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In South India, mangoes were referred to as “aam-kaay” in Tamil.
This became “maam-kaay” owing to the many local dialects.
Gradually, it started getting referred to as “maanga”.
It was the Portuguese who finally gave it its present name “mango” & popularised it everywhere.
How to teach yourself linguistics online for free
Wish you were enrolled in an intro linguistics class this semester? Starting a linguistics major and looking for extra help? Trying to figure out whether you should study linguistics and what comes after? Whether you’re just trying to grasp the basics of linguistics or you’re trying to construct a full online linguistics course, here’s a comprehensive list of free linguistics websites, podcasts, videos, blogs, and other resources from around the internet:
Linguistics Podcasts
Specific episodes:
The International Phonetic Alphabet and vowels
Constituency
Gricean Maxims and presuppositions
Kids These Days aren’t ruining language
Learning languages linguistically
Phonemes and palatalization
Prepositions, determiners, verbs
Morphemes and the wug test
Why do we gesture when we talk?
Syllables
Podcasts in general:
Lingthusiasm
The History of English Podcast
Talk the Talk
Lexicon Valley
The World in Words
A Way With Words
Vocal Fries
Linguistics Videos
Modular topics:
NativLang (cartoons)
The Ling Space
Tom Scott’s Language Files
Arika Okrent (whiteboard videos)
Structured video series like an online course:
Introduction to Linguistics (TrevTutor)
Another intro linguistics series (DS Bigham)
Phonology (TrevTutor)
Mathematical linguistics (TrevTutor)
Syntax (TrevTutor)
Another syntax series following the chapter structure of a free online syntax textbook (Caroline Heycock)
The Virtual Linguistics Campus at Marburg University
“Miracles of Human Language” (on Coursera from Leiden University)
Blog posts
General
How much do I need to know before taking intro linguistics? (Spoiler: not much)
28 tips for doing better in your intro linguistics course
How to find a topic for your linguistics essay or research paper
For typesetting linguistics symbols: What is LaTeX and why do linguists love it? (with sample LaTeX doc to download and modify).
Further linguistics resources about specific areas, such as sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, language acquisition (first/second), historical linguistics, neurolinguistics, prescriptivism.
Phonetics & Phonology
How to make your own paper model of the larynx
Teaching phonetics using lollipops
How to remember the IPA vowel chart
How to remember the IPA consonant chart
IPA transcription practice
A detailed explanation of sonorants, obstruents, and sonority
A very elaborate Venn diagram of English phonological features
The basics of how Optimality Theory works, with coffee analogy
Allophones of /t/, explained with internet gifs
Several good visualizations and explanations of the vocal tract
How to type IPA on your phone (Android and iOS)
Various ways to type IPA on a computer
Morphology & Syntax
Morphological typology cartoons
So you asked the internet how to draw syntax trees. Here’s why you’re confused.
Types of trees: a sentence is an S, a sentence is an IP, a sentence is a TP
A step-by-step guide to drawing a syntax tree, with gifs
Distributed Morphology
Garden path sentences: how they work, some examples
Structural ambiguity and understanding people in Ipswich
How to draw trees on a computer (TreeForm and phpSyntaxTree)
Pronoun typology and “the gay fanfiction problem”
The solution to violent example sentences: Pokemon
Semantics & Pragmatics
The difference between epistemic and deontic, necessity and possibility (with bonus modals as Hogwarts houses)
Why learn semantics? Comebacks to annoying people.
Presuppositions, implicature and entailment, and more presuppositions in Lizzie Bennet Diaries
Gricean maxims in Welcome to Night Vale
Scalar implicature and a duck gif
Giving a shit about Negative Polarity Items, NPIs explained using Mean Girls references, and a follow-up on Free Choice Items
The lambda calculus for absolute dummies
The Lambda Calculator (software for practising in Heim & Kratzer style)
Teaching & Academic/career advice
Linguistics resources for high school teachers
Teaching linguistics to 9-14 year olds
On writing an IB extended essay in linguistics (& follow-up)
IPA Bingo
IPA Jeopardy and IPA Hangman
Practising syntax trees using cards and string/straws
Find a linguistics olympiad near you!
Editing linguistics Wikipedia articles instead of writing a final paper that no one but the prof will read (see also wikiedu.org)
Should you go to grad school in linguistics? Maybe
Figuring out if you actually want to go to linguistics grad school
How to decide which linguistics grad school to go to
How to look for linguistics undergrad programs
How to interact with someone who’s just given a talk
An extensive list of undergrad and/or student-friendly conferences - apply to one near you!
