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indigostudies · 4 months

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i've been looking around to try and find resources for csl, and i think i've found another great one! i have yet to try it out (i'm very busy right now with getting settled into classes), but i found a course by the shanghai international studies university is offered through futurelearn for free! it covers word categories, linguistic features, syntactic structures, csl varieties, the distinction between csl and signed chinese, deaf culture, the history of csl, and deaf education and historical figures. it's six weeks long and four hours per week, and you can sign up for it here:

#langblr #sign language #chinese sign language #csl #language learning #langblr resources #resources #indigo ink

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zzzzzestforlife · 23 days

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🦢 that girl diaries // brought to you by a thirst for knowledge ☕

today i focus on my language learning hobby! ☺️

🇯🇵 日本語

✍️ counting words writing practice

🎧 common Japanese phrases (56/100)

📝 negative verbs lessons (3x)

🇰🇷 한국어

🎧 conversational/casual speech (also the reason i haven't been skipping meals lately 🥺)

📝 반말 (casual speech) vocabulary lessons (2x) + unit exam

🎧 intermediate stories 1, 2

🇨🇳 中文

🎧 但我飞奔向你 (comprehensible input)

✍️ HSK2 writing practice (first page)

📝 HSK3 vocabulary lessons (2x) + unit exam

🤘 ASL

👀 I FOUND COMPREHENSIBLE INPUT 1, 2

☝️ signing places (wagging your index finger pointed up is the sign for "where")

⏪ review all the previous lessons thus far because i forgot pretty much everything 🥲

💌: i swear i can feel my neurons making new connections... or maybe that's a headache 😂

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mechanics-of-life · 3 months

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Language learning January update:

Current priorities -

1) Mandarin (basic fluency, HSK 5)

2) ASL (work through Lingvano app)

3) Toki Pona (learn all 137 words)

4) Hebrew / Arabic (relearn/learn alphabet)

5) Gaelic (start learning again, if I have time)

6) French (work through Duolingo I guess)

Mandarin -

Previous info: Been slowly learning for the last few years (uhh I think it's been like 5 years or so). I know probably around 3000 characters, but I still feel like I don't even have basic fluency somehow.

Goal: Basic fluency by the end of the year, confidence with all HSK 4 and HSK 5 words and grammar structures. Even though my current reading level is closer to the 拼音 books I have, I want to slowly work through the novel I have.

Progress: Trying to read a few pages of a 拼音 book every day, and so far with the novel I'm about 5 sentences in, with 20 new words added to my vocabulary list.

ASL (sign language) -

Previous info: started learning around October last year, working through the Lingvano app. Had a pretty good streak going for awhile but broke the streak and lost motivation sometime in December. Trying to get back into it. I probably know around 300 signs.

Goal: Work through the Lingvano app by the end of the year.

Toki Pona -

Previous info: I know 10 words...

Goals: Learn all the 137 words by the end of the year.

Greek, Gaelic, Latin, French -

Previous info: Greek - tried learning a few years ago, maybe learned about 30 words. Gaelic - started learning 2 years ago, maybe had about 50 words or so. Latin - didn't get far at all, maybe a few words. French - learned it in school up till grade 12, but I've forgotten so much; don't really have the motivation to get back into it, but I really should.

Goals: I guess these are all on hold for now, unless I get my life more organized. Greek probably won't become a priority again for awhile, Latin certainly won't be a priority for a long while unfortunately, but I hope I can get into Gaelic again later in the year if I find some time. French is definitely something I should get back into, ASAP, but the motivation is just not there for it.

Hebrew -

Previous info: I'm a scholar and a weirdo so I wanna work through the original version of the bible and all its biblical hebrew. Learning the language seems "easier" than struggling with just looking the whole thing up word by word. I didn’t get very far, I guess I sort of know the alphabet and probably around 5 words.

Goal: uhhh idk, do better.

Arabic (Egyptian dialect) -

Previous info: just started learning, still trying to work on recognizing the alphabet.

Goal: I want to be able to learn the alphabet and pronunciation by the end of the year. Duolingo can't really help so it's gonna be an uphill battle for this.

Misc -

I guess my other priorities down the line would be Sanskrit and Italian. Sanskrit cause why not, and Italian cause I want to read through the original Dante's Inferno

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maliciouslove · 3 months

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logging in to tell everyone to go watch A Sign of Affection and The Apothecary Diaries

#momo.exe #im kinda sick so i dont have the energy tp give my usual long and very confusion explanation as to why #sign of affection is very cute and i like animes that talk about living with a disability #very romantic and the main dude has silver hair i have said enough #man is like bigger than a door and has a tattoo in his middle finger and he looks cute when he's tryna learn sign language #as for the apothecary diaries it simply slaps #i like the whole chinese emperor with concubines setting #and this random commoner chick that has medicinal knowledge and goes around solving mysteries in the palace #and i am a sucker for the 'guy falls hard for girl #girl doesnt give a fuck' trope #art on both animes is amazing #anyway im sad because im out of episodes on both :<#ok bye time to not log in for another 3 months

