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me: The Road Is A Terrifying Place And I Am Very Afraid To Drive

Cindy Clark, a Pennsylvania-based dog breeder decided to share these images of her then 3-month-old nephew with a few 3-week-old French bulldog puppies.

haxyr3

Пить из горла (usually pronounced as из горлА) - to drink smth straight from the bottle

allthingslinguistic

It is a well-documented fact that by the age of 5 monolingual White children will have heard 30 million fewer words in languages other than English than bilingual children of color. In addition, they will have had a complete lack of exposure to the richness of non-standardized varieties of English that characterize the homes of many children of color. This language gap increases the longer these children are in school. The question is what causes this language gap and what can be done to address it? The major cause of this language gap is the failure of monolingual White communities to successfully assimilate into the multilingual and multidialectal mainstream. The continued existence of White ethnic enclaves persists despite concerted efforts to integrate White communities into the multiracial mainstream since the 1960s. In these linguistically isolated enclaves it is possible to go for days without interacting with anybody who does not speak Standardized American English providing little incentive for their inhabitants to adapt to the multilingual and multidialectal nature of US society. This linguistic isolation has a detrimental effect on the cognitive development of monolingual White children. This is because linguistically isolated households lack the rich translanguaging practices that are found in bilingual households and the elaborate style-shifting that occurs in bidialectal households. This leaves monolingual White children without a strong metalinguistic basis for language learning. As a result, many of these monolingual White children lack the school-readiness skills needed for foreign language learning and graduate from school having mastered nothing but Standardized American English leaving them ill-equipped to engage in intercultural communication.

What if we talked about monolingual White children the way we talk about low-income children of color?

Excerpt from a satirical blog post from The Educational Linguist that makes a good point about which language skills we value as a society and the problems with talking about a “language gap”.

(via linguisten)

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countingmyfeathers-deactivated2

I’m in the “I’ve never seen an episode of Breaking Bad” club.

raptorific

me: [sees a cat] me: okay time for me to bother this animal

raptorific

Singing in different languages:

English: just sing in a posh English accent

French: forget everything you know about French pronunciation

Italian: let's see how many syllables we can fit in one beat and the phrase will be twenty measures long you're not allowed to break off the sound because it'll sound pretty have fun trying to figure out where to breathe

German: I can totally fit all these letters in one syllable watch me