Crash Course Linguistics - the full series
The full 16 weeks of Crash Course Linguistics are now available on YouTube. Crash Course offers a face-paced, light hearted, high-level introduction to major areas of linguistics, or you can use it in your teaching or studies as a warm up for these key topics.
This post includes all 16 episodes, which come with English closed captions. For each video I’ve also included a link to the relevant Mutual Intelligibility posts with additional resources and curated Linguistics Olympiad puzzles for you to try. The first five episodes are embedded in this post, but that’s the maximum that tumblr will let me add, so the rest are just screen shots with links to the videos.
I’ve really enjoyed the opportunity to work as part of such a big team on this project. It’s been fun to get into a co-writing rhythm with Gretchen McCulloch, and to work with Jessi Greiser on refining the scripts. The Complexly team behind Crash Course are all enthusiastic educators, and it was also amazing to see the animation team at Thought Cafe bring Gav and all the other content from the series to life. Taylor Behnke has been the amazing host of this series.
(Image: Gav, who even has their own Instagram profile)
Preview Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 1 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 2 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 3 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 4 Mutual intelligibility post
Video: https://youtu.be/6geQjY8b7sA
Week 5 Mutual Intelligibility post
Video: https://youtu.be/MPwpk-YgvjQ
Week 6 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 7 - Sociolinguistics
Video: https://youtu.be/of4XzrbkknM
Week 7 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 8 - Phonetics, Consonants
Video: https://youtu.be/vyea8Ph9BOM
Week 8 Mutual Intelligibility post)
Week 9 - Phonetics, Vowels
Video: https://youtu.be/qPTL5x0QW-Y
Week 9 Mutual Intelligibility post
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imH7hdOgxrU
Week 10 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 11 - Psycholinguistics
Video: https://youtu.be/A5uNFKEn4_A
Week 11 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 12 - Language acquisition
Video: https://youtu.be/Ccsf0yX7ECg
Week 12 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 13 - Historical linguistics and language change
Video: https://youtu.be/dNkMC92kFLA
Week 13 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 14 - Languages around the world
Video: https://youtu.be/Nxyo83cQjhI
Week 14 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 15 - Computational linguistics
Video: https://youtu.be/3npuPXvA_g8
Week 15 Mutual Intelligibility post
Week 16 - Writing systems
Video: https://youtu.be/-sUUWyo4RZQ
Week 16 Mutual Intelligibility post