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[mapsontheweb]

How to say the word “How” in the most predominant language of each European country.

by loverofgeography

[romanian-atease]

În data de 23 ianuarie este serbată Ziua Internațională A Scrisului De Mână! Ziua Scrisului De Mână ne reamintește că deși trăim într-o lume a ecranelor și a butoanelor, tot ar fi păcat să ne pierdem o asemenea abilitate  Cum să sărbătorim Ziua Scrisului de Mână? 1. În această zi putem să dedicăm câteva minute pentru a lucra la îmbunătățirea scrisului de mână! 2. Scrie o scrisoare! Pentru a sărbători, ia un pix sau un stilou și o bucată de hârtie și alege pe cineva drag căruia să-i scrii câteva rânduri! 3. Începe un jurnal! 4. Scrie o poveste sau o poezie! Folosește-ți imaginația! 5. Fă-ți timp pentru a perfecționa propria semnătură! Vocabularul: un stilou (neut) - fountain pen un pix (neut) - pen un creion (neut) - pencil o hârtie (fem) - paper un jurnal (neut) - diary/journal a scrie - to write o poezie (fem) - poem o poveste (fem) - story un caiet (neut) - notebook

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

⁂

Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[hvvrtfulloflove-deactivated2021]

The European Roma institute for arts and culture just released a 253 pages book on the romani resistance during World War II, written by a collective of European historians

It is available for free here

[tealingual]

Phrasebook for Ukrainian refugees!

Help needed to make a phrasebook for Ukrainian refugees! If you speak • Polish (Польска) 🇵🇱 • Romanian (Румунська) 🇲🇩🇷🇴 • Hungarian (Угорська) 🇭🇺 • Slovak (Словацька) 🇸🇰 Please consider participating and adding the phrases in your language! 

🇺🇦 The link to the phrasebook 🇺🇦

Please reblog this to spread the word! 

[gwendolynlerman]

Christmas traditions around the world

Christmas is the most widespread religious festivity in the world. Of the 193 United Nations member states, Christmas is an official public holiday in 161. Although this celebration is generally associated with December 25, it is celebrated on January 7 in countries with an Orthodox tradition, because the Orthodox Church still uses the Julian calendar, which is 13 days behind the Gregorian one.

Despite the fact that Christmas is a Christian festivity, it is celebrated in the five continents as a result of colonialism, which was mostly carried out by European powers, whose main religion is Christianity. Here is a list of Christmas traditions in 10 countries—two from each continent—chosen for their unique customs. They have also been selected for having very different cultures from one another that are not usually mentioned in articles about Christmas.

Australia

In Australia and other countries of the Southern Hemisphere, Christmas is celebrated in unexpected climatic conditions. Since these important dates take place in summer, most people meet their friends and family members at the beach to barbecue and take a dip in the ocean. It is very common to see surfers dressed as Santa Claus riding waves.

Brazil

In Brazil, it is thought that animals acquire the capacity to speak during Christmastime, so little ones spend the day trying to have a conversation with their pets. Otherwise, celebrations are very similar to those in Europe and North America: presents are exchanged and houses are decorated with lights, cribs, and winter motifs despite the tropical climate.

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)

Christmas in the DRC is a religious celebration rather than a commercial one, so most people do not receive any gifts. On Christmas Eve, churches host musical evenings in which the chorus sings and an all-night theatrical play is performed from the Creation to the birth of Jesus Christ.

Ethiopia

The Ethiopian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7. The most characteristic aspect of this festivity is the Advent fast, which begins on November 25 and lasts 43 days. During this period, people only eat one vegan meal a day, as no meat, dairy, eggs, or wine is consumed. On Christmas Eve, it is traditional to dress in white and go to church, where mass lasts from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Fiji

Two weeks before Christmas Day, everyone gathers in the community’s largest house and performs traditional dances until New Year’s Day. Meals consist of chicken, beef, pork, fish, cassava, and taro. A traditional dish is palusami, seasoned lamb wrapped in leaves and cooked in coconut milk. The typical drink is kava, which has sedative and euphoric properties.

