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languageswithhomer · 8 months ago

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❀ 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝓁𝒶𝓃𝑔𝓊𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝓈𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓂𝓎 𝒻𝒾𝓇𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓊 𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓇 ❀

[Sunday 25th August 2024]

As I enter my final week here in Spain working as an au pair, I wanted to compile a list of flaws in my knowledge and usage of castellano, most of which I only noticed when speaking with genuine Castilian Spanish speakers. I’m doing this now so that I can have a resource to consult when I continue with my studies.

♡ It turns out, the affirmative imperative still confuses me very much. Before this month, I must have been very British with my manners and rarely used this structure because the moment I had to tell my host kids to do something, I was stumped!

♡ I cannot roll my ‘r’s - something which I was already very much aware of - and need to stress the Spanish ‘j’ and soft ‘g’ sounds more - found that out when a new friend asked me repeatedly what I meant by “espona” (esponja).

♡ I do not know the names of nearly enough household items! Imagine having studied a language intensely for four years (technically eight) and needing to use SpanishDict because you forgot the word sartén.

♡ I speak far too slowly. My host parents - genuinely such lovely people - constantly finish my sentences for me because I take so long.

♡ I still can’t distinguish between por and para! College Phi would cry if she read that (if anybody has any good resources, please send them my way - at this point, I’ve tried everything).

♡ I need to learn when to use todavía and when to use aún in place of still.

♡ I must revise reflexive verbs.

I also do think it’s important to recognise my successes though and appreciate how far I’ve come:

♡ My use of the subjunctive and negative imperative is actually really good.

♡ I’m starting to nail the intonation change in questions.

♡ I can understand lots of different accents from Spain and beyond.

♡ I’m participating in full conversations with native speakers and making them laugh (with jokes, not my poor employment of the language).

♡ I am able to switch between English and Castilian Spanish easily without much thought.

♡ I can write recipes in Castilian Spanish - I translated one of my Gran’s recipes for my host family the other day!

♡ I am trying and I am learning so so much and that’s what counts!

☆ Okay, that’s all, if anybody has any questions about my studies or my experience as an au pair, please don’t hesitate to send me an ask or a message! ☆

#mine #languages #castellano #study ref #au pair #studyblr #langblr

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sukinapan · 6 months ago

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#this is so beautiful #i love the chinese languages and characters so much #from my understanding this would not be in a modern language that i could possibly read with standard chinese knowledge though #makes me wanna study chinese history and language history so bad ngl #language #art inspo #asia #games #peklo ref #fav

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pastelaeqy · 7 months ago

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something something long dead minecraft servers evidence of a life once lived etc etc

#minecraft #landscape illustration #illustration #painting #minecraft art #my art #these took me 20 min each #no ref image so forgive me if the perspective looks janky #they were just something to do instead of studying lol

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mistbix · 1 year ago

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so i've been re-watching atla....... expect more art soon

#atla #avatar the last airbender #katara #aang #sokka #kataang #i've made exactly 1 fanart for avatar before so i decided You Know What i'll make an art feast now #since the new live action came out i tought “hey now i can at least have refs of their clothes etc” and got a study as a bonus yay #mi arte

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havenandart · 3 months ago

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y'all mind... if i put the ice hockey jason agenda here.....

#jason todd #red hood #dc red hood #dc jason todd #dc comics #i just. uh. have thoughts.#anyways this was a sketch/ref study that got. fucking wildly out of hand #here we are!!!!#haven art #1k

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windwenn · 2 months ago

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Laura

#god forbid i ever get a drawing out on the RIGHT day #happy twin peaks day for like two days ago #my art #laura palmer #study #portrait #twin peaks #fanart #digital art #artists on tumblr #painting #i kept getting emotional looking at the ref photo #theres an incredible amount of emotion carried through sheryl lee's expression

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tenowls · 4 months ago

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rivals

#haikyuu #haikyuu!!#hinata shouyou #kozume kenma #fanart #ik tons of ppl have drawn a similar concept before but ive wanted to do one too for ages AKSJKA #was so overwhelmed by how amazing the nekoma movie was last yr and didnt end up drawing anything bc i wouldnt be able to live up to it kjhf #it looks so much better on my computer screen than my phone tho what da hell.... WHATEVER itll look completely different printed out anyway #ANYWAY !! FIRST PROPER ART OF THE YEAR HELLO #this year i would like to get better AT #COMPOSITION. SHAPE LANGUAGE. 3D FORMS AND SIMPLIFICATION #i like realism and its what im used to but last year i was thinking a lot abt art i admire and its always very Shapes #obv u need to understand realism to be able to do that which is why i go to life drawing #but yea. u have to practise BOTH at the same time theyre 2 diff skill sets which can feed into each other #anyways that was my big realisation last year #the last few pieces have not been turning out Exactly how i want them to but i have to remind myself its what i can achieve #at my current skill level and i have to keep studying and looking and learning if i wanna improve #anyways. ART!!!!#took several pics of myself with a kitchen knife to use as ref for this lmao

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lautums · 1 year ago

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I A HOMO. 2 REÁL IS 2 REÁL !

#disco elysium #my art #harry du bois #fanart #disco elysium fanart #this was actually meant as a study and not a big one at that #but I had the idea for the shirt and made myself laugh #if you're wondering ab the axe its just bc the ref had one and he deserves one I think <3 #BUT ALSO THE PEOPLE SAYING THE ANIMATED VIDEO. UR SMARTER THAN ME AND UR CORRECT

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keymintt · 2 months ago

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i haven't drawn a dragon in a while and needed to fix that

#art #drawing #digital #dragons #dragon #ocs #helix #my art #needed to double-check that i still could draw dragons after being in gay cowboy and coyote land. the answer is yes but i need to like.#do some studies bc i'm relying on a lot of old ingrained knowledge. also doesn't help that i haven't been home in a week and don't have #my animal anatomy ref books handy augh #anyways hi helix i haven't drawn you in like. two years #they're one of those characters of mine with almost no lore they just sit around until i feel like drawing them #or until they get smelted down

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alukaforyou · 4 months ago

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u & ur partner draw each other challenge 🤪

this was supposed to be a little sketch but hmm i realized during this, i need to work on my coloring 😵‍💫 it never ends LOL ANATOMY PERSPECTIVE COLORS i feel like i can maybeeee paint a lil better but non-painty coloring is HARD DAM i put this pic thru like 3 filters on my phone cuz the og kinda sucked LMFAO my fault 😮‍💨 i would draw sukuna soo pretty like a bishie bl protag HEH 😏 and i think sukuna would be pretty good at drawing too i made that up in my head in canon he alr recites poetry so its similar methinks. he would draw u lovely in yamato-e style LMFAOIWJEJSJSJ aaaand check out the creamy crunchy cameo

crunchy is def a mamas boy he loves me but i think creamy might like sukuna more,,, i think she likes men LOL she sort of likes my bf n my dad so 🤔 closeup of bishie bl protag sukuna: