{"id":1856,"date":"2015-12-22T13:15:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ounews.co\/?p=1856"},"modified":"2015-12-22T13:15:59","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T12:15:59","slug":"talk-like-yoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/education-languages-health\/languages\/talk-like-yoda\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Wars: Talk like Yoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">How does Star Wars&#8217;\u00a0Yoda structure a sentence? And how does it differ to the way we tend to speak in contemporary English? This one minute film presented by Fernando Rosell-Aguilar, Senior Lecturer in Languages at The Open University, breaks down the mechanics of Yoda speech in this crash course on speaking Yodish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">For more Open University materials on the biggest film of the year, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/history-the-arts\/culture\/media-studies\/star-wars-the-course-awakens\">visit our OpenLearn site<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to talk like Yoda from Star Wars\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O8yXTxodxrg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><small>Photo by yapsnaps <a title=\"Attribution License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ounews.co\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-inject\/images\/cc.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does Star Wars&#8217;\u00a0Yoda structure a sentence? And how does it differ to the way we tend to speak in contemporary English? This one minute film presented by Fernando Rosell-Aguilar, Senior Lecturer in Languages at The Open University, breaks down the mechanics of Yoda speech in this crash course on speaking Yodish. For more Open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":1859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[808,880,1275,2087,2107,2465],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-languages","tag-english","tag-fernando-rosell-aguilar","tag-languages","tag-speech","tag-star-wars","tag-yoda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}