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As requested by @callmejake13​, here’s some vocab related to movies and filmmaking! I’ll make one related to drama/theatre at some point as well.
DER FILM die Besetzung - cast der Schauspieler/die Schauspielerin - actor/actress die Rolle - role/part der Regisseur/die Regisseurin - director (m/f) die Produktion - production der Produzent/die Produzentin - producer (m/f) das Drehbuch/das Skript - script der Drehbuchautor - writer die Szene - scene das Szenenbild - production design das Set - set die Maske - hair and make up - (die Maske usually means ‘mask’ but in movie/drama it means the hair and make up department) der Maskenbildner/die Maskenbildnerin - make up artist (m/f) der KostĂŒmbildner/die KostĂŒmbildnerin - costume designer (m/f) der Schnitt - cut die Kamera - camera das Mikrofon - microphone die Musik - music der Soundtrack - soundtrack die Premiere - premiere der Trailer - trailer
DAS GENRE  der Krimi (short for: Kriminalfilm) - crime der Actionfilm - action movie der Thriller - thriller der Horrorfilm - horror movie die Komödie - comedy der Liebesfilm - romantic movie die romantische Komödie - romcom der Fantasy-Film - fantasy movie die Serie - series der Blockbuster - blockbuster - (we have German words for it like Kassenschlager but nobody says that, we just use the English word) der Stummfilm - silent film
VERBEN filmen - to film, as in the action of rolling a camera on something verfilmen - to film, as in turning a concept into a movie (mostly used when books are adapted into movies) (einen Film/eine Szene) drehen - to shoot (a movie/scene) einen Film (an)schauen/(an)sehen - to watch a movie schauspielen/schauspielern - to act 
WIE WAR DER FILM? - ADJEKTIVE spannend/aufregend - exciting, thrilling schaurig - creepy dĂŒster - dark, gloomy furchteinflĂ¶ĂŸend - scary lustig - funny heiter - upbeat außergewöhnlich - extraordinary romantisch - romantic kitschig - sappy herzerweichend - heart-melting traurig - sad (be)rĂŒhrend/bewegend - touching/moving beeindruckend - impressive unbeeindruckend - unimposing langweilig - boring
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In addition to my recent post on some film related vocab, have some theatre-centered words! I’ll be repeating a few words from the film vocab, but not the adjectives. Check out the other post for those! Some of the words are influenced by the French words in terms of pronunciation so I added the IPA to help you.
das Theater - theatre das Schauspiel - drama, spectacle das (Theater)stĂŒck - play das Skript/das Textbuch/der Text - script die BĂŒhne - stage das BĂŒhnenbild/die Kulisse - scenery/set decoration der Vorhang - curtain
die Inszenierung - staging/production die Besetzung - cast die Regie - direction - [ʀeˈʒiː] der/die Regisseur/in - director (m/f) - [ʀeʒÉȘˈsĂžËÉÌŻ] / [ʀeʒÉȘˈsĂžËÊ€ÉȘn] der/die Regieassistent/in - director’s assistant (m/f) der/die Schauspieler/in - actor/actress der/die Intendant/in - artistic director (m/f) der Souffleur/die Souffleuse - prompter (m/f) - [zuˈflĂžËÉÌŻ] / [zuˈflÞːzə] der/die Choreograph/in - choreographer (m/f) der/die Tontechniker/in - sound engineer (m/f) der/die Lichttechniker/in - light technician (m/f) der/die BĂŒhnenbildner/in - production/scene designer (m/f)
die Premiere - premiere das Premierenfieber - excitement before the premiere of a production das Lampenfieber - stage fright die Vorstellung/VorfĂŒhrung - show die Requisite - prop die Rolle - the part/role das Vorsprechen - audition die Probe - rehearsal die Regieanweisung - stage direction die Kampfszene - fighting scene die Liebesszene - love scene das KostĂŒm - costume die Maske - mask (can also mean make up)
der Monolog - monologue der Dialog - dialogue die Tragödie - tragedy die Komödie - comedy die Tragikomödie - tragicomedy
(schau)spielen - to act tanzen - to dance singen - to sing jemanden spielen - to play (the part of) someone (fĂŒr eine Rolle) vorsprechen - to audition (for a part) improvisieren - to improvise seinen Text vergessen - to forget one’s lines Regie fĂŒhren - to direct auffĂŒhren - to put on stage
Toi toi toi! - ‘good luck’ (said to actors before they go on stage. they are not supposed to respond with ‘danke’ since that is said to bring bad luck; it is also said over the left, not the right shoulder)
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Top 5* inspiring language learning Youtube channels
*in my opinion, obviously... if anyone has any other recs I would love to hear them!!
