"I" before "e" except after "c?" But... why? Duolingo experts dig into why English words can be so difficult to spell and sound out.| Duolingo Blog
Here are the differences between Irish and Gaelic, plus Irish’s origins. How lucky!| Duolingo Blog
Italy is filled with amazing food… if you know how to order it! This is what you need to know about restaurant options and how to place your order in Italian.| Duolingo Blog
"I Have a Dream" is one of the most powerful addresses in history. An expert explores the language traditions and tools used in Dr. Martin Luther King's historic speech.| Duolingo Blog
Learn more about how different languages use grammatical gender, and tips for learning the rules in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and more.| Duolingo Blog
What's the most popular language to study for Gen Z? How about for Boomers? Find out!| Duolingo Blog
The Spanish verb "gustar" is unlike other verbs, and learners need to know how to use it! Here's everything you need to know about how "gustar" works.| Duolingo Blog
Duolingo teaching experts share helpful tips for using preterite and imperfect tenses in Spanish.| Duolingo Blog
Not all Spanish speakers use "le" and "lo" the same way! The rules depend on their dialect. Here's what you'll see in different dialects of Spanish!| Duolingo Blog
These language resources have their own strengths—here’s how to make the most of them!| Duolingo Blog
Grammy-winning musician Juanes shares his journey to learn English on Duolingo's podcast "Relatos en Ingles."| Duolingo Blog
Lingua francas are used by people who don't have a language in common—and they have a long, complex history! Here are some lingua francas you'll find around the world.| Duolingo Blog
Fasting is an important part of Ramadan, and so are the foods for breaking the fast! Here are common Ramadan foods and greetings from around the world.| Duolingo Blog
KPOP music is filled with hidden lessons about Korean language and culture! Here’s how K-pop can help you practice Korean.| Duolingo Blog
Changing our infamous streak has helped more users build a consistent daily habit!| Duolingo Blog
Read on for everything you need to know about Friends Quests and how they work!| Duolingo Blog
Who’s your competition each week on Duolingo? Learn more about our Leaderboards!| Duolingo Blog
Our curriculum designers share what goes into creating a Duolingo language course.| Duolingo Blog
Here’s how we used learning science to design our new grammar-focused teaching tool!| Duolingo Blog
Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it| the Guardian
My previous post asked Was there an AI winter between 2020 and 2023? and was based on first occurrence of Danish “AI”-compounds in Wikidata. The SPARQL results seem to indicate that there were no new neologisms between (approximately) 2020 and 2023. I have added some more “AI”-compounds to Wikidata as well as pointers to “attestors” with […]| Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
Wikidata lexemes can record compounding and “attested by”, and this I have done for some of the Danish words where “AI” is a part. For some reason the Danish language uses t…| Finn Årup Nielsen's blog
Being immersed in your new language is intimidating for both travelers and those moving to a new country! Here are tips from a multilingual high schooler who made the most of it.| Duolingo Blog
Raising kids is tough work, in any language! Here's advice for parents raising their children bilingual, and what they should know about common myths.| Duolingo Blog
A little bit of French goes a long way 🇫🇷 Use these phrases on your trip to France!| Duolingo Blog
Uppercase or lowercase? Turns out, that choice has a long, twisty history.| Duolingo Blog
Don’t fear French pronunciation—it’s more predictable than you think!| Duolingo Blog
There’s just 1 word to describe them all: chévere! Or chido, or padre, or copado, or…| Duolingo Blog
Translation tools aren’t always lesson-friendly. Here’s why that matters!| Duolingo Blog
The English alphabet is an important tool for learners—you’ll need to know how to pronounce and use it! Here’s everything you need to know about the English ABCs.| Duolingo Blog
At the 2025 Africa Food Systems Forum in Dakar, Senegal, Welthungerhilfe (WHH) is encouraging collaboration and commitment to bold, youth-led innovations that address malnutrition and promote the health of people and the planet.| Welthungerhilfe.de - Für eine Welt ohne Hunger und Armut
Welcome to Season 5 of Progressively Incorrect! In this special premiere episode, I’m joined by Greg Ashman, a leading advocate for explicit instruction and one of the most important voices in education today. We begin by analyzing a new video from Jo Boaler, where she casts “step-by-step instruction” as the villain in favor of an … Continue reading S5E01: Greg Ashman on Explicit Teaching and Inquiry Learning| Education Rickshaw
