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20's | tetrafelino | Brazilian | I speak Portuguese and English | Target language is Spanish (taking classes irl) and Russian (teaching myself) | Used to be just Italian and it *will* be again, I just need to figure these guys out

[tiny-loudness]

Period euphemisms in Russian

месячные – monthly [bleeding] (the most commonly used)

критические/“эти” дни – critical/“those” days

женские дела/дела – women’s matters

(now the silly ones)

гости из Краснодара/гости – visitors from Krasnodar (a Russian town; “красный” is the Russian for color red)

красный день календаря – the red day of the calendar (used to mean a state holiday in the Soviet union)

сезон дождей – rainy season

физиологические причины – physiological reasons (something you would say to your PE teacher as an excuse for not attending a lesson/not doing a certain excercise; at my school at some moment they somehow transformed into “ideological reasons”)

Красная армия/красные кавалеристы – the Red Army/Red cavalry

[camundongodebabel]

good news, the language you're learning has thousands of cognates with your first language, exactly zero (00) of which figure amongst the 1.000.000 most commonly used words in it

[minha-fyp]

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSPwPp7DM/

[camundongodebabel]

A great way to find vocab that's relevant to you is to read the wikipedia page for things you're already familiar with (your home city, a hobby, etc) in your target language ⭐ I'm on the Russian pages for my own home state and several neighbouring countries rn, and it's a lot more encouraging than a vocab list lemme tell you that much

[camundongodebabel]

Romanova Ferreira no youtube: Ordem das palavras em russo

Ela postou também o resumo que usa no vídeo:

[camundongodebabel]

katya.pyanova no tiktok: "Vc já sabe mais de mil palavras em russo 🤭🇷🇺"

[omgellendean]

There's an expression in Russian, "Кому война, а кому мать родна," which can be translated as "For some it's war and for some it's mother dearest". I think about it often.

[languagespeakingdemon]

Gay little noun case graph I quickly made for my friends

[mateymedialunas]

lately ive been finding it fascinating to think about all the common spanish words that are just. basically not used in rioplatense spanish. or at the very least porteño spanish im not about to talk about all of uruguay. like, the way it sounds absolutely unnatural to say "mayor" instead of "más grande", or how in imperative form for some reason we invariably use "andar" instead of "ir"

[mateymedialunas]

it's so much fun to me bc you'll read something written by someone who's familiarised with rioplatense spanish and it'll be nearly perfect until you notice they said "vete" instead of "andate" and you're like "oooh ok you're not from here"

[mateymedialunas]

theres so many verbs we just. dont use like you won't find someone saying "voltear" it's always "darse vuelta". i genuinely cant stop thinking about this ldkfjgklsdjfkl

[mateymedialunas]

oh oh also just as future tenses are pretty much unheard of (always "(present tense) ir + a + infinitive" instead), pretérito perfecto compuesto is very rare, we tend to simplify to perfecto simple (that is, "he estado" is uncommon, we generally only use "estuve")

[mateymedialunas]

realised yesterday we also use some verbs pretty much exclusively as reflexive for example you'd be hard pressed to find someone here saying "muero" instead of "me muero".

[mateymedialunas]

on the same line as "voltear"; we never use "besar" it's invariably "dar un beso". conversely you can use both abrazar or dar un abrazo

[loveletter2you]

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includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

[tetrafelino]

I started to understand how hard it is for people to learn Portuguese as a foreign language once I learnt it's actually quite hard, for speakers of many other languages, to produce or even discern our nasal sounds. I've been noticing it lately, and those are pretty much essential to everyday communication in Brazil.

Like, pão/pau jokes aside, there's words we tend to shorten to their nasal sounds. "Não quer" becomes "num qué" which becomes "*[u]m qué" in which the *[u]m is an elongated nasal sound rather than the actual pronunciation of the existing word "um". Maybe, for clarity, "*[u]m qué não".

And of course, this is why people who learn Portuguese through music sound native.

[elbiotipo]

Many books of the Bible that didn't make it to the official canon(s) and other incredibly important pieces of scripture and literature are only known today because they were preserved in the Ge'ez script in Ethiopia. It is very likely that there are lots of other texts dating to the earliest days of Christianity that are still to be "found", only because there aren't enough international scholars who know the Ge'ez script or work in Ethiopia. There are many, but not as much as it deserves. (Important note is that Ge'ez is both a liturgical language, like Latin, and also is a script, much like Latin or Chinese characters, used by many Ethiopian languages, but others can be written and indeed are written in Ge'ez script, this is why it has preserved such a range of literature)

Ge'ez looks like this:

ሀሎ! ይህ በአማርኛ ቋንቋ እና በግእዝ ፊደል የተጻፈ ነው! ለእርስዎ እና ለቤተሰብዎ በረከቶች!

There was briefly a very bad taste meme calling it a "demon language", with people even copypasting random religious literature in Ge'ez thus making it seem more "sinister". I won't comment on how ignorant and offensive that is.

Ge'ez is an important script and language, much like Greek or Latin, because of its connection to major religions like Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Ethiopia is a wonderful country with a deep, rich history, and is an example of how Africa has always been part of world history. But like all languages, it's also a cultural heritage on its own, worth cherising, preserving, and learning about, regardless of its importance to the rest of the world. Instead of being ignorant for a racist joke, we could always take our time and learn and appreciate such things.

[thearcaneuniversity]

ok, this is amazing. I found a great site with short stories in 34 languages!

"WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children.

We are adding new stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings every week. So keep coming back to enjoy new content!"

[tetrafelino]

every time I see an alphabet I can't read, my brain fizzles with excitement like I'm a border collie set loose on a herd that needs to be moved miles and miles away

[wonderful-language-sounds]

How can I cope with jealousy and the urge to rush when I'm learning a language? By the way I wonder how long have you learned Russian and what is your native language? Thank you! I'm not a native speaker of English so I'm terribly sorry if you find my writing is weird/hard to read and if you spot an error, feel free to correct me.

No, you're question is fine :DI have been learning Russian for over 8 years and my native languages are Spanish & English. Ah, jealousy in language learning is actually something I haven't learned how to deal with properly.😢I still have those feelings the difference being that now I don't make myself feel bad about it (if that makes sense) since I use it to drive myself, rather than have negative thoughts. (Something like oh, they reached a milestone, I also want to reach one of my milestones) I've rushed with language learning before and the burnout was not worth it :0 I feel that language learning should be fun and shouldn't feel like an obligation. Rest days are very important in my opinion. I think one way to deal with it is to talk with other language learners. I often speak with learners and see what things they do to learn their languages, how life affects their progress, and so on since not many learners often talk about their hardships and failures. Making friends with other learners (even if they don't study any language you do) has also been healthy for me since I am often inspired by them to keep learning. I LOVE seeing new learners to Russian and seeing them post about their progress inspires me so much 😭I think finding a positive language learning community is the best thing you can do.

[renegade-hierophant-deactivated]

Old Church Slavonic and Glagolitic memes I made myself years ago

[sovietpostcards]

For those learning Russian

Всем привет! I know there are people who learn Russian among my followers. I also run a local club for (Russian) people who learn English. I've been thinking I'd like to connect you people somehow. :)

How about this. Send me or comment with a question and a short intro of yourself (in Russian!) I will forward it to the club and have them answer the questions and write their own intros in English.

No great skill is needed, it's just for a bit of fun :)