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Spanish Listening 2

19.08.2020

Content: vocabulary about describing yourself & others from a Spanish video under the cut

You can watch the video here

If there are any errors, please let me know :)

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Day 16/100

#2. Learn 10 new words

la constitución - constitution

la práctica - practice

vestir - to dress

introducir - to introduce

la visita - visit

cruzar - to cross

el dolor - pain

el dedo - finger

parar - to stop

la velocidad - velocity, speed

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Day 15/100

#30. Change your phone’s settings to your target language for 1 day.

I've actually done this for a few months in the past! I learned a lot more vocabulary by having my phone in Spanish instead of English. Half of my targeted ads are still in Spanish or Spanglish (mix of Spanish and English)! Weird but effective way of getting better? Try it out :)

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Day 14/100

#90. Learn some lines from a poem.

“No duerme nadie por el cielo. Nadie, nadie. No duerme nadie. Las criaturas de la luna huelen y rondan sus cabañas. Vendrán las iguanas vivas a morder a los hombres que no sueñan y el que huye con el corazón roto encontrará por las esquinas al increíble cocodrilo quieto bajo la tierna protesta de los astros.” 

- Excerpt from Ciudad sin sueño by Federico García Lorca

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✨✨ Language progress really doesn’t come in big leaps, it comes in tiny tiny little steps. It’s really hard to notice that you’re making progress, but I promise you are. You do notice sometimes though, maybe how far you’ve come over a year when you revisit a text you can now totally understand it, whereas before you could just pick out words here and there. You’re doing so well and every little thing you learn is getting you closer and closer to knowing the language. Don’t give up, keep going!! ✨✨

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Day 13/100

#24. Learn 5 words related to pets.

las garras - claws la correa -  leash el acuario - aquarium la rueda del hámster - hamster wheel el collar de perro - dog collar

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Day 12/100

#73. Watch an episode or a youtube video (subbed/dubbed).

I watched a video by grace en internet about the worst job that she has had. I used the auto generated subs to see her words in Spanish since that helps me to distinguish between certain words. 

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Day 11/100

#64. Learn 2 idioms.

Ser una rata.

Direct translation: To be a rat.

Meaning: To be stingy.

English equivalent: To be a tightwad.

Dar la vuela a la tortilla.

Direct translation:  To turn the omelet around.

Meaning: To turn the situation around.

English equivalent: To turn the tables.

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Expresiones útiles en español avanzado 🧪🌝🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️

 tomar posesión de algo - to acquite, to procure sth

Las protestas sacudieron la ciudad. - Protests erupted in the city.

incluyente - inclusive

elegido en las urnas - elected

avanzar hacia algo - to work towards sth

trastocar algo - to disrupt sth

inédito - unprecedented

combativo - militant

el escenario - stage

ir más allá - to go further

estar al frente - to be at the forefront

Algo es un hito. - Sth is a milestone.

hacer resaltar algo - to emphasize sth

gubernamental - governmental

traer problemas - to cause trouble

tener la cabeza fría - to keep a cool head

dejarse llevar por los problemas - to give in to problems

algo trae oportunidades - sth brings opportunities

cerrar las brechas de inequidad - to reduce social inequalities

Ese es el rumbo que seguimos. - That’s the path we’re on.

Te toca hacer algo. - It’s your turn to do sth.

unas circunstancias adversas - adverse circumstances

bancarizar  - to pay through the banking system 

estar a prueba - to be given a trial run, to be on probation

la austeridad - belt-tightening

salir adelante - to move forward with life

arrancar el coche - to start the car

en especie - in cash

Algo es clave. - Sth is key.

tratar con igualdad a alguien - to treat sb equally

dar positivo por coronavirus - to test positive for coronavirus

temer hacer algo - to fear doing sth

contar con una posibilidad - to forsee a possibility

la ciudadanía = el civismo - sense of civic responsibility

tomar una muestra - to take a swab

el desencuentro - disagreement

la necedad - foolishness

No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano =  Por mucho que madrugue no amanece más aína - Things will happen at their own time.

aína (old-fashioned word) = pronto - soon

apresurar la toma de decisiones - to decide too fast

exprimir a alguien - to exploit sb

rendir pleitesía a alguiento - show sb courtesy

el clientismo pol��tico - client politics

preciarse de algo - to pride oneself on sth

la notoriedad - notoriety

Han convergido dos cosas. - Two things have converged.

el margen de maniobra - room for manoeuvre

el statu quo - status quo

estar decidido a hacer algo - to be determined to do sth

un marchante - art dealer

canalizar el desencanto - channel the disappointment

derribar el sistema - to overthrow the system

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Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja  The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia

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Movies from hispanic countries

Probably this are some of my favorite movies from hispanic countries. 

Relatos salvajes (Damián Szifron, 2014)

Streaming: Itunes, Cuevana 3 (without subtitles), PrimeVideo

Country: Argentina

Trailer: YouTube

Pájaros de verano (Ciro Guerra y Cristina Gallego, 2018)

Streaming: Itunes, Cuevana 3

Country: Colombia

Trailer: YouTube

*this movie also have some dialogues in wayuu.

La estrategia del caracol (Sergio Cabrera, 1993)

Streaming: YouTube 

Country: Colombia

Trailer: YouTube

La historia del baúl rosado (Libia Stella Gómez, 2005)

Streaming:  

Country: Colombia

Trailer: YouTube

Mar adentro (Alejandro Amenábar, 2004)

Streaming: Option 1 (without subtitles)

Country: Spain

Trailer: YouTube

Tres metros sobre el cielo (Fernando González Molina, 2010)

Streaming: YouTube, Cuevana 3

Country: Spain

Trailer: YouTube

If you watch one of this please let me know what you thought about it.

