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Jun 2, 2025
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Evidence-based strategies to improve your language learning retention, focus, and fluency.
Linguistics
Dec 26, 2024
3 min read
Discover the Linguistic Connections Between Language, Society, and Culture
May 25, 2025
Why saving dying languages is key to preserving culture, identity, and knowledge.
Word of the week
Oct 12, 2026
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Vladimir Nabokov was fluent in Russian, English and French. He translated Eugene Onegin into English across four volumes.
Oct 8, 2026
That order feels like logic itself. Who did it, what they did, what it was done to. How else would you say it?
Oct 5, 2026
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.
Oct 1, 2026
You were born a better listener than you are now.
Sep 28, 2026
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
Linguists call it foreigner-directed speech. A register native speakers slip into automatically when they think the listener is struggling
