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301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
301. What Would Be the Best Universal Language? (Earth 2.0 Series)
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Sep 21, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We explore votes for English, Indonesian, and … Esperanto! The search for a common language goes back millennia, but so much still gets lost in translation. Will technology finally solve that?
Released:
Sep 21, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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