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Vast and Immersive
Great Sand Dunes National Park
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acrylic painting on canvas
size 20x30 cm
2021
#immersion#heads#vaxolang#vaxo lang#vaxo art#contemporary art#contemporary artist#creepy art#acrylic painting#dark art#horror#creepy#horror art#dark surreal art#surrealism#macabre#macabre art
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People who know what to do archive the shit out of everything RT because of WBs/David Zaslavs recent behavior I'm scared everything that's not directly show related(hell I'm scared for the main shows) is gonna be wiped out.
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Some when they read words, they read it as spectators, placing themselves outside while others when they read words they become those words, they jump into them, feeling themselves within them, total absorption. The first one is a mere passerby while the latter class is drenched in its depths and in its meanings. One watching the rain and the other utterly soaked in its experience...
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Langblrs who’ve self-studied one or more languages to at least the C1 level without leaving your country (or state/province)—what were the best methods or self-immersion tips you used to push from B2 to C1 in speaking and writing?
#help my speaking is forever my stuck fourth pillar#langblr#studyblr#language learning#language learning tips#cefr#immersion
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📍London, England 🇬🇧
#video#view#lights#fishes#london#england#explore#travel#city#europe#place#trees#flowers#plants#aquarium#immersive daydreaming#immersive theatre#immersion#immersive experience
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Anonymous asked: Of all the many languages you speak which is your weakest one? Do you use those languages?
It’s privilege to learn any language that isn’t your mother tongue. As Ludwig Wittgenstein correctly observed, “The limits of my language means the limits of my world”. If English is our native tongue we put ourselves at a disadvantage because we expect every other nationality to take the trouble to speak it. There seems no incentive to learn a foreign language. We become lazy not just in language but also in other ways including our cultural enrichment, our imagination, and a misplaced sense of our self-importance in the world.
Of the European languages I know, I probably think German would be my weakest. When I was in school in Switzerland you’re brought up in three languages: French, Italian, and German (even if the Swiss speak Swiss German). When I say weakest I mean I can converse fluently, but I don’t have time to read German literature in the same immersive way I would say with French literature or take any special interest in German affairs.
I would say I’m fairly fluent in French now but still prone to silly mistakes. I’ve been told that I can speak without an accent and that is heart warming to know, because that was always the goal once I moved here to France. I don’t really use French in my work as it’s a multi-national entity and so English is the default language of corporate world, but I’m speaking French pretty much the rest of the time outside of work.
I was extremely fortunate to be born into a multi-lingual family where Norwegian and English were spoken from birth. All my siblings were being versed in Latin (not Greek which came years later after doing Classics at university) by the time I was 8 or 9 years old because my father was a classicist and he felt Latin was the building blocks to mastering other languages.
All this occurring whilst we moved lived and moved around a lot in the world such as China, Japan, India, and the Middle East. When I was initially sent to one of the first of my English girls boarding schools I was horrified that most of the girls only spoke English. I thought I was the stupid one for only knowing 6. Boarding school, if nothing else, gave me a great privilege to hone in on the languages I did know and start to learn others.
My parents didn’t take the easy way out and put us children in international schools like all the other expat children. That would have been too easy given how tight knit the British expatriate community was out there. Instead we were left to sink or swim in local schools in places like Tokyo and Kyoto in Japan or Shanghai in China or in Delhi, India. It was a struggle but you soon find your feet and you stumble towards some basic level of fluency.
I’m fortunate that before Covid my corporate work took me often to the Far East and it was a great opportunity to hone what I already knew. The result is I can converse and take business meetings in Chinese and Japanese (though English gets thrown into the mix too).
I would say Chinese is more of a struggle for me these days because I’ve not been back since before the Covid lockdown in 2020. Chinese is one of those languages that can easily melt away if you don’t get the chance to converse in it on a regular basis. Japanese less so, probably because the culture had more profound impact on me than Chinese culture.
Hindi is less of an issue because I have close Indian friends and also I watch Bollywood movies as well as converse with Indian immigrants here in Paris who have local stores. Urdu I learned through the backdoor because Urdu has a spoken affinity with Hindi (if you know Hindi then you know spoken Urdu, more or less, especially in Northern India and cities like Delhi where Urdu was born in the burnt ashes of Mughal India). Reading is another matter because they each use different scripts - Sanskrit for Hindi and Arabic and Persian script for Urdu.
Strangely enough when I was doing my tour in Afghanistan years ago with the British army, I would speak Urdu with local Afghans who served as official translators or were selling goods on the base. These Afghans knew Urdu because an entire generation of Afghan boys and girls grew up in refugee camps on the Pakistani border during the different phases of the Afghan war. I have very fond memories of their friendship and hospitality, but less so of the war itself.
