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- Sorcery of thorns by Margaret Rogerson
- Babel by R. F. Kuang
- The bone houses by Emilly Lloyd Jones
-Howl's moving castle by Diana Wynne Jones (there are other books, but can be read as a standalone)
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What are some good fantasy standalones for when you don’t want to read a whole series?
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Inej being the mom friend of the Crows ❌
Matthias being the mom friend of the Crows ✅
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Duolingo going for the easy questions this morning.
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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.
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You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?
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Here's one of my favorites,"the pig doesn't read the letter"
Saw a video about how Duolingo works and apparently the weird sentences are made by actual people on purpose, because 1- it's fun, 2- something unusual is easier to remember and 3- even if you're not gonna use "the bear talks with a lawyer" in real life you're probably gonna remember the grammar structure when using actual sentences. So whenever you see a Duolingo phrase that maker you go "WTF?!" Know that someone probably had a lot o fun adding it to the app
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the fuck??
WHAT THE FUCK????
#dc fans:#OMG PEOPLE DON'T RESPECT THE CANNON FANS ARE RUINING THE CHARACTER FANFIC IS HORRIBLE#the canon:#--#honestly no hate if you dont like fanfic#but ill stick with good dad Bruce fanon over whatever the fuck this is#dc universe#batfamily#batman#dcu#jason todd#bruce wayne
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If you want, you can let me know the language(s) in the tags, and whether or not you speak it fluently!
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Saw a video about how Duolingo works and apparently the weird sentences are made by actual people on purpose, because 1- it's fun, 2- something unusual is easier to remember and 3- even if you're not gonna use "the bear talks with a lawyer" in real life you're probably gonna remember the grammar structure when using actual sentences. So whenever you see a Duolingo phrase that maker you go "WTF?!" Know that someone probably had a lot o fun adding it to the app
#i think its really funny actually#and it makes sense in a way#dont get me wrong#i still don't like the new design of the app#but this little detail made me appreciate it more#duolingo#language#langblr#language learning#langblog#studyblr#spanish#spanish langblr
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studyblr/langblr introduction
Hello! I'm María and I've been around the studyblr/langblr community since 2017 when I got into college, but I was never really consistent with keeping up with my blog. I recently graduated and, as my username says, I thought it'd be nice to use this sideblog archive all of my notes.
About me:
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Translation degree
Argentina
Languages: English (C2), Italian (A1), Portuguese (A1)
Likes:
languages
books (any genre)
music (bts, txt, taylor swift, etc, etc)
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It's so annoying actually, I used to love skipping between lessons and reading the tips. Now it's this linear thing that's so repetitive it feels like you're not making any progress, and the other day they made this update that made your progress regress for some reason? I almost deleted the app then to be honest
As someone who's used Duolingo since ~2016, the app has become so fucking frustrating and antithetical to language learning.
You used to be able to see community discussion on ever sentence ! You used to be able to CHOOSE to review content, there were stories galore and reviewing your weakest words was so fun!
And now they gutted all of that, and now you go down one path where every node of 4 levels of like 10 or so exercises each is either 4 new vocabulary words or a set of review of 4 old vocabulary words all jumbled in different but excruciatingly similar ways.
It's so difficult to keep on it now, you can't even get the vocab you want without grueling through it it's disappointing, they cut the tips and language context and Grammer back down so hard, it's like they cut the community who created it out cause now I see nothing of them
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My favourite part of learning a language related to your mother tongue (or to an L2 you’re fluent in) is the confidence with which you get things wrong
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Learning Spanish as a Portuguese speaker is so weird cuz like, there's so many similarities that sometimes it feels like I'm not learning anything new but if I try to speak it just shows that I do not in fact know Spanish
#its so frustrating#but also fun#like I'll try to read something and I'll understand at least the basics#but then I'll hear someone speak and I'll either understand some of it#or it will be completely unintelligible#langblr#language#langblog#language learning#spanish
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I miss Duolingo's old design where you could skip between lessons in a section. This linear things gets so boring after a while
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Does anyone have Hispanic bands and artists recommendations? I'm trying to learn Spanish but can't find many artists I like
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2+ Months of Language Learning Prompts!
Sometimes it can be tricky to know what to learn if you are teaching yourself a language. Here are some ideas for what you can focus on learning each day for the first two months of learning a new language! I formatted it so there is the general topic for the day and then in parentheses are some ideas to get you started but you can definitely learn a lot more than what I’ve written down! These are just to help generate some ideas!
