8 episodes
All episodes
Newest first, by season. Every episode has chapters, notes and a transcript.
Season 2 Outside
Words for weather, roads and making do, with a bonus episode of the words you send us.
About this seasonYakamoz, and the word it is mistaken for
The word listeners send us most is yakamoz, from Turkish, usually explained as moonlight on the sea. A listener in Izmir set us straight.
Jugaad: the fix that should not work
Kavya Ranade runs a repair café in Pune. Jugaad is the clever fix made with what you have, and also the shortcut that is not always correct.
Uitwaaien: walking into the wind
Thijmen Oudshoorn works on the Texel ferry. Uitwaaien is going out into strong wind on purpose to clear your head, and the Dutch have plenty of wind.
Season 1 Inside
Words for rooms, tables and the people in them: four episodes and a trailer, recorded through the winter.
About this seasonNunchi: reading a room
Ok Ha-eun runs the floor of a busy restaurant in Busan. Nunchi, measuring a room with your eyes, is the part of her job nobody can write down.
Tarab: when the room sings back
Bassel Kanaan, a concert sound engineer in Amman, on tarab: the enchantment of music that reaches you, and why he leaves the audience in the recording.
Tsundoku: the pile you mean to read
Kosuke Nakabori sells second-hand books in Tokyo. He explains tsundoku, the pun for books bought and left to pile up, and why a pile is a list of hopes.
Sobremesa: the meal after the meal
Amparo Lezcano, an interpreter in Valencia, on sobremesa: the time at the table after the plates are cleared, when nobody gets up.
Fire and wind: a trailer
In Finnish, one vowel held a little longer turns fire into wind. A short welcome to the show, its two hosts and its single rule.