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🙈 CORRECTIONS:
"Cantará" (He/She/It will sing) should be "Cantaré" (I will sing)
⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - English Has Holes
0:18 - #1: Missing Words
1:30 - #2: Clusivity
2:22 - #3: Tone + Pitch Accent
4:08 - #4: Reduplication
5:28 - #5: Echo Responses
6:40 - #6: Polite "You"
7:45 - #7: Question Particles
8:35 - #8: Copula vs. Locative "Be"
9:31 - #9: Null Subjects
10:34 - #10: Evidentials
11:37 - #11: Time-Independence
12:32 - #12: Hyper-Specific Tenses
12:50 - #13: Absolute Directions
13:38 - #14: Synthetic Future Tense
14:37 - #15: Distributive Numbers
15:23 - #16: Whistled Words
📜 SOURCES & ATTRIBUTIONS:
Thai Lesson 1 - How to say Hello
https://youtu.be/RyHgg4DACjk
Why you can't hear Japanese pitch accent by @mattvsjapan
https://youtu.be/SaNr2xa4n3Q
Kids are the Worst Liars
https://youtu.be/V7waC8NlwoU
Evidentiality in Grammar
https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/785765/20_Aikhenvald-20006-ELL2.pdf
Whistled language of the island of La Gomera (Canary Islands), the Silbo Gomero
https://youtu.be/PgEmSb0cKBg
These Greek Villagers Whistle to Chat
https://youtu.be/PTHzOag8msM