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100 questions

Is a kiss considered cheating?

Have you ever faked orgasm?

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?

Do you think you are going to be rich in 7-8-9 years?

Tell us some funny drunk story.

Why are you no longer together with your ex?

If you had to choose one way to die, what would it be?

What are your current goals?

Do you like someone?

Who was the last person to disappoint you?

Do you like your body?

Can you keep a diet?

If the whole world listened to you right now, what would you say?

Do you work?

If you could choose only one food to eat to the rest of your life, what would it be?

Would you get a tattoo?

Something you don’t mind spending all your money on?

Can you drive?

When was the last time someone told you you were beautiful?

What was the last thing you cried for?

Do you keep a journal?

Is life fun?

Is farting in front of people irrelevant?

What’s your dream car?

Are grades in school important?

Describe your crush.

What was the last book/movie that really impressed you?

What was your last lie?

Dumbest lie you ever told?

Is crying in front of people embarrassing?

Something you did and you are proud of?

What’s your favourite cocktail?

Something you are good at?

Do you like small kids?

How are you feeling right now?

What would you name your daughter/son?

What do you need to be happy?

Is there some you want to punch in the face right now?

What was the last gift you received?

What was the last gift you gave?

What was the last concert you went to?

Favourite place to shop at?

Who inspires you?

How old were you when you first got drunk?

How old were you when you first got high?

How old were you when you first had sex?

When was your first kiss?

Something you want to do until the end of this year?

Is there something in the past you wish you hadn’t done?

Post a selfie.

Who are you most comfortable around?

Name one thing that terrifies you.

What kind of books do you read?

What would you tell your 12 year old self?

What is your favourite flower?

Any bad habits you have?

What kind of people are you attracted to?

What was the last thing you cried for?

Is there something you don’t eat? Some food that truly disgust you?

Are you in love?

Something you find romantic?

How long was your longest relationship?

What are 3 things that irritate you about the same sex?

What are 3 things that irritate you about the opposite sex?

What are you saving money for?

How would you describe your bad side?

Are you actually a good person? Why?

What are you living for?

Have you ever done anything illegal?

Do you like your body?

Have you ever made someone feel bad about themselves intentionally?

Ever sent nudes?

Have you ever cheated on someone?

Favourite candy?

Is there a blog you visit every day, or almost every day? Tag it!

Do you play any computer games? What is your favourite game?

Favourite TV series?

Are you religious? Does God exist?

What was the last book you read? Did it impress you and why?

What do you think about vegetarianism/veganism?

How long have you been on Tumblr?

Do you like Chineese food?

McDonalds or Subway?

Vodka or whiskey?

Alcohol or drugs?

Ever been out of your province/state/country?

Meaning behind your blog name?

What are you scared of?

Last time you were insulted?

Most traumatic experience ?

Perfect date idea?

Favourite app on your phone?

What colour are the walls in your room?

Do you watch Youtube? Who is your favourite youtuber?

Share your favourite quote.

What is the meaning of life?

Do you like horror movies?

Have you ever made your mum cry? What happened?

Do you feel lucky or special in a way?

Can you keep a secret?

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Tampere, Finland by Juha Hartikainen

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Little reminder

We languages lerners need to remember that every single person on this planet has an accent, even native speakers! There are so many accents inside one language! So there’s no point in being ashamed of ours :) We are doing amazing

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Advanced Norwegian Words #1 // Vocabulary

en kontekst - a context en konsekvens - a consequence et plagiat - a plagiarism momentant - instantly pretensiøs - pretentious  ekstravagant - extravagant en intensjon - a intention faktuell - factual kontroversiell - controversial generisk - generic intrikat - intricate nostalgi - nostalgia sentimental - sentimental

Verbs

å gestikulere - to gesticulate å kontemplere - to contemplate å kverulere - to argue without necessarily having a good argument.  å insinuere - to insinuate å stigmatisere - to stigmatize å aspirere - to aspire

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It is troublesome finding good apps for learning Icelandic. My books are great, but apps are more helpful for establishing daily learning routines. I have been using Duolingo for Norwegian the past two weeks, but they do not have Icelandic, unfortunately. And it is Icelandic that I truly love and want to ‘master’ one day.