Robin MacPherson - really passionate, positive, has learned many languages to a high level, but is also very open and honest about forgetting and getting out of practice with them. I have also adopted a lot of the methods he talks about for overcoming the intermediate plateau.
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2. Luca Lampariello - maybe the most impressive in terms of number of foreign languages and levels in these languages. Has been around on Youtube for over 10 years so his channel is a really great resource on tonnes of different language learning topics.
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3. Zoe.languages - repping a bunch of Middle Eastern languages while doing a PhD in sociology across France and Germany. If you ever need some inspiration about how to fit language learning into a busy schedule, Zoe's channel is the place to find it!
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4. Xiaoma NYC - Xiaoma has dabbled in a bunch of different languages but has a native-like level in Mandarin. He makes these clickbaity videos where he speaks "perfectly" to native speakers in NYC, but his videos have inspired me to get out of my comfort zone and be less afraid to speak early.
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5. Matt vs Japan - Matt has near-native level Japanese, and what I think is inspiring about him is his shear dedication to learning Japanese to this level. Unfortunately he is no longer active on Youtube but his channel is still a useful resource for learning a language via immersion.
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Ways to show disbelief/surprise in German
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Langblr Reactivation Challenge - Reflections
Week 3, day 7 of prepolyglot's langblr reactivation challenge
How do you feel at the end of this challenge? Did you meet any goals while doing this? Do you feel more confident in your language abilities? Where do you think you’ll go from here? Answer these questions either in your native language or your target language.
Wow, made it to the end of the challenge! Goals I wrote at the beginning, alongside my reflections, below...
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Medium term: find 2-3 interesting Youtube channels that I can watch relatively comfortably (with captions) so that I have a way to learn that feels less effortful - I did this. Found a few but my favourites at the moment are Dein Sprachcoach and Lingster Acamedy :-)
Short term: become more confident writing simple sentences involving the dative case - Although I feel a bit more confident using the dative case for verbs with indirect objects (like giving something to someone), I still need to work on which prepositions require the dative case.
Plan to achieve this: make a post on Journaly or HiNative once or twice a week with a list of sentences. Start actually watching some of my German to watch list on Youtube............. Find a video/blog post of recommendations for German channels and give some of them a try. - Like I said the Youtube stuff I did, but I made a Journaly post like this once since writing down this goal :') and it focussed on sentences where someone gave something to someone else. So no surprise that that's what I feel slightly more confident with now! I still need more practice with this. I think every time I study a unit on Busuu I should create a sentence that's relevant to my life using the relevant vocab/grammar and get it corrected. Feels like it would be a lot of effort but it's so necessary to build spoken fluency as well as just comprehension.
Interesting that I completed my medium term but not short term goal with German... I think I didn't expect my comprehension to be as good as it was. Plus I was able to find some very easy Youtube channels. And output is always more of a struggle for me!
Español
Medium term: speak more confidently, with less self-consciousness about my pronunciation and grammar - I think I'm getting there by speaking a lot more, but again I need to focus more on pronunciation by doing more shadowing and recording myself speaking on a (close to) daily basis. On the bright side, I do feel I have more awareness of my weak points.
