Learner Reviews & Feedback for Miracles of Human Language: An Introduction to Linguistics by Universiteit Leiden
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DC
Sep 23, 2017
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.
NI
Mar 10, 2021
The course was well-organised and very interesting. It covered the different aspects of linguistics wonderfully and prompted me to delve further into specific fields of linguistics such as phonetics.
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By Genevieve L D K
•Oct 21, 2019
Very enjoyable however, I feel that Quiz Three needs to be looked over for software problems.
By Antonella C
•Nov 23, 2018
Very interesting and passionating course even for people who are new to linguistic.
By Tianyu Z
•Jun 12, 2020
It is a great introduction course, covering every aspect related to linguistics.
By Laureen E
•Sep 17, 2019
First course tried.. succeeded! Very informative and nice to work on! Thank you
By QIAN Y
•Sep 26, 2022
The quizzes are too hard, and not really closely related with the informants!
By Oscar C
•Jan 15, 2022
The content was good, but could go a bit deeper into each of the subtopics.
By André L
•Apr 9, 2018
Interesting course, I've learned a lot of things about studying languages.
By Jia W
•Jun 21, 2016
some problems in quiz part are confusing... but nice course in general
By Gautam M
•Oct 3, 2020
An eye-opener and a game changer course to understand humanity.
By Nathalie v L
•Nov 5, 2019
great course. Great refresher 30 years after college.
By Mohammed A A A
•May 21, 2020
One of the most brilliant courses I have ever taken!
By Osnat B
•Apr 5, 2019
Wide-angle, general introductory course. Engaging.
By Ruben A M d C
•Jan 28, 2017
Interesting content, but still a bit buggy...
By Fernando M
•Jan 2, 2020
Good course, nice teachers, good material
By Dorothy H
•Sep 25, 2016
The interview with Chomsky a real treat.
By Saman M
•Jul 12, 2021
This was a great introductory course.
By Cecilia C
•Jun 25, 2017
Very interesting course! Thank you!
By Dennis M
•May 21, 2020
Great introduction to linguistics.
By Zakharov O A
•Apr 24, 2021
тяжко было, но в целом интересно
By Mai B
•Oct 13, 2022
lots of interesting information
By Rizky A D
•Nov 6, 2016
101 linguistics
By Wang x
•Feb 9, 2017
great course!
By Wayne H
•Dec 31, 2022
excellent
By Li j x
•Oct 31, 2020
很好best
By Valdas M
•Nov 20, 2020
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.