Speaking In Tongues The History Of Language

Speaking in Tongues is an Australian television program broadcast on SBS Television. The first episode was broadcast on 7 November 2005. The series ran for twelve episodes, with the final episode airing on 23 January 2006. The program is hosted by John Safran and Father Bob Maguire, who discuss current events from a religious perspective, often in a comedic manner. Maguire, a Catholic priest from South Melbourne, originally appeared on the early show John Safran vs God. Speaking in Tongues was the first Australian television program to be released as a free podcast. The episodes were released for download on the morning following each week's broadcast. The series was directed by John Safran vs God director Craig Melville.

A lonely college student grieving the loss of his mother has found purpose in a local megachurch. When a young pastor invites him to Chicago for a summer internship evangelizing the 'lost', his new faith is put to the test.

Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.

At a time when 31 states have passed “English Only” laws, four pioneering families put their children in public schools where, from the first day of kindergarten, their teachers speak mostly in a foreign language. Speaking in Tongues follows four diverse kids on a journey to become bilingual. This charming story will challenge you to rethink the skills that Americans need to succeed in the 21st century.

Currently there are more than 6,000 languages spoken around the world. This five-part series traces the history and evolution of language and attendant theories and controversies while evaluating the scope of linguistic diversity, the dissemination of language, the expansion of language into written form, and the life cycle of language.

Men@Work tangle with F.I.S.T.! Ring of Honor's newest crop of trainees begin a round-robin tournament for a spot in CHIKARA's third annual Young Lions Cup! Chris Hero takes on his former student, Mickie Knuckles, while Mike Quackenbush and Jigsaw team up to take on Claudio Castagnoli and Arik Cannon!

Rock impresario and KISS front man Gene Simmons takes the stage -- not to sing, but to sermonize about his business successes, his wandering eye and his lust for fame. Simmons has proved to be an innovative entrepreneur and has often surprised business analysts with the success of his ingenious get-rich-quick schemes. Flexing his oratory skills, Gene shares some sage advice (with his trademark deadpan delivery) and presents some pithy insights.

A 16mm experimental film that analogizes the discourse of racialized criminality and the carceral apparatus, which surveils and delimits the movements of Black people’s bodies, with the conventions and mechanics of the cinematic apparatus which regulates and standardizes the movement of the filmstrip through the motion picture camera and projector. Equal parts essay and visual art, Speaking in Tongues embodies the cinematic Black ecstatic that simultaneously re-envisions resistance defiance in the face of anti-Black state violence and subverts the conventions of cinematic realism through a manually and optically altered collage of original documentary and archival film sourced from Hollywood movies, television commercials, educational films, cartoons, European art cinema and miscellaneous ephemera.

For three years, director Kyzza Terrazas has followed over thirty people from all over Mexico to explore the underground hip-hop movement in Latin America. Using rhythm and creative language, rappers such as Serko Fu, Rabia Rivera, Tino El Pingüino, Aczino & Mike Díaz have found ways to express themselves with transformative words that help them survive in a country with so little opportunity.