Darrin’s Reviews > An Introduction to Historical Linguistics > Status Update

Wow. Slumming, I see.

Ken wrote: "Wow. Slumming, I see." I would love to be able to afford returning to school and getting an additional bachelor's in linguistics. I need the rigor and schedule of a class to keep on track with something like this, however. I have a basic linguistics introductory text, Linguistics: An Introduction to Language and Communication, that I have read through and even done some of the exercises but I have nobody to correct what I have done or to discuss questions with and I find that very frustrating. If I were to specialize in an area of linguistics it would be historical.

I know you are bit of an aficionado of words and I would like to again recommend to you, The History of English Podcast. I really think you would like it. The latest episode is the first of a three part series of episodes discussing the the great vowel shift. The podcast starts out with the roots in proto-Indo-European but if that is not your thing, skip ahead to later episodes. So far, I have found the whole thing, from soup to nuts, fascinating.