This is the homepage for my linguistics podcast, A Language I Love Is…, a show about languages, linguistics and love! Each episode ALILI takes its listeners on a deep dive into the world of one particular language, expertly guided by one expert who loves it.
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LATEST EPISODE: 31st December 2025:
Italian and Sophia Smith Galer
As 2025 ticks out its final hours, here’s one last episode of ALILI for the year, and it’s buonissimo! Journalist, author, content creator and linguist Sophia Smith Galer joins me to share the love for Italian. Our conversation has a focus on the sociolinguistic dynamics of Italian, namely how this national language fits into the lives of speakers up and down the peninsula, and how it might be harming the other languages of Italy in the process. Sophia also shares her personal relationship with Italian, as a ‘heritage language’ of hers that she is now working to promote in London.
Link to the episode on different podcasting platforms: https://pod.link/1703401848/episode/Njk1NTE4NTE1ZjliMGI2MWFhYTgyMWZl
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Italian and Sophia Smith Galer – A Language I Love Is…
As 2025 ticks out its final hours, here’s one last episode of ALILI for the year, and it’s buonissimo! Journalist, author, content creator and linguist Sophia Smith Galer joins me to share the love for Italian. Our conversation has a focus on the sociolinguistic dynamics of Italian, namely how this national language fits into the lives of speakers up and down the peninsula, and how it might be harming the other languages of Italy in the process. Sophia also shares her personal relationship with Italian, as a ‘heritage language’ of hers that she is now working to promote in London.Support the language-loving mission by joining the ALILI Patreon here: patreon.com/ALanguageILoveIsSophia’s splendid website: https://www.sophiasmithgaler.com/Pre-order How to Kill a Language here: https://www.sophiasmithgaler.com/how-to-kill-a-language Sample of Italian (by speaker Sebastiano) from here: https://wikitongues.org/videos/sebastiano_20131103_ita/Host: Dr. Danny BateGuest: Sophia Smith GalerAudio Mixing and Mastering: Jeremiah McPaddenMusic: Acoustic Guitar by William KingArtwork: Willow Marler Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Danny L. Bate 
I’ve been listening to ALILI for a while now and even though I haven’t yet made it through all episodes, it’s safe to say that I’ve been loving every second of it. I’m not a huge podcast listener at all – ALILI is the only podcast I’ve ever genuinely enjoyed! I’ve been sharing it on multiple platforms hoping to pass on the linguistic joy you spread to other like-minded people. I would also like to use this comment section to humbly ask for an episode on Qazaq – that would be awesome. No pressure though! I would gladly listen to any episode about any language. Thank you so much for allowing me to learn so much through this podcast.
Best wishes from Hesse, Germany
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Thank you so, so much for supporting the show, and for letting me know! It’s comments like yours that keep me making it, and that’s a great suggestion. Many, many thanks.
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Hello! I’ve been listening to this podcast since December and I’ve made it through almost every episode! I really enjoy it, thank you. I can’t wait to hear about a Turkic language, or the language that I love most — Mongolian. Cheers
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Thank you so much for the support and suggestions!
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I highly recommend if you are interested in doing a Mongolian episode, that you might consider interviewing Khatantuul Baatarsukh (author of the aptly named Mongolian Grammar Textbook)! She’s available on Facebook here https://www.facebook.com/khatantuul.baatarsukh.info
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