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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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