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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14-year-old cries when his parents and older siblings speak only in Mandarin when he can barely understand it: ‘I told my mom that she is mocking me for not knowing how to speak our native language’
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that language immersion works. If you drop somebody into the French countryside to be a scullery maid for a family who talks a lot, they will probably be fluent in French within the next few years. It wouldn’t work if you know no French and are barely exposed to real …
Seguir leyendo 14-year-old cries when his parents and older siblings speak only in Mandarin when he can barely understand it: ‘I told my mom that she is mocking me for not knowing how to speak our native language’
14-year-old cries when his parents and older siblings speak only in Mandarin when he can barely understand it: ‘I told my mom that she is bullying me for not knowing how to speak our native language’
It’s a truth universally acknowledged that language immersion works. If you drop somebody into the French countryside to be a scullery maid for a family who talks a lot, they will probably be fluent in French within the next few years. It wouldn’t work if you know no French language and are barely exposed to …
Seguir leyendo 14-year-old cries when his parents and older siblings speak only in Mandarin when he can barely understand it: ‘I told my mom that she is bullying me for not knowing how to speak our native language’
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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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 …
Seguir leyendo French Woman Claims English is a «Simple» Language, Gets Schooled By Linguists
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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