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Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category

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Re: Top 70000 educational YouTube channels in 20 languages by category

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Post by vitorsr »

kosmet wrote: post #38

I think this list shows that how overwhelming the amount of resources to learn but we have so limited time. I think Duolingo style learning paths are way to go because we need to minimize the time to learn something. These kind of dumps are of no use except for bookmarking and feeling good.

I had the opposite reaction. I think this list shows what is passable as educational nowadays. I would personally be very cautious to consider anything included as edutainment, never mind educational.

I took some time to peruse the list after topics for which I took formal education and could not find a single useful channel.

The only very few exceptions to the rule are MIT OCW kind of channels where universities include playlists with footage of undergraduate courses.

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Post by hansel_der »

rpastuszak wrote: post #45
nanook wrote: post #41

I find it hilarious that "Indian English" is a separate category

Why? IIRC Indian English has almost 250m speakers, which is in the same ballpark as what we'd call American English and has its own, distinct features as much as AmE vs. BrE. Edit: added context

seems like you are both right

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Post by shirononon_ »

AI has already digitized these videos a countless number of times why are we slow to implement this as an algorithm into the genetic code of a fish which we may then stick into our ear to perform any spoken translation to us.

We will probably have similar for eyeballs one day but they may be more invasive.

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Post by kosmet »

frozencell wrote: post #40
kosmet wrote: post #38

I think this list shows that how overwhelming the amount of resources to learn but we have so limited time. I think Duolingo style learning paths are way to go because we need to minimize the time to learn something. These kind of dumps are of no use except for bookmarking and feeling good.

Can you get a job watching 1000 hours of YouTube?

Good point. Learning mostly occurs during the active parts where no YouTube video can provide. I think that's why universities will live a lot longer than people think.
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