Linguistics Courses and Certifications

Differences and Similarities between English and Chinese

Compare English and Chinese through the origins and formation of characters, names, place-names, loanwords, abbreviations, trademarks, and punctuation.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Bhasha Vigyanevam Hindi Bhasha

Explore Hindi’s evolution, dialects, Devanagari script, grammatical structure, and social role through major branches of linguistics.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 27, 2026
• Free Online Course

Perceive the World through the Language (II)

An interdisciplinary English course examining how language shapes culture, history, literature, science, diplomacy, aesthetics, and modes of thinking.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

University of Macau

Introduction to Second Language Acquisition

This course will give students a comprehensive overview of the field of second language acquisition, including the second language acquisition process, various factors affecting second language development, and second language learning and teaching strat…

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

应用翻译

Master practical English-Chinese translation skills through theory, professional ethics, and hands-on practice. Focus on non-literary translation, digital tools, and specialized content including cultural heritage and engineering texts.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Chinese to English Translation

Learn to avoid Chinglish and translate Chinese idioms, sentence patterns, cultural expressions, and texts into natural, logically structured English.

• XuetangX
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NPTEL;  IIT Madras

Principles and Parameters in Natural Language

This course offers a view of human language as a rule-governed system. It will show how language is learned and how the human mind stores the structure of language. This course will introduce components of linguistics theory in a generative framework.

• YouTube
• 1 day 10 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Introduction to Theory of Literature - Linguistics and Literature

An introduction to Roman Jakobson's poetic functions and structuralist theory, connecting formalism, semiotics, linguistics, and Lévi-Strauss's reading of the Oedipus myth.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Old English and Beowulf - Spring 2023

Trace Old English from its grammar foundations to poems and passages from Beowulf.

• YouTube
• 4 hours 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Dialetti in Italia

6 ratings

Muovi i primi passi nella complessità della realtà linguistica italiana, in cui, accanto all’italiano, sono parlati numerosi dialetti. Nati direttamente dal latino, sono di ampia diffusione nella vita

• edX
• 6 weeks, 4-6 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Linguistics for Token Classification in spaCy

Explore linguistic and semantic aspects of NLP for advanced token classification with spaCy, including morphology, entity recognition, semantic similarity, and custom pipeline components.

• CodeSignal
• 3 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Language vs. Language - Compare Language

3 ratings

Short video lessons that compare languages - like Spanish vs. Portuguese, German vs. Dutch, Hindi vs. Urdu, Russian vs. Ukrainian and other language comparisons. There are also videos comparing language accents, like American vs. British vs. Australian…

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

TrevTutor

The Complete Crash Course in Undergraduate Syntax

A focused undergraduate introduction to generative syntax, with exercises on constituency, phrase structure, thematic roles, and movement.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 35 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

TrevTutor

English Vowels and Diphthongs - Introduction to IPA Phonetics

1 rating

Master English phonetics through IPA symbols, focusing on vowel and diphthong production, height, depth, manner, and rounding for improved pronunciation and linguistic understanding.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL-NOC IITM

Statement Transformation Across Stages - Oral to Written Shift, Register Modification, Structural Compression, and Meaning Drift

Explore how statements evolve from oral to written forms, examining register changes, structural compression, and meaning drift in language transformation.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video