Over the past few months, I have listened to every episode of The History of English Podcast. It was a good reminder to study my primary language sometimes, not just new ones. I had tried before with podcasts like Grammar Girl, or I Should Be Writing, but I never really felt that sense of technical study that History of English provides.
I still have several German language podcasts in my rotation, but its a token effort; my language studies are stagnant. Instead of retreading old ground, why not start a language I've never studied? And it should be a language I have no desire to go deep on, just something passing that might give better perspective.
Maybe something like Dutch. I partially got the idea from the podcast, which traced the roots of English through Europe, back to its roots.
