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someone: don’t be dramatic

me:

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A thing I want to say about Sergey Lazarev

At Eurovision, I usually root against Russia out of principle. And while I wouldn’t go as far as booing artists, I do understand where the people who do that are coming from.

That being said, if there’s one Russian who doesn’t deserve to be booed at Eurovision, and where I wouldn’t mind if they won, it’s Sergey Lazarev. Because unlike many other Russian celebrities (like Dima Bilan or Polina Gagarina), Lazarev refused to publically support Putin, spoke out against Russia’s anti-gay law, spoke out in support of the LGBT-community mulitple times, and also said that he thinks Crimea belongs to Ukraine. All of those are insanely brave things  to do in Russia, and made me respect him immensely.

tl;dr: Sergey’s a good egg. Don’t boo him.

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Why can’t I just hear a language and, like, not want to study it? It’s so inconvenient ugh

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no language should be mocked other than french

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Me: *studies a language for two weeks* is it time to start reading classic literature yet?

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On your blog for 5 seconds and it's already a mood! I just wanna learn aaaaall languages lol

I’m so glad I’m not alone :D 

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Me: gives people advice on language learning and the importance of consistency

Also me: goes days without studying a language

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The murder of LGBT+ people in Russia

I’m sorry but it’s not about study or languages. Anyway, I hope you’ll read it. It’s really important.

TW: homophobia, violence, murder

More than 40 LGBT+ people were detained in Chechen Republic (a region of Russia), 2 of them died as a result of torture.

So the Union of homophobes (it includes Russia, CIS countries, Siria and Iran) started pursuing LGBT+ people.

And yeah, there is no news about it on Russian TV because all our government is homophobic.

I have about 700 followers there and I ask you to reblog it. I want more people to know about it. I think people from other countries should know about this shit in Russia.

Thank you so much.

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Vocabulary

감수하다 = to endure, to suffer without any protest

Usage

~을/를 감수하다

Expressions

고통을 감수하다 = to endure anguish

책임을 감수하다 = to bear the responsibility

비난을 감수하다 = to endure the criticism

볼이익을 감수하다 = to endure the disadvantages

Examples

많은 고통을 감수한 결과 오늘의 성공을 이루었다.

I achieved success today after enduring much pain.

내가 잘못을 저지른 이상 어떠한 비난이라도 감수하겠다.

As I have done wrong, I will endure all criticism and more.

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Korean Word of the Day

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i just want to understand every language is that too much to ask

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norwegian phrases for when you want to complain and give up

(the english phrases aren’t literal translations but rather attempts at conveying similar sentiments)

livet suger = life sucks

dette suger = this sucks

jeg dør = I’m dying

(nei,) vet du hva = you know what

nå gidder jeg ikke mer / jeg gidder ikke mer = I’m not doing this anymore

jeg er så sliten = I’m so tired

jeg gir opp = I give up / I quit

jeg har ikke energi til det(te)her - I don’t have the energy for this

jeg gir meg (ende) over = I can’t

få det til å slutte = make it stop

jeg orker ikke mer = I can’t do this anymore

jeg vil ikke mer = I don’t want to do this anymore

jeg takler det ikke = I can’t deal with this

faen i helvete = fucking hell

alt jeg vil er å sove = I just want to sleep

jeg klarer det ikke = I can’t do it

jeg er (så) ferdig med livet = I’m (so) done with life

æsj = ugh/ew

drit og dra = go to hell

nå holder det = that’s enough

faen ta (dette) = fuck this

faen heller = goddamn it

nei = no

kødder du med meg = are you kidding me

dette er helt høl i huet = this is completely idiotic

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Me at 3 am: *trying to sleep*

My brain at 3 am: umm hey, we need to google how to say ‘dough’ in our target language, it’s urgent

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“Преданный”

— a Russian word that means both “devoted” and “betrayed”