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Lorenzo - Italian | English C1 | studying: Finnish, some Japanese

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you’re mistaken.

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Georgian Memrise Goethe Verlang Hebrew Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Digital Dialects Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA

Hindi Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Digital Dialetcs Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Easy Languages

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Belarusian Memrise Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Bosnian Memrise Goethe Verlang Digital Dialects BABADADA Breton Memrise Loecsen Bulgarian Memrise Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BABADADA Catalan Memrise Loecsen Goethe Verlang Digital Dialects BABADADA Croatian Memrise Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BABADADA Easy Languages Czech Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Loecsen Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BaBaDum BABADADA Danish Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Loecsen Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BaBaDum BABADADA Estonian Memrise Loecsen Goethe Verlang Oneness City Digital Dialects BABADADA Galician Memrise BABADADA Greek Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Loecsen Goethe Verlang Linguti Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BaBaDum BABADADA Easy Languages

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Add in your language!

English: Happy international mother language day!

Finnish: Hyvää kansainvälistä äidinkielen päivää!

Japanese: 良い国際母語デーを！

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Italian: Buona giornata internazionale della lingua madre!

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Today is International Mother Language Day

Today is a day to celebrate our native languages. Today is a day to fight the oppression based upon language. Today is a day to honour those who have fallen due to their struggle to speak their mother tongue.

On February 21, 1952, students in Dhaka, Bangladesh, protested against oppression of the Bengali Language. Those students were massacred by the ruling Pakistani police. In honour of that blood-smeared day, we move to encourage linguistic diversity and awareness of linguistic traditions.

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17 Questions

Thanks for the tag, @languagesandshootingstars 😊

Rules: answer 17 questions and then tag 21 blogs you'd like to know better

Nickname: Lori. Just for family and friends. 😛

Height: 170cm... or that's what my passport says at least, I haven't actually measured my height in a long time.

Last film I saw: I think it was Cinderella (the old 1950 one) with Finnish subtitles because I can't find it with the Finnish dub.

Star sign: Cancer

Favorite musician: I don't really have one, I like lots of different artists and genres.

Song stuck in my head: lately I mostly have music from various Final Fantasy titles in my head. The OSTs of those games never fail to amaze me.

Other blogs: I used to have one for my Final Fantasy XIV character but I deleted it some time ago.

Do I get asks: I never did, but feel free to ask me anything :)

Blogs following: 26. I think I don’t use Tumblr enough to follow many people, but if I become more active the number will rise for sure ^^

What am I wearing: a blue long-sleeved shirt and white pants, nothing fancy

Dream job: I've been thinking about it but I’m never 100% sure what it could be, I’m thinking something that involves social interaction and languages. Nothing specific at the moment

Dream trip: I have several... I’d like to go around the Baltic area, but I also want to go to Croatia and Germany to meet some friends... but for pure leisure I’d love to go to Japan and maybe Taiwan

Instruments I play: I used to play the keyboard when I was younger but forgot everything basically. I do get the urge to play the piano if I ever see one, though!

Languages: I’m a native Italian speaker, have a C1 in English and I know some French, Esperanto and a little German. I’m focusing on learning Finnish at the moment and studying a tiny bit of Japanese on the side.

Favorite food: I just love food in general to be honest! Though, I’m a bit of a sweet tooth so I prefer desserts and sweets over other food 😆

Favorite songs: they always change so I’ll give you 5 I love listening to right now: Little Things by Allie X, Me ei olla enää me by SANNI, 誓い (Chikai) by Utada Hikaru, Косы (Kosy) by Lena Katina and Evelina by Katarina Barruk

Random fact: I’ve reorganized the place I’m currently living in using the KonMari method and I will definitely do the same for my room back home. It’s giving me more motivation to do things and recommend you go through this process as well! 

Pretty much everyone I follow has already been tagged/is inactive/is a big acc who posts memes and stuff, so I tag any reader who wishes to do this. You can just say I tagged you :)

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Langblrs, reblog this if you’re studying...

