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Fiction Podcasts + Language Learning!

(Audiodramas recommendations whcih main language is English but they also future heavily other languages)

Korean- Moonface

A fiction show about a Korean American son (Joel Kim Booster) who wants to come out to his mom (Esther Moon), but can't because they don't speak the same language

Tagalog- Hi Nay

Hi Nay, literally translated to “Hi Mom”, is a supernatural horror fictional podcast about Filipina immigrant Mari Datuin, whose babaylan (shaman) family background accidentally gets her involved in stopping dangerous supernatural events in Toronto.

Spanish- Celestial Blood

Celestial Blood is a bilingual radionovela about love and secrets in the family of twins Sol and Mundo Lucero.

If you have any other recs (specially of hindi, nahuatl, arabic, tagalog or thai) pls comment!

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my favorite Spanish idioms (and the ones i use the most on my everyday life)

"tomar el pelo": it means that someone is messing with you or just making a joke about something.

"ahogarse en un vaso de agua": to make a problem bigger than it is.

"te comió la lengua el gato": usually said to people when they’re very quiet and don’t want to talk.

"estar hasta en la sopa": when someone seems to be everywhere.

"te falta un tornillo": when someone is crazy or talking nonsense.

"donde comen dos, comen tres": there’s enough food to share.

"me importa un rábano": not caring at all about something.

"morirse de fr��o/calor": to be too cold/hot.

"estar entre la espada y la pared": having to choose between two bad options.

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✨How to Study Languages When You’re BUSY✨

school is just around the corner, and i know that once school starts, i’ll have less and less time to study languages. as students, we can’t avoid crazy schedules, especially with all the lectures, labs, and extracurricular activities interrupting our perfect duolingo streaks! but there are ways you can still keep up with learning a language, even when you’re busy! here are some tips to keep up with a new language.

squeeze language practice into your every day schedule - even just 5 minutes a day! you don’t need to spend an hour everyday on learning languages. you can practice for as little 5 minutes a day, as long as you do it everyday. 5 minutes before you go to bed, on your transit to school or work, when you’re eating lunch, before classes start - you can always find at least 5 minutes to work on duolingo practices or refresh memrise vocab lists. for duolingo and memrise, make sure to set a daily goal - this will motivate you to maintain those streaks, encouraging you to practice everyday!

don’t overestimate how much you’ll be able to accomplish each day. i used to set my duolingo daily goal super high, and when i don’t meet the goal for that day or miss a streak, it’s easy to feel discouraged. AVOID OVER-REACHING. set practical, realistic goals for yourself. you can always overachieve those smaller goals and feel better about yourself. don’t be afraid to take it slow!

treat language studying as a class and block a schedule for yourself in your routine. if you’re super motivated into learning languages, treat it more as class than as a hobby. this means you have to get organized. like you would for a class, set a designated time block to study the language. for example, twice a week tuesday and thursday, 30 minutes each after lunch. in those designed time blocks, you can focus on sharpening those language skills by learning more in-depth grammar points, reading a short piece, listening to dialogues, or watching a short video in your target language. doing this will make sure you’re not just scratching the surface - you will actually progress.

engage in passive learning. this is perfect for when you’re busy. listen to music in your target language, listen to podcasts when you’re exercising, watch movies or tv shows (even with subtitles is ok!), switch your phone and other devices into your target language. 

do something fun with your target language to spark continuous interest. once in a while, come up with fun and interesting projects you can do with your target language! for example, if there’s a song you love, translate the lyrics! watched a good movie recently? look at the screenplay and analyze your favorite dialogues, and make sure to break down new vocabs and grammar. transform your favorite quotes into an artwork and hang it in your room! get creative and do something you’ll enjoy.

record your progress and your accomplishments! this is super helpful for organizing your studying progress, seeing how far you’ve gone, and celebrating your accomplishments. 

set long term goals to keep motivated. you can scratch the surface with that 5 minutes per day routine, but to truly get anywhere with a new language, make sure you’re setting long term goals! that is, by the end of the year, what will you want to be able to do? do you want to read harry potter entirely in your target language? be able to hold a conversation with a native speaker? watch movies without subtitles? travel to the country? these are the type of questions you should ask yourself.

good luck everyone! and have a wonderful semester!

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The sentence translates to “ I eat your parents“

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Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

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10/9/21

Day 4/100 days of productivity

Hello everyone!! Meet with Sinba, he is beautiful right? He wanted to join today’s study session (He is checking my notes in the photo haha)

I’ve been working on my writing lately. I am sorry if it doesn’t looks “aesthetic” but you need to know that i am trying my best…

I’ve completed my all task’s and homework’s today i need to do a revision Im going to make it tomorrow morning so probably It’ll be fresher. There’s a word quiz next week on Monday. I almost done with word list. I just need to do more practice with making sentences by using words. I really want to take good point for this exam. I won’t be stressing about it. In my first quiz i was so stressful and it failed so don’t stress, trust yourself if you really well prepared you can do anything! You have the potential ❤️

Please read book more, more and more, read before you sleep read right after you wake up and read when you are even resting.🤍

Good night to everyone! don’t skip resting, sleep well for being more effective in your day.

