Strictly Speaking

Holland. 22 years old. Texas. USA. Linguaphile and polyglot wannabe.

[positivedoodles]

[thomas1889-deactivated20230828]

#cats of the #world #spanish #english #polish #french #turkish #chinese #german #japanese #russian #italian #korean

[railroadsoftware]

im sorry to break this to you, but it seems as if i have owned you so hard that you are now officially my son. im not happy about it either. in fact i am very disappointed in you 

[wentzula-deactivated20141012]

i aspire to get to that level of hot where my hair looks like shit and i smell like black coffee and yesterday’s eyeliner is smudged under my eyes but i still look fine as hell

[jaimetalangue]

COLOUR VOCAB CONTRIBUTIONS MASTERPOST - part II

JA- 色 (いろ) (language-obsession)(hello-language-that-is-all)

ZH- 颜色 (language-obsession)

KO- 색 (the-day-of-quicksilver)

TR- RENKLER (singasongofspring)(polyglotted)

AR- الألوان (polyglotted) *

FA- رنگ‌ها (polyglotted)

PS- رنګونه (polyglotted)

UZ- Ranglar (polyglotted)

TK- Reňgler (polyglotted)

OS- Хуызтӕ (polyglotted)

I wanted to thank everyone who contributed to this, reblogging my first colour vocab masterpost and adding other languages to it!! Part I already posted, here’s the last part :)

*I hope it’s okay for me to have used the flag of the League of Arabic States, because I couldn’t use any flag of any country given that Arabic isn’t really spoken/written in only one country

> Colour vocab MASTERPOST |el, es, ru, it, fr, de, hu|

> Colour vocab CONTRIBUTIONS 1 |is, nl, lv, pt, ro, pl, sl, cs, ber|

> Colour vocab CONTRIBUTIONS 2 |ja, zh, ko, tr, uz, tk, os, ar, fa, ps|

> Colour vocab CONTRIBUTIONS 3 |ca, hr, sr, hy, no|

[imdope420]

i want to talk to you but im ugly

[tastefullyoffensive]

[crystalqueer]

Photos and final product for Mq. & Mrs.’s amazing lgbtq coloring book for kids.

Model : Alicia Michele

[nedahoyin]

Hayyy, boo..

[catacademy]

Like your trousers, after a big meal. http://is.gd/Cat_Spanish

[jaimetalangue]

HARRY POTTER VOCAB - Les personnages - Characters

> Other posts in my harry potter vocab tag, and in this post. More to come!

[speutschlish]

Prepositions in Welsh! Thanks to popplesamer for the translations!

You are the purple dot. Also, note that some of the prepositions are used more in North Wales.

See: [Spanish] [French] [Greek] [Gato] [Polish] [Dutch] [English] [Romanian] [Italian] [Arabic] [Malay] [Welsh]

[italianwords]

Requested by Anon

[deutsch-doodles]

[polandbymail]

Polish Word of the Day: Szczeniak

Pronunciation: SHCHEH-nyahk

Translation: Puppy

[bunny-banana]

IF YOU SERIOUSLY THINK I’M GONNA LISTEN TO YOU EXPLAINING TO ME ALL THE DIFFERENT REGIONAL ACCENTS/DIALECTS OF YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE AND SHOWING ME THE EXACT LINGUISTIC DIFFERENCES TO RELATED LANGUAGES then you are absolutely right make yourself comfortable i’ll just bring the popcorn and then we can proceed

[punnier]

how do french cats talk to eachother?

they chat

[jaimetalangue]

COLOUR VOCAB MASTERPOST

EL- ΤΑ ΧΡΩΜΑΤΑ

ES- LOS COLORES

RU- ЦВЕТА (m)

IT- I COLORI

FR- LES COULEURS (f)

DE- DIE FARBEN (f)

HU- SZÍNEK

I decided I’d make a better looking version of my colour vocab posts, and I did more languages this time hehe (I had done only the first 3: ελληνικά, español, русский), so here enjoy the rainbow!

> Check out my other vocab posts in this |masterpost| or on this |page|

[alksjdhfg]

ICELANDIC COLOURS:

Red = Rauð Orange = Appelsínugulur Yellow = Gulur Green = Græn Blue = Blár Purple = Fjólublár Pink = Bleikur Brown = Brúnn Black = Svartur Grey = Grár White = Hvítur

[iampetrovitch-deactivated201704]

was about to add icelandic, alksjdhfg beat me to it :3

[q-irex]

ČESKÉ BARVY:

Red = Červený Orange = Oranžový Yellow = Žlutý Green = Zelený Blue = Modrý Purple = Fialový Pink = Růžový Brown = Hnědý Black = Černý Grey = Šedý OR Šedivý (Šedivý is only when talking about the grey of hair) White = Bílý

SLOVENSKE BARVE

Red = Rdeča Orange = Oranžna Yellow = Rumena Green = Zelena Blue = Plava or Modra Purple = Vijolična Brown = Rjava Black = Črna Grey = Siva White = Bela

[language-obsession]

CHINESE COLOURS

Red = 紅色 

Orange = 橙色 (orange [as in the fruit] colour)

Yellow = 黃色 

Green = 綠色 

Blue = 藍色

Purple = 紫色

Pink = 粉紅色 (“powder-red” colour)

Brown = 啡色 (in cantonese at least; not 100% sure about mandarin) (coffee colour)

Black = 黑色

Grey = 灰色 (ash colour)

White = 白色

JAPANESE COLOURS

Red = 赤い (あかい）

Orange = オレンジ色／橙色（おれんじいろ／だいだいいろ）

Yellow = 黄色（きいろ）

Green = 緑（みどり）

Blue = 青い（あおい）

Purple = 紫（むらさき）

Pink = ピンク色／桃色（ぴんくいろ／ももいろ）

Brown = 茶色（ちゃいろ）

Black = 黒い（くろい）

Gray = 灰色（はいいろ）

White = 白い（しろい）