Euroversals - Are all European languages alike?
Europe is full of languages! Actually, it may be full of ONE kind of language... Meet Standard Average European! Subscribe for language: ...
NativLang
Lives in Linguistics: an interview with Catherine V. Chvany
Lives in Linguistics: an interview with Catherine V. Chvany,May 5, 2009.Funded in part by The Franke Institute for the Humanitiesat the University of Chicago, ...
The University of Chicago
Slavic Languages | Why are they so similar to eachother?
Have you ever wondered why Slavic languages are so similar to eachother? This video is going to explain why Slavic language family is different then others ...
Slavic Affairs
Greek language in motion | Artemis Alexiadou | TEDxAthens
Languages are on the move across various spatio-temporal trajectories. Globalization, immigration and language are interconnected, creating multi-lingual ...
TEDx Talks
The Spread of the Indo-Europeans
From 4000 BCE, a group of people today known as the Indo-Europeans began to spread from the western Steppes, and dominated everything from Gaul to India ...
Ollie Bye
David Adger
Language Invention and Language Structure This is a talk, aimed at the general public, about two things: how to build a language from scratch, and how thinking ...
Abralin
Lera Boroditsky, How the Languages We Speak Shape the Ways We Think
Hit the subscribe button and catch all of the School for Advanced Research videos as we post them. Humans communicate with one another using 7000 or so ...
SAR School for Advanced Research
"The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster" - 2/29/12 - Professor Edward Vajda
Edward Vajda, professor of Modern and Classical Languages at Western Washington University, gave a lecture titled "The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster" at 7 p.m. ...
Western Washington University
What Montezuma's Aztec Sounded Like - and how we know
The Aztecs didn't call him Montezuma. Nor Moctezuma. They didn't call chocolate "chocolate". Heck, they didn't even call themselves Aztec! Though they were ...
NativLang
Les PIRES THÉORIES linguistiques - MLTP#36
Parfois, les gens sont convaincus d'avoir mis le doigt sur une particularité linguistique, pensant sincèrement avoir élaboré ou découvert une "théorie". Ils sont ...
Linguisticae
Language Death: How do languages die?
This video is about the process of language death, and languages which have become dead or extinct as a result. Languages vanish in numerous different ways ...
Langfocus
Language Learning and Linguistics: On Their Relationship [EN] - Jan Henrik Holst at the PG 2016
This lecture was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering in Berlin 2016 (http://www.polyglotberlin.com). The official sponsor of this conference was ...
Polyglot Gathering
What are Creoles and Pidgins? And What`s the Difference?
What`s the difference between Creoles and Pidgins? In this video I examine how Pidgin languages and Creole languages develop, and how they are different ...
Langfocus
LSA 2020 Annual Meeting Presidential Address: Brian Joseph
What is Time (and why should linguists care about it)? Brian D. Joseph The Ohio State University An indisputable fact of life and of nature is that humans and ...
Linguistic Society of America
Tim Keeley - Strategies for learning Asian languages
Strategies for learning Asian languages - a personal journey through a dozen or so languages of Asia Polyglots interested in learning Asian languages often ...
Polyglot Conference
How many languages do you speak or know? The Numbers Game - Timothy Dean Keeley | PG 2018
Polyglots are often find it problematic to answer the question, “How many languages do you speak or know,” in a way that is truly meaningful and reflects total ...
Polyglot Gathering
How we learn languages - Frequency
Video contents: Introduction: frequency and Linguistic theory 0:00 How can we study frequency? 3:42 How do linguists collect frequency data? 9:07 A ...
Sheffield Arts Humanities
Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)
Lots of people say that Portuguese sounds like Russian. Why?! In this video I examine some of the similar sounds of Portuguese and Russian (and Polish as ...
Langfocus
Edward de Chazal - Developing students’ listening and speaking through EAP materials.
This talk starts by setting out the characteristics of seven familiar academic listening and speaking events. We examine the roles of their participants, which may ...
Cambridge University Press ELT
A History of English Letters
Correction: we pronounce the letter "c" with an "s" sound sometimes because of a sound change that happened a long time ago in old French. Not English.
Xidnaf
The Longest Word in Any Language
Which language has the longest single natural word ever penned? Not English. ("What about Titin?" "Welsh??" * ) Subscribe for language: ...
NativLang
The Portuguese Language and What Makes it Intriguing
This is a documentary style language profile about the Portuguese language which is spoken in Portugal, Brazil, and beyond. * If you're learning Portuguese, ...
Langfocus
John Green keynote | SLJ Summit 2017
Author John Green opened the SLJ Summit in Nashville, TN, with an emotional keynote just prior to the release of his novel Turtles All the Way Down.
School Library Journal
