Memory Play Notes

If you strip pie down to its bare basics — the Platonic Pie, if you will — the concept is extraordinarily simple. It’s a crust of some sort filled wit

Family is a pretty big deal in Italian culture. And that’s not to suggest that it’s not a big deal in every other culture. But in contrast

We’ve said many times before that immersion is one of the best ways to master a language. Sometimes, though, traveling to a country to surround

Voting in the United States (and around the world) looks quite a bit different this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Usually the vast majority of pe

If you don’t keep close tabs on politics, the ever-shifting landscape of political jargon can easily overwhelm your understanding of what it all

What are the Inuit languages, and where are they spoken? As you might guess if you’ve heard the term “Inuit” before, the language family is native to

There’s nothing like learning the names we give our family members to completely upend your expectations for how language is supposed to work. I

A few years ago, on the eve of a trip from Berlin to Bavaria to meet my boyfriend’s four grandparents, father, father’s wife, and several step-sibling

The anti-productivity movement is taking hold, particularly within the breathless culture of hustle and self-improvement that is the United States. Th

Receiving guests is a time-honored tradition in virtually every part of the world. Many cultures have developed entire codes of etiquette around their

The hardest concepts to grasp in a new language are the ones that don’t have an equivalent in your native language. English doesn’t have a

Brazil is a large country with enormous cultural diversity. The official language is Portuguese, but that doesn’t mean that every region speaks the sa

People are naturally fascinated by Switzerland — and this admiration isn’t just a love for chocolate and mountain walks (all right, maybe a litt

Each year, whiz kids from around the United States gather for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, the Super Bowl of word nerdery (if the Super Bowl onl

Did you know that around two million people in Switzerland are French speakers? For the most part, they live in Suisse romande, or Romandy, in the wes