Instructional Video0:37
Wonderscape

Exploring the Language of Japan: Japanese Alphabet and Writing Systems

K - 5th
Preschool Prep - Alphabet and Languages from A-Z V1-0011

Learn about the Japanese language in this informative video that highlights its significance as the national language of Japan, an island country in East Asia. With...
Instructional Video7:11
NativLang

The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese

9th - 11th
Japanese really does have the most complex writing system in the world. Here I spell out its history and my struggle to learn it. Subscribe for language!https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang' target='_blank'...
Instructional Video5:10
NativLang

Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)

9th - 11th
Watch this ancient Chinese scribe figure out how to use a fixed set of characters to write limitless words in his language. How? By combining meaning writing (logographs) and sound writing (rebus)! The result is a set of helpful hints...
Instructional Video4:24
NativLang

How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)

9th - 11th
The Korean alphabet is better than yours. Meet the king who invented it and watch him work his linguistic magic in this chapter in the history of writing. You wake up in another palace. This time you're in Korea. The first face to greet...
Instructional Video12:29
SciShow

What You Don't Know About The Rosetta Stone

12th - Higher Ed
We've all heard of the Rosetta Stone, either the language-learning software or the stone itself. But how much do you really know about it? Let's get into the full history of this icon of ancient Egypt, what we learned from...
Instructional Video1:14
Curated Video

Japan Language

12th - Higher Ed
The standard dialect of Japanese is spoken throughout the country, although there are some regional differences in accent. English is taught in many schools and is the most common language other than Japanese that is spoken in the...
Instructional Video11:21
Janus Academy

Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 2 - Radicals | How to Write Chinese Characters (Hanzi)

12th - Higher Ed
Hi, everyone, I’m Audrey from Janus Academy, an established language school based in Singapore. We focus on teaching Chinese and Japanese, specialize in Chinese phonetics. Hope you find our videos interesting and educational. In this...
Instructional Video5:56
Janus Academy

Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 3 - Simple Characters | How to Write Chinese Characters

12th - Higher Ed
Hi, everyone, I’m Audrey from Janus Academy, an established language school based in Singapore. We focus on teaching Chinese and Japanese, specialize in Chinese phonetics. Hope you find our videos interesting and educational. In this...
Instructional Video12:32
Janus Academy

Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 1 - Strokes | How to Write Chinese Characters (Hanzi)

12th - Higher Ed
Hi, everyone, I’m Audrey from Janus Academy, an established language school based in Singapore. We focus on teaching Chinese and Japanese, specialize in Chinese phonetics. Hope you find our videos interesting and educational. In this...
Instructional Video13:20
Oxford Online English

FCE (B2 First) Writing Exam - 5 Steps to Write a Great Essay

12th - Higher Ed
In this lesson you can learn how to write an essay for the Cambridge FCE exam, step by step.

You’ll see exactly what to do at each stage and how to get the best possible s
core.
There are four steps to the writing...
Instructional Video4:36
NativLang

Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)

9th - 11th
Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...
Instructional Video4:43
NativLang

Pronouncing pictures! - History of Writing Systems #4 (Rebus writing)

9th - 11th
Watch ancient Sumerians figure out how to use pictures to write sounds for the first time in history. See why the Egyptians disagree with their approach. Meaning writing (logographs) let early writers get civilized and document their...
Instructional Video3:47
NativLang

The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)

9th - 11th
Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first "true" alphabet. Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor...
Instructional Video9:04
NativLang

The Hardest Language To Spell

9th - 11th
Which language has the worst spelling bees? This one. Xidnaf claims Thai is "World's Most Complicated Writing System"='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVtpCByEylanguage!='_blank' rel='nofollow'>System" Watch me disagree. Then...
Instructional Video5:59
NativLang

The Lost Language Recovery Trick - counting an undeciphered script

9th - 11th
Got an undeciphered writing system you can't read? No problem! Here's how to start cracking a lost script: use your digits. I figured it was time to reconvene the Decipherment Club for this one. As Robinson points out in the introduction...
Instructional Video7:09
Extra Credits

The History of Writing - Where the Story Begins - Extra History

9th - 11th
How did the ancient civilization of Sumer first develop the concept of the written word? It all began with simple warehouse tallies in the temples, but as the scribes sought more simple ways to record information, those tallies gradually...
Instructional Video47:25
NativLang

Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing

9th - 11th
My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing systems. But only if you choose to take Thoth's Pill... This animated...
Instructional Video5:02
NativLang

Stroke Order - there's a wrong way to write Chinese characters

9th - 11th
There's a stroke-by-stroke way to write every Chinese character. Here's how I got used to hànzì and kanji stroke orders, and why even then they still threw a few punches. Subscribe for
Instructional Video1:43
NativLang

Learn to Write Aramaic - the early epigraphic alphabet

9th - 11th
A short series teaching the basics of writing Aramaic. Learn the alphabet in the earliest Aramaic writing system, found in monumental inscriptions and other ancient Aramaic epigraphy. This consonant alphabet or "abjad" is over 3000 years...
Instructional Video3:09
12tone

Building Blocks: Writing Music Down

6th - 11th
Music is a language, and like most languages, it has a writing system. Musical notation lets us store and communicate ideas across centuries, but if you don't know how to read it, it just looks like a bunch of dots and lines. In this...
Instructional Video12:05
TED Talks

TED: Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over europe? | Genevieve von Petzinger

12th - Higher Ed
Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they...
Instructional Video1:30
Visual Learning Systems

Language in Science: What Is Language?

9th - 12th
The meaningful use of language and vocabulary are some of the fundamentals of science. This program explores strategies and methods of understanding scientific language. Emphasis is placed on how the language of science supports...
Instructional Video1:30
Visual Learning Systems

Language in Science: Science in Language

3rd - 8th
The meaningful use of language and vocabulary are some of the fundamentals of science. This program explores strategies and methods of understanding scientific language. Emphasis is placed on how the language of science supports...
Instructional Video1:21
Visual Learning Systems

Language in Science: Vocabulary in Science

3rd - 8th
The meaningful use of language and vocabulary are some of the fundamentals of science. This program explores strategies and methods of understanding scientific language. Emphasis is placed on how the language of science supports...