#Language instruction

[languagexs]

A Beginner's Guide to Learning Tagalog Language Fast and Easy

Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken mainly in the Philippines, is steadily growing in popularity among English speakers looking to learn a second language. In this beginner’s guide, we’ll look at why Tagalog is relatively easy for English speakers to pick up, provide tips for learning it faster, and highlight some of its key features. We’ll also explore resources for accelerating your…

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

[qpjianghu]

Li Lianhua + saying "I love you" without saying "I love you" (2/?)

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

[invinciblerodent]

I wonder how common knowledge it is that "Cazador" is just... it just means "Hunter" in Spanish. It's just literally Hunter.

Which can sound menacing and intimidating if we interpret it in kind of an "ooh, skulking in the shadows, hunting his prey" kinda way (complete with spooky finger-wiggles), BUT it also carries the possibility that he's that upper middle-class white kid in 4th grade whose equally upper middle-class white mom always has to go yell at the teachers for not letting him eat glue.

In addition, "Szarr" (which I think is meant to be reminiscent of "czar", the monarch) with this spelling is just the Hungarian word for "shit" with an extra "r" tacked onto the end, so I'm having some difficulty being scared of Shit-Hunter, the vampire lord

[cmentary]

Sevika x Reader - College AU

Sevika x reader, college au, 4th year reader, 5th year teachers 'helper Sevika', later on reader's tutor, no "y/n" or "reader", reader is referred to as X because she just is.

Today is one of those days which you don't experience many times in your life. Usually it's 5, unless you're unlucky enough to be forced to take a few more due to your failing grades. Luckily X didn't experience this displeasure and she was just about to start her 4th year of college. 

She was never forced to repeat a year, her grades were just fine… Except for math. 

Throughout the years she was blessed with an amazing tutor, a lovely lady in her 50s, who's been getting her to pass math each year since 7th grade of primary school. Unfortunately, people age, her tutor did and so did her mother. Because of her mothers condition, the math tutor was not able to support X this year. Reasonably it sent her into VERY lightly panic. 

With teachers like that and brains like this, on the first day after summer X was unable to find any crumbs of hope to brighten the day up and it would only get more complicated from this point. 

Housing system? Completely changed, this year everyone got assigned new dorm rooms. Unlike for the previous three years when X would share a room with some student a year below her, who'd rarely attend lectures, disappear for the whole night for parties and come back in the morning to sleep though half of the day, now she was completely alone.

Now what would greet her was an empty room, which she didn't decorate much, it didn't seem necessary (and it's not like she could afford much dust catchers). The only thing brought into the simple dorm was a pair of bags filled with clothes and necessary hygienic products. 

As the first few weeks flew by filled with simple classes like linguistics and those subjects directly related to her major, alongside those which she could deal with were also those she couldn't deal with much, especially math. 

It was almost half of the way towards the first session into the semester when the math teacher brought to class some sort of an assistant. Which from the looks surely did not seem like one. Teachers ‘little’ helper was a woman well above 6 feet of height, dark skinned, tanned enough to look as if she was golden, with short brown hair usually with it's top half tied up, not dressing too assistant-like, most of the time wearing sweatpants and t-shirts or compression shirts both which hugged her muscles tightly. She was a year five student, probably shooting towards becoming some sort of a substitute teacher.

She brought insecurities to boys from X's year group, being much more well built than the majority of them. During lectures whispers and giggles could be heard between other girls, who'd wonder whether she's even a woman with a silhouette like that. What was caught by X's attention was how a student made it, to be standing near the teachers desk, not sitting somewhere in the crowd AND still having time to hit the gym to maintain physique as impressive as hers. 

A few more math lectures ran by, accompanied by naps overtaking X's consciousness and occasional glances shared with the teachers assistant. Her expression stoic, yet surely irritated and disappointed with the lack of attention from the group of students. No matter how detailed and pretty were X's notes, everything the math teacher said would go in through her one ear and escape through the other. A pretty silly idea was born in her mind. How ridiculous could it possibly be to ask the older student for help in math? Not in class of course, since that surely would be considered forbidden, but it wouldn't hurt much to ask for help outside the lectures. At least couldn't help more than failing the semester. 

As one of the cruelly un-understandable lectures came to it's end, the teacher left, so did the crowd of uninterested students. As for X… she was catching up on sleep, pretty much looking dead as her head layed on her arms on her desk. She felt a strong hand on her shoulder, shaking her lightly. “Come on sleeping beauty, the class is over��. As X rubbed her eyes to regain her vision's focus, her head rose to gaze towards the voice that woke her up. She looked around herself to see the lecture Hall empty as the lights were already halfway turned off. “Fuck sorry” X mumbled more to herself than to the other, but her disorientation caused the taller woman to let out an amused chuckle as she slowly headed toward the exit. X's quickly stuffed her bag with whatever she left laying around and caught up to the other. “Wait a second I've been meaning to ask-” taller woman stopped and turned around to face the tired student. “I know you're probably really busy with lectures, gym, finals and whatever you could possibly have going on, but… I suck at *pointing vaguely towards the whiteboard filled with calculations* whatever this is supposed to be and I was wondering if I could somehow persuade you to… tutor me a little because the exam is coming up, my tutor has an elderly sick mother and I can't figure out any of those stuff on my own. Since you're here I'm assuming your math skills are thriving and mine couldn't been worse and-” a subtle deep laugh cut X off her endless ramble as a piece of paper written somewhere halfway through her monologue was written and put into her hand. “Here, my phone and dorm room number. Save your silver tongue for the teachers. If you want to pay me, bring a drink with you, for both of us and then we'll get to talking.” She waved you off and walked away. 

