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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly
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Free Online Language Courses
Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.
American Sign Language
ASL University
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Beginner
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Last updated: May 2019
The Secret to Perfect Pronunication in Any Language
You heard me. Perfect. Pronunciation.
Drumroll….
Boom.
[Retrieved from wikipedia]
I present the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). ( IPA website)
Basically this here is the cheat code for all pronunciation of every language
E v e r y. L a n g u a g e.
How?? Well, each symbol corresponds to one sound.
The table shows you where the sound is located and what your tongue has to do to pronounce that sound.
Example:
æ is said at the back of your throat while your throat is around halfway closed (indicated by its location relative to the words “open” and “front). This sound is found in “back“ (in the Standard/General American dialect).
ŋ is said by touching the base of your tongue to where the roof of your mouth gets soft (the velum) and exhaling through your noise while making noise (indicated by “velar” and “nasal”). This sound is found “song”.
As you can see, “ng” in “song” is made up of two letters that have different sounds while separate, but together they make a different sound. And English has some letters that correspond to several sounds all on their own! This is the case on many other languages, and trips up a lot of foreign language learners.
IPA ELIMINATES THIS DIFFICULTY BECAUSE EACH SYMBOL = 1 SOUND
lol sorry for all caps but im excited and this is important so
But how will this actually help you? Because dictionaries are amazing.
See that? That’s the entry for “language” in Merriam-Webster.
It shows two ways of pronouncing the word: ‘laŋ-gwij\, and \’laŋ-wij\, and indicates which syllable is stressed by putting a ‘ in front of the stressed syllable.
Pretty cool, right?
Here are some examples of IPA in action in different languages:
French: deux -> /dø/
Korean: 내가 -> /nɛ-ɡa/ or /ne-ga/
Afrikaans: seun -> /sɪøn/
Standard Arabic: عَيْن -> /ʕajn/
Ready to try this out for your own?
If you just want to only know how to pronounce your target language’s sounds:
Have a dictionary that uses IPA
When you want to look up a sound, go to the interactive IPA chart here
Learn how to say the sounds in your TL by understanding the column/row titles that they are in on the IPA chart (consonants here and vowels here)
Optional (or if you don’t have a dictionary):
Get the IPA charts for your target language (usually on its wikipedia page at “_target language_ Phonology”. If it’s not there then look up “_target language_ IPA transcription”)
Example of an IPA chart (Afrikaans):
[Retrieved from Wikipedia]
It’s a lot less intimidating when it’s the sounds for only one language, right?
REMEMBER: you don’t need to be able to pronounce every sound in IPA to make use of this chart, just know
how
to make them and what these symbols sound like (more or less) and your life of learning pronunciation will be so much easier
So there you have it:
The Secret to Perfect Pronunication in Any Language
Go, be free my language-learning friends, go pronounce things like natives!
and get rid of that nasty romanization for all my fellow korean learners
(oh and if anyone has any questions about this, send em my way! i know there are a couple linguistics blogs that follow me so if any of yall wanna add smth, plz do!)
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Using the IPA to learn languages helped me learn the Korean alphabet easily on my own and it streamlined the way I learned the Arabic alphabet, impressing my teacher. To the langblr blogs following me, I recommend searching for IPA resources to help you learn.
Here’s a podcast episode about the IPA
Using 感じ to express your feelings in Japanese
A lot of people seem to think that expressing your feelings in Japanese is difficult, and while it can be, there are a lot of different variations used in Japanese to express feelings. I promise it isn’t that bad!
First, let’s start with some vocabulary:
喜怒哀楽
きどあいらく = human emotions (joy, anger, humor, etc)
Common Nouns: In Japanese, い-adjectives can often become nouns (高い = tall, 高さ = height). Be careful not to use adjectives on accident when you should use nouns!
