#language self-teaching

[diy-languages]

Welcome to my language-learning blog! 📚

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Hey everyone! I’m Sky! 🌌

And I’m on a mission to make self-studying languages easier, free, & more fun for everyone! 🎓

I'm a self-taught language learner who loves sharing fully FREE resources, study tips, and hacks for learning languages on your own! ✨

(If you want to know more about this blog's purpose and why I'm doing this, I made a post about it here!)

-> 💬 What languages do I Speak/focus on?

Right now, I’m primarily focusing on Korean since it’s the language I’m actively studying and want to improve in. Korean is a bit trickier than some of the other languages I know, so I’m dedicating more time to it! But—I also speak Portuguese, French, English, and German and have experience with Spanish and Italian, though I'm still learning how to properly speak these two! So feel free to ask about any of those too! I'll try my best to provide content for other languages if demanded in comments/requests!

📌 What you’ll find here:

• Fully FREE language-learning resources & course found online + reviews

• Study hacks for self-taught learners

• Tips & tricks to make studying easier (even for neurodivergent like me)

• Language-learning motivation & discussions

• My personal experiences, my struggles, my hacks, study methods, etc!

(Organised list of all my posts here)

-> 📩 Want to exchange study tips? Found a cool free resource? Have a question? Want to share your experience?

Drop a comment, send an ask, or just reblog with the question! Let’s support each other & learn together! 💙✨

[fuumiku]

Demon AU (krkb)

+ bonus Kuro

Kurokabuuu!! If Kabru gets to be naked then so does Kuro, equality for all 🔥Not to break the mystique but in that intro comic Kuro isn't flexing he's just pushing Mickbell away bc he about to be in business mode gdbdg. Was weird trying to make Kuro look more demony, did not work very well except for making him buffer but hey...! A black dog demon yeah yeah yeah...!

I have accidentally recreated Howl's Moving Castle... NOW HEAR ME OUT- The base concept for my satyr Kabru AU (the initial idea was the sketch where he has no horns haha) now turned demon AU was materializing Kabru's fear of anything monster, particularly his insecurity as a kid of being an incubus('s child and that making him a monster), and helping him work through it so he can love himself and others and the world better, but everything started clicking only after thinking about Kuro's role in the setting more. He's this feared dude with a witchy reputation and a lil rhyme about how everyone should stay away from him for their own sake etc etc, but he's not a demon just a dog dude really. The setting in this AU is much like Dunmeshi, but all monsters are called "demons" instead and tied with this concept of demonic not just monstrous, there's special generalized fear in them being kinda fundamentally evil. But they're just beasts, and sometimes just demihuman races, like Kuro. Magic does exist though, and curses, and yeah just a folk kinda vibe!

Kabru because he's become supernatural knows how to speak Kuro's tongue now too, or maybe he's always known it idk... But Kabru sought Kuro out because he's The demon guy around, thought if anyone around would know how to do anything about his having become a monster it'd be him- Mickbell is there too ig like waaa this innocent-looking (def isn't) human loves this demon and lives with him, alone but peaceful as hermits in the woods? Wah wild. Wah we can still have love?? Wah we can fall in love together and live happy monster lives even if ostracized??! Wah wait I'm not even a monster it was just my own latent magical powers cursing myself because I worried and believed myself to be a demon so intensely for so long?!! Wah we can truly have it all...... Growth feels so nice. Except Mickbell, that grown ass man is not finding inner peace yet. Still he's chill here since he's a side char not a main one

It's how Kuro's confident in himself despite everything being stacked against him, it's how he still trusts and likes himself, it's how he just wants a simple happy life and pursues what he wants, it's how he takes things simply... Self-critical Kabru always neglecting himself over obsessing about the greater good could learn from him........ Kuro is the only one after his transformation that unconditionally welcomes him and shows him compassion and it's all so confusing to him, especially since at first Kabru wouldn't even offer that same humanization to Kuro, only risked it out of necessity for his own circumstances, but he gradually becomes able to see the humanity in him despite his appearance, mannerisms, way of life and ideals, until he sees the humanity in him and himself too despite their appearances, until he finds there's nothing wrong in this routine and life of theirs in this isolated magical little place, until........... Just about accepting all of those fuzzy inbetween ways to be that are unclean and hard to understand from the outside, and growing comfortable in them and loving himself and kuro and the life they've made together.......!!!!!! What if through humanizing you I humanized myself... What if through growing a understanding for each other wevalidated ourselves, love as self-love...

