Crash Course Linguistics Preview - By CrashCourse
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| 00:0-1 | Hi , I'm Taylor Behnke and welcome to crash chris | |
| 00:02 | linguistics . Languages everywhere . It's what we used to | |
| 00:04 | order a pizza talk on our phones , tell jokes | |
| 00:07 | and make sense of the world around us . We've | |
| 00:09 | used language to learn about every other subject on crash | |
| 00:11 | course and now it's time to learn linguistics . Hell | |
| 00:14 | language itself works over the next 16 episodes . We'll | |
| 00:17 | look at the structure of language from the smallest building | |
| 00:20 | blocks of sounds and hand shapes To the structure of | |
| 00:23 | words and meanings to how words go together to make | |
| 00:25 | sentences and conversations along the way . We'll also look | |
| 00:28 | at the relationship between language and our identity , the | |
| 00:31 | brain and even computers . We'll learn about writing language | |
| 00:35 | acquisition and the diversity of human languages . There are | |
| 00:38 | actually over 7000 identified languages in the world today that | |
| 00:42 | includes thousands of spoken languages and hundreds of sign languages | |
| 00:46 | . They can be found in small communities or span | |
| 00:48 | across multiple countries . It can be written or unwritten | |
| 00:52 | and they can be learned through family , formal schooling | |
| 00:54 | or broader social networks . Each one is a living | |
| 00:57 | experiment into how humans communicate throughout this series will be | |
| 01:01 | sharing examples from widely known languages as well as some | |
| 01:04 | you may not have encountered before , but we won't | |
| 01:06 | be learning one language in particular . Instead , we'll | |
| 01:09 | be looking at similarities and differences across many languages . | |
| 01:12 | Learning how to think like a linguist about the languages | |
| 01:14 | we encounter in our everyday lives . Were excited to | |
| 01:17 | produce a series on linguistics because it's super relevant to | |
| 01:20 | lots of fields including speech recognition and natural language processing | |
| 01:24 | , speech pathology , lexicography and communications . It's also | |
| 01:28 | useful if you're teaching or learning languages , not to | |
| 01:31 | mention for journalists , poets , translators , interpreters and | |
| 01:35 | other people who work with language . And if that | |
| 01:37 | sounds like basically everyone , it kind of is more | |
| 01:40 | generally understanding linguistics helps us understand how our own minds | |
| 01:44 | and bodies work and the hidden patterns in our interactions | |
| 01:47 | with other humans . It's also really fun regardless of | |
| 01:50 | what part of language were analyzing or which language or | |
| 01:53 | languages are . Our focus . A linguist is interested | |
| 01:56 | in language as it's actually used , linguistics is not | |
| 02:00 | about trying to establish and enforce one variety of language | |
| 02:03 | is better than another . After all , if we | |
| 02:05 | were studying rabbits , we wouldn't go around telling some | |
| 02:07 | rabbits that they're hopping style is better than others . | |
| 02:11 | But this increased understanding of language does come with an | |
| 02:14 | ethical responsibility to be kind and compassionate with it . | |
| 02:17 | Before we get into it all , let me introduce | |
| 02:19 | myself . My name is Taylor Behnke and I'm a | |
| 02:22 | writer , video maker and digital organizer . I studied | |
| 02:25 | linguistics in college alongside writing in spanish ever since . | |
| 02:29 | I've been fascinated by how language works and how it | |
| 02:32 | shapes our identities . I think a lot about the | |
| 02:34 | power of language as a tool for communication , both | |
| 02:37 | in my work with digital communities and on my Youtube | |
| 02:40 | channel . It's radish time . I'm excited to keep | |
| 02:43 | learning about linguistics with you see you in the first | |
| 02:45 | episode . |
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