Koala

INACTIVE I have a love hate relationship with verbs. Currently doing my first year of A-Levels in Maths, Further Maths , Computer Science and Spanish. Yes I know i have a death wish.

[perezfecto]

—Can I join the passive-agressive club? —Maybe.. Do you know the password? — :) —Allowed. Nice to meet you.

[pillowprincesslexa]

Europe is currently being burned alive and people still think climate change is a joke. It’s warmer in North Europe than in the middle eastern deserts.

Nearly all northern countries broke their decades old heat records this week.

[frogs-smoking-cigarettes]

Its only in the low hundreds in farenheit??? In America we get that for like a month or two straight every year??? Y'all need to deal is it really normally so cold over there that yall can live with a little heat???

[pillowprincesslexa]

If you’re gonna have an ignorant American attitude then please only stay on American posts. No one in North Europe has an AC in their houses. Stores, animal shelters, elderly houses, no one has AC. the houses are designed to keep the heat in. The people are not accustomed to the heat. A sudden climate shift like this is extremely dangerous to older people and babies specifically.

There are programs being run to inform elderly people what to do to not die in this heat. There was a heatwave in the Netherlands in 2010 in which approximately 500 more elderly people passed away than normally.

[adhoption]

One thing people don’t often appreciate is that the southern US states are along the same latitude as the Middle Eastern deserts, rather than northern Europe. We’re not competing with Texas, we’re competing with northern Canada. If Saskatoon can’t handle Mexican weather, London can’t handle Middle-Eastern weather. It’s not built for it at all.

[toebeens]

very helpful and informative graphic

[languageoclock]

[missalsfromiram-deactivated2020]

There could definitely be a good comedy series set in an academic department. The humor, of course, would not be derived from academic in-jokes, it would be entirely interpersonal, with the academic setting providing novel situations for personality-based comedy - just like how The Office isn’t about paper sales, or Veep isn’t about policy, or even partisanship. You could have situations like the visit of Very Important Scholar to the department, where people are desperately trying to give off a good impression and ingratiate themselves, or intra- or inter-departmental rivalries (“fucking Communications is trying to take over one of our classrooms!”), or the day-to-day troubles of dealing with delicate and flighty undergrads, or awkward and tense faculty meetings, and so on.

Since the type of department would have some effect on the show’s content, it would ideally be set in a field that most members of the public have a passing familiarity with, and are neither entirely “hard science” nor “humanities”, so you can draw on plot opportunities afforded by both realms of academia, and maybe have different factions within the department representing different wings. So, maybe geography or psychology? Linguistics is situated between the social and natural sciences, but the general public knows nothing about it.

[dagenssvenska]

Positivt tänkande

[sizvideos]

[spankingmackenzie]

I needed to see this gifset today..

[tobiasxva-deactivated20170810]

fucking amen

[fandomquoter]

Phineas and Ferb - Season Four - “My Sweet Ride”

[paigelearnslanguages]

Just a personal opinion but the people in the langblr community who spend hours upon hours making lists of resources don’t get nearly enough credit as they should. They are the backbone of this community.

[useless-switzerlandfacts]

Sweden please x

When Spotify, originally a Swedish company, entered into the stock market, the New York Stock Exchange flew the Swiss flag instead of the Swedish flag for approximately 15min before noticing the mistake. It was then replaced, but the photo - and a tweet from the Swiss consulate in New York - immortalised the switch up on the internet:

Send me a country and I will tell you a fact that connects it to Switzerland!

[polyglotten]

foreign language prononciation tip: if you listen to people who speak your target language speaking English (or your native language) you’ll hear which sounds they mispronounce, they’ll often pronounce these sounds how they are supposed to be pronounced in your target language, imitate these sounds and you’ll master the pronouciation in your target language.

[dagenssvenska]

jag_ivl

[doniabatata]

[puroespanol]

HOW TO FAIL AT EVERYTHING AND HAVE GORGEOUS HAIR

[spanishskulduggery]

I know it’s a drawing but I feel like I need this book. Also I’m also laughing because Doña Batata which sort of translates to “Mrs./Lady Sweet Potato”

[segledepericles]

Mulan in different languages

What does Li Shang tell the troops in the song “I’ll make a man out of you” in your language?

English: we must be swift as the coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, with all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the Moon.

Catalan: cal ser constants com el riu que passa, ser com l’empenta d’un gran tifó, rebents de llum com estels en flames, la Lluna us guiarà en fer-se fosc. (we must be constant as the river that passes, be like the impulse of a great typhoon, bursting with light like stars on fire, the Moon will guide you when it’s dark)

European Spanish: seré más raudo que un río bravo, tendré la fuerza de un gran tifón, con la energía del fuego ardiente, la luna sabrá guiar el corazón (I will be swifter than a firce river, I will have more strength than a great typhoon, with the energy of burining fire, the Moon will know how to guide the heart)

Latin American Spanish: debemos ser cuál veloz torrente, y con la fuerza de un gran tifón, violentos como un fuego ardiente, cumpliendo muy misteriosos la misión (we must be a swift torrent, and with the force of a great typhoon, violent like a burining fire, very mysteriously fulfilling the mission)

Italian: veloce come è veloce il vento, un uomo vero senza timori, potente come un vulcano attivo, quell’uomo sarai che adesso non sei tu (swift like the wind is swift, a real man with no fears, powerful like an active volcano, you will be that man that now you are not)

[polyglotswede]

why was italian easier for me to understand than spanish, bruh spanish my native langauge wtf

[foxlanguages]

German: Ihr müsst so schnell sein wie wildes Wasser. Ihr müsst so stark sein wie ein Taifun. Ihr müsst so heiss sein wie Höllenfeuer, geheimnissvoll zugleich so wie der Mond. (You must be as fast as wild (untamed) water. You must be as strong as a typhoon. You must be as hot as hellfire, mysterious as the moon)

[linguist-breakaribecca]

[findingfeather]

ENGLISH HAS FIXED WORD ORDER AND CASE MARKING IS LARGELY OBSOLETE. 

(Blame the Normans. Also the Danes. Hell, blame the Anglo-Saxons while you’re at it since it was them showing up and forcing the Britons to switch to Anglo-Saxon that started the whole thing. Look English has a fucking weird history that involves constantly being conquered and forced to speak a new language or mish-mash until they got so tired of this that they decided to turn around, build an amazing navy and do it to everyone else instead, leading to global violence and conquest and just about everything we’re struggling with today.) 

[spanishlandia]

Things a queen would say in Spanish 👑

A very evil post, enjoy! ✨Listen while studying

Use when you want to be dramatic 

Una reina nunca llega tarde. A queen is never late.

Querida/o, tráeme mi corona. Dear, bring me my crown. 

Yo no pido, exijo. I do not ask, I demand. 

Que le corten la cabeza.  Off with her/his/their head.

¿Es demasiado?  ¿Is it too much? (when wearing three layers of dark evil makeup)

¿Pensabas que podrías derrotarme? Did you think you could defeat me?

El negro es mi color.  Black is my color.

¡Traidor/a! Traitor!

Cuanta más gente amas, más débil eres.  The more people you love, the weaker you are. 

my vocab lists ✨ spanish bites ✨ fantasy ✨ request here

[swarnpert]

british person: *sees dialga and palkia appear and create a space-time rift in the sky that will destroy the entire country* roight. wots all this then

[dankmemeuniversity]