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  • The Bonjour Effect Audiobook By Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau cover art

    • The Bonjour Effect

    • The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
    • By: Julie Barlow, Jean-Benoit Nadeau
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • Julie and Jean-Benoît explain why, culturally and historically, conversation with the French is not about communicating or being nice. It's about being interesting....

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  • At the Back of the North Wind Audiobook By George MacDonald cover art

    • At the Back of the North Wind

    • By: George MacDonald
    • Narrated by: Flo Gibson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 163 ratings
    • This is the story of the mystical travels of Diamond, a coachman's son, through distant lands and strange events while riding on the back of the beautiful North Wind....

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  • Reader, Come Home Audiobook By Maryanne Wolf cover art

    • Reader, Come Home

    • The Reading Brain in a Digital World
    • By: Maryanne Wolf
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 151 ratings

    • From the author of Proust and the Squid, a lively, ambitious, and deeply informative epistolary book that considers the future of the reading brain and our capacity for critical thinking, empathy, and reflection as we become increasingly dependent on digital technologies....

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  • The Bilingual Brain Audiobook By Albert Costa, John W. Schwieter - translator cover art

    • The Bilingual Brain

    • And What It Tells Us About the Science of Language
    • By: Albert Costa, John W. Schwieter - translator
    • Narrated by: Luis Soto
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings

    • How do two languages coexist in the same brain? Why is it possible to forget a language? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? Over half of the world's population is bilingual, and yet this fascinating, complex ability is understood by few....

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  • Plato's Meno Audiobook By Plato cover art

    • Plato's Meno

    • By: Plato
    • Narrated by: Ray Childs
    • Length: 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 106 ratings
    • A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? Listen to find out....

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  • Pinocchio Audiobook By Carlo Collodi cover art

    • Pinocchio

    • By: Carlo Collodi
    • Narrated by: Stephen Mangan
    • Length: 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • When Geppetto makes a wooden puppet of a little boy, he is astonished when the puppet comes to life....

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  • Talking Back, Talking Black Audiobook By John McWhorter cover art

    • Talking Back, Talking Black

    • Truths About America's Lingua Franca
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 4 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 351 ratings

    • Linguists have been studying Black English as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound "Black"....

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  • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language Audiobook By David W. Anthony cover art

    • The Horse, the Wheel, and Language

    • 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: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 683 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 Origins of English Words Audiobook By Joseph Twadell Shipley cover art

    • The Origins of English Words

    • A Discursive Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
    • By: Joseph Twadell Shipley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 36 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • There are no direct records of the original Indo-European speech. By comparing the vocabularies of its various descendants, however, it is possible to reconstruct the basic Indo-European roots with considerable confidence....

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  • The Language Hoax Audiobook By John H. McWhorter cover art

    • The Language Hoax

    • Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language
    • By: John H. McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 469 ratings
    • This short, opinionated audiobook addresses the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which argues that the language we speak shapes the way we perceive the world....

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  • Nine Nasty Words Audiobook By John McWhorter cover art

    • Nine Nasty Words

    • English in the Gutter: Then, Now, and Forever
    • By: John McWhorter
    • Narrated by: John McWhorter
    • Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 946 ratings

    • Language evolves with time, and so does what we consider profane or unspeakable. Nine Nasty Words is a rollicking examination of profanity, explored from every angle: historical, sociological, political, linguistic....

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  • The Story of English in 100 Words Audiobook By David Crystal cover art

    • The Story of English in 100 Words

    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: David Crystal
    • Length: 7 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 271 ratings
    • In this unique new history of the world's most ubiquitous language, linguistics expert David Crystal takes us along the winding byways of language via the rude, the obscure, and the downright surprising....

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  • The Essential Chomsky Audiobook By Noam Chomsky, Anthony Arnove - editor cover art

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  • A Little Book of Language Audiobook By David Crystal cover art

    • A Little Book of Language

    • By: David Crystal
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Series: Little Histories Series
    • Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 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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  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Audiobook By Kate Douglas Wiggin cover art

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  • How Language Began Audiobook By Daniel L. Everett cover art

    • How Language Began

    • The Story of Humanity's Greatest Invention
    • By: Daniel L. Everett
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 13 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 304 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 Code Book Audiobook By Simon Singh cover art

    • The Code Book

    • The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
    • By: Simon Singh
    • Narrated by: Patty Nieman
    • Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

    • In his first book since the best-selling Fermat's Enigma, Simon Singh offers the first sweeping history of encryption, tracing its evolution and revealing the dramatic effects codes have had on wars, nations, and individual lives....

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  • Barry Lyndon Audiobook By William Makepeace Thackeray cover art

    • Barry Lyndon

    • By: William Makepeace Thackeray
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Like Tom Jones before him, Barry Lyndon is one of the most lively and roguish characters in English literature....

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  • Louder Than Words Audiobook By Benjamin K. Bergen cover art

    • Louder Than Words

    • The New Science of How the Mind Makes Meaning
    • By: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Narrated by: Benjamin K. Bergen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 01-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Whether it’s brusque, convincing, fraught with emotion, or dripping with innuendo, language is fundamentally a tool for conveying meaning....

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  • Like, Literally, Dude Audiobook By Valerie Fridland cover art

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