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if you can read this rn learn american sign language

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I mean, why do some universities stop at Chomsky (or worse, Saussure)? I know there are universities in Norway (I think) who are strictly structuralist. I was trained in conceptual theory mostly - there's no going back.

*is trained in Chomskian/generative linguistics but works with indigenous languages so is very aware how shit his theories are*

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Korean Textbooks Master Post

Hello everyone! Here are some textbooks I had time to scan and upload (marked with an asterisk) or had found somewhere online. I hope you find something here that helps you! This post will be updated as I get more time to scan books, purchase more books, or if I happen to find more books online.

Can’t find the textbook you’re looking for on this list? Please feel free to hit up my ask! I may have it, but just haven’t scanned it yet. 

Ewha Korean

Ewha Korean 1-1 Ewha Korean 1-2 Ewha Korean 3-2 Ewha Korean 4 Ewha Korean 5 Ewha Korean 6

KIIP Korean 

KIIP Korean 0 KIIP Korean 1 KIIP Korean 2 KIIP Korean 3 KIIP Korean 4 KIIP Korean 5 KIIP Korean 6

Korean Grammar in Use

Korean Grammar in Use Beginner Korean Grammar in Use Intermediate Korean Grammar in Use Advanced

Sejong Korean

Sejong Korean 1 Sejong Korean 2 Sejong Korean 3 Sejong Korean 4 Sejong Korean 5 Sejong Korean 6 Sejong Korean 7 Sejong Korean 8

Sejong Korean Conversation 1 Sejong Korean Conversation 2 Sejong Korean Conversation 3 Sejong Korean Conversation 4

Sogang Korean

Sogang Korean 1A Sogang Korean 1B Sogang Korean 2A Sogang Korean 2B Sogang Korean 3A Sogang Korean 3B

TOPIK 

빈도별 토픽 중고급 어휘* 빈도별 토픽 중급 문법* TOPIK Essential Grammar 150 Hot TOPIK 2 Reading

Yonsei Korean

Yonsei Korean Grammar 1-1 Yonsei Korean Grammar 1-2 Yonsei Korean Grammar 2-1 Yonsei Korean Grammar 2-2 Yonsei Korean Grammar 3-1 Yonsei Korean Grammar 3-2 Yonsei Korean Grammar 4-1 Yonsei Korean Grammar 4-2 Yonsei Korean Grammar 5-1 Yonsei Korean Grammar 5-2 Yonsei Korean Grammar 6-1 Yonsei Korean Grammar 6-2

Yonsei Korean Reading 1 Yonsei Korean Reading 2 Yonsei Korean Reading 3 Yonsei Korean Reading 4 Yonsei Korean Reading 5

Miscellaneous: 

Korean Stories for Language Learners*

Last updated: 7/28/2019

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Halcyon

just a random English word I like

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Fun fact: Quisling is the last name of a Norwegian politician who collaborated with the Nazis, and now his last name is used in a similar context to Judas'

Advanced English Nouns

Dearth  - A scarcity or lack of something

Iconoclast - A person who attacks or criticizes cherished beliefs or institutions

Diatribe - A forceful and bitter verbal attack against someone or something

Panegyric - A public speech or published text in praise of someone or something

Chicanery - The use of deception or subterfuge to achieve one’s purpose

Guile - skillful deceit

Quisling - A traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country

Aegis - The protection, backing, or support of a particular person or organization

Eminence - Fame or acknowledged superiority within a particular sphere

Quintessence - The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

Raconteur - A person who tells anecdotes in a skilful and amusing way

Alacrity - Brisk and cheerful readiness

Sedition -  Conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch

Dilettante - A person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge

Acumen - The ability to make good judgements and take quick decisions

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but what, might we ask, is truly the biggest mood? indicative? imperative? subjunctive? optative?????

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I love this cartoon

Little Princess in different languages

This is another UK kids show that has been dubbed into many languages. It’s around A2 level

French

Greek

German

Danish

Polish

Norwegian

Spanish

Swedish

Other shows

Miraculous Ladybug

LazyTown

Charlie and Lola

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new favorite Swedish Thing

Tvättbjörn.

