41 Polyglot Memes for Language Learners With Their Tongue in a Twist

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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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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15 Cinco de Mayo Memes for Party People Prepared to Drink a Metric Ton of Margaritas

¿Estás listo para la fiesta este fin de semana? If you have no idea what that says, then the answer is most certainly, ‘YES’. For those of us Americanos who don’t speak a lick of spanish and think that Taco Bell is certifiable Mexican food, one of the holiest of holidays is finally upon us …
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Language Memes For Linguists 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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Language Memes For Linguists Screaming 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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Funniest Shakira Memes That May Momentarily Distract You From All Of Her Tax Fraud Allegations

Shakira’s been under a lot of fire lately, what with the whole piqué scandal (He doesn’t deserve to get his name capitalized) and then Spain accusing her of committing tax fraud… we think it’s safe to say that Shakira’s having a bit of a tough time. She told Elle magazine – «It is well known that …
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Mexicans Mexicanize «White People» Food with Hilarious Spanish Translations

Foodies on the internet will literally put chorizo and avocado in a tortilla and call it a «health protein wrap» or some sh*t—like, my friend in Christ, that is a burrito. Maybe a very bland one, but still, come on. You’re not fooling anyone. Recently, a Mexican TikToker posted a video that had everyone in …
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Comical Memes For All Seasons

We are staunchly in the summertime, which means there’s no escape from the indomitable orb of the sun and the atmosphere’s various strategies of humidifying. Remember, this isn’t the hottest summer of your life; it’s the coldest summer of the rest of your life. While summertime might be the seasonal favorite of many, I tend …
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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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Rude Boss Forbids Employees From Speaking Non-English Languages

Linguistic diversity is something that is not always praised in the workplace. Being bilingual is often seen as a boon for white-collar workers who know languages with reputations of being cosmopolitan or good to know for business. On the flip side, bilingual service workers tend to be perceived as being less intelligent when speaking in …
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