Now available for self-enrolment: VLC205 - Varieties of English

• Workload: 150 hours
• Fees: None
• Access: no limit
• Certification: 12 Mastery Tests plus 1 Analysis Task

Topics

• Language - Dialect - Variety 
• Studying Dialects 
• The Transcription of PDE 
• Vocalic Change 
• Language Variation 
• Regional Varieties of PDE 
• English in the UK and Ireland
• English in the USA and Canada
• The North American Sound System
• The Phonological Dialects of NAE
• English in Australia and New Zealand
• PDE - The Outer Circle
• Jamaican Creole

The VLC makes use of hundreds of educational video types: E-Lectures, Micro-Lecures, Practicals and Data Analysis Videos (Various). They are now available under the heading "The VLC Educational Videos" in VLC100 - Tools and Data.

The VLC Syntax section is now complete: 

• VLC106 - Syntax: Part I 
• VLC107 - Syntax: Part II (new)
• VLC201 - The Structure of English

Thanks to our community member Roger C. T. from Cameroon, Ghomahom is now part of the language index: https://bit.ly/30pvuJa

In VLC100 - Tools and Data we have started another glossary: Linguistic Tools. It hosts short descriptions and links to tools useful fpr the linguist: Online transcription systems, interactive tree generators and parsing systems, to name a few. The VLC community is invited to contribute via mails and comments.