Jamaica

Jamaican Christmas markets offer food, music, and local crafts. One of the most deep-rooted traditions consists in painting the house and hanging new curtains for Christmas. Typical delicacies include rum cake and a drink made of ginger. On New Year’s Day, junkanoo is celebrated, an urban parade with music, dance, and costumes of African origin.

Lebanon

In Lebanon, Maronite Christians decorate their homes with cave-shaped cribs to which are added chickpeas, beans, lentils, oats, and wheat previously grown in wet cotton. The crib is the prayer center for the people of the house.

The Philippines

Christmas celebrations in the Philippines last the longest in the world. Streets are decorated since September and the festive atmosphere lasts until January. One of the most well-known traditions in the country is the giant lantern festival, which takes place on the Saturday before Christmas Eve in the city of San Fernando. Traditionally, lanterns were made of washi (traditional Japanese paper) used in origami and had a candle inside. Nowadays, they are lighted up using bulbs and can measure up to six meters.

Russia

The most important celebration in Russia is New Year’s Day, when the presents left by Ded Moroz (Grandpa Frost) accompanied by Snegurochka (Snow Maiden) are opened. Christmas Day, which takes place on January 7, is a religious holiday celebrated only by the most devout people. After going to mass, families return home and have a 12-course dinner, one for each apostle.

Sweden

The Yule goat, made of straw, is a characteristic element of Scandinavian Christmas traditions. However, it is especially well-known in the Swedish city of Gävle, where a shopkeeper decided to create a giant figure to attract customers in 1966. Ever since then, the Gävle Goat has been placed in the same place on the First Advent Sunday and has spawned another custom: trying to set it on fire. In its 53 years of existence, the goat has been burned 37 times. In 2016, it did not even last 24 hours.

Merry Christmas! [English] Feliz Natal! [Portuguese] Mbotama Malamu! [Lingala] መልካም ገና! (Melikam Gena!) [Amharic] Marau ni Siganisucu! [Fijian] Merri crissmuss! [Jamaican patois] !عيد ميلاد مجيد (Eid Milad Majid!) [Arabic] Maligayang Pasko! [Tagalog] С рождеством! (S rozhdestvom!) [Russian] God Jul! [Swedish]

[lagom-languages-deactivated2022]

since i am going to be a high school German teacher soon, I would like to know:

what did you love/hate about learning a language at school?

how could your experience have been better (what would the ideal language teacher do)?

[estistudies]

Vocab. I hated vocab tests, we had to memorise like 150 words every lesson. I know that knowing vocab (and making sure that the students know vocab) is importand but: many of these words were not common, at least at our level (~B1-B2), but we had to learn the whole list from the end of the book. Also! make them learn vocab in context. Instead of "to eat = essen (past 1, past 2)" make them write a sentence with the word you give them. It's also good if instead of giving them the L1 equivalent of a German word they don't know, you explain what it means in German.

Listening. I hope that other counntries are better but when I went to primary school, and in Hungary, the listening task had audio that wasn't only bad quality but also not really native sounding. I can understand Hungarians speaking German with a heavy accent, but have difficulty with actual natives. (Natives in plural! If you only have them hear one person's voice then students who have a different voice (eg. deeper) might find it more difficult to get the hang of the pronunciation). Please find them authentic sounding stuff. At a higher level (from B1) TedTalks could be great.

Speaking. Please talk to them in German (not necessarily only German, especially older students can really appreciate grammar explanations in their L1, but please use the target language a lot), to the whole class. Don't expect them to be able to converse in pairs when the textbook tells them to if you never conversed with them.

[sraithpics]

Now that college students no longer have access to their libraries in the same way we used to and have to do most of our learning at home it would be just terrible if we all knew about https://1lib.eu/ a website which has books on basically every topic ever available for free including college textbooks. Imagine if people were researching their thesis without paying for it. 

DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND DEFINITELY DO NOT NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE, THEY MIGHT START DOING THESIS RESEARCH FOR FREE OR JUST START READING BOOKS THEY FOUND ON THERE FOR FUN BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTING. This would be terrible :( :(

Reblog to spread the word so that everyone knows to avoid this site!

[sraithpics]

Hey everyone they have NOT moved to:

https://2lib.org/

Do NOT enter this url to find free books :)

[3stike]

Identities in Language Learning Survey

The biggest survey about who language learners are. Inclusive of dabblers and professionals alike, and of LGBTQ+ identities.

Please take the survey and help spread the link!

Identities in Language Learning

This survey is for everyone in the language learning community to help us all get a better understanding of who we are as a community and if

source: @multilingualmarissa

[thefuturelawyer]

Tumblr friends from Eurasia the youth around the globe needs your help!

Hello everyone!

A friend of mine is researching the affects of COVID-19 on youth’s mental health and right to health. She needs answers from students studying in a university located in one of the 47 countries of the Council of Europe between ages 18-30 for the research survey below.

So if you are,

aged between 18-30,

are a undergrad, grad or PHD student,

your nationality doesn’t matter but you need to be studying in a university located in one of the 47 Council of Europe countries

PLEASE ANSWER THE SURVEY BELOW!

Your answers will help shaping policies affecting youth around the globe.

You will change someone’s life!

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScTgsYO0GpvikQiXewi3HkBNyDMB8VZozlABaYhDy3GfUSFjQ/viewform

Please answer and share the survey! @sagittarius-studies, @problematicprocrastinator, @yesilvarolus, @authorumi, @study-feels, @knittingstudyblr, @afrofuturiststudent, @quaternioninaskirt, @literaturedd, @earlymodernstudent, @fiercelittlestudyblr, @a-study-in-dante, @lizziestudieshistory, @ecopsycho, @gwenlen-studies, @english-ness, @small-french-studyblr, @iparisx, @gwenlen-studies, @a-study-in-dante, @schleiereule94, @scandireader, @dooareyastudy, @kayxstudies, @the—hermit, @ecopsycho, @my-mediocre-studyblr, @language-learning-and-study, @salvadorbonaparte, @sixsixfivepointnine, @literatureaesthetic, @fluencylevelfrench, @medical-magpie, @thepythonista, @study-van, @thephysicsqueen, @aboutelifdilara, @semiotics-studies, @dakotalawyer, @lifeisforlearning, @suturesandcoffee, @sundayfishdiary, @tabsandlabs, @teatravelandsleep, @schleiereule94, @kayxstudies, @heliodurus, @learning-to-think, @ellebi-studies, @nikaetlinguae, @strxwberryacademia, @sabstudies, @sealdoggostudies, @choccy-milk-glass, @lalesnotes, @slowianeczka, @mayak, @sonrisa-studies, @heliodurus, @ablesin, @wowverystudy, @diaryofasoftwarestudent, @galina, @koldovstvo, @cerushka, @thatstudyblr-on-tea, @moscowstudyblr, @cequ-evanfait, @nadeastudies, @andreea-stu-dies, @fruzsislangblrstuff, @kannelbulle, @be-wilde, @mathematicola, @sunscreenstudies, @megfreyja, @norsktakk, @levenmetjanka, @speromelior, @lawandenglish, @nienque, @martastudyblr, @ericalagu, @aetaenae-studyblr, @lostbetweentheliness, @anchodarsnacht, @mamagenie, @studyingsimple, @studyoid, @lcstudies, @dieaprikose, @studyblr-by-janos, @studying-notmything, @littlelazystudyblr, @study-na, @languagessi

[loveletter2you]

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

[fluoresensitivearchived]

JSTOR still isn’t free, that’s a bummer, but here are the websites I use to get eBooks! If you’d like to support an author you admire, that’s fine, and if you’d like to go through the library system, that’s fine too. I’m just a vigilante weirdo who hates long wait lists and encouraging a garbage publishing system! Also, we’re all stuck inside so we might as well pirate.

add more if you know of any more!

mobilism, this is where i got most of my ebooks from! you should also download an ebook reader onto your phone and your computer, depending on where you want to read. i recommend moon reader for your phone and calibre for your computer. you will need to sign up to get access to the downloads/forums but they don’t send any annoying emails, and the free trial for premium is pretty great!

