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’
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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’
‘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’
Canadian mom gets trash talked by German family-in-law, faces rage when she reveals she can speak their language: ‘Calling me names was the last straw’
Integrating with your in-laws can be one of the more difficult parts of married life, and this is especially true if you come from different countries or cultures. When you literally speak a different language, some things can get lost in translation—and if you’re particularly unlucky, that can happen on purpose. You may find yourself …
Seguir leyendo Canadian mom gets trash talked by German family-in-law, faces rage when she reveals she can speak their language: ‘Calling me names was the last straw’
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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20+ Hilarious Typos and Unique Sentences That Boggle the Mind
Words: they’re difficult sometimes. Take it from somebody who spends most of their days looking at ‘em and typing ‘em, it’s very easy to trip yourself up when you least expect it. Sometimes, something as simple as a three-word text can offer the potential for disaster, and if you’re writing out anything longer? Well, Godspeed. …
Seguir leyendo 20+ Hilarious Typos and Unique Sentences That Boggle the Mind
‘The high five was invented in 1977’: Etymologists reveal the origins of well-known words and phrases
One of the many mind-bending things about knowing a language is how many words and sayings we use while having next to no idea of their origin. Writing and speech change all the time, and when they are built on for hundreds or thousands of years it’s inevitable that some things are going to get …
Seguir leyendo ‘The high five was invented in 1977’: Etymologists reveal the origins of well-known words and phrases
25+ Puntastic Wordplay Memes and Posts That Clown Around With Double Meanings
The English language is truly one of the craziest inventions that human beings have ever come up with. This thing has more than 170,000 words, many of which sound similar to one another, and countless dumb grammatical rules that even native speakers have a problem getting the hang of. It is basically begging to be …
Seguir leyendo 25+ Puntastic Wordplay Memes and Posts That Clown Around With Double Meanings
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 …
Seguir leyendo A Dictionary Full of 31 Wordplay Memes For The Literate