0. It occurs to me, that often, what an outsider gets wrong when dabbling in another field isn’t just the complex cutting edge stuff, or the intermediate complexity stuff, but the absolute basics. It’s not that the basics are necessarily simple, it’s just that everyone in the field knows them, having absorbed them from colleagues, […]| Diagram Monkey
Scheme is a LISP dialect that has not just gone its own way (as is usual with LISPs) but also achieved IEEE standardization. With a focus on lexical scope and tail call optimization, it actually contributed many of its ideas back into Common LISP.| Tao of Mac
LinguaViva is the title of a collection of textbooks used in many levels of Portuguese instruction. Hosted by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning, these textbooks, written by Princeton faculty, allow students to save responses directly on the website and for faculty to review that work with students.| McGraw Commons
As we honor George Veikoso’s legacy of unity through music, let’s reject the labels that have long divided our people. The recent passing of George Veikoso, known across Oceania as “Fiji”, sent waves of grief across the Pacific. Whether we grew up in the outer islands or in capital towns, Fiji’s reggae music was the ... Read moreAbout the author/s Amota Ataneka Amota Ataneka is an I-Kiribati PhD candidate at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.| Devpolicy Blog from the Development Policy Centre
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Researchers at Florida State University have reported early signs that artificial intelligence may already be influencing the way people speak. Their study examined more than 22 million words taken from unscripted science and technology podcasts and found that certain expressions favored by large language models are appearing more often in casual conversation.| Digital Information World
“But far more numerous was the herd of such Who think too little, and who talk too much.” –John Dryden. During the early 1960s, I was assistant editor of The […]| Columns Archives – The Independent
I try to be a descriptivist when it comes to language, honest. I love the slogan I learned from Lingthusiasm[1]: Not judging your language,Just analyzing it But I confess, there is one usage of one word that I cannot keep … Continue reading →| Gaudete Theology
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An interview with Togolese author Sami Tchak, exploring how he defines and shapes his francophone writing in the context of the growing visibility of francophone African literatures.| Global Voices
It’s not difficult to say Happy New Year in Brazilian Portuguese, so whether you’re looking this up for an upcoming trip or to send a … The post 9 Ways to Say Happy New Year in Brazilian Portuguese By a Native appeared first on I Heart Brazil.| I Heart Brazil
Do you know how to wish a Merry Christmas in Brazilian Portuguese? The festive season is just around the corner, and if you have friends, … The post 7 Ways To Say Merry Christmas In Brazilian Portuguese By A Native appeared first on I Heart Brazil.| I Heart Brazil
Wanna make toast in Brazil? Here are six ways you can write and pronounce cheers in Portuguese! Thankfully, these drinking toast messages are very similar … The post 6 Ways To Say Cheers In Brazilian Portuguese By A Native appeared first on I Heart Brazil.| I Heart Brazil
Kurdish Wikimedian Mohammed Sardar shares why he creates digital content to preserve his native language.| Global Voices
Being left-handed used to be taboo, and that changed how languages talked about “left”! Here's how cultures avoided saying this forbidden word.| Duolingo Blog
We’re born ready to learn a language—but what would happen if no one taught us one? Here are the surprising stories of how kids create languages.| Duolingo Blog
Learn more about language families and what makes Zulu unique!| Duolingo Blog
No language stays the same for long, and French is already undergoing big changes! Here’s what we predict French will be like in the 22nd century.| Duolingo Blog
You might have seen “1st person” or “2nd person” before, but what do they mean? Here’s how grammatical “person” works and when you’ll use it.| Duolingo Blog
There are different ways of categorizing colors depending on your language and culture! These are the patterns we see when comparing color words.| Duolingo Blog
The more languages you know, the more you learn how incredibly different they can be! Here are seven unbelievable facts about languages.| Duolingo Blog
“The grief remains but is changed by / what it is covered with. A picture of / oblivion is not the same as oblivion.” — Victoria Chang| Read A Little Poetry
