Language is everywhere. Linguistics is the study of language, but what does that even mean? In this episode of Crash Course Linguistics, we'll begin...

What even is a word? Well… linguists don’t really know! But that’s ok! When linguists want to get super specific, we don’t...

Grammar sometimes gets a bad reputation, but we're actually doing grammar all the time! And we're pretty good at it! In this episode of Crash Course...

There are many theories of syntax and different ways to represent grammatical structures, but one of the simplest is tree structure diagrams! In this...

If you want to know what a word means, all you have to do is look it up in the dictionary, right? Actually, it’s a little more complicated than...

We don’t always say exactly what we mean, and yet we’re still pretty good at understanding each other. That’s because we...

Language is an important part of our identities, and the ways we feel about how others use language is influenced by society. The study of the social...

The letters in a word don’t always match the sounds they represent, and people can pronounce words in different ways. Lucky for us, linguists...

In English, we have 5 (well, sometimes 6) vowel letters, but way more vowel sounds. That’s where the IPA can help us! In this episode of Crash...

All of the sounds or handshapes in a language can be pronounced differently depending on the context, but in different languages, these differences...

We couldn't have language without the brain, but our brains are a bit harder to study than other parts of the body that we use to make languages like...

Babies have to learn a lot of language stuff before they can even say their first word. Exposure to language as infants doesn’t just help us...

Language is constantly changing. Today’s small changes could lead to entirely new dialects or languages in the future. We can’t predict...

If you ask a linguist “How many languages are there in the world?” the answer most will give you is “around 7000”. We say...

Computers are pretty great, and we use them for different language tasks every day. But teaching computers to understand language is surprisingly...

All societies have spoken or signed language, but not all languages have a written form. Since writing developed in different ways in different...

Follow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker...

Hezekiah and Alec, two friends from Jamaica, finds themselves thrust into the criminal underbelly of London's East End. Here they meet Mary Carr,...

Years ago, the fearsome Pirate King, Gol D. Roger was executed leaving a huge pile of treasure and the famous "One Piece" behind. Whoever claims the...

Jack Reacher, a veteran military police investigator, has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest...

A former U.S. President is called out of retirement to find the source of a deadly cyberattack, only to discover a vast web of lies and conspiracies.

Peter Parker is on his way to becoming a hero, but his path to get there is anything but ordinary.

Byungmoon, Korea’s top private high school, is rife with corruption, where status and success matter most. Hae-sung, a top NIS agent, goes...

A lost thirty-something shares his struggles, from failed relationships to boring jobs and pointless nights out. Stuck in his routine at first, he...

Mark leads a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives. When a mysterious colleague...

Jae-yoon, a late military enlistee, and his girlfriend, Young-joo, break up over the phone over growing misunderstandings. But a zombie outbreak...

Morgan is a single mom with an exceptional mind, whose unconventional knack for solving crimes leads to an unusual and unstoppable partnership with a...

Hundreds of cash-strapped players accept a strange invitation to compete in children's games. Inside, a tempting prize awaits — with deadly...