Happy New Year People

Happy new year people

i think one of the hardest things about learning a new language and getting to a level where you can actually talk about complex topics or current events is the lack of cultural knowledge you have because often you can’t just *literally* translate something as you would say it in your own language because if you do that, it takes on a whole other (often problematic or even unknowingly racist) meaning… like you don’t know the connotations of those words for native speakers and it’s not actually that easy to find out what the right words are

How many people’s most beloved childhood stuffed animals are actually teddy bears, like I feel like that’s a thing someone made up. Reblog this and put what your longest owned and/or favorite stuffed animal as a child was in the tags, inquiring minds want to know

My favourite example of the domino effect