Short term: experiment with studying twice a week - class on Thursdays and review on weekends. Focus in particular on reviewing mistakes that get corrected during class. Try out a review system that's less time-intensive than anki - This was a bit mixed because it's a group class so I don't always get personalised corrections. However, I have been studying twice a week and I have been trying out a new review system for my online language exchanges, where I make sure I write down corrections and actively review them before the next session. It's early days but I feel like it's been working well so far.
Plan to achieve this: going to class is automatic since I've already paid for it!! But I need to put time in my calendar every weekend. Speak to my partner about it so it doesn't come as a surprise to him and so I have some accountability. - Although I did do this, it wasn't always on weekends, so the whole calendar time thing didn't end up being that important!
Next Steps
My next steps depend a bit on what happens with my Spanish class. I have three lessons left, and I don't know if the classes will continue after this because it depends how many people sign up for the next course. If the classes go ahead, I think I will continue trying to split my focus between Spanish and German, even though that has been challenging! But if not, I think I will dial back my Spanish with the goal of just maintaining it, and throw more time into my German, since we are thinking of moving to Germany next year. To be honest I would feel kind of relieved in this case.
Either way I plan to continue maintaining my French and Italian by getting in at least and hour of listening and a one hour conversation exchange per week. Recently I've been trying to make these conversation exchanges more productive by preparing a topic to present and reviewing my corrections more like I mentioned above. This has been helping so I really want to try and keep it up.
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15 German Sayings and Proverbs
1. Ich versteh nur Bahnhof Literally: I understand only train station Meaning: I have no idea what you are saying
2. Du gehst mir voll auf den Keks Literally: You walk me on the cookie Meaning: You are getting on my nerves. 3. Du hast nicht mehr alle Tassen im Schrank Literally: You are missing cups in your cupboard Meaning: You’re crazy
4. Ich bin fuchsteufelswild Literally: I’m foxdevilswild Meaning: I’m super mad
5. Ich krieg die Krise Literally: I get the crisis Meaning: I’m going mad
6. Mir fĂ€llt ein Stein vom Herzen Literally: A stone falls from my heart Meaning: I’m relieved
7. Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen Literally: freedom, joy and omelette Meaning: everything’s hunky-dory
8. Kein Schwein war da Literally: No pig was there Meaning: Nobody was present/Nobody participated
9. Sie hat einen Vogel Literally: She has a bird Meaning: She’s crazy
10. Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof Literally: Life is no pony farm Meaning: Life isn’t easy
11. Er spielt die beleidigte Leberwurst Literally: He’s playing the offended liver sausage Meaning: He’s very resentful
12. Aller Anfang ist schwer Literally: All beginnings are difficult Meaning: The first step is always the hardest
13. Wie du mir, so ich dir Literally: Like you to me, so I to you Meaning: Tit for tat 
14. Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift Literally: I think my pig whistles Meaning: I think I’m dreaming
15. Du GlĂŒckspilz Literally: You luck-mushroom Meaning: You lucky one
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Hey langblr!
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I'm back on tumblr after a break and my dash is dead.
Could you reblog this post so I can find more active langblr/lingblr to follow?
I'm focusing on German, Spanish, Swedish, Mandarin and Italian for now but I'm also interested into all the languages Icelandic, Latin, linguistic and writing tips.
Thank you :)
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German Cases
Week 3, day 6 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.
There are four cases in German: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive.
Case is a property of nouns and pronouns, but also affects any adjectives, articles or numbers associated with the noun.
The case of a noun is determined by the role it plays in a sentence.
Roughly speaking, nominative is for the subject, accusative is for the direct object, dative is for the indirect object, and genitive is for possession. (If you're not sure, there's an explanation of what these roles mean with a simple example in this post.)
The use of a preposition before the noun also determines the case.
This page is a complete guide to declension in German.
So yeah... It's not like I don't understand German cases... I can tell you the rules... I just make a lot of mistakes when trying to speak or write! So I wrote the section below as a note to myself on what I need to do to improve lol
Tips for learning German cases
Always learn the gender of the noun along with the noun itself. This will make it easier to learn cases, because when you see or hear German sentences, you'll be able to spot the patterns more easily.
