Canguro English

Canguro English presents a podcast about language for people learning languages.

Play

Open in

22 episodes
weekly
Avg 1 hr 6 min
English

Episodes 22

Newest Oldest Longest

All20 Unplayed20 In progress0 Played0

Counted on this page — what you have heard stays on this device, so it is not something the list can be paged by.

S3 · E11
August 20 · 51 min
Word Routes 004
Join Christian and Matt as they take a surprising word journey from a sausage to a wedding.
S3 · E10
August 13 · 1 hr 26 min
Ask Canguro 003
Join Christian and Matt as they answer listener questions. Today's big question: How many English words should we know to speak fluently?
S3 · E9
August 6 · 1 hr 27 min
Canguro in the Wild 003
Join Christian and Matt as they rank the top five nouns, verbs, and multi-word constructions from a heartfelt poem about a dog.
S3 · E8
July 30 · 47 min
Word Routes 003
Join Christian and Matt as they take a surprising word journey from a wife to the Louvre.
S3 · E7
July 23 · 1 hr 19 min
Ask Canguro 002
Join Christian and Matt as they answer listener questions. Today's big question: Is grammar important?
S3 · E6
July 16 · 1 hr 16 min
Ask Canguro 001
Join Christian and Matt as they answer listener questions. Today's big question: How to move passive vocabulary into active vocabulary!
S3 · E5
July 9 · 1 hr 30 min
Canguro in the Wild 002
Join Christian and Matt as they rank the top five multi-word constructions, cultural references, and medical words from a famous Steve Jobs speech.
S3 · E4
July 2 · 1 hr 34 min
Canguro in the Wild 001
Join Christian and Matt as they rank the top five adjectives, verbs, and phrasal verbs from a famous Steve Jobs speech.
S3 · E3
June 25 · 47 min
Word Routes 002
Join Christian and Matt on an exciting journey through English vocabulary from horse to helicopter.
S3 · E2
June 19 · 46 min
Word Routes 001
Join Christian and Matt on an exciting journey through English vocabulary from mouse to chef.
S3 · E1
June 17 · 20 min
The podcast is back!
The Canguro English podcast is back! In this episode you will learn about why the podcast stopped, why it's returning, and what you can expect in the future. See you in class!
Jul 13, 2021 · 1 hr 21 min
Accent and identity (with Erik Singer)
If you know me and my work then you know that I talk a lot about identity, and especially how your accent is a big part of your identity: your accent tells the story of your life. But if you do want to change your accent, or improve your pronunciation, how do you do it? Recently I had the pleasure of talking to someone with expert answers to that question: Erik Singer, a dialect coach who helps film and television actors to speak with an accent that is not their native accent, and because of this he knows exactly what it takes mentally and physically to change the way you speak. In this interview we talk about how to change your accent, the best ways to practice, but more importantly if and why you should try to ‘speak like a native’. I hope you enjoy it.
Jun 13, 2021 · 1 hr 4 min
The state of modern linguistics | The Story of Language | Bonus episode
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this bonus episode we talk about the state of modern linguistics, including the effects of the replication crisis, scientific fraud, Anglocentrism, and how the underappreciated work of Charles Sanders Peirce might offer a universal theory of how language works.
Jun 6, 2021 · 1 hr 7 min
Embodied cognition | The Story of Language | Episode 12
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we discuss embodied cognition and the uncontroversial fact that the brain is an organ of the body, which then leads to the very controversial conclusion that our brain is no more important than our skin, and that imagining the world as if you had eyes in your toes can lead to some revolutionary new thinking.
May 30, 2021 · 1 hr 31 min
Dark matter of the mind | The Story of Language | Episode 11
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we discuss the content of Dan’s book Dark Matter of the Mind, which lays out Dan’s theory of culture. The book contains bold statements as ‘brains do not learn’ and ‘science is NOT pure rational thought’, but after this conversation you might change your mind about the raw power of viewing the world from the perspective of Dark Matter.
May 16, 2021 · 1 hr 16 min
The cognitive revolution | The Story of Language | Episode 10
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about the cognitive revolution, and whether the revolution really exists at all. We discuss the beginnings and the state of the art of the study of cognition and show why it’s important to celebrate all discoveries as progress, even if they are doomed to failure.
May 2, 2021 · 1 hr
Endangered languages | The Story of Language | Episode 9
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about endangered languages. I ask why languages are important, what is lost when a language disappears, the cultural and economic factors behind language loss, and the truth about the best way to stop languages from disappearing.
Apr 18, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
Language acquisition | The Story of Language | Episode 8
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about the big questions in language acquisition. Is there a Language Acquisition Device? Is language learned or innate? How does child learning differ from adult learning? Should syntax be the basis for language analysis? And are humans really the only things on the planet with language, or do other animals have it too?
Apr 4, 2021 · 1 hr 5 min
Metaphor in language | The Story of Language | Episode 7
Welcome to The Story of Language: an original podcast series about language, linguistics, cognition, and culture. In this episode we talk about the fundamental role of metaphor in language, from its involvement in the creation and evolution of language to its role in the modern understanding of language through the work of Lakoff and Johnson, and the study of semiotics.
Dec 1, 2020 · 1 hr 15 min
Learn English with a dictionary (with Peter Sokolowski)
People are passionate about language, especially language change, and words matter. And nobody knows this better Peter Sokolowski, who is an editor at the Merriam-Webster dictionary, one of the most famous and most trusted dictionaries in the world. Peter has spent his life immersed in words and their meanings, and all the complications that come along with that work. In this interview we talk about the role of the dictionary, standard and non-standard English, language and culture, how to learn English with a dictionary, and how dictionaries are a sign of human agreement, and sometimes profound disagreement.

Showing 1–20 of 22 episodes