Film ini diadaptasi dari novel berjudul sama karya Ted Chiang. Cerita aslinya berputar pada peristiwa mendaratnya alien di seluruh dunia. Dari peristiwa itu, seorang ahli bahasa (Amy Adams) direkrut oleh pemerintah AS untuk mengetahui niat dari kedatangan alien tersebut di Bumi. Saat dia berusaha untuk berkomunikasi dengan alien tersebut, dia menemukan rahasia yang menjadi kunci untuk membuka misteri besar tentang tujuan sebenarnya dari kunjungan mereka.
Dengan era 70-an di belakangnya, wartawan ternama San Diego, Ron Burgundy, kembali untuk menggemparkan saluran berita 24 jam pertama di New York.
Lingo is a British game show hosted by Adil Ray where pairs of contestants compete to find words across a series of rounds. It is a reboot of the original show of the same name that aired in 1988.
This proudly profane series explores the history and impact of some of the most notorious bad words in the English language.
A look at the hunt for California's Zodiac Killer, who murdered at least five people in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and early '70s.
Georgios Babiniotis, professor of linguistics at the University of Athens, explains and comments on words and common linguistic mistakes, helping us to use the Greek language more correctly.
A video-based Japanese language study course for English speakers. The show uses a drama called "Yan and the Japanese People" for instruction. This drama consists of scenes which focus on the experiences of a young man named Yan, a foreigner living and working in Japan.
A cast of multidisciplinary artists give their interpretations of the language by juggling Quebec’s lively, accessible, and inclusive French. Developed in lexicon format, each episode presents a word from three perspectives: humorous, historical, and artistic.
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish, also known simply as Destinos, is an educational television program created by Bill VanPatten, who was, at the time, Professor of Spanish and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The show, designed to introduce viewers to the basics of Spanish, had two seasons, beginning in 1992. Its 52 episodes are often used for educational purposes in schools and are still broadcast regularly on many PBS stations, as well as many local channels. Destinos was produced by WGBH Boston and funded by the Annenberg/CPB Project, with additional funding by the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation.
"Mi Vida Loca" is an interactive Spanish course for beginners, created by the BBC. It consists of 22 episodes, each around 10 minutes long, which follow an intriguing adventure in Madrid and its surroundings. Through everyday situations, basic concepts of the language are taught, such as ordering in a restaurant, buying tickets and booking a hotel. Each episode includes additional learning sections with vocabulary, grammar and practical activities to reinforce the acquired knowledge.
