Memory Play Notes

If you want to stay on a Polish person’s good side, there are three major faux pas you’ll want to avoid. One is making any sort of ahistor

Family is a huge part of, really, every culture in the world. But if you’re learning to talk about family in German, you might need to learn som

Imagine waking up and going to work in pitch darkness. Just before lunchtime, the sun is rising, only to set again some time after your lunch break. Y

Norwegian culture is like pretty much every other culture in the sense that family is a pretty big deal. But norms around living arrangements and fami

All languages are beautiful in their own way, but only a select few are often branded as “romantic.” French and Italian are perhaps the tw

Can you own a word? There are plenty of things that make sense to trademark, like a brand name or a logo, but you enter a more contentious territory w

There’s a saying in Polish that means “Never greet someone across a threshold” —  Nie witamy się przez próg. The same holds tru

The average human sleeps about eight hours a night for, on average, 75 years. That adds up to around two hundred and 22,000 hours in a lifetime. What

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

Reading a book in its original language is, in our opinion, one of the best parts of learning a new language. Sure, literature in translation is great

Switzerland has a population of around 8.5 million people, who live in an area about the size of the tiny U.S. states of Vermont and New Hampshire com

My thoughts are racing, my eyes blur, as if I’m looking at the world through the bottom of a milk bottle. My breathing shortens and all peripheral sou

The hardest part of learning Polish, or really any language, isn’t the grammar or the vocab — it’s keeping your motivation up. Language le

You’ve used punctuation your whole life, and it might come as second nature to you (well, except for those tricky semicolons). Even if you can t

Soccer, or football as it’s known everywhere else, is truly the world’s game. 43 percent of the global population is interested in soccer, according t