#langauge learning

I bring a sort of “Languages are defined by the speakers, not academic institutions” vibe to linguistics conversations that conservative linguistic purists don’t like

Back in high school, my Spanish teacher would show us a new song every Wednesday (Miercoles de Musica, he called it) to help us learn the language. I still listen to a lot of those songs plus more that I’ve picked up along the way. But tell me why the one part I know the best in all the songs is the section that was sung in Portuguese, not Spanish

Alternate universe where I travel the world and just learn about culture and language and history forever and can visit little gift shops and walk around cities for hours and I have a cute car and own 100 cats and a house with spider plants and can eat every food I like without worrying about calories and everyone in the world loves each other and holds hands and there's no climate change or Donald Trump