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Hi everyone! Guess what?!? I just finished mg first ebook on how to learn Hangul!

The link is down below, if you guys could check it out, I would really appreciate it! It’s 6.99

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Hi everyone! Guess what?!? I just finished mg first ebook on how to learn Hangul!

The link is down below, if you guys could check it out, I would really appreciate it! It’s 6.99

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My first study video

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I changed up my feed! Go follow my studygram

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I recently posted on my studygram! Go check it out. These are some of my masato. Chinese notes

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A video of me attempting Italian

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Cats and kittens,

Here's a link to a Google doc file I created. You'll find:

Entire classic books written or translated to French (divided by country/continent + by genre in the French section)

The first chapter FR/EN of very famous novels

Quizzes (made by yours truly)

Have fun!

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DUTCH VOCABULARY: MEDICAL

NOUNS:

a general practitioner - een huisarts

a pediatrician - een kinderarts

a hospital - een ziekenhuis

a doctor - een dokter

a surgeon - een chirurg

a nurse - een verpleger/verpleegster

an anesthesiologist - een anesthesist

a general surgeon - een algemeen chirurg

a plastic surgeon - een plastisch chirurg

the medicine - het medicijn

the medication - de medicatie

the painkiller - de pijnstiller

the needle - de naald

the infusion - het infuus

the fluid - de vloeistof

the antibiotic(s) - het antibioticum, de antibiotica

the surgery - de operatie

the examination - het onderzoek

the prescription - het voorschrift

the illness - de ziekte

the emergency - het noodgeval

the wound - de wond

the concussion - de hersenschudding

the fracture - de breuk

the tear - de scheur

the accident - het ongeluk

the damage - de schade

the diagnosis - de diagnose

VERBS:

to operate/to perform surgery - opereren

to perform CPR - reanimeren

to heal - genezen

to prescribe - voorschrijven

to examine - onderzoeken

to break (a bone) - (een bot) breken

EXAMPLE SENTENCES:

Call an ambulance! - Bel een ambulance!

Is there a doctor present? - Is er een dokter aanwezig?

We need medical assistance. - We hebben medische bijstand nodig.

This is an emergency. - Dit is een noodgeval.

I’m having surgery next week. - Ik word volgende week geopereerd.

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The Aestics of Languages, from a girl w/ synesthesia

Norwegian: a clear babbling stream, snowy mountaintops, sea birds, reindeer, sledding down a hill

German: strong black coffe, cobblestone roads, cloudy skies, lustful gazes, red lipstick

Mandarin Chinese: walking down a city street, bustling crowds, stationary, the sound of opening a new book

Spanish: warm summer sun, laughter, bright smiles, dancing until you can’t anymore, gold earrings

Dutch: warm hugs, waffles with cream, good cheese, the smell of an old library

Hindi: marigold flowers, a sense of peace, brilliantly colored vegetables, flowing vibrant clothes

Icelandic: wind rolling over hills, crashing waves, tinkling bells, icicles

French: early morning sunrises, sleeping under a new duvet, strawberries, sharply drawn eyeliner

Italian: home cooked meals, singing alone in your room, boats

Swahili: music that you can’t help but dance to, winning at your favorite game, water dripping into a puddle, golden eyes, dark hair

Arabic: body art, mosaics, glitter, rainbows cast from sunlight through crystal

Japanese: delicate flowers, well made machinery, studying with friends, fireflies, the first snow of winter

Irish: flute music, wet grass, fairy whispers, a full moon, playing with children

Russian: alcohol, runner’s high, bronze statues, old buildings, heartfelt conversations

Feel free to add your own!!

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Let’s bust a myth.

Irish is NOT hard.  It is NOT hard to learn. It is NOT impossible to learn.  Irish is actually quite an easy language. The keyword here is that it’s different. It’s a different kind of language. Not your Standard European Average language like German or French. There is a lot of influence from Semitic languages, which is attributed to either substratum, language contact and…coincidence?  Here’s a list of reasons why Irish is not hard to learn. 1. It’s phonetic.  Once you learn the rules of reading it, you can read almost any word, no matter how confusing and long it is. It’s phonetic. So each letter or group of letters correspond to one sound. There may be slight alterations in the various dialects, but you can’t go horribly wrong like you can in English.

