It goes without saying that learning a new vocabulary is an important step in mastering a second language. After all, without words, we wouldn’t be able to understand or
Introduction A key goal of many English language learners is to reach a point where they are able to effortlessly understand spoken media – television, radio, YouTube videos, etc. This
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Do other Disney villains and heroes use similarly sophisticated language? Last week, I published a post comparing the lexical sophistication of Aladdin and Jafar’s word use in the classic Disney
Introduction In the pre-computer era, the creation of language corpora – compilations of millions of words drawn from multiple sources – was a painstaking and laborious undertaking. Imagine researchers huddled
Do Disney villains really use more sophisticated language than the heroes? Who among us hasn’t noticed that the villains of popular Disney films tend to carry themselves with a certain