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linguistness · 1 year
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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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raindropsfromheaven · 4 months
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japanese is such a kind language. like you forget a character it will hold ur hand and tell u that everything will be ok and you can just write it in hirigana and everyone will understand :)
and then chinese is like oh im sorry you forgot a character? youre illiterate. you mispronounce a word? your mother is now a horse
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londonlingo · 9 months
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Brazilian texting slang
Here's a list of abbreviations that Brazilians use:
pro/pra -para o/para a -this meaning depends on the context but it can be 
Kkkkkkkkk -hahahahaha 
Fds -fim de semana -weekend OR -foda-se -fuck you/fuck this/screw this
Hj -hoje -today
tô /tá -estou/está -i am/he/she/it is
Vc/ce/cê -você -you
Cmg -comigo -with me
Gnt -gente -guys (used to refer to the whole group of people addressed)
Tbm -também -also/as well
Vdd -verdade -true 
Blz -beleza -sorted/great
Msg -mensagem -message
Pfv -por favor -please
Pq -porque -because
Mto -muito -a lot/very
Sdd -saudade -this means something similar to nostalgia or to miss someone/something
Bjs -beijos -kisses (get your mind out of the gutter!!)
KEY:
Slang -Portuguese word -Eng translation
The inspiration behind this post is a text my friend sent in a group chat: “Be ce ta na uni” meaning Bê, are you at uni (university)? I saw this and felt proud of how much Portuguese I’ve learnt because honestly it is a difficult language.
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in--other--words · 1 year
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Fav Langblrs
Week 2, day 7 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
linguistness - lots of cool langblr but also linguistics content (German, Swedish, French, Czech)
cumbiana - phd life with some Spanish and langblr content thrown in
spanishskulduggery - really helpful explanations about Spanish grammar and vocab
thetudes - lots of useful resources for French
3oey - cute vocab drawings for Russian :3
tealingual - tonnes of resources for tonnes of different languages, great for resource masterposts
sciogli-lingua - several languages but especially Italian
pompadourpink - the ultimate authority on the French language as far as I'm concerned forget L'Académie Française
linguenuvolose - language study and general life posts, just a nice vibe
fluencylevelfrench - French and also book recs
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munchymunchkin · 9 months
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akaessi · 6 months
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reading an article that uses the phrase "linguistic rights as human rights," and damn if that isn't the exact thing I want to explore and study in my life !!
so excited!
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aristattle · 1 year
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i will not elaborate on this, but the name noam chomsky is an onomatopoeia for when one is chewing with their mouth loosely and loudly
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To all my mutuals and everyone who has sent me messages, I’m sorry I’ve been so dead on here- but I’m writing my masters thesis- and it’s on Tumblr! And I’m mentioning Criminal Minds so that’s my mind criminally blown!
Super excited to post more about it when it’s down very soon! And to get back to this blog!
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jsem1ubomira · 1 year
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I found this 70s Russia’s German language textbook distinguishes between ll and tt, mm and nn. It’s interesting for me cause I think it’s not difficult to distinguish t and l. And I wonder whether they’re distinguishing the sound or the shape of mm/nn?😂
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kwekstra · 3 months
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Highlights from the conference room where they nominated contenders for Word of the Year 2023:
• They put Skibidi Toilet on the projector to explain what “skibidi” means.
• Baby Gronk was mentioned.
• We discussed the Rizzler.
• “Cunty” was nominated.
• “Enshittification” was suggested for EVERY category.
• “Blue Check” (like from Twitter) was briefly defined as “Someone who will not Shut The Fuck Up”
• The person writing notes briefly defined babygirl as “referencing [The Speaker]”. He is now being called babygirl in the linguist groupchats.
• MULTIPLE people raised their hand to say “I cannot stress this enough: ‘Babygirl’ refers to a GROWN MAN”
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yeehawpim · 5 months
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when your grammar accidentally transfers
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linguistness · 1 year
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German Culture: Bread
In my (biased) opinion, there is no other country that can make bread like the Germans. Since many Germans eat bread for breakfast and dinner, we really value our many different bread types.
Here are a few of the most common bread types we have to offer:
Graubrot/Mischbrot
= ‘grey bread’ / ‘mixed bread’
-> made with sourdough / yeast and a mixture of wheat flour and rye flour (usually around 60% rye flour and 40% wheat flour)
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Weißbrot
= ‘white bread’
-> made with yeast and wheat flour
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Bauernbrot
= ‘farmers’ bread’
-> traditional mixed bread made of rye flour and wheat flour (there are more than 3,200 regional types of Bauernbrot in Germany)
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Schwarzbrot
= ‘black bread’
-> made with sourdough and whole rye flour
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Pumpernickel
-> wholemeal bread made of coarse rye meal (at least 90%)
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Dinkelbrot
= ‘spelt bread’
-> mainly made of spelt flour (at least 90%)
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Roggenbrot
= ‘rye bread’
-> made with rye flour (at least 90%) and sometimes bread seasoning like caraway, anise, fennel or coriander
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Vollkornbrot
= ‘wholemeal bread’
-> made of shredded or ground wholemeal grain (at least 90% wheat and rye)
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Mehrkornbrot
= ‘multi-grain bread’
-> made of two or more different types of grain (can include barley, flax, millet, oat, wheat, and wholemeal flour)
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Kartoffelbrot
= ‘potato bread’
-> typically with 1/3 potatoes and 2/3 flour
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dndspellgifs · 6 months
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look, I know I've talked about this essay (?) before but like,
If you ever needed a good demonstration of the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic", have I got an exercise for you.
Somebody made a small article explaining the basics of atomic theory but it's written in Anglish. Anglish is basically a made-up version of English where they remove any elements (words, prefixes, etc) that were originally borrowed from romance languages like french and latin, as well as greek and other foreign loanwords, keeping only those of germanic origin.
What happens is an english which is for the most part intelligible, but since a lot everyday english, and especially the scientific vocabulary, has has heavy latin and greek influence, they have to make up new words from the existing germanic-english vocabulary. For me it kind of reads super viking-ey.
Anyway when you read this article on atomic theory, in Anglish called Uncleftish Beholding, you get this text which kind of reads like a fantasy novel. Like in my mind it feels like it recontextualizes advanced scientific concepts to explain it to a viking audience from ancient times.
Even though you're familiar with the scientific ideas, because it bypasses the normal language we use for these concepts, you get a chance to examine these ideas as if you were a visitor from another civilization - and guess what, it does feel like it's about magic. It has a mythical quality to it, like it feels like a book about magic written during viking times. For me this has the same vibe as reading deep magic lore from a Robert Jordan book.
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londonlingo · 8 months
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History of @
Did you know that...
"The @ symbol, which we call "at" and which integrates the electronic address of any person on the planet, has its origin in Latin.
It appeared in the Middle Ages, when monks who copied texts and documents created symbols to replace letters, words and proper nouns, making their work easier. For instance, to replace the Latin word et, they created another symbol, interlacing the two letters: the ampersand (&).
Using the same interlacing resource, they replaced the Latin preposition ad (in house of) with the symbol @. Often used in accounting, the @ moved to the typewriter keyboard. And in 1972, American programmer Ray Tomlinson took advantage of the symbol to create the first electronic mail system."
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SOURCE: Museu da Língua Portuguesa (São Paulo, Brazil)
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calling my lover "mine" but not in the way that my toothbrush or notebook are mine, mine in the way my neighborhood is mine, and also everybody else's, "mine" like mine to tend to, mine to care for, mine to love. "mine" not like possession but devotion.
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I mean that about sums it up
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