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Valerio Minato's photo that won the Astronomy Picture of the Day Contest by NASA on December 25th, 2023.
In the picture: the moon, the Monviso Mount and the Basilica of Superga (on the Superga hill) outside Turin are all aligned. it took him 6 years to take this shot (and I take it as an example to never give up on your dreams).
#it#italians#italian things#italian stuff#not language#photography#nasa#italian#landscape#astronomy#italian places#visit italia#visit italy#torino#turin#superga#piedmont#piemonte#piemonte power
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In news that perhaps we were all kind of waiting to happen at some point, Starship Technologies, the autonomous delivery services, has formed a commercial partnership with mobility provider Bolt. The Estonian companies have occupied the same space for some time in Tallinn and finally we’ll see the option of a Starship robot delivering the goods on the Bolt Food app.
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#almost everyone I knew in the US would have at least one insulated water bottle they would bring everywhere#but in norway my peers will just be going all day without hydration???#they’ll even voice that they are thirsty but just be like oh well i guess?#perhaps i need a larger sample size here but#funny / interesting if cultural differences#also to be fair it regularly reached 40C+ where i lived in the US#so not having cold clean water with you really sucked#polls#not language
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TERFs GO AWAY !!!
Don't follow me !!!
As long as you keep destroying trans rights and portraying trans women as men in disguise with no regards as to what trans people face daily in our stupid world, DON'T FOLLOW ME.
You're not welcome here. You're destroying my friends' lives as well as mine so fucking go away. Shooosh. Don't come back.
#i'm queer and won't stand your bullshit#terfs are not welcome here#transphobia not allowed#let my trans friends live their fucking lives in peace#not language#but since a terf followed me recently...
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Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide
Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:
"I just want an identical experience to DL"
Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)
"I want a good audio-based app"
Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)
"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"
Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)
Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)
*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.
"I have a pretty neat library card"
Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)
Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)
"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"
AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)
"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"
AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone
"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"
lingory
"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"
ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)
"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"
Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)
#EDIT: Added a great resource for ESL and African languages that weren't found elsewhere#I do NOT recommend memrise and will talk about it another day but#langblr#duolingo#duo#language learning#language learning apps#mandarinblr#resource#reference
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#palestine#icj#israel#as sun tzu said#don’t show all your genocidal actions and language in social media videos#you fool#you absolute moron
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i'm conducting an experiment. everyone who's from an english speaking country state your country, regional area and what you call the following images. i need to see something
#ex: united states > south > sodapop#please rb so more people see#american english#australian english#british english#canadian english#english#english language#dialects#accents#american accent#australian accent#british accent#canadian accent#english accent#america#australia#england#canada#those four are my target audience but all answers from around the world are welcome!!#tumblr#discourse#experiment
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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"
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this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz
#im fetishing the french language#i mean this is not a new thing and the reasons probably have to do with a long held idea of france being particularly enlightened#or whatever kinda racist shit but it does sound pleasant nonetheless
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Goodbye to "Rombo di Tuono", Luigi "Gigi" Riva, one of the most famous and successful Italian footballer. In 1999 World Soccer put him at the 72th place in the Best Footballer of the XX Century's list.
He's still the footballer who scored the most with the Italian NT (more here).
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Good news for Estonians
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Another year, another group of my delightful ninth graders trying to spell the word "tragedy" for their Romeo and Juliet assignment.
Last year's collection
#i started questioning how to spell it myself#but again... at least they knew the right answer#i love them endlessly#teacherblr#teacher life#teaching#english class#english teacher#grammar#literature#romeo and juliet#shakespeare#william shakespeare#language#tragedy
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“French is such a beautiful, romantic language.”
“Cat, I farted.”
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Funny things I found out playing with language setting in Netflix while looking episode 15:
Chilchuck's scream sounds HAUNTED in brazilian portuguese. Give it a try if you can.
In spanish dub, Senshi says: "tocó mis senos de hombre", which means "he touched my man boobs" in Spanish. And I think that's the best dub line one so far.
#i love replaying certain scenes (usually screams) to see how they nailed it in other dubs#ive done it with Chilchuck & Mickbell screams because they're the funniest ones#give it a shot if you can#its really funny to hear certain character voices in other languages#for example. brazilian portuguesse gave both mickbell and chilchuck un-childlike voices (in japaneese both sound like little childs)#and they reused Chilchuck's japaneese screams for most of the other languages because he is so high-pitched and full of terror that it work#dungeon meshi#chilchuck#chilchuck tims#dunmeshi#delicious in dungeon#senshi#senshi of izganda#senshi dungeon meshi#idk how do you people screen record the episodes#if i knew how to i would put the shots here#my shit
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