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Day 10/100

#93: Learn 3 swear words in your target language.

Doing a fun one since it's Monday! I think meanings and phrases can vary a lot depending on location.

Qué cabrón! - What a bastard!

No seas gilipollas. - Don't be a dumbass.

Que te den. - Up yours.

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i hit 100 days on duolingo today!

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AFRICAN & BLACK PHILOSOPHY: Getting Started

Hello everyone! As many of us who study philosophy in some form are likely aware, people of color, especially black philosophers, are radically underrepresented in the field (composing only 1.32% of all philosophers in the US). In order to combat such marginalization, and in attempt to help amplify black voices within the field of philosophy, I have complied a series of links & information here for learning more about African/black philosophy, especially within the US. Please feel free to add to this post if you feel that anything is missing, esp if ur a black person!

Overview:

According to Wikipedia.org: “African philosophy is the philosophical discourse produced by indigenous Africans and their descendants, including African Americans. African philosophers may be found in the various academic fields of philosophy, such as metaphysics, epistemology, moral philosophy, and political philosophy. One particular subject that many African philosophers have written about is that on the subject of freedom and what it means to be free or to experience wholeness.”

Articles to start with: 

“What African Philosophy Can Teach You About the Good Life.”

“A truly African philosophy.”

“African Philosophy.”

“Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons.’” 

“Does Western Philosophy Have Egyptian Roots?” 

“What You Should Know About Contemporary African Philosophy.” 

“Philosophy in Africa - A Case of Epistemic Injustice in the Academy.” 

“The African Enlightenment.”

“The Radical Philosophy of Egypt.” 

“The first God.” 

“African Philosophy Is More Than You Think It Is.” 

And some introductory texts:

Barry Hallen, A Short History of African Philosophy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (2009).

Samuel Oluoch Himbo, An Introduction to African Philosophy. Lanham et al.: Rowman and Littlefield (1998). 

Dismas Masolo, African Philosophy in Search of Identity. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (1994).

Kwasi Wiredu, A Companion to African Philosophy. Malden, Oxford, Victoria: Blackwell Publishing (2004). (PDF version linked here.)

Key essays:

“The Struggle for Reason in Africa” by Mogobe Ramose in The African Philosophy Reader eds. P.H. Coestzee & A.P.J. Roux

“Appeal,” David Walker 

“What to the Slave is the 4th of July?”, Frederick Douglass

“Ain’t I a Woman?”, Sojourner Truth 

“The Black Woman’s role in the Community of Slaves,” Angela Davis

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. DuBois (first chapter esp.)

“A Problem of Biography in African Thought” & “What Does It Mean to Be a Problem?” by Lewis Gordon in Existentia Africana 

“Racism and Feminism,” by bell hooks in the PDF linked here

“Recognizing Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism,” Angela Davis

“Nonviolence and Racial Justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 

“The Ballot or the Bullet,” Malcolm X

“The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism,” Audre Lorde

“Whiteness as Property,” Cheryl Harris

Important contemporary black philosophers:

Cornel West (political philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics, race, democracy, liberation theology)

Angela Davis (also a writer and social activist & just a general badass, really worth knowing about regardless of whether or not you have an interest in philosophy)

bell hooks (race, capitalism, sexuality & gender through a postmodern perspective)

Lewis Gordon (Africana philosophy, black existentialism, phenomenology)

Kwame Anthony Appiah (probabilistic semantics, political theory, moral theory, intellectual history, race and identity theory)

Patricia Hill Collins (sociology of knowledge, race, class, gender studies)

John H. McWhorter (linguistics) 

George Yancy (Critical philosophy of race, critical whiteness studies, African philosophy, philosophy of the body)

Kwassi Wiredu (African philosophy)

Franz Fanon (20th century Marxism, psychoanalysis, colonialism)

Online podcasts, blogs, & videos:

Podcast on Africana philosophy (the website linked here also contains several useful links and resources for further reading)

Youtube series on African Philosophy

Award-winning blog run by a Nigerian-Finnish woman which “connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective.”

Other links & resources:

Journal on African Philosophy

Wikipedia page, which includes a list of African philosophers

History of African Philosophy

Online bibliography on African Philosophy

25 Black Scholars You Should Know

The Collegium of Black Women Philosophers

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ONE OF FAVORITE THINGS IN THE WORLD IS "COMMENTS BY PEOPLE WHO DONT SPEAK YOUR LANGUAGE BUT ARE DOING THEIR BEST YET PERFECTLY CONVEY THE INFORMATION"

THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT MANGLED GRAMMAR THAT GETS CLOSER TO THE RAW HUMAN EMOTION UNDERNEATH THE WORDS

"I hate this"

WILL NEVER BE AS POWERFUL AS

"I am hate this"

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Day 9/100

#53: Sing 1 Disney song.

Prince Ali is my favorite Disney song of all time. It has the same feel in Spanish, but it's a little hard to keep up with the speed!

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hottest language learning tip

write a diary

literally

just write a diary, it has helped me sooo much and i dare say it has been the most developing thing i’ve done while learning french, nothing else compares

1. you’re exposed to the language daily

2. you quickly see which words are missing from your vocabulary

3. you learn to write about the things you think about a lot

4. learning to actually think in your target language

5. having to look up words and when reading the entry back a couple of days later you can’t even remember which words you didn’t know

6. going back to the earlier entries and seeing all the mistakes and knowing how much better you’ve become

7. when you’ve been writing for a few months and your target language becomes a natural way for expressing yourself

8. when you’ve been writing for a few months and you start seeing the diary writing as a way of self-expression and stressrelief, and the language learning aspect becomes natural and secondary

9. filling out a whole book using only your target language and physically seeing how much you’ve accomplished