Finnish

Japanese

Swedish

German

Arabic

… and I will check your blog out & maybe even follow!

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me: watching shows & movies in my target languages helps me learn

me: can u pls stop saying words that I don’t know

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Hyvää itsenäisyyspäivää! 🇫🇮

Glad självständighetsdag! 🇫🇮 Buori iehčanasvuođabeaivvi! 🇫🇮 Happy independence day! 🇫🇮 

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Volunteering vocabulary in Italian

l’abilità (f) - skill, ability

l’adolescente (m) - adolescent

aiutare - to help

l’aiuto (m) - help

l’ambiente (m) - environment 

gli anziani, le persone anziane - elderly

l’apprendimento (m) - learning (n)

l’assistente sociale (m/f) - social worker

assistere / fare assistenza - to assist, to give assistance

l’associazione (f) - association

l’attivismo (m) - activism

l’attivista (m/f) - activist

i bambini - children

la beneficenza - charity

i bisogni speciali - special needs

il cambiamento - change (n)

candidarsi - apply for

la candidatura - application

la circostanza - circumstance

il cittadino - citizen

la comunità - community

Corpo Europeo di Solidarietà - European solidarity corps

la Croce Rossa - Red Cross

la dedizione - dedication

determinato - determined

la determinazione - determination

il diritto - right (to vote, etc…)

disabile (adj) - disabled

il disabile (n) - disabled person

la disabilità - disability

il dovere - duty, obligation

l’esperienza (f) - experience

Un’esperienza che ti cambia la vita - a life-changing experience

l’etica (f) - ethics

etico - ethical

fare volontariato - volunteering

la filantropia - philanthropy

la fondazione - foundation

la generosità - generosity 

generoso - generous

i giovani - young people, youngsters

grato, riconoscente - grateful, thankful

grazie - thanks, thank you

il gruppo - group

ICYE - International Cultural Youth Exchange

l’immigrato (m) - immigrant

imparare - to learn

l’impegno (m) - commitment 

l’insegnamento (m) - teaching (n)

l’integrazione (f) - integration

intraprendere - undertake

l’istruzione (f) - education

la lingua - language

il mentore - mentor

la motivazione - motivation

il motivo - reason

no-profit - no-profit

non retribuito - non-paid 

nuovo - new

l’opportunità (f) - opportunity

l’orario (m), il programma - schedule

l’organizzazione (f) - organization

la pazienza - patience

il personale - staff

la povertà - poverty

prendersi cura di - take care of

prezioso - precious

il progetto - project

il programma - program

programmare - to program

il quartiere, la zona - neighborhood

la responsabilità - responsibility

il rifugiato - refugee

il rispetto - respect

il ruolo - role

lo scambio - exchange

la scelta - choice

i senzatetto - homeless

Servizio Volontario Europeo - European Voluntary Service

la sfida - challenge

lo sforzo - effort

la sicurezza - safety, security

la soddisfazione - satisfaction

il sostegno - sustain

sostenere - to sustain

volontario - voluntary

il volontariato - volunteering (n)

il volontario - volunteer

I’m volunteering through an EVS project so I thought about sharing this vocabulary list :) please feel free to correct any mistakes!

Learn more about EVS + ESC  (projects in EU and bordering countries) Learn more about ICYE (projects in 40+ countries)

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Minoritized Languages Songbook Project!

**INTEREST FORM IS AT THE BOTTOM, PLEASE FILL IT OUT IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE OR ELSE THIS WON’T HAPPEN**

VERSIÓ EN CATALÀ / VERSIÓN EN ESPAÑOL

I had an idea that I posted about on here a couple of weeks ago to make a songbook for minoritized/endangered languages and cultures, and people seemed interested, so I’m making it a thing. Basically, what I want to make is a book of songs in minoritized or endangered languages, with the lyrics translated into English and other languages, both majority and minority. I had envisioned this as a way to create connection between different minoritized languages and cultures, hopefully serving at a point of joint resistance. I grew up with a lot of song books filled with protest songs and music from different cultures, and that’s taught me that music is a powerful tool in fighting those in power, as well as fighting against isolation. Being able to join smaller languages and cultures together into a larger collective could help in the fight to save them from being lost. Also, translating songs is just fun and this would be a chance for people to do translations without English as a medium, as well as a chance to work on something in languages that are often less frequently used in the internet, especially in collaborative projects like this.

