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In addition to our magazine, KAT Blad also has a blog where we post updates, information for linguistics students, shorter articles, and lots of fun language and linguistics content. Stay tuned for regular posts!

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Jun 14, 2023

A Linguistic History of Judaism: Ladino

Written by Kyle Fingerhut This is the third installment of blogs about Jewish languages. In this post, we’ll discuss Ladino or...

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May 10, 2023

Interview: Religious Studies Minor

Written by Julia Megret and Emily de Boer Hi guys! Welcome back to another interview post! Today we have Geerte, a third-year Bachelor’s...

Non-binary Language Innovations: A Reflection on Gender Identities and Multilingualism

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May 3, 2023

Non-binary Language Innovations: A Reflection on Gender Identities and Multilingualism

Written by Penelope Bollini Hi everyone! In this post of the series, I would like to address the question of multilingualism and...

KAT-Blad

Apr 26, 2023

How Duolingo Gets You Hooked

Written by Emily de Boer In the last decade, there has been an explosion of online resources for learning a language. As linguists, we’re...

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Apr 19, 2023

Personalities of the IPA: Open-Vowels

Written by Julia Megret Hi guys! This is the last post for the vowels before we move on to see what type of people the consonants are....

Review of Tandem: A Language Exchange App

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Mar 29, 2023

Review of Tandem: A Language Exchange App

Written by Tim Povel Hello everyone! This is the second blog of the language resources series, which will be about Tandem. Tandem is a...

Non-binary language innovations in Hebrew: playing with(in) the structure

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Mar 16, 2023

Non-binary language innovations in Hebrew: playing with(in) the structure

Hello everyone, this is the third post of a series in which we will be discussing language innovations related to non-binary identities...

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Mar 13, 2023

Writer and Art Call Spring 2023

KAT Blad 116th edition has a new publication date! It will come out towards the end of May/early June. Thus, we have just enough time to...

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Mar 12, 2023

KAT Blad #116 Updates!

Hey there! What a great year it's been for us so far! We’ve brought a few more people onto our editorial team and have a passionate team...

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Mar 8, 2023

Interview: Studying Abroad in Edinburgh

Written by: Julia Megret and Emily de Boer Hi guys! This is the first post on a new series where we will be interviewing linguistics...

Personalities of the IPA: Open-Mid Vowels

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Mar 1, 2023

Personalities of the IPA: Open-Mid Vowels

Written by Julia Megret Hey guys! This is the third post for our IPA personification series. If you haven’t read the previous two posts,...

A Linguistic History of Judaism: Yiddish

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Feb 22, 2023

A Linguistic History of Judaism: Yiddish

Written by Kyle Fingerhut This is the second installment of blogs about Jewish languages. In this post, we’ll discuss Yiddish—or...

Review of italki: Marketplace for Online Language Learning Activities

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Feb 15, 2023

Review of italki: Marketplace for Online Language Learning Activities

Written by Tim Povel Hello everyone! I have heard quite a few people talking about Duolingo within our Linguistics community, but this is...

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Feb 8, 2023

Master's Options for Linguists

Written by Emily de Boer As a third-year student, I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about what I want to do next year, and for...

Personalities of the IPA: Close-Mid Vowels

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Feb 1, 2023

Personalities of the IPA: Close-Mid Vowels

Written by Julia Megret Hey guys! We’re back with another IPA personification post! This time we’ll be looking at the close-mid vowels...

Non-binary Language Innovations in Italian: Contested and “Imperfect” Solutions

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Jan 25, 2023

Non-binary Language Innovations in Italian: Contested and “Imperfect” Solutions

Written by Penelope Bollini Hello everyone, this is the second post of a series in which we will be discussing language innovations...

How to Read an Academic Paper Effectively and Efficiently

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Jan 18, 2023

How to Read an Academic Paper Effectively and Efficiently

Written by Zoe Jensen In these 4-week blocks we have a lot of work in a short amount of time, but really no matter the class it helps to...

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Dec 21, 2022

Linguistics-Themed Gift Ideas

For the last week before winter break, we decided to collaboratively put together a list of linguistics-themed gifts for the holidays!...

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Dec 14, 2022

A Linguistic History of Judaism: Hebrew

Written by Kyle Fingerhut I’d like to start this series with the first and last (in some sense) language of the Jewish people. Some...

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Dec 7, 2022

Personalities of the IPA: Close Vowels

Written by Julia Megret Hi guys! As the weather is getting colder, this week we have a fun post for you guys! In this new series, we will...

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