How Language Works

The science behind speech — phonetics and phonemes, semantics and pragmatics, dialects and sociolinguistics, and the great linguists who took language apart.

Semantics

Ferdinand de Saussure

Noam Chomsky

Language family

Multilingualism

SIMPLANG

Learn any language, simply — study methods, fluency roadmaps, and the science of how we learn to speak.

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