 Hello! On behalf of my team, I would like to wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. And since you all seem to have a great interest in language studies and linguistics, I would like to introduce you to the Virtual Linguistics Campus, the world's largest e-education platform for languages and linguistics. But before I do that, here are some of my students who want to wish you all the best too, all in their mother tongues. And here they are! Hello! I hope you are all happy with the competition. My name is Alda Kurnia, and I speak Indonesian. Hello! I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. Hello! I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. My name is Jennifer, and I speak American English. Hello! I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. I am Jiao Ren, and I speak Korean. Hello! I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. My name is Paveria, and I speak Ukrainian. Hello! I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. And I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. Hello! My name is Shabnam, and I speak English. I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. Hello! Good luck with the competition. My name is Svetlona, and I am from Russia. Hello! I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. My name is Valentina, and I am Italian. Hello! My name is Xavier, and I speak German. And I wish you all the best for your linguistic contest. Okay! I'm sure you understood it all. Well, as I already said, the Virtual Linguistics Campus is an e-education platform for linguistics. We provide students from all over the world with linguistic classes, all in English, with linguistic data, and with numerous tools. I don't want to introduce them here. That would last far too long. Rather, I would like to say something about our latest product, the so-called MOOC. Now, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course. Studying online means from anywhere, at any time, without any in-class meeting. Traditional online courses charge tuition. They carry credit and limit enrollment to a few dozen students to ensure interaction with their instructors. Massive open online courses, on the other hand, are usually free, at least on the Virtual Linguistics Campus they are. And they are massive. That is, there are no limitations as far as the number of participants is concerned. Currently, we have the following MOOCs in our program. Linguistics 101 Fundamentals, Linguistics 102 Speech Science, and Linguistics 103 The Nature of Meaning. And as usual, as I said, there is no limit as far as the number of participants is concerned. So, let us look at these MOOCs in more detail. The online course Linguistics 101 Fundamentals provides an overview of the core areas of linguistics from phonetics to pragmatics. It serves as the fundamental introduction to the field using examples from English as well as from other languages. The second of our MOOCs, Linguistics 102 Speech Science, discusses all aspects of human speech. Speech production, the physics of speech, or alternatively referred to as acoustic phonetics, and speech perception. And these central parts are surrounded by an introductory unit and a unit that leads from phonetics to phonology. Our third MOOC, Linguistics 103 The Nature of Meaning, discusses all aspects of meaning. From word meaning, via sentence meaning, to the meaning of larger structures such as utterances. Well, and furthermore, it includes aspects such as ambiguity and vagueness, or word meaning from a historical perspective. Before you take part in any of these MOOCs, however, you have to become a member of the virtual linguistics campus community. That's free, you don't have to pay anything. And you have to register then for one or several classes. But that's really simple. If you have no account on the virtual linguistics campus, load the VLC homepage and create your free VLC account. Once you have such an account, login with your personal access data and go to the VLC registration office, which you can find on the VLC homepage. And there you can register for one or several classes via a few mouse clicks. And after you've submitted your class registration, you will be given a confirmation via email. That's it? And certification? Well, the standard certificate is the so-called statement of participation issued by the virtual linguistics campus for regular and active participation. If you want more, you have to invest more work and a very, very small amount of money. Well, if this is the option of your choice, you will receive a qualified statement of accomplishment issued by Marburg University in conjunction with the VLC. So the Marburg University logo will be on your statement. Well, and this certificate will include your precise grade, your workload and a complete list of the topics and worksheets you have successfully submitted. In order to be given such a certificate, we want you to participate regularly. And we want you to do the worksheets, one for each e-learning unit. And if your overall score is 60% or higher, you have the choice. You can get the statement of accomplishment, which involves this very small fee, or the standard statement of participation, which is free. It's all up to you. So be part of our linguistics massive open online courses and learn more about languages, linguistics and human speech. Learn to produce and identify human speech sounds, work with oral and written data, analyze exotic languages and discover the secrets of meaning or sentence structure. As soon as your class has been activated, you will be contacted by the virtual linguistics campus team. The rest is up to you. So I hereby invite you to become part of the virtual linguistics campus community. Thanks for your patience.