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French vocab!

stoFrench vocab from a dictionary? french vocab from a dictionary.

éprouver- to feel, to experience

éprouvette (f)- test tube

EPS-  PE in French lol 

épuisé (e)- exhausted, out of print. 

équaterur- (m). equator.

équilibre -m- balance

équipage (m):  crew

équipe (m): team

équipé(e): adj. equippe

équipement(s) (m): equipment, facilities

 équitation (f): horseriding

équivalent(e) : equivalent

ère (f): era

erreur (f): error

érruption (f): eruption

escalade(f): climbing

escalader: to climb

escale:  call,  stop, stopover

escalier (m): stairs

escargot: snail

escrime (f): fencing

escroc(m): crook

l’Espagne: spain

espagnol(e): spanish

espèce (f) : species, kind

espérer: to hope

espion(m),onne(f): spy

espionnage(m): spying

espoir(m): hope

esprit(m): mind, spirit, ghost

essai(m): attempt,test

esayer: to try -on-

esence: gas

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Demonstrative Pronouns

Sorry that I just disappeared off the face of the planet. I was working on my writeblr in case anyone is interested. @writingthatstory might I suggest clicking on the Directory and get lost with what I was doing for... eternity lmao. 

The demonstrative pronoun celuiand its forms mean this one/ that one/ the one or those/these/the ones.

Quel poste préférez-vous? Le poste à Paris ou le poste à Paris ou le Poste à Lyon?

Quel poste préférez-vous? Celui à Paris ou celui à Lyon?

Demonstrative pronouns agree in number and gender with the noun to which they refer. 

Masculine

Celui - this one, that one, the one

ceux- these, those and the ones

Feminine

celle - this one, that one, the one

celles- these, the and those ones 

Ces deux venduses sont nulles! et celles du grand magasin de ton quartier?

 As with demonstrative adj’s, -ci, and -là  can be added after a form of celui to distinguish between people or objects that are closer (celle-ci) or farther (celui-là) . A form of calui can also be followed by a relative clause to mean the ones that or the ones whose. 

on va à cette réunion-ci ou à celle qui commence plus tôt?

le comptable de Marc, c’est celui que tu aimes bien?

A prepositional phrase can follow a demonstrative pronoun. 

Mes économies et celles de Nathalie. 

Ce poste est moins intéressant que celui en Belgique. 

Adjective that modify forms of celui must agree with them in number and gender. Past participles should agree with forms of celui when appropriate. 

Ceux qui sont fainéants ne vont pas être promus. 

Leurs employées sont celles que nous avons vues ici hier?

You can use celui-là or celle-là to refer to someone in a familiar or scornful fashion. 

Le gérant de Pizza Roma? ah, celui-là!

Elle croit qu’elle sait tout, celle-là? 

Ceci and cela are also demonstrative pronouns. Unlike other pronouns, they do not refer to any noun in particular, but rahter to an idea. Ceci draws attention to something that is about to be said; cela refers to something tha has already been said. 

Je vous dis ceci: il ne faut pas démissionner. 

On écite les dettes. Cela va sans dire. 

BOth ceci and cela have a literary tone to them. In everyday French, use ce or ça. use ce before forms of être; use ça before other verbs. 

Before a form of être: 

ce sont mes cadres, Abdel et Fatih. 

C’est un syndicat?

Before any other verb

Ça m’énerve! 

C’est can be used in many constructions

C’est + name 

Identifies a person

C’est Brandon

C’est + Article/ adjective + noun

Identifies a person or thing

C’est mon vendeur

C’est + disunctive pronoun

Identifies a person 

C’est toi qui as trouvé cette formation.

C’est + adjective

describes an idea or expresses an opinion.

trois semaines de vacances! c’est super!

Infinitive + c’est + infinitive

Draws an equivalency between two actions

partir c’est mourir un peu. 

Some notes

 Forms of Celui cannot stand alone: they must always be followed by -ci/-là a relative clause or a prepositional phrase. 

Use a demonstrative pronoun followed by -ci or -là to express, respectively, the english words latter and former. 

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50 hour language challenge... update

hiiiiiii.

Here’s my update for the challenge.  Hopefully later this week and into the weekened I’ll sit down and get some notes up for y’all.  I’ve been mostly focusing on my japanese just because learning the Hiragana and Katakana have been kind of tough for me and it’s kind of been bumming me out because everyone I know seems to have learned it in two weeks, and this is going on 3 months for me, anyway lol.  it might sound kind of stupid but I’m probably going to pull a ‘french’ and just move on to learn how to write and what not and hope that I’ll pick it up as I go (that’s essentially what happened to me and french grammar lol)

So anyway here’s my updated hours completed.

French (50 hours):

hours completed: 3

Hours to go: 47

Topics covered: 

Really I just went to duo and tested out of some skills which were the uh...

