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A Light History of the English Language | 
 уголеми | Режисьор: Carl Gilfillan
Актьори: Carl Gilfillan, Dr. Elliot Engel
Категория: Video
Купи Нов: $24.95
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Оценка:  9 ревюта
Позиция по продажби: 27956
Формат: Color, Ntsc
Медия: VHS Tape
Брой Продукти: 1
Време: 37 Минути
Транспортно тегло (lbs): 0.6
Размери (in): 8 x 4.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 1890123102
EAN: 9781890123109
Пуснато в продажба на: Януари 1, 1997
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 Quick, Interesting, Eccentric Wrap-up of the English Language Ноември 15, 2006
Osheme (United States)
1 от 1 намериха ревюто за полезно
Yes, this video is a lecture, but before you stop reading, you should know that Dr. Elliot Engel gives an interesting and entertaining discourse. I showed this video to my high school students who surprisingly laughed at many different parts. That's saying a lot. Anyone who can spend 30 minutes lecturing and keep the attention of today's high school students and, in addition, getting a few chuckles out of them earns my respect.
Dr. Engel starts at the beginning, where language began, describing the basic elementary structure of the sounds in the words that we use everyday. From this point Dr. Engel traces the history of English from its Anglo-Saxon roots to the present day where he tells a humorous and terrifying ancedote explaining where English is heading in the future.
Is this video for the grandiose intellectual elite? Apparently not from the previous reviews who found Dr. Engel's knavery shocking, but for the average lay learner who wants to gain a basic understanding of the English language, this is an enlightening and entertaining video. My thought is that Dr Engel did not intend this for upper level graduate classes, for one only has to read the video's title. It is a "light" history of the language after all.
Some reviewers have criticized Dr. Engel for his truth in scholarship, such as the professor stating that there are only 26 sounds. These distracters miss the point; Dr. Engel stated that there are 26 "basic" sounds. His main point was that we use basic sounds in our language to make up the words we speak, and we double those sounds merely by humming them to make a distinctly new set of sounds.
This is a good video for someone wanting a "light" understanding of the English language. Dr. Engel shares a lot of interesting facts that will awaken your understanding and awareness to the words that you speak everyday.
 big problem Март 3, 2005
Language Teacher (Nebraska)
4 от 5 намериха ревюто за полезно
I have mixed feelings about this video. It IS funny and entertaining. However, the professor uses humor at the expense of truth. There are 26 "sounds" and 3 "vowels" in English? Baloney. Also, some of his "history" gets a prize for humor and a zero for truth. I showed this in an upper division course on Germanic phonetics and history and spent the rest of the hour correcting the information my students had just heard. I'd have to categorize "A Light History of the English Language" as academic infotainment. It's the "National Enquirer" of scholarship.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Юли 8, 2004
13 от 16 намериха ревюто за полезно
This video is "light," indeed--light on correct information. I purchased this video for the History of the English Language course I was teaching, thinking it might be a useful teaching tool. Unfortunately, it proved useful only in that I was able to have students point out the fallacious statements. For instance, Prof. Engel says that there are only twenty-six sounds in English, confusing letters and phonemes, it seems. One need only consider the vowels to see that this statement is erroneous. Then there are palatal fricatives and affricates and the voiced and voiceless interdentals. This purely wrong statement of English sounds is but one of the many errors with which this video is filled! If the review system would allow, I would give this lecture a 0 stars.
 Awesome Април 6, 2004
Alex wilkans (Florida)
9 от 11 намериха ревюто за полезно
I, myself, am a junior at a high school in Florida. Today, we watched this video - and I cannot tell you how many people in my class enjoyed the video. I went around telling all my friends about how the English lanuage was formed by anglo-saxon german. Explaining to them was awesome, I felt like I really learned something. I read some of the reviews of his lectures before and they talked about his voice not being great, and what not. I thought his presence was excellent, he communicated to us on a personal level instead of going to another "boring" lecture, this one made me really get into it. Since I'm a student, isn't my opinion the one that matters? If you're a teacher contemplating whether or not to show this to your class, I really encourage it - it was awesome! I guess it made enough of an impact for me to come to this website. I hope to see him in person some day, he seems like a very intelligent man!
 A Mistake Януари 30, 2004
Betty Jensen (Sarasota, FL USA)
4 от 8 намериха ревюто за полезно
I guess I should have read the reviews of this video more closely. I am a 9th grade English teacher who teaches a brief unit on the history of English. Looking for new material (I currently use the PBS program, The Story of English) , I ordered Professor Elliot's video. After approximately fifteen minutes, I turned the video off and boxed it for return. The video is indeed a video of the professor at a lectern, talking. Nothing else, just a man talking. He talks very fast, too fast for high schoolers. One reviewer found his voice pleasing; I cannot agree. If you enjoyed lectures in college, you'll enjoy this one, but I would not recommend it for high school students.
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