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Languages, I guess.

[tealingual]

“You can never understand one language until you understand at least two.”

— Geoffrey Willans and John Searle

[shrews-studies]

The Best Feeling Ever is when you start to feel close to a language you're studying, in the way that it feels familiar to your ears, you subconsciously notice patterns in spelling, you can tell the role of a word in a sentence even if you don't understand it, the sound of it comes naturally to your mouth and even if you stutter you know what it's supposed to be like

[awed-frog]

meanwhile on twitter

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

It really is just tumblr circa 2014 huh

[deadgodjess]

Where is that tweet thats all “if anyone is tweeting in Cyrillic they’re most likely a Russian bot because only about 10 people who use Cyrillic have access to the internet” or some shit?

[regicide1997]

Here:

[heydeliah-deactivated20220520]

As someone who lives in the Balkans I can confirm. We have Internet only thanks to our Donkey, Dimitri, who runs in a treadmill which generates electricity.

[gcdk]

Reblogging to thank Dimitri for his service

[blood-trip-god2]

Isn’t @one-time-i-dreamt Croatian?

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Yes. Love you Dimitri!!!

[dxmedstudent]

Im laughing cos I’m Eastern European by background and almost ALL my cousins work in IT. Cos companies from rucker countries set up in Eastern Europe all the time due to cheaper labour costs.

The idea that an entire swathe of countries wouldn’t be online is stupid.

[moosemonstrous]

Wait until they hear about all those people who can read and write in Cyrillic and - gasp! - live in the west 😳

[dxmedstudent]

I assure you I am fictional. And also totally not a spy.

I suck at games like The Resistance or One Night Ultimate Werewolf or Among Us because people always think I’m Sus, even when I’m not 😫

[moosemonstrous]

It’s our Universally Angry accents. Can’t escape the villainous accent.

[violetsnotebook-archive]

17.11.20 / a week or so ago, someone asked me about how to take notes and the first step i mentioned was to simply write key phrases or keywords. i thought i would share these initial notes for a change. as you can see they’re messy and barely legible. but that’s ok because the notes just have to get written before anything else. anyway, i hope you’re having a lovely tuesday so far. let me know how you’re doing! take care ♡

[pencilpeach]

8•10•2020

For real actual first day of law school

[attar-of-rose]

candle-lit rooms, oolong tea, persian poetry, films set in world war II, jasmines, pomegranates, paris, light rainfalls, coco mademoiselle, rose water, bordeaux lips, cold mornings, pain au chocolat, glowing skin, unfinished paintings, phonographs.

[aireina]

would you prefer to learn French or Italian before you die?

the threatening aura of this message reads like it was sent by the duolingo owl

[dankmemeuniversity]

[minuty]

“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.”

—

[allthingseurope]

Broadway Tower, England (by Colin Watts)

[atraversso]

Halloween vibes 🎃

Credit: Tama7653

[notebookist]

messy desk, clear mind?

[justanotherfalloweenqueen]

🍁 24 Days Until Fall!🍁

[coupdegrace]

[dct239394cvvd098dffgggp]

God gave me the underrated gift of not being born into a english speaking country and the Idiot Me decided to become fluent in it and understand the things america people say and my quality of life been dwindling since

[ao3commentoftheday]

you don’t get good at doing something by not doing it

you get good at doing something by doing it badly and learning how to do it better

[homunculus-argument]

The ancient greeks really had graves for dogs. And they carved stuff on the stone like “carrying you here, I now feel as much grief as I felt joy when I carried you home” and “you never barked without reason, but now you are silent”. The human urge to tell a story spans centuries and millennia, and the loss of a really good dog makes you want to tell people - even people centuries in the future, who will never know your name - that there once was a dog who was a very good girl, but now she no longer is and you aren’t sure what to do with all this sorrow.