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constantly torn between "i wish I could magically learn this language immediately and speak it perfectly" and "part of language acquisition is the process, and learning it immediately wouldn't have as much meaning or significance to me"

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South German vs. North German beer commercials

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这是我的猫！

this is my cat!

esse é o meu gato!

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这也是我的猫！

this is also my cat!

esse é meu gato também!

writing 这 and 猫 by hand is kinda tricky right now but i'll keep practicing!

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langblr playlists

Hello :)

Listening to music in my target language(s) always helped me a lot with pronunciation, vocabulary and use of language, so i’ve decided to share my spotify playlists that each focus on one language!

Some of them are still under construction and don’t have a lot of songs, but they will grow, I promise!

Links:

A   Arabic   Assamese   Aymar aru   Austrian German

B   Belarusian   Bulgarian

C   Chinese   Croatian 

D   Dutch

E   Estonian

F   Finnish   French

G   Georgian   German   Gujarati

H   Hindi   Hungarian

I    Italian

J   Japanese

K   Kazakh   Khmer   Korean

L   Latvian   Lithuanian

M   Marathi

N   Norwegian

P   Polish   Portuguese   Punjabi

Q   Quechua

R   Romanian   Russian

S   Serbian   Sámi   Slovene   Spanish

T  Tagalog   Tamil   Telugu   Thai   Turkish

U   Ukrainian   Urdu

V   Vietnamese 

W  Welsh

Big playlist with non-English songs only: click here

If the playlist links do not work, this link will lead you to my page!

❗ The Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, and Spanish playlists are also available on YouTube! Unfortunately I don’t have the capacity to add more playlists to YT or update these existing ones atm ❗

Note: These playlists are sorted by language, not by country! You might notice different accents!

Keep reading

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I can’t believe the German word for dessert is just aftertable

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I fucking love 成语. Thanks @calystarose for letting me know about this one!

见色忘义 jiàn sè wàng yì - to forget loyalty when in love; hoes before bros

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Android app for German Learning

Do note * - it is means that I use apps only with apk/premium unlocker, bc for one reason or another, free version of the app is not usable/not so great.

And yes, I have duolingo as well - but we all had it at some point, so heh.

LingoDeer*:

great for picking up vocab;

better prononciation than in Duolingo;

though it is quite better for asian languages.

Chatterbug:

German videos;

German "shorts" like Youtubes/TikTok one;

Learngerman DW:

Basically cheating, bc we all love DW here, and if you don't - check it out, it is really great;

Easy German:

Learn german by reading newspaper articles!

Seedlang*:

Similar to an old duolingo with its tree, but quite lacking w/o premium.

LingQ*:

Read, listen, add your own sites/apps/videos for it to create a captions in German!

Create flashcards.

Readle:

Great app with a lot of short stories to test your reading skills;

little test at the end of each text to check if you understand what you have read;

Voice overs for every text!

Flashcards:

Better than Anki for me, since it is a lot easier to set up;

Avaliable voice overs for both sides of a flashcard.

Beelinguapp*:

App for reading!

Have a split screen and read 2 text (in your native & in German) at the same time;

Create flashcards~

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Chinese vocabulary I’ve learned recently

消费 = to consume, consumerism

听力 = hearing

收到 = to receive

顾客 = client

合适 = appropriate, suitable

服务 = to serve, service

上升 = to ascend, to rise

变成 = to become, to turn into

方便 = convenient

环境 = environment

凉快 = cool (for weather)

暖和 = warm

交通 = traffic, transportation

热闹 = lively

命运 = destiny, fate

必要 = necessary, elemental

楼 = building

地下室 = basement

笑话 = joke

秘密 = secret

预报 = forecast

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我最爱西瓜🍉💕好吃极了💕🍉 我正在吃西瓜 🍉💕

🙅🚫DNI要你不喜欢西瓜🚫🙅

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I think my biggest problem in studying languages is actually study them.