People

Travel

Dutch (50 hours):

Hours completed: 1

Hours to go: 49

Japanese (50 hours):

Hours Completed: 6

Hours to go: 4.... 44? 

Topics covered: 

Hiragana

Katakana 

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Counting Units

Counting in Japanese! 　as always please let me know if I need to correct things.  This gets confusing to me really fast when I’m typing things out so I wouldn’t be surprised if something is messed up lol. 

The teens! 

to form numbers 11-19 start with juu and place the additional number you need directly after it.  it is much like counting with roman numerals。

じゅういち

juu ichi

 11

じゅうに

juu ni

 12

じゅうよん　、じゅうさん

juu san

１３

じゅうよん　、じゅうし

juu yon, juu shi * 

 14

じゅうご

juu go

 15

じゅうろく

juu roku

 16

じゅうなな　じゅうしち

juu nana, juu shichi *

17

じゅうはち

juu hachi

18

じゅうきゅう　、　じゅうく

juu jyuu , juu ku * 

19

The tens

the tens are formed by combining the single numbers with juu. for example, 20 is two tens, and fifty is five tens. see below for more details. 

じゅう

juu

10

にじゅう

ni juu

20

さんじゅう

san juu

30

よんじゅう

yon juu -never shi juu-

40

ごじゅう

jo juu

50

ろくじゅう

roku juu

60

ななじゅう

nana juu -never shichi juu-

70

あちじゅう

hachi juu

80

きゅうじゅう

kyuu juu -never ju juu- 

90

Combining tens and singles

to make numbers like 31, just string the numbers 30 and 1 together. 

にじゅういち　

ni juu ichi

21

にじゅうに

ni juu ni

22

にじゅうさん

ni juu san

23

にじゅうよん　・　し

ni juu yon / shi

24

にじゅうご

ni juu go

25

にじゅうろく

ni juu roku

26

にじゅうなな　・　しち

ni juu nana /shichi

27

にじゅうはち

ni juu hachi

28

にじゅうく　・　きゅう

ni juu ku/ kyuu

29

the hundreds and thousands 

with hyaku and sen -hundreds, thousands- the pattern is basically the same, but there are some variations. those are marked with an (*)

ひゃく

hyaku

100

にひゃく

ni hyaku 

200

さんびゃく       (*)

san byaku -never san hyaku-

300

よんひゃく

 yon yaku - never shi-

400

ごじゃく

go hyaku

500

ろっぴゃく (*)

roppyaku -never roku hyaku-

600

ななひゃく  

nana hyaku -never shichi

700

はっぴゃく  (*)

happyaku -never hachi hyaku-

800

きゅうひゃく  

Kyuu hyakku

900

せん、いっせん

sen, issen

1000

にせん

ni sen

2000

さんぜん  

san zen (*) -never san sen-

3000

よせん

yon sen

 4000

ごせん

go sen

5000

ろくせん

roku sen

6000

ななせん

nana sen - never shichi sen- 

7000

はっせん

hassen -never hachi sen0  (*)

8000

きゅうせん

kyuu sen -never ku sen- 

9000

[learningcherryblossoms]

Katakana from zero vocab

yea, so my sister has these japanese workbooks and she gave them to me because she knows how much I like learning languages. anyway, as the title suggests, here are some katakana wordsss. 

I’m very new to learning japanese so please help a gorl out and lemme know what can be revised.  these words are from the textbook and are made to help you learn specifically katakana.  I think I posted up some hiragana ones awhile ago. idk. 

エレベーター     elevator

エアーコンディショナー     air conditioner

アバウト    sloppy, approximate イタリアン      italian -n- オープン    open アーモンド   almond アニメ   anime オレンジ  orange インク   ink オムレツ   omelet ウインカー   car turn signal ウラン uranium イー  E エアー   air タオル   towel オニオン   onion アイスクリーム  ice cream サイコロ dice グーグル   google アフリカ   africa ケチャップ  ketchup クレヨン crayon ビキニ   bikini イングランド  England カメラ camera コーヒー coffee バイリンガル  bilingual ガソリン   gasoline コーン corn キー key ケーキ  cake コケ   coke ケア  care ココア  cocoa カーゴ   cargo カーキ   khaki オーケー  ok カレンダー  calendar カーテン curtain スキー  skiing タクシー  taxi 》タバコ  tobacco/ cigs

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time vocab- japanese!

boy howdy everyone.  so, I think I kind of fucked this list up so please for all things holy let me know because I got sooooooooooo confused at some point.  I tried my best at fixing all the errors, but please let me know if I missed something.  that being said, it is all in hirigana and includes basic numbers as wellllll.  I’m putting all this on my google docs sheet that holds all my vocab that I am learning -and am trying to update it because I have learned more vocab as part of the 50 hr language challenge which I also need to update lmao- 

anyway here’s the list!

