Language vs Dialect: What You Need to Know

What's the real difference between a language and a dialect? Where does one language end and another begin? There are aa lot of misconceptions out their, resulting in people thinking the way some people speak is 'just' a dialect. Let's look at how to put things right - seeing all language varieties as equally magnificent! 00:00 Introduction 00:41 Language varieties 01:18 Social and Political definition 01:29 West Germanic Dialect Continuum 03:04 Degrees of mutual intelligibility 03:15 Other continua 04:03 Effect of mountains and rivers 04:22 Standard Languages 05:01 National Languages 05:16 Example of dialects straddling national borders 06:50 Language policies stamping out diversity 07:34 Linguisitc snobbery 07:57 Problematic definition using intelligibility 08:36 A dialect with an army and navy