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so i started learning german in this quarantine time, and i literally screamed in pure joy as I combined this beautiful sentence including 3 of the german cases. I WAS PROUD
Here it is,
Ich ziege meinem Bruder mein Buch
Its a basic, duolingo ass type sentence but it was a good moment for the grammar lover that I am
Hello! Back at it with a new langblr challenge! This time the challenge is called Langblr News Challenge and the purpose of it is to improve your language skills by reading news in your target language! To participate in this challenge you must read news in your target language and learn all the new words you encounter. If you want, you can post about your progress and tell which news articles you read and what new words you learned. If you do, please tag your post as #langblrnewschallenge so that I and others can see what you’re working on and learn something new as well! You can choose to participate in this challenge for 7 days, 14 days, 21 days, or 30/31 days - it’s up to you! Enjoy your studies!
This is actually a goal of mine to read and listen to more news stuff, will definitely be doing this :)
What about a Bullet Journal dedicated to language learning?
New post today! YAAAAY, I missed blogging sooooo much but I came back home to visit my parents. You guys know, if you follow me on Instagram too, that I looooove the Bullet Journal method, I use it every day for my studies and right now for work too. So why not creating a new bullet journal only dedicated to language learning? Here’s what are the possible useful spreads I will create in the near future:
Yearly log: probably a vertical spread and for each month I will list the goals I want to reach in each language
Monthly log: a classic monthly log but with the days in the middle, on the left side I will list what are my daily goals and on the other one I will write what I actually did
Monthly tracker: for each day I’ll track how many hours or minutes I’ll spend for each language (color coding needed)
Level 10 fluency: for each language, I will list how much I feel fluent in each category (reading, writing, speaking, listening) from 1 to 10
Resources log: for each language, I will dedicate one page in order to list all the resources I use or I have in store and I’ll also track for which field it’s useful
Textbooks collection: for each language, I will list the textbooks, both physical and digital, I have
Lag-podcasts collection: a list dedicated to languages podcasts I listen to and I will discover
Favorite Tumblr masterposts: you know that here on Tumblr there are tons and tons of very useful masterposts, so why not creating a collection for them in order to always remember them?
What I learned this month: as the last page for one month, it would be nice to keep track of what you studied and understood
Website/Blog collection: I follow too many interesting blogs and sometimes I can’t even remember their names, this collection would be teeeeerribly useful for me
Fluency tracker: let this Pinterest pic speak for me
So guys what do you think about this idea? Would you like to see the #langbujo in a new article as soon as I will complete some pages and some spreads? Stay tuned!!
you know what? accents are actually lovely. like you can learn all the languages in the world and you still have a part of your own with you. that’s cute
Women in Language 2019
It’s that time of year again, Women in Language is back!! The 2019 conference is from March 7-10, and the recordings of the talks are available forever. I genuinely enjoyed last year’s conference, as well as the Camp conference later in the year. Great language advice, motivation, techniques, stories, all presented by inspiring women from around the world!
Check it out here
“Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don’t think people get the same feeling from you. The rhythm changes. Because the rhythm of the language is different, it changes your inner rhythm and that changes how you process everything.When I hear myself speak French, I look at myself differently. Certain aspects will feel closer to the way I feel or the way I am and others won’t. I like that—to tour different sides of yourself. I often find when looking at people who are comfortable in many languages, they’re more comfortable talking about emotional stuff in a certain language or political stuff in another and that’s really interesting, how people relate to those languages.”
– François Arnaud, for Interview Magazine
It’s okay if you write your journal entries in 10¢ notebooks or loose-leaf paper instead of expensive name brand journals.
It’s okay if you don’t use your journal every day.
It’s okay if you only complete an entry once a month. It’s okay if you don’t write down every single detail from your life.
It’s okay if you use supplies that you find around the house or you find at the dollar store instead of using supplies from Michaels or Hobby Lobby.
It’s okay if you only write in black ink.
It’s okay if you write in pencil.
It’s okay if you don’t use perfect grammar or spelling in your entries.
It’s okay if you run a studyblr and you don’t get good grades/marks.
It’s okay if you quit journaling for a while.
It’s okay if you can never fill up a journal cover to cover.
It’s okay if your journal is only full of negative things.
It’s okay if your journal is only full of positive things.
It’s okay if you don’t feel like journaling for weeks at a time.
It’s okay if your journal is ripped or damaged.
