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Alongside the 6 Resource Guides, Mutual Intelligibility continues to publish weekly 3 Links posts, bringing you the best linguistics resources on the internet for your classes, or self-directed study.

Below is a list of 3 Links posts published to date. You can sign up to receive weekly emails whenever a new 3 Links post is published.

• 3 Links about Linguistics Teaching Resource Compilations - Introducing Mutual Intelligibility
• 3 Links for Second Year Syntax Video Lectures
• 3 Links for Second Year Phonology Video Lectures
• 3 Links for Natural Language Processing
• 3 Links for Semantics and Pragmatics
• 3 Links for Sociolinguistics
• 3 Links for Second Year Psycholinguistics
• 3 Links for Field Methods
• 3 Links for Articulatory Phonetics
• 3 Links for Writing Systems
• 3 Links for Gesture Studies
• 3 Links for linguistics communication (lingcomm)
• 3 links for Evidentiality
• 3 links for Linguistic Discrimination and African American English
• 3 Links for Linguistics Careers Outside Academia
• 3 Links for Schwa
• 3 Links for the Linguistics of Emoji
• 3 Links for Proto-Indo-European
  

Mutual Intelligibility is a project to connect linguistics instructors with online resources, especially as so much teaching is shifting quickly online due to current events. It’s produced by Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch, with the support of our patrons on Lingthusiasm.

Here’s where you can tell us which topics would be useful for you. The more requests we get for a specific topic, the more it helps us prioritize resources that will help the most people.

Here’s where you can send us links (of either things you’ve made or have found useful) for potential inclusion in future newsletters. You can send a single link, or a set of three which may become a 3 Links guest-post! (With credit to you.)

Linguistics instructors are currently scrambling to move their courses online and there are resources online that can help, but it’s a lot of work to sort through what exists and figure out what makes sense for you to use. Do you really have time to watch a dozen youtube videos introducing the IPA just to decide which one to have your students watch? Probably not.

Gretchen McCulloch and I have created a new project to help. It’s called Mutual Intelligibility, because we’re trying to make resources and instructors more intelligible to each other.

The first Mutual Intelligibility newsletter contains 3 links to existing resource aggregations. From the first newsletter:

Upcoming topics we’re already planning include: IPA vowels, IPA vowels, morphemes, constituency, world Englishes, world languages, 2nd year phonology, articulatory phonetics, field methods, gesture studies, psycholinguistics, and Natural Language Processing (NLP). We’d love to take further requests! See below for how to suggest topics or contribute resources.

We’ve been making linguistics resources online for almost two decades combined through Lingthusiasm, Superlinguo, All Things Linguistic, and more, and we know a lot about what online resources are capable of. This also means that we know where their limitations are, and we want you to know that your value for your students isn’t as a simple deliverer of lecture content. Instead, it’s through being a real human person that they can interact with, ask questions of, and get feedback from. People sign up for classes because they value the specific scaffolding of content and assignments, and because they feel motivated by having an instructor and peer group who care about them. You wouldn’t feel like you were neglecting your course responsibilities by using a textbook someone else wrote, and you don’t need to worry about using existing online resources either.

Click through to the first Mutual Intelligibility post for the first set of links, and subscribe.

We’ll be producing two kinds of Mutual Intelligibility newsletters, both of which you can sign up for in the same place

• Mondays and Wednesdays: 3 Links about a specific topic, with a short description for each so you can easily figure out which ones are useful to assign to your students (Week 1: 2nd year syntax videos)
• Fridays: longer Resource Guides for a specific topic, a comprehensive lesson plan like a textbook’s supplementary material but entirely online, including videos and other specific multimedia as applicable (Week 1: Intro to IPA consonants) 
  

As we both already had full-time jobs keeping us busy, we’re also paying linguists whose employment situations have been negatively affected by COVID-19 to help us create these guides faster. Stay tuned for further announcements about our team. To help us do this faster you can support the Lingthusiasm patreon.

If you have other comments, suggestions, or ideas of ways to help, please email mutual.intellig@gmail.com