[milfholder]

here’s a twitter thread of charities related to colon cancer that you can donate to in honor of chadwick boseman (x)

here’s a suicide hotline for if any of you are in need of immediate support (x)

please take care of yourselves and your friends tonight everyone

[milfholder]

more from twitter 

here’s a thread of black cancer fundraisers/research fundraising (x)

here’s a thread of fundraisers for black students of the arts (x)

[spidaerman]

To all my black followers and friends, stay safe.

[softblockwashere-deactivated202]

Here’s a link to a google sheet of ALL BAIL FUNDS around the country. You can also add missing bail funds here by messaging me!

Please spread this link around!

[softblockwashere-deactivated202]

ALSO, here’s a comprehensive link to a google doc that includes a compiled list of petitions, resources, ways to get in touch with law officials, resources for international people, all donations, and organizations you can donate to support the black lives matter movement!

[al-mayriti]

The other day I learned on Twitter about a girl that was nearlly named after the river on her town. So, reblog with what your name would be if it was based on the river on your town (or the closest river)

[languages-and-tea]

Translation & Linguistics BOOKS in English

Disclaimer: I haven’t read them all, but I wish I had! And the more linguistic books may be centred around the English language since they are in English. I’ll do a Spanish one too, and possibly a French one.

(These are Amazon links)

Translation

-  The Prosperous Translator: Advice from Fire Ant & Worker Bee, by Chris Durban.

-  In Other Words: A Coursebook on Translation, by Mona Baker.

- Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications, by Jeremy Munday.

- Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, by David Bellos.

- Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World, by Nataly Kelly and Jost Zetzsche.

- Becoming a Translator: An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Translation, by Douglas Robinson.

- Translation: An Advanced Resource Book, by Basil A Hatim and Jeremy Munday.

- The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies, edited by Jeremy Munday.

- Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation, by Umberto Eco.

Linguistics 

- How Language Works: How Babies Babble, Words Change Meaning, and Languages Live or Die, by David Crystal. 

- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language, by David Crystal.

- Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages, by Guy Deutscher.

- The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind’s Greatest Invention, by Guy Deutscher.

- The English Language: A Guided Tour of the Language, by David Crystal.

If you have any more suggestions, please don’t hesitate to leave them in the comments or as a reblog and I’ll add them!

[ohjessmarie]

a reminder 💐

prints | instagram | don’t delete caption please! 💛

[deeplylearning]

A No-Nonsense Guide to Choosing a Language Learning App

There are so many out there. Find the right one for your learning journey.

The most useful part of this article is the table. I did research to find the highest quality language learning apps out there, all the languages they offer, the cost, etc. So you can search for a language you want to learn and the table will filter results based on what’s available for your target language!

If you find this helpful, please give a few claps on Medium!

[lvnnsi]

12/30/17 // i promise you; my heart is made of gold

[softcherry-bomb]

I say and repeat: read. Regardless of what you read, read it. You don't need to read a psychology book or a philosopher's theory. You don't have to. What you need is to read what you like, even if it is a cliché novel. Read. Knowledge will come to you alone.

[inthetags]

reblog this and put in the tags which capital cities you’ve been to

[honeyfawns]

mid life crisis ? no no, mid DAY crisis. happens every day

[flowerais-deactivated20211031]

if you feel overwhelmed, remember that the world around you can be stressful. sometimes it’s better to rest, gather your thoughts, pick yourself up slowly and start again. don’t feel like you’re worthless if you’re not doing anything. it’s ok to sleep more or eat more or not be as productive as usual. it’s ok to turn to comforting things for a while. just existing and breathing is enough if you’re exhausted. take care of yourself.

