Ett antal mystiska rymdskepp landar samtidigt på olika platser över hela världen. I USA sätts en elitstyrka samman under ledning av expert inom lingvistik, Dr Louise Banks, för att undersöka om rymdskeppets besättning har fientliga avsikter eller inte. Hon och hennes team arbetar dock under extrem tidspress då utomjordingarnas besök orsakat globala krissituationer. Banks måste ensam fatta ett beslut som kan hota hennes liv - och förmodligen hela mänskligheten.
San Diegos främsta nyhetsankare på 1970-talet, Ron Burgundy, återvänder. Med sig har Ron sin bisittare, tillika fru, Veronica Corningsone, väderpresentatören Brick Tamland, mannen på gatan Brian Fontana och sport-ankaret Champ Kind. Tillsammans kommer de att ta sig an landets första 24-timmars nyhetskanal.
Efter en global pandemi blir större delen av mänskligheten infekterade. En man som förstår de infekterades språk leder de sista överlevande i jakten på ett botemedel.
Under ett år har Julie Bertuccelli följt en grupp elever i åldrarna 11 till 15 år, som nyligen anlänt till Frankrike och går i förberedelseklass för att lära sig franska. De kommer från många olika länder – Irland, Serbien, Brasilien, Tunisien, Kina och Senegal – och de har kommit av många olika skäl. Vi får ta del av samtal, konflikter och glädjeämnen hos en skara tonåringar som alla bär på en önskan om att förändra sina liv.
Jake har ett oslagbart öra för språk men problem med att kommunicera med kvinnor. När en knepig situation uppstår kommer Jake till slut på hur han ska kunna prata med en tjej utan att faktiskt tala.
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.
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 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.
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.
