The content was good, but could go a bit deeper into each of the subtopics.

Interesting course, I've learned a lot of things about studying languages.

some problems in quiz part are confusing... but nice course in general

An eye-opener and a game changer course to understand humanity.

great course. Great refresher 30 years after college.

One of the most brilliant courses I have ever taken!

Wide-angle, general introductory course. Engaging.

Interesting content, but still a bit buggy...

Good course, nice teachers, good material

The interview with Chomsky a real treat.

This was a great introductory course.

Very interesting course! Thank you!

Great introduction to linguistics.

тяжко было, но в целом интересно

lots of interesting information

101 linguistics

great course!

excellent

很好best

Interesting course. It's difficult to cover everything in such a short course. The last two weeks' classes have not much to do with "miracles" of languages. I would say these things are common to all languages. I would have preferred to concentrate more on firs 4 weeks topics. This all stuff with politeness does not fit much in the topic. It's more sociolinguistics, cultural studies etc. And there is not much to learn. There is no much valuable information to remember. I liked more the beginning about sounds, typology of languages etc. This all stuff with positive and negative face was a little strange. Specially, it was difficult to do the tests with these "faces". Listening exercises were quite OK, but for instance to decode Chinese without transcription was impossible task. All these exercises with language mistakes was also strange. If we all do pronunciation mistakes in all languages what’s the point to study these mistakes? What's the point to see what mistake is made in Basque, Gungbe or any other language? I saw this exercise as pure waste of my time. So, my general suggestion would be to concentrate on pure linguistic things (first 4 weeks) and do not go into field of sociology, neuro or psycholinguistics. BTW this couple of students is not balanced because the young man dominates all discussions. The girl should be more active or the man less active.

Too difficult for an introductory course. Ambiguous information. Time estimates are way off. Not what I expected. Rather provincial in its approach. Guess I'm just not cut out to be a linguist. Answers to the tests are not available or derivable from the lectures and required readings. I've read a lot of articles and books, particularly about neurolinguistics and the intersection between linguistics and genomics and the information in the course does not really assist with understanding what I've been reading, though I can sort of see how the authors might have made use of some of the things presented here. The interview with Chomsky was particularly useless.

Interesting course. Some have argued it can be biased and I don't know enough to say one way or the other. But the quizzes are ridiculously difficult. They should not be easy but how is telling me 90% of students failed on the first attempt not worth changing the format? I am currently stuck with a repeated 77.77% on week 3's quiz after watching the videos several times and taking good notes. The only way I can see myself passing is to keep guessing multiple choice combinations until it happens, which defeats the point of taking a course. I am joining many others in saying this is a good course but the quizzes make it unbearable and not worth trying to complete.

This course was interesting. It was interesting learning about linguistics and the various things related to languages. The only problem was that the quizzes were too hard. I feel like the quizzes were too hard for an introductory course to Linguistics. Many times, it was frustrating because it took me two or three tries just to pass them. I feel like this had a lot to do with how the questions were set up and through how it seemed like the answers to those questions weren't in the source material. My one recommendation would be to improve the quizzes.

The content was very interesting and offered in coherent ways. The quizzes, however, were more challenging than they needed to be. A lot of the questions were asked in unusual and unclear ways which made answering it very difficult because I wasn't always sure what exactly they were asking. I also found it difficult to know what exactly the answers meant as they often didn't correspond exactly to the way things were said in the lectures and readings, so even if you followed the content closely the answers didn't always make sense.

Overall, this was a good course, the content was very interesting. I enjoyed learning about languge and linguistics. The only issue I had was some of the quiz questions, especially questions about the language informants' videos. The videos themselves were not bad, just hard to follow for anyone not familiar with that language. And then the related questions in the quizzes were hard, I almost never got those ones right. I just feel like we shouldn't have to watch the videos again and again to answer 2-3 questions.