#take a grammar class

[apocalypse-sans-aus]

How is everything doing Dust?

Will there be any ships? As there is ColorKiller on your main blog

First - Next

Decided to do a quick answer scene since I currently am making Horrors design rn. (I'll try to add in colors in small comics)

Dust was left behind from the gang to defend on himself while Killer and Horror scavenge for food.

AND FOR THE SHIPS, it's yes and no. I want canon and fanon plus shippers and no shipper lovers to find my blog likeable, so maybe in the backgrounds I'll like sneakily add some ships like Color x Killer? Or ones that will be wholesome to lighten up the mood after a depressing scene. Depends on my mood really, hope that clears things💛

Dust/Murderer sans belongs to Ask-Dusttale

[edgebug]

i really think that everyone should learn their region's sign language not only because it's a way to communicate with Deaf/hoh people and be a little more inclusive in your everyday life but also because frankly it's just cool and useful in a ton of situations. even if you just know a little, it can really come in clutch. cannot tell you how many times my wife and i or my mom and i have used it to either 1) talk shit or 2) talk in a quiet area like a library or theater

[joelletwo]

v retroactively applying the youtube japanese lessons that explain grammar in a more. groans in postwork no words. native? literal understanding rather than trying to anglicize it/generalize it to a vaguely close english equivalent so i actually understand why phrases use the words/forms they do instead of just going ???? okay i guess ill memorize that somehow. anyways. applying that idea to spanish grammar that was never explained to me just had phrases thrown at me kjsdf

[burgeoning-ambition]

Hi Vincent! Since you're studying Japanese & Korean, I was wondering if there are any major differences in the way you approach studying each language? Especially since you are laddering Japanese and Korean.

Any helpful hints you've picked up on the way would be great too! ありがとう！

Oohhhh... This is a good question...

I think in terms of grammar I approach them similarly, by memorizing grammar by its function rather than by how it's translated, but when I review grammar I try to review my Korean by comparing to equivalent Japanese grammar. They're a lot easier to compare than either one with English, so it's easier since the word order is often the same and stuff.

But with Korean I think I use a lot more learning apps? Although that's mostly because the Korean resources around me aren't as plentiful as Japanese ones, so I can't get my hands on as much native reading material and stuff to practice. (And I'm not huge on k-dramas, haha)

Oh, another thing with my experience with Korean is that my learning community for it is much smaller- I couldn't really click with a lot of my classmates in Korean the same way I could with my classmates in Japanese (and there was one person in my Korean class who was kind of... A creep so I sort of avoided socializing in there in general), so a lot of my Korean learning is more independent. I won't lie that specific person being so like, uncomfortable to be around kinda killed my motivation to study Korean for a little while, so I really had to improve my internal motivations for studying to make sure I didn't give up.

In terms of tips and tricks I have, one thing I've made a habit of doing is writing down the equivalent Japanese grammar point next to each Korean grammar point in my textbooks! I'll write down conjugations with the same meanings, particles with the same meanings, and sometimes also phrases or vocab terms in Japanese next to the Korean headings and try to memorize based on that. It's usually pretty easy to do, honestly, since the English language textbooks I use for both languages describe things very similarly!

Also, I try to cut out English as much as possible when I learn new words in Korean! Like, I have the Learn Korean With BTS book, and in that the new vocab is only written in Korean, and then if I can't guess the word's meaning from the illustration they put with it, I'll listen to the audio translation in Japanese. I only use English if I'm totally lost because I don't know the word in either language and the illustration is confusing.

Hmm... Another tip I think is important is to not beat yourself up if you aren't "fully laddering" or something like that. If you sometimes have to go back to your native language to double check something, that's fine! It doesn't cancel out all the laddering if you have to go back sometimes to make sure you're actually understanding.

You can also usually find what textbooks Japanese universities use for their Korean language classes! I know Waseda puts all of their textbooks up on their class search and that's publicly available to look at, so you can go find whatever level of Korean textbook written in Japanese with Japanese explanations if you're advanced enough in Japanese!

