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How to Learn a new Language (in 15-minutes a day installments) - 1 views

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    This article challenges the idea that it is impossible to learn a second language past a certain age. It gives you steps on how to learn a new language in only 15 minutes a day, some steps are: knowing your learning style, and embracing yourself in the culture of the language that you're learning.
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Dance as a Universal Language - 0 views

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    This article elaborates on how dance is a type of language that connects all cultures, and all species around the world. Dancers are thought of as storytellers, and their stories are their bodies and movement.
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How the English language has evolved like a living creature | Science | AAAS - 0 views

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    Before, linguists thought that language grew and evolved normally, but now, after research, they are now using the analogy that language is like a living creature, using concepts from biology like natural selection, and genetic drift to describe the evolution of language. The researchers now hope that linguists accept these observations/claims made from this new research.
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Swearing A Long History - NPR - 4 views

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    Profanity is a staple of modern life, but how did it come to be? Researchers put the starting date of swearing somewhere in the early 19th century, but they say that its popularity surged in 70's. The researchers go on to explain that profanity would not exist without people who are against it, because then profanity wouldn't have the negative connotation that it currently has.
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