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brood-en-talen · 9 months

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Today’s random Dutch vocab (4)

gangbaar — common

mettertijd — over time

toegeven (dat, separabel) — to admit (that):

Hij zich in bochten wringt om niet toe te hoeven geven dat hij er niet uitkomt

roet in het eten gooien — to ruin, to spoil, to throw a spanner in the works

in opmars zijn — to be on the rise

(de) benadering (van) — approach (to)

#random dutch vocab #dutch vocabulary #dutch vocab #learning dutch #dutch langblr #dutch #dutch language #langblr #nederlands

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coffee-without-anesthetics · 5 months

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GOEDENACHT!! i wish all the peopletje in mijn telefoon a good day afternoon evening whatevr

#following me is just learning random dutch vocab #the -je (more often -tje -pje -kje) ending in particular i find very cute #it's a diminutive!! it's also how you get words like ice cream (ijsje)#you take the word ice (ijs) and you add the suffix that make the noun it's attached to Small!!#ergo ice cream is just small ice :)#whatever dutch still rattles in my brain sometimes makes itself known enough for me to give anecdotes like this #it's nice when it happens #post anesthetics posts

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woahzpeltwrong · 2 months

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WHAT I THINK OF YOU BASED ON YOUR DUOLINGO LANGUAGE OF CHOICE AS A PERSON WITH AN ALMOST 800 DAY LONG STREAK EXCEPT IT KIND OF DEVOLVES AND I MOSTLY COMPLAIN ABOUT DUOLINGO:

(I hope i did this cut right if not this is gonna be LLLOOONG)

Spanish: The classic. It's classic because it's the language that Duolingo is best at. It's actually half decent. You actually have a chance at learning Spanish! Besides that, you probably enjoy the memes about Duolingo, and I imagine your streak is decently long.

French: Everything I know about french Duolingo is bad. It's the only language that's picky about punctuation, it's often wrong for no reason, you probably are struggling. Also, can you conjugate a verb? Duolingo is generally bad with that. Besides that, everyone I know who does French duolingo is slightly pretentious and I don't think I trust you as a person.

German: Ohhhh boy. If you're attempting to learn German with Duolingo alone you might as well just buy the textbook already. While Duolingo is already not great, grammar is so rough for German on Duolingo. Please don't try to learn German grammar with Duolingo. Anyway I think if you're learning German in general you're pretty cool and that's no different for Duolingo learners. Best of luck to yall

Italian: I don't actually know much about Italian Duolingo. I do know that the two people I know that the two people that I know who do Italian Duolingo are gay though so Im assuming you're either Italian-American or gay.

Japanese: This used to be so, so much worse. They improved it, though. It's actually not horrible! Please do supplement your learning with something besides Duolingo, though. You will learn practically nothing otherwise. Anyway 99% chance you like anime because you're learning Japanese on Duolingo

Chinese: it could definitely be worse! It's definitely HORRIBLE, but it is usually actually right and its grammar isn't absolute trash like some of the other ones. It is definitely on the worse side for grammar, but it's not Latin. Aside from all of that, I do think there's at least a 25% chance you're doing this because you ARE Chinese, and a 75% chance you're doing this because you heard Mandarin was hard and wanted to see how true that was without putting money into it.

Russian: ME TOO!!!! This is my primary language on Duolingo currently and all I have to say is why? It's really not worth using Duolingo for, since I started in October 2022 and all I can say is that my potato is cold. It's primarily focused on vocabulary, but it's very random vocabulary, and you learn exactly none of the grammar at any point. I think you're cool :)

Korean: immediately stop. Please learn Korean somewhere else. It's not worth it. One of the worse ones, but at least it's not Latin Duolingo. If you actually actively do this you TERRIFY me and i am begging you to stop

Portuguese: uhhhh.... sure, i guess. It's not great, but it's... fine, I think. It's decent for vocabulary, if nothing. I have literally never met a Portuguese Duolingo learner though

Arabic: ALPHABET? YES. EVERYTHING ELSE? PLEASE NO. My opinion of you is the exact same as for Chinese, 75% chance you heard it was hard and didn't want to commit yet

Dutch: I genuinely did not know this was on Duolingo until I started doing this. Since it's not super popular I am also going to assume Duolingo does not care about it and it is probably only good for vocab. I do not think you are out there, I do not think people learn Dutch on Duolingo.

Swedish: as always please learn on something else its only good for vocabulary anyway you probably live in sweden, i think? Isnt it popular there or something??

Norwegian: general rule of thumb: vocabulary is the only thing duolingo is good at. Anyway, what? Learn somewhere else, anything below chinese on the list has been left to rot and they do not care about it

Turkish: wwwwow. You are really something! Learn Turkish somewhere else. At least it's not Latin

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At this point i became tired of saying "it's only good for vocabulary, learn grammar somewhere else." This can be assumed for literally everything.

