# Gaston Dorren

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Chocolate Gravy - 5 December 2016

Say you have an acquaintance you always see at the dog park or the playground. But one night, you run into them at the movies, and for a moment, it’s confusing. Is there a word for that disorienting sense of someone or something being out of place? Yes! Plus: the term sea change doesn’t have to do …

Electronic Wireless Show Ep 83 - Journeys of discovery

Let's chat about games about discovery! Matthew likes the oceans and scoundrels of Sea of Thieves. Alice B likes finding things in the smaller locale of Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture. And Brendan enjoys getting his flippers wet in Subnautica. But we’ve been playing some games that fit the theme …

Around the World in 20 Languages with Gaston Dorren

Can one learn a new language using modern apps? How does language learning influence our thinking? Vashik Armenikus asks these and many other questions on language learning to Gaston Dorren   - the author of  'Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages' and 'Lingo: A language spotter’s guide to Eu…

Learning Vietnamese

How easy is it to get started learning Vietnamese? If you're curious about the language spoken by around 75 million, the first episode of Season 2 of Language Stories is for you. THE VIDEO Click here to watch the sister video to this podcast episode. To keep track of future episodes in video …

74. Polyglot w/ Gaston Dorren

Emily and Kyle take a break from Duolingo to talk about language learning with an expert on the subject: polyglot, journalist, and author of language books Babel and Lingo, Gaston Dorren. Our hosts chat with their multilingual guest about his linguistic travels from his native Limburgish and Dutch…

Easing into multilingualism

Mastering six languages sounds like a slog, right? But in some corners of Europe, it happens—maybe not effortlessly, but more easily than in, say, Ohio. Gaston Dorren grew up speaking Limburgish at home, and Dutch at school. He fell in love in German and picked up Spanish in Latin America, all the …

The Lingua Francas

A conversation with Gaston Dorren, author of Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages. Twitter: @lexiconvalley Facebook: facebook.com/LexiconValley Website: booksmartstudios.com/LexiconValley