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[daggerlocksin]

hi i'm dagger! she/xe ^^ i'm 17 and a remote college student

currently studying: french, spanish, korean, thai, swedish, geometry, and calculus.

i'll be posting my progress for these subjects on here ^^ so any pictures/images posted on this blog are mine, aside from the header and pfp.

[daggerlocksin]

todays efforts towards thai!

aughh my hand is cramping so bad

[stepstofluency]

MY FAV FRENCH RESOURCES 🇫🇷💌

this my recent post on my studygram and I wanted to post it on here 🧸

follow my studygram for more: @stepstofluency

[bookwyrminspiration]

[communistojousama]

I will say that the passive approach to language that people get from taking foreign language classes, where teachers convince them that they need to wait until they're at "the right level" to begin to attempt engagement with material that they're interested in, is the most poisonous idea in language learning. In most cases, the pedagogical standard of the language that you're learning in a class is a far cry from the real liveleness of your target language as written and spoken by native speakers, and putting off engaging with it until you reach some mythical "appropriate level" instead of engaging with it ASAP to keep up your motivation does absolutely nothing but send you down the road to eventually quitting, for absolutely no benefit.

[daggerlocksin]

trying out the april days of productivity thing, so today i'll try to:

go for a 2 mile walk

study french for half an hour

study thai for an hour

fold my laundry

do an ab workout

eat at least two healthy meals

(:

[johannas-hopeanddespair]

learning non-european languages is only difficult cuz there's so little info outside of schools and textbooks. except for Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean. they get special treatment. where are all the Burmese instructors online? or the lengthy explanations of Vietnamese idioms? or the videos explaining Malayalam verse and rhyme? we need more sub-saharan african and non-east asian language learning material online damnit.

[johannas-hopeanddespair]

looking back at this post, there seems to be a tiered system of "what languages have resources" which directly correlates to how economically important that language's speakers are to the global economy. i'll layout a rough estimate (also note, this is coming from an English language resources only perspective):

1. the classic Anglo-centric langs. French, Spanish, German, Latin. All with large speaking populations and important culturally to especially the US and UK. many diverse resources using many different pedagogy.

2. the powerhouses. Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Italian, Portuguese. representing very economically important languages, and to some extent, heritage languages of immigrants in the US, as well as lots of cultural influence for some. many resources, but usually using the same pedagogy.

3. the minor powers. Dutch, Greek (modern and ancient), Polish, Tagalog (Filipino), Thai, Hebrew, Arabic (usually only MSA though), most non-russian slavic languages, most norse descendant languages. mostly important to heritage speakers OR "niche" economic interests. fewer resources, but diverse enough to find a good fit for one's learning style

4. minor national languages. Burmese, Indonesian, Malay, Khmer, Laotian, Bangla, Nepali, Hindi (at least in the US, Hindi resources are sparse as hell), Farsi, Turkish, Kiswahili, estonian, finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukranian, Cantonese. Most national languages of central, southeast, and west asia reside here. Limited economic influence and vast english-speaking immigrant communities mean very few resources for prospective learners. maybe 2-3 good books/websites at most.

5. the neglected kids. daughters of empires, these languages number many. they have plenty of documentation, but their countries abandoned them for foreign languages. Belarussian. Igbo, Yoruba, Lingala, !Xhosa, Zulu, non-Tagalog major languages of the Philippines, non-hindi languages of India. These languages have been suppressed, neglected, derogatized, and more. Many are either sub-official, or not official languages of their home countries. Few, if any resources.

6. The basement. These make up the majority of the world's languages. The nearly forgotten masses, many are endangered due to cultural assimilation, hostile governments, and more. Usually no resources at all besides the community that speaks it. Maybe. If you're lucky, you'll find a good article on the language on JSTOR or smth.

7. The dead. Those lost, but reviveable languages. Many indigenous languages of the US and Canada fall here. some books, but most are terrible sources. contact the communities instead.

8. The extinct. Those lost, and unrecoverable.

feel free to give input and refute any placements i made. this is a rough estimate by any account.

[daggerlocksin]

you should totally join https://www.focumon.com/trainers/toasty_S4Oa its very silly and cute and fun :]

oo so its like a pokemon type pomodoro?

[daggerlocksin]

this is a full weeks worth of taking notes on thai lol

[giliszta]

Listening to music in a foreign language: oh no I didn't understand that sentence, I need to work on my listening comprehension.

Listening to music in my native language: the fuck is he even talking about

[daggerlocksin]

learning thai alphabet now...there's so much of it