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Hello and welcome!

This is a personal website for me, Dr Danny Bate, a linguist, language teacher, writer and broadcaster.

For news and reviews of my new book, Why Q Needs U, all about the alphabet and the way we write, check out the Book page!

This website started out as a place for me to share the joy of my academic field (historical linguistics) through original monthly articles. Five years later, I’ve kept writing them! They’re intended to be both fun and practical, and written for everyone – language learners, linguistic experts and the simply curious! Please check out Articles and the sub-menus above to view my freely available posts on a variety of topics and languages close to my heart.

For updates about the A Language I Love Is… show, head to Podcast. To find my academic research or my broadcasting and voice work, click on the associated page. To get in touch, click on Contact.