#guarani langblr

[daybreaksys]

We tend to think languages of different groups within the same family are so much more difficult to learn than languages of the same group until we try to learn a language that is actually from a different family

Sure, as a Portuguese speaker, it's harder to learn English than to learn Spanish, but it doesn't compare to trying to learn Inuktitut or Japanese, than you find out English and Spanish are actually more of less at the same level of difficulty

When you start studying Chinese or Tupi you think "dang, it's not enough to replace a word for another and change word order, I have to think about the world around me in a completely different way, I have to relearn from scratch what it means to speak a language"

[silverfoxboy]

ok so as my like, 7 followers would know im learning Esperanton, but i have recently learned of two languages i can use to royally piss off all of europe: * Paraguayan Guaraní (endonym Avaña'ẽ) * Breton (endonym Brezhoneg) both are cool, and Guaraní is literally the most spoken indigenous language in the americas so they get more points for that :3 if this gets 10 notes ill also learn Cherokee

[lenguoma]

Mba’éichapa - como está?

Mba’e Tejo - como vai?

Mba’e la porte - como vai?

Iporã ha nde - bem e você?

Aime porã - estou bem

Iporãmba - ótimo, tudo bem

[records-of-dirt]

Guaraní Resources

Hey y'all! This is a little different from what I typically do, but it seemed useful.

I'm heading out to Paraguay, and the language spoken there (Guaraní) is fascinating! Here are the resources I've used, if anyone else is in need:

A Grammer of Paraguayan Guarani by Bruno Estigarribia (Paperback is $30, or there is the free pdf!)

Duolingo: Guarani (I can't link it because it was "discontinued", but if you sign up for Duolingo and set your language to Spanish, it'll pop up)

Guarani-English Dictionary (a little short, but very useful)

Warmly,

Records of Dirt

[languageswithhomer]

❀𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚𝒃𝒍𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐❀

Hi there! My name is Phi, I’m from the UK and I’m currently studying a Linguistics and Languages degree. My dream is to become a Speech Therapist (also an author, translator and language teacher on the side - I have a lot of dreams, and most of them are about words!) ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

why have I made this blog?

Since I am a distance-learning student, it can sometimes be difficult to find the motivation to study so I really hope this blog will hold me accountable and keep me productive.

I also really admire the studyblr & langblr communities and hope to make some friends who are similarly passionate about all things languages! ˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

what languages will I post about?

Languages I speak/ am currently learning:

♡ English (Native/ C2)

Posts will be tagged #english and/or #english resources

♡ Castilian Spanish (intermediate to advanced/ B2 -> C1)

Posts will be tagged #castellano and/or #recursos castellano

Please note: I refer to the language as Castilian/ castellano instead of Spanish/ español out of respect for the co-official languages of Spain and also to recognise the language’s divergence from its Latin American variants

♡ German (Beginner/ A2)

Posts will be tagged #deutsch and/or #deutsche Ressourcen

⭒ I will make posts expanding on my background with each language soon ⭒

Languages I hope to start studying soon:

♡ Scottish Gaelic

I intend to begin independent study of Gàidhlig in September - October 2024 and I’m so excited!

♡ Russian

My friend and I are going to begin buddy learning Russian in March 2025 and I can’t wait!

♡ Catalan

I’m so excited to learn Catalan but, given its similarities with Spanish, I don’t want to confuse myself. So I intend to start learning it when I have finished my degree in May 2027!

⭒ If you have any questions or advice for me based on these languages, please don’t hesitate to drop me an ask or a message ⭒

Other languages I’m interested in (warning: there’s a lot):

♡ Irish, Welsh, Scots, Cornish, Manx, Greek, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, Dutch, Italian (especially Sicilian), Cherokee, Navajo, Guarani, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Korean, Yiddish, Hebrew, Bengali, Basque, French, Monegasque, Portuguese, Arabic, Ladino, Old/ Middle English, Hawaiian, Cantonese

What are my other passions?

♡ Books and poetry (I have a book blog @phireads if you’re interested)

♡ Writing

♡ Fibre arts (mainly knitting, crochet and sewing - though I really want to try embroidery and beading)

♡ Baking

♡ Reading

♡ Language conservation

♡ Wildlife (especially British, especially birds)

♡ Period Dramas

♡ History (with a focus on fashion history)

♡ Classics (as in Greco-Roman, my study buddy is a marble bust of the Greek poet, Homer, who is the namesake of this blog)

⭒ That’s all for now, I’ll be regularly posting study content at the end of September with the start of the academic year. So excited to meet you all! ⭒

[brazilspill]

Brazilian Portuguese: Loanwords #14

Urubu - Vulture

From Tupi (uruwú).