気持ち（きもち）feeling(s)
気分（きぶん）feeling(s)/mood
感情（かんじょう）emotions
喜び（よろこび）delight
幸せ（しあわせ）happiness
怒り（いかり）anger
悲しみ（かなしみ）sadness
Common Verbs: Similarly, a lot of adjectives/nouns and verbs share the same stems, but will have different endings. Be careful!
喜ぶ（よろこぶ）to be delighted
悲しむ（かなしむ）to be sad
怒る（おこる）to be/get angry
激怒する（げきどする）to be furious
憤慨する（ふんがいする）to be furious
You’ll commonly see these verbs appear in て-form in order to describe a present state, such as 怒っている (to be in a state of anger) or 喜んでいる (to be in a state of delight).
Common Adjectives:
嬉しい（うれしい）happy
悲しい（かなしい）sad
楽しい（たのしい）fun
辛い（つらい）hard/tough/painful
きつい hard/tough
凄い（すごい）wow, great
やばい expresses various things
When describing your own happiness, it’s more natural to use 嬉しい and not 喜んでいる. However, when describing someone else’s happiness, you should use 喜んでいる and not 嬉しい.
辛い（辛い）and 辛い（からい）look the exact same, but one means “tough” and the other means “spicy.” Pay attention to context!
Expressing your emotions
When describing your own emotions, it’s actually quite uncommon to use any first person pronouns (such as 私) unless the subject is not at all clear. Likely, though, the subject is you and the listener knows this.
Joy & Happiness
あ〜、嬉しいな！ー I’m happy! な is often used in Japanese when expressing your feelings あ, ああ, and あー are also often used やった〜！ー Yay! イェーイ！ー Yaaay! 楽しい！ー Fun! 楽しすぎる ー Using すぎる can express the nuance of “too much fun” ワクワクする ー I’m getting excited! It’s common in Japanese to use onomatopoeia to express emotion! すごい！ー Wow! Great! This is commonly used in variations (すご〜い！すげえ！and so on)
Relief & Surprise
あ〜、よかった！ー I’m relieved! 安心した（あんしん）ー I feel relieved. え〜！ー What? うそ！ー No way! まさか ー No way! It can’t be true. まじ ー Really? No way! Seriously? まじか ー Really? No way! Seriously? This one is sometimes seen as more masculine 信じられない ー I can’t believe it
Nervousness & Sadness
緊張する（きんちょう）ー I’m nervous… Really common, and can also be used in its て-form! ドキドキする ー I feel nervous. 悲しい（かなしい）ー I’m sad. 寂しい（さみしい・さびしい）ー I’m lonely / I miss someone 憂鬱（ゆううつ）ー Depression 気が滅入る（きがめいる）ー I feel depressed がっかり ー I’m disappointed 落ち込む（おちこむ）ー I’m getting upset!
Anger
ひどい！ー That’s terrible! You’re awful! イライラする ー I feel irritated 頭にきた ー I’m so pissed off ムカつく ー I’m angry
Embarrassment: 恥ずかしい（はずかしい）ー I’m embarrassed. Fear: 怖い（こわい）ー I’m scared. Envy: 羨ましい（うらやましい）ー I’m jealous.
Using 感じ and 感じる
If you talk to a Japanese person for any length of time, you’ll hear this come up quite often. The readings are “かんじ” and “かんじる”. Remember that the meaning of 感 is “feeling,” so if you see it in kanji compounds you’re likely dealing with someone to do with feeling (emotion or otherwise).
感じ is the noun form and 感じる is the verb form:
どんな感じがしましたか？How did you feel?
どんな感じましたか？How did you feel?
These feelings can be both physical and emotional.
変な感じがした… へんなかんじがした… I felt strange…
彼女はなんか冷たい感じがするね。 かのじょはなんかつめたいかんじがするね。 She seems to be kind of cold, huh?
地震があったみたいだけど何も感じなかった。 じしんがあったみたいだけどなにもかんじなかった。 It seems there was an earthquake but I didn’t feel anything.
There are a lot of colloquial uses as well, particularly: って感じ, which is a really common way for Japanese to express the feeling of “it’s like…”
学校はね…もういいかなって感じ。 I think I’ve had enough with school.
私ばかり働いているって感じ。 I feel like I’m the only one that works.
You can use って感じ in a lot of ways, and it’s especially common when speaking.
気がする
Use this when expressing that you sense something/feel something but can’t quite understand why you feel that way.
If you’re breaking up with your significant other, you might say something like 私たち、もう終わりのような気がする which roughly translates to “I feel like we’re over now.”
面白いことが起きるみたいな気がする… おもしろいことがおきるみたいなきがする… I feel like something interesting will happen…
旅行したい気がする。 りょこうしたいきがする。 I feel like going on a trip.
食べる気がしない。 たべるきがしない。 I don’t feel like eating.
Try to express your emotions as much as possible when talking to people, especially if you’re talking about your day or something that you did with that person. It adds a personal touch and will make sure your conversation remains warm for both of you.
頑張ってください！
DID HE MAKE IT??
he makes it
THANK FUCKING GOD
Ok I saw a rb of this with some context and I only remember like half of it so I’m also using Google I may get some of this wrong
But apparently the “first errand” thing isn’t just a cute little fact about the little kid, it’s a totally real thing done in Japan to teach kids that they can like rely on the community to offer assistance if they need it. They send their kids (like 2-3 years old) out alone to perform a relatively simple errand like going to a convenience store and buying a carton of milk. (There’s even a tv show where a camera crew follows children as they accomplish this first errand.) It’s not uncommon to see kids as young as 6-7 riding the subway alone because they’ve gained this sense of independence that comes from knowing that there will be people to help out if they need it.
Oh my god that’s even better
As someone who grew up with a paranoid and over-protective mother, this both warms my heart and terrifies me.
Here’s the tv show about First Errands!
Japanese Slangs！
Even if you feel like you know some slang from watching movies or anime, here’s a list of some essential words that will come in handy when you’re in a group of Japanese people, especially kids or youth, although many people of a more finely-aged demographic can often be seen using these words too.
1.壁ドン(Kabe don)：
“Kabe-don” is a situation where a boy corners a girl against the wall and places his hand on the wall in a way that traps her.「壁ドン」とは男子が女子を壁際に押し寄せて、彼女の逃げ場を失くすことです。
2.リア充 (Rea ju)
Mashing together the words “riaru (リアル/real)” and “juu (充/to fulfill),” this term describes someone who has a fulfilling experience in their day-to-day real life.
「リアル（現実の生活）が充実している状態、またはそのような人物」を指すインターネットスラング。
使用例
リア充爆発しろ！
Just go blow yourselves up!
3.ワロタ (wa ro ta)
warota- slang for “I laughed.” In proper Japanese it would be waratta wwww - the equivalent of lol. The person is laughing.ワロタとは、「笑った」という意味のインターネット用語です。
使用例
うそでしょ？わろたｗｗｗ
Are you kidding me? It’s so funny! lol
4.wktk・ワクテカ・わくてか (wa ku te ka)
Used to indicate excitement and eagerness in anticipation of something to come: “Can’t wait!”, “(I’m) so excited!”, “I look forward to it!”
ワクワクと何かを期待し、心待ちにしている様子に追加して、待ちすぎて汗がでてきてテカテカしている。ワクテカのローマ字入力の頭文字を取り出して「w（ワ）」「k（ク）」「t（テ）」「k（カ）」と省略される。
使用例
これから映画見に行く！徹夜で激ねむだけどwktk！
I’m going to see a movie now.
I was too excited to sleep last night!
5.ググる (gu gu ru)
This is Japanese internet slang so it is mainly used in internet forums, means "Search on Google"
使用例
知らない言葉が出てきたら、とりあえずググるようにしてる。
I search on Google everything I found some words that I don’t know.