2. It’s regular.  There are only 11 irregular verbs and out of those, only 6 are pretty crazy and have to be looked out for, other than that, there are very few exceptions. 

3. Look out for mutations Lenitions and eclipses. They mark grammatical meaning (like inflections do in other languages, for example) and they make a huge difference. Sometimes, there are disputes between dialects (ar an bhus and ar an mbus, i’m looking at you Ulster and Munster), but you’re not going to make a huge faux-pas when you say mo teaglach instead of mo theaglach. You’re going to be understood, you’ve just made a mistake. 4. The few resources there are are actually very good.  I’m going to be posting about these in the crash courses I’m planning to do.  5. Look out for genitive Genitive is tricky and sneaky. But it can be looked up if you’re having trouble since again, it is very regular.  6. The Irish speakers are the most welcoming and supporting language community I’ve met No shade towards other communities (honestly, still scared of French people), but if you show just a little bit of knowledge of Irish, you will be praised and everybody is going to be so happy. If you make a mistake, no problem, everybody makes mistakes, you learn from mistakes. That’s the kind of approach I’ve experienced so far anyway.  If fears of difficulty are keeping you from learning Irish, don’t let them. Irish is NOT hard and it’s not worth being scared of.

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9 points about language learning and how I’m learning 20+ of them

I’ve had a few requests to write about how I learn my languages. To different degrees, there’s currently 20+ of them and I don’t see myself stopping yet. The thing is, learning languages comes really easily to me and I want to share, maybe it will be helpful to somebody else.

First, I’d like to have a look at first versus second language acquisition. I’m a linguist and I’m super interested in Child Language Acquisition. That however, has a critical age of 14 (or so I was always told) and is then no longer possible and any language learned after that age will never progress as quickly or can’t be learned perfectly. Well. I disagree. The simple difference is - first language acquisition is how you acquired your first language(s) as a child. By imitating, finding patterns, etc. Second language acquisition is what you know from language courses. Vocabulary, irregular verb tables, endless exercises. Now that we got some of the terminology off the table, let me see how I actually learn languages: 1) I utilise elements of the first language acquisition rather than second language I’ve only studied vocab a couple times at school, when I put them into Quizlet or when someone forced me to. I’ll get back to it in another point. I don’t learn patterns. I know there is one and I let the input do its magic of slithering into my head. Again, more on that in point 2. You always get told you’ll learn a language better when you’re thrown into the country where they speak it.  And it’s so true because of the processes behind it. Because input and immersion are the keys and that’s how children learn, too.

2) I don’t cram languages. I process them.

Around langblrs, I keep seeing all the ‘crying over verb tables’, ‘trying to learn a 1000 words this week’ and the like. That may work for you, sure. But I’ve never done that. I did learn a few irregular verb patterns for German in class, but while I could recite them, it wasn’t helpful. In Irish, I sometimes still wonder which verb ‘An ndeachaigh tú?’ comes from. The thing is, you’re able to process language. You know this word is probably irregular. If you come across it and don’t know what the irregular form is, look it up. After you’ve looked it up for the tenth time, you’ll probably remember by then. Same with anything else. Don’t try to learn things by heart when it comes to languages. 3) Vocab?? Same rule applies here. I’ve only learned vocab at school and then a handful of times when I wasn’t too lazy to put it into Quizlet (which is fun and I learn something, but it’s more of a useful pastime than anything). When you read, just skip the words you don’t know and only really look them up if you can’t tell by context. NEVER translate vocabulary. I mean, sure, look up what it means, but don’t connect it to the word itself. Connect it to the meaning. Pictures work better. As for abstract words, imagine the concept. Just try not to bridge the meaning of the word with your native language. Languages in your brain are meant to be two separate units. Unless you’re working on a translation piece, they shouldn’t be ‘touching’. 4) I use example sentences for everything.

Grammar guides are useful but rather than learning all the rules at once, take it one step at a time and remember some example sentences and let them guide you through the grammar rule you need.