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Je suis paré (feminine: je suis parée) • I’m good to go • /ʒə sɥi pa.ʁe/

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Love Vocabulary in Norwegian

Kjærlighet - Love

Jeg forguder deg - I adore you (lit. I worship you)

Jeg elsker deg - I love you

Jeg er glad i deg - I love you

Jeg trenger deg - I need you

Jeg savner deg - I miss you

Jeg vil ha deg nå - I want you now

Jeg vil ha deg - I want you

Du er bare min - You are only mine

Jeg tenker på deg hele tiden - You are on my mind all the time

Kjæreste - Boyfriend/Girlfriend

Kyss - Kiss

Suss - Kiss

Nuss - Kiss

Gi meg et suss - Give me a kiss

Mamma kysset nissen - Mom kissed santa claus

Du er min eneste - You are my only one

Å gå ut med - To date/hang out with (lit. to go out with)

Å flørte - To flirt

Han flørte med henne - He flirted with her

Klem - Hug

Han gav meg et kyss på kinnet - He gave me a kiss on the cheek

Tungekiss (lit. Tongue kiss) - French kiss

Han kysset meg! - He kissed me!

Et lidenskapelig kyss - A passionate kiss

Et kyss - A kiss

Gi/Få - Give/Receive

Han ga henne en rose - He gave her a rose

Jeg har aldri elsket henne - I have never loved her

Jeg har aldri elsket med henne - I have never made love to (had sex with) her

Å forelske seg - To fall in love

Å bli glad i - To become fond of (to start to love/care about)

 Å falle for - To fall for

Jeg faller for deg - Im falling for you (Im falling in love with you)

Elske sin neste - Love one’s neighbor

Å kline - To make out

Å kile - To tickle

Du er min hjerteknuser - You are my heartbreaker

Hun er litt av en hjerteknuser - She break lots of hearts

Jeg elsker deg av hele mitt hjerte - I love you with all of my heart

Du har et hjerte av stein - You have a heart made of stone

Hjertet mitt slår for deg - My heart is beating for you

Du er hjerteløs - You are heartless/callous

Du varmer hjertet mitt - You are warming my heart

Hun har et godt hjerte - She has a good heart

Hjertesorg - Heartbreak

Hva har du på hjertet? (“hva har du lyst til å snakke med meg om?”) - What’s on your mind? (“what do you want to talk to me about?”)

Å ikke ha hjerte til (“ikke klare å gjøre (på grunn av medfølelse)”) - To not have the heart to (“be unable (because of compassion)”)

“Hjerte” rimer på “smerte” - Heart rhymes with pain (in Norwegian)

Jeg stoler på deg - I trust you

Jeg liker deg - I like you

Du har et vakkert smil - You have a beautiful smile

Øynene dine glitrer - Your eyes sparkle

Så lenge jeg er med deg, så er jeg glad - As long as I am with you, (then) Im happy

Kjærlighet på pinne -Lollipop

Du betyr så mye for meg - You mean so much to me

Du er søt - You are cute

Jeg lengter etter deg - I long for you

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Sean Kingston: ♪She's indecisive♫

Me: What does that mean?

Sean Kingston: ♬She can't decide♩

Me: Thanks

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there’s something so iconic about drinking any substance that is not wine out of a wineglass

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Since I’m a psychology major I decided I should make a vocab list with psychology-related words!

English - Norwegian - German

Basics:

Psychology - Psykologi - Psychologie.   Psychologist - Psykolog - Psychologe/Psychologin.  Psychiatrist - Psykiater - Psychiater/Psychiaterin.  Cognition - Kognisjon - Kognition.  Brain - Hjerne - Gehirn.  Thought - Tanke - Gedanke.  Behaviour - Atferd - Verhalten.  Phobia - Fobi - Phobie.  Memory - Hukommelse - Gedächtnis/Erinnerung.  Long-term memory - Langtidshukommelse - Langzeitgedächtnis.  Short-term memory - Korttidshukommelse - Kurzzeitgedächtnis. Conditioning - Betinging - Konditionierung. Classical conditioning - Klassisk betinging - Klassische Konditionierung. Operant conditioning - Operant betinging - Operante Konditionierung. Heuristic - Heuristikk - Heuristik.  Cognitive bias - Kognitiv bias - Kognitive Verzerrung. 

Biology: 

The nervous system - Nervesystem - Nervensystem. Neuron - Nevron - Nervenzelle. The endocrine system - Det endokrine system - Das endokrine System. Hormone - Hormon - Hormon.  Action potential - Aksjonspotensiale - Aktionspotential.  Resting potential - Membranpotensial - Ruhemembranpotential.  Frontal lobe - Pannelappen* - Frontallappen.  Parietal lobe - Isselapp* - Parietallappen.  Temporal lobe - Tinninglapp* - Temporallappen.  Occipital lobe - Bakhodelapp* - Okzipitallappen.  Forebrain - Prosencephalon* - Vorderhirn.  Midbrain - Mesencephalon* - Mittelhirn.   Hindbrain - Rhombencephalon* - Rautenhirn.  Cerebellum - Lillehjernen - Kleinhirn. 

