Julesy

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Hi! I'm a linguist (PhD) and trilingual 🇨🇳🇺🇸🇰🇷. My goal is to help you on your language learning journey and share my love for language and linguistics. I de...

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We Debated the Biggest Myths in Language Learning

Why so many Asian languages have tones

Is Simplified Chinese ACTUALLY Simpler (The Science Will Shock You)

Why Chinese Characters Look Different in China, Taiwan & HK

The Many Dialects of China Explained

Why Southern China Has So MANY Dialects (& the North So Few)

Why Chinese had no word for “She” until the 20th century

This might be the most hated film in Korea

Why Hangul Used to Be Considered a “Woman’s Script”

Why Chinese Pokémon Names Sparked a Fan Uprising

Typing Chinese Shouldn’t Work — Here’s Why It Does

Why Kanji Survived in Japan (But Not in Korea or Vietnam)

Why Morse Code Didn’t Work for Chinese — and the Genius Fix

How 20th Century Science Got Bilingualism Dead Wrong

The Lost Letters of Hangul That Could’ve Changed the World

The Strange Reason Chinese Doesn’t Borrow Words

How Chinese Characters Almost Died

The Impossible Chinese Typewriter

She couldn’t believe these English words came from CHINA! 🇨🇳

Why Chinese Isn’t Built for Rap (But That’s Changing)

The Critical Period for Sounding Native — What Science Says

Why so much modern Chinese vocabulary was made in Japan

14 Years Learning Korean — Here’s How I Finally Broke Through

Can Knowing Mandarin Make Learning Thai Easier

Linguist Club Lecture #1 All About Past Tense in Chinese

Why Chinese words didn’t exist until the 20th century

I Tried to Learn Malay in 30 Days - Here's What Happened

Duolingo Cantonese Almost Made me CRY

The REAL Reason Learning New Languages is So Hard

How do you sing in a tonal language like Chinese