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Bonus 45: Crash Course Linguistics behind the scenes with Jessi Grieser

Added 2020-11-06 00:25:42 +0000 UTC

A big project for Lingthusiasm in 2020 has been collaborating on a series of 10 minute intro linguistics videos with Crash Course, a big educational youtube channel. Now that the 16 videos are midway through going live online, we wanted to give you a peek behind the scenes about how we've been putting the series together.

In this bonus episode of Lingthusiasm, Gretchen and Lauren are joined by Jessi Grieser, the third member of our linguistics content team behind the scripts of Crash Course Linguistics! We talk about how we structured the syllabus of Crash Course Linguistics, how Gavagai came to be a recurring character in the series, finding our delightful host Taylor Behnke, and what it's like working with the awesome teams at Complexly and Thought Cafe (no, we haven't gotten to meet either of the Green brothers, sorry!).

Announcements:
Crash Course Linguistics videos are available now and coming out weekly! Keep an eye out for them around 2pm North American Eastern Time on Fridays for the rest of 2020 (except a few holiday Fridays) and into early 2021. If you want to get an email each week with some further reading and practice exercises on each topic, you can also check out the companion issues of Mutual Intelligibility. We also have a Crash Course channel in the Lingthusiasm Discord to chat about each episode! (As well as many other fun channels if you haven't joined the Discord yet!)

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript for this episode is available as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page. Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at AllThingsLinguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

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Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial producer is Sarah Dopierala, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles