❝To have another language is to possess a second soul.❞

I'm Ania and I breathe languages. I speak Polish as my native tongue, advanced English and Spanish and intermediate German. Currently studying Italian. Follow me on Duolingo/Memrise as ania975

[just-wanna-travel]

Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, USA

[mapsontheweb]

Gotta go digging through the rummage.

[alittleflare]

to be very honest I don’t see how someone can be into a language without caring about culture and politics. it seems like some people just like to romanticize it and seem as intellectuals. languages are more than your love novels, cute people and dramas.

[olgaceciliamartinezrojas]

“tanto mar en el sueño hecho de mármol, tantas flores de caña ya perdidas”

— Silvina Ocampo

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Für das Maß seiner Begabung ist der Mensch nicht verantwortlich, wohl aber dafür, wie er die ihm verliehenen Gaben ausgebildet und benutzt hat.

No one is responsible for the amount of his talents, but surely for the way he has shaped and used them.

Daniel Sanders (1819 – 1897), German author and lexicographer

(via thatswhywelovegermany)

[hoemami-deactivated20171229]

it makes me so disgusted how people in america are so quick to make fun of someones foreign accent without realizing that multilingualism is an unremarkable necessity of everyday life for the majority of the world’s population and that being monolingual and ignorant is a lot more embarrassing than any accent ever will be

[notgreengardens]

And let’s also not forget that reactions to accents also heavily depend on what languages you are speaking, where yo uare from and what you look like. People with an Arab dialect will probably have a harder time in the US than a white person with a French accent

Also not the US but this left quite an impact on me: I have had a peruvian guy tell me that he was jealous “of all the languages you Europeans learn” and that he also wanted to be multilingual but when I asked him if he also spoke Quechua next to Spanish, he said “yes but that doesn’t count” because people around him treated it like a “lesser” language all the time

[whatthefckisthis]

You know you’re german, when you can read this without thinking:

[polyglotpandemonium]

You know you’re German when you use a comma like that 😍

[thescorpioracer]

I’m caught between “when the f will I use this??” and “accurate”

[romancelanguagehoe]

listen y'all. i’m lazy. like “eats yogurt with a fork because i didn’t feel like washing a spoon” lazy. so, although no one asked, i made this post about how i lazily study languages! obviously this might not work for everyone, so experiment and find what works best for you (also i’m not a photographer so my pics kinda suck, sorry).

Keep reading

[whyisthisfrenchguymasturbating]

do you ever do the thing where you spend a long time speaking in (or reading and writing in, or thinking in) another language and then you go back to your first language and it just looks wrong

[gravelyhumerus]

fun bilingual things

- you know the word in second language but not first - your notes sometimes are in both languages at once. some words are quicker to write than their equivalents - phone autocorrects to wrong language - the words that are the same but slightly different in your two languages are always spelled the wrong way. no matter what. - certain memories only available in one language - music genres?? u like maybe alternative and pop music in your first language but like rap and musical theatre in your second - u know what verb tenses are called in your second language but not in your first - saying bullshit like “close the lights please” because it’s idiomatically correct but not in english

[addictedtolanguages]

Me when the kids I'm babysitting talk Polish: oh my god this is such a nice language I wanna learn it

Me when I see some Chinese instructions on a random thing: oh my god this is such a nice language I wanna learn it

Me when I'm watching Skam: oh my god Norwegian is such a nice language I wanna learn it

Me when I'm reading a German text on my German exam: oh my god this is such a nice language I wanna learn it

[lookatmylanguages]

Hello people

I know I haven’t been active on this blog in forever but I’ve come back with a request:

I made this survey to find out about why people decide to learn foreign languages. It’s for a paper I need to write so if some of you could fill it out that’d be great, reblogs are much appreciated!

[language-princess]

i am truly happy i am able to talk to myself in several languages

[norwegian-wool-deactivated20170]

Trying to learn Polish like

[vexk-deactivated20150919]

dude i hope you know that “je suis le pain” translates into “i am the bread”

[imlearninglanguages]

When you focus so much on one language and you can feel the other ones slowly fading away….