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Polish: YOU SCARE ME POLISH DUOLINGO IS HARD

Irish: you are above the age of 45 and american

Greek: you are a mythology buff

Hebrew: you were probably curious. Everyone else learned somewhere else

Danish: im sorry that you're learning Danish. You are a sad person.

Hindi: The only person I know who is doing Hindi Duolingo is Indian herself, so I guess you're probably Indian idk

Czech: ...???????? Stop

Esperanto: generally i just hate Esperanto with such a burning passion that i don't think anyone should learn it

Ukranian: you're trying! I imagine you will give up in a week though, sorry!

Welsh: I'm all for protecting endangered languages but this isnt how to do it

Vietnamese: a language with six tones and they teach you how to pronounce 0 of them. You're probably cool but stop with duolingo

Hungarian: I did not know this was on duolingo! Very brave of you to try learning a Uralic language on Duolingo, is it going horribly?

Swahili: learn somewhere else. You are probably so cool but duolingo and SWAHILI??????????

Romanian: The only person ive ever met who did this gave up in 3 days because duolingo sucks. I am assuming your streak is no longer than a week

Indonesian: ..... okay. Sure. At least its not Latin.... I think you started learning this completely for fun though

Hawaiian: I HATE DUOLINGO FOR THIS!!!! IT IS A CRITICALLY ENDANGERED LANGUAGE IT DESERVES SO MUCH BETTER!!!!!!!! I LOVE YOU FOR LEARNING IT BUTHFJCNEIFBDJFJDSJD!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE YOU DUOLINGO

Navajo: see above. Love you. Hate duolingo.

Klingon and High Valyrian: i hate you

Latin: HERE IT IS. MY WORST ENEMY. GOD I HATE LATIN DUOLINGO. THE AUDIO QUALITY WAS CLEARLY RECORDED IN A CAR. ITS NOT EVEN GOOD FOR VOCABULARY BECAUSE IT IS LITERALLY WRONG VERY VERY OFTEN. ITS SUPER PICKY ON WORD ORDER AND FOR WHAT? ITS LATIN!!! ITS NOT PICKY!!!! IVE BEEN LEARNING LATIN IN A FORMAL SETTING FOR 3 YEARS NOW AND I HATE LATIN DUOLINGO MORE THAN ANYTHING. IF YOU WANT TO LEARN LATIN BUY A LATIN ENGLISH DICTIONARY. IF YOU WANT GRAMMAR GO ONTO MAGISTRULA. ITS A GREAT WEBSITE FOR LATIN GRAMMAR. OH, BUT WHAT ISNT GREAT? DUOLINGO. IN LATIN, TO ANNOY IS TRANSLATED AS "vexare". THIS IS. ACCORDING TO DUOLINGO, "to come from". WHAT? WHAT? WHAT? WHAT??? I HATE DUOLINGO. I HATE THIS. ITS ALWAYS WRONG. THE AUDIO QUALITY IS ACTUALLY GARBAGE. I HATE DUOLINGO I HATE DUOLINGO I HATE DUOLINGO. DO NOT LEARN LATIN ON DUOLINGO!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE DUOLINGO SO MUCH I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT I HATE IT DONT USE LATIN DUOLINGO YOU ARE BEING LIED TO

Scottish Gaelic: you are again over 45 and American

Finnish: ohhhh god. I am so sorry. Ur cool ig but im sorry

Yiddish: i am, again, so sorry. Its duolingo. You can't write IN YIDDISH in duolingo because of course you cant

Haitian Creole and Zulu: I don't believe you these are the bottom two languages

#duolingo #language learning #language

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la-galaxie-langblr · 2 years

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Things I learned:

Grammar - Articles, demonstratives, dit/dat/het + zijn + noun for identifying/describing, forms of address, making nouns plural (more in-depth rules than last week), feminine forms of nouns

Vocab - I'm learning a similar amount of words to last week, approximately 60, and still as random as ever, highlights including versleten (worn out as in shoes) and de etalage (shop window). I will say that even though the vocab is based on the exercises it is pretty satisfying to be able to understand the exercise quite well and knowing I can form a lot of sentence combos, no matter how random.

Minor complaints - in one of the Dutch to English exercises 'we' is written in English instead of Dutch, 2 sentences from a conversation were missing from the audio

Some sentences:

Deze rokken zijn mooi (these skirts are beautiful)

De jongens en meisjes zijn van de tuin (the boys and girls are in the garden)

Die romans zijn over een Engelse bibliothecaresse (Those novels are about an English librarian (f) )

It's pretty late and I'm sleepy so corrections are appreciated <3

#langblr #90dutchdays #galaxiegoals

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adito-lang · 3 years

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Adito’s Langblr Content Masterpost

Here you’ll find an overview of my langblr content for Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch, and most recently Mandinka! I update regularly as I create more posts.