I love including Rin into things, for a more plotty story it'd be neat if she tried and followed Kabru... He up and disappeared and she's a capable mage and she doesn't know what his plan was because he never tells her anything so she goes out and pursues him- Could even be the main antagonist besides just idk self-hate and townspeople lol, like she thinks Kuro is keeping him prisoner or something and also because she kinda represents the same kinda social trauma Kabru has, where she's strict about conforming and being an irreproachable undeniable human so she kind of wants to drag him back to that state he was in of anxiety over acting and being human enough...... But of course in the ultimate confrontation when she has her staff pointed at Kuro and they talk, she's hurt by him not confiding in her and thinking of her as someone who wouldn't help, but she understands and stops and yay happy ending :> And if we want them to be in this Holm and Dia may be allies I feel 🤔Like maybe they help out Kabru when they see him, help him escape their human village at one point or something, Holm is quite nice and cares for spirits and Dia's fled her home too so they kinda get it in a way, it'd contrast Rin... This isn't about the Laios party lol. Rin & Mickbell shenanigans would lowkey be fun like maybe Mickbell tricks Rin into thinking Kabru IS there against his will so she can take him away and the status quo of Mickbell not having to share Kuro with anyone is preserved, or maybe they just shittalk and grumble together. Gbdgd this is a plotline about accepting change and these two are noooot happy about it

So yeah he hates being a monster that's the schtick!! Won't a cool dog man pleaseeee turn me human again. Surely he can do that right. So he goes to live with this feared coolass magicky guy and that guy's little guy at his weird home and through making connections and self-love the curse you actually unknowingly put on yourself gradually lessens and disappears, but you don't care anymore because that's the point 😌 Which is why I call it a Howl's Moving Castle recolor gdbd

Kabru is usually the voice of reason within kurokabu so it's really fun switching the roles in that way. If you're just stumbling into this and are sooo confused first of all congrats on getting so far second I can't overstate how unironic this is + if you want more explanation about the ship I made a brainstormy manifesto here <3 Like, did you know Kuro's name is actually Yodan? He was likely called Kuro by Mickbell due to the language barrier. In this AU it's because no one's interested in him as a person so people just give him an ominous title that means black. But Kabru learning his name and Kuro willingly giving away that information and Kabru feeling the weight of it because he really thinks this'd allow him to control him (he can't actually control bc he's not a demon! No one's a demon yay! Just weirdo humans who get otherized)......

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Other vers because I 1) really like it and 2) am very indecisive. I overthink every single slight color change I stg lol

Sigh....... Like bro what if we were both so so far away from home and we knew we can't really go back and we've made our peace with that but man I miss not having been ripped away from my homeland and we are both so so isolated in our own ways in our presents and with a small yet gigantic gesture of compassion and of seeing each other we can learn and grow together with secret study dates where I teach you how to communicate the same way you're teaching me your language, we are both reaching across to each other we are both finding in one another a presence and humanity that feels so rare anywhere else. A sliver of warmth a sliver of home but also a sliver of the new, and embracing that things are changing and that we've changed and wow the animality within humanity and the humanity within animality!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey bro your humanity I am only now fully grasping and coming to terms with is so hot bro............ What if your beastly features ended up making me more comfortable in my own stinky human animal flawedness bro........ What if we could just be together reassured through each other that we're human enough no matter what and that's all we need to just be and wahhhhh aughhhhh

Kurokabu is Kuro needing to choose between Kuro and Yodan. Kurokabu is needing to feel comfortable in animality within humanity. What if we stopped repressing ourselves 🫶

[that-satireguy]

you just think you're fucking smarter than everybody huh?

i'm not going to deny that I think i'm an intelligent man, because i've earned the right to call myself such.

If that makes you this frustrated you could always go learn something.

