Every Word Is a Bird We Teach to Sing: Encounters with the Mysteries and Meanings of Language

Daniel Tammet has had interesting experiences with languages. In this book he meanders around to provide various language anecdotes.

He starts with his experience teaching English. He was not a fun of the "boring" way that language is taught as a second language and seeks to make it more interesting. Some of this interesting language is grammatically correct nonsense, but it helps those to learn langauges.

He goes on to look at different languages. There is different meaning that comes out of different languages. There are also languages like Manx that are barely surviving.

There were many interesting bits, but the book seemed to lack a cohesive story.