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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Weird And Cursed Duolingo Sentences That Definitely Aren’t Vacation Friendly
Every day, countless well meaning individuals download the Duolingo app in a hopeful attempt to engage in self-betterment, and maybe annoy their friends with some newfound foreign vocabulary. Every day, these same people realize that the Duolingo owl is their new nemesis, destined to haunt their phones until they switch off their notifications (or give …
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