Language History

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    • The Story of How We Came to Talk
    • By: Sverker Johansson, Frank Perry - translator
    • Narrated by: Richard Burnip
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 69 ratings
    • Drawing on evidence from many fields, including archaeology, anthropology, neurology and linguistics, Sverker Johansson weaves these disparate threads together to show how our human ancestors evolved into language users....

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    • How the Mind Creates Language
    • By: Steven Pinker
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 18 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-12-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • In this classic, the world’s expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language....

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    • Palestine, Israel, and the Search for Justice
    • By: Raja Shehadeh
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 18-12-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • When conflicts become entrenched over generations, the language of war infiltrates everyday life, concealing destruction and hardening positions. Nowhere is this truer than in the Middle East....

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    • French Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach
    • By: Paul Noble
    • Narrated by: Paul Noble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 31-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,481 ratings
    • No books. No long lists of vocabulary. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently....

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    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Mankind has a distinct advantage over other terrestrial species: we talk to one another. But how did we acquire the most advanced form of communication on Earth? Find out more....

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    • The Untold Story of English
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 03-11-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • A survey of the quirks and quandaries of the English language, focusing on our strange and wonderful grammar....

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    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • With a language disappearing every two weeks and neologisms springing up almost daily, an understanding of the origins and currency of language has never seemed more relevant....

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    • By: A. C. Grayling
    • Narrated by: Neil Gardner
    • Length: 28 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity....

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    • How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
    • By: David W. Anthony
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 18 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 11-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Learn more in this audiobook....

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    • The Story and Science of the Reading Brain
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 8 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 26-08-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • This ambitious and provocative new book offers an impassioned look at reading....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
    • By: David Edmonds
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 23-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps....

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    • What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Smart as hell and funny as f--k, What the F is mandatory listening for anyone who wants to know how and why we swear....

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    • Learn Spanish the Fun Way with Topics That Matter
    • By: Olly Richards
    • Narrated by: David McNeill, Violeta Moran
    • Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 15-06-21
    • Language: Spanish
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Improve your Spanish, and expand your vocabulary with topics that matter. When it comes to mastering a foreign language, listening around your interests makes all the difference. But finding books designed for language learners can be hard! This book fixes that....

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    • A Journey Through the English Language
    • By: Paul Anthony Jones
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Surprising, entertaining, and illuminating, this is a must-listen for armchair travelers and word nerds. Our dictionaries are full of hidden histories, tales, and adventures from all over the world - if you know where to look....

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    • A Day in the Life of the English Language
    • By: Simon Horobin
    • Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 14-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Simon Horobin takes the listener on a journey through a typical day, showing how the words we use to describe routine activities - getting up, going to work, eating meals - have surprisingly fascinating histories....

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    • 202 Idioms, Phrases, Sayings & Facts! A Brief History on Where They Come From!
    • By: Scott Matthews
    • Narrated by: Mandy Grant-Grierson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But if you were to take a moment to step back and learn about them, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover the mesmerizing and sometimes bizarre origins to these fun sayings....

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    • How Humans Evolved Through Fire, Language, Beauty, and Time
    • By: Gaia Vince
    • Narrated by: Gaia Vince
    • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • What enabled us to go from simple stone tools to smartphones? Listeners of Sapiens will say a cognitive revolution caused a cultural explosion. In Transcendence, Gaia Vince argues that we are the product of a nuanced coevolution of our genes, environment, and culture....

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    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: William Roberts
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 16-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,417 ratings
    • In Made in America, Bryson de-mythologizes his native land....

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