I visit writer Michael Erard during his residency at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. We talk about the institute, his writing, the language of the dying and the expat experience.
- Michael’s official website
- MPI press release about the residency
- Michael’s interview with former MPI professor Stephen C. Levinson
- Michael’s NYT article on “what adults can learn from dutch children’s books”
- Michael on how “ISIL is using the language barriers within its ranks to evolve jihad beyond Arabic”
- Nightmare after nightmare: How to run a polyglot terrorist organisation
- “A New Metaphor for Language Learning” - Michael’s talk at the 2015 Polyglot Conference
- Michael presents Babel No More at Google
- 🎶 Martijn de Boer: Nocturnal Improvisations (Duet)
- 🎶 Martijn de Boer: Flowers for the loved
- 🎶 Martijn de Boer: Breakfast Jazz Duo