This Popular Midwestern Saying About Cheese Makes No Sense To The Rest Of...
This popular Midwestern expression about government-issued cheese says a lot about how Americans feel about the Obama administration. And more...Camera by Alana Kakoyiannis. Sound by Justin Gmoser....
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Scientists Describe Their Work In Emoji And The Results Are Hilarious
Academic research is not written for the average reader.The level of precision demanded by that work calls for a specialized vocabulary — some would call it jargon — that makes it often...
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How To Learn A New Language In 3 Months
What are the best practices in learning to speak any new language withing 3 to 4 months? appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are printing an answer from Benny Lewis, a world traveler and editor...
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Here's Why Mark Zuckerberg Studies Chinese Every Day
Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Wednesday. To the delight and amazement of the crowd, he spoke in Mandarin Chinese. "I'm very glad to be in Beijing," he said to the...
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Learning A Second Language Could Supercharge Your Career
In today's Millennial-saturated job market, it can be hard for even the most talented and experienced boomers to preserve their competitive advantage. However, there is a rare skill that makes hiring...
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Here's How Many Unique Tweets Are Possible
In What If?: Serious Scientific Answers To Absurd Hypothetical Questions, Randall Munroe, creator of the popular web comic xkcd, provides pages of in-depth responses to questions you probably never...
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10 Phrases That Only The French Understand
The phrases below are things that the French language has a unique way of expressing. Check them out, along with their literal translated meanings.Est-ce que je te demande si ta grand-mère fait du...
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The Second Languages Of Every Part Of The World In One Incredible Infographic
The website MoveHub.com is a resource for people looking to move abroad.They've released this eye-opening infographic that shows the second language of every region across the globe. Some are rather...
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Here's How I Learned To Speak French In Only 17 Days
What are the best ways to learn a language as an adult? appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are republishing an answer from David Bailey, CEO of Spotnight. I've learned several foreign languages...
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12 Sayings Only People From California Will Understand
California is known by many as the land of beautiful celebrities, packed freeways, and perpetual summer. But the nation's most populated state also has a huge variety of people with unique ways of...
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The Most Useful Foreign Languages For English Speakers
As a person with English as my first language, what would be the most useful foreign language that I could learn? appeared as a question on Quora. Below we are republishing an answer from Sanda...
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10 Sayings Only Italians Understand
1. In bocca al lupo / In culo alla balena | In the wolf’s mouth / In the whale’s a--These two expressions for good luck are well-known throughout Italy, but clearly they don’t make any sense. Maybe...
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The Mental Task So Challenging That Neither Computers Nor Neuroscientists Can...
The world’s most powerful computers can’t perform accurate real-time translation. Yet interpreters do it with ease. Geoff Watts meets the neuroscientists who are starting to explain this remarkable...
View ArticleHere's How To Fake A British Accent
Patricia Fletcher is a New York-based voice-over and dialect coach explains how to speak with a proper British accent.Produced by Matthew StuartFollow BI Video:On FacebookJoin the conversation about...
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12 Rules For Learning Any Language In 3 Months
Preface by Tim FerrissI've written about how I learned to speak, read, and write Japanese, Mandarin, and Spanish. I've also covered my experiments with German, Indonesian, Arabic, Norwegian, Turkish,...
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The Most Popular Language In Every State Other Than English And Spanish
Recently, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation.As a follow-up, I’m writing up short items on some of those maps, walking...
View ArticleThis Animated Map Shows How European Languages Evolved
The origin of Indo-European languages has long been a topic of debate among scholars and scientists.In 2012, a team of evolutionary biologists at the University of Auckland led by Dr. Quentin Atkinson...
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13 Sayings Only People From New England Can Understand
New Englanders have a certain way of saying things.In Yankee country, we call remote controls "clickers," traffic circles "rotaries," and subs "grinders." Mainers tack unnecessary "r"s onto words, like...
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This Hiking Story Reveals Cultural Differences Between Finns, Italians, And...
In the days when we used St Mary's College, Bangor, North Wales, for English language summer courses, we came up with a different nationality mix every year; after a few years we decided some mixes...
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7 Reasons You Should Teach Your Kids To Speak French
There's an argument to be made that we should stop teaching French in schools.In The New Republic last year, John McWhorter wrote about why we should stop pretending French is an important language,...
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