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I love being multilingual. I love reading books so much. and I know most of langblr and bookblr is about academia or classics but my heart is in children's literature. I grew up with my own language and my own country's literature. I get to have my childhood favorite books in my language. and then as I grow up and learn others I get to enjoy other people's childhood favorite books. sometimes I've progressed enough in my language to enjoy those foreign books in their own original language and be filled with joy as I realize how this would have shaped a generation of people. I get to go "what is this word" and look up and have a spark of joy as I memorize a BIG word in a new language. I get to gasp at reveals and twists and turns and fairy tales and romances and horrors of all your children's literature because my language level is still progressing and every new word fills me with wonder. I get to have my childhood and I get to have other people's childhood through my childlike language abilities. I love it. I love reading books!
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20 Day Language Challenge
Hello everyone! Missed yesterday so I will just put these two together.
Day 2: Which language/s do you want to learn while doing this challenge?
During this challenge I will be mostly focused on learning Russian to a conversational level. I will be, on the side, maintaining my Spanish (not hard as we live in Spain and I speak it with my children), a bit of German brush up now and then, and learning a new Japanese word in hiragana every day (sometimes it takes me a few days to memorize, but more or less!). My main focus is daily study of Russian.
Day 3: Are there any apps you use to learn languages?
I use mainly web-based tools for learning as I don’t know any apps that have worked for me before. For Russian I absolutely love Open Russian for their amazing dictionary, sentences examples (they seem infinite!), and conjugation, as well as Easy Russian videos on YouTube.
A Small-Sized Mystery
by Jane Hirshfield
Leave a door open long enough, a cat will enter. Leave food, it will stay. Soon, on cold nights, you’ll be saying “Excuse me” if you want to get out of your chair. But one thing you’ll never hear from a cat is “Excuse me.” Nor Einstein’s famous theorem. Nor “The quality of mercy is not strained.” In the dictionary of Cat, mercy is missing. In this world where much is missing, a cat fills only a cat-sized hole. Yet your whole body turns toward it again and again because it is there.
A1-A2: man, there're so many words I need to know in order to say literally anything
B1-B2: wow, what I know is enough now
C1-C2: man, there're so many weirdly specific words I need to know in order to describe these weirdly specific things I've only seen once in my life. Also I forgot how to say ceiling.
20 Day Language Challenge
Day One - Which languages can you speak besides your native language?
Hello everyone, I’m perdida 👋🏼 what a great day to start a challenge, the first of the month. Anyways!
I am a native in Canadian English, can speak Spanish to a near C1 level, can speak German conversationally (enough to read novels and chat with my hubby’s family, including children), and am at a very basic level in Russian. I understand most French (having been raised studying it for 12 years) but will not don’t speak it. I understand Valenciano but can only speak a handful of phrases! As for the handful of phrases category, you can throw in Vietnamese, Gaeilge, Japanese, Mandarin, and Icelandic. 😅
hi and hello everyone! my name is lunlun, i’m an english language teaching student. this is my last year. i’m learning german as my second foreign language. i’m now on my winter break and i want to motivate myself to learn german better during my break and do something besides duolingo. because i have around 25 days left before next semester begins, i decided to create a challenge for 20 days. i hope you will participate and this challenge will be useful and motivating for you too!
you don't need to do anything to participate. but i appreciate it if you reblog this post so that others can see the challenge. and do not forget to use the hashtag #languagelearningwithlunlun so that everyone can see your posts. good luck and i hope you have fun!
Day 1: Which languages can you speak besides your native language?
Day 2: Which language/s do you want to learn while doing this challenge?
Day 3: Are there any apps you use to learn languages?
Day 4: How do you improve your listening skills?
Day 5: How do you improve or practice your speaking skills?
Day 6: Are there any free online sources you use to learn languages? Please share<3
Day 7: Which language do you think is easier to learn: your native language or the foreign language you are learning?
Day 8: If you can speak English, where and how did you learn it?
Day 9: What is the biggest struggle of learning a language according to you?
Day 10: How do you enrich your vocabulary?
Day 11: Is there a certain method you use to learn languages?
Day 12: Which of the extinct languages would you like to learn if you could?
Day 13: How many languages are spoken in your country?
Day 14: Share an interesting fact about the language you are learning, or your native language.
Day 15: What is a misinformation about your native language or the language you are learning?
Day 16: Are there any words in your mother tongue that are borrowed or adapted from English or other languages?
Day 17: Briefly summarize what you’ve studied and learned today!
Day 18: What do you think about grammar? Is it fun to learn? Do you enjoy grammar activities? Does knowing your native language’s grammar help learning another language’s grammar?
Day 19: Do you know how many dialects your mother language has?
Day 20: The last day! Did you enjoy the challenge? Was it helpful?
hey, if you ever wanted to learn russian, here is a online textbook called Между Нами and here is the pdf download link to the classroom activities workbook and the homework workbook. it has audio so you can listen and read and one of the first exercises in the homework book is teaching you how to write in russian cursive. it is for complete beginners and in my opinion is a way better (and ad-free) way of learning russian compared to the many language learning apps out there.
Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
Want to learn something new in 2023??
Cooking with flavor bootcamp (used what I learned in this a LOT this year)
Beekeeping 101
Learn Interior Design from the British Academy of Interior Design (free to audit course - just choose the free option when you register)
Video on learning to read music that actually helped me??
How to use and sew with a sewing machine
How to ride a bike (listen. some of us never learned, and that's okay.)
How to cornrow-braid hair (I have it on good authority that this video is a godsend for doing your baby niece's black hair)
Making mead at home (I actually did this last summer and it was SO good)
How to garden
Basics of snowboarding (proceed with caution)
How to draw for people who (think they) suck at art (I know this website looks like a 2003 monstrosity, but the tutorials are excellent)
Pixel art for beginners so you can make the next great indie game
Go (back) to school
Introduction to Astronomy (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)
Principals of Economics (high school course - free textbook w/ practice problems)
Introduction to philosophy (free college course)
Computer science basics (full-semester Harvard course free online)
Learn a language
Japanese for Dummies (link fix from 2022)
Ukrainian
Portuguese (Brazil)
American Sign Language (as somebody who works with Deaf people professionally, I also strongly advise you to read up on Deaf/HoH culture and history!)
Chinese (Simplified)
Quenya (LOTR fantasy elf language)
Me (typing russian): ok, teenagers, i know this word
Me (typing): *подростки*
Me:
Me: *looking up teenager in the dictionary*
hi! Can I ask what a few of your favorite spanish words and sayings are?
My favorite words:
el azahar = orange blossom
la medusa = jellyfish [because Medusa, A+ language]
el nenúfar = lilypad
el hipo = a hiccup quitar el hipo = "to take one's breath away"
el girasol = sunflower
el jengibre = ginger
el hurón = ferret
el azabache = jet black / bird of paradise
izquierda = left
el aquelarre = witches' coven
I personally find myself really drawn to a lot of the words of Arabic or Basque origin. I also like that la araña "spider" can also be "chandelier"
My favorite expressions... that's hard because there are lots of good ones but:
a diestra y siniestra = "left and right", "all over the place" [lit. "to the right and left", but these are the old words for right-hand and left-hand"]
ser un sol = "to be a delight" [lit. "to be a sun"]
entre la espada y la pared = "between a rock and a hard place" [lit. "between the sword and the wall"]
de una vez por todas = once and for all
el prínciple azul = "knight in shining armor" [lit. "blue prince"]
Why did you learn Finnish?
To communicate with my parents and extended family. At age 1 I started to feel a bit hungry and decided I should start speaking so that my parents would feed me.
Hope this helps!
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