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no-passaran · 11 months

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Language schools listing the courses they offer are like:

English A1

English A2

English B1

ENGLISH CAMBRIDGE EXAM PREPARATIONS

Calls for the official English accreditation exams

English B2 (FIRST)

English C1 (ADVANCED)

English C2 (PROFICIENCY)

English intensive summer courses

English for business

ENGLISH ONLINE

English semi-online

Other special English courses

*in tiny minuscule letters*: (We also offer French, Chinese, etc)

#i'm on the mailing list for my uni's modern languages school because years ago I did italian there #and every time they send me an email it's like this #today's email has a total of 26 lines:#2 are saying hello dear (name)#17 are about english courses and exams #1 is saying ''besides English we also have FRENCH CHINESE ITALIAN and PORTUGUESE!'' in smaller letters at the end #3 more lines are saying you can fracture the payment and the last 3 are signing with the name and address #they offer more languages than english chinese italian french and portuguese btw. they just didn't bother including them #i went to their site to see if they do C2 Italian but I had a hard time finding the sections for things that aren't english #turns out they've stopped doing any Italian course besides A1 (the most basic) 🤦#then i looked at the government's official language school and the index on their website had 3 sections: English (and a list of many #English courses of many different levels and topics) then German (and a list of about as half) and then Special Courses #(which once again starts with English special courses and then lists French Chinese Italian)#I understand that English is mandatory for going to uni and for most jobs but 😭#💬

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kaegaeguli · 9 months

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Here are my stats for today!

#portuguese #spanish #american sign language #chinese #langblr #language learning

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heylinhenchman · 7 months

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[This one is for Lionell.]

Type Bingo. Accepting.

" Double bingo, not bad. Morally dubious good guys are always a treat. " The urge to use him as an arm rest is strong. But he resists, for the sake of first impressions, " You'll pick up a second or third language hanging around the warehouse. Gonna need to be able to read the signs. "

#answered.#scattered-amongst-the-stars #[jack got lots of signs in chinese cause first language

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twinktosterone · 3 months

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google translate on my phone i love you

#helped a chinese lady figure out where to go but my chinese is not functional and neither was her english #spoken language specifically #hope she gets to chinatown and finds the grocery she wants to get to ok #she should have an easier time there too since more people there speak chinese and a lot of the street signs are in chinese too

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startedwellthatsentence · 9 months

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Been studying Chinese this summer (Duolingo) and while some things are still breaking my brain (it’s my first head-final language besides my L1 English and it’s impossible so far to remember not to put the noun first because obviously the noun goes first that’s the only thing that makes sense English and Chinese are equally stupid here)

But by far the hardest thing I’m running into, that will probably take the longest to fix,

Is that in Chinese the Yes/No question particle you put at the end of sentences is “ma”

And in Vietnamese the “no shit Sherlock, isn’t it obvious” particle you can put at the end of the sentence is “mà”

And I know they’re different words with different pronunciations but they’re close enough that when the little character is like “Is that Doctor Li?” (Innocent question, I want to verify this person’s identity)

My brain hears “That’s Doctor Li, duh” (Of course, it’s Doctor Li, this is the obvious conclusion to whatever we were talking about, you should know this already)

And so I can’t hear … questions. I just hear “I’m stating the obvious, don’t you get it???”

#linguistics #I’m also doing ASL (different app)#but I’ve had passing knowledge of sign for long enough that I’m not mixing them up #I AM mixing them both with Vietnamese but that’s because #Chinese and Vietnamese have similar pronunciation and vocabulary #and ASL and Vietnamese have very similar grammar #(VNese is topic+predicate and ASL is topic+comment)#(Plus they’re both pretty isolating languages without much inflection so lots of translations are word for word)#(I cannot yet speak English and ASL at the same time because the grammar is so different)#(I can easily speak ASL and Vietnamese at the same time)#(The biggest difference so far is use of Questions as Discourse Markers in ASL which doesn’t really exist in Vietnamese)

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calpalsworld · 9 months

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what kind of sign languages do you guys think they would use on europa

#do you think they have multiple or do you think one is majorly the most used????#rn i hc english russian mandarin chinese and finnish are the most commonly spoken languages #bc those are the languages i FEEL LIKE i most often see the community use + finnish because its finnish #but wondering bc im like since alan cant talk vocally i think he would learn a bit of a sign language #and im like what sign language would someone learn if they are an english speaking person of japanese and chinese american ancestry...#LIVING ON JUPITERS MOON?

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xiangqiankua · 2 years

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#most signs have translation though #you can tell who the troublemakers are if they've got more languages than just english too #i'm pretty lawful when it comes to park regulations at least #chinese #mandarin #learning mandarin #learning chinese #traditional characters #meme

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esevik · 1 year

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I was going through my photos from when I was in China (it's been about ten years now) and among the photos of sights and friends were some funny mistranslations signs.

#funny signs #how do you clip feet sincerely?#and why shouldn't you rely on the door?#funny?#chinese #english #language #pictures

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zzzzzestforlife · 1 month

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a simple yet satisfying day filled with good things ☀️

now playing: healing by seventeen ☺️

주말은 다시 왔어요! 가자! (the weekend is here again! let's go!)