日本語・Japanese

Vocabulary lists (*** indicates that the vocabulary is from an article or other source which you can refer to for practice):

🗣 Advice

✨ ASMR triggers (includes list of Japanese ASMRtists)

🏖 Beach

🈹 Coupons・Sales

💉 Coronavirus vaccine side-effects

🌏 Energy conservation***

⛸ Figure skating - Skating season and competitions・Jumps・Performance・Programs・Scoring・Yuzuru Hanyu’s master thesis***

🌡 First aid for heat strokes***

🐞 Insects

💍 Jewelry

💼 Part-time job listings

🏳️‍🌈 Queer issues: Queer sexuality and gender identity・Failure to pass LGBTQ bill***

❄️ Winter-themed katakana vocab

Grammar/Expressions (some are tagged #lessons with 松島先生, some are tagged #jlpt n2):

「馬が合う」

「~を当然のことと思う」

「~ば、~のに」

「~ばいいのに・~ばよかったのに」

「~際に」

「~に際して・にあったて」

「~たとたん」

「~(か)と思うと・(か)と思ったら」

Culture:

Christmas in Japan: history

Coming of Age Day (成人の日)

Food: 🍜 Seasonal dishes・Recipe

New Year's: New Year's dreams (初夢)・dishes (おせち料理)・traditions

Proverbs: 金の光は阿弥陀ほど

Short story: 💃🏻 伊豆の踊子 (The Dancing Girl of Izu)・☎️ まちがい電話 (Wrong number)

Winter solstice (冬至) and unzakari (運盛り)

Norsk・Norwegian

Vocabulary lists (*** indicates that the vocabulary is from an article or other source which you can refer to for practice):

🗣 Advice

✨ ASMR triggers (includes list of Norwegian ASMRtists)

🚘 Driving

🎲 Games

🤔 False friends Norwegian-German

⛰ Hiking trails

🔴 Menstruation

🗳 Parliamentary elections

♨️ Sauna

⛷️ Skiing

☀️ Summer

🏊🏼‍♀️ Swimming

💤 Types of common dreams

🏳️‍🌈 Queer sexuality and gender identity

🥦 Vegetables

💪🏽 Verbs related to the body: head・arms/hands・legs/feet

Grammar:

🔚 Equivalent word endings Norwegian-German

🤲🏽 Garpegenitiv possessive construct

🎯 The old dative case preserved in dialects

⏳ Temporal prepositions

Ord/Uttrykk: å lukte & å smake・i ferd med・på størrelse med・må nok・samme hvor mye

Culture:

Christmas traditions

Kebabnorsk - Norwegian multiethnolect

Oslo Pride

Travelogue:

Juli 2022: 1・2・3・4・5・6・7・8・9 & 10

Listening practice

Interview with Yama Wolasmal on Lindmo

Podcasts for intermediate/advanced learners

Street interview "Most beautiful language"

Nederlands・Dutch

Vocabulary lists (*** indicates that the vocabulary is from an article or other source which you can refer to for practice):

✨ ASMR triggers (includes list of Dutch/Belgian ASMRtists)

🤔 False friends Dutch-German - Verbs・Adjectives・Nouns

🏳️‍🌈 Queer sexuality and gender identity

🌷 Tulips***

Grammar (these are tagged #dutch grammar notes):

Closed vs. open syllables

Diminutives

Nouns (singular and plural)

Spelling rules

Hebben vs. zijn with verbs of movement in the perfect tense

Culture:

Books: vocab from Allah heeft ons zo gemaakt

Poetry: vraagje・Frank Keizer

Mandinka

Resources:

Vocabulary:

🔢 Numbers and counting

❓ Question words - Where? (Places)

Grammar:

Verbs (present tense)

#while making this i was once again amused at the randomness of my content #japanese langblr #norwegian langblr #dutch langblr #langblr #languages #japanese #norwegian #dutch #mandinka #i remember when i started i was like i'll post a vocab list every day 😂#didn't realize how much effort goes into that!

