Talkers

Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...

The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four...

Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...

“We left our language and started speaking others’. The girls have got married and have left for the villages. Boys are getting married...

How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This...

How is our dialect faring in the globalized age? When the "railroad age" began 160 years ago, Switzerland feared that High German would supplant the...

In this film a young man and his curmudgeonly grandfather are going 1,800 km to northern Russia in an old Zhiguli car, hoping to find the grave of...

A TV-hour length documentary film depicting the relationship between language, culture, place, music, tradition, and magic on an active volcano, in...

The filmmaker traces the loss of her ancestral language over three generations of her family, and her own desire to recover it.

Linguist-philologist Mark Janse discovers speakers of the Cappadocian language – previously assumed extinct, linguists worldwide are...

For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...