Bonus 37: Teaching linguistics to yourself and other people (Patreon)

Every year in linguistics departments across the world, linguists crack out their favourite linguistic examples and welcome a new cohort of introductory linguistics students. Lauren is so excited to be getting back into the Ling101 classroom (it's the beginning of the new academic year in Australia) that this whole episode is about our best tips for teaching (and learning!) linguistics. It's a behind-the-scenes look into how we structure Lingthusiasm episodes -- and how you can apply techniques from educational research and practice into explaining other complex topics that you're enthusiastic about. 

In this bonus episode of Lingthusiasm, Gretchen and Lauren talk about teaching linguistics, and how you can be your own best teacher even if you aren't heading to university any time soon. We discuss ways to make learning about more than just terminology, how to get right into data from the beginning, and how to keep a clear picture of how linguistics is relevant to other things you're studying or enjoying. 

If you haven't joined the Lingthusiasm Discord yet and you want to teach yourself more linguistics, we have a channel called Linguistics Basics Book Club where people are reading through a free online intro linguistics textbook together and some Discord members with more linguistics background are standing by to answer questions. We're just finishing up Chapter 2 so it's still very doable to get caught up! Here's how to link your Patreon and Discord accounts together to get access. 

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

• Tweet about concept first, jargon second  
• International Linguistics Olympiad puzzles 
• Superlinguo's Linguistics Jobs Master List 
• For The Love of Language 

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  Google Doc. Lingthusiasm is also on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter. Email us at contact [at] lingthusiasm [dot] com or chat to us on the Patreon page. Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All ThingsLinguistic. Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo. 

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our senior producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial producer is Sarah Dopierala, our editorial manager is Emily Gref, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.