Linguistics Archives | The Pimsleur Language Blog https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/tag/linguistics/ Learning another language doesn't have to be hard. Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:16:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 How to Use Your Love of Cooking and Food to Learn a New Language https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/language-learning-through-cooking-and-food/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/language-learning-through-cooking-and-food/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:42:06 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=20837 Learn a New Language, Go on a Culinary Adventure, and Discover Other Cultures—All at the Same Time! I am a language teacher. One of the most common questions my students ask me is how to learn a new language—and actually get fluent? Well, it helps to find a great language course. And, creating an effective language immersion program that Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/language-learning-through-cooking-and-food/feed/ 2 How to Say Grandmother in Different Languages https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/grandmother-in-different-languages/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/grandmother-in-different-languages/#comments Tue, 26 May 2020 13:55:37 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=15916 What is Your Word for Grandmother? In honor of my grandmother, who passed away from Covid-19 last week at the amazing age of 100, I wanted to share some of the words for grandmother in various languages from around the world. Some will be familiar and some strange.  Some are quite formal, and some sound Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/uplifting-words-for-stressful-times/feed/ 3 How To Say “I Love You” in Different Languages https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/linguistics-of-love/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/linguistics-of-love/#respond Wed, 05 Feb 2020 18:34:46 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=13689 It might just be the most basic, primal, natural human phrase…“I love you,” but not everything crosses cultural and linguistic lines. Peculiar regional quirks, cuisine, art, and (most certainly) language – diverge in different parts of the world. Yet love knows no boundaries. Love in different languages is an interesting study of how different people Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/linguistics-of-love/feed/ 0 Do Animals Have Language? Differences Between Human Language & Animal Communication https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/do-animals-have-language/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/do-animals-have-language/#respond Thu, 30 Jan 2020 19:45:30 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=13584 How is Human Language Different From Animal Communication Systems In the 1960s, linguist Charles Hockett identified a set of “design features” to distinguish human language from animal communication systems. While there are ongoing debates about the usefulness of these design features, they do accurately describe the unique properties of human language. Let’s explore the wonders Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/do-animals-have-language/feed/ 0 How to Memorize Foreign Language Vocabulary FAST (Infographic) https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/how-to-memorize-vocabulary-fast-infographic/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/how-to-memorize-vocabulary-fast-infographic/#comments Wed, 03 Jul 2019 16:10:47 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=7244 The 4 Best Ways to Memorize Vocabulary in a Foreign Language “Probably no aspect of learning a foreign language is more important than memory,” Paul Pimsleur. Memorizing vocabulary in a foreign language is often one of the biggest challenges language learners face on their journey to fluency. The good news? Regardless of which foreign language you Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/how-to-memorize-vocabulary-fast-infographic/feed/ 2 Spanish Arabic Cognates – Common Spanish Words Derived From Arabic https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/spanish-arabic-cognates-common-spanish-words-derived-from-arabic/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/spanish-arabic-cognates-common-spanish-words-derived-from-arabic/#comments Thu, 16 May 2019 13:00:08 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=5842 These 25 Spanish Words Actually Come from Arabic… Here’s Why. Who doesn’t wonder how languages came to exist as they are today? Well, it usually happens through the interaction of diverse communities, making languages as intricate and ever-changing as the human race. Let’s explore how Arabic contributed to the evolution of the Spanish language as we know Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/spanish-arabic-cognates-common-spanish-words-derived-from-arabic/feed/ 5 Cornell Students Create Alien Torfan Language for Marvel https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/how-two-linguistic-students-created-torfan-the-alien-language-for-captain-marvel/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/how-two-linguistic-students-created-torfan-the-alien-language-for-captain-marvel/#respond Tue, 30 Apr 2019 17:10:19 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=5421 Linguistics students spend their time studying phonetics, dissecting sentence structures, and … creating alien languages? That’s right. Two linguistics students from Cornell, Ryan Hearn, and Joseph Ryne hit the jackpot when Hollywood reached out to the university looking for young talent to create Torfan, a never-before-heard alien language, for America’s sweetheart Captain Marvel movie. So how Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/how-two-linguistic-students-created-torfan-the-alien-language-for-captain-marvel/feed/ 0 Whistled Languages – Ultimate Guide to Long Distance Conversations https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/whistled-languages-ultimate-guide-long-distance-conversations/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/whistled-languages-ultimate-guide-long-distance-conversations/#respond Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:00:30 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=1099 In some languages, whistled languages can be used as a fill-in for spoken language when a face-to-face conversation is not possible. Whistled speech is a form of communication that abstracts certain aspects of spoken language into whistles. These whistles languages can be understood by others in the speech community. Whistled languages can be found all Read More >>

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]]> https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/whistled-languages-ultimate-guide-long-distance-conversations/feed/ 0 Do Women Really Talk More Than Men? https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/language-ideologies-do-women-really-talk-more-than-men/ https://www.pimsleur.com/blog/language-ideologies-do-women-really-talk-more-than-men/#respond Mon, 19 Nov 2018 20:30:03 +0000 https://blog.pimsleur.com/?p=946 How Does Gender Affect Language Use? The opinions, attitudes, and beliefs that people hold about language are called language ideologies. Language ideologies affect how we talk and behave, as well as how we perceive others’ speech. Intuition tells us that men and women use language differently. Many people say they believe that gender affects language Read More >>

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