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Language And Linguistics ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's
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Language And Linguistics ★🥅 Educational Films from the 1950's Here are 13 episodes, Produced in 1958, By META (University of Buffalo) for NET Network. "Dr. Henry Lee Smith, Jr., of the University of Buffalo, presents an introduction to linguistics covering the nature of language, its structure and development. He conducts a comprehensive survey of what language really is, considering how it forms a basis for all human interaction. Dr. Smith shows the relation of linguistic science to teaching a foreign language, teaching reading and the analysis of the psychiatric interview." I found this series from 1958 to be a real gem! English Language sentence parts and composition - in elementary school - bored me to tears: whereas I found this to be very informative. This confirmed my early impression that English (as spoken in America) is a horrible hodgepodge mongrel '57 breeds' bastard language, accreted in chunks - inherently inefficient at conveying precise information. Navaho Language is the type of meaning precision language I wish I grew up with - I did not know how crippled English was: until he showed me a Complete Language system!!! (You can find an amazing amount of old classroo…
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META
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Language Studies;Individual Lesson Links, Linguistics, Complete Series, Master Download Link, "Lost" Educational Video, High School Films, NET, Adult Learning, META, Home Schooling, Telecourses, OLD Educational Films from the 1950s, WNET
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