[sherdnerd]

My number one classics ick is when a scholar will just insert untranslated passages of Greek and Latin into their paper. good job on the artificial inaccessibility you guys, glad you were able to gatekeep the field so none of those dirty peasants may learn stuff. its just for us cool guys who speak Greek or Latin

[goodoneguys-deactivated20270216]

i cannot express how absolutely criminal it is that sam does not know sign language

[fruitbaatt]

Welcome To The Baatt Cave

Hello all and welcome to my new language learning blog; You can call me fruitbaatt or baatt, since I don't particularly like attaching a proper name to my tumblr blogs

This blog was created to document my progress on learning Gáidhlig from absolute beginner to hopefully one day being fluent. You can expect me to make various posts here in both English and Gáidhlig as I begin to understand it well enough to write in it. I will likely often post some things I've learned in a day, and eventually maybe post about random things I like in Gáidhlig, writing or diary entries just to practise. It will inevitably be a bit clunky at first but please bare with me

As well as my own posts, I will also reblog any resources I've found helpful either about Gáidhlig specifically or language learning/self-teaching in general

In terms of my interests outside of all that I love Outlast, House Of Wax, Saw, Invader Zim (TV + Comics), My Little Pony (G4), Moomins (90's + 70's), Fight Club (Film + Book), Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Good Omens (TV), Our Flag Means Death, What We Do In The Shadows (TV + Film), Hannibal (TV), Interview With The Vampire (TV), and my hobbies include writing, art, knitting, sewing, guitar (a little rusty), gaming and DIY; If You're into any of that and happen to be learning Gáidhlig too, You'll likely feel right at home here

I don't have much of a DNI because I don't believe they work very well, but I do block freely and for any reason I feel like so be warned. I can only ask You to be kind to Yourself and others on my blog, but even that isn't guaranteed to work so I'll curate my online experience on my own whenever necessary and I ask that You don't take it to heart

Asks are always open (anon is on if You're shy, and You can request anon tags), as are messages. I might take some time to get back to You but I will, just be patient. I'm always open to converse in English or Gáidhlig once I understand more of it

That's pretty much all for now! Slàn leat :3

[insomnia-and-caffeine]

set myself the clinically insane goal of learning another language this year (obviously not to fluency, but as good as i realistically can) around working 30 hour weeks and studying full time. Loving it, as expected, but it's hard to get past the mental 'This Isn't English, So Say It In German' block. I absolutely butcher speaking because my brain automatically slaps a german accent onto anything in a foreign language, and mixed with my natural australian accent... yeah. not great. only way from here is up tho!!!! and it's nice (even if time consuming...) to have a passion project again :))!

[beevean]

🌹🌹

I have a cold, my eyes are watering, and I hate that this comes easy to me 😔

~

“Mh mh,” she hums in confirmation. He doesn’t need to know the details, or he might lose motivation to cooperate… or worse, ask questions. So she asks: “And you? Planning to go to sleep?”

Hector stammers an answer, but he’s not fluent enough yet. In time and with her help, Lenore is sure, he would feel right at home in Styria. So she forgives him when, placing his hammer on the forge and turning his body towards her, he switches to his native Greek: “Right now that you have come to see me? It would be rude. It’s getting easier, staying awake at night. Perhaps my time in the cell—”

He stops dead in his tracks. His heart skips a beat. Lenore cocks her head, intrigued by the split second of dread settling in his eyes.

“No, nevermind. I was already used to it when I served Dracula. I’ve been living with creatures of the night longer than I realized,” he smiles, eventually.

The poor thing. To think that her sisters were eager to let him suffer in that hole. But he’s not completely broken: Lenore has hope.

“Good boy, living the vampire life,” she purrs, walking to the nearest chair in her best posture. “Your German is getting better too.” That is only half a lie: she can’t expect a human to learn another language in a handful of weeks, but she is always one to praise effort. Maybe if Carmilla followed her advice, she wouldn’t have made a fool of herself. Then again, Lenore wouldn’t have met Hector, so perhaps she should be grateful for her sister’s stubbornness.

[alongtidesoflight]

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[diy-languages]

Free Korean Learning Courses! : Part 1

-> These are some free resources I used or heard about a lot to learn Korean and what they include, there's probably way more! I'll make more parts in the future. There's also ratings and pesonal notes about each one, but again they're 'personal' so it might not be the same for everyone! That's why you should always try it yourself first.

