Folium: What COVID-Quarantine Reveals About the World’s Culture via BBCTravel

… (Editor: Reminder, this is not a political article about COVID-19 policy or response. Rather, this is an informative piece on how different cultures emotionally process global life-changing events. Keep this in mind in your writing.) … Connect BBCTravel : What COVID-Quarantine Reveals About the World’s Culture … When I was younger, my dad would […]

Folium: The “Untranslatable” Emotions You Never Knew You Had via BBCFuture

… Connect: BBCFuture: The “Untranslatable” Emotions You Never Knew You Had … Many languages, such as the romance languages and slavic languages, borrow and use words that are similar or identical to words in English and vice versa. This makes language learning much easier for the learner, because you’re able to find cognates that make […]

Folium: Why the French Don’t Show Excitement via BBC Travel

… Connect: BBC Travel: Why the French Don’t Show Excitement … Sometimes, when you don’t feel like you belong, the most painful of realizations can shake you. You might understand this if you have ever moved to another city, state, or country. You may have even felt this moving from middle school to high school. […]

Folium: What Should I Absolutely Not Do When Visiting Your Country via BBC

… Connect BBC: What Should I Absolutely Not Do When Visiting Your Country … If you’re looking to visit another country soon and want to know what to expect, most blogs you read around the internet will tell you what to do while visiting different countries. This blog on the other hand warns you of […]

Folium: Living In The World’s Most Welcoming Countries via BBC

… Connect BBC: Living In The World’s Most Welcoming Countries … An expatriate, often shortened to “expat”, is a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country other than that of their citizenship. For many expats, finding new friends can ease the often overwhelming task of adjusting to a new journey abroad. But according to […]

Folium: How We Quit Our Jobs to Travel via BBCTravel

… Connect How We Quit Our Jobs to Travel via BBCTravel … Living in the United States of America those who work may not realize the countless days of work, countless cups of coffee, and even more countless number of days they spend their daily lives not realizing the rat race they are living in. […]

Folium: Cows “Moo” With Different Accents via BBC News

Folium: Cows “Moo” With Different Accents via BBC News This isn’t the first time we’ve discussed the world of animal linguistics, and for reference we illustrated how different languages represent (in writing) the sounds that animals make. However, this is a horse of a different color. Or, um, cow… The BBC, in whom I often […]

Folium: SESAME Synchrotron is a Flash of Unity in Middle East via BBC News

Folium: SESAME Synchrotron is a Flash of Unity in Middle East via BBC News Imagine a language that could unify nations. Imagine a language that has the potential to rectify centuries of hostility and disparity as well as political and religious conflict while also bringing people from different cultures together all in the name of […]

Folium: BBC News – Digital tools ‘to save languages’

Folium: Digital Tools To Save Languages Languages are living things. They live, they adapt, and they change at a constant pace. Languages also die, and the danger in letting languages die is the perspective that dies with it. I’ve mentioned how language is a perspective on life and how our words shape how we shape […]