Karis Kim

Romance Languages

April 18, 2025

Spanish or French. Most American students encounter these options in middle school or high school, when their brains are the most receptive to new languages ... Read More

Largo Pétalo de Mar (A Long Petal of the Sea) by Isabel Allende

April 11, 2025

Isabel Allende, a Chilean-American writer who’s received Chile’s National Literature Prize and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014 by President Barack ... Read More

Words Without Borders

April 2, 2025

Words Without Borders is an organization dedicated to facilitating global literary conversation. With 4,600 writers and translators operating in 147 countrie... Read More

Translators vs. Intrepreters: What’s the Difference?

March 21, 2025

Translators and interpreters are commonly mistaken as one profession. They do share many similarities, such as requiring proficiency in more than one languag... Read More

The American Translators Association (ATA)

March 14, 2025

Founded over sixty years ago in 1959, the American Translators Association (ATA) is the largest professional association of translators and interpreters in t... Read More

Language in the UN

March 13, 2025

The United Nations (UN) is widely recognized as the world’s largest international organization. When the UN was created in 1945 after World War II, it succee... Read More

Tips for Reading in a Foreign Language: Intermediate Level

February 28, 2025

You can finally read at the intermediate level. You can comprehend simple texts and identify every other word or grammar structure. Reading has become les... Read More

Domestication and Foreignization in Translated Texts

February 21, 2025

Marriam-Webster defines domesticate as “to bring into use in one's own country: to bring into domestic use”. In the context of the domestication of translate... Read More

Hindi, Urdu, and Hindustani

February 14, 2025

Following English and Mandarin Chinese, Hindi is renowned for being the third most widely spoken language in the world, with around 650 million speakers glob... Read More

Squid Game: Dubs, Subs, and Why “Inaccurate” Translations are OK

February 10, 2025

The second season of Squid Game was released on December 26, 2024, and garnered 68 million views in its first week, the fastest series to do so in Netflix hi... Read More

Reflections of a Heritage Language Learner

February 10, 2025

Heritage language learners (HLLs) are those who learn a language traditionally spoken in their family and can speak, or at least understand that language. ... Read More

Tips for Language Learning as an Introvert: Intermediate Level

January 24, 2025

Learning a language at the intermediate level is as daunting as it is rewarding. If you listen in on full-fledged conversations, you can recognize m... Read More