Branches of psychology: 

Social psychology - Sosialpsykologi - Sozialpsychologie. Developmental psychology - Utviklingspsykologi - Entwicklungspsychologie. Personality psychology - Personlighetspsykologi - Persönlichkeitspsychologie. Biological psychology - Biologisk psykologi - Biopsychologie. Cognitive psychology - Kognitiv psykologi - Kognitive psychologie. Neuropsychology - Nevropsykologi - Neuropsychologie.

Mental health: 

Mental health - Mental helse - Psychische Gesundheit.  Mental illness - Mental sykdom - Geisteskrankheit**/Psychische Störung.  Diagnosis - Diagnose - Diagnose.  Medicine - Medisin - Medikament.  Psychopharmacology - Psykofarmakologi - Psychopharmakologie. Depression - Depresjon - Depression.  Anxiety disorder - Angstlidelse - Angststörung.  Bipolar disorder - Bipolar lidelse - Bipolare Störung.  Schizophrenia - Schizofreni - Schizophrenie.  Personality disorder - Personlighetsforstyrrelse - Persönlichkeitsstörung. Eating disorder - Spiseforstyrrelse - Essstörung. 

* When it comes to the anatomy of the brain, you can also use the English names in Norwegian.  ** Geisteskrankheit can have a negative connotation, Psychische Störung is a bit more neutral. 

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Translation & Linguistics BOOKS in English

Disclaimer: I haven’t read them all, but I wish I had! And the more linguistic books may be centred around the English language since they are in English. I’ll do a Spanish one too, and possibly a French one.

(These are Amazon links)

Translation

-  The Prosperous Translator: Advice from Fire Ant & Worker Bee, by Chris Durban.

-  In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, by Mona Baker.

- Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications, by Jeremy Munday.

- Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, by David Bellos.

- Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World, by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche.

- Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation, by Douglas Robinson.

- Translation: An Advanced Resource Book, by Basil A Hatim and Jeremy Munday.

- The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies, edited by Jeremy Munday.

- Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation, by Umberto Eco.

Linguistics 

- How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die, by David Crystal. 

- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, by David Crystal.

- Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, by Guy Deutscher.

- The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention, by Guy Deutscher.

- The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language, by David Crystal.

If you have any more suggestions, please don’t hesitate to leave them in the comments or as a reblog and I’ll add them!

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I think that everybody in the langblr community needs to cut themselves a break. Maybe you’re learning French and you’re trying to read a paragraph, but you only understand 10 or 15 words or maybe 2 or 3 sentences. That is frustrating, I get frustrated about similar things as well, but I always remind myself there was a time where I didn’t know those words and there was a time I couldn’t read those sentences. Any progress you make is good progress. Just because you’re not progressing as fast as you’d like doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be proud of smaller goals and accomplishments. And just because someone else seems to be learning quicker doesn’t make your time and effort worth any less. 

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me: i’m gonna learn another language

someone: don’t

my other targer languages: don’t

my attention span: don’t

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That post made me think of resetting my French duolingo progress, so I did. I got everything right  except the last question (I said voilà instead of voici what the--)

Kind of surprised I’m 58% fluent according to duolingo standards, though. Guess I must be doing something right??

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This post covers:

Grammatical gender

Singular indefinite & definite forms of nouns

Plural indefinite & definite forms of nouns

I’ve put it under a read more as it’s a bit long. Hopefully this info is useful to you!

Keep reading

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note: This masterpost is mostly made for new studyblrs, but anyone can grab ideas from this post if you are having trouble. 

The most common thing studyblr’s think when summer starts is that their tumblr or instagram will get really inactive because well um there’s no school. But don’t worry! Here I have a few things that you can post during summer that will keep your account active, and help motivate yourself during summer.  

It’s not for the followers or anything, it’s mostly because of what my school calls the “ Summer Slide,” It’s important that you keep on reading and studying during summer so you can be prepared for what is to come next year, which I think is rlly important!  

Khan Academy  

If you don’t already know about this, Khan is a website where it teaches you through videos not only math, but some science, history, and even music! A super great website and this goes from elementary to high school math, so in my case, I will be finishing the 8th-grade math course, and finish algebra I and algebra II. If you are a college student, try mathtv (ap math teacher recommended this website!)

Post ideas:  

Tumblr / instagram: You will have extra time to make your notes nice, so with whatever material you learn, make notes about it !!  

