GEN102 - What is Linguistics (not)?

Sometimes people misunderstand what linguistics really is. Most of them always think that when you're studying linguistics, it's like you will be able to speak many many languages. However, it's completely false. Me I am a freshman in linguistics but before I started studying it, I've never put in my mind that I was going to learn many languages. I bought some time for knowing well the discipline. Congratulations my brother because you've just added up something in my theory. Your explanation is clear. Keep up the good way.

Loving this so much, thank you, it is so helpful. These are short bites to help me get a grasp, whilst studying for my MA in Linguistics. I will try and watch all your clips, thank you so much. No silly explanations. No pictures of cats or dogs.. no distracting music, people acting silly and pulling strange faces. No boring long, winded, unintelligible, not comprehensible, strange dialects. Just good informative, understandable, easy to follow breakdowns of critical points.

"Enjoy the fascination of language study and linguistics". Thank you so much for the interesting video and for sharing your fascination with us, who are also fascinated by linguistics!

I love the way he outright says the misconceptions about language and how it isn't just how many languages you know and are fluent in and that language is really more of an art form and the critiques of language vary so vastly. The aspects are so vast and cannot be narrowed down to such finite detail. I hated that when I would tell those around me that I had the desire to be a translator and the biggest thing I would hear would be those stating that it would be so difficult to become one because of how many languages there are out there and I just could not break through to some people that sound structure and meaning and the way the language is portrayed are very important as well and it isn't always just a sound. Having an open mind to work with and an artistic outlook is so important here <3

Such an informative and interesting video. It's going to be helpful for everyone, for non-linguists to understand the correct meaning of Linguistics, and for many of us in defining our subject properly for others 🙂

Linguistics is indeed a captivating enrichment of my life. May I note that your introduction on this topic was both immaculate and overwhelming! Indubitably, you put much effort on providing a terrific overview on this fascinating field of work. Thank you for sharing this video!

im studying linguistics in my first year in college and this was very helpful ! thank you so much

I have never seen someone making things much clearer as you do . Big thanks to you :)

Beautifully done. Thank you.

Big thanks from moroccan student i really appreciate your efforts . thank u so much . hope to see more ✌

I've been watching some videos here since 2016 to now ... I really like this subject and the way you teach😍 great thanks for your sharing

I study computing science in college and I am about to take an elective course in Linguistics so discovering computational linguistics now has me really considering taking that path in college

Excellent explanation. Fascinating and interesting.

Well done sir 👍,you are the best teacher in linguistics that i have never seen before. Thank you. Many congrat to you🙏

I do really love the way how simply and calmly you explain in each video on this channel! Thank you very much dear professor! :)

is first time that i understand a topic very clearly, thanks! amazing job <3

I have enjoyed a lot this video presentation on linguistics.  Thank you.

Thanks for preparing this video. It really helped me to have a clear idea. Short and sweet!🙂

You are amazing!!! I wanna watch this video over and over again!!!!

What a thrilling explanation!