An episode of the podcast Viaggiando by Michela Daghini – Radiotelevisione Svizzera Italiana (RSI) Culture – invites us to discover language as a bridge between seemingly distant worlds.

What connects a traveler who walked across Siberia on foot with a neuroscientist exploring the boundaries of the human mind? The answer is language—the red thread weaving through geographies, cultures, societies, identities, and cognitive structures.

In this episode of Viaggiando, the journey takes us to the Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS of Pavia, featuring Andrea Moro, linguist, neuroscientist, and internationally acclaimed author. His studies on the connection between the brain and grammar reveal a fascinating paradox: there are languages we cannot even imagine, the so-called “impossible languages.” Speaking, Moro reminds us, is first and foremost a form of invisible thought.

📚 Author of numerous scientific and popular science books—including I Speak, Therefore I Am, Impossible Languages, and The Secrets of Words (with Noam Chomsky)—Moro teaches at the IUSS School and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa.

🎙️ Listen to Andrea Moro’s interview starting at 1:04:20 and let yourself be guided on a journey through words, identity, and neuroscience:
👉 Link to the episode on the RSI website