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Gujarati Resources

Memrise

Learn Gujarati Language

Learn Gujarati From English

Lets Learn Gujarati

Learn Gujarati

Gujarati Learner

Basic Guide: Gujarati

Gujarati Lexicon

Gujarati - English Learner’s Dictionary (PDF)

Gujarati - A Complete Course For Beginners (PDF)

A Grammar of Gujarati (PDF)

Simplified Grammar of the Gujarati Language (PDF)

South Asia: Gujarati (MEGA)

Resource List for Learning Gujarati (Tumblr)

Easy Gujarati & Super Easy Gujarati (Youtube)

LanguageReef

Polymath

MyLanguages

101Languages

ilanguages

Omniglot

Library Genesis

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

Wikivoyage

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My New Favorite Chinese Dictionary Resource

A couple of months ago, I discovered a great new resource, 教育百科 from the Taiwanese Ministry of Education. It is a Chinese-Chinese dictionary, so it’s best for high-intermediate and advanced learners.

Here’s an example entry using the word 爆炸. As you can see, there’s pinyin and zhuyin provided. Those blue blocks show the different dictionaries that contain entries for 爆炸. Yes, they even have Hakka and Hokkien entries for some words!

Continuing on, there’s some audio, definitions (in Chinese of course), and a couple examples.

Where this dictionary really shines is for chengyu. Here’s an example of what you get for the chengyu 听天由命.

There’s almost too much here explaining the origin and history! Seriously, it’s too much content.

Here’s my favorite part: the example sentences. Some chengyu I’ve looked up don’t have this many example sentences, but some have even more.

Lastly, there’s even a comparison section to compare and contrast other similar chengyu.

I’ve been doing a one year chengyu-a-day challenge for the past 10 months or so, and I found that for some chengyu, Pleco just didn’t cut it. There weren’t enough example sentences! I ended up stumbling across this resource, and it’s been so useful. 

Pleco is usually still my first stop, but when I need more, I head over to https://pedia.cloud.edu.tw/ or https://dict.idioms.moe.edu.tw/ (the latter also has a lot of the same chengyu content but leaves some things out).

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Hello! I made my first printable! I decided to make a German Vocabulary Sheet since I always struggle to organize them!, you can find it on my Google Drive, soon I’ll make and post more printables so follow me to see more! MY POSTS

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Here is the link! What an amazing idea ❤️

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todays helpful tool: asb player, a free, open-source tool that lets you instantly record audio, subtitles, and their translation for your flashcards!

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Links to PDFs of Italian Language Books

The Great Gatsby (Il Grade Gatsby)

The Little Prince (Il Piccolo Principe)

Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale)

Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets (Harry Potter e la camera dei segreti)

Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (Harry Potter e il prigioniero di Azkaban)

Catching Fire (La ragazza di fuoco)

Mockingjay (Il canto della rivolta)

Romeo and Juliet (Romeo e Giulietta)

Twilight (Twilight)

New Moon (New Moon)

Eclipse (Eclipse)

Breaking Dawn (Breaking Dawn)

Fifty Shades of Grey (Cinquanta sfumature di grigio)

Fifty Shades Darker (Cinquanta sfumature di nero) 

Little Women (Piccole Donne)

Jane Eyre (Jane Eyre)

Wuthering Heights (Cime tempestose)

The Notebook (Le pagine della nostra vita)

The Giver (Il Donatore)

1984 (1984)

Animal Farm (La fattoria degli animali)

To Kill a Mockingbird (Il buio oltre la siepe)

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Resources masterpost

Witnessing French:

Websites, social media

Online courses in French

French subreddits

Fanfictions

Buzzfeed

Improving your:

Pronunciation

Speaking

Things to listen to:

Music

Podcasts

Radio stations

TED talks

Things to read:

Graphic novels/comics

News

Ebooks + quizzes (by me)

Short stories

Vikidia - kids Wikipedia

Things to watch:

Cartoons

Kids shows

Imago TV - free activist Netflix

The Simpsons the movie

True crime

TV programs - sci-fi shows, travelling, etc.

Youtubers

Extra:

Antidote 10 + BonPatron - Grammarly equivalents

Conjugation by le Nouvel Obs

Deepl - very good at translating sentences/expressions

Forbo - natives pronouncing things

Lexicity - about Ancien/Moyen Français

Lingolden - Chrome extension that teaches vocabulary

Linguo.tv (french videos + subtitles)

Reverso - very good alternative to Google translation (single words)

Wordreference - very complete translation website (expressions)

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In this powerful talk, Kwak'wala language teacher Joye Walkus passionately shows the cultural and spiritual significance of saving indigenous languages and culture for future generations.

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Linguistic diversity challenge 4/6: Ewe 

What is the language called in English and the language itself?

The language is called Ewe in English and  Èʋe or Èʋegbe in the language itself.

Where is the language spoken?

The language is spoken in the southern parts of Ghana and Togo.

