You never know when speaking a foreign language comes in handy. Sure, it's useful when you're traveling to another country or when you're trying to communicate with someone who doesn't speak your primary language. However, it can occasionally save you from unexpected problems. Here, we have a Serbian employee in an English-speaking office who accompanied their boss to a meeting with a Serbian business. The employee overheard the businesspeople speaking in their language about how they were esse…

Some wild backstories

Jokes galore

Read it and don't weep

The Duolingo owl haunts my dreams

Improvise, adapt, overcome

How to be very very unpopular

Can I have a definition?

Low key, there are literally so many words that technically we don't need to use.

STAY OFF THE COUNTER

Lost in translation

We tried... and it worked

Big little brains

Dating someone outside your culture is great... until it's not

Bringing Mandarin to the masses

Learning languages is hard, especially if you're not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish . Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, or even growing up in a multilingual household, and I love that for them. As a former college student with a linguistics minor, I loved how linguistics as…