Word Memes For Vocabulary Fans Who Can’t Stop Looking Up Definitions

I love words. I know it might be hard to believe, but nearly every class I took in college had something to do with reading, writing, or language. I was an English major with minors in Professional Writing and Linguistics, so I was quite literally obsessed with the English language. I am addicted to learning …
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Language Memes For People Yelling At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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Linguists Share Cool Facts About Languages That They Speak

Being able to read, write, and speak remains one of the greatest achievements human beings have ever had. We’d be nowhere without our communication skills, and indeed our failure to use them properly causes many of the world’s problems.  What’s even crazier is how many languages we have developed over thousands of years, and all …
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French Woman Claims English is a «Simple» Language, Gets Schooled By Linguists

A fun fact about me is that I got a Linguistics minor in college. Educated diva, I know. Getting a linguistics minor isn’t the most challenging thing in the world: all you need is five courses, but I learned so much about language. The most important thing I learned in Linguistics class is that no …
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Language Memes For Linguists Yelling At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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Language Memes For Linguists Screaming At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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Russian Interviewee Gets Told Their Russian is «Insufficient» by Job Interviewer Who Couldn’t Speak the Language

As someone who took at least five linguistics classes in college, you might call me a language expert. And as such, it’s my duty to share a few undeniable truths about language learning that many people do not know. Did you know that if you’re a native speaker of a language, congratulations, you are an …
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Weird Duolingo Sentences To Stimulate Your Broca’s Area

Language acquisition is not known to be quickly accomplishable or straightforward. Most of us spend four years in a high school classroom fruitlessly trying to learn French, Spanish, or German, to completely forget everything we’ve learned in the weeks after graduating. I even took three semesters of Russian language courses in college, which may or …
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Dumb Duolingo Memes For Both Linguists And Language Luddites

There are hundreds of different languages in the world, but only 20% of the U.S. population can fluently speak more than one. While not everyone necessarily needs to know any languages other than the one that they grew up speaking, it is enriching to gain the knowledge of another culture through how they speak. Plus, …
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Weird And Overly Literal Translations That Are Both Poetic And Rude

Language is a wonderful and complex thing. One of the biggest testaments to how interesting humanity can be is that there are still more than 7,000 languages spoken in the world today. It’s a mind-boggling number to think about, but what can get even more confusing is when we try to communicate the meaning from …
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