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🌸Vauxn || 28 || || focus: spanish + korean + brazilian portuguese +ASL🌸

[nowtoboldlygo]

a really great wiki for spanish podcasts for learners just dropped, i am in love ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[nowtoboldlygo]

korean comprehensible input update 6/30

i hit 600 hours of korean media immersion!! that’s mostly from scratch, as i tried a few apps before moving to 100% comprehensible input a couple of years ago.

general check-in notes:

immersion: so, literally no korean dramas or korean novels. :( :(

plans for the future: feeling like podcasts will take a full additional 600 hours but!! i will persevere!!!!! ୧(๑•̀ᗝ•́)૭

timeline notes: current projections have me at 3k at the end of 2028!! could i speed that up??? idk yes of course but i'm also doing a couple of other languages that're more directly like, actionable.

FAQ so far:

how much do you actually understand? 

i’m at bits-and-pieces to gist-level understanding for everything. here's the top ten media resources i used for the last 300 hours.

do you ever get korean mixed up with spanish?

never, not even a little bit.

is it slower than learning one language at a time? 

absolutely! superbeginner and beginner content is incredibly exhausting. even adding all my korean hours to spanish would still be a lower sum than if i’d only focused on spanish from the beginning, simply because at higher difficulties i have more stamina for longer hours. it’s generally exponential. 

that said, i plan to always have a language going at pre-podcast level. i’d rather do a few minutes a day than push through the first levels with brute force. demotivation isn’t really a concern – i actually meant to only dabble in korean, but realized even if i 'dropped' the language, i'd just pick it up a few months later. the language is motivating in and of itself.

where can i find comprehensible input (in addition to the CI wiki & reddit)?

so far i would say:

for the equivalent of level one for the dreaming spanish method, search beginner comprehensible input and, if anything’s available, power through it. also search for tv shows made for learners like muzzy. if nothing’s available for your target language, i would try the refold method or the easiest media you could find re the below.

for level two, the above + the easiest tv shows for preschoolers. there’re lots of recommendation threads from parents & tons of toddler shows on youtube. additionally, search youtube in your tl for room tours, diy videos, real estate tours. you’ll have to dig for the easiest, but i’ve found some videos that’re more comprehensible some ‘beginner’ made-for-learners stuff.

for level three, leveling up on the above + vlogs for learners, video game playthroughs for beginners, and maybe even a podcast. 

also note that learner content isn’t standardized. there’s a ton of stuff labeled as beginner that i would put at intermediate or even advanced.

[faerie-etude]

200 hour update

Hello all! Long time no chat :) just a quick update

100 hour update

random notes

* closer to 230 but i’ve stopped being really strict about tracking. it makes it less stressful for me not worrying about a few minutes here or there when im aiming for thousands of them :)

* learning to trust the process!! something is surely happening in my brain and i can tell more with regular practice.

* i had my first dream in spanish! well someone was speaking spanish in my dream and it was funny because this person does not speak spanish in real life. it was a really funny and exciting after i woke up.

i went really hard at the beginning because it was all so exciting, and then i fell back drastically, and now im trying to creep back up to a good sustainable balance for myself

that being said going forward, i am doing a sprint of sorts, trying to get 100hrs per month until february (bad bunny’s super bowl performance 🐰). its just a fun short term goal with no pressure for myself, but it adds a little excitement

CONTENT (outside of dreaming spanish, which is my main source)

i’ve mentioned i don’t mind watching things that i’ve seen before at lower comprehension cause i just need the interest to keep going so i watch things dubbed like shrek and stranger things (also iwtv which has pretty good VAs for the dub even though i miss the creole and’s french accents). choosing between jurassic park and ferngully today. for shows originally in spanish mostly pasión de gavilanes (mi corazón 🫶🏾 ) and other episodes of spanish dramas here and there, but nothing extensive.

pluto tv is a great free source for different types of content to listen with focus or put on in the background. i’m also slowly amassing my collection of youtubers

also lots and lots of music!!!! i’m discovering new genres and really enjoying myself!!!

some songs i've been obsessed with lately <3 :

other domains

- speaking: no change

- reading: i’ll occasionally read a few stories from bloomlibrary.org

- just working my way through slowly starting at the lowest level with no concrete goal, just letting myself get a little familiar

- writing: no change. i’m intrigued by the idea of keeping a 3-sentence journal but not at the moment.

final thoughts

this is definitely the method for me lol. with the majority of the focus on comprehension, everything else is just icing on the cake. i can help a customer or look up a random word/grammar point without it feeling like everything is banking on that small piece, and if it sticks cool, if not i know i’ll come across it again and again if it’s important.

every minute of input is a single drop in the ocean of spanish i am creating for myself. right now id say i have maybe a plastic kiddie pools worth 😂 but that's more than i started with!

good luck to you all on your journeys, wherever you may be, and i hope to be back with another update soon!

p.s. if anyone every wanted to message me with specific questions or just to blab about anything i'm more than happy to receive you!!!