It’s okay if you only write instead of drawing or putting in stickers or photos.
It’s okay if you can’t write about exciting things.
It’s okay if you have writers block.
It’s okay if you have sloppy handwriting.
It’s okay if you lose joy in journaling or can’t seem to concentrate on it.
It’s okay if you have incomplete entries.
It’s okay if you never travel around with your journal or take it places.
It’s okay if you quit journaling.
It’s okay if you journal on the floor or in bed instead of at a fancy, organized desk space.
It’s okay if you have to trace or copy drawings from online.
It’s okay if you’re not the best at drawing.
It’s okay if you can’t come up with original ideas or creations.
It’s okay whether you decide to let other people read your entries or if you keep it completely secret. You do you.
It is never okay to:
Read someone’s journal without their permission.
Steal someone’s journal.
Give their journal to someone else.
Destroy someone’s journal.
Try to find someone’s journal or tell someone else where it might be.
Rip a page in their journal.
Write or draw in their journal.
Hide their journal.
Take photos or videos of their entries.
Blackmail them.
Share their private information.
It doesn’t matter if the journal belongs to a 6 year old, 16 year old, or a 60 year old. Everyone deserves privacy, respect, and a safe place for their thoughts. I’m glad we had this talk.
people be shitting on French spelling like English is any better
Honestly
Could you teach us some French idioms?
Alright, I gonna use only those I heard/use, because there is many that I don’t know, and are probably used in only other regions :>I’m using this wiktionary, if you want the literal meaning!I’m also posting this public so anyone interested can see :)ânerie : stupidity / stupid remarksavoir de la gueule : to be cool / attractivebonne gueule : to look friendlysale gueule : nasty lookingavoir d'autres chats à fouetter : to have better things to doavoir la tête dans le cul : to be tired (mostly when you wake up)avoir mangé du lion : to have incredible energyavoir un chat dans la gorge : when you’re sick and coughavoir un cheveu sur la langue : to have a lispavoir une faim de loup : being very hungryune nuit blanche : a sleepless nightbête comme .. : stupid as..ça me dit quelque chose : that rings a bellça me prend la tête : that annoys meça me soûle : it pisses me offça ne tient pas debout : it doesn’t make sensec'est pas tes oignons : it is none of your businesschercher la petite bête : to nit-pickcomme ci, comme ça : so-socomme un poisson dans l'eau : something easy (like a duck to water)conduire comme un pied : to drive horriblyles doigts dans le nez : very easydonner sa langue au chat : to give up trying to guess somethingdormir en chien de fusil : to sleep curled upécrire comme un cochon : to have bad handwritingen un clin d’œil : in a flashêtre tiré par les cheveux : something far-fetchedêtre un mouton : to be easily ledêtre un chaud lapin : to be hornyêtre une fouine: to be nosyêtre vache : to be mean, to be nastyfaire d'une pierre deux coups: to hit two birds with one stonefaire la grasse matinée : to have a lazy day (usually means you sleep all morning after being busy the day before)faire la sourde oreille : to ignore somethingfaire un tabac : to have a huge successfaire une queue de poisson (à quelqu'un): to cut in front of someone while drivinggueule: animal mouth, human face, appearancegueuler : to shoutferme ta gueule : shut upgueule cassée: war veteran (with severe facial deformities)gueule de bois : hangoveril n'y a pas un chat : there is nobody aroundjeter l'éponge : to give upjouer à chat perché : to play off-ground tagjouer au chat et à la souris : to play cat and mousela vache! : expletive, exclamation like “hell!” or “damn!”c’est le bordel : something is messy. ( a room, a paper)bordel ! : a swear word. Can also mean whorehouse. putain ! : most used swear word. (We use it all the time as you can see here) Also means whore.
