Great Courses Plus and Linguistics

[beaners]

We are taking the couple years before high school to do some different topics. I am putting together a linguistics course for my daughter who will be in 7th grade next year. She has enjoyed Great Courses in the past. She has a background of multiple foreign languages, but nothing in linguistics. 

I'm considering 5 courses related to this that we could use, totalling 130 half hour lectures. 

The Story of Human Language 36 lectures

Language Families of the World 34 lectures

Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths of Language Usage 24 lectures

Language and Society: What Your Speech Says About You 24 lectures 

English in America: A Linguistic History 12 lectures

This is the order I am tentatively planning to put them in as well as the order of how much reading and output I am expecting. I had originally planned for this to be a half year focus with only the first two courses, but I think there is plenty to make it a full year instead. I do want to leave myself a good stopping point if we decide to move onto something else next spring.

Any suggestions for how to use these or other good resources to add in?

 

[chocolate-chip chooky]

i would suggest Ellen McHenry's Excavating English book.

We are currently listening to The Story of Human Language and love it. I'm glad though that we worked through Excavating English first. I felt it gave us a really solid foundation before heading into the Great Course.

[RootAnn]

I was going to suggest McHenry's book, too. There is also a Computational Linguistic Exam she might be interested in. Should be old practice exams on the website that would make a fun activity to go with the class.

[beaners]

I will check out both of those! Thank you! I'm really looking forward to this!

[chocolate-chip chooky]

Ooh, yes- linguistic puzzles. Thank you RootAnn for reminding me.

We used these sites:

International Linguistics Olympiad:

http://www.ioling.org/problems/samples/

 

and also this one:

https://lingclub.mycpanel.princeton.edu/challenge/puzzles.php

 

My daughter didn't take part in any exams, but she really enjoyed doing the linguistics puzzles.