5) Input is everything. Output is hard, but you’re basically imitating input and utilizing patterns you know (or think you know). Let me give you an example. Let’s say I’m writing a piece on my daily routine, for example. I make use of the example sentences and try to tailor them to my own needs. Trial and error, if I make a mistake, it’s okay, if somebody points it out, I probably won’t make it next time. As I progress, I will gradually remove the mistake. Same goes to new words and new verbs. Use the input you’ve got. Does this verb sound like some other verb you’ve heard before? It’s might have a similar conjugation pattern. You can check it, you don’t have to.

6) Learning languages should NOT be stressful! I never stressed over learning a language. Sure, I’m frustrated that after a year and a half of learning Irish, I’m not 100% fluent, but I’ve never stressed over it. I’ve never cried over it. I’ve never cried over a language (I only cried after a French oral exam which I thought I failed). Don’t be hard on yourself and try learning through a method that’s not stressful. Watch videos for children. Read books for children. Write down cool things in your target language(s). 7) You’ve learned a language before. Why wouldn’t you be able to learn it now in a very similar way? This is basically me saying that I have little belief in the efficiency of pure second language acquisition. Maybe a few individuals can reach fluency by cramming a language, the thing is, I think that if we concentrate on processing instead of remembering, just like we did when we were children, we can reach better results in a shorter amount of time. Also, if this is your third or fourth language, compare to languages you already know. 8) I don’t start with basics. I start ‘somewhere’.

Delve into the language the second you’ve started. Are you overwhelmed? That’s fine! You’ll find your way around it. Start with word meanings, finding out what kind of sentences those are and then build your way around it. Don’t start saying ‘hello’ and ‘I’m from’. Those are cool, but usually, they are used in a different way when you actually go out and speak. You’ll get them along the way.

9) Don’t rely on instructions (only). Rely on yourself.

This is just my two cents. I’ve pieced this together trying to remember how I’ve learned what I’ve learned and comparing it to how others around me learned. Please, let me know if it makes any sense. I may edit this and post this again later if I have any more ideas. Feel free to contribute or to bombard me with questions. I’m happy to answer.

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Heya! I've decided to come up with one of these since challenges really help me get on my track again and I've been procrastinating too much

How it works

Choose a target language (if you want to do it with more than one then by all means go ahead)

Look up five (5) new words each day

Make flashcards about the words (this will work as your study material)

Write a sentence with each word (this is optional)

If you want you can post your word list on Tumblr using the tag #fivewordsaday

That's it! Nice and easy!

When do we begin?

October 15th

I have no idea what words to look for!

You can try different topics each day:

School

The beach

Animals

Nature

Seasons

Body parts

Colours

Clothes

Adjectives

Verbs

Halloween themed

I'll be posting my word list for you guys and if you'd like a link to my Quizlet flashcards just tell me and I'll post that too.

Good luck to anyone trying this out!

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From Beginner to Intermediate: an intense plan for advancing in language

Introduction

I studied Spanish at school for 3 years and now I'm at a low B1 level. I can actually understand pretty well while listening or reading but I can't communicate fluently.

This plan will include vocabulary build up, some grammar revision, a lot of listening, reading and writing. And could be used for the most languages, not only Spanish.

Plan

Every day:

Conjugate one verb in present, past and future tenses

Make a list about 10 - 30 words long

Create flashcards with them and start learning them (I use Quizlet for flashcards)

Revise yesterday's set of flashcards

2-3 times a week:

Read an article or a few pages from a book

Write a few sentences about anything in your target language

Listen to one episode of podcast (at least one)

Once a week or every two weeks:

Watch a movie in your target language, preferably animated movie as the language used there is easier. You can watch with subtitles

Grammar exercises

Translate some short text

Once a month:

Write something longer, like an essay or report, on chosen topic

Additionally:

Talk to yourself, to your friends, to your pets

Text with someone

Look at the transcription while listening to the podcast for second time

Repeat what you hear (in podcast or movie)

Check words you don't know from the listening and reading

Read out loud

Listen to music in your target language - you can even learn the text and sing along

Watch YouTube in your target language

Change your phone language to the one you're learning

Think in you target language!!!

