DC
23. Sep. 2017
Extremely informational, well presented, with questions that stimulate reflection. The optional reading material is food for thought. I hope to see more courses from the same professor and University.
SS
29. Nov. 2021
I've taken a number of online courses on linguistics now, and this one was by and far the best. The material covered is indepth and engaging, and the professor's enthusiam makes the videos a delight.
von Kathleen K
•15. Mai 2016
Material is excellent and very interesting. Test questions can be confusing and poorly phrased.
von Genevieve L D K
•21. Okt. 2019
Very enjoyable however, I feel that Quiz Three needs to be looked over for software problems.
von Antonella C
•23. Nov. 2018
Very interesting and passionating course even for people who are new to linguistic.
von Tianyu Z
•12. Juni 2020
It is a great introduction course, covering every aspect related to linguistics.
von Laureen E
•17. Sep. 2019
First course tried.. succeeded! Very informative and nice to work on! Thank you
von Oscar T C
•15. Jan. 2022
The content was good, but could go a bit deeper into each of the subtopics.
von André L
•9. Apr. 2018
Interesting course, I've learned a lot of things about studying languages.
von Jia W
•21. Juni 2016
some problems in quiz part are confusing... but nice course in general
von Gautam M
•3. Okt. 2020
An eye-opener and a game changer course to understand humanity.
von Nathalie v L
•5. Nov. 2019
great course. Great refresher 30 years after college.
von Mohammed A A A
•21. Mai 2020
One of the most brilliant courses I have ever taken!
von Osnat B
•5. Apr. 2019
Wide-angle, general introductory course. Engaging.
von Ruben A M d C
•28. Jan. 2017
Interesting content, but still a bit buggy...
von Fernando C M
•2. Jan. 2020
Good course, nice teachers, good material
von Dorothy H
•25. Sep. 2016
The interview with Chomsky a real treat.
von Saman M
•12. Juli 2021
This was a great introductory course.
von Cecilia C
•25. Juni 2017
Very interesting course! Thank you!
von Dennis M
•21. Mai 2020
Great introduction to linguistics.
von Zakharov O A
•24. Apr. 2021
тяжко было, но в целом интересно
von Mai B
•16. Feb. 2021
lots of interesting information
von Rizky A D
•6. Nov. 2016
101 linguistics
von Wang x
•9. Feb. 2017
great course!
von Li j x
•31. Okt. 2020
很好best
von Valdas M
•20. Nov. 2020
Interesting course. It's difficult to cover everything in such a short course. The last two weeks' classes have not much to do with "miracles" of languages. I would say these things are common to all languages. I would have preferred to concentrate more on firs 4 weeks topics. This all stuff with politeness does not fit much in the topic. It's more sociolinguistics, cultural studies etc. And there is not much to learn. There is no much valuable information to remember. I liked more the beginning about sounds, typology of languages etc. This all stuff with positive and negative face was a little strange. Specially, it was difficult to do the tests with these "faces". Listening exercises were quite OK, but for instance to decode Chinese without transcription was impossible task. All these exercises with language mistakes was also strange. If we all do pronunciation mistakes in all languages what’s the point to study these mistakes? What's the point to see what mistake is made in Basque, Gungbe or any other language? I saw this exercise as pure waste of my time. So, my general suggestion would be to concentrate on pure linguistic things (first 4 weeks) and do not go into field of sociology, neuro or psycholinguistics. BTW this couple of students is not balanced because the young man dominates all discussions. The girl should be more active or the man less active.
von Warren C
•22. Sep. 2019
Too difficult for an introductory course. Ambiguous information. Time estimates are way off. Not what I expected. Rather provincial in its approach. Guess I'm just not cut out to be a linguist. Answers to the tests are not available or derivable from the lectures and required readings. I've read a lot of articles and books, particularly about neurolinguistics and the intersection between linguistics and genomics and the information in the course does not really assist with understanding what I've been reading, though I can sort of see how the authors might have made use of some of the things presented here. The interview with Chomsky was particularly useless.