Listen and read a lot. With repetition, correct declension will start to become intuitive and you will get an instant feeling of what "sounds right".
Practise!!!! Probably goes without saying but output German sentences. There are tonnes of exercises online (e.g. x) that can help with this. Also, speak to native speakers on tandem, HelloTalk etc., post sentences on HiNative and write blog posts on Journaly. All of these platforms allow you to get corrections from native speakers so you don't create any bad habits and continue to improve.
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Top 3 Free German Resources
Week 3, day 5 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
(Probably goes without saying but just my personal top 3! You'll notice it is quite listening focused because that is what's most important to me.)
Nicos Weg (A1, A2, B1, Complete Youtube Playlist) - the story of a Spanish guy called Nico who moves to Germany. Really nice and well produced. Each level is made up of 80ish videos of a couple of minutes each, with exercises to review and test your comprehension. This adds up to a movie of almost 2 hrs for each level.
Easy German (x) - street interviews in German. Great for learning how Germans actually speak, outside of the artificial context that you find in a lot of learning resources.
The German Project (x) - online lessons with audio snippets and easy to understand explanations, plus animated short stories with audio. Wish there were some exercises to go with it! Also available for Spanish, French and Italian.
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Patatas Bravas Recipe
Week 3, day 4 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
Translated from this recipe in Spanish
Easy Patatas Bravas Recipe
Patatas bravas is a dish which is very typical of Spanish cuisine. It is usually served in tapas bars. It consists of fried or baked potatoes accompanied by a spicy sauce. There is no original recipe for this dish, but there are dozens of variations ranging from frying vs baking the potatoes to the ingredients used for the sauces (there are versions even without tomato). Also when it comes to serving time, they can be accompanied by mayonnaise, garlic sauce or aioli sauce. If you are someone who loves this delicious starter, you have surely asked yourself on many occasions how to make patatas bravas like they do in bars. On this occasion, we'll make an easy patatas bravas recipe which will definitely remind you of the ones you get in your favourite bar.
Ingredients for 4 people:
4 medium potatoes
2 cloves of garlic
1/2 onion
1 spoonful of spicy cayenne pepper
1 splash of white vinegar
50g tomato passata
1/2 spoonful of flour
approx 100ml chicken or pork stock
salt and pepper
olive oil
Preparation
Heat a splash of olive oil in a pan on a medium heat. Once it's hot, add the finely chopped garlic and onion. Season and stir until the onion has softened slightly (approx 10 minutes)
Add the cayenne pepper and stir for approx 5 seconds. If you like them even spicier, you can add a chilli or some tabasco. Then add the vinegar and stir for 20 seconds more, before adding the tomato passata, stirring some more and leaving to cook for 5 minutes.
It's now time to add the flour. This will thicken the sauce. Stir again and leave to cook, still on a moderate heat, for about 3 minutes, to toast the flour and get rid of the raw taste.
With all this now cooking, add the stock which can be chicken or pork stock. You can also use stock cubes and water, or just water although the flavour won't be the same. Mix all the ingredients and then blend the sauce. It should be mostly liquid but with some thickness. If it's very greasy, add a bit more stock (try not to throw it away before blending, to be able to correct it afterwards).
Peal the potatoes and roughly chop them. Patatas bravas are usually served in big chunks. Fry them in plenty of oil for around 10 minutes, until they are golden and crunchy.
Once cooked, taken them off the heat and place them on kitchen roll. Add a pinch of salt and leave to sit a couple of minutes before plating up. Drizzle with some spoonfuls of the salsa and they're ready!
As I said above, there is no original recipe for patatas bravas. Some say the most original ones don't have tomato, just cayenne pepper, but there's no proof that this is true. In any case this isn't the most important thing. The most important thing is that they are delicious!
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Vocab List: El Arte // Art // L'Art
Week 3, day 3 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
Adding a read more b/c this list got longer than I expected! Have included Spanish, English and French.