This definitely would move pretty quickly if you covered all this material in 2 months so you could definitely spend more time on each topic if you need! This would require quite a bit of time each day in order to learn it all. This could totally work for a 4 or 6-month challenge where you spend 2 or 3 days on each of the topics I listed if you don’t have enough time to cover each topic in just one day!
Polite phrases (thank you, please, yes/no, you’re welcome, I’m sorry)
Introductory phrases (hi, my name is, I’m from, I speak, how are you?)
Pronouns (I, you, he, she, they, we)
Basic people vocab (girl, boy, man, woman, person, child)
Basic verbs in present tense (to eat, to drink, to walk, to read, to write, to say)
Sentence structure (how to form some basic sentences)
Negative sentences (I do not __)
Question words (who, what, where, when, why, how, how to form questions)
Numbers (0-20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000)
Time (hour, minute, half hour, reading the time)
Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, appetizer)
Basic foods (apple, banana, rice, bread, pasta, carrot, soup, water)
More foods (beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, juice, coffee, tea, chocolate, cake)
Kitchen (stove, oven, kitchen, fridge, table, chair, bake, boil)
Eating supplies (knife, spoon, fork, plate, bowl, cup, glass)
More verbs (to make, to have, to see, to like, to go, to be able to, to want, to need)
Family (father, mother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, parents, grandparents)
Transportation (car, train, plane, bus, bicycle, airport, train station)
City locations (apartment, building, restaurant, movie theater, market, hotel, bank)
Directions (north, south, east, west, right, left)
Adjectives (good, bad, smart, delicious, nice, fun)
More verbs (to give, to send, to wake up, to cry, to love, to hate, to laugh)
Colors (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, white, brown)
Emotions (happy, sad, calm, angry)
Physical descriptions (tall, short, blonde, brunette, redhead, eye color)
Body parts (arm, leg, hand, finger, foot, toe, face, eye, mouth, nose, ears)
Descriptors (rich, poor, beautiful, ugly, expensive, inexpensive)
Basic clothing (shirt, pants, dress, skirt, jacket, sweater, skirt, shorts)
Accessories (belt, hat, wallet, gloves, sunglasses, purse, watch)
More verbs (to keep, to smile, to run, to drive, to wear, to remember)
Animals (cat, dog, horse, cow, bear, pig, chicken, duck, fish)
More animals (turtle, sheep, fox, mouse, lion, deer)
Months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)
Seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer)
Weather (sunny, cloudy, hot, cold, snowing, raining)
States of being (I’m hungry, I’m tired, I’m thirsty)
House (bedroom, living room, bathroom, stairs)
Furniture (bed, lamp, couch, door, window)
Electronics (phone, TV, computer, camera, radio, headphones)
Nature (tree, flower, plant, animal, grass, animal, outside, sky, sun, moon, clouds)
More verbs (to teach, to learn, to understand, to know, to listen, to hear)
School (classroom, elementary school, high school, college, student, class, grade, homework, test)
School subjects (math, science, English, art, music, chemistry, biology, physics)
School supplies (book, pencil, pen, paper, notebook, folder, backpack, calculator)
Classroom features (student desk, teacher desk, whiteboard, chalk, clock, bell)
Jobs (teacher, scientist, doctor, artist, dancer, musician)
More jobs (surgeon, manager, engineer, architect, lawyer, dentist, writer)
More verbs (to buy, to sell, to work, to ask, to answer, to dance, to leave, to come)
Comparisons (less than, more than, same, __er than)
Languages (French, German, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese)
Countries (France, Germany, China, Russia, Spain, Mexico, United States, Japan)
Religion (church, temple, mosque, to pray, Judaism, Christianity, Islam)
Past tense (I was, he ran, she wrote)
Hobbies (shopping, sports, soccer, chess, fishing, gardening, photography)
More verbs (to describe, to sleep, to find, to wish, to enter, to feel, to think)
Art (paint, draw, painting, gallery, frame, brush)
Morning routine (to wake up, to brush teeth, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, soap)
Future tense (I will run, he will write)
TV + internet (online, internet, to watch TV, TV show, movie, documentary, cartoon)
More verbs (to look for, to stay, to touch, to meet, to show, to rent, to wash, to play)
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