Can't hear you over the sound of my love for ancient languages.

you ever think you're decent in a language until you have to write in that language

second 'french vlog' posted woag???? i scripted filmed edited and posted this all in one day too!!! amazing!!! again i added the captions so you can auto translate it to english if you wish (:

my Ukrainian is objectively terrible and I’m embarrassed every time I’m prompted to use it, but being able to sorta make out Czechs yelling about how their word for autumn is basically “before winter” was slightly encouraging

Fact: 🌙 is m and ☀️ is f in germanic languages, while in romance languages it is the opposite! I can tell why :)

Lesbian Themed Reading Lesson on Duolingo

Of all the languages ​​I have studied on Duolingo, I haven't found a reading lesson with an LGBT theme except for French. As you can see from the photo, they both are women and they love each other. I like this.

Je t'aime!

Taken on Monday, 12 February, 2024 at 12:49 with Samsung Galaxy A10s. That is my sister's laptop.

やったー！I finished chapter 4 of 逆転裁判 1 - it was amazing!

There is one more chapter. I played Ace Attorney in German many many years ago but I still vaguely remember that this chapter was interesting.

I love this series so much! It was difficult at the beginning but now that I'm more used to the vocabulary and slang it's fine. I'm really happy that I can play it in Japanese. It's a dream come true!

(I bought and downloaded it for Nintendo Switch, btw. It's great that you can switch the game to different languages! ^__^ You can not only choose Japanese but also English, French, German, Korean and Chinese).

The hard part about journaling: forgetting to do it 😓 I decided I wanted to practice my german this evening, so i opened my drawer of resources and started looking through. Decided to take a look at my journal and see what was in there, turned to the bookmarked page to see I completely forgot about the “Ein Satz pro Tag” challenge i made for myself. I’ve missed most of March! Haven’t even made the header or numbers in pen! Funny thing is, the last time I wrote in it was March 8th and the sentence is “Heute schreibe ich “Ein Satz pro Tag” von 18.02 bis 08.03” because i forgot about it in February too!

Truth is journaling is still new to me and not a habit I have. it’s hard to keep up with. I do have a log I keep for every day, marking how I’ve interacted with German (studying, listening, reading, etc).

I made this challenge to get comfortable using more complex language, and to talk about my day. I am okay with not writing in it every day, but i Do want a sentence for each day. Whether I write that sentence the day of or a week later doesn’t matter to me. The “rules” I set for myself are simple:

One sentence for each day of the year

Sentences are entirely from my own head (no outside help)

No corrections the same day as writing. I’ll go through when I’ve learned more and correct them

No repeat sentences

Anyways, i’ll get the hang of this sometime. For now though, I have 2 weeks of sentences to think up 👍 (and if anyone has any tips for a forgetful neurodivergent brain…)

with the little amount of spanish i know, portuguese looks like to spanish what dutch and german are to english speakers. they seem Fake because they spell thing’s slightly different and its silly

You mean to tell me you've never wanted to learn Scottish Gaelic?

Locatives.

Gbe ɔ ngɛ tso ɔ sisi. - The dog is under the tree.

Gbe= dog

ɔ = definitive article

ngɛ = at

tso = tree

sisi = under

source - Regina Oforeiwah

omg ???? i went to find my old 'french vlogs' and i thought i was gonna be horrified by the speaking but it's actually not that bad like i'm surprised and i'm also like i can listen to it without cringing lmao. the first video is actually like it's pretty cool woah. the second video tf happened with the audio why did i post that ewwww crying. the third is nice too n good quality audio lol

from Basic Persian A Grammar and Workbook by Saeed Yousef and Hayedeh Torabi

So for anyone else who is trying to learn Ukrainian and has issues finding games with Ukrainian translations to practice with (as well as can’t get the torrent services to work) here are some games on steam listed with Ukrainian options (if you know more feel free to reblog)

Tunic: zelda-like with a fair bit of reading and will probably force you to pick up some of the words

Return of the Obra Dinn: puzzles game with a lot of dialogue. I haven’t tried the Ukrainian language setting yet but it’s a very fun mystery game, so I think it might be a good pic

Field Hospital: Dr Taylor’s Story: pretty sure this was made by a Ukrainian company and Ukrainian is the language it was written in. I haven’t played it yet, but it’s listed as positive for reviews is a cheap game. It’s described as a detective game where your choices matter

Tukoni: cute point and click that was made in collaboration with a Ukrainian children’s author, though it’s not super text heavy

Phasmophobia: interface only. Last I played (when my laptop could launch it) it was admittedly clunky as shit, but it’s a fun horror game with friends and from what I’ve heard has been improved upon (not that I’d know, it crashed in me)

Minecraft: you know what minecraft is

(I unfortunately can’t really confirm how good the translations are, but finding games with any Ukrainian options is difficult so you gotta take what you can get)

This is of course more reflective of games that I have personal interest in, so if you have others you’d like to list somewhere please do.

So English is not my first language and I forgot the word for local anaesthesia in English when I was going to a dentist's appt and called it a 'mouth no hurty thing' in a Discord server