicate with sentient plants

Translation State by Ann Leckie (Amazon; Bookshop) — What does life look like for a perfectly genetically engineered alien–human translator? (Spoiler: weird, that's what.)

Stories of your Life and Others by Ted Chiang (Amazon; Bookshop) — Includes the long short story that became Arrival, plus other reflections on humanity and change

13 linguistics youtube channels

Crash Course Linguistics — A whole linguistics course in 16 videos

Tom Scott's Language Files — Pithy language facts explained quickly and clearly

NativLang — Language reconstruction and the history of writing

Geoff Lindsay — Facts (and some scholarly opinions) about regional English pronunciation

The Ling Space — An educational channel all about linguistics

langfocus — A language factoid channel that digs deeper than many

K Klein — Language quirks, spelling reform, and a little conlanging

biblaridion — Teaching about conlanging and worldbuilding, with lots of linguistics along the way

RobWords — "A channel for lovers and learners of English"

Otherwords — "the fascinating, thought-provoking, and funny stories behind the words and sounds we take for granted"

LingoLizard — Widely spoken languages and their quirks, comparisons, and history

linguriosa — Spanish linguistics (in Spanish), including learning tips and linguistic history

human1011 — Quick accessible facts about linguistics (and sometimes other things) 

Simon Roper — Language evolution and historical English pronunciation

10 shortform video channels about linguistics (tiktok/reels)

etymologynerd — Internet speak, etymologies and more! (reels)

linguisticdiscovery — Writing systems, language families, and more (reels)

jesszafaris — Fun facts about words, etymologies, and more (reels)

cmfvoices — An audiobook director talks about the linguistics of voice acting (eels)

mixedlinguist — A linguistics professor comments on the language of place, identity, politics, technology, and more (reels)

landontalks — Linguistic quirks of the US South (reels)

sunnmcheaux — Language and culture from Harvard's first and only professor of Gullah (reels)

dexter.mp4 — Talks about many branches of science, but loves linguistics enough to have a linguisticsy tattoo (reels)

danniesbrain — Linguistics and psychology from a researcher who studies both (reels)

wordsatwork — Quick facts on languages, families, and linguistic concepts (reels)

the_language — The Ojibwe language — plus food, dancing, and more

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J’aime l’idée d’un crossover entre Saiki K et Death Note parce que j’imagine une scène avec Light et L à l’université dans un cours fairent leurs monologues longs sur si Light semble comme Kira et la caméra faire un zoom avant l’arrière de l’amphi où Saiki à dit mentalement «TAISEZ! VOUS!»

2 weeks ago

étonnant manteau!

Je me suis achetée un manteau pour mon retour en France ! (Et le froid snif snif)

Je Me Suis Achetée Un Manteau Pour Mon Retour En France ! (Et Le Froid Snif Snif)

Il est bien, chaud et a de grandes poches accessibles ! Et ne m'a coûté que 9€95. Vive le reconditonné !

Je me sens à l'aise dedans ! Genre. C'est assez large côté poitrine ET hanches ! (Très rare pour tous les manteaux essayés ici et en France.)

3 weeks ago

Niko parlerait avec Bakugo sur le shoujo. Kirishima et Charlie ses rapprocheraient sur le Crimson Riot.

Une autre crossover qui je vraiment désir est un univers parallèle de Dead Boy Detectives et BHNA où Kirishima et Niko sont des jumeaux avec des personnalités similaires et des esthétiques très différentes.

1 month ago

French Youtube Channels Rec 2025

Here are some French Youtube channels that were recommended by the lovely people that answered this post. I've tried to make some vague categories, based on the titles of the first videos I could find - don't quote me on any of that - I actually don't know the majority of these channels) (a special thanks to @myrmecomorphisme and @insertusernameici who listed quite a few and gave some extra descriptions, you can find their posts, in French : here and here ) @fillioxalyn was faster than me and made a great post in French with some recommendations : here Travel : - Bruno Maltor

Food/Cooking : - Whoogys

News/Politics/Sociology : - HugoDécrypte-Actus du jour, - HugoDécrypte - Grands formats ; - Clémovitch - Dave Sheik [history / geopolitics] - Grégoire Simpson [sociology] (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE)

History/ Archeology : - NotaBene (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - Bonelessarcheologie8221 [Prehistory and archaeology] - Histoires crépues [colonial history] - Histoire Appliquée - C'est une autre histoire (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - Les revues du monde

Linguistics : - Linguisticae

Entertainment : - Squeezie - theobabac

Lifestyle / Vlog / Make-up : - Lena situation - Gaelle Garcia Diaz - Marion Chameleon

Storytelling : - Thegreatreview (ENGLISH/FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - Babor Lelefan - Poisson Fécond

Science / Tech / Medicine / Biology : - GMilgram - Fantine et Hippocrate - Astronogeek - La Tronche en Biais - BaladeMentale - CedrikJurassik [Paleontology] - Faune cool [animals] - EGO [AI , computer science] (ENGLISH/FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - ici Amy Plant [computer science, hacking] - Fouloscopie

Culture / Movies / Dub / Music / Fantasy / SF : - Misterfox - Chronik Fiction - Durendal (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - LinksTheSun - LaSuitedeTrop - Notserious_s (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - SEB [Music industry] - misterjday - Ratelrock [reviews of horror films/franchises] - Nexus VI [SF] - Alt 236 - Occulture [occultism/fantasy] - Calmos

Litterature/Book review : - jeannot se livre - Qu'est ce qu'on lit ?

