#mandarin notes

[nowtoboldlygo]

I have more!!! No Romanian/Croatian though.

Amharic - all of ethiopiques of course

French - 90s

French - pop today

German - chill

Greek - rap

Italian - oldies

Italian - 80s

Mandarin - r&b, hip hop, lofi

Guqin playlist ;)

Mande languages++ (mix) - blues!

Kora playlist ;)

Portugeuse - fado

Spanish - guajira / type of punto cubano

Spanish - mexican rock

Spanish - guitar sad songs, mostly

These are less for language learning & more for vibes - I just like to listen to native-country music when I'm reading a translated-to-english novel.

Language Playlists

Disclaimer: These playlists predominantly reflect my taste in and knowledge of music. I apologise in advance. Some playlists include songs in other languages including English if deemed appropriate for the playlist. All playlists are works in progress. Playlists in bold are really long.

Multilingual and Continental Playlists

African Music (this used to be a South African playlist and then just mutated)

Foreign Covers

Germanic Music (excluding German and Low German)

Middle Eastern and North African Music

Multilingual Mixtape (contains most of the playlists in this post and a lot more)

North American Music (classic and contemporary indigenous artists)

South Asian Music (mostly but not exclusively Hindi film soundtracks ngl)

Single Language Playlists

Cambodian

Catalan

Chinese

Czech

Finnish

French

Galician

German

Greek

Hawaiian

Hebrew

Hungarian

Irish (Gaeilge)

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Low German and Northern German

te reo Māori

Portuguese

Scottish (Gaelic)

Spanish

Thai

Turkish

Vietnamese

Welsh

Yiddish

Hidden Agenda: Please recommend me music in Romanian and Croatian 🥺 (I also accept other recommendations)

[nowtoboldlygo]

bookmarking for l8rrrrrr

[mxtxfanatic]

The more I get into this translation and am able to read other works, the more I fear that the “plain language” of cnovels are actually a manmade problem and a self-fulfilling prophecy. Some translators, for whatever reason, flattened out the metaphors and imagery in the works they translated, those translations became popular and widely spread, people began to acclimate to this way of writing as “just the way cnovels are,” other translators internalizing this idea pick up other cnovels to work on, rinse and repeat. Cause there’s no way tgcf is this colorful and yet only a trickle of that shines through into English.

[xuehuastudy]

大家好!

I'm study Mandarin Chinese already 3 months and thought that it will be cool to try capture my progress in it with some cute study blog.

Maybe someone will catch some inspiration in it and start to learn new languages too? Who knows.

Wish you good luck with all your work and studies!

Happy holidays!

[ahollowyear]

Hello Chinese is the best app to learn Mandarin imho

Actual screenshots, it's so good.

[try-set-me-on-fire]

I think the pervasiveness of sandalwood as a thing dudes smell like in fics is so funny. How do you all know what that smells like and that a dude would smell like it. I couldn't pick that scent out of a lineup

[vivicantstudy]

ʚ Chinese Emotions Vocabulary ɞ

1. 生气 (shēngqì) (╬ಠ益ಠ) - Angry

2. 害怕 (hàipà) (⊙﹏⊙✿) - Scared

3. 哭 (kū) (╥﹏╥) - Crying

4. 紧张 (jǐnzhāng) (；￣Д￣）- Anxious

5. 害羞 (hàixiū) (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄) - Shy

6. 困惑 (kùnhuò) (￣□￣」) - Confused

7. 高兴 (gāoxìng) ＼(≧▽≦)／ - Happy

8. 好心 (hǎoxīn) (っ´ω`c)♡ - Kind

9. 激动 (jīdòng) (((o(ﾟ▽ﾟ)o))) - Excited

[sparrow-writes-draws]

Downloading red note and then immediately after Duolingo feels like I’m finally awakening my dumb American brain lmaoooo /pos

[twofunerals]

THE FIRST SHOT (2024) 雪迷宫 "We don't have time for your lessons." "You're solving drug cases. You have to know about drugs and chemistry first."

[thisonelikesaliens]

with first note of love out today and the on1y one coming out next week, just gonna throw a blanket statement out there

I'll probably be pointing out any important nuances that i think got lost in translation but i obviously won't be able to pick up everything. so if you have questions about the translation of a particular phrase please feel free to ask and I'll be happy to look into it

[studyingmandarinwithlara]

January 18th, 2025

Happy new year everyone! It's been a rough January, I can't lie! But we persist :) I have my first exam out of 3 in 2 days brrrrr

Wishing you all the best of luck on whatever you have going on :)

XO

[whetstonefires]

duolingo teaches me such batshit things and because they've removed all the tips and grammar fact pages and like, actual information from their app over the years i just have to sit with having been trained like a dog to understand that the mandarin for for japan (日本) is 'reuben.'

like. the sandwich.

[wutaijiemei]

後世人再會......

[imanes]

color me intrigued… once I stop being so congested I’ll go on a perfume store crawl and see if I can smell it. tbh if I could name an ideal day it’d be go to smell stories or songes parfumés and then hit a bookstore and then eat something yummy and then walk home. next week inshallah

[y2kmtv]

[doctorguilty]

I forgot to post this on time ;; happy late Lunar New Year nonetheless 🎉🧧🐍