With Arabic, it had lapsed woefully until I did a posting in Dubai in the past year (as catalogued in my blog) and I found myself suddenly remembering a lot and asking Arab friends. Soon I was able to hold my own amongst my colleagues and corporate clients. In these cultures it’s really hard to stay focused because so many of them speak very good English. So it’s hard to get them to stick with their own language because you want to learn from them - but they want to show off their English proficiency - and so you have to be polite but persistent to stick with Arabic.
If you’re learning a new language then I hope you stick with it. There’s almost nothing more rewarding in your life than the disocovery a rich culture through language. The key is to find a way to make it fun rather than a trip to the dentist chair for a root canal operation.
Thanks for your question.
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Learn japanese by watching anime with JPN Subtitles! ( . u . )
Today, out of the blue, I remembered a site I had discovered a couple of years ago - AniMelon!
I had been searching for a place to watch anime with japanese subtitles - for if the subs are English, I rely on them too much.
However, animelon is run for people who are trying to learn japanese, thus one can freely set what kind of subtitles they want!
I usually have JPN - fontsize roughly 56, and english, on a fontsize of 38, in a somewhat darker shade.
However, one may also enable Romaji, or Hiragana / Katakana as well - there's tons of customization options!
I customized my subs so I can read the eng subs if I need them - but they dont stand out / are a bit harder to read, so my brain won't auto-read them, when I'm looking at the JPN subtitles.
The JPN Subtitles help a lot to fill the gaps if something slips my comprehension - plus, thanks to browser extentions I can simply hover over the JPN Subs & with merely a single click anki will create a new vocab card for me. ( . u . )
I figured this site might be helpful for some, so i wanted to share it!
Using netflix is an option as well, but since you need a) a Netflix Subscription and b) a VPN to access Japanese Media I feel its ways less accessible than, well, this free option . u . )
#studyblr#langblr#study#studying#study motivation#japanese#learn japanese#study japanese#studying japanese#japanese langblr#language immersion#immersion#foreign language
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•immersion•
acrylic painting on canvas
size 20x30 cm
2021
#vaxo lang#immersion#creepy#creepy art#horror#horror artwork#macabre#macabre art#contemporary artist#contemporary art
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Trakt Forest Hotel, Sällehägnad, Holsbybrunn, Sweden,
Gert Wingårdh Architect
#art#design#Architecture#interior#interiors#forest#treehouse#trakt forest hotem#sweden#holsbybrunn#gert wingardh#millwork#boutique hotel#immersion#cabin#retreat#eco-retreat
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forcebook looking like they’re about to rob a bank in japan 🧡
#we stan kings with a broken camera flash but that still#insist on posting the photos#don’t be suspicious don’t be suspicious DON’T be suspicious vibe aldkskdkskkd#not editing the photos for full#immersion#forcebook#mj talks
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Immersion in the moment is the only way to transcend both time and place, to become ageless and eternal, to taste everything and all at once, also our own nothingness. It is to get dissolved into this very universe and yet be so disintegrated that you can't point your finger to any direction and tell this is where your address belong. When a drop of rain falls from the heaven and lands in the ocean, I'm that rain drop, I'm that ocean...
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Spy x Family Vocabulary | Episode 1 👨👩👧✨
i started watching this anime day before yesterday and am so in love with it!! it totally lives up to its hype and is definitely going to be one of my favourite anime of all time😍🥰
🕵️📝sharing some words I picked up from Ep. 1:
1. 大使館 【たいしかん】 → embassy
2. おそらく → perhaps, likely, probably
3. 外交官 【がいこうかん】 → diplomat
4. 戦争 【せんそう】→ war
5. 職業 【しょくぎょう】→ occupation
6. 養う 【やしなう】→ to adopt (a child)
7. 黄昏 【たそが���】→ twilight [🕵️]
8. 冒険 【ぼうけん】→ adventure, venture
9. ワクワク → thrilled, getting excited (onomatopoeia)
10. 秘密 【ひみつ】→ secret
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(that's all I had noted - would keep adding more vocab as i keep watching if it helps! (◍•ᴗ•◍))
#langblr#japanese#anime#immersion#japanese vocabulary#spy x family#日本語#vocabulary from immersion#the nihongo adventure#words#japanese langblr
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Here's a question for anyone. Recently I moved to Japan, a country I'd been dreaming of going to for over thirty years. The problem is, I'm having a VERY hard time learning the language. Nothing about it is particularly difficult, but nothing is sticking. I can't recall words at all and I feel like I've gotten worse at it since I got here.
Does anyone have advice? Even simple stuff is appreciated, but ideally I'm looking for something I wouldn't think to have tried. Thanks!
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