-> These resources are or were fully free when I used them, if anything changed and they're no longer free I do not take any responsibility for possible accidental purchases, I recommend to always check first before processing with it.

Here we go:

GoodJobKorean — Full free Hangul Course, 12 Lessons, Videos (with pronunciation, etc) + Pdf Practice sheets (with some vocabulary) + Quizes to see if you understood each lesson.

Rating: 100/10 I tried and loved it, easy to understand and explained nicely. Really useful for beginners learning hangul!

A/N: You may have to rebuy it after a month (not sure because I finished it in less then a month and never logged back in) but It's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again)

GoldenKeyKorean: Free Hangul course, pronunciation + 2H long master course (advanced and basic levels) with 2 pdf books

Rating: I personally did not try this one, but I'm pretty sure it's fully free (at least that's what I've seen), but he often does limited editions/limited time special free courses so it's better to check if the offer is still active and follow his instagram for future updates and courses.

Now Korean Class: Fully free 9 Korean courses with different levels (1-9) with multiple videos for each, explains sentence structures, grammar, counters, numbers, and way more.

Rating: 100/10, It really is free, multiple levels, sooo many different things to learn I absolutely loved it!!

A/N: You just have to rebuy it after a month but I'm pretty sure it's still free (if not you can always just make another account to get it free again). I recently lost acess to it, idk why I think my phone is lagging... It tells me something went wrong to try again later, lol, just in case some content changed etc I wouldn't know.

Koldoristudy: 3 different Free Korean PDF study sheets, 1 Hangul, 1 Vocabulary and 1 winter study, includes Grammar, stroke order guides and syllable blocks,

Rating: 10/10 Loved it, I thought it would be just some pdf files to boringly write hangul/words but It's actually way more! it explains grammar and some useful language rules!

Talk to me in korean: Multiple free podcasts on different platforms + PDF with grammar and vocabulary explained for different levels of learners, 7 days free trial with possible cancelation

Rating: 9/10 It's really good, I'm just not a big fan of podcasts as I have a short attention spawn LOL. I personally didn't try the 7-days free trial but they do have LOTS of different lessons and videos that seem to be amazing and useful.

A/N: personally I find their website really confusing, to make things easier you can try things like just typing "Talk To me In korean (Pdf level _)" on google and the first link should be the free pdf file, etc etc.

Loescen Learn Korean Website: Free Interactive web-based learning, important vocabulary, pronunciation beginner to intermediate level, basic conversation courses and dialogues

Rating: 8/10, so good!! It surprised me, I just wish it went more in deep about things like sentence structures and grammar instead of blindly learning dialogue lines or words without breaking them into steps for deeper understanding of the language.

A/N: works for other languages too!!

Live Lingua: Multiple free ebooks and audio files lessons, grammar, vocabulary, hangul, etc, beginner to advanced,

Rating: 9/10 Covers up a lot of different things like I said, grammar, vocabulary, etc etc, but AGAIN each course covers many subjects and it quickly feels heavy and too long/complicated/takes too much time (personally for me, as an individual with ADHD)

How to study korean: LOTS of grammar and vocabulary, beginners to advanced, multiple lessons, linked YT videos to reinforce lessons, PDFs, etc

Rating: 100/10 explains really well, SO MUCH STUFF, different levels, it's really awesome! Lessons are available in multiple languages and not just English!! However again I find it a bit intimidating as it really has LOTS of things to learn which make it seem hard and heavy...

A/N: Personally I find the website complicated to navigate 😭 just type "how to study korean lesson _" for easier access if you want and It should be the top results

Udemy TOPIK grammar through 100 patters: TOPIK vocabulary, grammar and conversations, 100 grammatical patters koreans use a lot

Rating: 8/10 really good, well explained, but again personally it feels pretty heavy and long, videos in Korean with English subtitles, however there are no English subtitles for "example sentences" which sucks, you need to know some basic vocabulary to really understand the example sentences used there.