How many people speak the language?

About 5 million people speak Ewe.

Which language family does it belong to? What are some of its relative languages?

It is a Niger-Congo language, from a language cluster called Gbe. The other major Gbe language is Fon.

What writing system does the language use?

Ewe uses a modified version of the latin alphabet. The African Reference Alphabet is used.

What kind of grammatical fea/tures does the language have? 

It is an SVO language. Adjectives etc follow the noun. Postpositions rather than prepositions. It has logophoric pronouns, which are used to disambiguate relative clauses.

What does the language sound like?

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Podcasts

Knowledge:

Au coeur de l’histoire (history)

les chasseurs de nazis (nazi hunters)

france musique 

on ne parle pas la bouche pleine (food + literature)

les chemins de la philosophie

le collège de france (advanced)

il était une fois (fairy tales)

la main verte (gardening)

la méthode scientifique

regardez voir (photography)

sur les épaules de darwin

very good trip (rock n roll)

chroniques du ciel (aviation)

la tête au carré (popularization)

les p’tits bateaux (pros answering children’s qs)

les grands musiciens (interview with a pro musician)

littérature moderne et contemporaine

Society:

Arte radio (politics, health, history, tech…)

slate (similarish to ted talks)

hashtag (debating very current problems)

quoi de meuf (women talking about pop culture)

affaires sensibles (trials)

les gentilshommes (relationships men/women)

bouddhisme et méditation

kiffe ta race (about racial problematics)

le flow (well being)

sois gentille dis merci fais un bisou (portraits of women)

les couilles sur la table (men talking to women)

miroir miroir (destroy social norms)

du grain à moudre (debating sensible questions)

coucou le q (casual sex ed)

change ma vie (about personal growth)

la poudre (powerful women’s interviews)

nice to hear you (talks with creators, ceos, artists and nice humans)

mortel (to reconcile you with death and mortality)

la menstruelle (periods)

Movies + tech:

La cartouche (gaming)

la chronique ciné

studio 404 (tech)

geek inc (nerd chatter)

nouveau monde (innovations)

2h de perdues (shitty movies)

silence on joue (gaming)

radio rôliste (role playing, mmorpg)

nociné (pop culture/movies)

season one (to discover new shows)

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do u have any advice for ppl who want to study linguistics and languages but couldnt afford to study it at school?? thanks if you answer this, have a great day

yeah! you can easily download textbooks online and study from them AND I do have a dropbox full of linguistics textbooks!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qm7x5dz8fu4bdlp/AADshTfRGZG5JZALkDV6wFlwa?dl=0 

it includes phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, morphology, and etymology. 

I also have another dropbox folder full of language textbooks:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tdm26h60ccl9pe1/AABg0B3mOGaWLG9Kfyuvut6wa?dl=0

As of November 6: Includes 83 textbooks including Arabic, ASL, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh :)

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NEW Masterlist

안녕하세요 여러분! Hi everyone! I reorganized my masterlist so that it’s a little easier to navigate my lessons! The only change I made is that instead of organizing my lessons by numbered levels, I’m organizing them into levels based on how advanced they are. The numbered levels contained a smaller number of lessons in them, which was nice since it looked less overwhelming, but I think this new list organizes the lessons less arbitrarily. Also, I think it would be good if you’re new to my blog are unsure of where to start!

Also, don’t worry so much about the order of the lessons within each level. If any grammar structure has “prerequisites,” I’ll probably mention what you need to know in that given lesson if that makes sense. Just browse the list and see what you’re curious about!

All of the lessons that I have already posted will keep the level numbers in their titles (it would take me a while to change every single one of them!), but you can just ignore those. My future lessons, however, will be labeled with the proper difficulty level. I hope this new list is a more helpful way of navigating my blog! 

As always, feel free to message me with any messages you may have about any of these lessons!! Happy studying! 화이팅!

Hangul Lessons

Consonants

Vowels

Writing/Reading Korean Syllables

Some 받침 Rules

Diphthongs

Stroke Order

Some More 받침 Rules

Irregular Verbs

The Basics

Common Phrases

Numbers

Sino-Korean vs. Native Korean Numbers (Instagram Post)

