Memory Play Notes

Insults these days can sometimes feel so drab. While once in a while someone will get out a good zinger, too often people rely on F-words, A-words and

It’s not exactly unheard of for older people to fret about what younger people are doing to language — it’s a tale, one could say, as old

If you’ve lived in the United States since birth, you’ve been inundated with American politics. Talking about elections comes as naturally as breathin

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

Holiday music is a divisive issue. Some people love the time of year when sleigh bells and Dean Martin rule the air waves, while others don’t ne

‘Tis the season to unironically say “’tis,” and that’s not the only change to our lexicon that’s caused by the hol

Language, for the most part, seems to change pretty slowly. Teens might start using new words like “hip” and “radical,” but ki

Want to learn a language while exercising at the same time? It almost sounds too good to be true. Knocking out two of your life goals simultaneously i

Historically, it’s been somewhat difficult to find non-English movies in English-speaking countries. The dominance of Hollywood threatened to ma

Learning a language is not just about rote memorization of vocab and grammar rules. The Babbel approach we recommend most often involves a balanced di

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

Canadian English seems neither here nor there in the grand scheme of English varieties. On the one hand, Canadians prefer the “British” spelling of wo

Assuming you caught wind of the hygge craze in the English-speaking world, then it probably didn’t take much digging to discover that there&#821

Portuguese is among the 10 most spoken languages in the world, but only 5 percent of its speakers live in Portugal. Curious about how many people spea

There are many, many English TV shows. If you want to use television to learn a language, you have plenty of options. The issue you’ll more like