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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Continue your study of construct forms with prepositions in Biblical Hebrew that are combinations of simple prepositions you've already learned (example: lifnei, or "before"). Then, look at irregular nouns with unusual construct forms whose frequent occurrence makes them critical to understanding Biblical Hebrew.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Every Hebrew verb, and almost every noun and adjective, is based on a root, a group of three (or sometimes two) consonants. Here, Professor Carasik teaches you how to begin recognizing the roots of verbs in Biblical Hebrew, then he discusses how God is referred to in the Hebrew Bible.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Focus on a new binyan: Hiphil, which can be thought of as the causative binyan. (One example: l'haqtir, or "to burn incense.") Then, go back to Genesis, collect a list of Hiphil infinitives, and see what the different root categories do when you put them into this Hiphil shape.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Professor Michael Carasik has designed these 36 episodes as your authoritative primer on everything from the Hebrew alphabet and punctuation marks to essential vocabulary and advanced grammatical rules. Whether you're just starting out on a study of Hebrew or you already know the basics, these lectures are a helpful resource that include line-by-line readings of passages from the Hebrew Bible.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Turn now to segholate nouns: nouns that feature seghols ("-eh" vowels). By looking at segholate nouns in real Hebrew phrases from the Bible, you'll start to get more comfortable with what Professor Carasik calls the "EH-eh rhythm" and the various grammatical forms that use the pattern.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Focus your attention here on categories of verbs from the Qal binyan with roots whose guttural letters (hey, het, and ayin) tend to "misbehave." Central to this episode are three rules about how gutturals behave, as well as relevant examples in passages from the Hebrew Bible.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Take a closer look at another major binyan: the Piel. The goal of this episode is to give you the skills to distinguish this binyan when you need to, so you can learn the verbs as they come along. Then, examine two more binyanim: the passives Pu'al and Hophal.
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
MAKING A KILLING: GUNS, GREED, AND THE NRA tells the stories of how guns, and the billions made off of them, affect the lives of everyday Americans. It features personal stories from people across the country who have been affected by gun violence, including survivors and victims' families.
70) The Outsider
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The creative director of the 9/11 Memorial Museum, Michael Shulan, thinks America is ready to ask hard questions. An iconoclast and idealist taking on the orthodoxies and vested interests, Shulan had a 500 million dollar budget, and the powerful tycoon Mayor Bloomberg as the museum's major patron, but could an outsider like Shulan ever prevail?
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
KEN BURNS: HERE & THERE is a rare look at the over four decade intimate relationship Ken Burns has with his America and beloved community of Walpole, NH - and the importance that a "sense of place" and belonging has in one's life. That the essential American fabric of patriotism and goodness are woven through each of us - and often, the road less traveled is a good decision.
Author
Language
English
Description
In September 1949 Jacqueline Bouvier arrives in postwar Paris to begin her junior year abroad. She's twenty years old, socially poised but financially precarious, and all too aware of her mother's expectations that she make a brilliant match. Before relenting to family pressure, she has one year to herself far away from sleepy Vassar College and the rigid social circles of New York, a year to explore and absorb the luminous beauty of the City of Light....
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How can languages that have very different origins still seem to be structurally related? To find out, look at the concept of a Sprachbrund and understand why contact is just as influential as origin when it comes to resemblances between otherwise unrelated languages (in this case, the influence of Chinese on other Asian languages).
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Five scientists (Carol Padden, Victor Ferreira, Martin Monti, Ellen Bialystok, Greg Hickok) explore the question of what language is, from investigations on bilingualism and its relation with neuroplasticity to what it means to have an impairment when using sign language.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
There are over 7,000 languages in the world and many linguists believe they likely all developed from a single source language in the distant past. Get an introduction to the concept of language families, understand how languages change over time, and discover what linguistics can teach us about our own history.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Once the home of over 250 languages, Australia now only has about a dozen languages that will be passed to sizable generations of children. Take a look at some of the over two dozen language families in Australia and better understand how both separation from a common ancestor and proximity to a different language will cause a language to change in different ways.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Move beyond the Semitic languages to look at other subfamilies of Afro-Asiatic, including what some call the "Berber" subfamily and several other subfamilies spoken south of the Sahara, and see what they can teach us about the nature of language. Close with a look at Somali oral poetry and its complex use of alliteration.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Chinese is one branch of the Sino-Tibetan family and the other branch, Tibeto-Burman, consists of around 400 languages spoken in southern China, northeastern India, and Burma. Look at features of languages from both branches and see what linguists can assume about the proto-language from which they may have sprung.
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