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Map of Native American etymologies for “horse”. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.

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Ojibwe / Anishinaabemowin Discord!

All welcome regardless of level, very very casual, I just started it yesterday :) https://discord.gg/UQ9kxzR

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drum -  ढोल [dhol] violin - वायोलिन [vaayolin] flute - बांसुरी [bansuri] guitar - गिटार [gittaar] tabla - तबला [tablaa] dance - नृत्य [nrity] dancer - नर्तकी [nartaki] to dance - नाचना [naachna] anklets-  पायल [paayal] foot - पैर [paer] hand - हाथ [haath] gesture - इशारा [ishaaraa] hand gesture - हाथ का इशारा [haath ka ishaaraa] eyes - आंखें [ankhen] jump - छलांग [chhalaang] movement आंदोलन flexibility - लचीलापन [lacheelaapan] leg - टांग [taang] classical dance - शास्त्रीय नृत्य [shaastriy nrity] practice - अभ्यास [abhyaas] muscle - मांसपेशी [mansapeshi] dress - पोशाक [poshaak] traditional - परंपरागत [paranparaagat] musician - संगीतकार [sangiitarkaar]

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Spring vocab in Hindi

Based on this post by malteseboy

बहार (का मौसम) / वसंत (ऋतु) - spring (season)

तितली (f) – butterfly

फूल (m) – flower

कीचड़ (m) – puddle

चिड़िया (f) – bird

भेड़ का बच्चा (m) – lamb

घास (f) – grass

मधुमक्खी (f) – honeybee

गुबरैला (m) – ladybug * (also means scarab)

पौधा (m) – plant

इंद्रधनुष (m) – rainbow

मौसम (m), ऋतु (f)– season

पेड़ (m) – tree

जन्म (m) – birth

बादल (m) - cloud

बारिश (f)– rain

कली (f) – bud

मेंढक (m) – frog

हरा – green

ठंडा – cool

नया – new

गर्मीला – warm

पिघलना – to melt

अंडे से निकलना – to hatch

(पौधा) लगाना –  to plant

उगाना – to grow (something)

उगना – to grow

पैदा होना, जन्म लेना – to be born

खिलना - to bloom

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Language Mood Board: Farsi  

(Inspired by Language Nerds)

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Reminder

STUDY while others are sleeping. DECIDE while others are delaying. PREPARE while others are daydreaming. BEGIN while others are procrastinating. WORK while others are wishing. SAVE while others are wasting. LISTEN while others are talking. SMILE while others are frowning. PERSIST while others are quitting.

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Aabita-niibino-Giizis / Halfway through the Summer Moon - Margaret Noodin (published in the Michigan Quarterly Review - Great Lakes Issue, 2011)

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for when u goin’ thru moowiich

Babaapagidinaamo - “breathe in and out”

Biindaakoojige - “make an offering of tobacco”

Mishkawiziiwin - “inner strength”

Anama’etaw mishkawiziiwin - “pray for inner strength”

Wiiji’ishin- “help me”

Mino-bimaadizi - “live well / live a good life”

Gichi-manidoo, daga wiiji’ishin mino-bimaadizi - 

                         “Spirit, please help me to live a good life”

Bizaanide’e - “have a peaceful heart”

Babaamendan - “worry about, pay attention to”

Gego babaamendan - “don’t worry”

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Language learning resources

Memrise

Duolingo

Mondly

Linguti

Lingvist

Busuu

Mango

Clozemaster

Easy Languages

Verbix

Lang-8

Forvo

Tatoeba

ReadLang

Bilinguis

Ba Ba Dum

iTalki

Anki

Omniglot

En.bab.la

Word Reference

BABADADA

The Great Language Game

Unilang

The Language Community

Language Partners

LanguageGuide.org

Language Directory

Endangered Languages Project

Innovative Language

Languages Online

Digital Dialects

Loecsen

Oneness City

BBC Languages

Live Lingua

FAMiliarization

FSI Language Courses

Learn A Language

Language Transfer

Surface Languages

Goethe Verlag

Internet Polyglot

Polymath

Linguanaut

MyLanguages

Ielanguages

101Languages

Learn101

ILoveLanguages

ILanguages

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

Wikitravel

Wikibooks

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Looking to learn your language? (UPDATED!!)

The following are good  free online language  resources for learning different languages spoken in West Africa. Feel free to add on to the list if you know of another resource to help people.

Yoruba

Yorùbá Yé Mi

UPenn Yoruba Vocabulary

I Love Languages- Yoruba

My Languages- Yoruba

University of Georgia- Yoruba

LearnYoruba.com

Yoruba- Basic Course/ Tapes

Hausa

Rapport Hausa Course

Headstart Hausa Course

UCLA Hausa Resources

Byki Hausa Vocabulary List

UPenn Hausa Vocabulary

Boston University Hausa Resources

I Love Languages- Hausa

Hausa Tapes

Hausa- Basic Course

Wolof

UCLA Wolof Resources

UPenn Wolof Vocabulary

Boston University Wolof Resources

LAAF Wolof Lessons

Indiana University Wolof Folktales and Songs

Indiana University Wolof Lessons

Twi

UPenn Twi Vocabulary

Akan Pronunciation Game (helps you learn the tones)

Some Vocabulary 

Twi Tapes

Peace Corps Twi

Indiana University Twi Folktales and Songs

Indiana University Twi Lessons

Igbo

UPenn Igbo Vocabulary

Igbo Net

Some Igbo Vocabulary 

I Love Languages- Igbo

Igbo- Basic Course

Mandinka

LAAF Mandinka lessons

Bambara 

LAAF Bambara lessons

Peace Corps Bambara

Indiana University Bambara Lessons

Indiana University Folktales and Songs in Bambara

Mooré

LAAF Mooré lessons

Mooré Tapes

Mooré Basic Course

Fula(ni)/ Pulaar

Fula- Basic Course

Ewe

Some Vocabulary 

Ewe Greetings and Basics

Bade

University of California Bade

Bole

University of California Bole

Duwai

University of California Duwai

Karekare

University of California Karekare

Maka

University of California Maka

Ngamo

University of California Ngamo

Ngizim

University of California Ngizim

Miya

University of California Miya

I added some additional websites as well as languages. Also I would like to state that is in no way meant to be a comprehensive list of all of the languages of west Africa. There are literally hundreds upon hundreds of languages and I cannot find resources for them all. I will keep adding to this list.

