la historia de un amor

learning spanish, portuguese, italian, russian, and mandarin chinese.

[aidcnstudies]

Hey! My name is Aidan and I am planning on learning 7 languages in the new year. I am already learning Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and Mandarin Chinese, and I hope to pick up Japanese and French in 2021. Here are my goals taken off of my Twitter thread in more detail!

Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin Chinese will be my main language for 2021 and the language I will focus the most on.

Reach HSK 3. My goal is to be, by the end of the year, at an intermediate level and to be learning intermediate materials in 2022.

An hour of studying a day. For an hour every day, I plan on studying Chinese. Three days of the week must be for active studying, like taking textbook notes or actively learning grammar and vocabulary. The other four days of the week are for revision and passive study, including listening to podcasts, watching YouTube videos, watching Chinese dramas or films, or listening to Chinese news.

Finish elementary textbooks and materials. I plan on finishing all elementary materials so I can begin HSK 3/4 and intermediate materials in 2022. My goal is to also begin transferring into materials written solely in Chinese.

Be able to have a basic 15 - 30 minute conversation. Hopefully, by the end of the year, I can have a basic conversation without hassle. My goal is to talk about something I’m interested in, such as languages, linguistics, or Sinology.

Write a sentence a day or a journal entry a day. My goal is to write a sentence a day using a new grammar or vocabulary word. Journal entries will be less frequent (weekly to monthly).

Italian, Spanish, & Portuguese

My methods for studying romance languages are pretty similar, thus I’ve grouped my goals into one.

Reach B1. My goal for all of these is to reach B1. I am a high A1 in Spanish and a low A1 in Portuguese and Italian. Hopefully, I can reach B1 by the end of the year.

Be able to have a 30 minute conversation. My goal is to have a 30 minute conversation about languages or politics.

Learn all tenses & essential grammar. Self-explanatory. I want to learn all tenses (and hopefully all moods) in these romance languages.

Russian

Russian is a language I have more or less a love/hate relationship with. I’ve decided to set smaller goals since I don’t study Russian often.

Reach A2. I want to be able to form some basic thoughts in Russian and have a basic vocabulary beyond the greetings.

Learn all cases. I want to learn all the cases to accelerate my studies and form my own thoughts better.

Japanese

Japanese is an entirely new language - I am more or less interested in the linguistics and writing systems, not the language. Thus, I’ve set some relaxed goals just to get exposure to the language.

Learn hiragana, katakana, and some basic kanji. I want to learn both hiragana and katakana and learn around 100 kanji minimum. My studies in Chinese should make kanji a bit easier to learn.

Learn basic essential grammar. I want to learn how sentence structure and formality works in Japanese, but other than that, I won’t take it too seriously.

French

Work through beginner textbook and learn the basics. Pretty self-explanatory. No set goal as French is the language I don’t have any real motivation to learn currently.

I hope you enjoyed this insight into my 2021 language goals! I hope you can achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself as well. What are your goals?

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How I got a B2 in Italian in 1.5 years

Anon requested me to share my secrets with you and I will try my best to do so. I don’t use all of these resources very regularly, but I think they could all help you with your studies. Some of these resources will be in Dutch, because that happens to be my native language. I included them because there might be Dutch speakers reading this and some resources might also exist in other languages.

Dictionaries

Invest in a good dictionary!

Online dictionaries can prove very useful because they’re faster, but books are often more accurate

I use both, but am yet to find a good online Dutch-Italian dictionary

(For native Dutch speakers: I highly recommend Van Dale)

Duolingo

Vocabulary and grammar (app/website)

Took me about 6 months to finish

Use the desktop version: it’s where you can find the grammar

Take notes of the grammar!!

It’s not always 100% accurate but the basics are explained very well

Write down the vocabulary

I made a word document that went article + Dutch word/article + Italian word/article + Italian plural

(shoot me a message if you want it!)

I finished the tree before starting books, because I don’t like the idea of working with two (or more) different “full” resources at the same time

With “full” I mean that they’re not additional information you look up so you can understand a concept better, but actual resources that you’re going to study as a whole

Tinycards

Flashcards (app/website)

This app is also from Duolingo: for Italian, they’ve got flashcards for the Duolingo tree, so you don’t have to make them anymore! Sadly I only discovered this months after I finished the Duolingo tree so it wasn’t useful for me anymore, but honestly I think that’s a blessing if you want to repeat vocabulary! 

You can also make your own flashcards: you can keep them private or not and they’ve got audio.

Memrise

Vocabulary (app/website)

I heard a lot about it, saying it was good for vocabulary so I thought I should give it a try.

I didn’t like it, I don’t really know why: I think it’s a good app, it just didn’t work for me.

Quizlet

Flashcards (app/website)

Make your own flashcards or use decks made by others.

There are also other things like diagrams but I haven’t tried that so I wouldn’t know how it works

Tandem

Conversation practice (app)

It’s an app to chat with natives of the language you’re learning

Possibility to send voice messages, there’s an in-app dictionary, you can send pictures, you can video chat or call and most importantly: if there might be any problems, you can report and block.

I have not encountered a single person who is not there for learning, a problem that apparently exists on other apps.

You can also pay to get classes by teachers on there, and they’ve also got Tandem Pro without adds and probably some other advantages, but the free version is great as well

Beelinguapp

(Audio) books (app)

It’s mostly short stories and fairy tales

Some are paying, some not

You can turn on the audio

La Repubblica

Newspaper (app/website)

I turned on notifications for this one, so I can see what the important stuff is in Italy right now

I don’t often read whole articles, but I should because it’s great reading practice + you learn about politics, culture…

Newspapers often use a more difficult language, so I recommend this to people who are intermediate

Assimil Italian

Vocabulary + grammar (book)

I started this after finishing the Duolingo tree and then it’s not useful, because it starts from scratch.

Good alternative if you don’t like using apps like Duolingo

It has audio’s

(Got it from @lovelybluepanda)

Colloquial Italian

Vocabulary + grammar (book + CD)

I only got the book and not the CD (I got the book from lovelybluepanda‘s account, idk if she’s even got the CD?)

I liked it, although too easy because I had already finished Duolingo.

Very good grammar explanations

Modern Italian Grammar

Grammar (book)

Just plain grammar, but great explanations

I started taking notes from it, but rn I’m redoing it because 1) I should revise my grammar 2) the first notes I made were awful 3) I didn’t even get to 1/3 of the book

It’s a lot, but I love it

It has a workbook! Great exercises!

I also got this one from lovelybluepanda

Snelcursus Italiaans: grammatica

Grammar (book)

As you might have guessed, it’s in Dutch. But because it’s a translation from German (Durchstarten in Italienisch-Grammatikk) I thought there might be other translations out there :)

I use it to look up stuff, not so much to actually study from

Qui Italia più: corso di lingua italiana per stranieri: livello medio (quaderno di esercitazioni pratiche)

Exercises (book)

This one is completely in Italian

Varied exercises

Nuovo progetto italiano: quaderno degli esercizi

Grammar, vocabulary, exercises (book + CD’s)

Got this one at my language school in Rome and I quite like it (I got the B2 version)

Lots of different exercises, listening practice, reading, conjugations…

Diary

I’m not the type of person who keeps a diary but I’m trying to keep one for Italian and Norwegian. Just talking a bit about your daily/weekly activities, feelings… can make you feel more familiar with the language

If you’ve got a bullet journal, maybe you can do it in Italian?

Visit Italy

Easier said than done? You’re right about that.

I’ve recently spent 3 weeks in Rome with a language school while staying in a host family and honestly I learned so much. I don’t speak Italian with anyone here and speaking Italian all day long improved my level so much.

So if you have the possibility: plan a trip to Italy, talk with natives (in my experience: they’ll be more than happy to chat with you).

If people start to talk to you in English, don’t be scared to switch to Italian. Most of the time they’re very excited you speak the language!

