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ok, this is amazing. I found a great site with short stories in 34 languages!

"WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children.

We are adding new stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings every week. So keep coming back to enjoy new content!"

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German Pluralmarkers

In my Language Acquisition course, we got to the topic of plurals. Why are they difficult? Because there's SO MANY!

My prof criticized the tip "just always learn the plural when you learn the word" because yes, that is helpful but wouldn't it be more helpful to know that there's some regularity?! Just like the gender of nouns is not completely random (post about that here) Here are some of my prof's slides about the rules/probabilities:

the rules above cover around 40% of german words. there's more, of course, but they only cover around 4%:

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Hot Enby Language Summer 5: Language Jive

It's the 5th year of my self-inflicted language challenge that I never complete :D /hj

This silly little challenge has become quite special to me and I look forward to doing it every year!! Since it's the 5th edition, I'm going to be studying 5 languages (sort of). In rough order of priority, I'm studying French, German, Ancient Greek, Irish and a Wildcard language, where a Wildcard is whatever language I feel like dabbling in at the time. I don't expect to do all 5 every week, but I'd like to do a bit of everything over the course of the summer.

Language goals

French 🇫🇷

My top priority for obvious reasons!

Read! I want to read at least 1 magazine/short story collection, 1 translated novel and 1 originally French novel.

Watch a total of 20 French films

Complete the B1-B2 French course I have saved on Coursera

Make contact with at least 3 people in the city I'm going to in September, I'll really need francophone friends, method yet to be determined

German 🇩🇪

The epic return of German to HELS after (checks tag) 4 years! I'm planning at least 3 trips to Germany in the next 12 months and I want to reach a "can read menus, fumble through interactions politely and survive public transport" level

Complete a travel German course online - haven't decided which yet!

Do a few weeks of my German in 3 Months book - I did about 6 weeks of it a million years ago and I'd like to refresh my memory, phrase banks only get you so far and I'd like to be able to produce some German myself on the fly if needed

Read a yet undetermined amount of this old Nature Method of Learning German book I found - I can't find the link atm but if I remember I'll update my post, it's comprehensible input but for reading, the book is entirely in German and starts with very basic stuff and gradually builds up the level

Ancient Greek 🇬🇷

The only reason this is higher on the list than Irish is because I'm using an ebook from my uni's digital library and I won't have access to that forever, I'm the only one who seems to be borrowing it so I'm set for a while

Do one chapter a week from Learn To Read New Testament Greek by David Alan Black

Irish 🇮🇪

My old friend, I'm not ready to go back to structured studying just yet so I'm going to try a different approach

Watch this playlist of 20 short films in Irish

As a bonus I might pick up my violin and learn a few traditional Irish tunes? We'll see

Wildcard

A Wildcard is any language not on this list, and I can do as much or as little of that language for as long as I like <3

Hot Enby Language Summer will run from Monday 16th June to Sunday 14th September, and I'll write weekly update posts if I remember, let's get languaging :D

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我薆你 ngo5 oi3 nei5

我學粵語 ngo5 hok6 jyut6jyu5

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Voikohan sanoo 嗰個係好好kosk siis jos voi nii iha sairaan epic

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Hab diesen neuen App gefunden, er heisst Lingo Journal und ist super gut und motivierend!

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我講英文，德語同芬蘭語。

你好！我叫aaltjelng。 我二十一嵗。我芬蘭人。 好高興認識你。

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你好！我叫aaltjelng。 我二十一嵗。我芬蘭人。 好高興認識你。

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한국어 공부에 사용하는 앱들이에요.

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Turning my phone screentime into study time this week. Day 3!

Today's going to be a nightmare. 😵‍💫

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My newest obsession: hong kong cinema + cantonese in generall

So here's all the characters i've learned until now:'Dd

我叫 ngo5 gui3

你好 nei5hou2

好高興認識你 hou2 gou1hing3 jing6sik1 nei5

我者係 ngo5 dou1 hai6

我唔係中國人，我係芬闌人。ngo5 m4 hai6 zung1gwok3jan4, ngo5 hai6 fan1laan4jan4.

一二三四五六七八九十 jat1 ji6 saam1 sei4 ng5 luk6 cat1 baat3 gau2 sap4

花 faa1

茶 caa4

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Found a new language practice app!

Polygloss has you describe an image in your target language so another player can guess it. It encourages creative answers. The game works for people of all levels — you can describe simple pictures or try your hand at wordplay.

It has plenty of options and will let you add any language you’d like — tho it’ll probably be more difficult to find people to play with.

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Crosswords are forever my favourite way to learn vocabulary 🩷

And a moment to appreciate the stickers on my laptop. They're all characters with special meanings to me. I love them so much.

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I feel like finding editions of books in your target languages should be easier than it is.

Recently found a few German editions of contemporary books I love in order to help with my reading comprehension and vocabulary skills… but I am challenged to find French editions.

And getting ahold of a physical copy of the books, without having to travel to France or Germany, seems even harder.

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I think non-Germans might not be aware of this because there's rarely a way to naturally stumble upon it but

GERMAN IS INSANELY REPRESENTED ON WIKIPEDIA

I rarely see wiki entries (that aren't hyperspecific to a country or culture) that don't have a German page! In fact:

["Number of German articles on Wikipedia by 2023 (... in) June there were 2.8 Million German articles on Wikipedia. This places the German wikipedia on the third place of the ranking, whcih is lead by the English version with around 6.7 Million articles."]

41% of the English Wikipedia exists in German! This is a literal goldmine of content!!

Read about your interests! Look up your favorite celebrities! Read summaries of books, movies, mythologies, whatever your heart desires!!!!

Want to read but don't know what to search for? The homepage of the German Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Hauptseite) is updated everyday with - an article of the day - on this day in the past - in the news - recently deceased - did you know? for you to peruse. And of course, the German version has a "random article" function too! It's called "Zufälliger Artikel" or "Zufällige Seite" and can be found on the left side of the screen (laptop) and in the popup menu on the left side (mobile)!