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inyoursheets · 4 years

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Okay - would you ever write a Ruby x Stan fic? Would you ever write an outsider opinion fic on brio? Would you ever write a historical au?

i don’t think i’d write a ruby/stan fic, tho i do like writing them into brio fic in one capacity or another, but i would read for sure (like your ruby/stan fics!).

outsider opinion i definitely enjoy reading a looooot, and there’s so much to play with i love love love the prospect, so i would write one, but i’ve never felt like i could write one, bc im pretty bad at writing any voice but beth’s? i think? i think im still pretty slow to learn how that works, and ive got so much to learn about writing, i think this is something im not ready for yet. first i gotta get a grip on my completely chaotic, just diving in, zero plan whatsoever tendencies and learn how to make a proper outline and just, think things through for a change instead of just writing whatever. then i’ll get to things like voice/pov/other literary terms i dont know bc i didn’t pay attention in dutch class and have about zero technical knowledge of writing

as for historical!AUs, just like fantasy stuff, it’s not something i would ever see myself write, bc those kinds of AUs require so much research and im not somebody who already has an interest in some kind of niche history thing/period/idek. i just can’t be bothered, i think? so far ive been very self-indulgent with what i write about, and very lazy at times by not specifying things that require details i’d have to spend some time researching (i never specified rio’s job in warm water, for one), but im surprised by how much i love reading historical!AUs! special thank you to @fairhairedkings for making that side of me known to me!

thank you for asking!!!! dare me to write things and watch me suffer

#ask #ask games #owlishgirl #dutch class is my equivalent of english class -- so literature mostly -- not uhhh dutch vocab or anyting #in case that sounded completely random #im actually attempting rio pov for a chapter of warm water and i dont hate it but i also dont feel that confident about it honestly #outsider pov would be cool but im a very internal monologueing kinda gal so i wonder if i could bring across what i would want to about brio

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adventuretaryn · 6 years

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Duolingo/vocab lists

Ayyyeeee, so I’m making vocab lists - or really just one massive excel doc on google drive- of all the vocab I know/ are on duolingo. Not only does it help me study but it also helps keep me organized so I can progress in my languages... I guess lmao. so be on the look out for that.

The reason I’m using duolingo is just because it helps keep the set up easier for me, I find. even though there are already differences in the Dutch vs French basics it helps build the list so Im not stumbling around lol.

#random babbles #with taryn #also music of choice is disney #the instrumental music btw #duolingo #vocab #langblr #french #dutch #norwegian #russian #languages #what are they lmao #also the inner linguist in me is loving this #but its gonna be a mess

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mikurulucky · 4 years

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The entire Star Street series.... is on Youtube.... IN ITALIAN???!!!!

And when I say entire, I do mean entire. There are some serious gaps in episodes available on Youtube in Dutch AND Spanish, despite the fact the Spanish version’s more complete than the Dutch version, on there.

So, I was wrong that the Spanish version was the most complete version I could find. It’s the Italian verison. O_O

#THANK YOU RANDOM ITALIAN DUDE #FOR GIVING US ALL ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE SERIES #even though i don't know italian #but my french would help in learning sorta #vocab wise #i'm not kidding #i looked through the Star Street Italiano youtube channel and checked every vid #they're all there #only the first half of the series was posted in dutch #and the spanish version has some holes here and there

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aaltjelng · 3 years

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so the lovely @languagessi sent me an ask with the numbers for the ask game but i managed to accidentally delete the ask:)) well, i decided to try to answer anyway, hopefully i remembered the numbers right haha... so here are the answers!

12. Vocab or grammar?

It’s a tough question! I guess it kind of depends on the language... I am utterly in love with Korean grammar! It might sound strange but I just find studying it so fascinating and rewarding. It also feels really nice to finally be learning a language that shares some traits with Finnish (no articles, a lot of suffixes...) I find studying Korean grammar a lot nicer than for example French grammar (although I do like that too!), mostly because I struggle a lot with remembering the genders of nouns and that makes me frustrated, and articles and genders feel kind of unnecessary to me as a Finnish speaker whereas the nuances that can be expressed through Korean grammar are really interesting.

I don’t have such strong opinions on vocab. In the beginning I did find it hard to remember Korean vocab and I still struggle with that a bit, but it’s getting better and better all the time. I think I like learning vocab the most when studying Swedish! I don’t know why, but I guess it just feels like it sticks more easily. I do love some Korean, especially native Korean words with all my heart... And learning vocab can feel super rewarding: that feeling when you spot a word you just learned in a random text and realize you can actually understand what it is saying is really the best feeling.

23. How did you get into languages?

Honestly I have loved languages for as long as I can remember. When my brother started learning English at school at the age of 9 (I was 7), I secretly listened to him and our mom studying. I also stole his English books and secretly read them by myself and tried to study.

After that I did have some time that I was just studying at school, I was always good at it but not as enthusiastic as I am now. It clicked in 2017 when I was 13 years old and I just started studying Swedish on my own. We had it in school too, but I was frustrated with how slow we were going. Somehow I just thought about the idea of studying and speaking this language and languages in general and it just made me really excited and happy. It is really difficult to explain but languages really bring out this certain feeling in me and that feeling has stayed with me since that year.

