Reasons For Learning Languages That Are Just As Valid As Speaking, Travelling, Getting A Job Or Passing

03.14.2021

A little late but March cover page!

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Moodboard

Non-Gricean Humor: The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar. It was tense.

But now I’m not so sure I believe in beginnings and endings. There are days that define your story beyond your life. Like the day they arrived. 

Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve

languages will make rules and then be like. actually nah

arrival -

Trying to decide whether or not to be excited when I start seeing a lot of overlap between my CS theory classes and my linguistics classes, specifically syntax and phonetics.

Like, I knew they go hand in hand really well (obviously, since I'm studying both) but its a whole other thing to see how they are both systematically approached in very similar ways.

Do we agree?

It suddenly dawned on me that the skills I’d acquired over the past few months had nothing to do with holding a conversation or navigating a foreign city. Duolingo wasn’t teaching me to communicate; it was training me to become more addicted to the app.