Youtube: you can do study with me’s! I love love watching these videos bc they help me motivate myself, and others! Spend those extra minutes making everything look aesthetic

        2.  Reading  

This is what my literature teacher was talking about!! Make sure to read read read!! My goal is to read 8 novels this summer! ( create a realistic goal for yourself as well! And remember! Make a short term goal because surpassing this small goal feels better than not surpassing a larger goal )

For elementary – high school students, use this website to find books!  You can filter the results to find something that suits you!  

Post ideas:  

Tumblr: you can write a mini book report about a book you’ve read, and use the #bookblr and #book so people from the books community can find your report! Make sure to add in for what grade level, your rating, overall thoughts, etc. !! Yo make sure to tag me if you got some 9-12th-grade book recs  

Instagram / tumblr: take some nice looking aesthetic photos of the books you read each couple of weeks!  

Youtube: If you already have book recs, share them with everyone in a video! Label for what grade levels you are recommending these books to!  

         3.  Bullet Journal  

I feel like this is the most obvious one aha, but share your bujo!! With summer now here, you can have that extra 30 minutes to make your bujo look so extra. (actually me all the time aha) but srsly, here are some ideas for your bujo instead of the regular spreads because there is a 99.9% chance that you will end up posting bujo pics anyway!

Make a kpop idol about spread! Choose your fave band, and each week print out some pictures of each member and make a spread that explains why you stan them, or just things that make them special! Find inspo from Queen here!  

If you aren’t into kpop, choose book characters from your fave book and write about a different character each week, or however long your summer break is!  

If you are going on vacation, make a travel spread that includes maps, receipts, or aesthetic things you find, and make it look nice! Include reviews about restaurants you have gone to, or things you liked about the country/city and stuff you didn’t etc. ( I have so many ideas I can blab forever )  

If you want to do the book review thing, but making entire posts would be difficult on you, you can make short paragraph reviews about it as a spread in your bujo, or if you read manga, ( !! ) you can make a review every 3-5 chapters you read!  

Create mood boards !!! Get some super artsy pics from we heart it or art blogs on tumblr (but always give credits), and create your aesthetic and something that will motivate you to study, or clean, etc!!  

For Instagram and tumblr, you can just post these as pictures, and add a nice filter, but with youtube, you can create bujo inspo ideas or the regular “monthly bujo spread”  

        4.  Food  

Okay, sooooo food is life guys. Share some healthy but yummy foods that will get people who see your posts be super super motivated to eat healthy.  

Check out some fun quick recipes here from my fave, that will motivate you to cook! (take advantage of the time you have now!) Make sure to make your pictures/content look nice!  

Post Ideas:  

Instagram and tumblr you can just post some nice aesthetic pictures, along with maybe your weekly bujo spread or something because it’s important to post relevant things since you are a studyblr.  

Youtube: you can post your weekly meal plan or maybe even teach/show foods you eat while studying, or what you recommend some healthy ( maybe even vegan?) alternatives to your regular junk food.  

        5. Queue  

It’s understandable that the stuff I mentioned might be almost impossible for some people because you either have sports, music lessons, etc. So posting original content might be difficult. If you don’t already know about this, meet your best friend queue !!  

Take 5 minutes out of your day, follow blogs that are going to be active in the summer (maybe even ask?) and queue their posts. In your tumblr setting, you can set up how many posts you want to post from your queue every day, and the time. Since I’m posting original content and stuff every week, I limit my queue for 2 posts every day. During the summer, I’m increasing it to 5 posts every day.  

This will help keep your account pretty active, and you can occasionally post your original content! This is totally a solution if you are limited in time  

For Instagram, try to at least post once a week so that your followers know that you have not abandoned the account.  

For youtube, let your subscribers know ahead of time that you won’t upload in let’s say, 2 weeks. This is important because when new people find your channel, they will be able to know that “Oh this person hasn’t uploaded in a month because of blah blah” Or you can always let them know to follow your tumblr, since you will be more “active” on there.  

Things to keep in mind:

Always always always compliment people! In their bujo, notes, or anything they post! That makes everyone happy (:

Don’t have your studyblr for the followers. It’s annoying sometimes when people do shout out for shout out on their insta stories.  

It’s totally okay for your pictures to not be aesthetic. It’s the content that counts.  

Appreciate the time you have now bc when its school, its crunch time  

I hope everyone who read this got something from this and gave you some good ideas on what to post during summer because I see a lot of people just having no idea, so I hope I helped!  

Also, if you do any of these ideas or you post videos of reviews or book reports, or make character bujo spreads please please please let me know!! I would love to see inspo on stuff like that, and it would really help me!  

Ps: If you want to follow an active account for the summer, I’m all open!  

Make sure summer vacation isn’t a barrier from you to keep on motivating others on your account!  

-graphics creds here