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WHOA

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ok, this is amazing. I found a great site with short stories in 34 languages!

"WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children.

We are adding new stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings every week. So keep coming back to enjoy new content!"

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New language learner's product alert!

I just added this MEGA Notion template to my shop (here) - with tons of pages, interlinked databases, trackers, templates, and so much more it's a complete language hub for any learner. Plus, I formatted it so it is perfectly compatible with as many languages as you are learning!

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Languages that developed in warmer regions tend to be louder than languages from colder regions!

Here's a short article on it, worth a read: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-linguistics-languages-louder-tropics.html

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a worm spent 100 years transforming into a capital N, then gave birth to a new worm to hold on its head. life is beautiful

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I love language families so much. I've come across some French words lately and was delighted to find that I understand a little French not because I study French but because I'm studying Spanish. I love you romance languages I love you common root words I love you mutual intelligibility

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Minority and endangered languages masterpost

Hey everyone! I made a post two months ago about making a masterpost dedicated to ressources for minority and endangered languages. I have decided to make it accesible to everyone from now on. Some languages have less ressources than others but the masterpost is still being updated every single days.

Enjoy learning!

The masterpost:

Also if you want to support my work:

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basic japanese sentence structures

here is some basic information on japanese verb conjugation and sentence structures! 

japanese verb conjugations by tense:

present positive: ROOT + ます

present negative: ROOT + ません

present questioning: ROOT + ますか

past positive: ROOT + ました

past negative: ROOT + ませんでした

sentence particles:

は: topic particle; used to indicate the subject of a sentence 

へ: direction particle: used to indicate a place, direction, or destination

を: object particle: Used to indicate the object of a sentence, NOT Subject

の:��possessive particle: Used to indicate possession, acts as an “ ‘s”

basic japanese grammar structure and comparing it to english:

the japanese language follows an SOV sentence structure, which means that the subject comes first, an object comes second, and a verb comes last in a sentence. this is different from english, which follows an SVO structure, where the subject comes first, the verb comes second, and the object comes last. here is an example:

私はアメリカ人です。（わたしはアメリカじんです）

[subject] + [particle] + [adjective] + [object] + [verb] 

literally: [I] + [subject indicator] + [america person] + [am]

VS…

i am american. 

[subject] + [verb] + [adjective] + [object] 

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I know a lot of people are upset about duolingo’s updates that “game-ify” learning a language (and that’s valid), but if you’re like me and the ONLY way you’re learning a language is because duolingo makes it feel like a game, that’s valid too.

I would not be learning Swedish for over two years if it wasn’t for duolingo’s day streak system. I would not be engaging with Swedish at all, let alone every day, if the lessons were longer than five minutes.

Yes, I miss the old layout. I don’t give a shit about the leagues either. I also know I probably haven’t learned much Swedish at all, since I only use the app five minutes a day. But unless duo makes a fundamental change that ruins my ability to use the app, it will always (in my eyes) be better than not learning a language at all.

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Weeping at this. Frighteningly similar to how I sound

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