JS
Jan 19, 2021
Amazing and I have learned a lot. I am a Bilingual myself and it really sheds light on how the brain works in terms of learning and being proficient in two languages or more for others.
ZR
Jan 17, 2018
This course helped me in understanding various aspects of how brain and mind works and how we can use these knowledge for studying different languages and also when we multitasks
By Carlos E M d L
•Mar 28, 2020
Really insightful.
By Veronika H
•Mar 26, 2023
Very interesting!
By RAIJA K
•Jul 23, 2020
Excellent course
By Noarlis L
•Oct 22, 2023
EXELLENT COURSE.
By SAIBAL C
•Jan 15, 2021
Great experience
By O. P
•Jun 3, 2022
excellent!
By Janaina V
•Feb 23, 2024
Very good!
By Paola G
•Aug 31, 2021
Muy bueno
By Jacqueline D F C
•Oct 28, 2018
Excelente!
By MAYRA L V S
•Feb 25, 2022
EXCELLENT
By Marina C
•Dec 17, 2020
excellent
By RASULOVA R I
•Nov 7, 2019
Спасибо
By SanViv G
•Jul 27, 2022
thanks
By ROLA M A
•Sep 24, 2020
OIOIYH
By Luiz F S C
•Feb 22, 2022
Exce
By GLORIYA V
•Jul 30, 2020
Good
By Sue Y C
•Aug 24, 2021
I have learned tons on bilingualism, language acquisition and feel I had a good introduction to the field of neurolinguistics. I thank Professor Hernandez and everyone involved in organizing this course for the extensive introduction on the academic literature in this field. I feel I have the tools to further my studies based on the material/ingredients provided. What I would suggest for improvement, however, is to also provide accurate spelling for the names of all the researchers introduced. The English transcript was far from accurate. It was possible to check the correct names from quizzes and exams, and I went back to revise the names on my class notes. But for some of the studies without the correct names of researchers it was difficult to look up additional resources. Also, someone else mentioned this earlier but I would also ask for a brief overview of brain regions. I could look up "intro to anatomy" material for med students, but the perspective and density of information is different from the focus of this course, so it was quite challenging to grasp all the regions and their functions mentioned in this course. Over time I got the hang of (a bit) the more frequently mentioned areas, but still, it was challenging to take in when the information is only presented verbally, and all over the place.
That said, I had a great learning experience. Thank you.
By Veronika J
•Sep 12, 2020
An interesting and insightful course. Prof. Hernandez uses up-to-date information and clearly explains how the bilingual brain works. Growing up monolingual and becoming multilingual as an adult, this course fulfilled my curiosity in all those brain and language phenomena I've always searched an answer for. I loved the office hours, and how well the professor elaborates on aspects that play a crucial role in bilingualism and multilingualism. Although, I expected additional literature sources or diverse weekly tasks. The final quiz , for instance, summarizes the same week 1-8 questions and looks easy to pass.
However, I would totally recommend this course to linguists, translators and interpreters, language teachers, or simply anybody interested in this subject matter.
By Amit K
•Jan 5, 2019
Excellent information and well-presented. I think some of the early lesson videos were not timed very well (either too long or too short). An ideal video length for one lesson for me is 8-10 minutes. I liked the flow of the course, the planning of the lessons and the examples used. The subtitles were not always well-transcribed. The transcribers did not bother to check up non-English words, the real spellings of researcher names, and in one case actually got this professor's name wrong. End of unit quizzes being exact repeats of lesson quizzes made things a bit too easy to pass.
By Grace T
•Aug 16, 2022
As someone looking for linguistics related courses, and there is a limited supply on here, I found this course to be informative and interesting. It is not formatted in the best way. It's basically just videos of the same talking for hours and hours, I would like to see more variety, readings, assignments, etc. There is a good amount of linguistics based information and neurological specifics for those who are interested in both, but enough for someone is only interested in one or the other.
By Inés K
•Mar 29, 2021
The course was interesting, though there were a lot of facts that I knew already from other reading and training. The way it was presented was a little sterile, with the lecturer standing in front of the camera without ever moving, with that totally neutral background of dark curtain. The course could easily have been pure listening, no need to watch. A more animated, lively, and ´real´ presentation of the facts would have been great.
By Luna L
•Dec 16, 2016
The content of this course is really interesting and intriguing, but it would better if there are additional sources and information. Also, instead of mainly picture the teacher in the video, it would be nice if there could be more graphics and diagrams to illustrate the idea that the professor is trying to convey. Besides those minor deficiencies, I would say that this is a really good course and will worth your time.
By MAXIM B
•Oct 18, 2020
Fantastic course! It was incredible to be able to explore different types of bilingualism (e.g. early vs. late bilinguals) and compare the data obtained in different experiments with the changes registered in the brain. Furthermore, I'm extremely grateful to Maya and Prof. Hernandez for holding Office Hours every week. What a brilliant idea!
By Yoko L
•Apr 30, 2020
As a Japanese English bilingual, I found this course very interesting as it gave me some insight into how I might've acquired the two languages and explain some of the phenomenons I experience day to day when switching between languages. It also gave me some fruit for thought on how I might expose the two languages to kids down the future.
By Lisa G
•Jul 3, 2017
I would have liked deeper explanations of the charts and diagrams that were used so it's easier for those of us not familiar with the studies or brain images to understand.
Overall I really enjoyed the class! I'm getting my MA in Linguistics and Language Acquisition in the fall, and this was a great warm-up into that.