The current ideas is to have 1-2 songs for each language/culture (I’m including culture here because some marginalized groups might not have their own language, or the songs might have been written in a major language for other reasons, but if your culture is endangered or minoritized, we want to represent you too). We’ll translate these songs into as many major languages as possible, both in order to make songbooks in those languages, and also so that people who don’t know the original language can have something to go off of when translating into their language. From there, each song will be translated into every language in the project, and it’s important to note that in their final version these are intended to be lyrics that match the rhyme and meter of the original song so that they can be sung. That means that translators can either make a translation directly into lyrics, or translate the actual meaning of the lines without rhymes or meter and let other people (including monolingual speakers!) turn it into lyrics. The end result would ideally be a translation of all of the songs into every language that we have speakers for, so that we can make a version of the book for every language.  

The format of the songbook is a spread of a page or two per song, with sheet music and also (hopefully!) an accompanying illustration by an artist from that culture, which means that not only do we need translators and writers, but also musicians who’d want to make arrangements, artists who’d want to draw pictures for their culture’s music, and graphic designers who’d want to make everything look pretty and fit on the page. Even if you don’t speak other languages or don’t think you’re good enough to translate stuff, you can still help out by doing one of these!

In summary, these are the people we’ll need:

bilingual speakers of minoritized languages to help translate to and from their language

bilingual speakers of major languages to help get songs into as many languages as possible

poets/writers or literally anyone who wants to help write the actual lyrics in the individual languages

musicians who want to make arrangements (esp. for piano or guitar)

artists from minoritized/endangered cultures who want to design an illustration to go with a song

graphic designers who want to put everything together into a book

As for the actual book, at the moment it would probably be shared online in PDF form, but if in the future it becomes feasible, we might be able to make actual print copies (that requires money though, so is unlikely to happen). If any of you have ideas for how to get it printed, then maybe we could do something, so tell me if you have thoughts.

In addition, if you’d be interested in helping to run this project, feel free to message me, I’d be glad to have help!

If you are interested in joining the project PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM HERE. We’d be glad to have you, regardless of how many languages you speak or how connected you are to minoritized/endangered languages. All are welcome, and the more people we can get, the better!

(ALSO: Having this post translated into other languages, and also having the form translated into other languages, would make it much more accessible and would be much appreciated, feel free to reblog with a translation or message me if you’d want to translate the form!)

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Volunteering vocabulary in Italian

l’abilità (f) - skill, ability

l’adolescente (m) - adolescent

aiutare - to help

l’aiuto (m) - help

l’ambiente (m) - environment 

gli anziani, le persone anziane - elderly

l’apprendimento (m) - learning (n)

l’assistente sociale (m/f) - social worker

assistere / fare assistenza - to assist, to give assistance

l’associazione (f) - association

l’attivismo (m) - activism

l’attivista (m/f) - activist

i bambini - children

la beneficenza - charity

i bisogni speciali - special needs

il cambiamento - change (n)

candidarsi - apply for

la candidatura - application

la circostanza - circumstance

il cittadino - citizen

la comunità - community

Corpo Europeo di Solidarietà - European solidarity corps

la Croce Rossa - Red Cross

la dedizione - dedication

determinato - determined

la determinazione - determination

il diritto - right (to vote, etc...)