Other tips

Switch your phone/tablet/computer/… language to Italian

Learn the alphabet!! 

A thing I was too lazy to do so after 1.5 years I still don’t know it and believe me, that can be annoying

Look for other resources! Especially in your native language!

Do not solely rely on this one post please

Follow as many Italian langblrs as you can: search for Italian vocab lists/grammar posts/… and follow the people who made them, there are also posts out there with lists of Italian langblrs (I’ll make a list with the ones I follow below)

Translate: I like to translate parts of wikipedia articles, Dutch to Italian or Italian to Dutch

Make a topic jar: lovelybluepanda has got a post with topic ideas

Listen to music, podcasts…

Watch Italian tv! Italian tv is unbelievably shitty but I like to watch quizzes in particular because if you don’t understand one part, that’s no problem: the next part will be about something different.

Read books! You can start with children’s books, from B1 books like the first Harry Potter books are doable, What I also find a good idea is reading a book in Italian that you’ve already read several times in your native language. That way you already know the story line and it’s not a problem if a certain part is too difficult for you

Italian langblrs/tumblrs

@langsandlit @italianformygirlfriend @italianwithilaria @organizedstudy @lingolden @dreamingindifferentlanguages @welcometoitalia @foxlanguages @songiprilingvoj @uranusstudies @languageswithceles @gollyplot @universallanguagelearner @livinglanguages @baronessoflanguages @a-study-in-shakespeare @fritalianblr @italianlangblr @sayitaliano @sciogli-lingua @languagestudyblr @suplanguages @learninghowtopasta @polyglottraveler

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I have been staying in quarantine for three months and I’m getting back to the habit of procrastinating. Now I’m coming back to school and it’s hard to concentrate so above are my tips to get out of procrastination!

[aidcnstudies]

why you should learn russian

as a gay teen who has no interest in going to russia (am i even allowed in russia? lol), russian is my favorite language ever, and i say that as someone who hasn’t even reached A2 yet. i don’t know a whole lot of russian, but four months later into studying is how quickly it took me to fall in love with the language. this language may look awful to you or you have no reason to learn it, but that’s why i’m here. use this guide if you want to learn russian or know why it’s my favorite!

alphabet. first of all, russian cyrillic is beautiful in my opinion. you have a cluster of letters that look and sound like their english counterparts, some that just look like english counterparts, some that sound like english counterparts, and some that are nowhere near english counterparts. it’s a little bit of everything. say hello to my favorite letter - д (d) - isn’t he cute? or say hello to my friend ш (sh) which looks like a pitchfork. the letters are so fun. have fun with them. 

cursive. at first glance (especially if you’ve ever seen tolstoy’s handwriting) russian handwriting seems like a nightmare, but trust me when i say, it’s not. i learned how to write in russian within an hour or two, and since i’m not taking any profiency tests or doing anything that requires writing, i’ve made it into my own style. you can 100% make it your own, and you shouldn’t try to make it perfect.

use in other countries. remember the USSR? that influence is still around in several countries. several other countries use russian as an official language or have been using it since their USSR days and several people in surrounding countries go to russia for work or use the language in their everyday lives. it may just help you get around in countries like ukraine or kazakhstan.

the sound. listen to some russian speech for a few minutes, and i guarantee you’ll catch at least the slightest glimpse of attraction to the language. it’s gorgeous. there’s not much else to say, just that it’s stunning.

inflected language. russian is inflected, which basically means you have to conjugate (i think the proper word is “decline”) nouns in some cases. but, with a bit of practice, it’s not too bad. taking it one step at a time is best and before you know it, cases will flow right off your tongue with no trouble. not to mention, wouldn’t it be such a satisfying feeling using the cases with perfection? 

grammar. russian doesn’t have articles (no a, an, or the). although it has three genders, just know that it has only three tenses and two aspects of tenses. as opposed to studying a language like italian with something like 20+ tenses, this should be a breeze.

hope this gave you a little bit of a motivation to learn russian, since god is this language beautiful. try it out. learn the alphabet or just a few words. i’ll probably make a separate post for learning russian or russian resources, so stay tuned. :)

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compiling some resources for all those students who have to keep up on their own <3 this was originally meant for GCSE / A2 language level but is helpful for all i think

[aidcnstudies]

current & forever mood: ani lorak

instagram: aidanstudies

[aidcnstudies]

empty cups of coffee & aspiring to learn.

instagram: aidanstudies.

