Words, words, words
5.0
(2)
24 learners
What you'll learn
This course includes
- 4.5 hours of video
- Certificate of completion
- Access on mobile and TV
Course content
1 modules • 23 lessons • 4.5 hours of video
Words, words, words
23 lessons
• 4.5 hours
Words, words, words
23 lessons
• 4.5 hours
- How to Speak So That People Want to Listen | Julian Treasure | TED 09:59
- John McWhorter: Txtng is killing language. JK!!! 13:49
- Saki Mafundikwa: Ingenuity and elegance in ancient African alphabets 08:11
- Jill Shargaa: Please, please, people. Let's put the 'awe' back in 'awesome' 06:18
- David Kwong: Two nerdy obsessions meet — and it's magic 11:44
- Billy Collins: Two poems about what dogs think (probably) 04:03
- Anne Curzan: What makes a word "real"? 17:14
- Stephen Burt: Why people need poetry 13:13
- Wes Moore: How to talk to veterans about the war 14:28
- Matthew Carter: My life in typefaces 16:02
- Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein: The long reach of reason 15:24
- Suzanne Talhouk: Don't kill your language 14:13
- Andrew Fitzgerald: Adventures in Twitter fiction 11:56
- Learn to read Chinese ... with ease! | ShaoLan 06:11
- Why is 'x' the unknown? | Terry Moore 03:58
- Massive-scale online collaboration | Luis von Ahn 16:40
- What we learned from 5 million books 14:09
- Mark Pagel: How language transformed humanity 20:11
- Patricia Ryan: Don't insist on English! 10:36
- Alan Siegel: Let's simplify legal jargon! 04:55
- Wade Davis: Cultures at the far edge of the world 22:47
- Steven Pinker: What our language habits reveal 17:42
- Erin McKean: The joy of lexicography 17:48
Take this course with you
Download the app to continue lessons from your phone anytime.