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i love it when italians argue about italian. like we don’t even know how our language really works we just roll with it

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Ciao!

I have moved to Italy to train for a few months and doing my best to learn Italian while I'm here!

Any recommendations for resources/ good background noise immersion shows/ anything that could help!

I'm finding it slightly difficult in comparison to french and as this is only my second secondary language I'm discovering a whole new world of trilingual hell when it comes to mixing up grammar and vocab haha, kind words of encouragement are needed lmao

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Conjunctive locutions #1

À condition que : provided that 

À la suite de quoi : after/following what 

À mesure que : as (On commençait à distinguer à l’extrémité du cercle de lumière la masse triste, vague et sombre du château, qui, à mesure qu’on approchait, se dessinait d’une manière plus précise / Dumas)

À moins que : unless 

À peine … que : immediately after (A peine était-il dans la bibliothèque que Mlle de la Mole parut sur la porte. Il lui remit sa réponse / Stendhal)

À présent que : now that 

À propos : about 

À savoir : that is to say  

Afin que : so that 

Ainsi que : as well as 

Alors que : whereas

Après que (+ indicative) : after (Longtemps après que les poètes ont disparu leurs chansons courent encore dans les rues / Trenet) 

Après quoi : after which

Attendu que : given that 

Au cas où : just in case 

Au fait : by the way

Au fur et à mesure que : as one goes along

Au lieu de quoi : but instead

Au motif que : on the grounds that

Au point que : to the point that 

Auquel cas : in which case

Aussitôt que : as soon as 

Autant que : as much as 

Avant que : before that 

Bien que : although

Ceci étant : that being said 

Cependant que : however that 

C’est en quoi : this is why

C’est pourquoi : that is why 

Comme pour : untranslatable - as if (subject) wanted to (action) (Elle faisait signe comme pour nous appeler)

Comme quoi : which shows that 

Comme si : as if 

Considérant que : considering that 

D’abord que : first that 

Dans ce cas : in that case

Dans la mesure où : to the extent that 

Dans le temps que : when/while 

D’autant moins : all the less

D’autant moins que : even less since 

D’autant plus que : even more since

D’autant que : especially as 

De façon que : so that 

De manière à ce que : in such a way that

De même que : in a way that 

De peur que : for fear that 

De (telle) sorte qu’/e : in such a way that

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Halloween en Français: 

original vocab list by @languagessi​, find her Halloween lists here

le Halloween - Halloween la veille de la Toussaint - All Hallow’s Eve des bonbons ou un sort - Trick or treat! Bouhh! - Boo! la fête - party l’automne (m) - autumn octobre (m) / le mois d’octobre- October les bonbons (pl,m)/ les sucreries (f, pl)- candy, sweet la pomme - apple la citrouille - pumpkin la lanterne - lantern la citrouille-lanterne -  Jack O’Lantern la bougie- candle le feu de joie - bonfire la superstition - superstition la divination  - divination la blague - prank noir - black orange - orange le chat - cat la chauve-souris - bat l’araignée (f) - spider la toile d’araignée - spiderweb le fantôme- ghost l’esprit (m) - ghost, spirit le fantôme, le spectre- phantom la sorcière - witch le sorcier- wizard le croque-mitaine - bogeyman le vampire - vampire la fée - fairy le gobelin - goblin la momie - mummy le zombie - zombie le diable - devil le démon - demon le loup-garou - werewolf le monstre - monster le troll  - troll l’extraterrestre (m) - alien le costume - costume le maquillage - makeup le maquillage de visage - face paint le masque - mask la perruque - wig l’os (m) - bone le squelette- skeleton le crâne - skull le sang - blood le corps - corpse mort/e  - dead la maison hantée - haunted house le cimetière - graveyard, cemetery la tombe - grave, tomb le cercueil - coffin, casket l’histoire de fantômes (f) - ghost story le cauchemar - nightmare la nuit - night minuit (m)/le milieu de la nuit - midnight la lune - moon l’ombre (f) - shadow le hurlement - howl sombre - dark la tempête, l’orage (m) - storm le cri - shout, scream, cry la peur- fear la frayeur- fear, fright l’effroi (m) - fright l’horreur (f), l’atrocité (f)- horror le choc - shock effrayer qn - to frighten, to scare; to be frightened, to be startled craindre qc - to fear, to be afraid avoir peur de qc - to be scared of something, to be afraid of something sinistre - creepy inquiétant/e, étrange - eerie effrayant/e - frightening angoissant/e, terrible - scary, terrible   surnaturel/le - supernatural

[Let me know if there are any mistakes! My vocab masterlist]

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16/10/2020 | I have so much work to do and I have a presentation this afternoon that I'm only halfway through making so I got up at 6am and I feel like shit

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Hi, havent made a post in a hot minute but online dance school is hard! Am currently taking a performance design module which is super interesting and makes me grateful for my new set up

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​the natural history museum in London.

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17/07/2020

had some tea whilst revising my mandarin vocab 😌 and did a math practice exam! now it's 9am n it's time for breakfast

🎧 the truth untold, bts & steve aoki

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my new flat is literally in front of my school so every time i look out of the window i'm reminded of how soon (less than two weeks!) it starts again.

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French written like it’s German