[wonderful-language-sounds]

Websites to learn languages by reading

Hyplern

Language Crush

Readlang

Vocab Tracker

[blackpyrefly]

early to bed and early to rise leaves a man so fucked up that he dies

[translatingpoststospanish]

acostarse temprano y levantarse temprano jode tanto la gente que quiere apagarse temprano

[spider-incarnate]

reccomendaciones de youtubers españoles

archivo mitologíco - si te gusta la mitología este canal es perfecto. los episodios duran 10-30 minutos, son muy interesantes y tienen animaciones bonitas. el canal tiene un foco en mitología griegas, pero a veces habla de otros mitologías, como la nórdica.

wissbegierde - él tiene muchos videos sobre diferentes lenguas, ambos lenguas reales & conlangs. también habla de cómo aprender lenguas.

leyendas & videojuegos - este canal es un canal de ensayos, historia, curiosidades y diseño de videojuegos. los topicos son siempre interesantes.

infoprimates - otro canal sobre lengas, este tiempo con animaciones. creo que los videos son muy divertidos :].

jaime - él tiene muchos videos sobre música y tecnología y es muy interesante. él tambien tiene un otro canal cuando él habla de muchos mas tópicos.

perdón si tengo errores, y porfa corregirme :]

[the-snail-queen]

love/hate that feeling in language learning when you can recognize yourself progressing to a more complex and fluent level

"sick, I got better!"

"dang this got harder"

[greenbeep]

Seeking Learner Resources for Levantine Arabic

If you know any good resources for learning Levantine Arabic, please let me know. I'm having a hard time searching for learning resources in English that aren't AI generated. I'm sure it exists but I don't know where to look for it.

Specifically I'm looking for a lot of easy comprehensible input to start with, but I'm also hoping to find a beginner friendly grammar book pdf. Anything helps though, thanks.

[lemedstudent2021]

kdjeksdj hi! ur friendly neighbourhood levantine arabic speaker here XD found an article and reddit post that might be helpful inshallah :>

A Complete Guide to Learning Levantine Arabic | FREE Resources

My list of Levantine Arabic learning resources : r/learn_arabic

all the best :D

[rigelmejo]

Experiment: 18 months of comprehensible input

This person learned for 18 months at 3 hours a day, so 547 days x 3 hours = 1,641 hours of comprehensible input.

I'm interested in comparing their results to mine when I reach the same amount of hours. As they learned Thai, and got tones fairly well, so I hope to see something similar with Mandarin. They mentioned Norwegian has pitch accent though, and that's a language they speak so they felt it may have helped them pick up tones.

[tlajtollirambles]

Random Vocab Thursday

Tlahuetiliztli (jelousy)

Teoxihualli (mass)

Tiachcame (mayordomos / local religious leaders)

Cihuaxoxolotl (fuckboy or womanizer)

Tecmihtiani (criminals)

Moihtotiliztli (dance)

Tlahtoni (drug or debt)

Now a couple of phrases:

Omoyolohcoco (they regreted it)

Amitla nech macti (nothing scares me)

Amitla ipati (it doesnt work/ it has no value)

[lingcharts]

Colors in Native Central and South American Languages (Note: spelling and/or full words may differ across dialects; shade range groupings for various colors may differ somewhat from English color categorization. E.g. “hūngy” in Guarani may refer to brown or gray)

[gwendolynlerman]

Languages of the world

Nahuatl (Nāhuatlahtōlli)

Basic facts

Number of native speakers: 1.7 million

Official language: Mexico

Script: Latin, 19 letters

Grammatical cases: 0

Linguistic typology: agglutinative, VSO, pro-drop

Language family: Uto-Aztecan, Southern Uto-Aztecan, Nahuan

Number of dialects: 3 main groups

History

7th-16th centuries - lingua franca in Mesoamerica

1570 - Nahuatl becomes the official language of the colonies of New Spain

16th-17th centuries - Classical Nahuatl

1696 - ban on the use of any language other than Spanish in the Spanish Empire

1770 - publication of a decree to eliminate indigenous languages

Writing system and pronunciation

These are the letters that make up the script: a ch e i h k kw l m n o p s t tl ts u x y.

Depending on the variety, a macron, a colon, or a double vowel may be used to mark long vowels, which are contrastive with respect to short vowels.

Stress falls on the penultimate syllable.

