I Speak Your Language
Episodes
Ep. 10 Season 1 WRAPPED!
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kadi looks back on Season 1, shares a few lessons, thanks listeners and guests, and gives a small preview of what’s ahead for I Speak Your Language.
Ep. 9 “Babies can sign before they can talk” Dr. Garcia on pre-speech sign language
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kadi sits down with Dr. Joseph Garcia, researcher, educator, and early advocate for using sign language with babies, to explore how i...
Ep. 8 “Our Brain Is Always Predicting What We Hear” Dr Matt Davis on the Science of Listening
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kadi is joined by cognitive neuroscientist Dr Matt Davis (University of Cambridge) to explore how we understand speech, even when it ...
Ep. 7 From ‘Selfie’ to ‘Brain Rot’: Inside the Oxford English Dictionary
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kadi sits down with Fiona McPherson, Executive Editor in the New Words team at the Oxford English Dictionary, for a behind-the-scenes look at how the ...
Ep. 6 Leeds City of Languages: Celebrating Multilingualism and Community
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode of I Speak Your Language, produced in celebration of and collaboration with Leeds City of Languages, Kadi is joined by Dr. Sof...
Ep. 5 “Start with What You Know... and Make the Rest Up” Amina Atiq on Art & Activism
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Kadi speaks with poet and performer Amina Atiq about memory, radical joy, and what it means to create from a place of both inheritanc...
Ep. 4 “A City With No Linguistic Majority” with Brussels’ Minister of Multilingualism Sven Gatz
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this special episode, Kadi speaks with Sven Gatz, Brussels Minister for Multilingualism, about what it means to build language policy in one of the...
Ep. 3 "Even on the Phone, You Are Still Gesturing" The language of gesture with Dr. Lauren Gawne
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, linguist Dr. Lauren Gawne joins Kadi to explore how gestures shape the way we communicate, often without us even realising it. From m...
Ep. 2 “It’s Not Dumbing Down, It’s Wising Up” Why Plain Language Matters with Dr. Deborah Bosley
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What happens when life-changing information is written in a way no one understands?In this episode, Kadija speaks with Dr. Deborah Bosley, an internat...
Ep. 1 "Everybody Has an Accent" with Prof. Rob Drummond
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we all have an accent? And why do some people face bias because of theirs? Sociolinguist Prof. Rob Drummond joins Kadija to explore how accents...