I’m excited to announce Torre, a new product that translates instantly between Spanish and English. A lot of native English speakers I talk to don’t understand why a better approach to …| Pete Warden's blog
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” If George Orwell had seen ahead to today’s scramble to make black —but not white —a proper no| Maureen Mullarkey: Studio Matters
Finnish swear words have a deep connection to history, religion, and mythology, making them particularly colorful and expressive.| Her Finland
In a letter dated from January of 1962 to his friend Carlos M. Luis, José Lezama Lima makes a case for the intimate relation between language and charity: “What lasts [la cantidad] is only possible through faith. Because what lasts with faith is charity. Omnis credit – believe all things. Charity is belief in anticipation. And […]| Infrapolitical Reflections
Q: Can Normal Animals In Middle-earth Speak? ANSWER: Yes, normal animals in Middle-earth can speak. I ran into this discussion while following a chain of [...]| Middle-earth & J.R.R. Tolkien Blog
For anyone interested in the sacred dimension of reading, I’ve created a week of free online meetings to introduce a contemplative way of engaging with texts–not necessarily “religious” in the conventional sense. I’m very excited to share this practice with you all, as it’s been transformative in my own life. Each meeting will be independent, … Continue reading A week of sacred reading starts tomorrow| Entering the Enchanted Castle
Make your home your personal classroom!| Duolingo Blog
Feeling thankful? Here's a guide to saying it—from Spanish, to Czech, to Gujarati!| Duolingo Blog
We don’t always call a country the same name it calls itself! Here are 15 examples, and the reasons behind the differences.| Duolingo Blog
At the United Nations Food Systems Summit+4 (UNFSS+4) Stocktake, around 3,000 delegates from across the globe gathered to accelerate the transformation of our food systems – aiming to ensure that everyone has access to nutritious, affordable food while safeguarding the planet’s natural resources. The vision is clear, but the path forward is still being shaped.| Welthungerhilfe.de - Für eine Welt ohne Hunger und Armut
In this episode of Progressively Incorrect, I’m joined by Dr. Shawn Datchuk, a leading researcher who’s helped shape how we think about sentence construction for struggling learners. Drawing from the literature on Precision Teaching and Direct Instruction, Shawn shares how timed practice and explicit strategies can accelerate mastery in writing, especially for students with learning … Continue reading S4E39: Shawn Datchuk on Teaching Sentence Construction with Precision| Education Rickshaw
I recently joined Dylan Wiliam and Patrice Bain on the Knowledge Matters Podcast to talk about retrieval practice, mini whiteboards, and the kinds of instructional moves that actually help students remember what they’ve learned. It was a generous conversation – one that didn’t just skim the surface of techniques, but dug into why they matter. … Continue reading Knowledge Is Back—But Only If We Teach It Well| Education Rickshaw
In this episode of Progressively Incorrect, I’m joined by Nathan Lang-Raad for a wide-ranging conversation that threads together two hot-button topics: artificial intelligence and the science of learning. There’s excitement everywhere—some even say AI will revolutionize teaching and learning. But are we getting ahead of ourselves? Nathan and I explore the real benefits AI can … Continue reading S4E38: Nathan Lang-Raad on Learning Science and Artificial Intelligence| Education Rickshaw
In this episode of Progressively Incorrect, I sat down with a personal friend whose work I deeply respect: John Tanner. His leadership in education has weathered storms—most notably, false accusati…| Education Rickshaw
A followup to Talk Like a Neanderthal Day Thinking about how Neanderthals might have talked is one way to get at language evolution and how language works. Another way to do this is through science…| Logarithmic History
Andrew Beck argues that America needs to revive the ideal of assimilation if our country is to survive as a country. It must not have its distinctive culture washed away by the influx of immigrants coming from many different cultures and religions. New Americans, he believes, should not only pledge allegiance to the nation’s official... Read more about: Topple Your Woke Idols The post Topple Your Woke Idols appeared first on The American Mind.| The American Mind
Andy Bodle: It's an ugly word for an ugly state of affairs. Surely English can do better. How about 'descalate'?| the Guardian
Unfortunately, I cannot really call the past 60 days "learning japanese". I have not done that. I have been away for , though, and I could test my Japanese ...| extremq.com
