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German Grammar Overview (Modals, Negation and Kennen vs Wissen) - Deutsch lernen
This is a very brief explanation of all of the grammar topics that are discussed in our German 1 book in Chapter 6. This includes the modal auxiliaries, negation, and kennen vs wissen. If you would like a more detailed explanation of any...
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Introduction to Geometry
When you hear the word "geometry", you might think of shapes. And you wouldn't be wrong! But before we can get to shapes, we need to talk about the parts that can make up shapes, like points, lines, rays, and line segments. In this...
The Business Professor
Mental Frame
What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 82- More Homophones + "Susie's Stories" (Levels 3-5)
Material covered:Recommend,Advice & Advise,Quiet & Quite,Licence & License ,Principal & Principle,Practice & Practise,Susie Story for Queue,Susie Story for Indictment
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 60 - American Spellings (Levels 3-5)
Material covered:Jewellery,Skilful,Focused,Practice & practise,Licence & license
,Manoeuvre,Fulfil,Susie's Story - Manoeuvre,Susie's Story - Confectionery
Sir Linkalot
Lesson 52: Silent letters + Susie's Stories - Levels 3-5
Material covered:Encourage,Character,Autumn,Tongue Susie's Story - Desperate Susie's Story - Sergeant
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The Importance of Setting
A video entitled “The Importance of Setting” which explores how to revise the setting of a text to change the mood.
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The ABC's of Coding
Aside from the coding languages there seems to be all sorts of jargon used by coders. The amount of jargon can be overwhelming to new programmers. In this video, Mark reviews the most common jargon used by programmers from A to Z. Learn...
Debunked
English Phrases That We Get Wrong Everyday!
We've all been saying them, and we've all been wrong!
Debunked
The Left Brain Right Brain Myth
Can a dominant side of your brain dictate your personality. LOGICAL vs CREATIVE? The Theory goes that if you are more creative and artistic then you are ‘right-brained’ and if you’re more methodical and better with numbers then you are...
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The Structure of Sign Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes Bill Stokoe’s early work on analyzing sign languages and searching for the relevant parameters to characterize meaning.
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The Roots of Sign Language
UC San Diego linguist Carol Padden describes how, while we now recognize that gesture and sign language are structurally very different, linguists are now carefully examining how gesture might have originally given rise to sign languages.
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The Role of Gesture
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) describes how recognizing the difference between gesture and sign language shouldn’t prevent us from investigating how gesture helps brings languages into being.
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The Model of Religious Economy and Islam
Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how the model of religious economy explains both the evolution and diversity of organized religion, and some of the benefits of applying it to Islam.
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The Flexibility of Language
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, describes the extraordinary flexibility that language possesses to convey different shades of meaning.
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The Diversity of Sign Languages
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), gives us a taste of the extraordinary geographical diversity of sign languages throughout the world.
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Syntactical Examinations
Neuroscientist Martin Monti (UCLA) discusses what one can learn about the brain by explicitly comparing basic algebra and language.
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Speaking with Space
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) discusses the growing research overlap of sign language linguistics with modern neuroscience.
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Speaking Gendered Languages
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, muses on the differences between native speakers of non-gendered and gendered languages.
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Spatial Impairments
Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), discusses how studying a particular sign-language impairment may lead to a deeper understanding of of how the brain processes both space and language.
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Signing As Language
Sign language linguist Carol Padden relates the importance of Bill Stokoe’s pioneering work for developing a deeper understanding, not only of sign language, but of the linguistic structure of all languages.
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Self-Identification Through Language
David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, argues that speech serves a strong sociological function as a form of self-indentification.
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Language and the Mind
Philosopher Brian Epstein (Tufts) gives a brief account of how the field of philosophy of language has changed.
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Language and Bayesian Frameworks
Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes current thinking in the language sciences about how language systems change and adapt over time.