Some wild backstories

Jokes galore

Read it and don't weep

The Duolingo owl haunts my dreams

Improvise, adapt, overcome

How to be very very unpopular

Can I have a definition?

STAY OFF THE COUNTER

Lost in translation

Big little brains

Bringing Mandarin to the masses

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…

Zeep glorp

Words are wild

TikTokers gonna TikTok

It's pretty common knowledge that English is far from the most logical of languages. I can't imagine how difficult it is to make sense of words like “their”, “there,” and “they're." Spelling may not be quite as difficult as Gaelic or Welsh, but making sense of silent letters must be frustrating.