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Language & linguistics Videos Recommended on Hacker News (84)

Language & linguistics is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 84 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 157 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.

Language: linguistics, etymology, name origins, pronunciation, English history, language learning, translation, writing systems, dialects, constructed languages, onomastics.

Why HN keeps sending people here — on George Lakoff: Moral Politics: “Changed how I listen - to anyone - forever.” — an HN commenter, 2021.

2 mo on HN

Accent Expert Gives a Tour of U.S. Accents - (Part One) | WIRED

WIRED
2 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

The Epic Of Gilgamesh In Sumerian

Peter Pringle
3 HN recommender · 2021–2025
2 mo on HN

Jake Thackray 'Molly Metcalfe'

TallPiler
2 HN recommender · 2013–2024
2 mo on HN

Duolingo -- the next chapter in human computation | Luis von Ahn | TEDxCMU 2011

TEDx Talks
2 HN recommender · 2011–2012
2 mo on HN

George Carlin on Soft Language

CappyNJ
2 HN recommender · 2013–2024
2 mo on HN

The Stuff of Thought | Steven Pinker | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
2 HN recommender · 2010–2026
2 mo on HN

One Typo, Wrong Continent

CGP Grey
2 HN recommender · 2022–2025
2 mo on HN

George Carlin on soft language

Rob Logan
2 HN recommender · 2015–2026
2 mo on HN

Can Japanese People Read Chinese? (Mandarin, Simplified)

That Japanese Man Yuta
2 HN recommender · 2020–2021
1 mo on HN

George Carlin - Euphemisms & political correctness

aaron pryor
1 HN recommend · 2019–2022
1 mo on HN

Can Japanese People Read Chinese? (Kanji)

That Japanese Man Yuta
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

A Bit of Fry & Laurie Concerning Language

Fun English Lessons
1 HN recommend · 2023–2026
1 mo on HN

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes (Official 4K Video)

alyankovicVEVO
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Tiffany: The Name That Cheats Death

CGP Grey
1 HN recommend · 2022–2023
1 mo on HN

The odd accent of Tangier VA - American Tongues episode #3

People Like Us - The CNAM Channel
1 HN recommend · 2010–2025
1 mo on HN

Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz (HD)

trouchelle
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

How big is a billion? - Numberphile

Numberphile
1 HN recommend · 2014–2024
1 mo on HN

Does the language you speak change how you think?

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2023–2024
1 mo on HN

The Hidden Rules of Conversation

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition

Mark Rounds
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

Movie Accent Expert Breaks Down 32 Actors' Accents | WIRED

WIRED
1 HN recommend · 2017–2019
1 mo on HN

How English sounds to non-English speakers

Brian and Karl
1 HN recommend · 2013–2017
1 mo on HN

No Béarla Series 1, Episode 1.

An Ghaeilge
1 HN recommend · 2020–2025
1 mo on HN

why typing like this is sometimes okay.

Tom Scott
1 HN recommend · 2020–2024
1 mo on HN

Stephen Krashen: Language Acquisition and Comprehensible Input

Tarek Hamza
1 HN recommend · 2020–2022
1 mo on HN

Original Pronunciation - Hamlet | To Be, or not to be... | Ben Crystal

Shakespeare on Toast
1 HN recommend · 2018–2025
1 mo on HN

Politics and Language | Noam Chomsky | Talks at Google

Talks at Google
1 HN recommend · 2008–2018
0 mo on HN

Appalachian English

The Language & Life Project
0 HN recommender · 2010–2014
0 mo on HN

Can GPT-4 translate literature?

Tom Gally
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HN

What do translators think about GPT?

Tom Gally
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HN

Captain Literally: Part 1 - Studio C

Studio C
0 HN recommender · 2015–2023
0 mo on HN

Monty Python - Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook

rylxyc
0 HN recommender · 2008–2023
0 mo on HN

Nicolas Doesn't Understand The West Country Accent | Hot Fuzz | Screen Bites

Screen Bites
0 HN recommender · 2024–2026
0 mo on HN

Interslavic Language | Will Bulgarian, Polish and Croatian understand a CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGE? | #1

Ecolinguist
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HN

Mongrel Nation - Brown cow

jasonkanerichardson
0 HN recommender · 2014–2026
0 mo on HN

Why Does Portuguese Sound Like Russian?! (or Polish)

Langfocus
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025