The Path of the Polyglot

The subject matter is fascinating, but the show is difficult and sometimes a bit painful to listen to. The show’s material should be scripted to correct errors that occur often, especially the frequent mispronunciation of proper names. (For example, Ainu is pronounced as it is written [“AI-nu”], but the presenter continually says “ANN-yu”.) Great potential; needs a lot of work.

The song played in the Urdu song isn’t Urdu - it’s Punjabi. The Urdu phrases he shared like shabakhair and khudahafiz come from Farsi, and are entirely different from Hindi. This episode could’ve been much further Clarified if the host had researched it properly.

This show has such good potential but falls off with poor planning and outlining. If an outline was written and rehearsed, and proper research was done, this could be successful. There’s a lot of stops and stutters, which could even be corrected in editing. Podcasting takes a lot of work so I understand this could be a lot to undertake, but it’s worth it to provide quality content. The topics are very good however, and the reason why I say it has such potential. His ideas about Esperanto are also completely incorrect, and was obviously reading from a Wiki or a linguist website that looks down on the language, his facts about other languages are also incorrect.

Farsi is spoken in Iran, not “Iranian”.... this episode is mostly reading facts about Arabic from wikipedia. No interesting insight included and ends up talking about terrorism 🙄