Language with Chu

21/07/2025

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/K2CFcISAb98

Amusez-vous à voir si votre oreille est bonne en français ! Bon courage, et dites-moi comment ça s'est passé ! :-)

03/02/2025

Why bother with complexity, and how to measure it

23/01/2025

If you had to guess, would you say that all languages of the world are equally complex?

Are all languages equally complex?

16/08/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA9xEhMbHno&t=134s

This is a summary with commentary of the book by Shad Helmstetter, “What to Say when You Talk to Yourself”. A nice book full of good tips on how to talk to o...

31/07/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmRuN6tXvDs

Let's discuss gender-neutral pronouns from a linguistic perspective. Are they useful and efficient? How do different languages use gender pronouns? How shoul...

15/07/2023

One of the mysteries of language is whether, as Noam Chomsky and many others claim, language is a “module” residing in our brain, or not. This video summariz...

11/03/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDtDq3CO1iU

And now we explore all the functions that language fulfills. Our lives would be so empty without it! Language is constantly helping us communicate, understan...

01/03/2022

I'm back! This one may be a bit more "nerdy", but it explains some things about language that you may never have thought about. You're a genius for speaking any language! ;-)

If you are a language nerd, you will like this one! How many parts of our bodies do we need to produce speech? Which is the only floating bone in our body, a...

02/01/2022

If you are planning on learning a new language this year, or perfecting the one(s) you already know, I recommend this conference. I'm familiar with several of the speakers, and can tell you that they know their stuff. It's not by chance that some of them are real polyglots.

Making Your Multilingual Resolutions Come True

23/12/2021

Part 5. I recorded it a while ago, so I didn't think of wearing a Christmas hat. But I hope these crazy mainstream theories make you chuckle a bit if you happen to watch during the holidays. 🙂

Have you ever heard of the “ta-ta” or the “yo-he-ho” theories of language evolution? These and several others started off as jokes, yet, you can find them me...

09/12/2021

In this short video, you get to hear about what Michael Denton, author of “Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis”, has to say about the problems of language evolution as it is commonly understood. Questions such as these should inspire us to let go of the dogmas and beliefs that have taken hold of the Academia for decades. How likely are random mutations applied to language? How come all humans share the same capacity in spite of living in completely different environments? Sure, you can dismiss all the arguments in this video and say that Language started earlier, and THEN spread out, but then you are only pushing the same problem to an earlier date, and you haven’t explained a thing…

References:

- (book) Michael Denton, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, Discovery Institute, 2016.
- (article) Joseph Warren Poushock, "Language-Wonder: Theory, Pedagogy, and Research", 1998.
- (Book) J. C. Sandford, Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome, FMS Publications, 2015.