Uuseful youtube channels on world’s languages
Interested in linguistics or the diversity of world's languages? Then you may want to watch some videos of these channels from youtube.
Enjoy this little review of the most useful channels on the subject that I have found in youtube:
Detailed and entertaining animations about different subjects concerning several languages of the world and related phenomena. The subjects are presented with considerable detail, high degree of pedagogy, and a very pleasant off-voice.
Recorded 15-minutes lessons on linguistics by Jurgen Handke, from Marburg university. He summarizes the most important information, about key theoretical features, like phrase structure, constituency, phonetics and speech acts. Handke presents fieldwork on a couple of languages. It is extremely useful if you lack some basis in linguistics.
Paul the linguist presents a diversity of languages, addresses interesting subjects and explains the similarities and influences among languages. Although the selfie video format makes the presentations less pedagogical than other techniques such as animation, Paul presents linguistic data in an organized manner to provide a considerably deep account of fascinating phenomena.
Charming Latvian languages-geek broadcaster Julia makes reviews of languages with few speakers and the most interesting linguistic features in the world. She presents its key linguistic features and illustrates them with precision, simplicity, a beautiful smile and the graceful personality of her Russian accent.
Crash course is a succesful, big and prized channel about education in different subjects, which combines selfie video with animations providing humoristic edutainment. The series on linguistics presents some of the main axes of the discipline (phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, etc.). While being well organized and illustrated, the combination of different recording formats (selfie video, animation, photography), redundant effects, high density of information and very fast delivery of information, results in an online lesson that is not always easy to follow. Although you may feel somehow overwhelmed and it could be difficult to focus on the subject, it can be useful if you watch it several times or go back to review the parts that you didn’t get. Crash course videos cannot be watched distractedly while you wash your dishes. They are generous in content but very attention-demanding.
This prolific channel contains very simple videos that present only linguistic data: vocabulary and larger language productions in ancient languages, regional varieties, languages with few speakers or not very well known, languages of ethnic minorities, etc. There are two kinds of videos: videos presenting a language, and videos comparing two languages or varieties. Without any kind of explanation, each video shows tables of vocabulary or paragraphs and displays an off-voice that reads them. The videos consist basically of audio corpora of “rare languages”, that can be useful if you are curious about how different two varieties are, or want to know what a language looks like.
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