Whether you’re learning your second, third, or fourth language, there’s always something special about picking up a few words that are unfamiliar. However, your misplaced confidence will quickly deflate when you have your tongue in a twist and your foot in your mouth after accidentally insulting some poor restaurant employee’s grandma. Learning another language can be …
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27 Things That Were So Wrong, They Became Right
Perspective is one heck of a thing. It’s amazing how different people and contexts can change a concept that was once set in stone to something completely different, but it happens all the time! We are more flexible than we give ourselves credit for, even if half the time it’s the product of our own …
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Unpopular Opinions That Are Actually Unpopular
People claim to have «unpopular opinions» all the time, but just because you say an opinion is unpopular doesn’t make it so. One of my unpopular opinions is that, barring an actual emergency, people should not be more than 5 minutes late for anything. Most of y’all probably find that unreasonable, and it likely is, …
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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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Cat Owners Share the Spicy (Yet Wholesome) Things They’ll Tell Their Cat if They Could Speak Kitty Language
Every hooman wishes they could talk to their pet. Although in our lonely moments, most of us talk to our cats and dogs anyways, our pets have pretty much no idea what we’re talking about and blissfully stare into space until they hear their name or the word ‘treat’. But cat owners, what if our …
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Redditors Share Seemingly Normal Names That Are the Most Unfortunate in Other Languages
Names can be tricky things. They are one of the first metrics that other people use to judge us, and it’s not like we needed any more reasons for that to happen. As if there wasn’t enough responsibility placed on parents, choosing what to name a kid can really make or break how they experience …
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Niche Internet Microcelebrity Spotlight: Chinese Teacher Molly
Screen Name: molly_chineseteacher Real Name: Molly Internet Occupation: Language teacher Reason for Fame: Mandarin Chinese has been ranked as one of the hardest languages to learn for native English speakers. With over 100,000 characters compared to the Latin alphabet’s 26 letters, it is probably going takes more than a 14 day streak on Duolingo to …
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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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Explain Like I’m 35: What is Alienposting? (May 7, 2023)
Look, we all like things that are cute, and for its many faults, the internet is pretty good at disseminating content that is cute. Adorable pets and wholesome moments aren’t usually hard to find, and that’s a good thing! However, it has to be said that these things can get repetitive after a while. When …
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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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