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Jun 2, 2025

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5 min read

Language Learning That Sticks: Science-Backed Tips You Can Use Today

Evidence-based strategies to improve your language learning retention, focus, and fluency.

Linguistics

Dec 26, 2024

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3 min read

Insights from Linguistic Anthropology

Discover the Linguistic Connections Between Language, Society, and Culture

May 25, 2025

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3 min read

What is an endangered language?

Why saving dying languages is key to preserving culture, identity, and knowledge.

Articles

Linguistics

Oct 8, 2026

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1 min read

Some languages put the verb last. Yours isn't the normal one.

That order feels like logic itself. Who did it, what they did, what it was done to. How else would you say it?

Word of the week

Oct 5, 2026

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1 min read

There's an Inuit word for checking the window again

You've already looked out of the window. Nothing. You sit down. Ninety seconds later, you're up again, looking out of the same window, at the same empty road.

Linguistics

Oct 1, 2026

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1 min read

You could hear every sound on Earth once. Then you lost it.

You were born a better listener than you are now.

Word of the week

Sep 28, 2026

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1 min read

There's a German word for weight you gained from sadness

The excess weight a person puts on from emotional overeating: the biscuits after a breakup, the takeaway after a bad month.

Learning languages

Sep 24, 2026

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1 min read

Why you understand your teacher but not real people

Linguists call it foreigner-directed speech. A register native speakers slip into automatically when they think the listener is struggling

Sep 21, 2026

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1 min read

Hieroglyphs were unreadable for 1,400 years. One man broke them in 14.

Everyone was looking for symbols. He was the only one listening for sounds.

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