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airasora · 6 years

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20 questions to answer

Tagged by @pixie-skull!

Name: Ayla! And yes, Pixie, I both hate and love my name in that regard. Still can’t really get over the fact that I’ve experienced, on more than one occasion, that someone went ahead and found me on FB JUST by knowing my first name... It made me paranoid for years x’D

Zodiac sign: Libra. Though, not gonna lie, while I think horoscope things are fun... that’s all they are to me xD

Height: Fuck me, I don’t know... Uh... 167CM maybe? Which is like 5′4 I think?

Languages spoken: If we’re talking fluently only, then Danish and English x’D But if we’re talking like every language I know a minimum of 50 words in... then German, Swedish, Norwegian, Japanese and Spanish as well x’D Oh, and Danish sign language. I’ll become fluent in that someday x’D

Nationality: Danish! And just like a lot of other people, I’m becoming increasingly unhappy with my country... I used to be such a proud Dane. Now? Not as much :/

Favorite fruit: What’s a fruit? I’m too fat for that.

Favorite scent: Vanilla or coconut, by far xD

Favorite color: Honestly? I love everything in the red/purple/blue spectrum. But I think I love purplish shades juuuuuuust a little bit more x’D

Favorite animal: I couldn’t possibly say, I love A LOT of animals. If you asked me my favorite bird, bear or cat, then maybe I could answer x’D

Favorite fictional character: How can anyone answer this one with the amount of amazing fictional characters out there??? I’ll mention a favorite character of mine that isn’t from a the most popular media, just to make it a bit more interesting... Hugo from the Danish animated movie, Jungledyret Hugo (The jungle animal Hugo) He is NOT to be confused with the absolute ATROCITY the English dub “Go Hugo go” is. They changed just about everything, censored away scenes, changed the lines completely and changed the characters’ personality, the music and the overall charm the original Danish version is...

Imma be ranting about that in a vlog, BTW, just saying x’D

Dream trip: Uh, can I cheat and say a trip where I get to go to every Disney Land/World ever? Cause... that’d be a dream trip xD

When was my blog created: *tries and fails miserably in how to find that out* I made a YouTube video about my blog on the 29th of February, 2016, so I’m guessing I made it then xD

Last movie I watched: Coco! Which was like 3 weeks ago or something. I don’t watch a lot of movies. I’m gonna be watching Breadwinner this Sunday though! And make a vlog/review/reaction of it ;)

Songs I’ve had on repeat:

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Yeah, I’ve had these two on repeat since yesterday x’D

Favorite candy: Uh... I don’t think I have such a thing. I can tell you I dislike sour or bitter candy though. Sour or bitter anything really x’D

Favorite holiday: I’m not much of a holiday person, not gonna lie x’D I like Christmas because of the DELICIOUS duck, potatoes and gravy my dad makes. I like New Year’s Eve cause we always have sushi. I think you can see where my priorities lie x’D

Favorite MCU character: Uh... I don’t watch MCU... So Imma change it into Disney, m’kay? xD Esmeralda :P

Favorite Disney movie: The hunchback of Notre Dame, ah doi x’D

Favorite food: Tortellini with four types of cheese, cooked and then fried on the pan so they’re all crispy with Texas and Garlic spices. It’s soooooog good D’x

The 20 peeps I tag: I’ll do what I always do: Tag everyone who wants to do this cause I’m lazy! x’D

#get to know me #20 questions to answer

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prussiasboxerbriefs · 7 years

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language journey

thanks to @squeezieslangblr for tagging me and giving me an excuse to infodump about languages :D

rules: reblog, tag ten others and share your answers

1. what languages are you studying/have you studied?