***This is very intense plan for self-learners, you don't have to do all of these things in the given time. Adjust it to your own pace. I'll try to stick to this, if I have enough time.***

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Masterlist

╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮ Basic - 기본 ♡ Beginners Masterlist ♡ Hangul - 한글 (한국어 알파벳) ♡ Korean Numbers -  한국어 번호 ♡ Calendar -  달력 ♡ Korean Sentence Structure ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯  ╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮  Vocab - 어휘 ♡ Christmas - 크리스마스 ♡ New Year -  새해 ♡ Grocery Shopping - 식료품 쇼핑 ♡ Korean Onomatopoeia -  한국어 의성어 [part 1] || [part 2] ♡ Clothes - 옷 ♡ Animals - 동물들 ♡ Idol Phrases - 관용구 ♡ Fruit - 과일 ♡ Veggies - 채소 ♡ Spring - 봄 ♡ Body - 몸 ♡ Family - 가족 ♡ Korean Slang / Shortened Expressions ♡ LGBT+ Vocab - 엘지비티 + slang ♡ Korean Homonyms - 한국어 이의어 ♡ Summer Vocab - 여름 어휘 ♡ Birthday Vocab - 생일 어휘 ♡ Occupations - 직업 ♡ Space - 우주 ♡ Phone - 전화 ♡ Traveling - 여행 ♡ Money - 돈 ♡ K-ommon Korean Phrases ♡ Colour Vocab - 색깔 어휘 ♡ Directions Vocab - 쪽 어휘 ♡ Cooking Vocab - 요리하기 어휘 ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯  ╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮  Korean Culture - 한국 문화 ♡ Korean Age - 한국 나이 ♡ Shoulders in Korea  ♡ Batchim - 받침 ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯ ╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮  Grammar - 문법 ♡ Conjugation - 동사  ♡ Particles -  문법적 입자 ♡ Counters -  복수형  ♡ -고 싶다 - want ♡ -ㄹ/을 것이다 - future tense ♡ More than - 보다 더 + comparing verbs ♡ -잖아요 - As you Know ♡ Adding plural counters to NOUNS ♡ The many versions of: 같다 ♡ Useful Verbs + How to Use Them!           [part 1] || [part 2] || [part 3]  ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯  ╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮ Helpful Asks - 질문들 ♡ FAQ ♡ 이다 Conjugation ♡ “Is this right?” Korean Translation ♡ “How are you?” Korean Translation ♡ 이에요 / 입니다 Uses and Rules ♡ 행복하다 - meaning ♡ 난 네 블로그를 사랑해 - I love your blog ♡ Why did he say 언니??  ♡ Korean Spacing ♡ Am I a Koreaboo?      ~ Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3  ♡ Why is it -서 instead of -고? ♡ Korean Texting Abbreviations ♡ Sentence Structure ♡ Gender Neutral Korean Titles ♡ Difference between 저/제/저의 and 나/너/나의 ♡ Korean Difference ♡ Motivation to be courageous while speaking! How To: ♡ Staying Motivated / Focused ♡ Study Grammar! ♡ Improve Handwriting ♡ Improve Pronunciation ♡ Not Struggle with Hangul ♡ “Introduce Myself” (자기소개) ♡ Say you’re studying Korean for fun! ♡ Speak confidently in Korean ♡ Pronounce ‘ㄹ’ ♡ Go from basic beginner to intermediate/advanced ♡ Elongate Texts in Korean ♡ STOP Translating in your head! ♡ Say ‘Thank you’ in Korean Recommended: ♡ Textbooks ♡ Apps ♡ Websites ♡ Tips for Beginners ♡ Webtoons Korean Differences: ♡ 선생님 vs 교사 / 실 vs 방 / 늘 vs 항상 ♡ 이야기하다 vs 말하다 ♡ 친구 vs 벗 ♡ 담요 vs 이불 ♡ 저의 vs 제 ♡ 당신 vs 너 ♡ 은/는 vs 이/가  ♡ 안녕하세요 vs 여보세요  ♡ 어 vs 오 ♡ 안녕히 가세요 vs 안녕히 계세요 ♡ -말 vs -어 ♡ 생선 vs 물고기 ♡ 봤어요 vs 보았어요 ♡ -는 것 같다 // 같다 // -를 것 같다 ♡ 함께 vs 같이 ♡ 않다 vs 아니다 ♡ 노래 vs 송 ♡ 외 // 왜 // 웨 ♡ 좋다 vs 좋아하다 ♡ -ㄹ/을 수 있다 vs (잘) 못+verb ♡ 진짜 vs 진심 ♡ 오래되다 // 늙다 // 낡다 ♡ 심심하다 vs 지루하다 ♡ 위해서 // 때문에 // 덕분에 ♡ noun+verb VS noun+을/를+verb ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯  ╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮  About Me ♡ Introduction -  자기 소개 ♡ 깜작이야 vs 감자탕 ♡ How I got my Korean Name ♡ My Study Routine ♡ My Face ♡ SK101 IG & TWITTER ♡ 10k Follower Special - About Me ♡ My YouTube Channel ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯  ╭─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╮  Reading Comprehension ♡ Little Red Riding Hood - 빨간 모자        Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 ♡ Diary - 일기        Part 1 || Part 2 || Part 3 || Part 4 ♡ My Friend Jiyeon        Part 1 || Part 2 ╰─━━━━━━━━━━━━─╯  under construction constantly