Z-Lib: also really great, but they have a download cap of five per day. you can get more if you share a post to facebook or donate a small amount. very rarely disappoints and if i can’t find something on mobilism or vk, i know i can find it here.

Lib-gen, i don’t use it that often but it’s very good. real quick, just to make sure it worked well and had sort of Obscure Offerings, I looked up a book I’ve been hunting down (the novelization of the Batman: Knightfall arc …) and it was there! Amazing!

VK’s BOOKS & MOVIES in English Board and VK’s English Bookland: I wouldn’t recommend these to people who are new with pirating things, but if you know how to work it it’s really good! These two boards let you suggest books/ask someone to find you a book, and can search around through their very large databases. They do tend to repeat the same books in their posts sometimes, which means you’ll have to do a lot of scrolling/filtering out.

[solarpunkpositivity]

The absolute absolute best I’ve ever found is archive.org. It’s an online library that has just about everything. (And it’s also home to the wayback machine)

[bruwho]

@theladies_at

[twinicegiantorbiters]

i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

[jadethest0ne]

This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ  “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会 

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話 

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!

[jurisffiction]

just remembered i wasnt on tumblr when i made this for a powerpoint party

[post--grad]

here is a list of questions i have already answered about graduate school!! 

please check it before you send me a question about graduate school :) :) i hope it’s useful! xo // updated 08.2019

basic info

what is the PhD and what can you do with it? (+) 

what does a literature PhD entail?

should i do a PhD if i have to pay tuition?

does it look bad to take time off between degrees?

what was your timeline like? 

what’s the difference between a terminal MA and a PhD? (+)

does getting an MA first help you get into a PhD program?

application process

how can i prepare for applying early in my undergrad career? (+) (+)

where should i start looking for programs?

should i choose a program based on rank or fit? (+)

how many programs should i apply to?

parts of the application

advice on the writing sample

advice on the GRE (+)

how should i ask for letters of recommendation?

how should i write a statement of purpose? (+)

how do i demonstrate my “ability to excel”?

how should i address mental health/family/personal issues that impacted my grades?

grad school application spreadsheet

how should i email potential advisors? (+)

how can i survive the waiting period? (+)

how should i prepare for an interview or phone call? (+)

what should i ask at open house?

what should i do if i don’t think i can afford my grad school tuition?

what should i do the summer before i start my program?

seminars/coursework

how should i plan for grad seminar presentations? (+)

what should i bring with me to seminars?

what are grad seminars like?

how can i get better at speaking during seminars?

reading

what should i have read before i start my lit grad program?

how much reading should i expect?

how can i read a lot without getting overwhelmed? (+)

how can i read efficiently? (+) (+)

quals-specific reading advice

how should i take notes on critical articles?

writing

how do i write a lit review?

how do i write an indicative bibliography?

how do i choose a dissertation topic? (+)

how do i plan for a long research paper?

how do i balance all the different kinds of writing i have to do?

money

how do finances work in grad school?

what is adjuncting and why does it suck?

how can i budget while on a stipend?

should i work while in grad school? (+)

fellowship, postdocs, & job stuff

how do i think up a second project when i’m not even done with my dissertation?

CV writing tips

which websites post US fellowship/postdoc/job ads? 

how do dissertation fellowships work? 

tips for grant, award, & fellowship applications

misc

will grad school make my mental health issues worse? (+) 

how do i survive conferences?

how should i deal with burnout? (+)

i think i want to quit

my advisor is ghosting me

how do i work with no structured schedule?

how do i get enough sleep?

how do i balance my work & my teaching?

how can i beat imposter syndrome? (+)

how can i excel in grad school?

[estistudies]

being an english as a foreign language speaker is using vocabulary from a bunch of different dialects and having no idea which words are not the standard british/american we were supposed to learn in school