Language & Speech

Join the conversation with award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard.

Find out about synesthesia and why not everybody experiences it.

Make a record player with a pencil, pin, and paper.

Visit the beating heart of the Exploratorium—our shop.

You can make sentences without words!

Examine words from different languages and determine which two languages are the most closely related.

Learn how to find the histories and origins of words.

Where do all the different languages in the world come from?

Listen to the story of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

Skilled listeners share their secrets.

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