24. Why are you studying your target language?

So I actually have four target languages right now: French, Swedish, Italian and Korean. English is also a foreign language for me but I am not really interested in improving my English level as of now.

Out of these four languages, I am now actively trying to improve my Korean, while the other three are more or less on “maintenance mode”. I study those three at school as well so I am still using and studying them, just not with the same intensity as Korean.

Anyway, here’s a little bit about each of these languages and why I am studying them!

French: I started it at school at the age of 9. It was quite a clear decision for me back then, I was really interested in the language, I had been to France many times and the Dutch side of my family actually originates from France (like hundreds of years ago my ancestors fled persecution from France to the Netherlands). I really loved studying French and my interest has only grown over the years. I love speaking French, I love reading French, I love listening to French and writing in French, and I really want to get my French to an advanced level. I will probably work on my French more actively next year and really try to bring it to C1 level before my matriculation exam. Now my French is somewhere between B1 and B2.

Swedish: I started it at school when I was 12 years old. In Finland Swedish is an obligatory subject so I didn’t actually choose starting it haha but I have always loved Swedish so I was motivated from the start. My aunt lives in Stockholm and I have been there for about 20 times. My mom also loves Swedish and I think she has also been a factor in my love for Swedish. As I said earlier, Swedish is actually the language that inspired me to start actively self studying languages. I just felt so frustrated with the pace we were moving at at school and I just thought to myself: “I learned English more or less fluently mostly with my own effort. Why couldn’t I do that with Swedish too?”. English I had learned because of other factors, not really my enthusiasm about the language or language learning but more because I needed to understand English in order to understand fandom things and books and bands I loved. So I thoguht that, well, books were really the thing that brought my English to a new level, so I should probably do that with Swedish. And so I did that and studied hard and got my Swedish to an intermediate level. I studied actively for about 5 months, after that I’ve just been mostly relying on school. This spring & summer I am planning on taking the next step and bringing my Swedish to an advanced level before my matriculation exam.

Italian: I started studying Italian at school last year with my best friend. She is part Italian and I thought that because I love learning languages and I love her and there is a possibility take Italian, why not take Italian? I also love Italian history and art and Italian is a very significant language in classical music (I am studying to become a classical violinist/violist). So I have been taking Italian for a bit more than a year now and I am around an A2 level. Next year, before the matriculation exam, I’d love to get my Italian to a B2 level or at least a B1 level.

Korean: In the summer 2019 I stumbled across some videos and heard my first songs by BTS. One of them: Paldogangsan or so-called “Satoori rap”. I heard it and just instantly fell in love. It’s a song about Korean dialects, and the way the rap showcased the different sounds of the Korean language... It really inspired me. Well, other things happened in my life, I got depressed, my other psychiatric and neurological issues got worse and so on. Through that time I discovered some truly amazing and touching songs that had lyrics that really moved me to my core, some by BTS but most by Agust D, and I knew I had to learn that language, at least a little bit. At first I just learned hangul to make sure that the lyrics I was scribbling to my diary weren’t complete nonsense. During the following six months I didn’t actively study Korean, I just played with Duolingo here and there, listened to a few beginner TTMIK lessons, acquired some vocabulary I was hearing in songs...

But in May 2020 something just struck me and I just got this sudden burst of inspiration. I realized that if I really wanted to learn this language, what better time to start than now? I guess I had been feeling kind of intimidated, because I knew that learning a language, any language and especially one like Korean would take a long time. But I still remember this one post that I saw on tumblr. It said something about how usually when we think about how long learning a language will take, we feel weirded out about thinking ourselves being that much older. But the thing is, we will get older anyway. Might as well be older and know this language that you deeply love. That idea has stayed with me since. Let’s take one estimate: getting fluent in Korean will take about 4 years. In 4 years I’ll be 21. So? In 4 years I’ll be 21 anyway, why not be a 21 year old who knows Korean. And I also realized that I am still so young. I have so much time to learn so many languages. Might as well use it.

So I have been actively studying by myself for about 6 months and would place myself somewhere around the A2 level. This October I made this challenge for myself: for 100 days, study as hard as you can. Learn as much as you can and do not give up. I really want to see how far I can come if I give this my all! I’m wishing on getting to a B1 level at the end of this challenge but we’ll see. WIth Korean, and I guess with any language, it’s quite easy to get discouraged by thinking how much you still don’t know, so it’s important to also realize how much you already know. I have come so far already during these past 6 months, and I am really proud of myself. That motivates me to keep going: I learned all that, so I can learn these other things too!