[why-the-heck-not]

and words are futile devices

[chiara-klara-claire]

Language Resources Masterpost

🌷 I made this for myself and will be updating it from time to time, feel free to reblog 🍀 big thanks to: @lovelybluepanda, @wonderful-language-sounds   🍀my langstagram

brilliant directory by @thelanguagecommunity​

vocab masterpost by @portiastudies​

mylanguages.org (grammar, vocab, phrases, quizzes)

loecsen.com (vocab, phrases, you can listen to it)

vocabulary 📖 

http://langoland.free.fr/ (vocab, has minority languages!!)

polymath (vocab)

Babadada (vocab)

Babadum (vocab game)

my Pinterest Language board (vocab, idioms)

tests & listening  📝 🎧

vocabulary TEST,  multiple choice tests

Goethe verlag tests

listen to a radio anywhere in the world

http://listeningpractice.org/ thanks @sweet-child-of-mine11​

listening tests

librivox (audiobooks)

lyrikline.org (listen to poems!!!)

reading📚

gutenberg.org

readlang.com

manybooks.net

childrenbooksforever | childrenslibrary

The Little Prince | Alice | Harry Potter

BILINGUIS (has Alice in Wonderland) 

Grimm fairytales

Germanic languages

Dutch-Frisian-Afrikaans-Limburgish masterpost

🇳🇱DUTCH #nl

PDFs

vocab masterpost by @hotairballoon221​

linking words by @join-the-dutch-clan​

when to use DE/HET 

irregular verbs 

file of knowledge

watch rundfunk (10-20mins yt comedy series)

🇧🇪 Belgian comic with voice over

FRISIAN

vocab

funwithfrisian FB

🇬🇧ADVANCED ENGLISH: 60 cool words

🇩🇪GERMAN #de

exercise at schubert-verlag

exercise at deutschakademie

movies by @themessyjournals​ more movies by @thegirlfromthelibrary

downloadable books to read

north Germanic  

false friends SE-DK  | false friends SE-NO

project Runeberg (classic nordic literature!!!)

masterpost

🇩🇰DANISH #dk

masterpost by @mit-danske-eventyr​ | by thelanguagecommunity

useful grammar tips (til or for etc)

PDF: colloquial Danish | Teach Yourself | essential grammar

assimil (french)

unilang

listen to poems

nordic langs discord i don’t even have discord myself but just dropping this here you never know

🇮🇸ICELANDIC #is 

PDF textbooks 

masterpost by @icelandicreverie-blog​

children tv thanks @sprachtraeume​

200 words by @islenskafyriralla​

https://islenskafyriralla.tumblr.com/laera

beautiful Icelandic words

🇫🇴FAROESE #fo 

downloadable resources

masterpost

vocab

PDFs

🇸🇪SWEDISH #se

PDFs

Astrid Lindgren etc. books 

watch Pippi

masterpost by @langsandculture​ (textbooks, websites..)

lär dig svenska - useful expressions/grammar

verb list

some less common verbs

adverbs list by @svensklangblr​less 

anki decks (C1 lvl too!!)

writers recommendations by @svensklangblr​.

freudian slip productions (comedy videos)

slang by @midvinterfrost​

vocab list masterposts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 by @languagemoose​

(movie recs wanted, i might make on myself) I also should make a vocab list including vocab lists by @polyglotswede​ who made a lot!!

