Program #1: What's special about language?
Robert Rodman
Program #2: How many languages are there in the world?
Paul Lewis
Program #3: What was the original language?
Barry Hilton
Program #4: Do all languages come from the same source?
Allan Bomhard
Program #5: What is the "Year of Languages?"
Marty Abbott and Steve Ackley
Program #6: Where did English come from?
John Algeo
Program #7: Whatever happened to Esperanto?
E. Rickerson
Program #8: Is British English superior to ours?
Orin Hargraves
Program #9: Do all Southerners have the same dialect?
Walt Wolfram
Program #10: Is there a language crisis in America?
Catherine Ingold
Program #11: What does it take to learn a language well?
Nina Garrett
Program #12: What is the history of language study in the US?
June Phillips
Program #13: Do all Arabs speak the same language?
Jerry Lampe
Program #14: Is sign language a universal language?
Leila Monaghan
Program #15: Are dialects dying in the US?
Walt Wolfram
Program #16: Why do languages change?
John McWhorter
Program #17: Is pidgin English just bad English?
John Lipski
Program #18: Was German almost the language of America?
Nancy Nenno
Program #19: How do babies learn their mother tongue?
Roberta Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Program #20: Can monolingualism be cured?
Katie Sprang
Program #21: Why is Chinese so hard to learn?
Barry Hilton
Program #22: Should we teach languages in elementary schools?
Gladys Lipton
Program #23: Where did writing come from?
Peter T. Daniels
Program #24: What causes foreign accents?
Steven Weinberger
Program #25: How can you keep languages in a museum?
Amelia Murdoch
Program #26: How many native American languages are there?
Marianne Mithun
Program #27: Should we be studying Russian?
Ben Rifkin
Program #28: Does language influence the way we think?
Geoffrey Pullum
Program #29: How are dictionaries made?
Erin McKean
Program #30: What's Cajun and where did it come from?
Robyn Holman
Program #31: What's the "right" way to put words together?
Dennis Preston
Program #32: What's the future of Spanish in the US?
Maria Carreira
Program #33: When is a dialect really a separate language?
Tucker Childs
Program #34: Is Japanese related to Chinese?
Blaine Ericson
Program #35: Why are linguists interested in Icelandic?
Pardee Lowe
Program #36: Is Swahili the language of Africa?
Donald Osborn
Program #37: Why is language a national security issue?
Michael Erard
Program #38: Is each person's language unique?
Robert Rodman
Program #39: How good is machine translation?
David Savignac
Program #40: Why do we need translators if we have dictionaries?
Kevin Hendzel
Program #41: Who speaks what languages in the US?
David Goldberg
Program #42: Why study abroad?
Sheri Spaine Long
Program #43: How close is Portuguese related to Spanish?
Ana Maria Carvalho
Program #44: How Many Languages Can a Person Speak?
Michael Erard
Program #45: Is a slip of the tongue really a slip of the brain?
Hank Haarmann
Program #46: What is bilingualism?
Dora Johnson
Program #47: Why do languages die?
Chris Moseley
Program #48: Why revitalize a threatened language?
Akira Yamamoto
Program #48: Does anyone here speak Klingon?
Chris Moseley
Program #50: Why do people fight over language?
Paul Garrett
Program #51: Can you make a living loving language?
Richard Jackson
Program #52: What's the future of language research?
Rick Rickerson
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