[jasmineiros]

✨ i like all of them (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤ ✨

[multlingvulo]

Em português:

Você já deve ter ouvido dizer que "saudade" só existe em português, né? Talvez tenham te contado que em inglês dizemos "miss," que seria sentir falta, e que não é a mesma coisa. Mas até aí eu também não acho certo. Por exemplo, em japonês dizemos 会いたい, que seria "quero te encontrar," e acho isso até mais bonito do que usar uma palavra separada para "saudades." Também é possível dizer 君がいなくてさびしい, isto é, "me sinto só quando você não está," que é ainda mais bonito.

Mas, além disso, outras línguas têm palavras próprias para o sentimento de saudades. Tanto o romeno tem a palavra "dor" (que não é dor física, é saudade; dor física é "durere"), e na Romênia muita gente diz que essa palavra só existe no romeno (igual falam aqui no Brasil).

Além disso, o francês tem o verbo manquer na frase "tu me manques," para "tenho saudades de você." Essa palavra foi emprestada no esperanto "manki" em "vi mankas al mi." Bom, até aqui você pode dizer que é o mesmo verbo de "faltar," como no inglês "miss." Então vamos continuar.

O espanhol tem tanto a palavra extrañar em "te extraño," quanto a palavra "añoranza."

O guarani paraguaio tem o verbo "hechaga'u." Por exemplo: rohechaga'u (tenho saudades de você.) O tupi antigo tem (s)epîaka'ub como em "xe anama asepîaka'ub" para dizer "tenho saudades da minha família."

In English:

You must've heard that the word "saudade" only exists in Portuguese, right? Maybe you were told in English we use the verb to miss, that is, to lack, which isn't the same thing. But even I don't think that's correct. For example, in Japanese we say 会いたい, which means "I want to meet (you)," and I think that's even more beautiful than having a different word for "saudades." You could also say 君がいなくてさびしい, that is, I'm alone when you're not here, and that's even more beautiful.

But, besides that, other languages have their own word for that "saudade" feeling. Not only does Romanian have "dor" (it's not pain, it's "saudade"; pain is "durere"), and in Romania many people say this word only exists in Romanian (just like they do in Brazil). Also, French has the verb "manquer," as in "tu me manques," for "I miss you." This word got borrowed into Esperanto as "manki" in "vi mankas al mi." Well, so far you could say it's the same as to lack, just like in English. Okay, let's keep going. Spanish has both the word extrañar, as in "te extraño" and the word añoranza.

Guarani from Paraguay has the verb hechaga'u. For example: rohechaga'u (I miss you). Old Tupi has (s)epîaka'ub, as in xe anama asepîaka'ub to say "I miss my family."

[salvadorbonaparte]

went through some boxes and found this Spanish Guarani dictionary I didn't know I owned

[lingcharts]

Colors in Native Central and South American Languages (Note: spelling and/or full words may differ across dialects; shade range groupings for various colors may differ somewhat from English color categorization. E.g. “hūngy” in Guarani may refer to brown or gray)

[phaenomenon-tenebris]

Okay but can i just mention how the cherokee alphabet is beautiful, the tupi structure of the words are amazing and the guarani words seem so interesting

[lenguoma]

Etimologia dos estados

Acre - apurinã - a´kir u - rio verde, rio dos jacarés

Alagoas - português - alagar e lagoa

Amapá - tupi - ama paba - lugar de chuva

Amazonas - farsi - hamazakaran - fazer guerra

Bahia - português - baía

Ceará - tupi - cemo ara - pequena arara cantando

Espírito Santo - português

Goiás - tupi - guaiá (-> goyaz), um povo indígena

Maranhão - português - provavelmente a cidade em Pt

Mato Grosso - português

Mato Grosso do Sul - português

Minas Gerais - português

Pará - tupi - pa´ra - rio, mar

Paraíba - tupi - pa´ra a´iba - rio difícil de navegar

Paraná - tupi - rio OU guarani - para anã - parece um rio

Pernambuco - tupi - para´nã buka - buraco no mar OU tupi - paranãbuku - rio longo

