Channel: Think Fact

Category: Education

Tags: anthropologycivilizationmonolinguallanguageworldviewthinkfactvsaucepsychologycultureworld languageearthenglishthink factsecond languageinternethumanity

Description: Think Fact here: This video dives into understanding language from a cultural point of view to better understand the impact of a world language, and what might need to be done in order to make it better. Learn more about a "type one language/civilization": youtube.com/watch?v=7NPC47qMJVg Who Owns English?: youtube.com/watch?v=MZEyAsvi_0E ____________________________ Link to my YouTube channel: youtube.com/thinkfact Link to my Twitter account: twitter.com/DaleWinslow Link to the Think Fact sub Reddit: reddit.com/r/thinkfact The first song is called: The Visitors The Visitors by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: audionautix.com The second song is called: Frequency Link to song: youtube.com/watch?v=ejevWh88-7E And was made by: Silent partner Song is available in the YouTube audio library. _______ Sources and further readings: How languages evolve - Alex Gendler -TED-Ed youtube.com/watch?v=iWDKsHm6gTA Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain -Big Think youtube.com/watch?v=Q-B_ONJIEcE Language: Crash Course Psychology #16 -CrashCourse youtube.com/watch?v=s9shPouRWCs Between You and I the English Language is Going to the Dogs -iqsquared youtube.com/watch?v=MMcSOCuszkw English language spelling reform (Debate) debatewise.org/debates/2960-english-language-spelling-reform How Does Language Change Your Brain? -TestTube Plus youtube.com/watch?v=aGITqiG-Ips Breaking the language barrier | Tim Doner | TEDxTeen 2014 -TEDx Talks youtube.com/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs Are Elvish, Klingon, Dothraki and Na'vi real languages? - John McWhorter -TED-Ed youtube.com/watch?v=a5mZ0R3h8m0 Chinese Lucky Numbers - Numberphile youtube.com/watch?v=pT52hREAf18 Numbers in Chinese culture en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture Why Is English Spelling So Weird? mentalfloss.com/article/62995/why-english-spelling-so-weird Statistics that discuss population of speakers of major languages. statista.com/statistics/266808/the-most-spoken-languages-worldwide Languages of the world - Interesting facts about languages bbc.co.uk/languages/guide/languages.shtml Languages of Papua New Guinea en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guinea Linguistic relativity (Worldview) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity One language dies every 14 days. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/vanishing-languages/rymer-text en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelling_reform en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996#Debate_over_the_need_for_reform en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Spelling_Society en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_used_on_the_Internet listdose.com/10-daily-english-words-and-their-weird-origins