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Me every time I tell a language joke and they don’t laugh

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Here are some of my unusual ways of studying German! I hope this helps some of you out✨

Mentioned Blogs : @learngermanblog / @mutant-german / @ich-bin-der-baer / @myhoneststudyblr / @crazy-languages / @weltreise / @langsworldmemes01 / @productive-tips / @studyblr-support

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So I've been meaning to start a german diary for a while now and I did it today after seeing this post (which is, funnily enough, a screenshot of a Tumblr post, which I couldn't find).

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affirmations to remember: you are the love of your own life 🥰 // ig: studylustre

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German word of the day

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Never let anyone tell you not to learn a certain language because “it’s not useful” or because “not enough people speak it”. Learn the language YOU want to learn. Point, blank, and the period.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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Me: I like to learn languages for fun

My family & friends:

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Excited to start learning my 6th language. After much thought, I decided to learn Irish. It sounds very beautiful. It’s such a shame so few people speak it. We need to keep the language alive

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How to pronounce Celtic words and names

Step 1: Read the word. Step 2: Wrong.

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Learning a new language should not be a race to fluency. Enjoy learning new words and making new connections! Don’t get frustrated with yourself, take things slow and have fun with it.

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Me: ugh I need to practice with a native speaker

Also me: *sees a native speaker and runs away*

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Just a friendly reminder: one day you will be exactly where you want to be in your language learning journey, keep going

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*Sigh* I just want to be fluent in 10 languages already.

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My native friends: you need to stop being embarrassed and actually speak the language if you want to get better!

Me:

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German words without English equivalent

Engelsgeduld: (lit.: angel's patience) great amount of patience

Feierabend: (lit.: party-evening) the rest of the day that remains after work

Fernweh: the desire/longing to travel to faraway places/ foreign countries

Fingerspitzengefühl: (lit.: fingertips-feeling) good skill in handling things/ sensitivity and empathy

Geborgenheit: more than safety, protection and invulnerability, it symbolises peace, warmth and calm you feel especially when you're with the people you're close to (e.g. family, friends)

Gemütlichkeit: feeling of comfort

Habseligkeiten: valuable and personally important possessions

Innerer Schweinehund: (lit.: inner pig-dog = weaker self) the part of a person that they have to overcome to be productive

Kitsch: objects with superficial beauty that are actually useless but are appreciated nonetheless

Konfliktfähigkeit: (lit.: conflict ability/skill) ability to deal with conflict / ability to constructively solve interpersonal conflicts

Kummerspeck: (lit.: grief/sorrow bacon (fat)) gained weight from emotional overeating (especially after a breakup)

Lebenslüge: (lit.: life's lie) a lie that you tell yourself to make life more bearable

Mitdenken: (lit.: with-thinking) ability to think for yourself and do more than what you were demanded to do / trying to find a conceptional solution to a problem together with other people

Sehnsucht: intense inner longing for somebody, something or a place

Schnapsidee: (lit.: schnapps idea) a ridiculous and crazy plan/idea you have while you are drunk or an idea that is so stupid that people think you had it while being drunk

Sprachgefühl: (lit.: language feeling) feeling/sense of language, instinctive feel for a certain language / intuitive feeling of what is linguistically appropriate

Stehaufmännchen: (lit.: little stand up man) someone who doesn't give up and begins anew

Torschlusspanik: (lit.: gate-closing-panic) the fear of missing something important / not being able to do some things (because you're too old)

Verschlimmbessern: (lit.: verschlimmern=exasperate, verbessern=improve) improve something for the worse / make something worse but with having had the intention of improving it

Vorführeffekt: (lit.: demo effect) the effect that something you're actually able to do doesn't work when you want to demonstrate it to other people

Waldeinsamkeit: (lit.: forest loneliness/solitude) the seclusion/solitude of the forest

Warmduscher: (lit.: warm showerer/ somebody who showers with warm water) a wimp / a person that doesn't like to leave their comfort zone

Weltschmerz: (lit.: world pain (world weariness)) gratuitous melancholia / kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind / the feeling of anxiety caused by the ills of the world

Zeitgeist: (lit.: time-spirit, spirit of the time ) the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time