Estilos // Styles // Styles
barroco // baroque // baroque
cubista // cubist // cubiste
urbano // urban // urbain
impresionismo // impressionism // impressionnisme
futurismo // futurism // futurisme
cubismo // cubism // cubisme
Adjectivos // Adjectives // Adjectifs
innovador // innovative // innovant
retador // challenging // provocant
rebelde // rebel // rebelle
creativo // creative // créatif
original // original // original
subjetivo // subjective // subjectif
inquietante // unsettling // inquiétant
provocador // provocative // provocant
espontåneo // spontaneous // spontané
ĂĄgil // agile // agile
contemporĂĄneo // contemporary // contemporain
accesible // accessible // accessible
pĂșblico // public // public
elitista // elitist // Ă©litiste
anticapitalista // anti-capitalist // anti-capitaliste
Tipos // Types // Types
el cine // cinema // le cinéma
un poema // a poem // un poĂšme
el teatro // theater // le théùtre
el baile // dance // la danse
la mĂșsica // music // la musique
el grafiti // graffiti // le graffiti
un mural // a mural // une murale
un cuadro // a painting // un tableau
Verbos // Verbs // Verbes
crear // create // créer
publicar // publish // publier
exponer // exhibit // exposer
democratizar la cultura // democratize culture // démocratiser la culture
hacer reflexionar // make (people/someone) reflect // faire reflechir
tener un objetivo // have a goal // avoir un objectif
generar emociones // generate emotions // générer des émotions
provocar conversaciĂłn // cause conversation // provoquer une conversation
transmitir un mensaje // transmit a message // transmettre un message
contribuir // contribute // contribuer
Misc
una subasta // an auction // une vente aux enchĂšres
un autorretrato // a self-portrait // un autoportrait
es un sĂ­mbolo de estatus // it's a status symbol // c'est un symbole de statut
cualquier persona puede crearlo // anyone can create it // tout le monde peut le créer
se manifiesta de muchas formas // It manifests in many ways // il se manifeste de plusieurs façons
es una forma de expresiĂłn // it's a form of expression // c'est un moyen d'expression
es una nueva versiĂłn de la obra que estĂĄ inspirada en la original // it's a new version of the artwork which is inspired by the original // il s'agit d'une nouvelle version de l'Ɠuvre inspirĂ©e par l'original
pérdida de color u otras imperfecciones // loss of colour or other imperfections // perte de couleur ou d'autres imperfections
devolver la obra a su estado original // return the work to its original state // retourner l'Ɠuvre Ă  son Ă©tat original
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Language Learning Tip #1
Carry a little pocket vocab notebook around as you go about your day 
and anytime you notice that you don’t know a certain word in your target language, make a note of that word in your vocab notebook (like anything to do with your job or cooking ingredients or toiletries, anything at all)
Then when you’re actually sitting down to study your language, take that vocab notebook, look up all the words you wrote down & memorise them (cause these will most likely be the words you’ll encounter & use most often)
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German for Beginners: Resources
I wanted to dabble in some German during this quarantine time. I have way too many tabs open so I wanted to save them somewhere but also share them if anyone was interested in doing the same. 
Good for complete beginners with absolutely no background in German whatsoever. I’ve been using Duolingo because it’s easy and interactive, but I’ve been using these resources for support and reading about grammar points that I’m just curious about. 
Disclaimer: I have no idea what (other) good sites exist, these are a result of narrowing down a Google search with sites that seemed to be the most beginner-friendly. 
German alphabet
Vocab & grammar site
Another vocab & grammar site (mostly grammar, linked to declensions because I was reading about it but it’s easy to navigate using the sidebar)
The German Project - Stories with audio/German/English translations and select mini lessons (they also have a Spanish, French, and Italian version)
German for Beginners - Complete A1 Course (YouTube video I found, total time is 1 hour and 21 minutes) 
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some cute french idioms 🍓
Faire l’andouille (to make the sausage) =To do something ridiculous.
