The ULTIMATE Linguistics Guide for Beginners! 

The cute otter is the only reason I can focus 😭

Perfect timing LingOtter, I'm going into my first year of college to study linguistics!

0:24 The word ‘praat’ is the Dutch word for ‘talk’

This video has the best otter so far

I'm trilingual (English, Hebrew, Russian), and have noticed a lot of interesting things, thus leading my down the linguistics rabbithole. Interesting video, and I really like your channel, keep it up! :))

I've always seen linguistics as boring, but this channel's _actually_ made me interested in this topic. Very cool

posted in just perfect time .. im getting back into linguistics again

The cool thing about semantics to me is how semantic ambiguity is almost the core of philosophy. People use loaded terms like 'justice' and 'freedom' quite haphazardly for rhetorical means, when obviously most people have different ideas of what 'justice' and 'freedom' means. Politics and philosophy can almost literally be considered a 'semantics of loaded terms'.

Love this being my degree. Great video getting people into this! I'm personally focused on dialectology, language change, and sociolinguistics, but I'm also currently doing a lot of phonetics and phonology.

Dude, thanks. I watch millions of language related videos but for some reason never actually sat down and figured out what all the linguistics terms meant. I had a rough understanding by context but this was a fucking GREAT video. You nailed it.

cool animation, frequent posting, good topics with good, simple explanations, cute otter; you've got a new sub!

I’ve always had a soft spot for linguistics. Thank you for the amazing video!

If only every career path had someone explain the pathways and options with a cute otter. Seriously though this was a fun and informative video that makes me wish I would’ve looked more into taking linguistics as a major.

Phonetics = the study of the physiological production of speech sounds. Phonology = the study of the psychological perception of speech sounds.

Fantastic video, very clear and concise. Great to see so many new linguist content creators (especially Chicanos!). Sociolinguistics is always my favorite branch. Keep up the great work, guey.

This is a video I'd actually recommend for those unfamiliar to linguistics. You earned a like.

Omg i love that otter it is soo cute!!!!

please keep making videos you are amazing

The quality of this video is astonishing, keep it up

This was perfect! I've always been interested in linguistics but never really went into the basics, oddly enough, so this video has been so helpful! It's so concise and you explain everything so well. Thank you!

im just finishing up my masters degree in linguistics so i already knew all of this but i stayed for the cute otters anyway ❤️ love what you're doing, keep it up!! it's always great to see people passionate about the field and eager to bring others in

This man is two things: - A great expert in linguistics - A really cute otter, who is probably a gay furry behind the scenes Great video!

These videos of yours are very well made and I really can't wait to see you post more! I'm also planning on making a similar type of content on a separate channel and would like to hear any tips on doing so from you or anyone reading this comment

I really like how this video looks and how informational it is. You should keep this style for your longer videos like this, and use the other style for the shorts and tiktoks.

Second Language Acquisition or Historical Linguistics are definitely the most interesting to me as I’ve been learning Spanish for a couple years at this point and I’ve seen a variety of teaching methods and seeing which ones work and which ones don’t as well as learning all new techniques.

Fantastic video, absolutely loved it. Your content is AMAZING and you deserve a lot more subscribers & views!

Thank you. i've accidentally started learning four languages at the once for the last few years and I've honestly been looking for something like this

Please never stop uploading 🙏

yo this kinda helped me a lot 😭 im sort of freaking out because i wanna do something in the future that involves languages in college- either translating or becoming a speech therapist- so its good to know that i have some other options

4:32 “Nice job!” Could also mean a way of earning money is nice

Great explanation, clear and fast-paced. This would have been useful in my first months of university 🤣.

Thank you so much

One emerging subfield that's great is Revivalistics/Language Revival! In a way strongly linked to socioling, it tries to understand and explain language endangerment case by case and how these languages can be saved by their communities It's quite new, and so not really a subfield yet ig, but very important

Your voice is soo soothing

Ive been learning more languages besides Japanese and Trad Chinese, so this channel really helps😂 Also love the otter btw x3

When you was explaining pragmatics I instantly thought of Japan, and then you put it on screen😂

This was such a good video

Awesome! By the way, you wrote "underserving" but pronounced it as if you thought it was "undeserving" which is a different meaning and pronunciation from "under-serv-ing".

