{"id":2234,"date":"2013-12-29T20:14:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-29T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2013-12-10T05:05:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T05:05:16","slug":"funny-felines-to-teach-foreign-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/29\/funny-felines-to-teach-foreign-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Funny Felines to Teach Foreign Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-meme.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2235\" alt=\"Cat-meme\" src=\"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Cat-meme.jpg\" width=\"195\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>Our feline friends can help us to learn a foreign language according to some new linguistic research. Language trainers noticed the popularity of the humorous cat-meme across the Internet. Providing hours of entertainment, cute and amusing photos and videos of cats have become an online trend. There are even \u2018superstar\u2019 cats, such as Grumpy Cat, who now has 2.5 million Facebook fans.<\/p>\n<p>The language researchers noticed a link between people being able to recall phrases seen in funny photos. After conducting memory tests, they noticed that the photos containing cats seemed to rank higher than all of the others when it came to people\u2019s abilities to recall information. Combined with research from Japan which confirms that \u2018cuteness\u2019 enhances memory recall, along with further research that shows learning rates are higher when students are having fun, an idea popped into the linguists\u2019 heads.<\/p>\n<p>An app has now been created that pairs cute photos of cats with Spanish phrases and their English translations. Sticking to the Internet theme, the masterminds of this app crowdsourced the photos, listing the 1,000 words they wanted to use and asking for uploads of people\u2019s funniest cat photos. With entire websites dedicated to the cat-meme, they weren\u2019t short of replies.<\/p>\n<p>The more impact a photo has and the less words it displays, the greater the influence it will have for learning potential. Simple, cute and funny \u2013 if only we\u2019d known! What\u2019s your favourite cat-meme and why does it stick out from the others? Do you think this idea has good potential for learning languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our feline friends can help us to learn a foreign language according to some new linguistic research. Language trainers noticed the popularity of the humorous cat-meme across the Internet. Providing hours of entertainment, cute and amusing photos and videos of cats have become an online trend. There are even \u2018superstar\u2019 cats, such as Grumpy Cat, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327],"tags":[457,74,327],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spanish","tag-language-research","tag-learning-languages","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}