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any pronouns, tme agender woman • adult • sudaca, maoist | the personal diary of someone without a personal life, I interact and post art on my main blog

[b0ligrafo]

solo mis posts en español tienen alma — todo lo que digo en inglés está alejado de lo humano

[greatestlittlegiant]

always thinking of that “i couldn’t stop wasting time” quote

[greatestlittlegiant]

song of the summer!!

[b0ligrafo]

«ID.

“I could not stop wasting time. It was crazy. I wanted to do something with my life, but instead I went to sleep, or sung in the shower, or sat and stared at the wall. I couldn't even tell you about anything that I saw. I didn't talk to anybody. The cicadas kept dying outside, and as I dreamed, my mouth grew thick and venomous with silence.

Yiwei Chai. EndID]

[messygoku]

se viene conferencia de prensa de bielsa I hope he kills someone

[messygoku]

no pusieron a hablar a Bielsa porque si hablaba mataba a alguien

[messygoku]

bielsa is here

[bearye-draws]

Sunrise

[tinyuglyworld]

Fusako Shigenobu of the Japanese Red Army and Ghassan Kanafani of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, 1972

[twulfs]

Gargoyle study ⟢

[stiinken]

[escapekit]

Polar bear Station Russian-based wildlife photographer Dmitry Kokh ventured to an abandoned meteorological station on Kolyuchin Island, where polar bears have taken over the station.

[katherinelam]

ms paint drawings

[what-even-is-thiss]

There’s a lot of questions out there about learning a language vs acquiring a language so let me explain it this way

People say they’re learning a language when they’re doing both things. However, when people bring this up they’re generally talking about differences in method/philosophy.

When people are talking about learning a language in this sort of context they’re talking about treating a language like a series of facts you can memorize. Think vocab lists, memorizing grammar charts, crying while using duolingo.

When people talk about acquiring a language they’re treating language like a communication system to be installed in your brain. Like a software rather than a series of facts. But because the human brain is kinda slow it takes like two to ten years of watching sitcom and listening to podcast and embarrassing yourself in front of bartenders for the download to mostly finish.

Children acquire language by watching Dora the explorer and watching mom point at cars and go “that’s a car” I think but as an adult that’s not usually an option.

I mean it might be but it depends on your particular mom and personal tolerance for watching Dora the explorer

[what-even-is-thiss]

Most people end up doing some combination of these two methods but the acquisition method is required if you actually want to properly install German.exe into your brain

The learning bit isn’t required but it can help a little especially if there’s not a lot of simple tv or books in your target language and it can make you feel better. Like it’s not the most important part of the process but opening up a textbook might make you feel like you’re doing something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Here’s a list I made a while ago of some resources for some popular languages if you wanna give acquisition a try. I included some English resources too in case you or someone you know wants to practice listening.

Here's the other links because I hit a limit or something Swedish: Learn Swedish with Paula, Learn easy Swedish, SVENSKA FÖR ALLA, Marie Rö

[what-even-is-thiss]

Babies don’t study irregular verbs and most evidence points to adults learning very similarly to babies. The way we usually teach language in school doesn’t work most of the time. I’d look into teaching through comprehensible input for language teachers if you’re interested.

Thing is though you need to watch the right content if you wanna learn. You’ve gotta mostly understand what’s going on and be interested in it which is why specialty classes and comprehensible input YouTube channels are so useful. But those resources aren’t available in large enough amounts for everything so sometimes you need to study more traditionally because you’ve got no choice.

Studying grammar is most helpful when you reach a point where you can read a grammar book in the target language. The way language is taught in school is so backwards and that’s why almost nobody who took Spanish in high school speaks Spanish.

Stephen Krashen did a lot of the early research on this stuff and I think his lectures and papers are worth looking into if you’re interested. His basic hypothesis is that people retain their language education better when they understand messages and not when they study grammar from the beginning.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You know how a lot of people say they learned how to speak English from watching the tv show Friends or something? That’s it. That’s how you do it. You can do that in any language you can get your grubby little mitts on. Through the internet so much is possible. But you’ve gotta spend thousands of hours with the language. Like babies do. And you’ve arguably got a leg up on babies because you already know some potential loan words and are aware of how language works, generally. You might even already know the alphabet.

