Bonus 2: How to teach yourself linguistics (Patreon)

Interested in learning more linguistics but don't know where to start? Gretchen and Lauren share their top tips for self-studying linguistics, whether you're looking for more fun linguistics stuff on the lighter side or want to try to replicate the rigours of an intro linguistics course.

If you have other tips for learning linguistics independently share them with your fellow lingthusiasts in the comments!

Read the transcript here.

This topic was nominated by Panot, and voted on by all of our lovely patrons.

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

• Gretchen list of linguistics books (and further additions )
• Lauren's additions to that list    
• Mark Liberman‘s Intro To Linguistics course notes
• The Virtual Linguistics Campus (MOOC)  - University-level linguistics online
• Gretchen's linguistics videos list 
• Linguistics for Dummies (Gretchen's post)
• 6 ways to do linguistics in high school 
• Useful tags on Tumblr: protolinguist, tumblinguists, langblr 
• Linguistics Stack Exchange 
• The Art of Language Invention (Lauren's review , Gretchen's livetweet )
• Conglanging community  
• Lauren's list of linguistics podcasts 
• Lauren's linguistics blog recommendations  are on the sidebar of the Superlinguo homepage
• Gretchen's linguistics blog recommendations 
• Gretchen's resources for high school teachers  and for teaching  intro linguistics , some of which also work for self study

This topic was nominated by Panot, and voted on by all of our lovely patrons. 

You can listen to this episode on this page, via the Patreon RSS or download the mp3. A transcript is available for this episode as a Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.  Email us at lingthusiasm [at] gmail [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page.

Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our producer is Claire Gawne and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles. Recorded on April 6th 2017.