Language & Speech

Find out about synesthesia and why not everybody experiences it.

Join the conversation with award-winning playwright Tom Stoppard.

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!

Listen to the story of Ladle Rat Rotten Hut.

Learn how to find the histories and origins of words.

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

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

Skilled listeners share their secrets.

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