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Language is wine upon the lips. INFP/INTP cusp. Canadian🍁 [French/Spanish/Punjabi]♡♡ sideblog

[fakepolyglot]

My learning Punjabi has just been me declaring that I am going to learn it.

[laste1le]

~~ goals for the week~~

20th July- 26th July

This week was ROUGH, and I may have been overambitious. But we don't give up, we adapt! This week and next week will be much busier anyway because my partner is down and family are around, it's my birthday soon!!!

On to the goals!!

~~ italian ~~

read 5 page of il ladro di fulmini and learn the vocab

write a diary entry

total 30 minute grammar study throughout the week

watch the hand of God

learn 20 new vocab

~~greek~~

write a very basic diary entry

study grammar for a total of 30 minutes

watch moana in Greek

learn 20 new vocab

~~arabic~~

Continue learning the alphabet

Watch one episode of Alrawabi School for Girls

Learn 10 new words

~~spanish~~

Learn 10 new words

Spend 10 minutes studying grammar

Watch a youtube video in spanish

[yvanspijk]

Sad satisfaction

The English word sad is related to to satisfy, to satiate, saturation and asset, a group of words that English borrowed from French and Latin. They all derive from a Proto-Indo-European root meaning ‘to satiate’. Sæd, the Old English ancestor of sad, meant ‘sated; full; weary; having had your fill’. Only in Middle English did it come to mean ‘sorrowful’. Zoom in on my new graphic to learn all about this family.

[hikari-ni-naritai]

In Japanese, they don’t say “moon,” they say “tsuki,” which literally translates to “moon,” and I think that’s how language works.

[rainbowgod666]

Hey its been at least 9 years anything changed?

[hikari-ni-naritai]

nope! all quiet on the linguistic front. i am a girl now though

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[classicfern]

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

[wolfbon3z]

Called me out 😔😔😔

[toast-tothe-moon]

language resources on the internet i love you. i cannot believe i can just start learning a language like that. i can lookup any word in seconds. i can find grammar explanations. there are teachers who put out whole videos for me to learn. amazing. i am so lucky.

[fakepolyglot]

my in-laws got me a year subscription to Duolingo premium and so far I've only been doing math lessons, why am I so afraid of one of my most cherished hobbies and interests (language learning)

[bookwyrminspiration]

no sé cómo decir nadaaa

[fakepolyglot]

Hello I'm an American also aspiring Polyglot :) What made you wanna start learning language?

what the hell why is tumblr just now notifying me about my favourite question in the world!

Tim Doner who spoke over 20 languages at age 17

I found him really inspirational and also really attractive ngl I had the biggest parasocial crush on Tim (I was 15 when this came out lmao). I think watching a lot of his videos where he would try to speak all of them made me want to be like him.

Other motivations: i grew up in a very diverse area in Canada, many of my friends spoke different languages at home and I found that fascinating. My family speaks Patois (a primarily English based creole from Jamaica) , but it's not the same as speaking another language at home and I always wished I did.

I went to a french immersion school which meant all my classes were in French until grade 5. Knowing French makes it really easy to study other romance languages since they share similar rules, and i think french is one of the harder roman languages.

I can also read the Cyrillic alphabet so i want to one day learn at least conversational Russian (? idk maybe another Cyrillic language, but i feel like Russian is the most useful of the Cyrillic languages as a Canadian who *never* plans on travelling to eastern europe.)

I guess in summary languages are awesome, it feels good for reason to speak a language with sounds that don't exist in english (feels like stretching muscles), they also connect people and are great conversation starters if you live in a diverse place like I do <3

[bookwyrminspiration]

[fakepolyglot]

i care deeply about learning languages. i know You couldn't tell based on my semi-abandoned langblr blog, and my never practicing any languages

[salvadorbonaparte]

Another fun thing about watching international tv as a language enthusiast is finding false cognates. I noticed that a Korean word sounded similar and seemed to have a similar meaning to a Russian word I know. And I was like hmm it could be a loanword for historical reasons but apparently the etymology is completely unrelated. I love when that happens.

[santumerino]

Source

[indigostudies]

my friend and i were going to study a language together and wound up having to cancel our plans due to scheduling pressures, but! through research we came across a really cool resource for reading in a TON of languages: bloom library!

as you can see, it has a lot of books for languages that are usually a bit harder to find materials for—we were going to use it for kyrgyz, for example, which has over 1000 books, which was really hard to find textbook materials for otherwise. as you can see it also has books with audio options, which would be really useful for pronunciation checking. as far as i can tell, everything on the site is free as well.

[logogreffe]

What does " passer l'éponge " mean in French ?

This expression has two meanings in French. 1. Lit. translation : To wipe [a surface] with a sponge.

"Passe l'éponge sur la table de la cuisine quand t'as fini, s'il te plait ! " // "Please, wipe the kitchen table (with the sponge) when you're done ! ".

Note : You can also say "passer un coup d'éponge" if you're not talking about deep cleaning your kitchen. 2. Passer l'éponge : to forgive and forget / to let bygones be bygones "Il a tué toute ma famille ! C'est impossible que je passe l'éponge, je ne lui pardonnerai jamais !" // "He killed my entire family ! There's no way I'm going to let it go, I'll never forgive him !"

[etudegenerale]

✍️  Confucius (551 av. J.-C - 479 av. J.-C), est un philosophe chinois.  

etude-generale.com

[logogreffe]

If you are learning French, I urge you everytime you learn a new word, to check if French people use it orally, and if not, to note the other version and don't forget to note the verlan aswell !! It's annoying I know, but the gap between written and spoken French is enormous and you'll be lost if you don't know the shortened version of words or the verlan. Exemples : - Appartement, n.m : an apartment Common version (orally) : un appart - Merci, n.m : thanks Verlan form = Cimer But, do I really need to learn the shortened version of words ? Well, do you understand the following sentence ? -> Quand j'étais ado, je révisais mes exams dans la cour de récré, je passais des heures avec mon fluo à la main, à relire mes exos de maths. (When I was a teenager, I would study for my exams in the school yard, spending hours with my highlighter in hand, rereading my math exercises.) If not, you can go take a look at my posts on shortened versions of French words here : Part 0 , Part 1 , Part 2