[neosatsuma]

Had a mystifying conversation with a friend and now I'm curious. By "teach to spell," I mean, "Did your school have classes/segments dedicated to learning phonetic combinations, learning spelling 'rules' ('I before E except after C,' 'double consonants make a short vowel sound,' etc) and/or memorizing how to spell words of increasing complexity?"

[atthebell]

learning portuguese is great for many reasons but what i've been finding out recently is it's great specifically for crochet reasons. so many good patterns out there created by brazilians and now i can read them

[free-luigi-mangione]

https://www.tumblr.com/free-luigi-mangione/777795471168143360/i-know-theyre-screening-letters-but-i-dont-think?source=share

i'm sorry, maybe i didn't express myself clearly bc english isn't my first language and my brain goes 10000 miles a second lol the person i'm referring to didn't receive any letters from him and she (i'm 99% it's a she lol) didn't post hers, but when his team published his mail catalog she said he received her letter so i went to lurk on her profile (lmao) because we're from the same country so i was curious, and the comments she writes are very cringy and she sounds like she's really young and probably fits the image of "fangirl" we all have. i didn't send him a letter and i don't think i will, but if someone here wants to, please don't write to him like he's your favorite popstar or like you think you know him for real and you think you're going to be bff. that's creepy and i don't think you'd befriend someone who acts like that. just be yourself, this is a chance to connect with someone like you'd do with literally anyone else out there, if you guys vibe then that's great but if you don't it's not the end of the world. and just because i know some people are going to be disappointed, like he has stated recently, it's gonna be impossible to correspond with him regurarly and even if your second/third/etc letter reaches him it will probably be hard for him to remember you because of the volume and the delays. he himself seems to have abandoned the idea of having penpals because of the dalays & backlog, so please don't take it upon him, it's not his fault. write him to lift his spirits and make him laugh!!

((++ i have sm to complain about reddit i'm gonna write you another ask in a while because i'm fumingggg))

ohh when you first said that, i thought that she'd gotten back a response from him and was showing it off and acting cringey, sorry but i just didn't imagine that somehow Luigi receiving a letter would be cause for celebration for the letter writer

also yes!!! everything you said about the letter situation!!! i'd really hope nobody sends him multiple letters all at once but after seeing the letter catalogue, it feels like some people most probably did it and got away with it

[joelletwo]

Forgot what i was gonna say ten minutes ago. Instead. Gotten so far w my supplementary youtube grammar lessons that actually explain concepts in a way that makes sense that i can now go back and bullshit the renshuu quizzes i still dont understand. And also im smarter than them now.

[msburgundy]

the real danger of polyglot/linguistics youtube is how frequently it makes you consider joining the military just to go to the DLI

[rosesradio]

i can’t believe I’m saying this but I think this action scene might need more funny dialogue…

[the-trinket-witch]

AHHH~! Super late but Yume is saying happy birthday to the Janitor! Yume's gift (if the Janitor would accept) is that they will try take over their duties for a whole day to give them a break that is well deserved! The skeleton jokes Yume makes will get old within the first hour. <3

[The Janitor at first is vehement about not accepting the offer; it's their job and they couldn't expect to have a student to do all the tasks they're expected of, for even just a day. They apologize, but as they see Yume's (understandable) disappointment, They take the voucher, and sign for Yume to follow.

They lead on to Prof. Crewel who they explain the proposition. Crewel finds himself surprised to see the Janitor show something like...modesty. In attempt to appease both, He offers to let Yume shadow the Janitor for a day, and the day's activities would count towards extra credit for their lowest grade.]

[darlingofdots]

I should have known better than to ask native English speakers about English grammar, I don't know what I was thinking

[pygian-weapon]

on a scale of Dolorous Edd with a Kiwi accent to racist asian caricature for Missandrei, how questionable is your audiobook characterization

[bogos--binted]

can someone please tell me what yhe fuck my mothers problem is

[daisywords]

something I've always kind of wanted to write is two unlikely allies on the run together (maybe escaping from a war zone or a disaster?) but they don't speak the same language

but describing body language is hard enough lol I feel like it would work better as a movie or tv series or something, especially with the more neutral perspective of film. I'm never going to make that but it's a concept I would love to see