I picked this hobby which needs consistency in order to learn something, but probably I should have learnt "how to consistency" ... before.

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mndrn → calslang

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i hope you don't mind me correcting some of these

@ is the ending either a for women o for men or e for non gendered language

in love = enamorad@

kind = amable

bored = aburrid@

(perforad@ is pierced)

sensitive = sensible

(doloroso is painful)

Emotions (Spanish)

love = amor

worried = preocupado

angry = enojado

sad = triste

embarassed = avergonzada

afraid = asustado

kind = tipo

happy = feliz

amazed = asombrado

delighted = encantado

bored = perforado

tired = cansado

sensitive = doloroso

hate = odio

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Making a Chinese lacquerware bracelet

song: 兰亭序 - 周杰伦

English added by me :)

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English added by me :)

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Word of Honor Vocab - Episode 2

after much too long, here we go

若 (ruò) - as if; like

美若天仙

诚意 (chéng'yì) - good faith/sincerity

表明诚意

变数 (biàn'shù) - variable

此事变数很大

步法 (bù'fǎ) - footwork

你的步法很厉害

偏偏 (piān'piān) - lightly/airily; unrestrained

蝴蝶在花丛中偏偏飞舞 翩翩少年

仙 (xiān) - celestial being; immortal

凡人和神仙

眼疾 (yǎn'ji2) - eye trouble/ eye disease

我爷爷有眼疾所以它不看清楚

飘飘 (piāo'piāo) - to float about/to flutter

红旗飘飘

流风 (liú'fēng) - customs handed down from past generations

流风余韵

仿佛 (fáng'fú) - seemingly/as if

这事她仿佛已经知道了

轻 (qīng) - light (weight)

工作很轻

所谓 (suǒ'wèi) - what is called/what is known as; so-called

所谓团结，并非一团和气 他所谓的朋友都背弃了他

壶 (hú) - kettle/pot

壶里是开水

独酌 (dú'zhuó) - to drink alone

如果你很难过，你应该不独酌

尾随 (wěi'suí) - to tag along after

尾随其后

究竟 (jīu'jìng) - outcome/what actually happened

大家都想知道个究竟

妨 (fáng) - hinder/hamper; harm

你试一试也无妨 会妨大事

明示 (míng'shì) - to explicitly instruct

我明示你得做你的功课但是你还没做完了！

傻 (shǎ) - stupid/muddleheaded

吓傻了

剑 (jiàn) - sword

剑柄 拔剑

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Arabic influence on Spanish/Portuguese

Did you know that 4,000 words in Spanish and 3,000 words in Portuguese come from Arabic? This is due to Arabic influence on the Iberian peninsula, the height of which can be seen between 711 and 1492 during the kingdom of al-Andalus. In this period large parts of the peninsula were ruled by Muslim leaders. Remnants of Arabic vocab can be seen more in some areas than others. For example, culinary vocab and agricultural vocab:

(SPAN-PORT-ARABIC-ENG)

-azúcar -açúcar -as-suqar -sugar

-alcohol -álcool -al-kuhul -alcohol 

Notably, many of these loan words begin with “al” as it is a definite article in Arabic:

-almohada -almofada -al muẖádda -pillow

-algodón -algodão -al-qutn -cotton

Other examples for the Arabic influence on Spanish include: 

-bairro-bairro -al-barri -neighborhood

-aceite -azeite -al-zayt  -(olive) oil

-atún -atum -al-tūn -tuna

-sofá -sofá -al-suffat -sofa

SOURCES: https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/arabic-influence-on-spanish#:~:text=According%20to%20philologist%20Rafael%20Lapesa,modern%20Spanish%20come%20from%20Arabic. 

**Note I don’t speak Arabic, so please feel free to correct any mistakes that you may find.

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This definitely isn't an exhaustive list, just the most commonly listed in lists I saw online. Reblog for a bigger sample size!