Tvätt = ‘clean’

Björn = ‘bear’

Clean-bear.

What does this word mean, you ask?

Mother. Fuckin. RACCOON!

Tvättbjörn. the more you know.

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Here's a great book about the the Kinki region dialect, it's really well written, with lots of humor, which makes it rather interesting, even though this topic may seem to be a bit boring for the not primarily linguistics-oriented learners. However, I'm sure most people would enjoy it, even if just for the funny examples and introduction.

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Not all heroes wear capes

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By “not-so-popular languages” I mean languages that not many people in the langblr community are learning. Armenian Memrise Mango Languages Loecsen BABADADA Azerbaijani Memrise Mango Languages BABADADA Bengali Memrise Mango Languages Goethe Verlang BABADADA Burmese Memrise Loecsen Cebuano Memrise Digital Dialects BABADADA Filipino/Tagalog Memrise Mango Languages Innovative Language Digital Dialects Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages

Georgian Memrise Goethe Verlang Hebrew Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA

Hindi Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Digital Dialetcs Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages

Indonesian Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Languages Online Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages Javanese Memrise Mango Languages Digital Dialects BABADADA Kannada Memrise Goethe Verlang Kazakh Memrise Mango Languages BABADADA Khmer Memrise BABADADA Kurdish Memrise Digital Dialects BABADADA Kyrgyz Memrise BABADADA Malay Memrise Mango Languages Digital Dialects BABADADA Easy Languages Malayalam Memrise Mango Languages Marathi Memrise Goethe Verlang BABADADA Mongolian Memrise Digital Dialects BABADADA Nepali Memrise BABADADA Pashto Memrise Mango Languages Digital Dialects BABADADA Persian Memrise Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Punjabi Memrise Mango Languages Goethe Verlang BABADADA Tamil Memrise Mango Languages Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages Telugu Memrise Mango Languages Goethe Verlang Thai Memrise Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages Tibetan Memrise Digital Dialects Turkish Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Languages Online Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages BaBaDum Urdu Memrise Mango Languages Innovative Language Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang BABADADA Vietnamese Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang BABADADA Easy Languages

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“In fact, Finns joke that at the prehistoric separation of Hungarian and Finnish, the Finns went north with the vowels, while the Hungarians went south with the consonants.”

— Ruth H. Sanders, The Languages of Scandinavia: Seven Sisters of the North

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genuinely curious people: how many languages do you actually speak?

me, being useless: i learn several and i speak none of them

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Scandinavian langblr culture is seeing someone practicing writing in a Scandinavian language that isn’t yours and you’re like I don’t know if they are making mistakes or if the whole language is wrong

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Korean Resources

I’ve updated the Korean Resources section of The Library and I’ve made it rebloggable for those that prefer that :)

Korean

Routledge Grammar - Basic Korean - A Grammar and Workbook (second source) (third source)

Routledge Grammar - Intermediate Korean - A Grammar and Workbook (second source)

Using Korean - A Guide to Contemporary Usage

Korean Grammar for International Learners

Colloquial Korean - The Complete Course for Beginners

Korean Level 1 (Seoul National University)

Essential Korean [Ellen K. Yoon]

Dirty Korean: Everyday Slang from “What’s Up?” to “F*%# Off!” [Haewon Geebi Baek] (second source)

Korean Grammar for International Learners [Ho Bin Ihm, Kyung Pyo Hong, Suk In Chang]

Korean Word Book [Marshal R Pihl]

My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book [Henry J. Amen IV, Kyubyong Park]

Using Korean: A Guide to Contemporary Usage [Miho Choo, Hye-Young Kwak]

College Korean

Intermediate College Korean [Clare You, Eunsu Cho]

Elementary Korean [Ross King, Jae-Hoon Yeon]

Hippocrene Beginner’s Series - Beginner’s Korean

Korean From Zero 1

Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning to Early Intermediate

Korean through English, Book One

Korean: A Complete Course for Beginners [Jaemin Roh]

My Korean 1 [Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho, Douglas Ling]

My Korean 2 [Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho, Douglas Ling]