l'habit ne fait pas le moine : do not judge by appearancesmalin comme un singe : very cleveranger comme un cochon : to eat greedilymanger comme quatre : to eat lotsmanger ses mots : to mumblemettre la charrue avant les bœufs : to get ahead of yourselfêtre mort de rire (abbreviated to MDR) : LOL (I personally hate it, only pre-teens use that. I would only use “je suis mort” = “I’m dead” = I’m dead of laughter)myope / myope comme une taupe : blind as a batnom d'un chien : (expression of distaste)on n’apprend pas à un vieux singe à faire des grimaces : one can’t teach something old something new, one can’t teach an old dog new tricksours mal léché : uncouth, impolitepleuvoir des cordes : to rain cats and dogsposer un lapin à quelqu'un : to set someone up, not show uppour qui tu te prends ? : who are you to say that? / who do you think you are?prendre ses jambes à son cou : to run away quicklyen parlant du loup : speak of the devilqui sème le vent récolte la tempête : who looks for trouble, finds worsequi vivra, verra : time will tellrat de bibliothèque : bookwormrendre quelqu'un chèvre : to drive someone crazy reprendre du poil de la bête : to regain strength, recuperate retourner sa veste : to go back on your word, change your mindrevenons à nos moutons : to get back on topic, to return to the question at handsans l'ombre d'un doute : without a shadow of a doubtsauter du coq à l’âne : jump from one topic to anotherse creuser la tête : to try very hard to resolve somethingse mettre le doigt dans l'oeil : to put your foot in itse plier en quatre : to laugh hard / to try your besttêtu comme une mule : stubborn as a muletomber dans les pommes : to fainttrente-six mille choses à faire : many things to dovachement : veryvacherie : dirty trick / nasty commentvoler de ses propres ailes : to stand on one’s own two feetAnd finally one that is proper to my region only :Gauger (verb) : when you are very wet from the rain / puddle of water
Hi! I love you're blog, it's really helpful! I just wanted to ask for some idioms in French that are commonly used and so when I use it in my work it sounds more native and natural? I need to use idioms to get an A/A* so it would be really great to get a bunch I can use that sound natural!
Bonjour! Thank you! I messaged my French exchange student and asked her, and she told me these:
“jamais 2 sans 3″ - if there has been 2, there will always be a third
“poser un lapin” - to be stood up
“ça ne sent pas la rose” - it stinks (she said she uses that one a lot but doesn’t know if it is widely used)
“avoir l’esprit mal placé” - seeing a sexual connotation when it’s something normal (I think it means something like “to have a dirty mind”)
“cordon bleu” - someone who is good at cooking
“mêle toi de tes oignons” - mind your own business (she said people use this all the time)
“baisser les bras” - to give up (she said this one is also said all the time)
“être de mauvaise foi” - if someone is being stubborn/not admitting they’re wrong when they know they are (I looked up this one and it said “to be dishonest/disingenuous” and “in bad faith” also)
“ça n’a ni queue ni tête” - it doesn’t make any sense
Those are all the ones she gave me! Here is another post of idioms I found on tumblr, and here is another. I would make sure to check these with your teacher before you use them to make sure that the marker will recognise them and give you credit for them. Good luck in your exams!
Idioms in French and English
It’s a throwback to - Ça nous ramène à
To get to the bottom of things - Aller au fond des choses
You can’t put the clock back - Ce qui est fait est fait
It looks like a dead end street - On est dans l’impasse
To take a turn for the better - Prendre une meilleure tournure
To be scared to death - Avoir une peur bleue
That drives me crazy - Ça me prend la tête
He had a narrow escape - Il l’a échappé belle
They were beaten hands down - Ils ont été battus à plate couture
To throw money down the drain - Jeter de l’argent par les fenêtres
To face facts - Se rendre à l’évidence
An ace in the hole - Un avantage secret
At a drop of a hat - Sans hesitation
To start from scratch - Commencer à partir de zero
I worked my fingers to the bone - J’ai travaillé d’arrache-pied
Once in a blue moon - Tous les trente-six du mois
To buy something for a song - Acheter quelque chose pour une bouchée de pain
To do one’s utmost - Faire de son mieux
To face facts - Voir la vérité en face
To be all the rage - Être à la mode
To deter somebody from doing something - Dissuader quelqu’un de faire quelque chose
To come into office - Prendre le pouvoir
To have a grip on something - Avoir une emprise sur quelque chose
To cope with - Faire face à
To be on the edge of - Être sur le point de
To turn out to be - S’avérer
To devote oneself to doing something - Se consacrer à
To get one’s life back - Reprendre sa vie en main
To be short of - Être en rade de quelque chose
To resume work - Reprendre le travail
In the name of - Au nom de
To hit rock bottom - Toucher le fond
It’s the pot calling the kettle back - C’est l’hôpital qui se moque de la charité
Money can’t buy happiness - L’argent ne fait pas le Bonheur
When there’s a will there’s a way - Quand on veut on peut
To pass out - Tomber dans les pommes
To pretend to - Faire semblant de
Don’t judge a book by his cover - L’habit ne fait pas le moine
To make ends meet - Joindre les deux bouts
To cost an arm and a leg - Coûter les yeux de la tête
To look forward to - Être impatient de
To be skating on thin ice - Avancer sur un terrain glissant
Let alone - Sans parler de
To keep pace with - S’adapter
Out of necessity - Par nécessité
Be it as it may - Quoi qu’il en soit
The flipside of the coin - Le revers de la médaille
To be on the brink of doing something - Être à deux doigts de faire quelque chose
In the wake - A la suite de
How to know which language level you’re at and tips for improving your skills - divided by proficiency level!
