Are there linguistics things in your life that you would like advice about? In honour of our 100th bonus episode of Lingthusiasm, and because our first advice episode was so popular, here’s another episode answering your advice questions, from the serious to the silly!
In this bonus episode, Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about your linguistics questions! We give advice about fun linguistics experiments you can do with your friends, aging out of the coolest slang demographic (it will happen to us all eventually!), and several etiquette questions, including how much to accommodate other people’s accents, asking about other people’s linguistic backgrounds, and getting people to stop correcting your grammar by rechanneling them into linguistic curiosity. Plus, many questions on learning languages in various scenarios: when you have mixed feelings about how they’re doing gender, when you want to connect with a heritage language, when you’re seeking opportunities to practise but don’t wanna be weird about it, and when you’re trying to learn a less popular language for your area. And finally: a lightning round of more questions!