Crash Course Linguistics

Welcome to Crash Course Linguistics! Linguistics is everywhere and is super useful for pretty much everyone. Over 16 episodes, Taylor Behnke will teach you all about language, from its structure, to the relationship between language and our identity, the brain, and computers, to writing, language acquisition, and the diversity of human languages!

Featured Videos

• Writing Systems

  Ep16 | 11m 55s

• Computational Linguistics

  Ep15 | 11m 32s

• World Languages

  Ep14 | 11m 31s

• Language Change and Historical Linguistics

  Ep13 | 12m 23s

Episodes

• Writing Systems

  Ep16 | 11m 55s

• Computational Linguistics

  Ep15 | 11m 32s

• World Languages

  Ep14 | 11m 31s

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Extras

• Crash Course Linguistics Preview

  Preview | 2m 49s

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