Advice for linguistics profs on increasing enrollment and supporting non-academic careers
Linguistics jobs - a series about careers outside academia
Languages
Linguistic approaches to language learning resource roundup
Will linguistics help with language learning? / Will learning a second language help with linguistics?
The problem with “economically useful” as a reason for language learning
Further link roundups
This list not enough? Try these further masterposts:
A very long list of linguistics movies, documentaries, and TV show episodes
A list of books (fiction and nonfiction) about linguistics
A comprehensive list of language and linguistics podcasts, from Superlinguo
A very long list of linguistics YouTube channels and other free online videos about linguistics
20 linguistics blogs I recommend following
How to explain linguistics to your friends and family this holiday season
“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert
ESCAPING FROM THE ORDINARY
“I am happy on the outside, but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams – or sleeplessness, – melancholy, indifference, – desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death: some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness; and sometimes definite memories worry me. My mind is sour, bitter, salt; some hideous jumble of feelings shakes me! I am stupider than ever.”
— Frédéric Chopin
From a latina to gringos: the right terms to call us
Although there’s good intentions behind it, using latinx or latinxs as gender neutral terms isn’t right. Both Spanish and Portuguese - because not all of us speak the same language* - already have “gender neutral” terms.
Latina is for a woman. Latinas for 2 or more women.
Latino is for a men. Latinos for 2 or more men.
But latinos is also for a group of both men and women and it’s gender neutral too.
Actually, Spanish and Portuguese don’t really have gender neutral pronouns and/or terms, so the masculine forms are used as gender neutral, with few exceptions.
There’s no need to say “latinxs”, you can just say “latinos”.
And since we’re on this topic, I’d also like to clarify that Hispanic and Latino don’t mean the same thing.
Hispanic = first language is Spanish **
Latino = comes from Latin America
So, therefore:
Mexicans are both Hispanic and Latinos.
Venezuelans are both Hispanic and Latinos.
Brazilians are Latinos, but not Hispanic. (speak Portuguese)
Haitians are Latinos, but not Hispanic. (speak French)
Spanish people are Hispanic, but not Latinos.
Also, latino isn’t a race. A latino can be black, brown, white, mixed, yellow, indigenous…anything at all and still be a latino. It has nothing to do with skin color but with where you were born, what language you were first taught, and a specific historic and cultural background.
*Unfortunately, those two are the only languages I know, besides English, so I’m only using them in this post. If any French speaker would like to add these terms in French, it’d be awesome.
**The term Hispanic comes from Hispania, meaning Spain, and it’s used to refer to anything related to Spain, including countries/people who were colonized by Spain or have Spanish ancestry. Which is why I’ve heard many Spanish-speakers say that they’d rather not be called Hispanic, since it ties them to their colonizer.
“I sometimes find, and I am sure you know the feeling, that I simply have too many thoughts and memories crammed into my mind.”
— J.K. Rowling (via quotemadness)
“The hardest battle you will ever have to fight is between who you are now and who you want to be.”
— Unknown
“A sad soul is always up past midnight.”
— Haruki Murakami
“I always thought that you had to know someone for a long time to be able to fall in love. But one thing I learned is that love doesn’t work like that. Love can happen anytime anywhere with anyone and while one least expects it. It happened like a heartbeat. The minute I saw him, and the second he looked at me with that smirk on his face, I knew I was screwed. It didn’t take me long enough to realise what just had happened. My heart suddenly started beating like I had just ran a marathon. My mind started wandering through thoughts I never thought I had. My eyes started looking anywhere else but in his direction. Slowly but surely I was becoming a mess. I still remember the first time that we touched. And I still remember this magic electricity shooting through my entire body making me numb for few seconds. I still remember the first words he said to me filling my ears with his wonderful sound. I still remember the first intimate little moment we shared when he asked me if everything was okay. I nodded. I still remember the last time he hugged goodbye, making it the only thing I’m holding on to this day. The way he touched my hair and kissed my head, holding me close enough to hear the patterns of his heartbeat. I still recall every moment we shared be it a glance a smile a touch or a word. It’s saved in my deepest memory and I don’t think those moments will ever leave their place. Then I left. And he left too. And I thought we’d keep in touch. But it never happened. We never happened. I think it all was in my head. I think I was excergeaating everything. I think I just fell too hard too fast. I think I was the one loving the most and getting hurt the most. I think I am the one missing and thinking too much, while waiting for him to miss and think of me too. It wasn’t an almost relationship, but it was an almost something.”
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“I cannot rid myself of the feeling that I’m not in the right place.”
— Franz Kafka, Advocates