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Korean Curse Words

anon asked: 안녕하세요! My Korean friends keep telling me bad words in Korean but not tell me what they mean! Please help me know what they mean? Can you give a list of all the swears in Korean?

Hello! 안녕하세요! I did an ask similar to this I can link them here [x]. 

AS A REMINDER: This is for educational purposes only! Please read the following blog with caution. I will censor all words, so use your imagination. 

놈 - b*stard

년 - b*tch

좆 - d*ck/c*ck (this word can usually be combined with other swears)

개새끼 - SOB // son of a b*tch (can be shortened to 개새)

씨발 - f*ck

젠장 - damn it!

병신 - jerk / *sshole

엿먹어 - f*ck you

꺼져 - get the hell out / leave me the f*ck alone

보지 - p*ssy

좆됐어 - i’m f*cked / it’s f*cked

미친(놈/년) - crazy b*stard / b*tch

좆나//존나 ‘x’ - f*cking ‘x’      > you can use this like 존나 맛있어 - fkn delicious!

변태 - pervert

These are really the only ones I know - so if other ppl have more, put them in the comments or reblog to help anon out! 

I hope this helps! Now when your Korean friends tell you a bad word, you can trick them haha! Best of luck and Happy Learning :)

~ SK101

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Russian Language Learning Vocab

язык {m} - language лингвистика {f} - linguistics грамматика {f} - grammar основная грамматика - basic grammar грамматическое упражнение - grammar exercises слово {nt}/слова - word/s ударение в слове - word stress составное слово - compound word правило {nt} - rule падеж {m} - case существительное {nt} - noun глагол {m} - verb вспомогательный глагол - auxiliary verb возвратный глагол - reflexive verb прилагательное {nt} - adjective наречие {nt} - adverb женский - feminine мужский - masculine средний род - neuter время {nt} - tense аспект {m} - aspect спряжение {nt} - conjugation заметки - notes предложение {nt} - sentence память {f} - memory английский - english русский - russian французский - french немецкий - german испанский - spanish итальянский - italian хинди - hindi арабский - arabic китайский - chinese японский - japanese корейский - korean украинский - ukrainian польский - polish белорусский - belarusian греческий - greek турецкий - turkish португальский - portuguese валлийский/уэльский - welsh шведский - swedish финский - finnish голландский - dutch латвийский - latvian литовский - lithuanian эстонский - estonian румынский - romanian иврит - hebrew перевод {m} - translation (устный) переводчик - translator/interpreter трудность {f} - difficulty акцент {m} - accent носитель языка - native speaker тон {m} - tone перевести/переводить - to translate слушать - to listen спрягать - to conjugate говорить - to speak читать - to read писать - to write произносить - to pronounce декламировать - to recite повторять/повторить - to repeat копировать - to copy пытаться - to attempt учиться - to learn учиться/изучать - to study

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vocab list ideas;

(also in no particular order)

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