Okay hahaha sorry for my very very long post and making you listen to my ramblings in my incoherent English. I just love languages so much and I could talk about them for forever!

Thank you if you read this far, I hope you have a wonderful day. <3

Aleijd

#langblrs unite #langblr #target language #language learning #language #korean #french #bilingual #swedish #italian #polyglot #polyglot problems #français #svenska #한국어 #italiano #finnish #suomi

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youvegotaluckyface · 4 years

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Got tagged by @thedragonoftelevision. Mwah!

name: Hanne

nickname: My internet nickname has been Gilly for a good twenty years now, for lo! I am a fandom old.

zodiac sign: capricorn

height: 1m78

languages: Dutch, English, a decent amount of French which I need for work, smatterings of German (through school) and Finnish (through the wife). Completed the English to Korean course on Duolingo and currently three levels deep in Korean to English, which... ugh. I have an Excel File of Doom to keep track of my vocab. I’ve just started a Korean course on Coursera as well because I don’t know the meaning of moderation.

nationality: Belgian

favourite season: the inbetween goldilocks seasons. Spring or autumn. Not too hot, not too cold.

favourite flowers: probably a clove pink since I found out an alternate name for them is gillyflower. After today’s Run episode I had to look up what my birth flower is and it’s ... mistletoe. My birthday is Christmas Eve. Mistletoe. I am so disappointed.

favourite scent: this is a weird one but the way your skin smells after sitting in the sun. It’s not sweat, it’s sun smell.

favourite colours: I never had one but I’ve been gravitating to pinks a lot lately after a lifetime of dismissing pink.

favourite animals: Me: “I don’t have a favourite animal.” The wife: “Dogs. Your favourite animal is dogs.” There we are.

favourite fictional character: Jack Aubrey, Sam Gamgee, Bertie Wooster, depends on the fandom. Idiots with a heart of gold.

coffee, tea or hot chocolate: I’ve never liked tea (except for that one time a man in Wellington made me manuka tea by just sticking a twig off a manuka bush in some hot water) and coffee messes with my stomach (it also doesn’t wake me up, I still feel tired but just... jittery tired). So hot chocolate definitely. It’s Easter which means easter eggs which means prime hot chocolate season.

average sleep hours: Not too bad at the moment. 7 hours? Something like that? It used to be 4-5 because I have no concept of self-preservation.

dog or cat person: Dogs. I’ve always had dogs growing up. We do have a cat now though, and zero dogs, but I still consider myself a dog person.

number of blankets you sleep with: Two.

dream trip: I’d just like to travel around. I’ve never been to Asia, I’ve never been to Africa. I’ve never been to South America. I want to go back to New Zealand. I’d also like to sail on a tall ship. I want to see the fjords and the northern lights.

blog established: Around 2010.

followers: *checks* 1524??!!? WHAT? Who are you people and why are you here? I can offer you nothing.

random fact: the in-laws have a cottage in central Finland that will one day become ours and I’ve spent a good deal of time today just dreaming about which trees I want to plant there. I really want a sour cherry tree. Would they even do well that far north?

Tagging: @shoreslip, @des8pudels8kern, @zzdigital, @53rdcenturyhero, @lotesseflower, @breval

#but don't feel obligated!

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jensrolt · 4 years

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tagged by @lalleloockx !!

♡♡♡

name fareehah

nickname ree <3

zodiac libra bby and taurus moon

height 156cm, yes i'm tiny

languages english, malay (i used to study korean but stopped so now I have limited vocab lmao, would love to learn japanese, dutch, french etc)

nationality malaysian

favourite season autumn!!

favourite flower hydrangeas, jasmines

favourite scent fresh laundry, geranium, peppermint, pastries

favourite colour I am obsessed with red

favourite animal foxes!! LOVE THEM

coffee, tea or hot chocolate i like all of them but in order it would be:

1. tea

2. hot chocolate

3. coffee

average sleep 4-5 hrs on days I stay up or 8-10

dog or cat person cats

dream trip somewhere with snow/four seasons. Malaysia is hot 24/7 (we're located near the equator so its summer ALL THE TIME). I want to experience snow and cold weather where I can bundle up and wear cute clothes, can you hear me crying omfgg. I'd also like to visit port cities hehehe

blog established jensrolt was born late 2019 but I've been on tumblr since 2015? with multiple side blogs (kpop, fashion, studyblr)

followers I love them all, thank you for following me ♡♡♡

random fact i LOVE to draw, currently trying to sharpen my skills at realism, here's a willem that I drew the other day but never got round to posting bcs I'm shy ehhejdkzkwkzka

behold, the infamous beret picture!! I have a zoe drawing as well hehe

tagging @isakeijjser @putainmeuf @tansijzermans @clockwork-stuff @sanderdeschryver @it-is-what-it-is-i-guess @fortheloveofdriesen @sanderschmand3r and anyone who wants to!!

