NativLang
The Hardest Writing System! - an animated rant about learning Japanese
Japanese really does have the most complex writing system in the world. Here I spell out its history and my struggle to learn it. Subscribe for language! https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang * TLDW? * Forget...
NativLang
Chinese is NOT picture writing! - History of Writing Systems #5 (Determinatives)
Watch this ancient Chinese scribe figure out how to use a fixed set of characters to write limitless words in his language. How? By combining meaning writing (logographs) and sound writing (rebus)! The result is a set of helpful hints...
NativLang
How Korea crafted a better alphabet - History of Writing Systems #11 (Featural Alphabet)
The Korean alphabet is better than yours. Meet the king who invented it and watch him work his linguistic magic in this chapter in the history of writing. You wake up in another palace. This time you're in Korea. The first face to greet...
Janus Academy
Learn All the Basics of Chinese Writing Part 2 - Radicals | How to Write Chinese Characters (Hanzi)
Hi, everyone, I’m Audrey from Janus Academy, an established language school based in Singapore. We focus on teaching Chinese and Japanese, specialize in Chinese phonetics. Hope you find our videos interesting and educational. In this...
Bill Carmody
Coloring Without Borders: A Conversation with Christian Robinson
In this video, Bill Carmody interviews Christian Robinson, an accomplished illustrator and animator. They discuss the coloring and activity book "Coloring Without Borders," which was created to raise funds for families separated at the...
Mediacorp
Religious Harmony and the Impact of Terrorism
This video explores the impact of terrorism on religious harmony in Singapore. Through interviews with university students and individuals from different faiths, the host uncovers the challenges faced in bridging the gap of understanding...
Learn French With Alexa
GCSE French Speaking: What is the last film you saw at the cinema?
In this video we look at this question: Quel est le dernier film que tu as vu au cinéma ? - What is the last film you saw at the cinema? (AQA Theme 1 - Identity and culture, Topic 3 - Media and free time)
Crash Course
How the Leaning Tower of Pisa Was Saved: Crash Course Engineering #40
This week we’re going underground to explore geotechnical and seismic engineering. We’ll look at how structures connect to the ground and transmit loads through their foundations, and how those foundations need to provide a high bearing...
TED Talks
Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
NativLang
Semitic's vowel-smuggling consonants - History of Writing Systems #9 (Pointing & Matres Lectionis)
Semitic languages like Hebrew and Arabic evolved a unique way to write vowels... with consonants! See how in this episode of Thoth's Pill: an Animated History of Writing. You're back in the ancient Middle East, where seemingly everyone's...
NativLang
Pronouncing pictures! - History of Writing Systems #4 (Rebus writing)
Watch ancient Sumerians figure out how to use pictures to write sounds for the first time in history. See why the Egyptians disagree with their approach. Meaning writing (logographs) let early writers get civilized and document their...
NativLang
The day the Greeks invented vowels - History of Writing Systems #8 (The Alphabet)
Your vowels were invented in Greece, giving birth to the first "true" alphabet. Watch as your new toga-clad friend turns your consonant abjad into a consonant-vowel alphabet. It's such a useful mapping of letters to sounds that neighbor...
NativLang
The Hardest Language To Spell
Which language has the worst spelling bees? This one. Xidnaf claims Thai is "World's Most Complicated Writing System": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKVtpCByEy4 Watch me disagree. Then SUBSCRIBE for more language!...
NativLang
The Lost Language Recovery Trick - counting an undeciphered script
Got an undeciphered writing system you can't read? No problem! Here's how to start cracking a lost script: use your digits. I figured it was time to reconvene the Decipherment Club for this one. As Robinson points out in the introduction...
Extra Credits
The History of Writing - Where the Story Begins - Extra History
How did the ancient civilization of Sumer first develop the concept of the written word? It all began with simple warehouse tallies in the temples, but as the scribes sought more simple ways to record information, those tallies gradually...
NativLang
Thoth's Pill - an Animated History of Writing
My animation takes you through the birth and evolution of writing. Watch the story of the world's scripts unfold, from the early cave days to modern writing systems. But only if you choose to take Thoth's Pill... This animated...
NativLang
Stroke Order - there's a wrong way to write Chinese characters
There's a stroke-by-stroke way to write every Chinese character. Here's how I got used to hànzì and kanji stroke orders, and why even then they still threw a few punches. Subscribe for language!...
12tone
Building Blocks: Writing Music Down
Music is a language, and like most languages, it has a writing system. Musical notation lets us store and communicate ideas across centuries, but if you don't know how to read it, it just looks like a bunch of dots and lines. In this...
NativLang
Learn to Write Aramaic - the early epigraphic alphabet
A short series teaching the basics of writing Aramaic. Learn the alphabet in the earliest Aramaic writing system, found in monumental inscriptions and other ancient Aramaic epigraphy. This consonant alphabet or "abjad" is over 3000 years...
Visual Learning Systems
Language in Science: What Is Language?
The meaningful use of language and vocabulary are some of the fundamentals of science. This program explores strategies and methods of understanding scientific language. Emphasis is placed on how the language of science supports...
Let's Tute
Euclid's Geometry: Definitions, Axioms, and Postulates
Euclid's Geometry part 1/2: This video discusses the history and development of mathematics, specifically algebra and geometry. It focuses on the contributions of Euclid, the father of geometry, and his approach towards defining and...
Visual Learning Systems
Language in Science: Vocabulary in Science
The meaningful use of language and vocabulary are some of the fundamentals of science. This program explores strategies and methods of understanding scientific language. Emphasis is placed on how the language of science supports...
Visual Learning Systems
Language in Science: Video Review
The meaningful use of language and vocabulary are some of the fundamentals of science. This program explores strategies and methods of understanding scientific language. Emphasis is placed on how the language of science supports...
The Wall Street Journal
Kai-Fu Lee on the Future of AI and Enterprise Tech
Kai-Fu Lee, founder and CEO of Sinovation Ventures on where AI trendlines head next, and how AI will be applied to enterprise.