Would you yeet me that dictionary, please? Oh, the English language. Such a mysterious, ever-changing skill that not all native English speakers possess. I don’t judge them; English is weird. Especially when each generation adds new words and meanings to it. One day you see yourself as an English speaker, and the next, you try …
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‘Don’t lose your streak!’: 20 Duolingo memes for learning languages and escaping notifications
Learning a new language can be an adventure… Especially if the green owl doesn’t let you go. Many of us have had that language-learning bug bite us at some point in our lives. Perhaps we read that learning a new language is good for our brains, or maybe we have family and friends living abroad, …
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25 Duolingo Memes for People Who Keep Their Streak Alive No Matter Where They Are
You thought you were just downloading a fun little language app… not signing up for a daily responsibility you physically cannot ignore. At first it’s innocent, you do a lesson here and there, feel productive, maybe learn how to say «apple» in another language. But then the streak starts. And suddenly you’re doing lessons in …
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Worker makes a jacket that says ‘Sorry, I can’t speak Chinese’ to wear at work, boss tells them it’s offensive
Is it offensive to admit something that’s true? You have to be aware of the kinds of messaging you’re sending off at work. You may be saying things with your appearance that you didn’t intend. That’s why your boss might want to control what you wear on the job. It’s why we have things like …
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Employee doesn’t reveal to coworkers that he speaks Spanish, they get upset when they realize he’s fluent: ‘The look on her face was genuinely something’
Speaking another language in a majority English-speaking country can feel like having your own secret code. The rate of native English speakers who can speak other languages fluently is pathetically low, so the likelihood of being understood in many contexts often isn’t that high. As a result, plenty of multilingual people enjoy the ability to …
Seguir leyendo Employee doesn’t reveal to coworkers that he speaks Spanish, they get upset when they realize he’s fluent: ‘The look on her face was genuinely something’
Hearing employee demands that office learns sign language, gets offended when coworker refuses: ‘I don’t have interest in learning another language for no reason’
People have a right to accessibility, but not to enforce their interests on others. The working world has become a lot more aware of the need to make adjustments for certain employees over the past couple of decades, although there is still a lot of progress yet to be made. Everybody who wants to work …
Seguir leyendo Hearing employee demands that office learns sign language, gets offended when coworker refuses: ‘I don’t have interest in learning another language for no reason’
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 …
Seguir leyendo 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’
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’
‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out
Professors sometimes need to be taken down a peg. Some of them walk around wielding unbridled power just because they have PhDs and a group of eager students trying to impress them. Some of them get a little high on their own intellectual supply and aren’t the nicest kinds of people to be around. But …
Seguir leyendo ‘Jog a little, you look […] sad’: Professor makes fun of student’s appearance in front of her peers, she immediately calls him out
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’