English majors are often the butt of jokes regarding the "useless" nature of a liberal arts education. The misconception that English degrees are a waste of time, energy, and money ignores the ...
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. “An English major?” I can still hear the disdain in my father’s voice. “I thought you were going to be a doctor?” Three years later, I ...
Last December, Moby-Dick made one of my students gasp. It wasn’t the first time this had happened (weird book), but nothing about the text itself produced the response. For the final project in my ...
A little part of me cringes every time I do it, but at this point it's second nature. It's hard to describe in words, but it involves a lot of leveling, a lot of smoothing. The tongue stays closer to ...
After moving abroad, I found my English slowly eroding. It turns out our first languages aren’t as embedded as we think. Credit...Artwork by PABLO DELCÁN Supported by By Madeleine Schwartz Madeleine ...
No one prepared me for the heartbreak of losing my first language. It doesn’t feel like the sudden, sharp pain of losing someone you love, but rather a dull ache that builds slowly until it becomes a ...
My 12-year-old twins can prompt ChatGPT with alarming fluency. They’ve generated AI music, transformed family photos into wispy Van Gogh-style portraits, and built a chatbot that mimics their favorite ...
Mr. Maroño Porto, an associate editor at The Atlantic, is originally from Spain. One warm evening in March 2022, I ventured out of my apartment to go on a first date. At the time, busy with grad ...
(CNN)It was only fitting that just three days after UNESCO celebrated International Mother Language Day, Spanish was spoken at the 91st Academy Awards. "Ya se puede hablar español en los Oscars," ...