Language & Linguistics Videos Hacker News Recommends — Page 2
Language & linguistics videos on HackerTube: the talks, lectures and explainers Hacker News commenters keep sharing, covering linguistics, etymology, name origins, pronunciation, English history, language learning, translation, writing systems, dialects, constructed languages, onomastics.
62 videos · ranked by HN recommendations · showing 49–62
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explainer#3887Tiffany: The Name That Cheats Death
CGP Grey
1 HN recommenders · 2022–2023
documentary#3904The odd accent of Tangier VA - American Tongues episode #3
People Like Us - The CNAM Channel
1 HN recommenders · 2010–2025
comedy#3915Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (HD)
trouchelle
“I love this movie scene”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
explainer#3938How big is a billion? - Numberphile
Numberphile
“explains it all quite nicely.”
1 HN recommenders · 2014–2024
explainer#3955Does the language you speak change how you think?
Tom Scott
“I recommend this Tom Scott video on the issue”
1 HN recommenders · 2023–2024
explainer#4044The Hidden Rules of Conversation
Tom Scott
“This video covers the concept pretty well”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2026
lecture#4132Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition
Mark Rounds
“Their method is based on Stephen Krashen's "language acquisition through comprehensible input"[1] and... it just works.”
1 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
explainer#4136Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED
WIRED
“Erik Singer's videos on accent work in particular fall right into the 'informative and entertaining' basket for me”
1 HN recommenders · 2017–2019
comedy#4264How English sounds to non-English speakers
Brian and Karl
“It's a very strange experience hearing it!”
1 HN recommenders · 2013–2017
documentary#4434No Béarla Series 1, Episode 1.
An Ghaeilge
“No Béarla[1] is one of the saddest documentaries I've ever seen.”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2025
explainer#4446why typing like this is sometimes okay.
Tom Scott
“Tom Scott has a nice intro video about this”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2024
lecture#4453Stephen Krashen: Language Acquisition and Comprehensible Input
Tarek Hamza
“I've been pretty much sold on Stephen Krashen's theory of second language acquisition[1][2], which in practice focuses on comprehensible input.”
1 HN recommenders · 2020–2022
other#4644Original Pronunciation - Hamlet | To Be, or not to be... | Ben Crystal
Shakespeare on Toast
“If you listen to a performance of Shakespeare that replicates the original pronunciation, it's wildly different.”
1 HN recommenders · 2018–2025
talk#4659Politics and Language | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google
Talks at Google
“a pretty good, easy to grasp intro to his ideas on universal grammar and the language faculty”
1 HN recommenders · 2008–2018
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