- my dad is german, so he spoke and read books to me in german, and my german grandparents were the only ones who ever bought us dvds, so i grew up watching either pbs kids or the same couple sendung mit der maus and dubbed disney movies on dvd. i picked up a decent amount this way, but my grammar and spelling were abhorrent and i started studying it on my own in 8th grade, so now i can actually consider myself decently fluent (even though my grammar still sucks B) just reasonably less)

- obligatory spanish through 6th grade; i’ve picked it up and dropped it on-and-off over the years but at the moment it’s lower on my wishlist than a lot of other languages

- latin for two years in 7th and 8th grade, of which i remember almost nothing

- started learning french on duolingo at the end of 8th grade in preparation for switching to it in high school; i ended up skipping a year of french because american language education is fucking terrible

- the summer between 8th grade and high school i was emotionally unstable and started learning italian to cope (i’m not kidding) but i kind of trailed off with learning it last summer + haven’t picked it up since

- i was really excited about russian and i started learning that on duolingo as soon as the course came out (bc i still didn’t realize you could learn languages for free without duolingo) (i was in 9th grade, so late 2015 i think?). but i stopped, and then restarted last year, and i was sticking with it up until a couple months ago. i’ve been having kind of a rough time, so i lost my interest in a lot of things i love, but even once i get on meds i doubt i’ll have time for it come september :\ i love russian though, so hopefully i can keep it somewhat fresh

- i can read hangul and kana, and languages i was interested in and super focused on for like a week include korean, japanese, mandarin, hebrew, icelandic, swedish, and dutch

- tl;dr: i’m currently focusing on german and french, and i’ll be taking an online IB course in beginner’s mandarin junior + senior year!! in the past i’ve seriously studied russian, italian, and spanish, and i’ve dabbled in korean, japanese, hebrew, dutch, swedish, and icelandic

2. how long have you been studying?

i got really into languages in april-may of 2015 i think, so that would make it two years

3. did you learn through class or self study (or both)

spanish, latin, and french are all classes i have taken in school, but i go to an american school and language classes teach you nothing here :\ so i take french, but the way class worked last year, our teacher would write the name of the grammar topic we were studying on the board, and then i’d ignore him and research it myself on my computer. hopefully it’ll pick up this year now that i’m in a higher level, but idk. all other languages i’ve self-studied, and i’m self-studying french over the summer anyway

4. why did you decide to learn this language?

- i want to major in animation for college, and the best animation colleges that don’t cost half your soul are mostly in france, so that’s my main motivation for getting to a decent level in french.

- german is my heritage language, and it’s one of my favorite languages because i grew up with it. (also, german college is free)

- i decided to learn russian because cyrillic looked really cool to me, and i liked the way it sounded. also, it has a reputation for being “harsh” or “ugly”, like german does, which probably drew me to it as well (other reasons include the declension system, the challenge of learning a complicated grammar, matryoshka dolls, russian literature being super famous and esteemed, snow, how big the slavic language family is, and cheburashka).

- everybody says mandarin is really hard, which makes me want to study it. i’m curious about the tones, and i like the writing system. (also, if i can speak russian and mandarin, then i’ve got the languages of the three major hacking countries under my belt, so i could totally work for the CIA or be a spy or a hacker or something :P )

5. what was a major highlight/milestone in studying this language?

german: finally understanding the declension system of der/die/das

french: understanding how all the verb tenses work, which took approx. 2 years (and now they’re super easy for me!! it’s so cool!!!)

russian: realizing that i was starting to decline nouns + adjectives without even thinking about it (i think that was back in march or april, though, so i’m kind of rusty now)

6.what was the hardest thing about learning this language?

french i’ve found pretty easy because of all the cognates between it and english, and the verb tenses i struggled with until i learned english, and realized that a lot of tenses are either the same construction in both languages, or the reverse of each other in meaning

russian...it took me ages to get the case system, but that was because i didn’t study it enough tbh :P i’m still struggling with perfective/imperfective verbs + verbs of motion, but again i think that’s something that probably just requires rote memorization and discipline

7. what resources did you find most useful for studying this language?

i leaned super heavily on duolingo for a while, although i know better than to trust it for everything now. my personal favorite sites are dict.cc (german-english/french/russian/etc. dictionary), verb2verbe.com (french verb conjugation), lingolia (german + romance languages grammar guide), and russian-lessons.net (russian grammar). “german grammar drills” second edition is a really good grammar book that got me to finally stop butchering my heritage language and slurring my articles so native speakers wouldn’t realize i was incompetent B)))

8. any top tips for studying this language?

for languages in general, i would say make sure you understand your own language’s grammar first (especially if you’re an english speaker whose school never taught you grammar like mine). practice vocabulary and WRITE every day. practice active use of your TL, not just passive consumption. i am lazy and don’t do this and believe me, your skills will suffer.

