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side blog - i follow from berryroo.tumblr.com | aspiring polyglot | Polish native | English C2 | Russian C1 | Croatian B2 | Slovenian B1 | Norwegian A2 | Spanish A1

[berrylangblr]

[propalitet]

I feel like this is appropriate

[propalitet]

This one applies as well

[praial]

Baikal Lake, Siberia, Russia.

[cryptidunknown]

3500 years ago a bunch of people decided to build a tower to the sky and now I have to worry about keeping up my Duolingo streak

[hell-propaganda]

why would you blame the people reaching for heaven instead of the god who cursed them

[bunjywunjy]

add that one to the list, boys

[punishedalexandar]

shut fuck up. hopefully op understands that i mean THE fuck not just any fuck, 

[sovietpostcards]

Book art by Dmitry Gorlov

[alpine-langblr]

[arandomthot]

I’ve had this same dilemma too many times

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[krasna-devica]

Yakutia, Russia 

[smrtfasizmu]

Bosnian children having a snowball fight in a besieged Sarajevo (1992)

[botanyshitposts]

types of academic interactions: 

-one or both of us is bad at eye contact

-Shakey Me Legg

-symbiotic infodumping

-Neither Of Us Know How To Make Conversation In A Conventional Human Format, Conversation Continues Chaotically

-””””normal””””

-one or both of us is bad at eye contact CHALLENGE MODE: we are talking in a group at a table and one or all of us are bad at eye contact

-’dont get me fucking started’ *gets fucking started*

-one person infodumps while others sit enraptured 

-Zippy Me Zipper

-80 year old retired professor begins stories about life in the field, results may vary

-There Is A Language Barrier Between Us But God Damn If That’s Going To Stop Us From Communicating A Very Important Infodump, Mutual Excitement Is Maintained As Charades Begin

-somebody takes out their computer and u know ur about to see Some Shit

-somebody takes out their phone and u know ur about to see the research-related object of their greatest admiration

-We Are Having This Conversation In A Very Strange And Inconvenient Location But No One Wants To Interrupt The Conversation To Suggest We Move

-socialanxiety.png

-how do we socialize? are we socializing? what do we talk about? who am i

-Neither Of Us Know How To End A Conversation Despite Both Of Us Wanting To End The Conversation Oh God Oh No

[emi--rose]

-all of the above, in the conference bathroom

[berrylangblr]

Me, in English which is my second language: I wish I was bilingual

[mockwa]

[johnturturro]

All dead… all rotten. Elves and men and orcses. A great battle, long ago. The Dead Marshes… yes, that is their name

[loveserbia]

Drvengrad, Serbia.

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

You will not believe the amount of times I’ve read an English word and thought of a pronunciation and then continued to pronounce the word that way in my head for years only to discover that it has a completely different pronunciation and I would’ve made a fool of myself if I had ever pronounced that word out loud

[sovietpostcards]

Irkutsk 1982