[i-am-a-fish]

"why do I feel so terrible?"

-person who forgot to take their not-feeling-terrible medication

[neitherthehoneynorthebee]

So this post is the single reason I took my meds today. Reblogging out of duty.

[thinking1bee]

GOD BLESS PATTI LUPONE BECAUSE SHE SAID THAT WITH HER ENTIRE CHEST 😭🫡

[thinking1bee]

Excuse me while I add Ms. Plaza to the chat 😍😍😍😍

[feluka]

i want people to take a minute and imagine (of course unless you don't need to imagine because this already applies to you in reality) that your mother tongue is considered inherently frightening, threatening, or demonic. that it doesn't even matter what you're saying translates to, it matters that it's your language and your language makes you a villain. imagine that when you say 'thank you' or 'i love you' it is heared and processed the same as the most vile curse. imagine that when you say 'god dammit' or 'oh my god' without even thinking, you are seem as a danger and are now in danger yourself. imagine that you're an artist that relies on words (like writer, poets, or singers) and that no matter the emotion, beauty, or passion in your art it is seen as something ugly.

[kutyozh]

langblr playlists

Hello :)

Listening to music in my target language(s) always helped me a lot with pronunciation, vocabulary and use of language, so i’ve decided to share my playlists that each focus on one language!

Some of them are still under construction and don’t have a lot of songs, but they will grow, I promise!

Links:

A Amharic   Arabic   Aymara   Austrian German

B  Basque  Belarusian   Bulgarian

C   Chinese (Mandarin)  Chuvash  Croatian Czech

D   Dutch

E   Estonian

F   Finnish   French [s / y]

G   Georgian   German [s / y] Greenlandic 

H   Hindi   Hungarian

I   Icelandic   Italian

J   Japanese [s / y]

K   Kazakh   Khmer [s / y]  Korean Kyrgyz

L   Latvian   Lithuanian

M  

N   Norwegian

P   Polish   Portuguese [sp / yt]  Punjabi

Q   Quechua

R  Romanes  Romanian [s / y]  Russian

S   Serbian   Sámi   Slovene   Spanish [sp / yt]

T  Tagalog  Thai   Turkish

U   Ukrainian   Urdu

V   Vietnamese [s / y]

W  Welsh

Big playlist with non-English songs only: click here

If the playlist links do not work, this link will lead you to my page!

The Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Vietnamese and Spanish playlists are also available on YouTube! Unfortunately I don’t have the capacity to add more playlists to YT or update these existing ones

“pipeline” aka send me recs for these languages please

❗ disclaimer: these playlists may contain different dialects that may not be mutually intelligible/may vary from the dialect that you’re learning. I apologise for the inconvenience and encourage you to ask about any uncertainties. I will try my best to answer your questions or to crowdsource answers.

I also address this problem under the cut:

Keep reading

[thyinum]

Please, when you see something written in Cyrillic, don't assume right away that it's russian. Russian is not the only language that uses Cyrillic. There are also Ukrainian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tajik, Mongolian.

It's a sensitive topic especially for us Ukrainians because russian language is a weapon. It's a colonial language, it's presented like one and only true slavic language, it erases and replaces other languages. Belarusian is literally on the verge of extinction because of russian. Ukrainian has been banned 134 times throughout history, it is still called a "village language", a dialect of russian. Russian colonialism is literally the reason why there are so many russian speaking people in Ukraine (I was one of them btw). Ukrainian is banned on russian occupied territories and people are getting in trouble or even killed for using it there, Ukrainian POWs in russian captivity are getting brutally beaten for speaking Ukrainian.

Like okay, I can get why there's this confusion, so here's a clue to understand that the language you're looking at definitely is not russian — the letter і. If you see ї (like i but with two dots) it's 100% Ukrainian. If you see j it's Serbian. Russian alphabet also doesn't have such letters as Ђ, Љ, Њ, Ў, Џ (dont confuse with Ц ). Yes, it's not always gonna be easy to detect that the language in front of you is not russian, but when you have trouble with it just ask or run it through any translation app and it'll probably tell you the language.

Hope this will be helpful.

[saja-star]

When I was in Mongolia recently I met a Russian traveler there and some people passed by us speaking Mongolian and she said "wow, it's so crazy. I can't understand a single thing they are saying." And I was like "oh you speak Mongolian?" thinking she meant she didn't know this dialect or something. She goes "No." I'm like, "Oh then how would understand it?" We went back and forth for a while where she kept insisting that it was weird she couldn't understand it, and she had been planning this trip to Mongolia for months on the assumption that she would be able to understand Mongolian, and it turned out she had just assumed that because they were both written with Cyrillic?

And I just.... like yeah, because Russia forced that on them. Writing systems are not natural occurrences, they are political tools. And frankly I don't get why people have such a hard time wrapping their head around how a language totally unrelated to Russian could use Cyrillic when we see different languages written in the Latin alphabet all the time.

[translations101]

Banned hiragana from Japanese license plates and why

Most Japanese license plates have a hiragana on them, but some are banned

お (o) - looks similar to あ (a)

を(wo) - pronounced the same way as お(o)

し(shi) - the character for death (死) is also pronounced shi

へ(he) - there is another character pronounced the same way (屁) and it means fart

ん (n) - cause it is hard to pronounce on its own

[cuasson]

heya! I meant to start a languageblr a while ago but I just forgor so here we go again, I’m Angelo and I made it a goal to reach A1 in french this year! I'm looking for study buddies, discord servers, I'm open to joining groups or maybe making one. I also speak spanish and some italian and would like to learn korean, let's chat/parlare/parler :)