Jetset Linguist

Most (if not all) of the people reading this already know that I'm in the throws of writing my Master's thesis. What you probably don't know is what in the world my project is about, and what I'm actually doing with the 5-or-so months I have to finish up the most important paper of my life to date. Let's start off with the topic. It wasn't until early February that it had been finalized, so my apologies to anyone who asked over the holidays what it was about! Basically, my project can be boiled down to trying to answer a small part of the question what do bilingual-to-be infants pay attention to when learning their languages?  Since that's a huge question, and I only have 20 weeks, it needed to be narrowed down just a tad. I'm sure everyone is familiar with the jokes that stem from Japanese-speakers pronouncing r's and l's incorrectly. It turns out that when they were infants, they could tell these two sounds apart, but because the differ...

As I was dreaming up the concept for this blog, I realized that there are a few adventures that have fallen through the blogging cracks. I decided that every now and again I will be wracking my brain for details, and posting about a past trip that never got its time in the limelight. First up - Copenhagen! For my birthday this past year, as a present to myself, I decided to go to Copenhagen for the weekend. Why? Partly because the flight wasn't that expensive, mostly because eating a Danish in Denmark was item #1 on my bucket list - living large, I know. Before I left, I got some insider tips from a classmate from high school who did a semester abroad, and a year long internship in the city. I figured this would be the best way to get a more "local" experience. Like anyone who's ever fallen in love with an experience abroad, she was eager to help, and had plenty of tips. My adventure began on my way to the airport. I was the only one  on the bus (besides the dri...