This component hosts regular open online courses and materials for a special class of exploratory linguistic courses, the so-called Linguistic Fieldwork courses. These courses consist of 10 to 15 units (workload ca. 90 to 150 hours), they are certified, they do not involve any fees and they are ready for self-enrollment. Each of these courses can be used as a customized version ready for full curricular integration.

VLC401 - Linguistic Fieldwork Welsh

The purpose of this course is to examine an unknown language without any prior knowledge of it. This is the classical field situation: you are stranded within a linguistically previously unexplored territory and want to find out as many details as possible about the language to which you are exposed.

This is what the VLC supplies:

  • A Native Speaker
  • General Information about the Language
  • The Linguistic Methods and Tools

The course operates in a cascading fashion, i.e. the individual units will be activated successively.


VLC402 - Linguistic Fieldwork Japanese

The purpose of this course is to examine an unknown language without any prior knowledge of it. This is the classical field situation: you are stranded within a linguistically previously unexplored territory and want to find out as many details as possible about the language to which you are exposed.

This is what the VLC supplies:

  • a native speaker
  • general information about the language
  • the linguistic methods and tools

The course operates in a cascading fashion, i.e. the individual units will be activated successively.


VLC403 - Linguistic Fieldwork Arabic

The purpose of this course is to examine an unknown language without any prior knowledge of it. This is the classical field situation: you are stranded within a linguistically previously unexplored territory and want to find out as many details as possible about the language to which you are exposed.

This is what the VLC supplies:

  • a native speaker
  • general information about the language
  • the linguistic methods and tools

The course operates in a cascading fashion, i.e. the individual units will be activated successively.


VLC404 - Linguistic Fieldwork Jamaican Creole

The purpose of this course is to examine an unknown language without any prior knowledge of it. This is the classical field situation: you are stranded within a linguistically previously unexplored territory and want to find out as many details as possible about the language to which you are exposed.

This is what the VLC supplies:

  • a native speaker
  • general information about the language
  • the linguistic methods and tools

The course operates in a cascading fashion, i.e. the individual units will be activated successively.