These are all my personal thoughts and experiences from reaching a proficient level in one language, and an intermediate in another!! Feel free to correct me or add whatever you wish<3
1. A0 - Knowledge Level: Nothing
At this stage, you have absolutely no knowledge or very little knowledge about a language. My advice is to start out slow: the alphabet, pronunciation rules, basic pronouns, colors, etc. At this point, there’s not much you can improve on (Reading/Writing, Listening and Speaking) since you’ve got no actual knowledge to expand upon. Try apps like Duolingo, have fun with translating words such as your favorite animal, plant, or swear word. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself at this point, it’s all in good fun! Try starting a notebook in which you write down new words, (i.e. all of them) or watching a couple videos on Youtube, even if you don’t understand much.
2. A1 - Knowledge Level: Just a Bit
This is when you slowly exit the stage of “is this even a language” and enter the “beginner” world. You know a couple basic verbs (to be, to have, eat, sleep, walk, talk, etc) and some sets of basic nouns/pronouns. (weekdays, months, numbers, colors, objects you find around the house, and all that fun jazz.) You can string together a couple sentences you’ve heard twenty times on Duolingo! Regardless of the fact that “The boys drink milk” is not really something you’ll need in irl conversation, it’s good that you’re getting familiar. By this time, you should start looking into proper grammar rules such as verb terminations, tenses, noun declinations, pronouns, etc. Children’s books are a good way to learn a lot of stuff you’d need. The language is simple and it goes straight to the point, which is the only type of writing you understand, mostly. Right now, speaking is not really an option aside from learning to pronounce words right. Listening, on the other hand, can be done really easily! If you find that Youtube channels in your target language are boring or too hard to understand, music is the way to go. You’re especially lucky if you’re a Disney fan, because most of their songs are easy to remember and are dubbed in a lot of languages, so have fun with finding what fits you best!
3. A2 - Knowledge Level: Basic/Preliminary
Now we’re beginning to see some major improvements. You pick up words easier, you can read almost perfectly even if you don’t understand everything, and you can form really basic sentences by yourself. For speaking, by now you should be able to say your name, the place you live in, and maybe talk about your hobbies or your favorite stuff! It depends on if you’ve worked with a teacher until now or not, so don’t worry if you’re still struggling. As a stepping stone between beginner and intermediate, this level can either be the one when you slowly improve or make a really big jump in your skills. Listening to songs and youtube videos should be easier, but nobody is expecting you to actually comprehend everything. As for vocabulary and reading, learning new words should come more intuitively by now, but again, you’re still in the early days. Writing is still something that can be difficult, so try maybe linking a couple sentences together to make a short story and translating some simple texts. But it you don’t find it difficult, writing a hundred words once a couple days may be the way to go.
4. B1 - Knowledge Level - Intermediate
Finally, we’ve reached the intermediate stage! By now you should be able to hold very basic conversation and reveal information about yourself. You should be able to pick up words you know from the people around you, and understand mostly everything if spoken slowly and clearly to. Reading light books or magazines should be challenging but okay, while you should be able to remember certain words without making too big of an effort. By this stage, active learning is still essential, as you probably have a lot more ahead in your language learning journey. I encourage you to write short stories or several sentences about your day in a diary, depending on what works for you. Watching Youtube videos should be something you do often, because it improves listening skills greatly and gets you accustomed to informal speech patterns and filler words.
5. B2 - Knowledge Level - Advanced Intermediate
Yay! You have officially reached the advanced intermediate stage! You should be able to hold everyday conversation without too big of a headache, listening probably isn’t a breeze for you but still, if you watch a basic youtube video you can pretty much get all of it. YA books should be a regular part of your reading, since they’re not too hard to comprehend but still a good reading exercise. Vocabulary probably isn’t a bother anymore, since you know most of the words you need and the ones you don’t, you hear them once or five times and they stick to you. At this level you can probably write some basic fanfiction, or anything that doesn’t require advanced language skills but is still challenging. Congrats! You’re almost at an advanced level!