🇳🇴NORWEGIAN #no

Textbooks post; PDF Textbooks

assimil (french)

grammatikk.com

85 irregular verbs by @language-princess​

norskprøven

exercises: infonorwegian ; exploringnorwegiangrammar

masterpost by @languagecollector​

masterpost by @treasuredthings​

watch moomin!!

read Norwegian folktales

i/på by @an-american-in-norway​

common mistakes by @letslearnnorwegian​

Celtic languages  #celtic  

masterpost by @travellingual​  masterpost by @a-second-soul​

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿WELSH #welsh 

masterpost

BBC grammar PDF

🇮🇪IRISH #ie

online lessons 

daltaì na Gaeilge (grammar, phrases, vocab)

PDF textbooks

duolingo basics by @gaeilge101​

Slavic languages

🇨🇿CZECH

assimil (in french)

🇵🇱POLISH

assimil (in french)

masterpost by @languageoclock​

polish grammar in a nutshell 

lernpolisch.de (in german, +audios)

🇷🇺RUSSIAN #ru

learn to read Russian in 15 mins

assimil (french)

misc 

🇫🇮FINNISH #fi uralic masterpost

PDF textbooks thanks @languagessi​ !

online lessons

masterpost

watch moomin

🇫🇷FRENCH #fr

100 topic specific vocab lists

vocab lists by @nerdinaomi​

verbs

movies by @themessyjournals​

downloadable books to read

read Asterix

🇬🇷GREEK

assimil (french)

🇭🇺HUNGARIAN

PDFs

assimil

🇯🇵 JAPANESE #jp thanks @udaitenma​

resources

joshu

learn-japanese-adventure  –>vocab (Japanese culture related too)

tofugu grammar lessons

grammar lessons

Japanese verb conjugation by @japanesewithanime​​

JLPT material

survival phrases

cheatsheets

100 grammar points

🇰🇷KOREAN #kr

http://www.koreanfromzero.com/

https://www.learn-korean.net/

https://www.howtostudykorean.com/

🌷  my posts 🌻 insta: art+self | languages+snailmail   🌺  my app review 🍀 planned langs to add: estonian, Lithuatian, Latvian, Hawaiian

(started 22/3, finished 6/4/2020)

[aidcnstudies]

effective language learning: six essential tips

over the past year, i’ve amassed a great love for language learning. despite not making a ton of progress (since every language is so beautiful and i swap between them like clothes) i’ve learned so much about the most important things to know when learning a language. here are some of my tips. :)

1. study smarter, not harder. attempting to achieve proficiency in a language in a ridiculous amount of time like one week or one month is not a good way to study. becoming proficient in a language takes years, and you should not expect to reach such massive goals in a short amount of time. take your studying piece by piece, day by day, and learn at a pace that’s fast enough for you but also not fast enough to where you will burnout.

2. collect at least 3 resources. a very important thing to keep in mind is that you can’t expect to achieve proficiency from a single source. for example, you can’t learn a language entirely from duolingo or entirely from an app on your phone. it may be effective and you may learn a lot, but you’re not gathering information in the most beneficial way as apps don’t do the best job at explaining grammar. at the very least, you should have a main resource (like a textbook or online course), an app or supplemental practice resource (like Duolingo, Drops, or Memrise), and a third supplemental resource for a specific topic (like a grammar book, a dictionary, or a vocabulary book).

3. study every day. study daily. whether it’s just learning a new vocabulary word on duolingo or having an hour long study session with your materials, study. if you’re learning more than one language at a time, this may not apply to you - i’m currently learning 4 languages and don’t do something every day. if this is the case, try to get a bit of instruction in once per week. it’s important to practice what you’ve learned or else you will lose your knowledge of the subject.

4. practice grammar consistently. a language i’ve certainly had a love-hate relationship with is korean, which is very pretty when spoken but the grammar (and even vocabulary at times) is god awful and ridiculously difficult. at one point in my studies, i reached up to lesson 6 in my curriculum which deals with every main korean conjugation (past, present, and future). i took notes, but never practiced what i learned, and ended up losing the topic. that’s why it’s so important that you a) take your studies one step at a time and b) practice what you’ve learned until you master it. a good rule of thumb is that if you can teach the topic to someone or explain the topic in easy to understand a language (as in a first or second grader can understand) than you’ve mastered that topic.