6.禿同 (ha ge doh)
Strong agreement.
他人の意見に対して、自分も同意見だ、同感だ、賛成だ、という意思表示に用いられ、 「激しく同意(はげしくどうい)」⇒「激同(はげどう)」⇒「禿同(はげどう)」 と言葉が省略され、意図的な誤変換の状態で定着した。
7.orz
A mark to show your disappointment (o is head r is arm and body and z is legs kneeing ○|￣|＿)
跪き頭を垂れる（頽れる）姿をアルファベットで表した日本発祥のアスキーアートである。 失望、落胆や絶望の表現。「 がっくり」の意。「 o」が頭・「r」が腕と体・「z」が跪いた腰から下の脚を表す。
使用例
只今見事に彼女にフラれました orz
I just got dumped by my girlfriend orz.
8.乙 (otsu)
Thank you for your hard work.When you appreciate someone’s hard work.お疲れ様です。「おつかれさまでした」→「おつかれ」→「おつ」→「乙」と変化していったものなのです。使用例「乙でした！」Thank you for your hard work!
使用例
「乙でした！」
Thank you for your hard work!
Japanese Pronunciation Series #6 - Japanese Pitch Accent
Japanese Pronunciation Series #6 - Japanese Pitch Accent
What is Pitch Accent?
Pitch accent refers to a characteristic of language where every syllable can be pronounced with a high or low pitch. Pitch accent is considered different from the concepts of stress and tone that appear in English and Chinese, respectively.
English: Stress Chinese: Tones Japanese: Pitch
Pitch in the Japanese Language
Pitch accent varies widely from region to region in Japan. As Japan started to have contact with other countries in the Meiji period, they decided that a “standard language” needed to be established. The Japanese spoken in Tokyo is now known as “standard Japanese,” or hyōjun-go (標準語) in Japanese. The examples of pitch accent provided below are based on “standard Japanese.”
About Pitch Accent
Some assert that English has over 30,000 syllabic sounds. In contrast, Japanese has only 111 (112, according to some linguists). In other words, there are very few “sounds” in Japanese, and as a result, there are many homophones (i.e., words that are spelled the same but have different meanings). These homophones can be confusing. In written language, it is easy to tell the difference between homophones if kanji characters are used. In speech, we use pitch accent in order to differentiate between homophones to avoid misunderstandings.
Example:
Characteristics of Japanese Pitch Accent
■ There are only two levels of pitch - high and low.
■ Pitch does not change in the middle of a syllable. In Chinese, there are tones that go from low to high or high to low in the middle of a syllable. This does not occur in Japanese.
■ First and second syllables cannot be the same pitch. If the first syllable is high, then the second one must be low. If the first syllable is low, then the second one must be high.
Example:
In this example, the pitch changes from the first syllable to the second. These two syllables cannot be the same pitch.
■ We cannot use high pitch more than once in the same word. In other words, once the pitch falls, it cannot go back up again.
For Example: The pronunciation [ mi↑tsu↓bishi ] cannot be [ mi↑tsu↓bi↑shi ], [ mi↓tsu↑bi↓shi ], or [ mi↓tsubi↑shi ].
■ The pitch of a word can change depending on what comes after it.
For Example: [ ka↓nada ] [ ka ↑ nadajin ] (Canada) (Canadian person)
Why we should learn about Pitch Accent
So why is it important to learn about pitch accent in Japanese? Here are a couple of important reasons.
Reason #1: To be able to tell the difference between homophones
For Example:
Reason #2: To be able to tell where a word starts
For Example: The word niwatori (にわとり) could mean “chicken” or “two birds.”
[ ni↑ watori ] ＝ “chicken” [ ni↓ wa ] ＝ “two” (counter for birds) [ to↑ ri ] ＝ “bird”
If it is pronounced as [ ni↓ wa to↑ ri] the listener knows that this is two words, since once the pitch falls it never goes up in the same word.
