How Gender Builds Language Barriers
English is a language without gender. Well, sort of. What that debatable affirmation refers to is the lack of gender inherent in lexicons of the
Emojis: the Evolution of Language?
A teary-eyed cat, a monkey covering its eyes, hearts of various colors, two twins dancing in rhythm… Most of us use emojis — those drawings
The Advantages of Using Podcasts to Learn New Languages
“I feel like learning a new language” is something we tend to hear and even think. The problem lies less in being motivated than it
Sign Language
The three major forms of sign language used in the United States are American Sign Language (ASL), Pidgin Signed English (PSE), and Signed Exact English
And the Happiest Language in the World Is…
According to the Pollyanna principle, formulated in the ‘70s by two social psychologists, people tend to use positive words more frequently than negative ones. Furthermore,
North Korea and Language
The Guardian recently published an interesting piece that to a certain degree removes the mantle of impermeability that covers North Korea. In other communist nations
Why Children Aren’t Better Language Learners than Adults
Everybody’s favorite stereotypical excuse to not learning a foreign language is that adults can’t learn languages as well as children. The common misconception is that
We Don’t All Cry in the Same Language
A funny screenshot of a television series is passing around several websites, whose title reads “Woman Crying in Spanish” as an explanation of what is
The advantages of speaking multiple languages
In today’s day and age, almost all professionals are encouraged (if not required) to be fluent in more than one language. In grade school, high
Exploring Idioms in Foreign Languages
In my previous post “Understanding English-Language Idioms,” I discussed the peculiarity of idioms. Idioms are expressions used in informal language that don’t actually mean what
