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spaingreek · 4 months

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Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

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spaingreek · 3 years

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spaingreek · 3 years

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The Greek City-states c. 500 BCE

A map illustrating the city-states of Classical Greece around 500 BCE and depicting the expansion of Hellenic influence along the coasts of the Mediterranean and Black sea and the formation and scope of the Delian League, under Athenian hegemony, against the Persian Empire.

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spaingreek · 3 years

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spaingreek · 4 years

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Η Νίκη της Σαμοθράκης δυστυχώς στο Λούβρο…ακόμα…

Niki of Samothrace (Winged Victory)

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spaingreek · 4 years

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We say “English doesn’t make any sense” because saying “English is unusual in that, when it borrows vocabulary from other languages, it tends to partially retain the morphology of the originating language group rather than adapting the word in question to English morphology, which is why we have twelve different ways to construct a plural” takes too long.

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spaingreek · 5 years

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Plumbeous

Adjective

[pluhm-bee-uh s]

1. resembling or containing lead; leaden.

Origin: Plumbeous comes straight from the Latin adjective plumbeus “made of lead, leaden, (of coins) base,” a derivative of the noun plumbum. Plumbum is a noun of unknown etymology, and linguists have speculated on the connection between plumbum and Greek mólybdos with its variants mólibos and bólimos, which also have no reliable etymology. In ancient times lead was mined in Attica (i.e., the territory whose capital was Athens), Macedonia, Asia Minor (Anatolia), Etruria, Sardinia, Gaul (France), Britain, and Spain. Many scholars think that the Greek and Latin words derive from an Iberian (Spanish) language, and the Basque word for lead, berun, supports this. Plumbeous entered English in the 16th century.

“…the pencil has been worn down to two-thirds of its original length. The bare wood of its tapered end has darkened to a plumbeous plum, thus merging in tint with the blunt tip of graphite whose blind gloss alone distinguishes it from the wood.” - Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things, 1972

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spaingreek · 5 years

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λα λα λα λα

La la la la...

Λα λα λα λα...

Yo canto a la mañana

Τραγουδάω για την πρωί

que ve mi juventud.

που βλέπει τα νιάτα μου

Y al sol que día a día

Και για το καθημερινό ήλιο

nos trae nueva inquietud

που μας φέρνει νέες αναρώτησεις

Todo en la vida es

Όλα στην ζωή είναι

como una canción

σαν ένα τραγούδι

te cantan cuando naces

Σε τραγουδάν όταν γεννιέσαι

y también en el adiós

Και όταν γεύγεις επίσης.

La la la la...

Yo canto a mi madre

Τραγουδάω για την μητέρα μου

que dió vida a mi ser

που μου έδωσε ζωή

y canto a la tierra

Και τραγουδώ για την χώρα

que me ha visto crecer

Που μου είδε να μεγαλώσε

Y canto al día en que

Και τραγουδάω στην ημέρα που

sentí el amor

Ένιωθα την έρωτα

andando por la vida

Περπατώντας στην ζωή

aprendí esta canción

έμαθα το τραγούδι αυτό

#Μασιέλ #λαλαλαλα #μετάφραση #προσπάθεια

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spaingreek · 5 years

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An interesting long article from Nautilus about colour terms in different languages:

When Paul Kay, then an anthropology graduate student at Harvard University, arrived in Tahiti in 1959 to study island life, he expected to have a hard time learning the local words for colors. His field had long espoused a theory called linguistic relativity, which held that language shapes perception. Color was the “parade example,” Kay says. His professors and textbooks taught that people could only recognize a color as categorically distinct from others if they had a word for it. If you knew only three color words, a rainbow would have only three stripes. Blue wouldn’t stand out as blue if you couldn’t name it.

What’s more, according to the relativist view, color categories were arbitrary. The spectrum of color has no intrinsic organization. Scientists had no reason to suspect that cultures divvied it up in similar ways. To an English speaker like Kay, the category “red” might include shades ranging from deep wine to light ruby. But to Tahitians, maybe “red” also included shades that Kay would call “orange” or “purple.” Or maybe Tahitians chunked colors not by a combination of hue, lightness and saturation, as Americans do, but by material qualities, like texture or sheen.

To his surprise, however, Kay found it easy to understand colors in Tahitian. The language had fewer color terms than English. For example, only one word, ninamu, translated to both green and blue (now known as grue). But most Tahitian colors mapped astonishingly well to categories that Kay already knew intuitively, including white, black, red, and yellow. It was strange, he thought, that the groupings weren’t more random.

A few years later, back in Boston, he was shooting the breeze with a fellow anthropologist, Brent Berlin, who had worked as a graduate student among speakers of the Mayan language Tzeltal, in Chiapas, Mexico. There, Berlin told Kay, he had encountered exactly the same color categories that Kay had observed in Tahiti, including a single word for grue. “The two languages are as unrelated to each other historically as any two languages can be,” Kay says. And yet they seemed to give rise to a common way of seeing and thinking about color. Either he and Berlin had stumbled upon a one-in-a-million coincidence. Or the relativists were wrong.

To solve the puzzle, the young scientists needed more data. In the mid-1960s, they were both hired as professors at the University of California, Berkeley, and with their students’ help, they rounded up native speakers of 20 languages, including Arabic, Hungarian, and Swahili. The researchers showed each speaker 329 standard color chips and asked him or her to name each one’s “basic color term”—the simplest, broadest word that described its shade. Drawing from previous anthropological work, they added color lexicons from 78 additional languages around the world.The results revealed two remarkable patterns, which Kay and Berlin laid out in their 1969 monograph, Basic Color Terms. First, almost all of the languages they examined appeared to have color words that drew from the same 11 basic categories: white, black, red, green, yellow, blue, brown, purple, pink, orange, and gray. Second, cultures seemed to build up their color vocabularies in a predictable way. Languages with only two color categories chunked the spectrum into blacks and whites. Languages with three categories also had a word for red. Green or yellow came next. Then blue. Then brown. And so on.