Video Games : - Joueur du Grenier, - Pseudoless1 [recent games /game design] (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - Ache [criticism, feminism and trans-identity in video games] (FRENCH SUB AVAILABLE) - Feldup


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3 weeks ago

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2 weeks ago

ENG→FRA & FRA→ENG translations

ENG->FRA/FRA->ENG Song translations

English: 
€0,05+ per word
Exact price to be determined depending on complexity
(Note: -10% for songs over 600 words)

Example:
250 words: €12,50+

Conditions:
Translations should be used with credit
Tips are appreciated
Payment via Ko-fi or PayPay only


Français :
0,05€+ par mot
Prix exact à déterminer en fonction de la complexité
(Note : -10% pour les chansons de plus de 600 mots)

Exemple :
250 mots : 12,50€+

Conditions :
Les traductions devront être créditées
Les pourboires sont appréciés
Paiement via Ko-fi ou PayPal uniquement

🇬🇧 ENGLISH:

I'm opening song translation commissions! Whether you're looking to add multilingual subtitles to your newest song, or to understand what that recent bop by your favourite Voca-P means: I'm your gal.

-> DM me on tumblr (aseriesofunfortunatejan), BlueSky (jadziajan) or Ko-fi (jadziajan) to determine pricing and payment method!

-> €0,05+ per word (exact price to be determined depending on complexity)

Conditions: Translations should be used with credit to jadziajan Tips are appreciated Payment via Ko-fi or PayPal I reserve the right to refuse any request I am uncomfortable with.

-> Are you interested in getting a translation for something other than a song? DM me! Pricing should be similar.

-> I am a native French speaker with C2-level (fluent) English proficiency and have been practicing amateur translating for roughly 5 years. Find some examples of my work here!

You guessed it: reblogs are highly appreciated. ヾ( ̄▽ ̄)

🇫🇷 FRANÇAIS : (sous la séparation par moindre popularité de la langue...)

J'ouvre mes commissions de traduction de chansons ! Que vous cherchiez à ajouter des sous-titre multilingues à votre dernière chansons, ou à comprendre ce que veut dire ce bop récent de votre Voca-P préféré-e : je suis la femme qu'il vous faut.

-> Envoyez moi un MP sur tumblr (aseriesofunfortunatejan), BlueSky (jadziajan) ou Ko-fi (jadziajan) pour déterminer les prix et moyen de paiement !

-> 5 centimes d'euro(+) par mot (prix exact à déterminer en fonction de la complexité)

Conditions: Les traductions devront être créditées à jadziajan Les pourboires sont appréciés Paiement via Ko-fi ou PayPal Je me réserve le droit de refuser tout requête qui me mette mal à l'aise.

-> Souhaitez-vous que je traduise autre chose qu'une chanson ? Envoyez-moi un MP! Les prix devraient être similaires.

-> Le français est ma langue natale, et je parle anglais couramment au niveau C2. Je pratique la traduction en amateur depuis environ 5 ans. Trouvez quelques exemples de mon travail ici !

2 months ago

For people learning French and wanting to speak it like a native, I’ll give you some tips, the things native people say (so you can sound less formal when you speak it).

“Je suis” is often shortened to “j’suis” and if we say it fast, it becomes “chuis”

“Tu es” and basically every verb with “tu” that starts with a vowel, we contract it and make it “t’es”, “t’arrives”, etc.

“il y a”, “il y avait” are most of the time shortened to (oral speech and when writing to a friend) “ya”, “y avait”

To make a question, it’s rare that we use the “est-ce que” form, we just take the affirmative sentence and put a question mark at the end : tu veux manger? (instead of : veux-tu manger?, est-ce que tu veux manger?)

Some abbreviations we often use :

bcp (beaucoup), mtn (maintenant), pk (pourquoi), tlm (tout le monde), mm (même), ptn (putain)

I know this post is probably useless but if you have any questions about french, ill be happy to answer them!

2 months ago
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"Rimes et comptines" est une base de données proposée par l'Institut Suisse jeunesse et médias pour la promotion des jeux avec les mots et de la lecture dès la plus tendre enfance, à destination des parents et des professionnels de la petite enfance.

Dans plus de 20 langues différentes, un millier de comptines sont présentées par genres ou thème. A noter qu'on peut également très facilement les télécharger pour les utiliser plus facilement avec un groupe d'enfants par exemple.

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J’utiliserai ce blog pour pratiquer mon français. Toute critique constructive est bienvenue. Désolé.e en avance pour ma grammaire. J’aime le manga, le judo, les sciences physiques, l’histoire, et la mythologie.

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