8:47 "We finally have reached the last subfield that I wanted to talk about in this video" - "finally" is way incongruous here, you could go another 10 minutes and I'd be very happy with it.

wow a full video

Despite how many videos about this topic are out there, I always would love to see an otter one

I think History Linguistics is also my favourite. I live in pacific country and linguists who came here a long time ago around the time of Captain Cook were able to figure out that my Melanesian people were related to people in South East Asia through Austronesians language. Wayyyyy before DNA testing was a thing and that's why its awesome 😁

Comparative, etymology, writing systems +

Can you make guides going in deeper and a guide for making conlangs?

I'm gonna have to go with pragmatics as the most interesting to me :) linguistics is amazing

I do conversation analysis, so sociolinguistics is my favorite^^

Barks, the dog. Like, that's his name. Makes perfect sense.

Got this in my recommended, love the otter ❤

Historical linguistics for me. Who doesn't want to crack them stringy writings?!

wow, Praat takes me right back. cool they still use it, i mean its free after all. Used it in my university too.

You are my only hope for this English semester

You need to do merch, I need the otter

Welcome back!

I have 2 ideas in minds: 1. I assume you know Japanese or more due to your examples, I want to know if Japanese linguistics is similar to English lingustics. Of course its different but how different, how similiar between them, and can a different part that linguistics be applied to English? If not Japanese than others maybe cool to talk about. 2. The computing one, I know Nature Language Processing (NLP) that show how ChatGPT works, is both in linguistics and computer science field. I want to know how much more, other than this guide, we CS should know in linguistics in order to test NLP. I heard many linguists want to do it only need to know basic coding and theories about how AI works, while computer scientists know programming, math and AI, but dont know anything about NLP, would have to learn lingustics from scratch. 😢😅

you use an otter take my sub

2:24 The dog is named Barks.

Cool

Which ciao did you use? Chao, Ciao, or Tchao? This is an awesome video, I’m 12 and have always loved linguistics. I’m Brazilian, so I would say Tchao.

Any good book recommendations on Linguistics?

I’m an archaeologist who is interested in historical linguistics, i’d love to incorporate the two fields somehow

Based on the description given for phonology, what are phonotactics? I previously heard a language's phonology was what phonemes a language uses, but I'm open to be proven wrong!!

What other things does computational linguistics do, besides AI / LLM?

is 1:54 supposed to be undeserving? bc otherwise underserving would be broken down by under-serv-ing

Can Praat do (or, be augmented to do) automatic phonetic transcription, then? Or, is it used in making phonetic transcriptions?

is etymology considered as a part of linguistics?

Great video!

2:22 Barks the dog: nevermore!

6:17 One wug. Two wugen.

"Pratt" oo my sterre😭

you forgot lexicology (and other, related branches such as dialectics)

as a dialectologist I feel sad, great video btw

I should get a degree in phonology some day.

Today I learnt that the Official Linguistics Post's (a linguistics-themed blog on Tumblr) profile picture is actually the logo of Praat, lol

this is cool video are you studying linguistics in uni?

Otters are my favorite animal

0:23 it's a Dutch program innit, or maybe a South African one

Is the word "A" as in A cat, considered an exception to the rule of morphemes or is it just something else

Well... I'm interested in both computer science and linguistics, but I'm not interested (very much) in the AI used today due to the whole black box thing going on. Sucks for me, I guess!

hello

Where is Ethymology?

Im trying to make a constructed language, would anyone like to talk about conlangs on my comment thread. Great introduction video by the way

im pretty sure barks the dog can be gramatically correct

what about dialectology and linguistic geography?

under-serv-ing un-deserv-ing

A cute gay otter teaching linguistics... I think I finally found my spirit animal 😁

In fact, it is *un-de-serv-ing* . It's also not ambiguous, because you have »their«, which is plural! Gosh.

Most interesting? Interlinguistics.

wheres conlanging

Counter point to 2:20 'Barks the dog' is grammatical in English, when using it in the context of speech. For example, the sentence '"I'm hungry," barks the dog' is correct Edit: this otter is so cute!

boooo chomskyian syntax

You forgot about entomology 😢

Thank you so much