5. revise old skills a thing i like about duolingo is that they make you go back and restore any old skills, which is something you should do in every language. if you’ve been studying a language for a few weeks, go back to the things you’ve learned a few weeks ago to make sure you still understand.

6. practice with a native/fluent speaker using apps like HelloTalk is a great tool for practicing your skills. practice what you’ve learned with a fluent or native speaker, and make sure you have them correct what you’ve learned as you go. keep in mind that the person you converse with doesn’t have to be fluent, as long as they have a good background in the language.

i hope these tips can excel your language studies going forward! 

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Langblr Activation Challenge

The langblr community is rather dead. What can we do about it? Maybe another langblr challenge would inspire people to keep the community alive? Let’s give it a try.  This challenge is called Langblr Activation Challenge and I really hope as many people as possible will join! The challenge consists of 5 tasks you have to do, one task per week. The tag for the challenge is #langblractivationchallenge, please use it if participating! 

The tasks

Week 1: Write an introduction post. Even if you have made one before and everyone knows you already. Tell us who you are, what your native language is, what other languages you speak, what languages you’re studying, what other hobbies/interests you have, etc. Let’s get to know each other a bit!  Week 2: Promote other langblrs. You can promote your favourite langblrs, the langblrs you’re following, the langblrs following you, or just random langblrs you find in the polyglot/languages/langblr/etc. tags. This is a great opportunity to find and help others find new langblrs to follow. Week 3: Join a langblr group chat/discord server. They are great for getting to know other people in the community and practicing your target languages. If joining a group chat/discord server sounds too overwhelming and/or intimidating, just send a message to some other langblr.   Week 4: Make some original langblr content. It can be anything: a vocabulary list, grammar explanation, resource list, list of songs/movies/books in your native/target language(s), a song with translation/vocabulary list of the lyrics, “questions for langblrs”, langblr challenge, picture of your language books/notes, tips to learn a language/languages in general, etc. Don’t forget to tag it with tags such as #polyglot #languages #langblr to make sure as many people as possible see it! Week 5: Participate in another langblr challenge! You can find some challenges here. If none of them spark your interest, make your own challenge! Langblr challenges are a great way to improve your language skills and keep the community alive. 

Good luck everyone!

[shakespearcean]

some notes on lesson 14 that i took last night! my goal is to finish up to lesson 17 before school starts, on sept 4. are u excited for school??

[studyblr]

now that the semester is over i can finally concentrate in language learning!! so excited. also trying to get a head-start on next semester’s material though!! and a lot of sleep. because i really didn’t get enough of that over the past 2 months. 🌿

[posted on my instagram]

[smuglyankabrazilyanka]

Nothing: happens

Duolingo: it is simple, russian or concussion

[notesandteacupstains]

hiljaisuus (noun, finnish): silence, quiet

a quiet study day at the library

ig: notes.and.teacupstains

[amillionlanguages]

2+ Months of Language Learning Prompts!

Sometimes it can be tricky to know what to learn if you are teaching yourself a language. Here are some ideas for what you can focus on learning each day for the first two months of learning a new language! I formatted it so there is the general topic for the day and then in parentheses are some ideas to get you started but you can definitely learn a lot more than what I’ve written down! These are just to help generate some ideas!

This definitely would move pretty quickly if you covered all this material in 2 months so you could definitely spend more time on each topic if you need! This would require quite a bit of time each day in order to learn it all. This could totally work for a 4 or 6-month challenge where you spend 2 or 3 days on each of the topics I listed if you don’t have enough time to cover each topic in just one day!

Polite phrases (thank you, please, yes/no, you’re welcome, I’m sorry)

Introductory phrases (hi, my name is, I’m from, I speak, how are you?)

