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Round Ireland With a Fridge by Tony Hawks Lexplorers rating: 7/10 Amazon.com average customer rating: 4.4/5 The Lexplorers summer reading list included a fairly diverse range of topics, from our usual linguistics and...
The Lexplorers had a very fun and eventful summer, most of it spent far from the keyboard. Now that the summer is drawing to a close, we will be spending some time catching up...
In Episode 3 of the Lexplorers podcast, Yvette joins us from Taipei. She talks about growing up in the Philippines speaking Fukienese, Filipino, and English. She shares her experience of returning to the...
It’s rhubarb and berry season, and the Lexplorers recently shared a freshly-baked rhubarb and strawberry pie with a visiting non-native English speaker. As we enjoyed the pie, we tried to explain to our puzzled...
A few week ago we wrote about two multilingual displays of openness and acceptance that deservedly received the coveted Lexplorers Seal of Lexcellence. Today we encountered a third sign to add to the collection...
Walking around town on a sunny Spring afternoon, the Lexplorers were pleased to find two multilingual displays of openness and acceptance. The first was at the local Public Library, where they have filled a...
Last Monday was the first day of Spring. Officially known as the Vernal Equinox, from the Latin vernālis (“pertaining to the spring”) and aequus (“equal”) + nox (“night”), the first day of Spring also...
In Episode 2 of the Lexplorers podcast, we talk with John about how his decision to take a German class in Munich changed his life in a very unexpected way and ultimately led him...
We recently spent time in two different American towns named Belmont, and that got us thinking about the origin of the name Belmont and its presence in many places across the US. So today...
In our inaugural Lexplorers podcast, we talk with Carlos from the Lexplorers team about his ongoing study of the Korean language, his experience visiting Korea, and how both have quite dramatically affected his...
Apps / Couch to Korean / Resources / Vocabulary
Flashcard App Showdown: Quizlet vs. Anki vs. Memrise
October 19, 2017
Dialect / Iroquoian / Lexcogitation / Phonology / Travel / Vowel shift / Word origins
Dish-to-Pass Supper in Podunk: A Lexploration in Central New York
December 15, 2017
