Lauren Harsh

Lauren Harsh is an up-and-coming Chicago-based freelance copywriter. They specialize in longform content, but they also have experience writing shortform website content, social ads, search ads, and radio ad scripts. Their style is informative, concise, and often funny. Their writing endeavors are not limited to copywriting. They have also written humor pieces for Points in Case, Slackjaw, The Belladonna, Little Old Lady Comedy, and Sally mag and a very popular personal essay for Buzzfeed Reader. Harsh is currently seeking new projects. 

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How to Learn French on Your Own

How to Learn French on Your Own Once you find a French learning approach that works for you, you’ll be surprised by how far you can go. Is it possible to learn French outside of a classroom setting? Sure! Whether you’re anxious about making mistakes (an inevitable part of learning) in front of other people, your schedule is too unconventional to take a class, or you’re just an independent spirit, you have options. You could follow an online French course, take private lessons, order some mater
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How to Type French Accent Marks: 42 Keyboard Shortcuts

How to Type French Accent Marks: 42 Keyboard Shortcuts Incorrect usage of accent marks can cause mistakes and frustrating miscommunications. When you're learning French, you'll need to learn how to type it correctly, too. Accent marks are a required part of writing in French. Many English-speaking beginners’ reactions to them are along the lines of, “Do they really matter?” However, learning how to read and write French accent marks is only part of the battle. Since we live in the twenty-first
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Tips and Online Resources for Learning at Home

Tips and Online Resources for Learning at Home Getting started as an at-home educator is daunting, but doable. Recent events have put students, teachers, and parents in new territory. Schools are closed. Children are home for days on end. Getting started as an at-home, ad hoc educator is certainly daunting, but never fear! Experts in learning at home are mobilized all over the web to provide resources for parents in this troubling time. Many educational sites that normally charge for membership
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An Easy Guide to French Pronunciation

An Easy Guide to French Pronunciation This guide covers not only how to pronounce French letters and syllables that differ from English, but other French pronunciation rules like syllable stress, accent marks and le liason. Pronunciation is a crucial piece of how to learn French. Many English speakers find it the most frustrating part, even more than learning grammar fundamentals. That does not mean it is impossible, though. The sounds may be harder to make with your mouth, but the rules are mu
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Targeted Ads as Written by Nosy Aunts

Hi, Casey! It’s your Aunt Margaret! You know how you were just telling your roommates that you’re out of bananas? Well, you’re in luck! Bananas are on sale at Meijer this weekend! It’s important to eat bananas. They’re a great source of potassium. I hope this is helpful enough that you won’t be mad at me for eavesdropping! Hi, Andrew! It’s your Aunt Cathy! I saw a picture of you smoking a cigarette on your Instagram. Now, sweetie, I’m not judging you. I’m just concerned about your health. Here
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Fundamentals of French Grammar

Fundamentals of French Grammar French grammar rules are decided by forty experts in language, literature, and politics who form an institution called L'académie Française. Vocabulary is only one part of how to learn French. You could memorize a whole English-to-French dictionary, but it would be useless if you didn’t learn how to put the words together in a way that makes sense. That’s where grammar comes in. Once you can recognize the patterns, it will be easier to learn French fast. French
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26 French Expressions Everyone Should Know

26 French Expressions Everyone Should Know These fun French phrases will help you understand native speakers better and sound more authentic when you speak. If you know the basics of French grammar, pronunciation, and basic French conversation, you’ve earned a fun topic as a treat! It’s time for French idioms, colloquialisms, and adages (in short, French expressions that may not be covered in classes and are not intuitive to non-native speakers). These fun French phrases will help you understan
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46 Basic French Words and Phrases for Travel

46 Basic French Words and Phrases for Travel Here’s a quick primer that will help you understand how to say and read French words for that upcoming trip. “Do you need to learn French to go on a short vacation or business trip?” Since I am an American who speaks French at an advanced level, people ask me this question pretty often. My answer? You don’t need to become an expert, but a few common French phrases will make your trip a memorable one. It is true that many French people speak and und
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Sure, My Parents May Be the King and Queen of a Small Country, But I’m Not the Least Bit Privileged | Points in Case

People tell me I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but that’s not true at all. It was bronze. I wasn’t born in a castle either. I was born in a private hospital and raised in a mansion. That’s totally different. My parents didn’t even become king and queen until I was already an adult. In the meantime they taught me the value of hard work by putting my siblings and me to work on their plan for getting rid of—I mean, doing chores around the house instead of making the servants do everythi
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6 Disney Movies Reimagined as Jobs You’ll Apply for Out of Desperation

We are seeking early career professionals for an exciting opportunity! No experience or shirt required! All you need are street smarts to do this work that we won’t describe to our clients we won’t name. Let’s just say if you’ve had to beg for food to survive, you’re halfway to what we do. Our management training opportunities and commission pay make this a real rags-to-riches opportunity! We’re seeking a highly educated and very patient young woman to assist our resident prince in his day-to-d
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I Know the CEO of This Restaurant Chain is Personally Responsible for the Death of Your Wife But Their Fries are So Good | Points in Case

Besides, you’re not a perfectly ethical consumer yourself. You bought something from Amazon last week even though you know they mistreat their workers. So there. You have no room to tell me not to eat Mr. Bawk Bawk’s perfectly salted, double fried waffle fries even though their CEO Donald Douglethorpe used the profits from his restaurant to purchase a massive arsenal of weapons, including the authentic Japanese katana that you saw protruding from your wife’s chest when you got home from work tha
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I'm An Autistic Lesbian, And No, I Don't Wish I Were "Normal"

Even in conversations with people who consider themselves to be our allies, we’re so often told “don't let your sexuality define you.” Some people who are not in the LGBT community respond to our movement with dismissive questions like “Why do you need to label yourself? Why can’t we all just be humans?” The equivalent for the autistic community is usually people who are not autistic insisting that we refer to ourselves as “people with autism” — rather than "autistic" — because we're "people fi