れい　、まる、ぜろ --------------- ０ いち --------------------------- 1 に  -------------------2 さん ------------------------3 し、よん ----------------4 ご ------------------------5 ろく ------------------6 しち、　なな ------------------7 はち -------------------8 く、きゅう--------------- 9 じゅう ------------------------- 10 じゅう --------------------1 minute いっぷん -----------------------10 min じゅっぷん ------------------------11 min じゅういっぷん ------------------12 min じゅうにふん ----------------------13 min

じゅうさんぷん ---------------------14 min じゅうよんぷん ------------------15 mins じゅうごふん-----------------------16 min じゅうろっぷん---------------------17 min じゅうななふん //// じゅうはちふん--------------18 min きゅうふん-----------------------------------9 mins じゅうきゅうふん---------------------------------19 mins にふん----------------------------2 mins にじゅっぷん-------------------------------20 mins にじゅうごふん----------------------------25 mins さんぷん-----------------3 mins さんじゅっぷん---------------------------------------30 mins さんじゅうごふん--------------------------35 mins よんぷん-----------------------------------4 mins よんじゅっぷん-----------------------------40 mins よんじゅうごふん-------------------------45 mins ごふん----------------------------------------5 mins ごじゅっぷん----------------------------------50 mins ごじゅうごふん---------------------------------55 mins ろっぷん-------------------------------------6 mins ろくじゅっぷん----------------------------60 mins ななふん------------------------------------------7 mins はちふん // はっぷん--------------------------8 mins

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so duolingos new XP system?

yea, this is why you pair up other things with duolingo.  Listen I know a lot of you probably use Duo and maybe you’re just as upset but lets be real, you can only get so much out of duolingo.  

Idk, I guess a lot of people used it to motivate themselves to use it? but like, I feel like those people who are more upset than anything are kind of seeing duo more as a game then anything?

Idk, I guess I’m just not bothered by it because I use duo to reinforce what I already know. so for me if I can get through a lesson with few messes, I know that Im doing well. 

So... anyway, I Just wanted to take the time to reinstate to all of you, and so you can go out and say the same fucking, USE OTHER THINGS WITH DUOLINGO. you’ll learn a lot more, won’t be so caught up in the duo ... nightmare, and ffs you’ll learn a lot more. 

also, let me know your thoughts about the whole thing cause Im really just indifferent about it all lol.

[learningcherryblossoms]

Spaced reptition

Hey yall I got a question for you.

so, I was watching a TedTalk last night about language learning with adults -something I VERY passionate about, just ask my professors-. and the dude mentions something about spaced repition and how it didn’t work for him.  and I was thinking about my own language learning process and how I kind of want to revamp and retry somethings because I feel like I haven’t exactly given them a chance *cough* challenges that I never finish *cough*. 

so I was just wondering if yall know of any like software, websites, etc that use spaced repition.  I know Anki is one and I need to relearn how to use it because I was so confused when I did use it so I just stopped. xD

[learningcherryblossoms]

Japanese notes!

Let’s learn some japanese numbers! I think I uploaded some vocab a while ago.   if so, then feel free to use this as a refresher.  if not, then add these to your vocab list lmaooo

The Basics

all you ave to do is remember the following list of numbers, a few rules and you’re on your way to counting! 

れい　、まる、ぜろ 

rei, maru, zero *

０

いち

ichi

1

に

ni

2

さん

san

3

し、よん

shi, yon *

4

ご

go

5

ろく

roku

6

しち、　なな

shichi, nana *

7

はち

hachi

8

く、きゅう

ku, kyuu *

9

じゅう

juu

10

the numbers with a (*) have more than one version. sometimes one version must be used instead of the other, but many times the version used is a personal preference. 

there are some cultural reasons for the different versions. the number four in japanese is yon or shi.  shi also means death.  the number nine in japanese has kyuu and ku. Ku also means suffering.  this is part of the reason why these numbers are considered unlucky in Japan. 

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anyone know a good place to get TEFL certified?  

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so I guess Duolingo did some updating? 

I’m actually really happy about it lol.  Did it put me back a bit? not really since I’m technically B1.  and I like using Duo to my brain refreshed -because lets be honest I’m not studying french every day lol-.  there seems to be a lot more content added? 

now if they could just like.. put more interactive things on there lol

how is everyone else feeling about the changes?

[learningcherryblossoms]

Hiragana vocab

hey hey hey so before anyone gets on my ass, this is coming from my workbook hiragana from zero. this book is literally just learning about hiragana okay. so like, if there’s kanji to these or any other way of typing them out just like reblog this and let me know or just let me know so others can know and I’ll even edit the list.  so this list is going to be all in hiragana 

cause that’s the book. 

right. with that said here are some vocab! 

