# Best practical course for NLP

**URL:** <https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202>\
**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [March 30, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202 "2021-03-30T07:51:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Puneet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Puneet](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Puneet)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202/1 "2021-03-30T07:51:18Z")

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Hi,  
I am a fresher here. Wish to learn and then contribute. What is the right course (preferably video) to start with? Please suggest  
Regards  
Puneet

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**Author:** ![infinitejoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ea666f/32.png) [@infinitejoy](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/infinitejoy)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2021, 12:40pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202/2 "2021-03-30T12:40:16Z")

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Stanford CS224N is one of my favorites.

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**Author:** ![Maimonator](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/maimonator/32/1452_2.png) [@Maimonator](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Maimonator)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202/3 "2021-03-31T21:17:51Z")

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Went on to watch it straight after reading this comment and I’m immensely enjoying it!

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**Author:** ![VP1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecd19e/32.png) [@VP1](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/VP1)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 6:01pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202/4 "2021-04-02T18:01:09Z")

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Yes, CS224N is a great course for NLP with Deep Learning. The run of 2019 (available on YouTube) doesn’t cover Transformers in great detail, but there is a great lecture by Vaswani himself (Lecture 14).  
More info on transformers-like models in another Stanford course, CS224 **U** , is also available on YouTube.

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**Author:** ![Maimonator](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/hellohellohello/user_avatar/discuss.huggingface.co/maimonator/32/1452_2.png) [@Maimonator](https://discuss.huggingface.co/u/Maimonator)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2021, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.huggingface.co/t/best-practical-course-for-nlp/5202/5 "2021-04-07T22:09:10Z")

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Thanks for the recommendation! Will take a look once I finish the current course 🤗