Nadat buitenaardse wezens op de aarde landen, wordt een taalkundige gerekruteerd door de Amerikaanse overheid om de bedoelingen van de wezens te ontcijferen. Terwijl ze de taal van de wezens begint te begrijpen, krijgt ze te maken met een aantal flashbacks.
Nu de jaren '70 achter hen ligt, kruipt de topverslaggever van San Diego, Ron Burgundy, terug achter de newsdesk samen met zijn vrouw en collega Veronica Corningstone. Samen met weerman Tamland, de verslaggever op locatie Brian Fantana en sportverslaggever Champ Kind, hebben ze het wederom moeilijk om stijlvol te blijven terwijl ze snel bekendheid verwerven bij de 24-uurs nieuwszender van New York.
Een ongeziene globale pandemie heeft de meerderheid van de mensheid veranderd in gewelddadige "Geïnfecteerden". Een man die over de gave beschikt om te communiceren met deze "Geïnfecteerden" leidt een kleine groep overlevenden in een zoektocht op de patiënt bij wie het allemaal begon en een mogelijke remedie.
Ze zijn net aangekomen in Frankrijk. Het zijn Ieren, Serviërs, Brazilianen, Tunesiërs, Chinezen en Senegalezen... Een jaar lang filmde Julie Bertuccelli gesprekken, conflicten en vreugden van deze groep leerlingen van 11 tot 15 jaar, samen in dezelfde klas om Frans te leren.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