え

a painting, drawing

いい

good

おい

nephew

えい

a ray fish

いいえ

no

おおい

many

あう

to meet

いう

to say

いえ

house

あお

blue

おう

 to chase

おかさん

mother

おとさん

father

うさぎ

rabbit

おねえさん

older sister

いす

chair

あかい

red

かう

to buy

えんぴす

pencil

おもしろい

interesting

おきる

to wake up

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The Plus-que- Parfait

Is used to talk about what someone had done or what had occurred before another past action, event or state. Like the passé composé the Pluperfect uses a form of avoir or être - in this case, the imparfait - plus a past participle. 

Voter - to vote

j'avais voté

tu avais voté

il/elle avait voté

nous avions voté

vous aviez voté

ils/elles avaient voté

Finir- to finish

j'avais /étais fini

tu avais /étais fini

il/elle avait /était fini/fini/finie

nous avions /étions fini/finis

vous aviez /étiez fini/finis

ils/elles avaient /étaient fini/finis/finies

Nous lui avons dit qu’Hollande avait gagné les élections. 

We told her that HOllande had won the election

L’accusé sourait parce que les juges ne l’avaient pas mis en prison. 

The accused was smiling because the judges had not put him in prison. 

The verbs of motion that take être instead of avoir as the auxiliary verb in the passé composé. Use the imparfait of être to form the plu-que- parfait of such verbs and make the past participle agree with the subject. 

Les avocats ne savaient pas que vous étiez déjà partie.

the lawyers didn’t know that you had already left

On a découvert que les victimes étaient mortes à la suite de leurs blessures.

They discovered that the victims had died of their injuries. 

Use the imparfait of être as the auxiliary for reflexive and reciprocal verbs. Make agreement whenever you would do so for the passé composé 

Avant le dîner, le président et sa femme s´étaient levés pour recevoir les invités. 

In all other cases as well, agreement of past participles in the plus-que-parfait follows the same rules in the passé composé

La police a trouvé les armes qu’il avait cachées. 

the police found the weapons that he had hidden

Le président a signé la loi que le congrès avait approuvée. 

The president signed the law that the congress had passed. 

Use the plus-que-parfait to emphasize that something happened in the past before something else happened. use the passé composé to describe completed events in the more recent past and the imparfait to describe ongoing or habitual actions in the more recent past. 

action in remote past....connected action in recent past

L’activiste n’avait pas fini de parler quand vous avez coupé le micro

the activist hadn’t finished talking when you cut off the mic. 

ongoing action in recent past... action in remote past. 

Il y a avait des drapeaux partout parce que le président était arrivé la veille. 

There were flags everywhere because the president had arrived the day before. 

The plus-que-parfait is also used after the word si to mean if only...(something else had taken place). it expresses regret. 

Si j’avais su que tu avais un plan

If only I had known you had a map

Si seulement il n’était pas arrivé en retard.

If only he hadn arrived late 

To say that something had just happened in the past, use a form of venir in the imparfait + de+ the infinitive of the verb that describes the action

Je venais de raccrocher quand le téléphone a sonné de nouveau. 

I had just hung up when the phone rang again. 

Le président venait de signer l’accord quand on a entendu l’explosion. 

the president had jsut signed the treaty when we heard the explosion. 

sss

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French vocab pt. 2

Just like this list, it is also from a dictionary. 

ordures(f)  || rubbish, garbage

Oreille (f) || ear

Orieller (m) || pillow

Oreillons (m) || mumps

Organe (m) || organ

Organisé(e) || organized 

organiser || to organize, to have 

s’organiser || to get organized

organisme (m)  || organization,  organism

orgue (m) || organ (instrument)

orgueilleux (euse) || proud

l’orient (m) || the east 

oriental (e) (aux) || eastern

orientation (f) || course of study

originaire || to originate from??? 

the context this is used in is être originaire de...

Original (e)(aux) || original

origine (f) || origin

orphelin (e) || orphan

Orphelinat (m) || orphanage

orteil (m)|| toe

orthographe (f) || spelling

ortie (f) || nettle

os (m) || bone

oser || ti dare

otage (m) || hostage

otarie (f) || sea lion

ôter || ti taje iff 

otite (f) || ear infection

ou || or

où || where, that 

oublier || to forget, to leave

ouest (m)|| west

oui || yes

ouïe (f) || hearing

ouïes || gills

ouragan (m) || hurricane

ourlet (m)|| hem

ours (m)|| bear

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Happy Anthropology day!

If you’re studying anthropology, or just love the field itself, feel free to share why you love it so much! I, personally, would like to be a Linguistic Anthropologist. Anthropology is one those of fields that I didn’t think I would like but aboslutely adore now that I took some of the classes.