I feel like laddering is pretty similar to immersion study in the sense that they can both feel pretty difficult and high-intensity even when you're just doing something basic. Completely getting rid of your native language makes things a lot more stressful, I think, so it can be harder. Even if you know that for you personally laddering will be a better way to learn it or more efficient or whatever, it can still feel kinda overwhelming to suddenly be trying to avoid your native language when you study, and I think it's important to remember that! Because sometimes it'll feel discouraging to be overwhelmed by "super basic stuff", but the way you're studying is more intense than studying using native language textbooks! So feeling overwhelmed by stuff you'd find "easy" in your native language is fine! Because it isn't your native language!

I dunno, I don't have many life hacks for it yet... But I hope this blurb helps somehow anyway!

[dersandmannkommt]

*has loved sign language since childhood* *is more or less proficient in american sign language* *has studied and continues to study Deaf culture and its history* *has met and befriended many d/Deaf people*

*asks deaf person to repeat a fingerspelled word more than once*

omg now they hate me and they probably hate me for trying to learn their language and then failing at it so miserably and i should probably just switch majors and gosh they probably think im just another stupid hearing person. please i can do better i swear i didnt mean to disrespect you

every single deaf person that i have ever met: *does not care* *probably didn't even register any mistake i made* *understands that I am learning an entirely new language and am bound to need a bit of help*

[lightblueminecraftorchid]

I love learning ASL it’s so good. Makes me happy to learn it. I’m so glad my university has classes for it with professors actually steeped in Deaf culture.

[waitineedaname]

the difference between different subfields of linguistics and their takes on Chomsky is so funny sometimes because my phonology and syntax textbooks are like "we're building on this foundational theory that Chomsky came up with in the 70s!" while my sociolinguistics textbook is like "Noam Chomsky should be addicted to shutting the fuck up"

[n4talia-chaparro]

"But not everyone is ru-" Everyone is the same, darling, everything is the same. Same rude asshole, same stuff. You cannot say everyone likes those stuff when y'all start talking shit over it 💀💀😹‼️‼️💥💥 /hj /J /J

[willowgast]

in news from grad life, my supervisor asked me about phd plans today and upon hearing i want to take a few years to do various non-academic things before i start one, immediately produced an application form for a scholarship to study abroad in iceland for a year? like this was not remotely on the radar of what i was planning for next year but tbf i hadn't actually planned that much, and i was initially looking at a master's programme in iceland before i settled on the one i've actually ended up on, so... why not! could be living in iceland this time next year! sometimes niche, half-buried teenage dreams do come true!

[lildoodlecat]

stg as soon as i make it through this semester im gonna reread tgcf

i actually still haven't read the entirety of the 7seas tl bc it wasn't all out on my last read and i got impatient sjxkd but!! with the revised version finally out and some lovely ppl having translated the chapters with big changes I think it'll be fun to read them together :D

[pocketsonny]

been using renshuu to learn japanese and it's fun cause i can get stupidly excited at the small things like hey, i can sorta read the title of this song now!! (if it's in katanaka or hiragana cause kanji's is another world to me rn LOLOL that's going slow)

[tepparetai]

today was fun yayy :) crazy how you get more stuff done when u wake up at 8am instead of 3pm im neurotypical now

[icedmetaltea]

Boutta mcfucking lose it over my psych teacher

[vestaldestroyer]

today's hungarian class was pure torture. please save me bsdrewatch

[dandelionstep-moved]

i need smth other than duolingo to make me do spanish exercises daily TBH because 1. i know way more than this i just haven’t gotten very far because the ads piss me off insanely 2. if i’m immediately punished for getting something wrong with an explanation being paywalled and an encouragement on being fast i’m not going to learn very well from my mistakes. duolingo is honestly super annoying it’s just nice on account of being accessible esp. from my phone

[duragdoll]

i want to be a polyglot so bad