Tomi Korean: Free PDF with 430 basic korean vocabulary (words, verbs, nouns, adjectives, etc) with audio files, free PDF Worksheet for hangul learning

Rating: 8/0 Love it, really nice for useful vocabulary but you'll have to willingly study the words cause the pdf only makes you write it once and it's really just Korean-English translations, but it has images so its good for visual learners too! Personally I also found it takes a lot of storage to download everything lol.

A/N: I did not check the hangul worksheet as I can already write and read hangul but little personal opinion/tip; I think GoodJobKorean is the best option to learn Hangul here, specially compared to this one. Yes I did not try this Hangul Worksheet but I believe GoodJobKorean offers more variated content and help (videos, quizes, etc) than what a PDF sheet has to offer, that's my opinion.

That's all so far!

Many of these courses have social media accounts where they post different content and tricks to learn, I'll be making a post about those in the future too!!

If anything changed since I first used these resources or if there's any misinformation in this post, please let me know!

[dirt-apple-productions]

Since I can’t copy-pasta a reblog of mine about how much Duolingo’s AI SUCKS, here are the links to the resources I use for Japanese learning:

Grammar: Imabi; notebook; pens

Vocab: Anki; Yomitan (a popup dictionary that can make Anki flashcards for you)

Dictionary: Yomitan; Jisho

Handwriting: Anki; genkouyoushi paper (although any kind of gridded paper will work); pens

My personal input: Crunchyroll (costs money) with Jimaku - you’ll have to install Tampermonkey to see the imported subtitles and it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s so helpful for drilling both reading and listening skills at the same time

If you can’t afford a Crunchyroll subscription, I’ve compiled a list of free sources of Japanese input here

And of course, the amazing Discord server I’m in that recommended me these resources and helps me understand concepts I’m having a hard time with (warning: they don’t allow discussion of Duolingo or LLMs on the server)

With the Internet, you can learn most common languages for free, and that’s amazing. Don’t let Duolingo control your journey and steer you wrong! There are all sorts of great resources out there.

[lukasadss]

And if I took it upon myself to translate the Count of Monte Cristo script as my homework, what then dhsh

[sl33py-g4m3r]

feel like I've asked this and thought about it before for language learning; but I'll ask again~~

is it worth it to try to play through a game where you're basically illiterate?

I need to up my study of hiragana/katakana so hopefully I can do this and actually get somewhere faster.

I'd hoped that by doing this and taking the time to try to dissect and figure out the text (using either flash cards or a table or something) that hopefully I could actually learn something from it~~

but both animal crossing and pokemon are such text heavy games, and I was on the switch lite when I tried it w animal crossing~~ the text was small as is and I couldn't tell what the furigana above the kanji even was. so I kind of gave up and switched back to English...

baby beginner of trying to learn Japanese, what's a way to make memorizing and learning hiragana/katakana fun and for me to actually memorize and learn them? I wanna get literate~~~ cause I feel kind of dumb~~~

would playing video games in the target language you're trying to learn help the beginner learner? or not? (I figure I'm still illiterate at this point so hope it would but idk if I'd just get frustrated at it or not)

or maybe second guessing myself here; maybe despite what I've been telling myself since high school, I really don't have the want to actually learn..... Or I do, I'm second guessing myself, and think that since I'm like 30, that I'll never learn....

idk....

I hoped that I was getting somewhere at least, given I can think sometimes in very rudimentary childish Japanese, but can't read, and can't understand much at all...

I'm still very much a baby learner and discouraged by this... but I'll never learn otherwise.....

got to stop giving up with things~~~ don't be discouraged by it, cause kids learn their native tongue in the same exact way~~~~

just throwing yourself in there~~~ yet I'm still disheartened by it....

hopefully on the OLED instead of the lite, the furigana on top of the kanji is easier for me to read~~~ if I try this again~~~

so~~ tldr; feel bad that I'm still a baby learner w Japanese and mainly illiterate... what's some fun ways (aside maybe picking apart video game text) to try to learn and memorize the characters? like really learn them by heart so I don't need to resort to a table ever again?

feeling like this should give me the determination to work harder~~~ to prove my "I can't do it" wrong~~~~ rather than just give up...

[redvelvct]

every time i come to korea its like okay maybe i do wanna be here long-ish term and then when i go back home i do nothing to make that a reality :)