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Shame (w/ Gunda Windmüller & Mithu Sanyal)
Content note: This episode contains words and discussions relating to genitals.The words we use to describe parts of our bodies are often reflective of how we feel about these body parts. At the same…
Der Konjunktiv (w/ Verena Hofstätter)
“Words are not just words. We do things with words.” And among the things we can do with words is express our attitude towards something. We can say things in a certain way to express it as a fact,…
German is a drag (w/ Sassica Rabbit & Ryta Tale)
NOTE: In this episode, I say the following: "In simple terms, an AFAB queen is a cisgender woman who does drag as a drag queen." While AFAB queens are very often cisgender women, and the term is…
S2E12 An American in Germany (w/ Dana Newman)
Moving to a new country and starting a new life there is no small undertaking. There are some major changes that you can foresee, like having to get used to a new language, but there are so many…
S2E11 South Tyrolean (w/ Richard Bonomo)
South Tyrol is an autonomous, majority German-speaking region in Italy bordering Austria and Switzerland. It's one of the few places outside of Germany, Austria and Switzerland where German is an…
S2E10 German idioms (w/ Vanessa Krebs)
This episode is all about idioms in German! We look at a few German expressions, what they mean and where they come from. What does it mean if you plant someone, if you leave the church in the…
S2E9 Corporate Code (w/ Martin Dunkl)
How can corporate language contribute to a company’s brand? Why do companies often have at least two different voices that they use to speak to the same customers? And how can organisations deal with…
S2E8 First names (w/ Frauke Rüdebusch)
How do people choose a first name for their child in Germany and Austria? What rules are there which determine the names that are allowed? And why has ‘Kevin’ become such an unpopular first name?In…
S2E7 Language, dialect & identity (w/ Katie Resch)
How much does a language constitute one’s identity? Are you a different person when you speak a different language, or even a different dialect? If you speak multiple languages and dialects, which…
S2E6 Does German bark? (w/ François Conrad)
Harsh. Angry. Rough. These are words that are often used to describe how German sounds. But why do many people have this impression? What about the German language makes it sound so hard? And does…
S2E4 Austrians Learning English (w/ Tanja & Sophie)
This podcast is normally all about German, but in this episode we're switching things around. This time it's all about English! What is English like as seen through the eyes of a native speaker of…
S2E3 Texas German (w/ Hans C. Boas)
Texas German is a peculiar and endangered dialect, and time is running out to research it. What is this variety, and how did it come to be? What do Texas German speakers sound like? And what efforts…
S2E2 The NoNa System (w/ Jona Moro & Noah Frank)
What does it take to create a brand-new, gender-neutral grammar system for German? What do you have to consider when coming up with new language forms? And what is it like to be non-binary while…
S2E1 Queer German (w/ Kai Witvrouwen)
Why are there so many anglicisms used in German in the context of talking about the queer community? Is there an equivalent of the singular they in German for non-binary people? And what’s the…
S1 Series 1 extra bits
Here are some extra bits from series 1 that didn't make it into the original episodes! We talk about how Vienna's rubbish bins communicate with us, what Germanism Lisa Simpson has on her bedroom…
S1E8 Home (w/ Sarah Heinz)
What is the difference between 'Heimat' and 'Zuhause'? Do German speakers think of 'home' differently than English speakers? And what do 'secrets' have to do with 'home'? In this final episode of…
S1E7 The Duden (w/ Manfred Glauninger)
The Duden is undoubtedly the most widely-used, well-known, and prestigious dictionary in the German speaking world, and since its inception, it has grown to include many other kinds of reference…
S1E6 ß (Eszett) (w/ Frauke Rüdebusch)
The symbol "ß" (Eszett, scharfes "s") is one of the few things that are truly unique about German. But what is it exactly? How do you pronounce it? And how did it come to exist? In this episode I…
S1E5 Germanisms in English (w/ Robb Knapp)
English has a great number of foreign words and loan words in its vast vocabulary, with many of them coming from German. Some of these are more obviously German in origin, like pretzel or zeitgeist,…
S1E4 Gender in German (w/ Maria Pober)
German is a gender language, which means that all nouns have a grammatical gender, these being feminine, masculine, and neuter in German. This makes it very tricky to be fully gender-inclusive or…
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