Linguistics

How to Use Your Love of Cooking and Food to Learn a New Language

Ramsay Lewis

Learn a New Language, Go on a Culinary Adventure, and Discover Other Cultures—All at the Same Time! Read More >>

How to Say Grandmother in Different Languages

Emily Taylor

What is Your Word for Grandmother? Read More >>

Word Nerd: Uplifting Words to Weather Stressful Times

Emily Taylor

Origins of the Words of Encouragement and Strength We Need Right Now This time on Word Nerd I want to focus on some encouraging words that have been helping me weather this strange time so many of us are sharing. Read More >>

Words for Love Around the World – The Linguistics of Love

Emily Taylor

How to Say "I Love You" in Different Languages - Word Nerd Series Since Valentine's Day is fast approaching here in the States, today on Word Nerd we're going to dive into the words for love in different languages. Read More >>

Do Animals Have Language? Differences Between Human Language & Animal Communication

Erin Donnelly

How is Human Language Different From Animal Communication Systems In the 1960s, linguist Charles Hockett identified a set of "design features" to distinguish human language from animal communication systems. Read More >>

How to Memorize Foreign Language Vocabulary FAST (Infographic)

Madison Rittenhouse

The 4 Best Ways to Memorize Vocabulary in a Foreign Language “Probably no aspect of learning a foreign language is more important than memory,” Paul Pimsleur. Read More >>

Spanish Arabic Cognates – Common Spanish Words Derived From Arabic

Madison Rittenhouse

These 25 Spanish Words Actually Come from Arabic… Here’s Why. Read More >>

Cornell Students Create Alien Torfan Language for Marvel

Madison Rittenhouse

Linguistics students spend their time studying phonetics, dissecting sentence structures, and … creating alien languages? That’s right. Read More >>

Whistled Languages – Ultimate Guide to Long Distance Conversations

Erin Donnelly

In some languages, whistled languages can be used as a fill-in for spoken language when a face-to-face conversation is not possible. Read More >>

Do Women Really Talk More Than Men?

Erin Donnelly

How Does Gender Affect Language Use? Read More >>

National Museum Fire ravages Brazil’s Indigenous Languages

Erin Donnelly

In one sense, a fire can destroy only what is tangible, but in Brazil's National Museum fire, languages also perished. Read More >>

History of Halloween: The Origin of English’s Spookiest Words

Erin Donnelly

The end of October is approaching, making now a good time to brush up on the history of Halloween language. Read More >>

How to Learn a Foreign Language by Paul Pimsleur

Robert Paris Riger

For me, this is the perfect book on learning a new language. It is all the things most language--learning tools are not. It’s direct, full of useful pearls of wisdom that can be easily incorporated into one’s day-to-day study of a new language.