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Exploring the Language of Japan: Japanese Alphabet and Writing Systems
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...
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...
NativLang
The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese
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'...
NativLang
Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)
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...
NativLang
How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)
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...
SciShow
What You Don't Know About The Rosetta Stone
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...
Curated Video
Japan Language
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...
Janus Academy
Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 2 - Radicals | How to Write Chinese Characters (Hanzi)
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...
Janus Academy
Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 3 - Simple Characters | How to Write Chinese Characters
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...
Janus Academy
Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 1 - Strokes | How to Write Chinese Characters (Hanzi)
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...
Oxford Online English
FCE (B2 First) Writing Exam - 5 Steps to Write a Great Essay
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...
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...
NativLang
Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)
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...
NativLang
Pronouncing pictures! - History of Writing Systems #4 (Rebus writing)
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...
NativLang
The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)
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...
NativLang
The Lost Language Recovery Trick - counting an undeciphered script
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...
Extra Credits
The History of Writing - Where the Story Begins - Extra History
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...
NativLang
Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
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...
NativLang
Learn to Write Aramaic - the early epigraphic alphabet
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...
12tone
Building Blocks: Writing Music Down
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...
TED Talks
TED: Why are these 32 symbols found in ancient caves all over europe? | Genevieve von Petzinger
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...
Visual Learning Systems
Language in Science: What Is Language?
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...
Visual Learning Systems
Language in Science: Science in Language
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...
Visual Learning Systems
Language in Science: Vocabulary in Science
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...