Coulomb Volts

Strange girl / 19 / Polyglot / Reader / Studying math and molecular biology!

[coulombvolts]

Introduction post!

My name is Jules

I’m a polyglot and also into math, science, linguistics, literature, and Homestuck. I will probably be using this blog for updates on these interests and ocasionally reblogging stuff I like :)

I currently speak (in order of proficiency):

English, Spanish, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German, and Polish

I will not be posting much about politics however just to be clear:

Zionists, Russia apologists, ICE supporters, TERFS, and Conservatives in general DNI

[coulombvolts]

I treat best friendship like moiraillegiance and it causes issues

[coulombvolts]

Jake speaks british english

Dirk speaks high german

Jane speaks very standard dutch

Roxy speaks swiss german

[coulombvolts]

John speaks tuscan italian

Dave speaks peruvian spanish

Rose speaks parisian french

Jade speaks brazilian portuguese

[coulombvolts]

I like girls and homestuck and reading

[joeyclaire]

i ironically miss those heavy metal bands

[martial-art-world]

[toesucker416]

SIGNAL!!! BOOST!!! I don't care if this doesn't fit your blog's aesthetic, reblog EVERY TIME!!!

[toesucker416]

I know things are scary because they're going to strike us down with their powerful kicks, but here's what YOU (yes, YOU READING THIS RIGHT NOW) can do

1. nothing

2. we're so fucked

[martial-art-world]

WE'WE ALLLG ONNA DIE

[coulombvolts]

I shoulg make another blog but for homestug

[coulombvolts]

Hiveswap may be unfinished but what's there is a lot of fun!

[coulombvolts]

I’m struggling to pick a language after German…

Swedish, Italian or Catalan could be a fun half-year-to-conversational adventure

or I could go for Chinese and try to memorize 3000 characters in a year

I think either way new languages are gonna need to take a backseat since I have a few that I wanna read a million words in (to be able to read fluently), and that’s gonna take a long time…

[coulombvolts]

I say 1 million because that’s what I’ve heard is what you need for comfortable reading, but according to Paul Nation 3 million words gets you to knowing the top 9000 word families (where “access” “accessibility” and “accessible” are counted as only 1 word family)

I’ll think about which one to go for the 3 million words with when I’m all caught up on my languages, but it’s probably gonna be Spanish

Español my beloved

[coulombvolts]

Homestuck has 800,000 words and complete translations to both Spanish and Russian. I could play Hiveswap and read the epilogues + Homestuck BC first, or I could get really good at reading in Spanish or Russian. Decisions, decisions!

[coulombvolts]

I found my blog again! I'm gonna blog. It's really gonna happen this time trust me.

[coulombvolts]

I was playing a game in an EU Spanish localization and there was a character who inexplicably spoke a mixture of spanish and catalan??? and like other characters speak in a kind of faux french or italian, and I could see that being part of the english original… but catalan?????? I almost want to switch to english but I feel like it would ruin the mystery of it all. like what possible dialect of english did the localization team think was culturally best approximated as catalan

[coulombvolts]

I’m struggling to pick a language after German…

Swedish, Italian or Catalan could be a fun half-year-to-conversational adventure

or I could go for Chinese and try to memorize 3000 characters in a year

I think either way new languages are gonna need to take a backseat since I have a few that I wanna read a million words in (to be able to read fluently), and that’s gonna take a long time…

[coulombvolts]

I say 1 million because that’s what I’ve heard is what you need for comfortable reading, but according to Paul Nation 3 million words gets you to knowing the top 9000 word families (where “access” “accessibility” and “accessible” are counted as only 1 word family)

I’ll think about which one to go for the 3 million words with when I’m all caught up on my languages, but it’s probably gonna be Spanish

Español my beloved

[coulombvolts]

I’m struggling to pick a language after German…

Swedish, Italian or Catalan could be a fun half-year-to-conversational adventure

or I could go for Chinese and try to memorize 3000 characters in a year

I think either way new languages are gonna need to take a backseat since I have a few that I wanna read a million words in (to be able to read fluently), and that’s gonna take a long time…