language

For writer and activist Ilya Ganpantsura who advocates for linguistic and religious rights in Ukraine, the answer becomes clear if one looks at poor countries without democracy — for they lack the very tradition of democracy.

Interpersonal connection, spiritual fulfillment and the feeling of being at home: Happiness comes in many forms and is translated differently across cultures. Understanding contextual happiness, however, comes down to you as an individual and your own unique life experiences. FORMS […]

There are nearly 8 billion people on the Earth who speak one of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken in countries around the world. Language is important — it connects us and allows us to communicate and understand one another. For […]

Language can be fun and sometimes tricky. “When I speak Spanish to people, do they speak English back?” In this episode of “Negra Como Soy,” Doni and Dr. Rhonda talk about how native Spanish speakers sometimes react differently to people […]

I love the “Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows,” I love watching their YouTube channel, and I love finding ways that these strange words help explain my experience. When I watch their videos and the description feels like it’s been plucked from a familiar […]

My name is Andrea Bazoin, and I am a translator. In high school, I used my then-limited Spanish to translate for the Central American immigrants who came to my checkout line at the grocery store in our small Nebraska town. Interpreting their “Cuanto cuesta?” was helpful, but I knew what I was really translating was a message of welcome.

As people, we’ve developed a psychological preset to categorize individuals based on linguistic pronunciation. We can easily determine a person’s origin by the way they speak a common language. But what happens when we have the mingling of multiple cultures over a period of time?

Learning a new language requires motivation, many mistakes, repetition and energy. The region where I live, Andalucía, has a very strong accent. Spanish words that I have known since elementary school became foreign to me until I was able to […]