Pronouns (I, you, he, she, they, we)

Basic people vocab (girl, boy, man, woman, person, child)

Basic verbs in present tense (to eat, to drink, to walk, to read, to write, to say)

Sentence structure (how to form some basic sentences)

Negative sentences (I do not __)

Question words (who, what, where, when, why, how, how to form questions)

Numbers (0-20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000)

Time (hour, minute, half hour, reading the time)

Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, appetizer)

Basic foods (apple, banana, rice, bread, pasta, carrot, soup, water)

More foods (beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, juice, coffee, tea, chocolate, cake)

Kitchen (stove, oven, kitchen, fridge, table, chair, bake, boil)

Eating supplies (knife, spoon, fork, plate, bowl, cup, glass)

More verbs (to make, to have, to see, to like, to go, to be able to, to want, to need)

Family (father, mother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, parents, grandparents)

Transportation (car, train, plane, bus, bicycle, airport, train station)

City locations (apartment, building, restaurant, movie theater, market, hotel, bank)

Directions (north, south, east, west, right, left)

Adjectives (good, bad, smart, delicious, nice, fun)

More verbs (to give, to send, to wake up, to cry, to love, to hate, to laugh)

Colors (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, white, brown)

Emotions (happy, sad, calm, angry)

Physical descriptions (tall, short, blonde, brunette, redhead, eye color)

Body parts (arm, leg, hand, finger, foot, toe, face, eye, mouth, nose, ears)

Descriptors (rich, poor, beautiful, ugly, expensive, inexpensive)

Basic clothing (shirt, pants, dress, skirt, jacket, sweater, skirt, shorts)

Accessories (belt, hat, wallet, gloves, sunglasses, purse, watch)

More verbs (to keep, to smile, to run, to drive, to wear, to remember)

Animals (cat, dog, horse, cow, bear, pig, chicken, duck, fish)

More animals (turtle, sheep, fox, mouse, lion, deer)

Months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)

Seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer)

Weather (sunny, cloudy, hot, cold, snowing, raining)

States of being (I’m hungry, I’m tired, I’m thirsty)

House (bedroom, living room, bathroom, stairs)

Furniture (bed, lamp, couch, door, window)

Electronics (phone, TV, computer, camera, radio, headphones)

Nature (tree, flower, plant, animal, grass, animal, outside, sky, sun, moon, clouds)

More verbs (to teach, to learn, to understand, to know, to listen, to hear)

School (classroom, elementary school, high school, college, student, class, grade, homework, test)

School subjects (math, science, English, art, music, chemistry, biology, physics)

School supplies (book, pencil, pen, paper, notebook, folder, backpack, calculator)

Classroom features (student desk, teacher desk, whiteboard, chalk, clock, bell)

Jobs (teacher, scientist, doctor, artist, dancer, musician)

More jobs (surgeon, manager, engineer, architect, lawyer, dentist, writer)

More verbs (to buy, to sell, to work, to ask, to answer, to dance, to leave, to come)

Comparisons (less than, more than, same, __er than)

Languages (French, German, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese)

Countries (France, Germany, China, Russia, Spain, Mexico, United States, Japan)

Religion (church, temple, mosque, to pray, Judaism, Christianity, Islam)

Past tense (I was, he ran, she wrote)

Hobbies (shopping, sports, soccer, chess, fishing, gardening, photography)

More verbs (to describe, to sleep, to find, to wish, to enter, to feel, to think)

Art (paint, draw, painting, gallery, frame, brush)

Morning routine (to wake up, to brush teeth, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, soap)

Future tense (I will run, he will write)

TV + internet (online, internet, to watch TV, TV show, movie, documentary, cartoon)

More verbs (to look for, to stay, to touch, to meet, to show, to rent, to wash, to play)

[nordic-language-love]

people are always like “ohhh i’m kinda scared to learn that language bc it’s got all those extra letters” and i’m like bitch those are not the letters you should be scared of it’s the r that’s gonna fuck you up