A personal musing about estrangement and its effects on language, cultural identity, and the meaning of home. (more)

The origins of Geekspeak lie in a 1995 artist residency Pamela Z participated in at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. (more)

For nearly a thousand years the Hopi people of Arizona have lived on the same three mesas and for all that time they’ve spoken the Hopi language. But now elders and youth alike say the language is dying. (more)

"Cicatrix" resonates in regenerative acts, resiliency, rootedness, and irreparably damaged nerves as it tries to imagine one woman's language of war. (more)

Three stories in French: poison, horrible cookies and a cannibal. (more)

Bing Fu is an ESL teacher in Toronto, and she tells her story about misunderstanding a word in spite of looking it up in the dictionary. (more)

A conversation with my four-year-old son about what would be his favourite dinner and what flavours he would like in it. (more)

How to prepare the best English class in Paris. (more)

Hearing Voices is a compelling and adventurous exploration of languages on the verge of extinction. (more)

Louise tries to teach me singing, and Philip speaks about silence and writing. (more)

Three Franco-Americans in Maine still have an appetite for their culture's humble cuisine, which isn't esteemed like fancy French food. (more)

From visceral empathy to intellectual understanding to emotional compassion, find out how you can realize that far-off, poverty-stricken, deathly ill, brown people are your neighbors, too. (more)

Elsie Vaalbooi was the last speaker of !Auni, the ancient language of South Africa's first peoples. Producer Siven Maslamoney tells the story of how languages die and how Elsie's people have been driven to extinction. (more)

Daily life can be tough for a foreigner living in Japan but luckily Ueko and Hitomi, my neighbors from down the road, are always on hand to offer advice....even when it involves a missing pair of yellow shorts. (more)

What would it be like if, in addition to our native languages, we could communicate across cultures in a neutral second language? (more)

This hour: looking for the intangible. What's lost and what might be found.
Co-produced by Jacob Anderson. (more)