Piauí - tupi - pi´awa - rio das piabas

Rio de Janeiro - português

Rio Grande do Norte - português (veio antes do Sul)

Rio Grande do Sul - português

Rondônia (era guaporé) - tupi - wa poré - cachoeira do campo, depois em homenagem a Cândido Rondon

Roraima - pemon - roro imã - pai dos papagaios, monte verde, mãe dos ventos, serra do caju

Santa Catarina - português

São Paulo - português

Sergipe - tupi - seri ´y pe - rio de siris

Tocantins - tupi - tukana tĩ - bicos de tucanos

Fontes: wikipedia de cada estado, esse site e esse vídeo

[lindsaydoeslanguages]

The Best Guarani Resources (+ 9 reasons to learn it)

from The Best Guarani Resources (+ 9 reasons to learn it)

[nevercatchmewithoutabook]

Vocab List/Grammar from My Blog Masterpost

if only i actually knew all these words

these are not in any real order. please message me with any mistakes. last updated on 2020-10-07. 

Čeština 

ancient rome 

art/umění from @davna-minulost

Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from @mediocrelanguagelearner

birthdays in czech from @multilingualpotato

bookish words from @smetanovarevoluce

Christmas words

city words from @monicas-langblr

clothes 

the date and how to talk about it from @mediocrelanguagelearner

Fairy Tales from @zuzajic

fruits and veggies

grains and forest

grammar words from @thebenika

halloween 

Harry Potter from @mediocrelanguagelearner

jewelry 

linking words from @davna-minulost

love

love from @multilingualpotato

months (with etymology) from @hangugo

politics from @mediocrelanguagelearner​

room vocab from @monicas-langblr

sleep vocab

space vocab from @diegoalvesisgod

study time from @thebenika 

Wanderlust 

counting from @zuzajic

another czech vocab masterpost from @mediocrelanguagelearner​

Miscellaneous Vocab

miscellaneous vocab

miscellaneous vocab #2

random a2/b1 from @bergerlanguages​

Español

Grammar

agotar, use of from @spanishskulduggery​

demonstratives from @lettreparfumee​

qué versus cuál from @spanishlandia​

use of quedar from @lucylangblr​

the imperfect from @lavenderwysteria​

todavía vs ya vs aún from @spanishboone​

Vocab Lists

ancient history from @thatwordofmine​

Ancient Rome

animals from @multilingualpotato​

animal adjacent words from @cadalengua​

August Polyglot Challenge 2019

August Polyglot Challenge 2018

beach vocab from @thatwordofmine​

BLM in spanish from @maeve--studies​

bookish vocab from @foxlanguages​

castle vocab from @thatwordofmine​

coffee vocab from @halo-bish​

coronavirus words from @katarina-languages​

Countries and nations from @leo-does-languages​

distracted vocab 

essay words from @polyglottraveler​

essay words again from @cadalengua​

European Geography from @study-early​

false friends with French from @thatwordofmine​

filler words from @estudioscaoticos​

i am a mess 

Lovely Vocab

menos, expressions with from @cadalengua​

my neighbor totoro from @trilingual-girl-carol​

ocean vocab from @spanishvoyage​

physical conditions from @gray-learns-languages​

science vocab from @fluentbygraduation​

sleep vocab 

Social Media from @adventures-in-iberia​

verbs with de from @langsandculture​

Wanderlust

Miscellaneous Vocab

El Prisionero de Azkaban #1

El Prisionero de Azkaban #2

El Prisionero de Azkaban #3

El Prisionero de Azkaban #4

random useful words from @polyglotten​

random vocab from @cadalengua​

Vocabulario Misceláneo #1

Vocabulario Miscelaneo #2

Vocabulario de Investigación #1

Vocabulario de Investigación #2

Vocabulario de Investigación #3

random useful expressions from @aventuraslinguisticas​ 

Korean

masterpost from @fromirelandtokorea​

hobbies from @snubiwriteskorean​

self care vocab from @eplakaka-nnn​

Finnish 

duolingo vocab #1 from @languagessi​

duolingo vocab from @languagessi​

opinions, expressing your from @languagessi​

Français

lockdown masterpost from @frenchy-french​

Vocab Lists

avoir expressions from @futurefrenchprof​

a1 words from @lovelybluepanda​

cant be assed from @marschuldigung​

Cat Vocab from @languagenerds-archive​

beauty vocab from @cause-french​

Daily Routine from @fausse-francaise​

diary writing phrases from @lucylangblr​

election (usa) from @fluencylevelfrench​

essay phrases from @sprachgoettin​

essay words from @polyglottraveler

