It’s estimated that the world has about 7000 languages, yet in our lives, we’ll only ever learn a few — in this class, we’ll take a tour of some of the coolest features of the world’s languages and writing systems, and dive into all the amazing ways humans have learned to communicate different ideas. Languages without tense or word order, languages where entire complex sentences can be a single word, writing systems with 13 symbols and writing systems with 40,000 – things you didn’t even know a language could have! No background in linguistics needed — only lots of curiosity and a desire to explore.