Saturday 29 August 2015

LECTURES TO IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH: "LANGUAGE IS A WONDER OF THE NATURAL WORLD" (S. Pinker)

Listening to lectures in English when you are interested in a specific topic is another very good way of feeding your vocabulary and your curiosity. Here's a really good example with this lecture where professor of Harvard University Stephen Pinker, explains in an extremely entertaining way different aspects of language which are dealt with by the disciplines of Linguistics: Phonology, Semantics, Pragmatics, Grammar, etc; at the same time, he passionately shares with us his knowledge and love for human language, this system which is both simple and sophisticated, using his own words, "the miracle of language" "Language allows us to exchange an unlimited number of ideas with a finite set of mental tools!". Highly recommended, my friends!.