The mathematician John Venn was born on this day in 1834. To commemorate the occasion, here’s a poem in the form of a Venn diagram.| Brian Bilston
Words, words, words I’m having some coaching at this weird liminal time where this phase of motherhood is ending. This week my coach used the word ‘strategy’...| Julie Leoni
With "third-party", we usually mean someone not part of an agreement, but who may still be influencing (or influenced by) it. When this party is an Open Source project we depend on, I propose we use the term "second-party" instead. Here's why.| Code = Conversation
Economy and ecosystem, production and reproduction, Apple and the apple| indi.ca
Written by Elaine Chung and Qipeng Gao. This article examines Taiwan’s efforts to promote Mandarin education abroad as a tool of soft power, particularly in the UK. Drawing on student interviews, i…| Taiwan Insight
I have several weird and mostly useless super-powers. Some of them are actually super-powers that don’t have a rational explanation; I’ll leave them for other posts. The one I’ll …| Aharoni in Unicode
Discover the global presence of the Russian language, including countries where it is official, widely spoken, or holds significant cultural importance.| Milestone Localization
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For these Duolingo learners, a love for BTS inspired them to start learning Korean!| Duolingo Blog
Duolingo is improving its teaching skills every day. Here are all of the ways we got smarter about teaching grammar.| Duolingo Blog
Middle names are a strange concept. They often lie silent and unused, only to emerge when we fill out official forms and documents, providing an extra piece of proof as to who we are, despite our near-total disregard for the name in our daily lives. In the U.S., a majority of people have a middle name, but only around 4% of people are referred to by it. And, according to a poll by The Atlantic, only about 22% of Americans think they know the middle names of at least half of their friends or a...| History Facts
More than a decade ago I was working on a book about the impact of data on society. I was obsessed with a maddening and seemingly impossible idea: What if we could track every single piece of data that mattered in the world, and from that data, gain unimaginable insights that would shake us into … Continue reading "The Planet Is Warming, But Our Speech Has Chilled"| John Battelle's Search Blog
Freddie de Boer noted that Yascha Mounck strives to explain The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists — and I want to note what has happened to Mounck’s key term, “denialism.” It originated of course in the debate over climate change: it was and is used to describe people who deny that the climate is changing, and instead insist that everything is what it has always been and that any apparent warming is merely ordinary variation in weather. The point of the phrase is that we have ...| The Homebound Symphony
Explore the captivating world of social climbing in literature with our thematic review. Discover intriguing characters, complex dynamics, and timeless themes.| Azura – Think Brighter
What sounds do letters make in Spanish, and how can you learn to pronounce them? Here are tips for Spanish vowels, consonants, and whole words!| Duolingo Blog
Duolingo selected five TikTok creators to help learners practice their new language.| Duolingo Blog
Language is always changing—but some words can resist for thousands of years. What are they, and how do they do it?| Duolingo Blog
Have you ever noticed how many unusual words and phrases are in Christmas carols? Here's the reason why carols have so many surprising lyrics!| Duolingo Blog
Expats often need to learn a new language to acclimate in their new country. The language category collects language apps and teachings.| Expatsi
Critical Semiotics in the Age of Generative AI While the world celebrates the creativity of machines, human language is under siege. Beneath the rhetoric| Pressenza
On a car journey on which they'd otherwise have been fighting, the kids helped me start a collection of heterophonic homonyms - words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings. I've got nine of them now in English, and maybe two in other languages... can you help me find some more?| Dan Q
Try these tips from a Duolingo expert to help you get more comfortable writing in a new language.| Duolingo Blog
Greetings Storytellers, Diana here with an utterly mesmerizing post on the topic of quotation marks, both the single and double variety, their rules, and how to use them with other forms of punctuation. Easy breezy, right? This is another straightforward bit of punctuation, but like all punctuation, it has its quirks. Hopefully, my romantic little … Continue reading Punctuation Part VII: Quotation Marks| Story Empire
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