((ignore if tagged before/already done it <3))

#tag game #anyone who wants to do it pls do <3

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brood-en-talen · 9 months

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Today’s random Dutch vocab (2)

bedekken — to cover

blootgeven — to reveal

beheersen — to own, govern, master

(de) opeenstapeling — pile, amassment

(het) verraad — treachery

(het) onheil — disaster, trouble

dateren uit — to date back to

de eerste sporen treffen — to lay foundations, to begin, to take the first steps

in een notedop — in a nutshell

van een voorschot groot — tiny

Wist iemand veel dat… ? — Little did somebody know that…

in de waan verkeren dat… — to labour under the delusion that…

#random dutch vocab #dutch vocabulary #dutch langblr #dutch language #nederlands #dutch #langblr #learning dutch

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raccoonstudiez · 5 years

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Day 21/100

2019.07.26

I went to the public library today and I got myself a book in Dutch and a Spanish book! I’m so so happy about that Dutch book because I actually saw the musical to it in Dutch during my exchange! I also managed to get a hand on a Leuchturm 1917 notebook, so be prepared for potential Bujo posts!!!

Overall I’d say today I got quite a lot of studying done. That mainly was a result of my work saying I don’t have to come.

Spanish ~ 30 min

I just reviewed some Flashcards and went further with my Spanish workbook. Nothing special I’d say.

Samoan ~ 30 min

I started with the indigenous language jam! I started out with doing some Vocab to get a feeling for Samoan. I then proceeded to do the Introduction chapter of the Samoan book I found. I focused on Pronunciation and Greetings. All in all a successful first day!

Korean ~ 1hr 30min

I did lessons from TOPIK, TTMIK, Active Korean and some random exercises I found on the internet. I also went through a lot of Flashcards and of course, I also did the laptop1000 challenge.

Here are today’s words:

문화 - culture

원 - Won, KRW

생각 - thought

어떻다 - how, what do you think of

명 - people

통하다 - to run, lead, flow, go through

그러다 - and so, and then, to do so, to do it

소리 - a sound, noise

다시 - again

다른 - different

As always words in italic are words I already knew

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aefensteorrra · 5 years

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How many languages are you learning, and have you learnt! Every time I look at your blog, I swear you’re learning something different (which is really cool I love your curiosity, but how don’t you get mixed up!?). Are you still learning Russian? X

Right now I’m only reaaally learning Dutch and trying to solidify my French (my vocab is lacking even after like.. 15 years lol). I started studying Latin here and there recently to see if it’d help me gain a new appreciation for French (it worked!) but it’s v casual, it’s just fun in a puzzle-solving way. Icelandic tho!! Maybe it seems out of nowhere lol but Icelandic is the first language I tried to self-study when I was 14 and again when I was 17/18, learning it is a constant niggling desire in my head for some reason so I got back to that lately! But I’m not studying Russian at the moment, to be honest it’s been on hold since I moved to the Netherlands in 2017 because it was just too much on top of being immersed in Dutch and after that my passion for it had just disappeared? Am actually having a bit of a crisis lately because I was so set on minoring in Russian come September but I don’t know anymore :( we’ll see!In the past though I just dabbled with a lot of languages like Finnish, Hungarian, Korean, Greek, Japanese, Welsh, but nothing really stuck so I just have random words floating around my head that very occasionally comes in handy :’)About not mixing things up though, I think not studying languages that are too similar at the same time and defining set study methods for each are key. I used to mix things up a lot tbh but it seems over time each language has kind of settled in and established itself as its own thing in my brain so they don’t cross over too much now!

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carriedon-awolfsback · 5 years

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I was tagged by @perinferiadastra and @rooks-specter to do 21 questions!

Rules: Answer 21 questions and then tag 21 people you want to get to know better.

Nickname: Don't have one! I sign stuff off online as COAWB or Wolfsback but I don't have an irl nickname.

Zodiac: Leo

Height: 5'3 (about 161cm I think?)

Last movie I saw: The fifth Harry Potter movie, you know, the one where they start getting kinda patchy quality (it was on TV and I live with Potterheads)

Last thing I Googled: 'Jug of water' because I was bickering with my best friend's Kiwi gf about whether or not 'jug' is an acceptable alternative term for 'kettle' (IT'S NOT SHE'S WRONG A JUG CANNOT BOIL)

Favorite musician: Listen, I am an audiophile and love many luminaries of the music industry including of course our boy Tobbe, but the objectively coolest musician I have ever seen is the extremely cheerful Iraqi guy who dons a kilt and plays the bagpipes on Waterloo Bridge every night regardless of conditions, only stopping to give occasional tourist directions.

