Word of the Day: Learning One Greek Word A Day with My Yiayia
I never thought I would enjoy talking at a light fixture for 30 minutes until my 96-year-old yiayia finally figured out how to FaceTime. Even though she hasn’t...
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Fi Ouy Anc Standunder Isth, You Can Understand French Slang
Like most languages, the French love their slang, or argot. French slang is great because even when it doesn’t make sense at first glance, like the title of...
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Music Recommendations From Around World
When I was in elementary school I went to a Spanish immersion school. And when I was in first grade, an obsession rippled through our school. The obsession...
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Introducing Skordalia: Garlic Mashed Potatoes’ Greek Cousin
My happy place is sitting by the sea at a plastic table with a red and white checkered tablecloth. The wind is salted and warm, and I’m on...
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Can You Say These Foreign Tongue Twisters Five Times Fast?
In German, “tongue twister” is translated as Zungenbrecher, or “tongue crusher,” whereas the Italians translate it as scioglilingua, or “tongue melter.” In French its virelangue, or “tongue turner,”...
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Virtual Museum Tours: How I Went to Holland and Learned Dutch Without Leaving My Bed
Earlier this afternoon I was standing oog in oog met (face to face with) Van Gogh in Amsterdam. There he was with his green eyes and red beard...
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All About the French’s Favorite April Fools’ Joke: Poisson d’Avril
Our modern day calendar hasn’t changed much since the first 12-month calendar was invented thousands of years ago, but there was a 12-year period in French history where...
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10 Movies in 10 Different Languages You Need to See
I tutor a French middle schooler, and he speaks almost perfect English. We’ll talk for 30 minutes and he’ll make one, two or sometimes zero mistakes. I also...
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Cabin Fever Reliever Challenge: Language Learning Edition
As I write this I’m sitting on the couch looking out my window in Rouen, France, a mid-size town an hour and half north of Paris. I’ve been...
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