6. C1 - Advanced
If you’re still here, means you’ve got a strong sense of dedication. C1 is the advanced level, where you have pretty much everything that you need to comfortably live your life in a country which speaks your target language. If you’re already here and most of the above things seem far, far away to you, then maybe it’s time to get down on some serious reading. Look up local classics, or contemporary works that stimulate your mind. Writing essays, reviews, reports, etc, should be something you are able to do, as you have a good grasp on both formal and informal language, both literary concepts and idioms/phrasal verbs/slang. Listening should come easily, with the ability to understand everything that is spoken to you without worries, as long as they don’t have an alien accent. Speaking, too, should be a breeze by now, with everyday conversation being a piece of cake and more formal conversations not posing too big of a challenge. If you want to reach the next– and last– level, it can be done through thorough preparation of skills that are usually required by exams or for language-related jobs. If you don’t care about either of these, congrats! You learned a language!
7. C2 - Proficient
Long past fluency, you now wish to master a language, down to its very core and history. Pick up some of the big classics to read. Watch a bunch of those complicated videos explaining complicated concepts. Write poetry and prose,and speak to people in contexts which require more than the average range of vocabulary. If you’re still not satisfied, get a damn teacher. Tumblr can’t help you now.
Im a stage where im not b2 anymore but not quite c1 so idk what to say here lmao im more like upper b2 nearing C1 gosh i really dont know sjsksksk
no language should be mocked other than french
Birds is “oiseaux” in French.
No letter is pronunced the way it should.
And there are seven of them.
Leave my mans alone
If you could instantly be granted fluency in 5 languages—not taking away your existing language proficiency in any way, solely a gain—what 5 would you choose?
French, japanese, italian, portuguese, korean
French Slang Masterpost
Abbreviations
Slt (Salut) = Hello Bcp (Beaucoup) = A lot Dsl (Désolé) = Sorry Stp (S’il te plait) = Please Dac (D’accord) = Okay Qd (Quand) = When Qqch (Quelque chose) = Something Qqn (quelqu’un) = Somebody
Internet words
Mdr (Mort de rire) = Lol Ptdr (Pété de rire) = Lmao Vdm (Vie de merde) = Fuck my life Tg (T’as gueule) = Shut up BG (Beau gosse) = Hot guy Tkt (T’inquiête) = Don’t worry
Common sayings
Bref = In short Ouais = Yeah Putain, Merde = Shit C’est de la merde = It’s crap Ça craint = It sucks Ça me soûle = It’s annoying me C’est relou (C’est lourd) = It sucks C’est ouf (C’est fou) = It’s crazy C’est trop cool = It’s awesome C’est le bordel = It’s a mess Je suis claqué = I’m exhausted Je me casse = I’m getting out of here Je m’en fou = I don’t care Tu rigoles = You’re jocking Tu te fous de ma gueule = You’re kidding me Tu fais quoi? = What’s up? Laisse tomber = Just forget it Fais gaffe = Be careful Péter un plomb = Going crazy Avoir la flemme de faire quelque chose = To be too lazy to do something
Unformal verbs
Bouffer = To eat Taffer = To work Roupiller, Pioncer = To sleep Kiffer = To have a crush on someone Etre vénère (Etre énervé) = To be annoyed Se marrer = To laugh
Unformal nouns
Un mec = A guy Une meuf = A girl Un pote = A friend Une bagnole = A car Une baraque = A house Un pieu = A bed Un bouquin = A book Une clope = A cigarette Le fric, le blé, le thune, l’oseille, le pognon = Money Un flic, un keuf = A cop Un gosse, un gamin = A kid Un boulot, un taf, un job = A job La fac = University Le bahut = High school
The above phrases/words can be used in almost every informal situation, but don’t use them in your essays or in any kind of normal writing!
forgive yourself. whether you fail a test, eat too many cookies, say the wrong thing, fail a class, or spend a whole day in bed — learn to forgive yourself. the next day will be better. the next day will be a day closer to your next success. you can do it.
dont think of it as studying. think of it as learning new things. exploring this particular topic which is unknown to you. awaken your natural curiosity and use it to your benefit.