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Inspired by aspoonfuloflanguage’s Chinese post. Please check it out, her design skills are way more impressive than mine. ORL Also, take a look at livingwithlanguages‘s Polish post of the same nature, it’s also very pretty!

My first contribution to the langblr community! I’ve noticed that there are not very many Persian langblr posts out there, so I decided to start off with something basic–colours. Colour is also fundamental to Iranian/Persian space as a whole, so perhaps it is a fitting beginning in that respect as well. For each colour, I decided to use an image that is somehow symbolic or special to Persian/Iranian culture. The title banner, for example, is an image from the Shahnameh, the Book of Kings, often treasured as the source of the modern Persian language.

Below, I have included a brief explanation of the symbols. All of the pictures were taken from Google Images, so if something belongs to you, please contact me and I will remove it ASAP.

Colours (Rang ha) رنگ ها

قرمز/سرخ (Quermez/sorkh): Red, the colour of pomegranates, one of the main symbols of Shab-e Yalda, the Iranian Winter Solstice holiday.

نارنجی (Narenji): Orange, the colour of goldfish, an important symbol of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, celebrated on the spring equinox.

زرد (Zard): Yellow, the colour of many Persian sweets (shirini), including this one, nokhodchi, traditional roasted chickpea cookies.

سبز (Sabz): Green, the colour of the sabzeh, an important symbol of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, celebrated on the spring equinox. Symbolizes rebirth.

آبی (Ahbi): Blue, the colour of the Sheikh Lotfollah Mosque, a Safavid architectural and mathematical masterpiece, considered one of the most beautiful constructions in the world to date.

بنفش (Benefsh): Purple, the colour of the hyacinth flower, an important symbol of Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, celebrated on the spring equinox.  

سیاه (Siyah): Black, often the colour of the chador, an outer garment specific to the Iranian region. An important feminist symbol during the Islamic Revolution, the chador was donned by many women in protest against the Shah’s oppressive policies. This image is a screencap of Maryam Mohamadamini in Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s iconic film, A Moment of Innocence (Farsi title: نون و گلدون‎‎).

سفید (Sefid): White, the colour of Azadi Square, the site of many popular uprisings including the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and the 2009 Green Movement.

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Pikashoe.

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Pokémon as a Language Resource

In the newest games (X,Y, Omega Ruby, and Alpha Sapphire), you can play Pokémon in seven different languages and you can choose a new language every time you restart the game.

You can also watch the Pokémon anime in several other languages on the Pokemon.com website.

There are episodes available in thirteen languages, as highlighted above.

Brazilian Portuguese

American English

Danish

Finnish

French

German

Italian

Dutch

Norwegian

Russian

Castilian Spanish

Swedish

Japanese

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WordBrewery is great for improving your vocabulary.  It gives you a random sentence at either beginner, intermediate, advanced or master level, and you can make lists of words or sentences that you’d like to learn.   It includes the following languages:

Spanish

English

Chinese

Arabic

Portuguese

Russian

Japanese

German

French

Italian

Polish

Ukrainian

Korean

Serbian (Latin)

Serbian (Cryillic)

Hungarian

Greek

Swedish

Norwegian

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If you’re having a bad day here’s some pictures of my puppies being so happy and pure around flowers 🌼🐶☉

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Language moodboard: Persian/Farsi

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Arabic Spring Vocabulary - الرَّبيع

inspired by @malteseboy‘s spring vocabulary list   thank you @water-spring23​ for helping me make this vocabulary list! :)

الرَّبيع - spring 🌷🌻🌺🌹

الأشْهُر - months

مارِس - März أبريل - April مايو -   Mai يونيو - June

طَبيعَة - nature

فَرَاشَة ج فَرَاشَات - butterfly زَهرة ج زهرات - flower بِرْكَة ج  بِرْكَات - puddle عُصْفور - ج عَصَافِي - bird حَمَل ج حُمْلَان - lamb عُشب - grass وَرَقَة  ج أَوْرَاق - leaf نَحْلة ج نَحْلات - bee دُعسوقة ج دُعسوقات - ladybug نَبات ج نَباتات - plant قَوْسُ قُزَح ج أَقْوَاس قُزَح  - rainbow شَمس - sun فَصْل سَنَة ج فُصول سَنة - season شَجَرَة ج أَشْجَار - tree وِلادَة ج  وِلادات - birth مَطَر - rain ضِفدع ج ضَفَادِع - frog ثَلج - snow   

adjectives

أخْضَر /خَضراء ج خُضر - green بارِد - cool جَديد / جديدة ج جُدُد - new حارّ - hot مُشمِس - sunny غائم - cloudy مُمطِر - rainy لَطيف - nice, pleasant  مُعتَدِل - moderate  دَراجة الحَرارة  - temperature   

verbs

يَذُوب / ذابَ - to melt يَفْقِسُ / فَقَسَ - to hatch  يَنْمُو / نَمَا  - to grow  وُلِدَ - to be born يَلِدُ/ وَلَدَ - to give birth