On the other hand, the pronunciation [ ni↑ watori ] indicates that it is one word. If tori were a separate word, the pitch of to and ri would be different because first and second syllables cannot be the same pitch.
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Reblog to destroy all evil energies in your life
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other learners: i really like to read the news in my target language to learn vocab and improve my reading skills!
me: looks at a japanese newspaper
me: recognises one (1) kanji
me: bursts into tears
Stranger: How many languages do you know?
Me: I'm studying nine at the m-
Stranger: Oh my goodness you speak nine languages?!
Me: No I said I'm studyi-
Stranger: Hey, this person speaks nine languages!
Me: NO STOP
Japanese.io: Read, Understand, Learn
Japanese.io is a free resource to improve your reading fluency in Japanese. After signing up with a Facebook or Google account, you are prompted to copy-paste a text into the website. I personally want to improve my ability to read the news, so I copy-paste news articles into the site. You could also paste in novels or short stories if you can find the Japanese text online.
Once you have pasted in the text, you can then choose to toggle on/off furigana mode. On clicking a word/kanji, an English translation comes up above the word for smooth reading.
Any word you click on will be saved into a word bank, where you can see clearly which words you have looked up the most, and remind yourself what they mean.
This site is awesome for intermediate learners. I have been using it for a while and have seen my reading fluency improve. I now also have the ability to see which words I frequently have to look up. Any consistent words that trip me up will be put into my Anki decks.
One thing I did notice whilst inputting daily news articles is how the news is fairly consistent, especially when particular stories are dominating for a few weeks at a time (Trump, North Korea etc.). This means that even if I learn specific vocabulary that is uncommon in daily life, I can read news articles at a faster pace as the vocabulary and phrases are re-used again and again. You can access the japanese.io website here.
It’s been a while since I’ve made a post, and I figured that these tips might be extra helpful with exam season approaching. As someone who struggles a lot with procrastination, I do everything I can to fight the urge to put assignments off until the last minute (even though I’m not always successful).
As always, good luck! (ᵔᴥᵔ)
This is a good post because it provides options
This was planned for studying but it could work great for writing too
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Don’t Worry, Everything will be okay
Hello I know I haven’t posted in a long time but I thought now would be a great time to post this message.
I know this is quite a sensitive topic but I would appreciate if all my followers of this blog would spread this message.
Recently on the News there has been a lot of talk about a possible nuclear war that could happen in East Asia. Many people who will be travelling to South Korea, Studying in South Korea, Moving to South Korea, are scared of what might occour in the upcoming months and even years.
Since I have been studying Korean for so long and watching a lot of South Korean news I have seen a huge pattern over the past 8 years regarding North Korea and South Korea.
I and my other friends (who are in fact from South Korea) really think that western media and main stream media are over reacting to what is really happening.
If we look at the activity within South Korea today, we can still see that live is continuing as normal, and people living in South Korea, whether it be foreigners or actual citizens are still going to work, taking their kids to school, getting married to Koreans or other foreigners.
Why is this? because this has all happened before, in fact a lot of times already.
About 3 years ago North Korea issued a warning that all foreigners should evacuate South Korea because there would be a war. Did the war happen?…No
Did foreigners evacuate? No…well not that I know of.
Yes North Korea has fired a missile over Japan, but North Korea are not stupid.
North Korea know that if they go to war that South Korea, Japan, and the USA would beat them before the can even say 시발. (Sorry for my cussing).
If we look at the whole of East Asia all countries except China, and North Korea. (Russia is not apart of East Asia) are all democratic societies
The end of North Korea would mean that China would be the only communist country in the whole of East Asia and people may start demanding democracy within China. Of course China does not want this so they will continue to stop North Korea from going to war.
If the peninsula went to war that would means huge refugee problem for China.
China really do not want this at all, so therefore they would stop North Korea from even dropping a nuclear bomb over South Korea.
