Endangered Alphabets

When AI POCs shine in isolation… but struggle at enterprise scale. Host Marine Esquenet welcomes Matt Hardy to explore why AI prototypes dazzle in demos yet struggle in production, and how cultural intelligence can bridge that gap. Matt unpacks real challenges: * Why AI POCs look ...  Show more

In this first episode of The Cultural Intelligence Series, host Marine Esquenet sits down with Marina Pantcheva to explore what happens when global growth moves faster than our ability to manage meaning, context and trust. Marina helps us unpack: - Why culture remains one of the ...  Show more

My guest today is someone who I believe, without exaggeration, will help transform the way people learn ancient languages for years to come. While our institutional academies crumble, a new academy is quietly emerging in independent organizations like the Ancient Language Institu ...  Show more

How did the English alphabet -- a strange agglomeration of curved and straight-lined symbols -- become a thing? In the second part of this special two-part series, Ben, Noel and Max dive into the messy evolution of modern English, with a special shoutout to each letter of the cur ...  Show more

Language not only defines humans as a species, placing us head and shoulders above even the most proficient animal communicators, but it also beguiles us with its endless mysteries. How did different languages come to be? Why isn't there just a single language? How does a languag ...  Show more

Around the world, 2.3 billion people speak English, and for most of them it is an extra, rather than their first, language.

In many countries, English is also used to teach most academic subjects at schools and universities – even where most of the populatio ...