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 …
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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’
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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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 …
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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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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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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 …
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