disabile (adj) - disabled

il disabile (n) - disabled person

la disabilità - disability

il dovere - duty, obligation

l’esperienza (f) - experience

Un’esperienza che ti cambia la vita - a life-changing experience

l’etica (f) - ethics

etico - ethical

fare volontariato - volunteering

la filantropia - philanthropy

la fondazione - foundation

la generosità - generosity 

generoso - generous

i giovani - young people, youngsters

grato, riconoscente - grateful, thankful

grazie - thanks, thank you

il gruppo - group

ICYE - International Cultural Youth Exchange

l’immigrato (m) - immigrant

imparare - to learn

l’impegno (m) - commitment 

l’insegnamento (m) - teaching (n)

l’integrazione (f) - integration

intraprendere - undertake

l’istruzione (f) - education

la lingua - language

il mentore - mentor

la motivazione - motivation

il motivo - reason

no-profit - no-profit

non retribuito - non-paid 

nuovo - new

l’opportunità (f) - opportunity

l’orario (m), il programma - schedule

l’organizzazione (f) - organization

la pazienza - patience

il personale - staff

la povertà - poverty

prendersi cura di - take care of

prezioso - precious

il progetto - project

il programma - program

programmare - to program

il quartiere, la zona - neighborhood

la responsabilità - responsibility

il rifugiato - refugee

il rispetto - respect

il ruolo - role

lo scambio - exchange

la scelta - choice

i senzatetto - homeless

Servizio Volontario Europeo - European Voluntary Service

la sfida - challenge

lo sforzo - effort

la sicurezza - safety, security

la soddisfazione - satisfaction

il sostegno - sustain

sostenere - to sustain

volontario - voluntary

il volontariato - volunteering (n)

il volontario - volunteer

I’m volunteering through an EVS project so I thought about sharing this vocabulary list :) please feel free to correct any mistakes!

Learn more about EVS + ESC  (projects in EU and bordering countries) Learn more about ICYE (projects in 40+ countries)

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reblog if you think sign language should be taught as a language in schools.

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Italian-English homographs pt.2

Even more words that are written in the same way but are pronounced differently and mean different things!

Empire - to fill

Estate - summer

Fame - hunger

Fare - to do

Fate - fairies

File - rows, lines, queues

Fine - end or goal (n.); subtle or refined (adj.)

Ha - he/she/it has

Lame - blades

Lasso - lapse, arc, span (of time)

Lattice - latex

Lime - file (tool)

Lode - eulogy, praise, honors (grade)

Male - evil (n.), badly (adv.)

Media - average (maths)

Mete - destinations

Minute - tiny (f. pl.)

Mite - mild-mannered; gentle

Mole - bulk, sheer size; amount (figurative)

More - blackberries

part 1 here

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I know it isn’t easy to stop procrastinating and start studying your target language, but it’s worth it and you can do it! 

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Herbs, Spices, Seasonings and Condiments in Italian

le erbe aromatiche - herbs

i condimenti - seasonings, condiments

le spezie - spices

il pepe di Giamaica - allspice

l’anice (m) - anise

il basilico - basil

il peperoncino - chili pepper

l’erba cipollina (f) - chives

il coriandolo - cilantro/coriander

la cannella - cinnamon

il chiodo di garofano - clove

il cumino - cumin

le foglie di curry - curry leaves

l’aglio (m) - garlic

lo zenzero - ginger

il miele - honey

il rafano - horseradish

l’alloro (m) - laurel

la liquirizia - liquorice/licorice

la maggiorana - marjoram

la menta - mint

i semi di senape - mustard seeds

la noce moscata - nutmeg

l’olio (m) - oil

la cipolla - onion

l’origano (m) - oregano

la paprika - paprika

il prezzemolo - parsley

il pepe - pepper

la menta piperita - peppermint

i semi di papavero - poppy seed

il rosmarino - rosemary

lo zafferano - saffron

la salvia - sage

il sale - salt

la salsa - sauce

i semi di sesamo - sesame seeds

lo scalogno - shallot

l’anice stellato (m) - star anise

lo zucchero - sugar

il timo - thyme

la vaniglia - vanilla

l’aceto (m) - vinegar

il wasabi - wasabi

I was reading the wikipedia entry for seasoning and this happened... Enjoy! :)