So please do not be worried about what you hear on the media. America and other western media have discussed the likely hood of war in East Asia for many many years so please do not pay attention.
If you want true facts go ask South Korean people, or watch South Korean Tv.
This is my own conclusion and my own thought, I wrote this to calm the minds of people who are planning to live in South Korea in the future, or wish to travel to Korea, or even thinking about studying in South Korea in the near future.
Thanks for reading.
- Taebin Kang.
This ^^^^
learning grammar in another language reminds me of how little i know grammar in my own native language
i find this rly weird bcs in serbia they teach us a LOT about grammar (at least they did in my school) in primary school (and even secondary school but there they teach you in depth about syntax more so than grammar) for instance we learned how to locate the verb root for each verb and we dissected every single tense in serbian language on what kind of a verb root and extensions make it, how it’s used, verb aspects etc. we learn vocal changes like iotation, palatalization, sound equivalence, accenting (like rules for accenting and everything as if we couldn’t feel it as natives), compound nouns, congruence, we even learn grammar and accenting rules specific for each major dialect of serbian bcs obviously they’re different from the literary language, basically grammar makes a huge part of our curriculum and we have to know the theoretical part as is we were to explain it to a foreigner
i feel like english speakers are convinced english is easy bcs a ton of ppl manage to learn it and practically master it even so the academia just stopped trying to teach the actual english speakers about english grammar, but english is not easy AT ALL, we’re just highly exposed to it from the very young age. english tenses for instance are super complex for, say, a native slavic speaker bcs you need to be highly aware of timelines (we don’t have constructions like present perfect, for instance) and as a non-native i still don’t quite understand them and it bothers me so much that y'all learn practically nothing about them. the articles are also difficult if you’re a native to a language that doesn’t have them, i remember having to learn a list of over 200 rules that were mostly details about geographical locations and topography and things like that bcs in these case defined/non-defined rule doesn’t help much
long story short english speaking schools really need to put more effort into teaching native english speakers about grammar because it’s complex and you’d understand foreign languages much better if you knew your own well and this should include dialects as well not just standard british english
as a french native, i agree that the idea of english being an easy language is mainly caused by how widely spread and used it is in international media, as someone who is considered really good at english (from french standards..) i know i learned most of it by reading on the internet, but my english would be so much better if i actually learnt grammar properly. like, i don’t think i would be able to write a proper academic paper.
now about grammar teaching in schools, i can only talk from a french point of view since i never went to school in an english speaking country, but we do learn grammar here, in primary school, we do learn accenting and conjugation and all you need to be able to build a correct sentence in french. now, that was a long time ago, and, i can only talk as the lazy student who didn’t bother to learn properly because she had good grades without making much effort, but i have to admit i forgot most of it, i can still conjugate and use the correct accents without looking it up but i think that’s mostly because i use, hear and read french everyday, so i learned to do it as a native learn, naturally ,without realizing the amount of work you need to actually learn a language, which i am now realizing by learning a foreign language.
hey, native english speaker here.
i can confirm that we learn nothing about english grammar at all (at least in england anyway). we don’t even learn grammar properly when we study other languages at school.
i’m from the us and i learned nothing until i switched to private school. they made us take what was essentially an entire grammar course in 9th grade, because it’s a school for rich people in new england and it’s very important that we all have the option to sound like total snobs should we desire to do so. two years later, after getting 102% in the course, i remember maybe half of it and can confirm that my fellow small town residents know nothing about grammar. basically, the average english speaker knows just enough grammar not to sound like they belong in a monty python movie.
I agree with this. As somebody who did first four grades in a Russian school I remember doing all these exercises to actually learn rules of the Russian grammar but when I moved to Ireland it was kinda confusing for me as to why schools weren't really teaching proper English grammar to all them students. This resulted in me learning English just by being exposed to the surroundings and even now I feel like I didn't properly learn it because explaining something is ..well meh.
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