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hollyslangblr · 18 days

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spanish resource lists for learners

a list of lists!! levels are estimated.

refold has a crowdsourced resource list for spanish, curated & with notes | A1 to C2

dreamingspanish on reddit has a crowdsourced spreadsheet with over 90 channels geared towards learners | A1 to C2

learn natively has a huge deck of spanish books sorted by difficulty by learners | A1 to C2

prensa escrita has a list of news websites sorted by country & sometimes city | B1 to C1 probably

the CI wiki has an editable list of CI resources and a couple of native content links | A1 to like B2?

comprehensible hub has tons of spanish podcasts for learners | A1 to B2

letterboxd has a ton of very fun #español lists, e.g. movies mentioned in the wild project podcast, latin american female directors, made in puerto rico | ~B2 to C2

there are also a ton of moocs in spanish for intermediate to advanced learners (moocs are online courses, usually free) | B1 to C2

#spanish

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hollyslangblr · 1 month

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no sé cómo decir nadaaa

#real #langblr #language learning #i went to a calçotada yesterday that my catalan teacher organised #i understand almost everything everyone said in catalan and spanish #but i hardly spoke any catalan at all because i wouldn’t know how to say the things i wanted to say😭#it was great fun though

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hollyslangblr · 2 months

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songs in Portuguese you should listen to

I made some months ago a post called songs in French you should listen to. Inspired by this, I made the following list of songs in Portuguese you should listen to.

Note: Portuguese is my native language, but since I’m from Brazil I don’t know many artists from other lusophone countries.

A tentação do Fracasso - Atalhos

Me Deixa Legal - Malglore

Aquela Força - Maglore

Sorte Ainda - Terno Rei

Cinza - O Teatro Mágico

Sulamericano - Baiana System

Miçanga - Baiana System

Danse Macabre- Scalene

vulto - Scalene

impulso- Scalene

Razões e Emoções - NX Zero (this one reminds me my childhood)

Delírio - Roberta Sá

Vou Deixar - Skank

Sutilmente - Skank

Ska - Os Paralamas do Sucesso

Meu Erro - Os Paralamas do Sucesso

Óculos - Os Paralamas do Sucesso

Vento Ventania - Biquíni Cavadão

All songs from “Engenheiros do Hawaii”

Some songs are old school haha but I really love them.

#portuguese

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hollyslangblr · 2 months

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The fact that the crusty stuff you get in your eyes when you wake up is called "sleep" in English bothers me so much.

In Portuguese it has its own independent word: remela.

#yeah i’ve often found this a bit annoying even as a native english speaker #also i didn’t even know there were other things people called it in english? the notes on this post are enlightening

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hollyslangblr · 6 months

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there’s too many languages I want to learn and so little time to learn them :(

#too real #langblr #language study #language learning #dark academia #studyblr

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hollyslangblr · 6 months

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The closer a language is to yours, the easier it is to understand, the further it is from you, the harder it is to understand. But there's a sort of uncanny valley right in the middle that makes a language sound silly.

I'm an English speaker. German sounds similar, I can even find cognates sometimes. Mandarin Chinese sounds completely alien, but I can understand that it is a language.

But Dutch, Dutch sounds hilarious. Dutch sounds like a clown version of English. I wonder why that is.

I've heard Spanish speakers say similar things about Portuguese, which makes me think there's some sort of linguistic Silly Zone.

