Are bilingual, trilingual, or studying a new language? Do you also need a laugh through all the difficult studying? Look no further! Do we have the most relatable posts for you? Yes! Whether you’re studying a romance language, germanic language, or anything else, we can make you laugh. Cause, heck, laughter is the universal language! …
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17-year-old student constantly insults his 26-year-old English teacher’s intelligence: ‘I’m not sure how to write an essay that’s simple enough for you.’
We all went to school with some know-it-all kids who thought they were smarter than everyone there, including the teacher. I have empathy for kids who are genuinely advanced and don’t have the opportunity to take AP classes or other challenging coursework. If a kid is actually extremely bored and unchallenged by school, it can …
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19-year-old refuses to be the English translator for her parents after her 22-year-old brother also learns English: ‘I’ve been forced to do it since I was 11’
It’s incredibly common for the children of immigrant parents to have to serve as translators for them, even when they’re as young as 6 or 7. They have to explain their parents’ medical problems to doctors, fill out confusing government paperwork, and order food at restaurants for the whole family. This service is not only …
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35 Book Memes for Literary Types
It’s true that literature will set us free. We’re so used to being bogged down by the noise of the internet, endlessly scrolling and filling our minds with thousands of hot takes, opinions, and jokes from people we will never know. But turn to the gentle pages of a novel, and your mind will thank …
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25+ Memes for the Bilingual Struggle
English is all fun and games until you’re faced with to, too, and two. Or all the different uses of «was.» Or the endless homographs like bass and bass and wind and wind and wound and wound. To say nothing of the homophones. Or the myriad exceptions to the myriad rules. English is not easy, …
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25+ Great British Bake Off Memes Attempting to Glaze a Warm Victoria Sponge
Great British Bake Off is essential comfort TV. It has the perfect levels of wholesomeness, delicious-looking pastries, and enchanting British accents. In American reality television, there is often so much unnecessary drama, stress, and sob stories. In the Great British Bake Off, the only drama is whether or not Jan’s custard slices are going to …
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A Dictionary Full of 31 Wordplay Memes For The Literate
If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s words. The past ten years of my life have consisted of constantly consuming as many words as possible for my own mental enrichment. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with learning vocabulary words. We had to do 15 minutes of vocabulary practice …
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30+ Bookworm Memes For Readers Who Can’t Put Their Books Down
Once you leave school, it’s hard to remember what it was like to read for fun. You spend years and years being taught how to close read and analyze literature that you forget what it’s like to do it because you like it. It’s no help that so many of the most fun books published …
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Teachers Discuss How They Deal With Rowdy Middle School Boys
I don’t think it’s a controversial statement that middle school boys are the worst. I luckily only had to deal with them for a couple of years (shoutout to absolute menaces to society, Alex and Luke). Still, some unfortunate adults have made entire careers out of trying to control this demographic. Bless their hearts. There …
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15 Reading Memes For Readers Who Can’t Get Off Booktok and Need to Finish Their Book
Recently, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the fact that the YA romance novel Red White, And Royal Blue (which was recently adapted into a movie for Amazon Prime) was based on a real-person fanfiction about Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. It’s a thought that never leaves my mind, much like the fact …
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