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me: learning a language is a long, beautiful journey of patience, practice and consistency

also me: i shall to be fluent by TONIGHT

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♡ @my1lovejk ♡

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When your head hits the pillow tonight, remind yourself that you’ve done a good job. You are headed down your path at your own pace, and with every obstacle you are trying your utmost best. Be patient with yourself, and remember that big things are achieved not all at once, but one day at a time.

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At what point in life do I become the one that sends the “ok -Sent from my iPhone” reply instead of being the one that just spent half an hour trying to write a professional email 

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De momento octubre me ha traído 26 años ouch, un catarro enorme y toneladas de trabajo. Ser mayor apesta, no he tenido tiempo ni a decir que no tengo tiempo :( Por suerte, hoy tengo la mañana libre para organizarme un poco por fin!

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“To say there is no worth in learning a language that isn’t economically useful is like saying there’s no point in being friends with somebody unless they’re going to help you get a better job. It’s a spectacular, cynical miss of the point.”

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Rhona NicDhùghaill, “Don’t Neglect the UK’s Indigenous Languages”

The whole article is great, but this quote is especially stellar. 

(via allthingslinguistic)

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Bilingual Manga

I only recently discovered Bilingual Manga, a website where you can read Japanese manga for free. The text is all selectable, which means you can use it with addons like Rikaikun, or just copy/paste words or kanji into a dictionary. If you press the blue “Language Switcher” button, the text switches into English! It’s a really useful and fun tool to get used to reading in Japanese. Obviously, those learners who are more of an intermediate level, I’d recommend using this feature very sparingly, since you get more out of it if you use it as an “extra”, after trying to figure it out by yourself.

So far the website’s selection is really small and they’ve got only couple of chapters per manga, but I’d really recommend reading Yotsuba. So fat they have 14 chapters. It’s a really funny slice of life comic with useful vocabulary and variety of characters (and thus speech styles).

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Japanese warning signs that use yokai to get children to listen are my favourite thing. このへんはこわいぞ！！

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De momento octubre me ha traído 26 años ouch, un catarro enorme y toneladas de trabajo. Ser mayor apesta, no he tenido tiempo ni a decir que no tengo tiempo :( Por suerte, hoy tengo la mañana libre para organizarme un poco por fin!

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F. Scott Fitzgerald / The Great Gatsby

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Who decided we have to give up pure and wholesome things just to grow up? Sleeping with a little Pikachu plushie does not mean I don’t also make my own doctor appointments.

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Is it just me or do other people get homesick from books? Like, you miss the comforting feel of the characters, the fandom, and the world created by the author?