Grammar

Nouns have two numbers (singular and plural) and are also marked for possession, but some dialects distinguish animacy. Unpossessed nouns generally take an absolutive suffix.

Nahuatl generally uses postpositions, but has also introduced prepositions as a result of the influence of Spanish.

Verbs are marked for tense, aspect, mood, person, and number. Prefixes indicate the person of the subject and the person and number of the direct and indirect objects, while suffixes indicate tense, aspect, mood, and subject number.

Dialects

There are three main dialect groups: Central and Northern varieties, Eastern varieties, and Western varieties.

Differences can be found in phonology and syntax.

[thearcaneuniversity]

ok, this is amazing. I found a great site with short stories in 34 languages!

"WorldStories is a growing collection of stories from around the world. The collection includes retold traditional tales and new short stories in the languages most spoken by UK children.

We are adding new stories, translations, pictures and sound recordings every week. So keep coming back to enjoy new content!"

[thelibraryofcontext]

Korean Resources

I’ve updated the Korean Resources section of The Library and I’ve made it rebloggable for those that prefer that :)

Korean

Routledge Grammar - Basic Korean - A Grammar and Workbook (second source) (third source)

Routledge Grammar - Intermediate Korean - A Grammar and Workbook (second source)

Using Korean - A Guide to Contemporary Usage

Korean Grammar for International Learners

Colloquial Korean - The Complete Course for Beginners

Korean Level 1 (Seoul National University)

Essential Korean [Ellen K. Yoon]

Dirty Korean: Everyday Slang from “What’s Up?” to “F*%# Off!” [Haewon Geebi Baek] (second source)

Korean Grammar for International Learners [Ho Bin Ihm, Kyung Pyo Hong, Suk In Chang]

Korean Word Book [Marshal R Pihl]

My First Book of Korean Words: An ABC Rhyming Book [Henry J. Amen IV, Kyubyong Park]

Using Korean: A Guide to Contemporary Usage [Miho Choo, Hye-Young Kwak]

College Korean

Intermediate College Korean [Clare You, Eunsu Cho]

Elementary Korean [Ross King, Jae-Hoon Yeon]

Hippocrene Beginner’s Series - Beginner’s Korean

Korean From Zero 1

Korean Grammar in Use: Beginning to Early Intermediate

Korean through English, Book One

Korean: A Complete Course for Beginners [Jaemin Roh]

My Korean 1 [Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho, Douglas Ling]

My Korean 2 [Young-A Cho, In-Jung Cho, Douglas Ling]

Step by Step: Korean through 15 Action Verbs [Dr In Ku Kim-Marshall]

Beginner TOPIK Grammar & Vocabulary

Intermediate TOPIK Grammar

TOPIK Elementary Adjectives

TOPIK Elementary Grammar

TOPIK Elementary Nouns

TOPIK Intermediate Adjectives

TOPIK Intermediate Grammar

TOPIK Intermediate Nouns

TOPIK Intermediate Verbs

TOPIK Listening Files

Korean In Action: For International Learners [Gi-Hyun Shin, Adrian Buzo]

Making Out in Korean (second source)

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [ Korean]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince [Korean]

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [Korean]

[parapillon]

This is DOPE

[loulanguages-deactivated2018110]

OKAY GUYS I DON’T KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN DONE BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT BILINGUIS. ya’ll, this site is amazing. it’s a site of free, public-domain bilingual books. and there are SO MANY LANGUAGES. it’s not just french and spanish, but also dutch, mandarin, ukrainian, esperanto and way more. there are only five books but they are all classics and they are all amazing! 

see that? that’s Alice in Wonderland in Esperanto and English. AND IT GETS BETTER. in certain languages, YOU CAN PLAY THE AUDIOBOOK ALONG WITH IT AS YOU READ. it’s also worth noting that you don’t have to have it in english and another language. you can have it in any two of the languages offered. 

anyway, here it is. so please guys, spread the knowledge, because it’s totally great and i have a new addiction. 

[krykkyssyma]

Read Grimms’ Fairy Tales in 18 languages!

On this website you can read Grimms’ fairy tales in 18 different languages! (English, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Danish, Romanian, Finnish, Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish and Hungarian)

 http://www.grimmstories.com/

[rad-and-sleepy]

Wonderful Language resource

Hello guys, gals and non gender binary individuals,

I have found a wonderful language learning resource that is like internet gold.  It is a website that allows you to read children’s books from hundreds of languages, in their script. You may also view translations of the book into your native language, therefore making sure that you have concrete understanding! 

The website is childrenslibrary.org Best of all it is completely free, which is helpful for those that want to learn languages, but live on a low financial fund.

Happy studies!