In today's episode I interview Lane Greene from The Economist. Lane shows us where most people go wrong with their writing and 3 concrete things you can do right now to up your writing level. Listen in today!

In this video, the speaker argues that the English alphabet is in need of an update to better reflect the sounds of the language. They explore letters from other alphabets that could be borrowed and propose the addition of new letters,...

Welcome to what you need before you read, the series where I attempt to inoculate you from boredom by injecting a little context and relevancy into you reading experience. This video will provide background information, context, and...

Sometimes you gotta be lazy to be productive. Watch this and you will understand what I mean.

This is an updated version of one of my first videos on YouTube. I didn't like the quality and my "R's" were off. I think this version is better. In this video I simply read off the 3 principal parts of some German irregular verbs...

This is the 19th video of German with Puppets Series #1. In this video, my puppets give examples to show how to use the modal auxiliaries and werden.

In this video I explain how to make a gerund out of a German infinitive. It is pretty easy to do. This video accompanies the German with Puppets video about Gerunds, which you can see here:    • #12 Gerunds (GwP2) - Deutsch lernen  

In this video I explain how to watch German videos so that you can get the most out of them. I also give you some pointers on how to find more videos on line.

In this video I attempt to explain how you can teach yourself to think in German. <b<br/>r/>

I mentioned in this video my other video about labeling things in your house to learn vocabulary.

This is a very brief explanation of all of the grammar topics that are discussed in our German 1 book in Chapter 6. This includes the modal auxiliaries, negation, and kennen vs wissen. If you would like a more detailed explanation of...

When you hear the word "geometry", you might think of shapes. And you wouldn't be wrong! But before we can get to shapes, we need to talk about the parts that can make up shapes, like points, lines, rays, and line segments. In this...

What is a Mental Frame? Mental framing is how you see any given situation and occurs when you position your thoughts in such a way as to convince yourself of the value of difficult situations. This positioning begins by asking a few...

Material covered:Recommend,Advice & Advise,Quiet & Quite,Licence & License<br/>
,Principal & Principle,Practice & Practise,Susie Story for Queue,Susie Story for Indictment

Material covered:Jewellery,Skilful,Focused,Practice & practise,Licence & license<br/>
,Manoeuvre,Fulfil,Susie's Story - Manoeuvre,Susie's Story - Confectionery

Material covered:Encourage,Character,Autumn,Tongue<br/>
Susie's Story <br/>- Desperate
Susie's Story - Sergeant

A video entitled “The Importance of Setting” which explores how to revise the setting of a text to change the mood.

Aside from the coding languages there seems to be all sorts of jargon used by coders. The amount of jargon can be overwhelming to new programmers. In this video, Mark reviews the most common jargon used by programmers from A to Z. ...

We've all been saying them, and we've all been wrong!

Can a dominant side of your brain dictate your personality. LOGICAL vs CREATIVE? The Theory goes that if you are more creative and artistic then you are ‘right-brained’ and if you’re more methodical and better with numbers then you are...

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego), describes Bill Stokoe’s early work on analyzing sign languages and searching for the relevant parameters to characterize meaning.

UC San Diego linguist Carol Padden describes how, while we now recognize that gesture and sign language are structurally very different, linguists are now carefully examining how gesture might have originally given rise to sign languages.

Linguist Carol Padden (UC San Diego) describes how recognizing the difference between gesture and sign language shouldn’t prevent us from investigating how gesture helps brings languages into being.

Historian Nile Green (UCLA) describes how the model of religious economy explains both the evolution and diversity of organized religion, and some of the benefits of applying it to Islam.

David Bellos, Director of the Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication at Princeton University, describes the extraordinary flexibility that language possesses to convey different shades of meaning.