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time: next year is 2020

me: yeah

time: this means that 2010 would have been 10 years ago

me: no

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Instead of asking your tarot cards if you will achieve a specific outcome, ask your tarot cards how you can achieve a specific outcome.

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Today is the European Day of Languages. Currently, there are many languages both native to Europe and to the rest of the world risking becoming extinct in the next few decades as a result of linguistic imperialism and prejudice and discrimination of their communities.

This post is a compilation of initiatives where you can help preserve our linguistic (and, as a consequence, cultural) diversity around the world. All of them are projects run by the community itself.

Under the cut you will find the projects, an explanation of where the money would go to and the link to their official explanation and fundraising page. The languages included are:

Greko (or Calabrian Greek)

Navajo

Septemptrional Catalan

Yuchi

Cornish

Wampanoag

Feel free to add more in your reblog or message me and I will add them to this post.

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It kinda broke my mind a few years ago when I learned that people’s voices are slightly different depending on which language they’re speaking and I asked my friends if I did that and they told me my voice is definitely different when I speak English vs Portuguese (apparently my tone is softer in Portuguese, which was a surprise, lol).

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huh that seemingly unpleasant task only ended up taking eight minutes to complete and was surprisingly satisfying, I may have erred in putting it off for two weeks.

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holy shit greta thunberg just fucking murdered trump

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Me: I love languages!

Also me: *hasn't practice in days* *forgets words for common stuff* *what's grammar* *avoid native speakers*

Me: yeah, I love languages

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Family

η οικογένεια - family

το άτομο - person

ο άνδρας / ο άνθρωπος - man

η γυναίκα - woman

το παιδί - child

το αγόρι - boy

το κορίτσι - girl

ο παππούς - grandpa

η γιαγια - grandma

ο πατέρας - father

ο μπαμπάς - dad

η μητέρα - mother

η μαμά - mom

ο γιος - son

η κόρη - daughter

ο αδελφός - brother

η αδελφή - sister

ο θείος - uncle

η θεία - aunt

ο ανηψιός - nephew

η ανηψιά - niece

ο ξάδελφος - cousin (male)

η ξάδελφη - cousin (female)

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I found these on my phone, hopefully they will help someone

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Why did we stop speaking Latin??? Like that's the most beautiful language I've heard so far.

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Sono all'ospedale, c'è una canzone siciliana sottofondo e un fan alle mie spalle, fuori c'è 17 gradi e mi chiedo perché cazzo il fan è acesso SE FA FREDDO

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August target language writing challenge

Day 20 | Write whatever’s on your mind :) 

Il mese non è finito, ma voglio ringraziare @sciogli-lingua per correggere i miei testi. Sto imparando tantissimo con i miei sbagli. Mi aiuta molto scrivere questi testi e mi sono reso conto che sbagliare è normale quando scrive in un'altra lingua.Sono reso più felice e fiducioso di scrivere, parlare e capire le miei connazionali.

Obrigada, L 😊 Se precisar de ajuda com o português, pois conte comigo pra tudo!

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August target language writing challenge

Day 19 |  Name a fictional character who you identify with.

Cather Avery del libro Fangirl (Rainbow Roll). 

Attualmente non mi identifico così tanto a lei, perché la prima volta che ho letto questo libro avevo 15/16 anni, e adesso ho 20 anni.

Lei ha dei problemi d'interazioni sociali, fobia sociale e anche ama scrivere fanfiction. Io la comprendevo perché mi sentivo così, quindi lei è stata il personaggio in cui mi identificavo.

@sciogli-lingua

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I’m alive & well 💙

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Non capisco un cavolo di tedesco, però mi è piaciuto un sacco :) 

My first “official” entry for the #SpeakingIn20 challenge after yesterday’s introduction! I was supposed to talk about TV, but I barely watch any so this got out of hand pretty quickly 😂

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August target language writing challenge

Day 17 | Name a place you would seriously move to

Diciamo che è ovvio, certo che sarebbe l’Italia.

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After receiving so much positive feedback from people saying they’d love to join me in my latest quest to improve my speaking, I’ve decided to create an official langblr challenge: #SpeakingIn20

Background: I’ve always neglected my speaking skills in Norwegian, and I decided that for the remainder of the year I want to try to do 10 minutes dedicated speaking practice 6 days a week, clocking a total of an hour a week, and thus have 20 hours under my belt by the end of the year. I recorded an intro with the intention of rerecording a similar intro at the end of the year and seeing how much I’ve improved in that time.

Because this was born from the goal of using the last 20 weeks of 2019 to do 20 hours of dedicated speaking practice, so that in 2020 I’ll actually feel like I can speak Norwegian to some (small) degree, I felt like #SpeakingIn20 worked!

The goal of this challenge is to get in a set amount of speaking practice every week, and see how much you’ve improved by the end of the year.

The Rules Of This Challenge Are:

Start by picking a challenge level:

Chill - do the challenge 1-2 days a week

Medium - do the challenge 3-4 days a week

Hardcore - do the challenge 5-7 days a week

Pick a time goal for each day. (Eg 2 mins, 5 mins, 10 mins etc - this is totally up to you!)). You’re going to try to speak for that amount of time every day you do the challenge! Note: you don’t have to do it all in one go - if you can’t talk for 5 minutes straight, it’s okay to break it down into 5x1 minute sessions.

Record a little introduction. You don’t have to share it with tumblr if you’re too self-conscious; you just want to have a record of your starting point, so you have something to compare to at the end of the year. It can be as long or as short as you like!

You can talk about whatever you want, however I will be posting prompts at the start of every week and will keep a masterpost with all the previous prompts, so if you get stuck you can look to that for inspiration.

You can use notes if you want (eg vocab lists, things you want to mention, other visual prompts), but try to avoid just reading out something you’ve pre-written if possible. (It’s totally okay to write something out to start with so you can get an idea of holes in your vocab, just condense it down to notes before you try speaking!)

You can also do pronunciation drills such as repeating words you find difficult, practising tongue twisters, reciting the alphabet etc.

Record yourself speaking if possible. Again, you don’t have to upload anything if you don’t want to - you can just post about how you’re getting on - but you can if that helps to keep you accountable! Once you’re done, make sure you listen back to your recording and make a note of what you did well and what you need to work on still.

Use the hashtag #SpeakingIn20 so we can find each other. You can also hashtag with the level you’re doing and the language you’re learning like so: eg #SpeakingIn20Chill #SpeakingIn20German etc

If you want to do multiple languages, go for it! Just try to be consistent with what you do (ie don’t start skipping out on one language)

Anyone can join at any time! So if you miss the start now, or if you fall off the wagon, you can still (re)join later

Please reblog and spread the word! Speaking’s so difficult, it’d be awesome to have as many of us as possible cheering each other on!