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probably i just said it but i want to say it again:

- don’t apologise if you don’t know english.

- yes, english is the most common language on the internet but you are not forced to know it perfectly.

- your own language is beautiful.

- non-english people make a huge effort to write in English everyday on this website.

- support non-english people and don’t make them feel bad if they do not know English. 

- actually support all the languages.

- spread more language diversity on Tumblr.

thank you. 

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actually not emotional over graduating university, just over losing my jstor access

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intro to lit theory

Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?

Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies

Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus

Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power

Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble

Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;

Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  

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Please fucking lie to your employer. Like they don’t need to know your mental health issues or what drugs you do. Ffs

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people say folks with adhd struggle with "delayed rewards" aka long term goals and as such we tend to focus more on short term rewards. what they don't talk about is that at when we Do accomplish long term goals we don't actually feel anything proportionate to the amount of work we did to achieve it. In my head I suffered for a while and then money spontaneously appeared in my bank account.

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My latest cartoon for @GuardianBooks.

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feminism 🤝 othering 🤝 philosophical bullshit

running out of ideas in a last minute english lit essay

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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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yeag

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I can pretty much read in Spanish at an intermediate level and listen to a lot of music so a lot of the vocab I use or understand is literary or more flowery. Meanwhile I can't speak a word of it and have the most basic knowledge gaps.

this is a friendly reminder that language proficiency levels aren't 100% accurate and appliable to everyone. you can be able to talk about evolution and use the subjunctive mood but have no idea how to describe your daily activities. you can not know many synonims but be adept at explaining stuff. you can be able to name every single thing at the supermarket but unable to form a sentence with reported speech. you can not remember jobs names but know slang and dialects. you can read the classics but barely speak or write.

language learning is multifaceted and it's completely normal to develop certain skills before others. sometimes it's because some are easier for a particular person. sometimes it's because some are more useful in one's context. the point is, whatever set of skills you have, it's great. keep going.

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!! even when I don't know a word in English, I usually look up examples so I know how to use it (especially with technical words that I learn/use at uni)

Look, I knew five languages by age 19 and now I am learning like 3 more. I work as a language instructor and a consultant. If I can give language learners only one advice, this is it.

STOP LEARNING WORDS ON THEIR OWN.

You're doing yourself a disservice by learning lists of "30 words you must know!" "100 most common words!" like it literally means nothing if you cannot use those words in an appropriate context with proper grammar. So what you actually need to do is learn those words via example sentences.

Of course, sentences have more words so you may think you're learning less but you're actually learning the way to use it in context. That's what's important.

Language is about communication, which also means if you want to learn languages, you have to observe how people communicate with each other universally. Native speakers never have a list of words they know and they don't count every single new word they've learned. So why are you doing it to yourself? What native speakers do is listen to the new word, remember the context they're spoken in, and keep using that word in that context. And that's why people go "wait, you can use that word LIKE THAT?" all the time. So you, a language learner, are also allowed to do that. I'm not even saying those word lists are useless but they're the most useful AFTER you've known most of them and are trying to go over them for practice etc. Native speakers do click on those word lists to check out how many words they don't know or to remind themselves of those words or to learn some facts about each word. That should be your goal as well.

Learn sentences. Learn them in context. Do not fall into the "I must know xx amount of words or I'm a failure at language learning" trap perpetuated by bloggers or youtubers or whatever. Have fun with it!

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dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

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I've never really revised in the traditional sense (only when doing homework) and thought it was so weird that I did my best work when I just explained/taught the material to someone else/discussed it/made analogies that worked for my brain

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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It's been a while — I honestly don't remember if I've posted on here before lol but I've been lurking on langblr/writeblr/studyblr for a couple of years and now I'm here !!

× they/he

× native 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

× a2 🇪🇸 learning 🇧🇻

× obnoxious english student who likes writing essays for some reason

× i like both fiction and nonfiction. i also like the vibe of poetry but i have yet to understand one ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

× will post stuff directly and indirectly related to languages/studying/writing and stuff that has nothing to do with it <2

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Queer Multilingualism Linguistics Survey

Hi! My name is Gabe, and I am an undergraduate Linguistics student. You may have seen me put out a linguistics survey previously; this was for a graduate course, and I am still organizing that data and working on that paper. However, I have another research paper in a different linguistics course on Globalization of queer identities, and how language may affect the way queer identities are viewed and talked about. I am running another survey to collect data for this paper as well.

If you are queer and bilingual/multilingual, please consider taking this survey! How long it will take depends on the depth of your answers, but I would say 15-20 minutes is maybe a good estimate.

The survey can be found here, and I ask that you please reblog so it can reach more people! The survey will close on Friday, April 14th, at some point, so that I can begin organizing my data.

Thank you!

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international asexuality day TOMORROW how are we all feeling