DC
2017年9月23日
Extremely informational, well presented, with questions that stimulate reflection. The optional reading material is food for thought. I hope to see more courses from the same professor and University.
DP
2017年1月2日
Excellent! Really enjoyed and learnt a lot. I did not expect such a great content and professionalism in a free course. I am definitely purchasing for the title.
Thanks to all the team! Great job!
創建者 Cecilia C
•2017年6月25日
Very interesting course! Thank you!
創建者 Dennis M
•2020年5月21日
Great introduction to linguistics.
創建者 Zakharov O A
•2021年4月24日
тяжко было, но в целом интересно
創建者 Mai B
•2022年10月13日
lots of interesting information
創建者 Rizky A D
•2016年11月6日
101 linguistics
創建者 Wang x
•2017年2月9日
great course!
創建者 Wayne H
•2022年12月31日
excellent
創建者 Li j x
•2020年10月31日
很好best
創建者 Valdas M
•2020年11月20日
Interesting course. It's difficult to cover everything in such a short course. The last two weeks' classes have not much to do with "miracles" of languages. I would say these things are common to all languages. I would have preferred to concentrate more on firs 4 weeks topics. This all stuff with politeness does not fit much in the topic. It's more sociolinguistics, cultural studies etc. And there is not much to learn. There is no much valuable information to remember. I liked more the beginning about sounds, typology of languages etc. This all stuff with positive and negative face was a little strange. Specially, it was difficult to do the tests with these "faces". Listening exercises were quite OK, but for instance to decode Chinese without transcription was impossible task. All these exercises with language mistakes was also strange. If we all do pronunciation mistakes in all languages what’s the point to study these mistakes? What's the point to see what mistake is made in Basque, Gungbe or any other language? I saw this exercise as pure waste of my time. So, my general suggestion would be to concentrate on pure linguistic things (first 4 weeks) and do not go into field of sociology, neuro or psycholinguistics. BTW this couple of students is not balanced because the young man dominates all discussions. The girl should be more active or the man less active.
創建者 Warren C
•2019年9月22日
Too difficult for an introductory course. Ambiguous information. Time estimates are way off. Not what I expected. Rather provincial in its approach. Guess I'm just not cut out to be a linguist. Answers to the tests are not available or derivable from the lectures and required readings. I've read a lot of articles and books, particularly about neurolinguistics and the intersection between linguistics and genomics and the information in the course does not really assist with understanding what I've been reading, though I can sort of see how the authors might have made use of some of the things presented here. The interview with Chomsky was particularly useless.
創建者 Rob C
•2021年12月29日
Interesting course. Some have argued it can be biased and I don't know enough to say one way or the other. But the quizzes are ridiculously difficult. They should not be easy but how is telling me 90% of students failed on the first attempt not worth changing the format? I am currently stuck with a repeated 77.77% on week 3's quiz after watching the videos several times and taking good notes. The only way I can see myself passing is to keep guessing multiple choice combinations until it happens, which defeats the point of taking a course. I am joining many others in saying this is a good course but the quizzes make it unbearable and not worth trying to complete.
創建者 Nina F
•2020年2月28日
This course was interesting. It was interesting learning about linguistics and the various things related to languages. The only problem was that the quizzes were too hard. I feel like the quizzes were too hard for an introductory course to Linguistics. Many times, it was frustrating because it took me two or three tries just to pass them. I feel like this had a lot to do with how the questions were set up and through how it seemed like the answers to those questions weren't in the source material. My one recommendation would be to improve the quizzes.
創建者 Laura J
•2019年8月22日
The content was very interesting and offered in coherent ways. The quizzes, however, were more challenging than they needed to be. A lot of the questions were asked in unusual and unclear ways which made answering it very difficult because I wasn't always sure what exactly they were asking. I also found it difficult to know what exactly the answers meant as they often didn't correspond exactly to the way things were said in the lectures and readings, so even if you followed the content closely the answers didn't always make sense.
創建者 Zehra A
•2022年10月3日
Overall, this was a good course, the content was very interesting. I enjoyed learning about languge and linguistics. The only issue I had was some of the quiz questions, especially questions about the language informants' videos. The videos themselves were not bad, just hard to follow for anyone not familiar with that language. And then the related questions in the quizzes were hard, I almost never got those ones right. I just feel like we shouldn't have to watch the videos again and again to answer 2-3 questions.
創建者 Nobuko H
•2020年5月24日
This course is good for those who are interested in linguistics and thinking of starting a professional linguistic studies. The course introduces some major linguistic subfields: linguistic typologist, neurolinguistics, psycholinguistics, phonologist, etc., but it's only introductions. You need to delve into the subfield you've got interested in if you want to really know about the specifics. A variety of reading materials are offered, and you can explore miracles of languages as much as you like!
創建者 María P S
•2019年7月12日
The ethnologue is a mess, and I don't think a linguistics course should depend on a website to pass not only some questions, but almost half of a module, because you can understand perfectly what people is saying about their languages and you can formulate accurate questions that can be answered with the information given, and not researching in a web that has different content than the course provides, or changes the numbers, or absolutely ignore some important facts of languages searched.
創建者 Jeremy S
•2020年1月31日
It is a decent course that teaches the very basics of linguistics. It covers the topics of a Linguistics 101 course but no topic is explored in depth. It seems that some of the topics mentioned are barely even touched (e.g., Week 5 - Language in the Brain). Professor Oostendorp is a good lecturer but the lectures are not presented for easy notetaking. You should be prepared to make your own notes from the video lectures given few summaries/bulleted lists/etc.
創建者 Benjamin V
•2016年5月23日
I watched all the videos, but did not do the coursework.
I was a total beginner on the subject. The videos were very well made, and quite nice to watch.
However, I feel like the material was a bit too easy for my taste. I would have enjoyed a course that delved into "harder things".
For someone who doesn't like as much "hard challenges" as I do, I do think that this course is a nice introduction to the subject.
創建者 Z A
•2020年4月25日
I've watched the first module and it was good.
Only that the website that we are supposed to get the answers for the first week's quiz ( the last 5-6 questions ) from, is not working. And I have to take the quiz several times to find the answers. Please do something about it for the future learners, thank you.
創建者 Alisha K
•2020年4月25日
I thought this class was very interesting, but I, like many others, was frustrated by the quizzes. Also, I tried to do the first honors assignment, but was at a big disadvantage using a language I don't know. How am I supposed to come up with counter examples when I don't know the language?
創建者 Josefina M
•2022年5月31日
On the whole a nice introduction. In places the content was too broad and tried to cover too much, then in other areas the basic terms were glossed over where more time could be spent with more knowledge gained on the basics. But a nicely varied course.
創建者 Rahul M
•2022年1月3日
The course assignments can be real tough and sometimes daunting to tackle. The overall experience could have been more fun learning about languages from various parts of the world. At times too much technical jargons bogged the course for beginners.
創建者 Trixy L
•2020年8月2日
Hard to understand with the accents at times and I have gone through the videos while trying to find an answer for the quiz and it was never mentioned in the video so sometimes the quizzes don't match what was taught. Otherwise, I learned a lot.
創建者 Eva O
•2020年7月18日
Very intersting but very time-consuming: in order to pass the tests with its tricky and detail-focused questions you need to read the questions carefuly and review all material a second time.
創建者 K N
•2019年12月30日
I was expecting that the course would cover IPA in-depth. It's pretty unconscionable that an intro linguistics course would not pay deep attention to this topic.