faire le expressions from @frenchy-french​

false friends with english from @studystrivesucceed​

more false friends from @vangoghs-other-ear​

false friends with spanish from @thatwordofmine​

fantasy words from @jackalopiel​

filler words from @estudioscaoticos​

German words that never fail to trip me up from @languagebutter​

Harry Potter à L’École des Sorciers, Chapitre 1 from @mossandbooks​

lazy, i’m from @lucylangblr​

lgbt words from @une-boule-de-suif​

mean words in french from @lucylangblr​

quantity from @er-cryptid​

school vocab from @frenchaise​

sleep 

small talk from @frenchaise​

social media from @adventures-in-iberia​

space vocab from @astronoray​

study vocab from @lucylangblr​

-yer verb study from @vangoghs-other-ear​

Grammar

à and infinitives from @littlepolyglot​

de and infinitives from @littlepolyglot​

demonstratives from @lettreparfumee​

dr mrs vandertramp verbs from @lucylanguage​

encoure versus toujours from @frenchy-french

en versus dans from @frenchy-french

Prepositions: Au,  à la,  à l’, aux from @lucylanguage

Present Tense from @lucylangblr

where are we going from @vangoghs-other-ear

Russian

makeup from @thebeaujar​

Deutsch

masterpost from @athenastudying​

Vocab

adjectives, a basic list from @crazy-languages

adverbs of time form @serpentainne-langblr

books and literature words from @marvelous-language

cozy words from @living-languages​

cute words from @wowmuchpolyglot​

forest words from @prepolyglot

free time from @semiotics-studies

German words that never fail to trip me up from @languagebutter

grammar words from @suplanguages

halloween from @hannahbeelanguages

i love you from @mayihelpyouwithgerman

immediately (Difficult German Synonyms) from @deutsian

language related words from @hannahbeelanguages

language words form @suplanguages

library vocab from @deutschedinge​

lovely vocab from @hannahbeelanguages

makeup from @thebeaujar

misc (with examples) from @languagepotato

presentation words from @semiotics-studies

rainy days from @talen-en-regendagen

sleep vocab from @talen-en-regendagen

social media from @adventures-in-iberia

self care vocab from @eplakaka-nnn

useful expressions from @urdulanguageclub

witchy vocab from @gofod-alle-rymd

Grammar

nicht, where to put from @hannahbeelanguagesmiscellaneous

opinion, how to express from @marvelous-language

prepositions, intro to from @crazy-languages​

Polish 

my neighbor totoro from @trilingual-girl-carol​

norwegian masterpost from @mylanguagesandme (taken from a duolingo comment)

guarani masterpost from @wonderful-language-sounds​

classical languages masterpost from @myth-boy​

[polyyglotta-blog]

Two-month langblr challenge update

Sooo it’s June 9th, and the first month of my challenge is over. What have I achieved? Absolutely nothing. Total failure. None of my goals. Zero. Zilch. Why? Well, the thing is I underestimated the stress of my huge finals/university entrance exam thingies. So I panicked a lot about them and abandoned all of my languages.

Which is something I plan to remedy this month. New goals!

I’m going to focus on German, because next month I’m off to Germany and I want to polish it up a bit before that. So, again, finish reviewing everything and hopefully get to new grammar points.

Latin. I’ll be getting books for this one, and I plan on doing a lot throughout summer, because I’m going to need it next year at University.

Ancient Greek. Same as latin, I need to get really serious with it. So, basically, I want to have the most basic of basics down by the end of this month. I’ll tell you what those basics of basics are when I sort myself out.

French. Read the book Stupeur et tremblements by Amélie Nothomb.

Japanese. Work on my vocabulary, really work on it, because right now it’s kind of nonexistent.

Korean. Slowly work through one lesson.

Guarani. Get looking at some grammar.

Keep a Duolingo streak.

I’ll try to get more specific as I organize (even though ‘organization’ isn’t a word that has ever been in my vocabulary). Anyways, I hope to do better than last month. It’s hard to do worse, so I have faith in myself.

[brazilspill]

Brazilian Portuguese: Loanwords #13

Mirim - Little

Directly borrowed from Tupí. Pronounced “mee-ree’m”.