9. what’s your next major language goal?

my next goal is probably to succeed in my german fluency exam and french and mandarin school exams senior year...after that i’ll have space to study new languages, so i want to get back into russian (if i don’t have time before then), and then maybe korean, thai, or hungarian?...there’s so many languages i want to learn, and it changes so often, i’ll probably study something totally different 2 years from now ;w;

10. anything we can do in the tumblr community to get you there?

i was thinking about starting my own langblr! but i still need to figure that out...also, the majority of my blogging is done on mobile, so i don’t know how much original content i would contribute, and i really want to focus on school and my college portfolio as much as possible. so we’ll see, but i’d love to join the langblr community from more than just my personal blog

i’m tagging @langloser and anyone w/ a special interest in languages who wants an excuse to talk about them (not that you need one tbh)

#languages

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gryffindormischief · 7 years

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Hi! I'm a female artist from Texas. I hate it here though because it's like summer weather tries to take over in seasons where it has no business being. (Also I'm not very Texan in the way people expect me to be. like they expect me to listen to counry music [i hate the stuff] and talk in a certain accent [i speak pretty standard american] amongst other things) I want to move to Europe someday. I have so many places I want to go *v* [1/4]

Anon! I’m putting the rest of the messages under a cut along with my answer! Ah! I love hearing about your lives it’s so fun! Feel free to do it any time :)

[2/4]I know a little bit of Japanese and a tiny bit of some other languages. I'm super interested in languages and I want to learn ALL OF THEM. haha I'm mostly into Japanese, Russian, and Swedish though. I know a teensy bit of French and German. Growing up my mom would use German here and there. Mostly just some phrases. She's not very good at speaking it, because she hasn't for so long, and she can't read or write it, but she grew up being able to understand it with family.

[3/4] So unfortunately we weren't really taught it much growing up and can't speak it ourselves. Anyway I like a lot of colors. Like pale yellow, and foresty shades of green. I lot of times when I think of colors I like I actually think of color combinations rather than a single shade. But in the end I'd probably have to say red. Classic, gryffindor red. There's this brand of ice cream called Blue Bell that's only in certain parts of the states but it's known for being really super good.

[4/4] Cherry is a really good one.. coffee too. I'm not sure I have a single favorite. It's been ages since I had any though. And no I don't have a cat. We used to though! Her name was Mittens and she was the sweetest thing in the world. She was very lazy and chill and always super well mannered. Rarely playful, but she was quick to come cuddle if we were upset and she'd fall asleep with you. We'd carry her like a baby, tummy up. She was precious. And she was very tolerant of us tiny children xD

(Sorry for getting carried away, this was probably way longer than it needed to be)

FIRST don’t be sorry this was so interesting and I’m so glad to learn about you!

That’s super impressive that you know any Japanese! I’m working on Spanish right now. Much less exciting ha.

I know how you feel about the seasons thing, I grew up in a state where its pretty much just HOT always. But now I’m going to school where it’s colder in the appropriate months but that hasn’t actually held up? Very mild winters except for random snow storms that last like a week so that’s fun ha. Maybe you can try living somewhere else for school or something? It’s a good way to test out what you like and don’t like.

I’ve only been out of the country once but it was like a European sampler for a study abroad trip and it was amazing. I hope you get to go to all the places on your list.

The German thing! That’s awesome. Is your mom from Germany I guess? My parents use random phrases from some of their background cultures but aside from that no learning in the home stuff.

GRYFFINDOR RED YAASSS. Same. When I go to Islands of Adventure I’m like “how much themed and color coded garb can I wear before it gets obnoxious?” My answer is probably ‘as much as humanly possible’ bc I bought robes but eh what else is vacation for?

I’ve had Blue Bell ice cream! Only vanilla though, because people tend to buy it for events where a ton of people will be making sundaes and vanilla is pretty generally acceptable. Coffee flavored ice cream yum, the best. I love when it has little chocolate chunks or fudge-y SWIRLSS. Now I want ice cream :(

Mittens sounds adorable! I’ve never had a cat, but my friends tend to get them so I pet them sometimes. But they usually hate me so I go with dogs which generally like me?

#blarg asks #blarg ask games #Anonymous

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