Song stuck in my head: The Decemberists- Rusalka/The Wild Rushes

Other blogs: I have a bunch of RP blogs for ghoul OCs which I don't currently use, plus one heavily curated one which is for some private stuff.

Do I get asks: Occasionally! If I reblog an ask meme I try to pay it back by leaving whoever I got it from an ask.

Following: 143 blogs

Amount of sleep: 7 hours a night during the week, anything from 6 to 11 hours at the weekend.

Lucky number: 25

What I’m wearing: My glasses, a dark blue smart shirt, black suit trousers, DM boots, and my museum pass card on a lanyard (I'm at work)

Dream job: Painting commissions and making fibrecrafts

Dream trip: Golden Circle road trip in Iceland. Reykjavik, black sand beaches, hot spring spas, volcanoes, puffin spotting, pod sleeping under the northern lights.

Favorite food: Meat pizza. Carbs, protein, and melty bubbly stringy cheese, all delivered in one handful! Genius!

Play any instruments: Buddy I can't even keep time with a rhythm shaker

Languages: English (native), German (conversational), French (tourist vocab), Dutch (tourist vocab), BSL (a handful of basics like 'hello' 'this way' 'thank you' and some swears that some teenagers taught me)

Favorite songs: Ghost- Stand By Him/Year Zero/Square Hammer/Rats/Miasma; Rammstein- Mein Herz Brennt/Spieluhr/Mein Teil/Haifisch; Motorhead- Overkill; Sisters of Mercy- Temple of Love

Random fact: I can see a sausage dog from my office window right now and I love him

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Heaps of messy sketchpads, black leather jackets, raw chalk, spartan waiting rooms, neon city lights reflected in rain puddles, sheepskin blankets, rockpools left behind by the tide, thorny lizard skin, jars of colourful sweets, wild rose and blackberry brambles.

Uhhhhh I'm never gonna be able to think of 21 people so lemme just think who I haven't seen do this already to tag: @kshandra @atricksterproblem @tutti-fruit-bat @the-pomegranate-cassock @ghoulswife @vulnavias @pinkiepiebones @miss-alys

No pressure if you don't wanna! Also I'm not sure if this has even tagged some of you because this website's functionality is a fucking garbage fire, apologies for that.

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silversatori-blog · 6 years

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calliopinotYo holy shit. @shirocherry tagged me

Rules: Answer 30 questions then tag 20 blogs you’d like to know better

Nickname: You can call me Silver, Marko works as well

Gender: black void floating above a single rock (A dood, in other words)

Zodiac: Aquarius

Height: 5’8″

Age: 21

Time: 7.01 pm

Favorite Bands/Solo Artists: Epica, Amorphis, Powerwolf, Battle Beast, Nightwish

Song stuck in my head: a wild medley of Battle Beast songs

Last movie I saw: Error 404 memory not found (I think it was the Shape of Water though)

Last thing I googled: Finnish vocab :,D

Other Blogs: language-fox, silversong-artwork, autismus-obscurus (all of them do exactly what they sound like)

Do I get asks: Not really, I’m not that interesting

Why I chose my username: It’s a reference to a book I’ve never started writing, a Satori is a yokai from japanese myths and my main character was... a silver satori. Astounding

Following: 248

Average amount of sleep: I try to get 8 at least but since I came to Finland way too little. Fuck the sun

Lucky Number: 7 but that’s an unfounded bias lol

What am I wearing: black t-shirt and shorts

Dream Job: author or translator

Dream Trip: Iceland!! All of Scandinavia!! I wanna see all of it

Favorite Food: bread probably. If you have bread there’s nothing that can shake you

Play any Instrument: Learned Piano for a few years and started guitar but never got far with either

Favorite Song: This is a joke right

Play(ed) any sport: played handball and danced, but stopped both. I’m not suited for team sports

Hair Colour: dark brown, with honest to god blond spots that have no reason to be there

Eye Colour: Brown-green

Language you speak/are learning: English, German, Swedish more or less fluently, learning Finnish and a little Dutch

Random Fact: I learned Swedish because of a Portal mod just to find out the voice actor is Norwegian

Describe yourself as an aesthetic/things: static in the distance, thunder rolling in purple clouds, cargo shorts and band shirts, rainbow bracelets, a thudnerstorm in summer, an open word document with never-finished notes

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh who do I tag. @miriena @ender-the-intern @calliopinot @hibiskooks @king-moron i can't think of more names sorry

#me #tag game

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