✍️ creative writing!!

💪 worked out for real after a long time

🇰🇷 formality, fun

🤘might mess around and learn ASL in the next 31 days 🙊

🇯🇵 Japanese lesson

🧠 developmental psychology review

🧠 comparative cognition reading

🇨🇳 Chinese lesson

🧹 cleaning fairy returns~

❤️ social hours

🇰🇷 Korean lesson

💌: 얘들아, 건강 조심해요~ (guys, take care of your health~)

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moonlit-tulip · 2 years

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I grew up in an environment where there was a lot more reading-things-out-loud going on than I have the impression there is in most places. Particularly, although not exclusively, from my father.

There were bedtime stories when I was a kid, both before and after I learned to read things myself. There were the various textbooks my father used as bases from which to do homeschooling from childhood up until college, where our pattern was largely "we sit together on a couch or a bed with a pile of books, he reads from the books out loud, I ask nitpicky questions, we go off on long conversational tangents based on those questions, and learning happens thereby", sometimes with interludes of me reading things out loud instead (e.g. for language-learning, or when we were covering plays for English and each took on one or more characters per scene). There's the Passover seder every year, where the standard pattern is "for each logical-chunk-of-content, my father reads it out loud in Hebrew, then translates it to English, then pauses for discussion". There's his pattern when studying the Gemara or other such books with others (which: he ~always has a nonzero number of study groups going on in that general area), which is very similar, reading the original Aramaic out loud, then translating it, then going into discussion about it. Et cetera.

Thinking about those later ones in particular—the ones with translation packed in as part of the reading-out-loud—it's occurred to me: that could make a pretty good format for a Let's Play! Find some untranslated-to-English game (or visual novel, or book, or whatever); go through it piece-by-piece; for each piece, first read the text in the original language, then give it an English gloss; and, thereby, allow people who don't speak the relevant language to experience it alongside you and Basically Get It.

I'm kind of considering doing this myself, even, once I progress sufficiently along the path of Learning To Read Japanese to be able to do so in any substantial way. Bringing untranslated VNs to the masses! Or at least to whatever small not-particularly-massed niche exists of people interested in that sort of thing. It seems potentially fun, and it's a valuable niche which it seems like not nearly enough people are trying to fill, right now.

#Archive #Language #Meatspace Interactions #Translation #zerovirus's recent translation-let's-plays of chinese visual novels are closer to this niche than anything else i've seen #albeit text-based rather than video-based #perhaps this is a positive sign for more people jumping into this field #(also there's nothing actually stopping people from doing this even for things which *have* been translated!)#(after all it's not as though there's a scarcity of translations of the haggadah or anything)#(my father just prefers improvising his own each year instead)

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kitttwilight · 1 year

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I want to go to Japan there are a lot of cool places there...

#kitt.txt #been studying Japanese #i think i wanna learn other languages too like Chinese and Spanish #and sign language

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rabbitcruiser · 1 year

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Chinese Language Day

Fire up Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, or sign up for a language class to learn the world’s second most widely spoken language, which dates back as far as 1250 BCE.

The Chinese language is known as one of the most complex languages to learn, but it is deeply rooted in history and has existed for thousands of years. So, who created the Chinese language?

How has it persisted for so long? What’s so important about the Chinese language? This day is Chinese Language Day, a day all about learning its history and convincing others to use Chinese with friends, at work or at home.

History of Chinese Language Day

The Chinese language has existed for thousands of years. Chinese formed from the Sino-Tibetian language family. Due to its complexity, its origins remain unknown as to when it separated itself from that family. It is believed however that the origins of the Chinese language are credited to Cangjie.

They were one of the first official historians to invent Chinese characters when the Yellow Emperor first began his reign. Despite this credit, different dialects formed throughout the provinces of China. Much of the influence of archaic Chinese, spoken during the early and middle 11th to 7th centuries B.C., isn’t seen much in modern Chinese.

During the Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties or 7th through 10th centuries A.D., connections can be made more easily to modern Chinese languages. Distinct writing styles can be noted thanks to historians during those centuries that served the Emperors.

Chinese Language Day is celebrated on this day to honor Cangjie. Founded by the United Nations, Chinese Language Day also celebrates multilingualism and cultural diversity.

They aim to educate people about the history of the Chinese language. Chinese was established as an official language of the United Nations in 1946. In 1973, the General Assembly included Chinese as a working language.

Today, many members of the United Nations work with Chinese as a functional language. They also aim to teach people around the world the benefits that learning the Chinese language can have.

How to Celebrate Chinese Language Day

Celebrate Chinese Language Day by trying to learn Chinese! Online programs or colleges courses can give you plenty of opportunities to learn the Chinese language in all of its complexities.

If you know Chinese, then put it on your resume and try and use it in your work to see what connections you can make with others.

Help teach other people Chinese and teach them about the history of the Chinese language. Share this holiday with your friends and family and help others appreciate the Chinese language.

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