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Italian learners 🇮🇹

Ciao a tutt*! I’d like to recommend an Italian YouTube channel called “Canale di Venti” created by different people in their 20s for people in their 20s and aimed at sparking conversations via different formats (monologues, chats, book reviews, interviews) around topics like:

everyday life (taboos, relationships, university, etc.)

mental health

social issues

Here’s a hilarious vent about life during the pandemic a year after the outbreak:

And the latest book chat 📚:

“Avere vent'anni è difficile. Non si è più adolescenti, ma nemmeno adulti. Si impara a votare, a guidare, a lasciare le persone e a innamorarsi di nuove. Si va a convivere, si sbaglia, si fanno viaggi da soli e si studia parecchio.” (from their info page).

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Here is a folder of German language learning books, of every level - Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced. There are grammar and exercise books. Answers are provided in some of them. If you want to only practice and not want to study grammar books (- those files are in beginner level subfolder), you can just avoid that. That's all fine. Exercise books have also explained grammar concepts.

There are also dictionaries, vocabulary, phrase books.

📂 - Link.

This should be enough but I'll update if that'd be necessary.

Happy Learning!

lmk if this is not enough and you need any further help! i'm always happy to help!

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Hi everyone! Today I have some resources for learning the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). I think it’s a really helpful tool for language learners, not just linguists. I also suggest you find the Wikipedia page for your language’s phonology (Here’s Spanish) so you can figure out what sounds exist in your language and how they are transcribed.

TypeIt IPA (IPA keyboard)

IPA Chart (just play around on here and learn some sounds!)

IPA Transcription Practice

Phonetic Transcription Exercises

(More) IPA Exercises

IPA Reader (pronounces your input, available in many languages)

Sounds of Speech (in Spanish, German, and English)

Speech Accent Archive (English, using native and non native speakers)

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hi i’m mae, i reset and am revamping my blog and not tagging this with anything until i establish things a bit more cause i’m a bit unsure of what im doing. everything is under the read more

im a 20-year-old student planning on majoring in linguistics. from the usa/currently live here. have lived in spain and germany.

this blog is for my language learning process. probably going to be mostly reblogging resources and posting vocab lists, media recs, and progress stuff. i’m not an aesthetic sort of learner so while i might be reblogging some inspo stuff, none of that is going to be coming from me.

so onto the languages...

english - native speaker.

actively learning:

italian - my main priority right now. i’ve been studying anywhere from 10min to 2 hours a day and am progressing fairly fast. working on grammar and trying to confidently watch movies and tv with little reliance on subtitles.

sort of passively learning

spanish - lived in spain, functionally fluent. my main goal is just reading some novels and building up vocab, but not a huge priority right now.

german - lived in germany for a bit but i’m not very good. my grammar is shit and i can’t read it well but i’m fantastic in a conversation. main goal is to develop grammar and vocab but again, not a big priority right now.

chinese - i took a year of chinese this past year at uni, and i’m enjoying it. not sure how much i’m going to be focusing on it in the next few months but definitely trying to maintain it.

on hold

portuguese - can read and understand movies/tv, but not speak or write.

galician - pretty much same level as portuguese

future plans/ideas?

irish - want to connect a bit with my heritage

basque - have always been fascinated with this language

arabic

hindi - with arabic, i want to speak the major languages of the world

romanian - bruh wouldn't it be cool to hit all the romance languages? (would then go and learn the rest too)

russian - i wanna read the cryllic alphabet and use it?

french

swahili - with french, another big plan is knowing enough languages to pretty confidently travel around the world, and while fuck the french, it's spoken pretty widely in africa and would be helpful, and swahili is not as tied to the colonial history so that would be very cool

icelandic - it just looks cool and sounds nice?

my process

right so if i'm not in a formal classroom for a language, i've got a thing sort of down...

add top 500-1000 words to a deck on anki

get intense about studying the anki deck and memorizing

also work on learning to write the writing system if it's not latin characters

after some vocab is down, create a basic grammar anki deck (verb conjugation practice, word order tests, measure word quizzes, etc. i.e. whatever is needed)

get a workbook, textbook, and/or grammar pdf and work through it page by page

if nothing else, make sure you do the anki everyday. if you skip the book cause you're busy, that's okay

at some point (preferable earlier) start watching tv shows and youtube, and listening to music

practice reading stuff out loud and recording yourself

translate song lyrics!

take it easy, it's supposed to be fun. seriously as long as you get the anki stuff down for the day and are doing other stuff 3-4 times a week, that's on track for my own pace. and it's manageable for my adhd.

blog stuff

the general plan for tagging is as follows:

language specific content will be tagged #sb [language] with the two letter iso code for the language

resources are #resources

and the different types of content will be tagged by description (#vocab list, #music rec etc.)

god this is long sorry. if you made it this far, thanks! and welcome? maybe i'll be more active than i used to. x

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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder

I know there’s so many more urgent things but if you like this resource you may consider buying me a ko-fi

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theme twelve: anemone — spotify-inspired header theme for @codingcabin​’s new year, new theme challenge; featuring an optional music player and the colours #f1a5c0, #5ea, #facade, and #7ea as accents.

preview / code: pastebin, github

features and options:

header with an optional 125px x 125px profile image.

optional header background image (screen width x 225px. I recommend choosing an image no less than 1920px in width).

fade-in navigation bar on scroll with a back-to-top button.

optional music player with space for one song.

post sizes: 450px, 500px, 540px, 600px, 650px, 700px.

show/hide captions, show/hide tags, optional rounded corners, customizable post margins and photoset gutters, dropdown post info with via/source links.

up to four custom links in the header and an unlimited number of Tumblr pages.

ten body font options, font sizes from 12px to 18px, and all colours customizable.

responsive for all screen sizes and mobile devices.

notes:

your audio file must be in .mp3 format and you must host it on Google Drive or Dropbox.** read below the cut for instructions** on how to upload your audio file and use the music player.

tumblr’s customize page is very buggy and when you first install the theme, you have to toggle the toggle options on and off to get them to work properly.

song in preview is Lonesome Love by Mitski.

see full list of credits here.

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