A free, interactive course in linguistics and English phonetics and phonology.
A course in two units: an introduction to linguistics — what linguistics studies, its branches, the design features of language, animal communication, signed languages, writing systems, language in the brain, the origins of language, the history of the field and typology; and English phonetics and phonology — speech production, consonants, acoustics, vowels and diphthongs, stress and rhythm, and phonetic transcription.
2 unidades · 20 lecciones · 260 preguntas de práctica · 7 idiomas · gratis en la web y en Android
Empieza este curso gratisLanguages I teaches how language works and how English sounds, in short lessons each followed by practice questions with instant feedback.
The linguistics unit asks what makes language language: its branches, design features, animal communication, signed languages, writing systems, language in the brain, origins and relativity, the history of linguistics, and universals and typology. The phonetics unit covers how speech is produced and classified, the acoustics of speech, English vowels, diphthongs and reduction, English consonants and allophony, stress and rhythm, and transcription of connected speech.
Todas las explicaciones de las lecciones de Languages I se pueden leer gratis en la web. Las preguntas de práctica y las escenas interactivas están en la app.
Yes. Languages I is free on Tryals, on the web and on Android.
2 units, 20 lessons and 260 practice questions. It is self-paced: each lesson is short, followed by questions with instant feedback, and your progress is saved across devices.
English, Catalan, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. You can switch language inside the app.
No. The phonetics unit introduces the symbols and how to transcribe with them.
The linguistics unit covers language in general, including signed languages and writing systems; the phonetics and phonology unit focuses on English.