It's a sign

The Duolingo owl haunts my dreams

The French have got it all figured out

The new foodie dilemma

Wikipedia is one of the most useful websites on the internet. It might not be suitable for academic articles, but it's perfect when you want thorough and compelling information about a topic you are ignorant about. If you need help grasping new concepts quickly, there's no better place to go than Wikipedia. I'm a little nervous about Wikipedia's future . They keep begging for money, and I have not given them a cent. I'm just as worried about the shutdown of the world's largest internet encyclop…

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, or even growing up in a multilingual household, and I love that for them. As a former college student with a linguistics minor, I loved how linguistics as…

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TikTokers gonna TikTok

Ever see a movie title and think, “Man, they could do better”? Yeah, me too. While Cocaine Bear may not fall into this category, there are plenty of titles

I love when people have such unique laughs that simply hearing them laughing will make you laugh. It really adds some much-needed biodiversity to the ecosystem of laughter. I don't know about you, but I feel like my laugh has definitely changed and evolved over the years. I used to watch a comedian who herself had a loud cackling laugh. Sure enough, I was cackling up a storm for the next three years. In college, I would go to lots of comedy shows, and I developed a laugh for when I could recogn…

As a former English major, I feel like I can easily scope out a “fake fan” of literature. I don't care to do so on a regular basis because I have a life, but put a so-called bookworm in front of me and I can scope out their vibe easily in less than a minute.

That reverse culture-shock though

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 their native language.

Poor, poor Phoebe.