#learn languages from different families to gain more silly zone languages👍#although personally i am now learning 3 romance languages at uni which means i gained silly zones and am now losing two of them

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hollyslangblr · 6 months

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i really need to stop wanting to learn a new language at every slightest thing

#op the funniest part about this #is that it reminded me to go learn a new language #this post is one of the ‘slightest things’ provoking language learning #<- i am honoured #this is also how i am irl #one time my best friend’s sister told me that whenever she ends up with a duolingo streak she knows she saw me on the day it started😭

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hollyslangblr · 7 months

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hello tumblr people who read books originally written in languages other than english, i have a request

i have to write a book review for my reading in translation module at the end of november and i’m trying to find a book to use for it. i’ve not (to my knowledge) read any books that have been translated to english from another language - besides one i also read in its original spanish but i don’t wanna use that for this - so i have literally no ideas.

basically i’m looking for book recs, it’s a translation to english i’ll need to use but if you don’t know whether it’s been translated that’s fine i can easily find out myself :) thank you to anyone who helps! <3

#posted this on my reading blog since that has evidence of what kind of things i normally read #but reblogging it here’s probably a good idea since i know for a fact i have followers from different places #i put more info in the original tags! :)#bookblr #langblr #translation

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hollyslangblr · 7 months

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i really need to stop wanting to learn a new language at every slightest thing

#okay it’s a reasonable reason this time #i have a japanese housemate this year #and there’s a bit of a language barrier #and i don’t want her to feel awkward about it cos i know exactly how it feels from the other end #but also there’s no way i’d be able to learn enough japanese that quickly #for it to actually be useful #i’m already starting a new language next week as part of my course #but i think i may have to utilise the language resource centre for japanese #because she seems really nice and i’d like to be friends with her #and i think that’s a nice way to show effort at least #besides language learning practically being my life force #langblr #language learning #japanese

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hollyslangblr · 8 months

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I didn’t know how to say “im a vegetarian” in Spanish so I very haltingly said “los animales … son mis amigos…” when my coworker asked why I wasn’t eating the tamales. Which makes me sound insane but also my coworker just nodded sagely and said “ahh. Entiendo.”

#the creative phrasings that come from not being proficient in a language are always wonderful #they always sound so human

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hollyslangblr · 8 months

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giggling kicking my feet o taxista português disse que o meu sotaque é quase perfeito🥰🥰🥰

#e ficou surpreso que eu só comecei a aprender português há um ano!#tehehe #langblr #language learning #portuguese langblr

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hollyslangblr · 8 months

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estou em portugal! não pratiquei português muito durante o verão então queria falar com a gente quando estou aqui, só preciso de mais confiança😭

#neste momento é muito difícil para mim falar português #simplesmente porque preciso de praticar e estudar mais #este verão comecei a toucar piano e aprendi um pouco de teoria musical #e não fiz muito com as línguas #também quero praticar mais o espanhol #mas pelo menos o meu espanhol é mais avançado do que o meu português

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hollyslangblr · 8 months

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something i like about learning languages is i feel it allows me to better express myself, even if i’m only writing for me. if i’m writing a song and i feel like i’m laying myself too bare it helps me to switch language even just for a line or two cos it gives me a degree of separation and helps me stop judging myself so harshly

#i am not a good songwriter #but it’s largely cos i’ve never been able to practise so much #because i just overanalyse and hate everything i write #this has always been an issue with poems and songs more so than prose #i was comfortable writing prose for a while #anyway it’s helped since i became somewhat competent in spanish because it gives me a way to at least get through the practice #i at least have a chance of improving #also so many more rhyming possibilities when you mix and match languages #and more idioms to play with too!#langblr #language learning

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hollyslangblr · 10 months

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A few times a year I set language goals and every single time I somehow forget that I have unpredictable mental health that just makes me very bored of my hobbies 😔

#big same #but mostly it’s just cos i jump from hyperfixation to hyperfixation #i’m very bad at sticking with one #but then in the middle of that once or twice a year for a bit there is usually also #just not having a great time mental health wise and not wanting to do any of it #or having the energy to keep up the organisation that i did have #langblr

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hollyslangblr · 1 year

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it’s also making me wanna learn french again even though it’s the tiniest thing. ahhhhh

nico and gideon’s little bits of french and spanish in their conversations makes me wish i had more friends i could do that with (just swap french for portuguese cos i hardly remember any french), it’s so fun

#i swear to god #at some point in my life i WILL fully learn french #i’ve gone back to it for short periods at so many times #i have got to learn it at some point #it was the first language i ever learnt #from when i was about 8 til i was 13 and it frustrated me to no end by the time i was 13 so i dropped it at the first chance but!#now i wanna be able to speak french!

