Crash Course Linguistics Preview

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!

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[theresawhite]

*SCREAMS IN LINGUISTICS MAJOR EXCITEMENT*

[thehopeofeden]

My tiny linguistic-loving heart just exploded. I can’t wait.

[karolinamikesova]

This course was made possible by, you guessed it, language.

[marym]

I couldn't even watch the video because I was too excited by
- CRASH COURSE LINGUISTICS!!!
- Finding other linguistics majors in the comments
- ItsRadishTime has been a linguist all this time and I never knew it?!
- CRASH COURSE LINGUISTICS!!!

[loraharrison]

Thank you for including sign language!!!! This is so important

[theresawhite]

I am FLIPPING out this is going to revolutionize my entire life

[arctatos]

As a speech therapy student this has just made my day 🤩 This is such a major pillar in our curriculum that I feel so lucky and happy I’m gonna be able to revise with crash course from now on 😍

[ItsRadishTime]

yay! so excited everyone to also learn all the awesome stuff I learned while filming these!

[chadtindale]

I look forward to this one. Can we get "Crash Course: Music Theory" with Adam Neely?

[ArcusLibri]

Yeah finally a Crash Course about my major!😊

[thetenyaiida]

*the timing is impeccable, i was planning to get into this course days ago.*

[ShreyasYD]

You HAVE to have Tom Scott as a guest for atleast one episode in this series. He has a linguistic degree and has a great series himself.

[matheusb]

Finally *-* I've been recommending the channel to my ESL students for a time now so they improve their listening/understanding. I will definitely be using this series as extra activity 😍😍😍😍

[monomer]

Omg Taylor hosting a CrashCourse show?? Awesome!

[carloseduardojimenez]

I have just started my degree on linguistics this week!!!

[Nihilnovus]

As a linguist myself I never thought I would see the day they would offer this. Really looking forward to this especially pertaining to classical linguistics should it be covered.

[iainmackley]

As my college linguistics professor put it "Being a linguist is a lot like being a Doctor. You don't need to have a disease in order to study it."

[alannabailey]

i’ve never been so excited about anything in my entire life i’m vibrating

[LetMeExplicate]

I HAVE NEVER BEEN SO EXCITED FOR A CRASH COURSE SERIES—and that’s saying a lot! 😍

[narandil]

Host: "Linguistics isn't about enforcing one variety of language as better than another."
Prescriptivists: "Say what now...?"

Very excited for this series! :D