Sentence Structure and Particles

Present-Tense Conjugations and Formal Language

Adjectives

Questions

Honorifics and Casual Language

Keep reading

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pride month is almost over but i have some podcast recs in spanish for you all <3

orgullo con valeria vegas: this one is more of a podcast documentary (ie. no new episodes, idk if there’s a certain name for that) that talks about the lives and experiences of different members of the lgbt community in spain. there are 8 episodes, each with a different theme, and even if you’re really familiar with queer topics i recommend it. it’s also a good way to find people whose work you should check out. it’s unfortunately only available on spotify

ni me ladilles: this is a venezuelan podcast with two friends (one of which is gay) who talk about whatever topic comes to mind, but i’m recommending it here because they specifically had a pride episode where viewers sent in their coming out stories and i really enjoyed it. the podcast is super funny in general, definitely recommend especially if you’re university age because that’s the target audience

grandes maricas de la historia: this podcast is exactly what it sounds like: queer historical figures (o bueno, what we would understand today as queer). it’s not limited to the spanish speaking world, and i really like the presenter’s way of telling the story. the point is to show that queer people have always existed, we’re nothing new

sexópolis: not explicitly queer but inclusive of the community and its issues, this is just sex education in a podcast and i think that’s really important given the history of our community. it’s fun to listen to (you’re not being lectured at) and i’ve learned a ton listening to it

that is it for right now, but i’m working on finding more – let me know if you want a part 2 (since i try to listen to them for a while to get the vibe before recommending them!). feel free to leave your recommendations here! <3 enjoy and happy pride!

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The Big List of Resources for Learning Danish

I plan on updating this as often as I come across something worthy of being added to this list. I’ll make a post to let you know that something new has been added so you don’t need to check back all the time.

Last updated: 07/07/2022

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Lingthusiasm Episode 36: Villages, gifs, and children: Researching signed languages in real-world contexts with Lynn Hou

Larger, national signed languages, like American Sign Language and British Sign Language, often have relatively well-established laboratory-based research traditions, whereas smaller signed languages, such as those found in villages with a high proportion of deaf residents, aren’t studied as much. When we look at signed languages in the context of these smaller communities, we can also think more about how to make research on larger sign languages more natural as well. 

In this episode, your host Gretchen McCulloch interviews Dr Lynn Hou, an Assistant Professor of linguistics at the University of California Santa Barbara, in our first bilingual episode (ASL and English). Lina researches how signed languages are used in real-world environments, which takes her from analyzing American Sign Language in youtube videos to documenting how children learn San Juan Quiahije Chatino Sign Language (in collaboration with Hilaria Cruz, one of our previous interviewees!). 

We’re very excited to bring you our first bilingual episode in ASL and English! For the full experience, make sure to watch the video version of this episode at youtube.com/lingthusiasm (and check out our previous video episode on gesture in spoken language while you’re there). 

This month’s bonus episode on Patreon is a behind the scenes look at the writing process of Gretchen’s recent book, Because Internet! Find out how Gretchen decided what to cover, what she had to leave out, how the book writing process differs from the academic article she and Lauren recently wrote together about emoji and gesture, and more. Plus, get access to over 30 bonus episodes of Lingthusiasm (that’s almost twice as much show!). patreon.com/lingthusiasm 

Here are the links mentioned in this episode:

Lynn Hou UCSB website

Lynn Hou personal website

Lina on Twitter (@linasigns)

Lynn Hou dissertation

ASL (Wikipedia)

Taiwanese Sign Language (Wikipedia)

LSQ (Langue des signes québécoise/Quebec Sign Language) (Wikipedia)

Sign Language Institute Canada 

Richard P. Meier University of Texas website

Grammer, Gesture, and Meaning in American Sign Language by Scott Liddell

Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (Wikipedia)

Nicaraguan Sign Language (Wikipedia)

Lingthusiasm Episode 24: Making books and tools speak Chatino - Interview with Hilaria Cruz

Hilaria Cruz’s website 

Homesign (Wikipedia) 

Observer’s Paradox (Wikipedia)

Linguistic accommodation (Wikipedia)

Labov’s department store experiment (Unravelling Magazine)

The Five Minute Linguist video

TTY

You can listen to this episode via Lingthusiasm.com, Soundcloud, RSS, Apple Podcasts/iTunes, Spotify, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. You can also download an mp3 via the Soundcloud page for offline listening, and stay tuned for a transcript of this episode on the Lingthusiasm website. To received an email whenever a new episode drops, sign up for the Lingthusiasm mailing list.

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Gretchen is on Twitter as @GretchenAMcC and blogs at All Things Linguistic.

Lauren is on Twitter as @superlinguo and blogs at Superlinguo.

Special thanks for this episode to Mala Poe, for interpreting, to Daniel Midgley, for recording the video, and to the Linguistic Society of America, for providing a room to record this interview in at the annual meeting.

Lingthusiasm is created by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. Our audio producer is Claire Gawne, our editorial manager is Emily Gref, our editorial producer is Sarah Dopierala, and our music is ‘Ancient City’ by The Triangles.

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Free Resources to Learn Ukrainian

I have seen a few sites offer free materials to learn Ukrainian that aren’t the usual free resources.

App: uTalk (it seems to be for 1 year)

App: LingQ

Site: Teach Yourself Complete Ukrainian Audiobook

Site: Teach Yourself Complete Ukrainian E-Book

For Polish Speakers

Edgard Rozmówki ukraińsko-polskie i polsko-ukraińskie

PONS Rozmówki ukraińsko-polskie

For German Speakers:

Kauderwelsch Ukrainisch Wort für Wort