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Back on Tumblr, but absolutely hate looking back at myself! Might just make a different blog when the initial Twitter traffic settles down, I can understandably see how Twitter randos would despise me and regard me with suspicion. That and people would be chill at the sight of another new Tumblr account! :D

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Reddit germans refusing to use any anglicized words to the point of absurdity VS tumblr germans using the most abhorrent denglish you've ever seen

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Here’s possibly the weirdest way to translate shitpost:

“in a nutshell” is at least a bit more obvious

Honorable mentions to that guy who translated “pov” into a row of words that couldn’t possibly sound any more unnatural:

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That’s child’s play.

Take a look at the French reddit guidelines to avoid English words to the point of complete absurdity :

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I can't decide what's funnier: insisting on making French versions of brand names like Youtube and Reddit, or for some reason, doing it to "Merica Fuck Yeah"

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Masturbenrond...

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BRB just stealing the word réfrigéré for my own nefarious anglophone purposes.

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He’s got that certain réfrigéré

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Okay but “vulvographie” though

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okay but my takeaway was ”Of course there’s three kinds of Karens in French.”

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Oh god it really is extremely leftist in terms of worldview. Baffling that people don’t get that.

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Oh God the things I’ve heard conservatives say about Pink Floyd’s Animals (which is my fav of their albums but that’s irrelevant).

I had someone, without a hint of irony, tell me Animals was written about Obama (Dogs), Clinton (Pigs), and Pelosi (Sheep). Obama was like 15 when that album came out.

My dad, about as Trumpian as they come, has an unshakable belief that The Wall ruined Pink Floyd because that’s when they “became political” and that also somehow Roger Waters was the only leftist in the band which is why the rest kicked him out.

David Gilmour is a self-described socialist and vocal supporter of Jeremy Corbin. Nick Mason supports BDS and regularly attends protests with Roger Waters.

Conservatives live in a fantasy world where a vast majority of people think like them and are unshakable in their belief its real.

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It’s because if they only listened to conservative music they’d have about 2% of all music.

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these bitches really get it huh

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she takes my breath away, and drives me crazy, and I feel nothing but pain. after all, I understand it perfectly now. I love you.

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Learning Languages and How to Make it Fun

(gifs not mine, credit to the artist)

How does a child learns? Immersion

So you gotta dive deep

Find songs that you like. You don't have to understand, you just have to enjoy the song.

Listen them at least once a day. The idea is for you to get familiar with the sounds.

Once you have already heard them too many times (without getting tired of them) look for the lyrics. In their native language, not a translation.

If you can read in that language, then try reading them. Print them if you have to or write them down (this is better) and as you listen to the song try to sing.

If there's a word/sentence you like because it sounds pretty, mark it.

If there's a word you don't know how to/can't pronounce, mark it.

For example, I have a journal in which I write Japanesse Kanji that I find beautiful (whether is because of the meaning or the symbol itself is pretty)

Once you are familiar with the song look for a translation.

Check those words you have marked with the translation.

While looking for definitions it's better if you find images (so can have an idea of what that word is) instead of a definition in your language (unless is a long/complicated concept).

Movies, you must watch movies in that language. Better if they are from that country. (It can also be a doubled movie, perhaps you could look for one of your favorites)

Watch them with subtitles (in your language) once or twice. Then watch them again but this time without subtitles or with subtitles of said language. (You already know the plot, so you can still understand what's going on)

If you like to read, look for children literature. It's easy and fun.

Keep reading even if you don't understand a single sh*t. It doesn't matter.

Mark again those words you like, don't know the meaning or can't pronounce.

Write at least one sentence every day. It doesn't have to be right, it doesn't have to be long or poetic, you just gotta write.

If you still don't know much about grammar (enough to formulate a sentence on your own) then write a quote from one of those songs, movies or books you read. Again it doesn't matter if you don't understand what are you writing.

If you already know another language, try to learn the new language with that one. For example, I learn german from english instead of my native language spanish.

Videogames. In my experience this is amazing. You have no idea idea how much I learned english just from games.

You have fun playing, engaged with a story, while constantly hearing the language. You don't even have to pay attention at what they are saying, eventually you'll figure it out. It's very intuitive.

And because games, usually, requires that you spend many hours playing you will have a lot of practice without actually studying.

Some games, if you look on the settings menu, even have other languages instead of english. For example I played Assassin's Creed Brotherhood in italian and french and AsC III in russian and japanese (the voice actors are fantastic).

Seriously, videogames are freaking amazing for learning.

The idea of this, is that you can imitate the learning process a child does, while also having fun and enjoying it. Kids learn by making mistakes, by playing with words and by being constantly surrounded with the language. At first, kids have no idea what they are doing, they just repeat what they see and hear. So it's okay if you don't know what are you doing, take that pressure off. This is not school/college, this is just you trying to learn a culture. So be kind and patient with yourself.

LEARNING SHOULD BE FUN, be creative with your methods and try everything (so you can find what you are comfortable with). It is scientifically proved that if you like what you are studying and having fun it will be 10x easier to assimilate and remember the knowledge you are acquiring.

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Pokemon Sword & Pokemon Shield ClipArt Cover Art

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In Prague my life always gets a bit surreal in the best possible way.

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BEASTARS IS GOOD!!!!

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Gou looks amazing is the anime I’m so happy

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#BoycottBlizzard

What happened?

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Blizzard why?

Just…why?

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what’s up? what happened?

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Blizzard banned a pro player of their card game (is it Hearthstone? Heartstone? Don’t remember~) for daring to support Hong Kong…his own damn country.

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oh that. yeah they do it because they only care about the profit they get from chine, that’s why Soldier and Tracer “aren’t” homosexual there, because that would make their games not sellable in china as well as banned. Blizzard doesn’t care about representation, they care about brownie-points.

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That and there’s a Chinese company that owns part of Blizzard’s shares or something? I’m not entirely sure, but yeah they’re sucking up to dictators. Yikes.

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i completely 100% agree to #BoycottBlizzard