Step by Step: Korean through 15 Action Verbs [Dr In Ku Kim-Marshall]

Beginner TOPIK Grammar & Vocabulary

Intermediate TOPIK Grammar

TOPIK Elementary Adjectives

TOPIK Elementary Grammar

TOPIK Elementary Nouns

TOPIK Intermediate Adjectives

TOPIK Intermediate Grammar

TOPIK Intermediate Nouns

TOPIK Intermediate Verbs

TOPIK Listening Files

Korean In Action: For International Learners [Gi-Hyun Shin, Adrian Buzo]

Making Out in Korean (second source)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [ Korean]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Korean]

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Y E S

Alternate universe where I literally just to go to school forever (for free) so I can just learn about art and literature and history and languages for 100 years. No job skills. No credit requirements. No student loans. Just learning.

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zodiac sign as untranslatable italian words:

Aries: Trasecolare. (lit. being outside the century; transcending the century; being outside of reality) – verb. losing one’s mind; reaching a state of ecstatic not-being-there through exhaltation, stupor or rage. an extreme, incontrollable state of disbelief and anger. to be out of yourself. used for the medieval hero Orlando in Tasso’s Orlando furioso.

Taurus: Meriggiare. (der. of meridies ‘meriggio’, midday, the hottest hours of the day) – verb. to rest outside immersed in nature, under the shade of a tree. to spend the hottest moment of the day under the cool shade of a tree or building, resting. found in the splendid poem Meriggiare pallido e assorto, by poet Eugenio Montale.

Gemini: Chiacchierone/a. (lit. someone who chats) – noun. someone who talks a lot, sometimes when they shouldn’t; a social butterfly; someone who, however pleasant, has troubles keeping secrets for themselves. used in both a positive or negative way. 

Cancer: Strappacuore. (lit. something that carves the heart out of you) – noun. something so strongly moving that it troubles you deeply; that invokes pathos & true, deep sorrow. something that lacerates your heart because of how sad, humane, moving it is.

Leo: Solleone. (lit. Lion-Sun) – noun for the time period from mid-july to mid-august, when the sun’s at its harshest, fullest, most glorious point. on the calendar, it’s when the sun is in Leo; but it’s also used to describe a very powerful day of sun, when the heat is heavy, the light is overwhelming, and the sun reigns over all other elements.

Virgo: Pignolo/a. (from pigna, lit. a pine cone, referring to its hardness and compactness) – someone who’s very precise, nitpicky and meticulous. the type of person who notices an error and points it out straight away. 

Libra: Sfizio. (lit. whim, fancy) – noun. a caprice, a fanciful desire; the type of wanting you get for something superfluous that appeals to your senses. you crave to indulge in it, just for the fun of it. to indulge in the sfizio is said as togliersi lo sfizio, literally to take the sfizio out of oneself. 

Scorpio: Struggimento. (der. of destroy. meaning, to being destroyed) – noun for  the act of being strutto, which means being dissolved, melted, untied. being in a state of desperate, burning longing; experiencing a tearing-apart of the self. an all-consuming sense of emotional turbulence. 

Sagittarius: Rocambolesco. (der. of Rocambole, the protagonist of a xix series of adventure novels) – adjective for something that’s bold, picaresque, marvelous in its daring. a journey, a story or a dream that presents an almost dream-like quality of being adventurous, risky and full of incredible moments of adrenaline. 

Capricorn: Menefreghismo. (der. of me ne frego, lit. i couldn’t care less) – noun. a lack of caring for what may happen to others; an attitude of detached disinterest; individualism and non-malicious lack of concern for other people’s struggles, victories, needs. 

Aquarius: Dietrologia. (lit. the logic of what’s-behind) – noun, attributing secret meanings to everything. seeing patterns & conspiracies behind ordinary events. often used in political debates, to accuse the opposite party of being paranoid and excessively hypothetical. 

Pisces: Magari. (der. of greek makárie, meaning ‘happy’) – exclamation, used to express a deep desire for something that cannot happen. sometimes used in the form magaraddìo (magari to God!), meaning a wishful if only God wanted it to be so…!