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hollyslangblr · 1 year

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I would really like to have some information on how to express levels of affection for other people. I've heard that 'me te gusta' expresses romantic interest, while 'me caes bien' is an expression of friendship. What about 'amar', or 'te quiero'? Where do they fit in?

First, "me te gusta" isn't correct - it's a weird expression with gustar but it's literally "you cause me joy" so it's me gustas for "I like you"... and te gusto for "you like me"... literally "I cause you joy"

It's weird

Anyway:

caer(le) bien = to like someone [platonic, friendship, "getting along"] me caes bien = I like you [lit. "you fall well with me"] no me caen bien = I don't like them "A algunas personas no les caigo bien" = :Some people don't like me"

llevarse bien = to get on well, to get along with someone [platonic, friendship] nos llevamos muy bien = we get along really well no se llevan bien = they don't get along, they don't get on well with each other

gustar(le) a alguien = to like someone [potentially either] me gustas = I like you te gusto = you like me me gustan = I like them les gusto = they like me

For these, caer(le) bien (or the opposite, which is caer(le) mal "to not like someone") and gustar require indirect objects

In sentences like no les caigo bien or no les gusto for "they don't like me", the sentences literally read as "I don't fall well for them" and "I don't cause them joy". These can be confusing because English phrases it the opposite way

llevarse bien is reflexive and it's generally platonic and friendship-based or just "to get on well" or "to get along with", literally "to carry oneself well" and uses con... like llevarse bien con los suegros "getting along with in-laws", or te llevas bien con tu madre "you get along with your mother", or no se llevan bien las hermanas "the sisters don't get along with each other"

Another very common one that can be platonic is me agradas "I like you", literally "you make me happy" - it's the same root as agradable "agreeable" or "pleasant". It can also be used with things/inanimate objects like no me agrada "I don't like it" or "it doesn't please me"

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Then we move onto querer and amar for "to love"

And I have to warn you that this largely depends on where you are, because for a large portion of people querer is "to love" while amar is "to love (deeply)"

Saying te quiero COULD be romantic, but it isn't always

And amar COULD be platonic, but it's a deep love - so it's often thought of as romantically, but saying amo a esta familia "I love this family" is perfectly viable

querer in etymology is "to hold dear" [querido/a is "dear" as a term of endearment, and los seres queridos is "loved ones"], while amar is related directly to amor "love" and amado/a "beloved" or "thought of with love"

In general romantic contexts, te quiero is love but can be interpreted as friendly love or platonic love

And often te amo is thought of as more romantic and intense

...Yet, like I said this depends. A lot of people see te amo as a step above te quiero, and if it shows up in a family/platonic setting sometimes people get thrown off - even native speakers

[Additionally there's a regionalism I know of from Mexico which is me lates which is like "I like you", platonic or friendly usually - it literally means "you make (my heart) beat" where latir is often the verb "for the heart to beat"]

Followers? What would you say?

#langblr #spanish

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hollyslangblr · 1 year

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i think it’s so beautiful how there are certain language features that we reserve purely for poetry and the like; there’s strict syntactical rules when speaking english day-to-day but if you want to play with them? bend them? break them? in the name of art? sure, go ahead. you can go a long way without impairing communication of your message, and on top of that—it just sounds prettier.

#this is my own post but i feel like it belongs on my langblr too #i’ve just been thinking about how much i love language recently #also i need to say it’s annoying me how i used the word lenient in one of the tags in the original post #which i used cos i changed my mind about how i was wording that particular thought partway through the tag #and didn’t quite adjust everything accordingly #but then by the time i realised i couldn’t be bothered retyping stuff to fix it #so too bad #langblr #language #poetry #linguistics #english language #dark academia

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