[escapetoluna]

How to learn a language when you don’t know where to start:

General Plan:

Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:

Learn the fundamentals sentence construction

Learn how to spell and count

Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings

The Alphabet

Numbers 1 - 100

Subject Pronouns

Common Greetings

Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have

Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles

Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:

Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day

Start conjugating regular verbs

Days of the Week and Months of the Year

How to tell the time

How to talk about the weather

Family Vocabulary

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:

Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary

Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar

Colours

House vocabulary

How to ask questions

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Forming negatives

Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:

Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country

Finish memorising regular conjugation rules

Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants

Money and Shopping Phrases

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:

Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences

Adjectives

Reflective verbs

Places vocabulary

Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:

Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs

Wrap up vocabulary essentials

Adverbs

Parts of the body and medical vocabulary

Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:

Learning Vocabulary:

What vocabulary should I be learning?

There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.

Choose the words you want/need to learn.

Relate them to what you already know.

Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.

Record them so learning is never lost.

Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.

How should I record the vocabulary?

Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.

Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.

Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.

Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.

Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.

How should I practice using the vocabulary?

Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.

Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.

Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.

Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.

How often should I be practising vocabulary?

A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.

Ideally, words should be reviewed:

5-10 minutes later

24 hours later

One week later

1-2 months later

6 months later

Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:

Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).

Its grammatical category and other grammatical information

Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.

Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).

Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading

Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.

Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.

Tips for reading in a foreign language:

Start basic and small.  Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.

Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.

Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.

Tips for listening in a foreign language:

Watch films in your target language.

Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.

Listen to the radio in your target language.

Watch videos online in your target language.

Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:

Try drawing a picture of what was said.

Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.

Provide a summary of what was said.

Suggest what might come next in the “story.”

Translate what was said into another language.

“Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.

Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Tips for speaking in a foreign language:

If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner. 

Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.

A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.

Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.

Tips for writing in a foreign language:

Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.

Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:

Diary entries

Shopping lists

Reminders

What could I write about?

Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.

Make up a conversation between two people. 

Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.

Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.

Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.

Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).

Write a short story or poem.

Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide. 

There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:

Read a lot

Write a lot

Get your writing corrected

[languagessi-deactivated20210423]

Langblr Follow Train (March 2020)

Let’s start a langblr follow train to find new langblrs/lingblrs to follow and befriend! 🚂 1. Only langblrs (blogs about languages) and lingblrs (blogs about linguistics), please! 2. Reblog this post before 31.3.2020! 3. Follow some blogs that have reblogged this post! 4. Make new friends!

[briarhide]

Quick pen and watercolour sketches from life I did yesterday of some of my sister’s guinea pigs.

[letyourselfliveagain]

here are some reminders and advices in case you needed them today:

🌸 remember to drink water! it boosts skin health, it helps maintain blood pressure, it improves energy and it clears toxins. 🌸 don’t forget to take your meds! if you tend to forget about it, you can use specific apps such as “Medication Reminder & Pill Tracker” to help you.

🌸 don’t forget to eat. skipping meals can only add to your mood swings and stress.

🌸 take some time for yourself today. listen to some good music without any distractions, paint something silly, go for a walk if you feel like going outside, write something, meditate. do whatever makes you feel at peace.

🌸 get enough sleep. i think the benefits of getting enough sleep are pretty clear. it detoxes the brain, it gives you more energy, it improves your mood.

🌸 relax. unclaw your jaw. relax your shoulders. breathe.

🌸 you are loved. your feelings are valid and you matter.

please, take care of yourself! all the love.

[77lllll]

[theyarenotaboy]

Put this in the MOMA

[witchdaggers]

a year later this is still the funniest video on the internet and i can’t even adequately explain why

[lewisaur-deactivated20210222]

wow

[onion-souls]

It’s a perfect blend of several major kinds of comedy: confessional, relatable observation comedy (who hasn’t had someone make an incorrect presumption based on your appearance?), absurdist prop comedy, and character comedy revolving around her looks, voice, and mannerisms. And reclining (almost) out of frame is the perfect button on the skit. It’s comedy genius.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I can see why they’re confused because this is prime Gen Z humour.