Languages

Salt Lake Tribune reporters Palak Jayswal and Brooke Larsen talk about Utah's top stories, including plastic surgery trends and the return of Glen Canyon’s once lush ecosystem as Lake Powell drops.

You've probably heard his name associated with regular listener challenges during our fund drives. Now a chance to meet long-time UPR friend Alberto Brizolara on this fund drive Access Utah special.

We revisit our conversation from October 2025 with Deseret Magazine reporter Natalia Galicza, talking about her essay titled "Breaking a Language Barrier Brought My Family Together."

Martha Barnette has spent two decades as the co-host of "A Way with Words," lauded by Mary Norris in The New Yorker as “a virtual treasure house” and “‘Car Talk’ for Lexiphiles.”

"Doing Difference Differently" recounts the stories of four Chinese international students navigating the complex socio-academic environment of a North American university.

Ross Perlin, a linguist and co-director of the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history.

Indigenous populations in the U.S. were systematically being stripped of their cultures. Then in WWII, the government discovered the tactical advantages of the Comanche language.

There are many ways Latino people and cultures have influenced the country. Some linguists say that an entirely new American dialect is taking shape right now, in Miami.

Dr. Viorica Marian is one of the world’s leading researchers in psycholinguistics, and she joins us to discuss language, and her new book, 'The Power of Language: How the Codes We Use to Think, Speak, and Live Transform Our Minds'.

Schools throughout Cache County support incoming students whose first language is not English through the English as a Second Language program. Similarly,…