It’s really worth reading the whole thing though, as the story gets more complex from here. The World Color Survey data is available online here and you can also play with the basic colour terms map at WALS.

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spaingreek · 6 years

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Marathon! Change your life!

How often do you say to yourself, “I’ll Start on Monday!“and still put off for later? Are you ready to challenge yourself and turn your life upside down, starting with small steps? Are you ready to be the best version of yourself? Ready to learn to go to your goal, to go to the end? Then participate! I suggest we start on Monday! //symbolic// Only this time, no excuses!

let’s Call it ‘Change your life’. Goal: Get a bunch of good habits.

What do you need for this? You need to print that wonderful sign in the photos, or draw yourself. It needs to be done today, because tomorrow we start. Next, you need to determine what habits you want to put in your life rhythm. Put them in the tracker. Thank u @emmastudies for this Monthly Habit Tracker!🍉 And you need motivation and persistence!

How do you keep motivated?

I thought about that too. We will motivate each other! Every day you can summarize on your blog using the hashtag #marathonwithstudypeachs . So all participants will be easier to find each other’s posts, and thus receive a portion of motivation and boldly go to the end!

And now let’s talk about those habits that should be in each tracker.

🌟 Wake up at 7:00 am!

🌟 Drink 2 glasses of water in the morning and drink plenty of water during the day.

🌟 Morning yoga. Exercises can be found online or replaced with normal charging.

🌟Read 30-35 pages of the book every day.Choose the book you got today)

🌟 Move 20 minutes per day. you can run, walk with friends, jump, swim, but not sit!

🌟 Hug at least one person a day!this is also important. Hugs will cheer you up)

🌟 Plan your day from the evening! Every night you will make a plan for the next day. This habit will help you become more organized.

🌟 Do not use the device during operation! You’d be surprised how much time you’ll have and how much productivity you’ll have.

🌟Take 15 minutes to develop yourself! you can watch thematic videos on YouTube or read self-development books, find useful sites and learn something new.

🌟 Read 1 random Wikipedia article every day!as a result, you will fit 31 articles in your head. And, if it becomes a habit, you will get knowledge from different areas and further, which will make you a versatile person.

🌟 Spend 30-40 minutes in a foreign language! have you been wanting to learn English or German, Chinese or Italian for A long time? Start now! Get closer to the dream every day.

🌟 Go to bed at 11:00 pm!you need 8 hours for a good rest.

Well, are you in? Will you challenge yourself?! I hope so.

make a reblog to have more participants! Together we can!

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spaingreek · 6 years

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Κοινωνώ y sus hermanos

κοινωνώ - hacer común

κοινονία - comunidad, sociedad

κοινωνικός - social

αντικοινωνικός - antisocial

ακοινωνικός - asocial

κοινωνιολογία - sociología

κοινωνιολόγος - sociólogo

κοινωνικοποίηση - creación de una sociedad

ανακοινώνω - anunciar

ανακοίνωση - anuncio

επικοινωνώ (με) - comunicarse (con)

επικοινωνία - comunicación

επικοινωνικός - referente a la comunicación

τηλεπικοινωνία - telecomunicación

συγκοινωνώ (με) - transportar (con)

συγκοινωνία - el transporte

συγκοινωνιακός - referente al transporte

συγκοινωνιολογία - ciencia del transporte

συγκοινωνιολόγος - científico del transporte

Tengo que decir que hay algunos conceptos bastante complicados de traducir o que se comprendan en español debido a su inexistencia en nuestro idioma... el ¿¿transportólogo?? Sería algo como experto en medios de transporte o algo así...

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spaingreek · 6 years

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Οι 5 αισθήσεις

η όραση - vista

η αφή - tacto

η ακοή - oído

η γεύση - gusto

η όσφρηση - olfato

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spaingreek · 6 years

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Μένω y sus hermanos

μένω - permanecer, quedarse

αναμένω - esperar (con seguridad porque lo sabes con anterioridad)

επιμένω - insistir

παραμένω - permanecer, quedarse cerca, quedarse más de lo previsto

διαμένω - residir

υπομένω - tener paciencia, sufrir, aguantar

ανυπομονώ - impacientarse

απομένω - quedarse

περιμένω - esperar

προσμένω - esperar con esperanza

εμμένω - persistir, porfiar

#verbos #ρηματα #ισπανικα #griego #idioma

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spaingreek · 6 years

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C.C. Tiempo

πάντα

σχεδόν πάντα

συνήθος

συχνά

πολλές φορές

μερικές φορές

καμιά φορά

κάπου κάπου

σπάνια

ποτέ (+δεν)

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spaingreek · 6 years

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cuánto - cuántos

πόσος - πόση - πόσο

πόσον - πόση - πόσο

πόσοι - πόσες - πόσα

πόσους - πόσες - πόσα

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spaingreek · 6 years

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Mucho y muchos

πολύς - πολλή - πολύ

πολύ - πολλή - πολύ

πολλοί - πολλές - πολλά

πολλούς - πολλές - πολλά

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spaingreek · 6 years

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haber, existir

No se conjuga el verbo:

υπάρχει + 1 COSA EN NOMINATIVO

υπάρχουν + 2 O MAS COSAS EN NOMINATIVO

Se conjuga el verbo:

έχει + FORMA EN ACUSATIVO

υπάρχει ένας άντρας

υπάρχουν δύο γυναίκες

έχει έναν άντρα

έχουν δύο άντρες

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