Les doigts dans le nez (the fingers in the nose) = When something is easy for you, you do it “fingers in the nose”.
Poser un lapin (to put a rabbit) = To stand someone up.
Avoir un poil dans la main (to have a hair in the hand) = To be lazy.
Ne pas ĂȘtre sorti de l’auberge (to not be out of the inn) = To face a complicated problem. 
Avoir le cafard (to have the cockroach) = To be depressed
Chercher la petite bĂȘte (to look for the little beast) = To always look for something to complain about insignificant details. 
Donner un coup de main (to give a knock of hand) = To give a helping hand.
Il y a quelque chose qui cloche (there is something ringing) = There is something wrong. 
Faire un froid de canard (to do a cold of duck) = To be extremely cold. In winter, when it’s very cold, ducks go away from lakes and are therefore exposed to hunters. So “un froid de canard” is an extremely cold and hostile weather.
Donner sa langue au chat (to give one’s tongue to the cat) = I have no idea/I give up.This expression is used to say you don’t know about something and are unable to give an answer.
Avoir une peur bleue (to have a blue fear) =To be terrified.
Ah, la vache (Oh the cow) =Oh my god.
Avoir un chat dans la gorge (To have a cat in the throat) = This is the counterpart of the English expression “to have a frog in one’s throat”(to have lots of phlegm)
S’occuper de ses oignons (to take care of one’s onions) =To mind one’s own business.
En avoir ras le bol (To have a bowl full of it) =To be fed up with something
Avoir la flemme = To have a lack of desire to do something or go somewhere, to be lazy. 
Être bien dans sa peau (to be good in one’s skin) = To feel comfortable with your body and who you are. 
Faire la tĂȘte (make the head) = When you are not happy about something and decide to sulk as a result.
Tomber dans les pommes (To fall in the apples) = To faint
Être au taquet = When something is blocking you, but in a positive way, meaning that you could not be in a better situation.
Être sur son 31 (To be on your 31) = To be on your 31 means that you are wearing your most beautiful clothes, that you are elegant.
Mettre son grain de sel (To put one’s grain of salt) = When people who join a conversation or do something without being invited to do so.
Avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre (“have eyes bigger than your belly) = When you want to eat more than you can. 
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German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit)
Week 3, day 2 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
Write about a festival or holiday that is celebrated in a country that speaks your target language. This can be either something you’ve celebrated yourself, have wanted to participate in, or have never heard of before. You can write this in any language you’d like.
German Unity Day is a German public holiday commemorating the reunification of Germany in 1990, when the German Democratic Republic in the East joined the Federal Republic of Germany in the West, almost a year after the fall of the Berlin wall.
It is celebrated on 3rd October with a ceremonial act and a citizens' festival (BĂŒrgerfest). The celebrations are hosted by a major German city in the state presiding over the Bundesrat (sort of equivalent to the UK House of Lords or US Senate) that year.
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Vocab from leichter//kÀlter (Edwin Rosen)
Week 3, day 1 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
barfuß - barefoot
der Schnee - the snow
es fÀllt mir nicht leicht - it's not easy for me
anzusehen - to watch
die Lippen - the lips
lila - purple
schreien - to scream
frieren - to freeze
wegen mir - because of me
gar nicht - not at all
wow now that I understand the words this song is really sad :')
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Fav Langblrs
Week 2, day 7 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
linguistness - lots of cool langblr but also linguistics content (German, Swedish, French, Czech)
cumbiana - phd life with some Spanish and langblr content thrown in
spanishskulduggery - really helpful explanations about Spanish grammar and vocab
thetudes - lots of useful resources for French
3oey - cute vocab drawings for Russian :3
tealingual - tonnes of resources for tonnes of different languages, great for resource masterposts
sciogli-lingua - several languages but especially Italian
pompadourpink - the ultimate authority on the French language as far as I'm concerned forget L'Académie Française
linguenuvolose - language study and general life posts, just a nice vibe
fluencylevelfrench - French and also book recs
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