Do what gets you to spend time with your language. For you that may be dry grammar books but for most people that’s not it. For most people it’s something like watching Naruto. You can learn with Naruto. Naruto will teach you grammar and basic everyday vocabulary just as well as anything else.

[what-even-is-thiss]

People are reblogging this saying stuff like “you do need to study though”

No you don’t. You really don’t. What you need to do is put in the time. The textbook can make you feel better but if you spend 20 hours trying to memorize grammar tables that aren’t going to click you’re wasting your time. Spend like 2 minutes skimming the grammar table if that and then spend 19 hours and 58 minutes watching peppa pig or something instead.

I mean it when I say that if you start out with stuff for absolute complete beginners the studying part is completely optional as long as you’re putting in the time and paying attention.

Study is almost always optional when it comes to installing language.exe into your brain. Studying at the very beginning of the process is for when you’re going to strange country tomorrow and you need some basic survival phrases or when you’re the sort of person who enjoys grammar textbooks.

If the grammar and vocab study is scaring you and stopping you from doing the damn thing, then skip it. Find what will make you put in the time. Because that’s the real important thing. Putting in the time with stuff you enjoy. Skip straight to Naruto if that’s what it takes it might take a long time but heck it, language always takes a long time. Save the grammar study for after you learn how to read. Children don’t learn grammar until they’re already in school. What makes you think you need to study grammar right away? Your brain is made to piece together grammar rules. You don’t need a textbook. Use it if it makes you feel better by all means but it’s not necessary.

[bobbole]

Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Man-eating Tiger

[jareckiworld]

Harvey Dinnerstein (1928-2022)— Past and Present [oil on canvas, 1994]

[ilexvici]

Tribbles have picked the wrong man to mess with

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Pentagon bombs Iran’s drinking water, calls it self-defense – Struggle – La Lucha

The Pentagon bombed Iran’s drinking water. On June 10, U.S. strikes destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik, a town in Iran’s southern Hormo

On June 10, U.S. strikes destroyed two water reservoirs in Sirik, a town in Iran’s southern Hormozgan province near the Strait of Hormuz. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the reservoirs held 2,500 cubic meters and supplied drinking water to more than 20,000 people in 10 villages. He called the attack a “calculated war crime.”

A New York Times visual analysis published June 11 confirmed the account: precision-guided U.S. munitions struck two drinking-water facilities, and the Times’ analysts noted that deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure would constitute a war crime.

The strikes came during a heat wave, with temperatures in the region running between 113 and 122 degrees Fahrenheit. The villages around Sirik were already struggling with chronic water scarcity before the bombs fell.

[stealingpotatoes]

trying to get a bit more fun with colour and i liked these portraits

[b0ligrafo]

«De golpe no estás –nada más sucedió– / borrachera fetal que tu muerte me deja. / Con esta canción que solloza, olvidada de mí, / rondaré tus maderas.

Quisiera explicarte mi amor, no tu ausencia / o mis culpas; ayer tú vivías. / Si ya no merezco cantar para ti, / yo te pido: No sigas muriendo.

[...]

Si ya no merezco cantar para ti, / yo quisiera explicarte mi amor, aunque es tarde. / Tu tiempo pasó, pero yo me quedé aquí, / tañendo por ti, en tus campanas.

[...]

Mas mientras te busque en las cosas, / en tanto regreses sin que yo te llame o te olvide, / te pido que limpies mi amargo dolor; / por favor, que no sigas muriendo.

[...]

ahí estás, larga caja de pino.

El llanto que nombre tu nombre será / breve y, hombre, tal vez lo sabías; / pero es tanto amor exigiendo mi amor; / por favor, no te sigas muriendo.»

Alfredo Zitarrosa, "Explicación de Mi Amor".

[wovi]

[krispycl0uds]

This one resonated with me