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.
DP
Jan 2, 2017
Excellent! Really enjoyed and learnt a lot. I did not expect such a great content and professionalism in a free course. I am definitely purchasing for the title.
Thanks to all the team! Great job!
By Sukran C
•Dec 25, 2017
I am so exited about this course. I found very interesting and successfull. Simply I can not be able to stop watching videos and go over reading materials. I hope they keep open more courses related to this course.
By Tetiana M
•Mar 22, 2017
This is an extremely interesting and informative course. For me it was really fascinating six weeks of educational process. I am very appreciated to the professor Marc van Oostendorp and his students for this MOOC.
By Touahri A
•Apr 29, 2020
This course was wonderful. I gained a lot of knowledge about languages and different fields of linguistics. I really recommend this course for anyone interested in languages with no background or basic background.
By Heli K
•Jun 29, 2019
Super well designed course with intriguing classes and reading materials. I highly recommend this course for everyone into linguistics. Thank you so much for this course!! Waiting for Miracles of Human Language 2!
By Érica C
•May 14, 2018
I'm so happy I decided to enroll in this course. This was my very first introduction to Linguistics and it left me wanting to know more. Thank you to everyone who worked hard to make this course available for us.
By Svenja S
•Nov 20, 2022
Great course, outstanding videos and helpful support! I loved, that we can always ask questions in the forum, got some insights in the life of linguists and in differnet languages and they variety.
Thanks a lot!
By å¼ æ‰¬
•Jun 11, 2018
The instructor is so kind...And the course is a little bit hard to finish, because they have a lot of reading text and prepare video(like statistics analysis), but I still love it, and I will finish it on time.
By THIYAGARAJ G
•Aug 1, 2020
This has been a fantastic learning journey with professor Marc, Martin, Inge and fellow mates from forum. Extremely thankful to this course. Thank you and keep coming with similar courses for students like us.
By Linda
•Jun 13, 2020
It was a very interesting course. Very motivating. I learned a lot about linguistic theories. The quizzes were difficult but challenging. The assignments were also very nice and doable. Clear videos. Etc. etc.
By Dana K
•Sep 16, 2019
Loved this course. The teaching was very well done and kept me interested. After this course I applied to University to begin my studies in LInguistics. Thank you all for this wonderful course. Would recommend
By Michelle M
•May 1, 2023
Amazing, I was having some trouble deciding what college degree I'd take and this course made it clear on how exciting learning linguistics is! Fantastic explanations and tests with questions that made sense.
By Ryan T M
•Oct 15, 2018
Very interestding course. Covers just enough to make it achievable, but also opens the door to a lot in terms of linguistic study. Definitely recommended to anybody who is interested in language and culture.
By Lucrecia F
•Dec 4, 2016
Good course for beginners. It's very basic if you already have some background in language studies. I would recommend this course to people who are considering studying Language or Linguistics at university.
By Darsving O E M
•Nov 8, 2016
This course is really great and very enriching, specially when you want to have a general view about Linguistics, and at the same time, you get the tools to make a simple but precise analysis of languages.
By Nguyen P T
•Oct 21, 2022
The course is extremely well-designed, combining lectures, discussions, interviews, quizzes and empirical data to analyze. It provides the same experience as being enrolled in a course at the university.
By SNIGDHA K
•Nov 3, 2021
Absolutely delightful and severely engaging. Language lovers you will not be disappointed. Very well put together with assignments which make you think and question and eventually change your world views.
By Marian G
•Feb 24, 2017
Simply GREAT! I can't even express how thankful I am for the amazing information presented in such an understandable way, yet it was challenging. My highest respect to the team in charge of this course!!!
By Lindsey N
•May 1, 2017
I'm only on the first lesson and feel I have learned so much! Thank you for making the course materials free for those of us not going for the certificate but are just learning because it's interesting.
By John C
•Mar 28, 2019
I found this course extremely challenging. Which I love. I now have a whole know respect for the learners of languages, and the people who study linguistics. I am glad I took part in this program.
By Silvana H O
•Aug 26, 2020
Es una gran herramienta para introducirse en el estudio de la linguistica, a mi me ha sido muy util, los conceptos son muchas veces más profundos que básicos. la enseñanza es divertida y amigable.
By Erik J
•Apr 19, 2019
A very good course; but maybe I'm prejudiced because Leiden is my favourite University.:)
Een zeer goede cursus; maar misschien ben ik bevooroordeeld omdat Leiden mijn favoriete universiteit is. :)
By Laurie K
•Nov 2, 2018
Very interesting course, well-made videos, interesting interviews and reading materials. Would definitely recommend this course to people who want to know more about different aspects of language.
By Abhinav S
•Mar 21, 2017
This is one of the best MOOCs I've participated in. The lectures are engaging and the student community is vibrant! If you plan to improve your knowledge about the beauty of Languages - Go for it!
By Daniel M D
•Aug 14, 2020
A great introductory course with solid theoretical knowledge and practical exercises to implement the acquired information. I would recommend this course to any language enthusiast! Dank je wel!
By asokan
•Nov 29, 2020
I knew nothing about linguistics and wanted a basic, but rigorous, introduction. This course did just that. My only wish is that the course had some exercises that would have made me learn IPA!