Unlocking the Universe of Languages
Unlike its southern relatives such as Cantonese, standard Mandarin has completely lost the "entering tone" and the clipped final stops (-p, -t, -k) which characterized Middle Chinese. This linguistic deep…
You can conjugate verbs and debate politics, but can you understand a pun in your target language? This article breaks down why wordplay is the "final boss" of language learning,…
Word Avalanche: Sentences That Repeat the Same Sound In the colorful landscape of linguistics and playful word usage, a phenomenon known as the “word avalanche”...