This video is answering the question of what languages are spoken in Canada.

Theo Wait, Director of Operations at Lichess, shares the unique story of how software developer Thibault Duplesis built one of the world's biggest, free and open-source internet chess server through extensive community input and the...

Program - vowel or a consonant

what are positive and negative numbers?

Is Italian delightful and German disgusting? Is Mandarin a melodic mess? In this episode, Rob meets the linguists who've tried to work out which are the world's prettiest and ugliest languages. The results are sure to surprise you.

We use words left behind by the Romans every day. Their encounters with the Germanic tribes caused Latin words to slip into our language before it even became "English". In this video let's explore all the words that we've borrowed from...

The first thing to pop into your mind when you hear "Latino" is probably people from Latin America - places like Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, etc. But where exactly did the history of that word come from, and has it always meant Central...

In this video, the speaker argues that the English alphabet is in need of an update to better reflect the sounds of the language. They explore letters from other alphabets that could be borrowed and propose the addition of new letters,...

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.

Historian Michael Berry (UCLA) discusses how he experienced more culture shock on returning to the USA from China than in going to China.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) discusses the growing research overlap of sign language linguistics with modern neuroscience.

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.

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.

Sign language linguist Carol Padden describes how smaller languages are often much more impenetrable to outsiders than larger languages, due to a combination of grammatical structure and common sense of reference.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), reflects on how technology might affect the future use of sign languages.

Chinese scholar and literary translator Michael Berry (UCLA) gives some key pointers to young translators.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes how different cultural reference points sometimes make it particularly difficult for us to learn foreign languages.

“Etymology” describes the way to research and determine the origins of words.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes unique aspects of humor that American Sign Language enables.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes how gesture is used in both sign languages and spoken languages.

Things I Wish I Knew When I Was Learning to Code

¡Hola! In this video lesson, we're going to be practicing the "impersonal se" or "passive se".

This week, we’re talking about Natural Language Processing! Stay tuned for the end of the video for a lot of bloopers :)

Cognitive scientist Victor Ferreira (UC San Diego) describes a core question in linguistics concerning how language and thought are related.