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I found this course to be not only educational but extremely interesting. It provides a great overview of the field of linguistics and does so in an engaging manner. I highly recommend it!
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Very interesting course, I found the content easy to follow. Some of the questions felt a little abstract in relation to the content, but perhaps that was user error in trying to complete quickly!
By Ryo M
•Oct 18, 2020
I'm a science guy with no background about Linguistics and had expected this course to give me deeper understanding of human language from a point of view that is new to me, but what I found is Linguistic is nothing, no offense, as long as this course tells me. Most of the statements and the questions by the professor was not well-defined and opinionated. At lease I wanted many examples or facts in some organized way when we focus on a specific topic, but this course doesn't contain that feature. I think I am just not the target of this course, but I leave this review to save others like me.
By Judith o G
•Dec 29, 2020
This course seems to be poorly organized and poorly presented. When I read the text, the professor does not use complete sentences, asks intermediate questions before the relevant information is given and then assumes that the International Phonetic Alpabet is known to participants because no explanation of it is given. I studied Comparative Linguistics 30 years ago so the subject is not unknown to me but this presentation is horrible.
The one-star rating is because the required readings are veryinteresting.
By Mary W
•Sep 21, 2023
Ethnologue under the free access does not provide the info the course requires, nor do any of the required reading links work. So So disappointed. Also Ethnologue does NOT offer an option for the free two months as the course suggests. I am so disappointed in Leiden, I will never take another leiden course. Not the first time, is the last time...
By Sara P
•Nov 1, 2020
I couldn't complete the course because not all of their required readings were available to the public. When I tried to contact a moderator for help, no one ever responded.
By Jinjin M H
•Aug 6, 2024
The tests are faulty. They need to be revised. This mistake makes it impossible for learners to progress in the course. You need to amend this.
By Wren E
•Dec 6, 2021
It starts off as an ad for the university. I'd prefer to focus on the content, which should be all linguistics, not uni stats and whatnot.
By Polina
•Sep 14, 2022
Course was pretty interesting until I needed to take a test on the first week. This test is incorrect and it destroyed my motivation.
By Ramona M H
•Jan 21, 2017
To difficult to enjoy, unfortunately.
By Adi L
•Jun 28, 2022
extreamly hard! like a nightmare!