japanblr & studyblr

34 | translator JP to GER | about | Find me in Kanji hell or reading a book. Fluent in「JP・ENG・GER」 Interested in FR・NOR・KR.

[ilostmyheartintokyo]

If I only could tell my 14 year old self that we actually will make it. Make it past 16, 18, 20 even 30. And that we will work as a professional freelance literary translator in one of the hardest but most amazing languages to exist. That we will hold workshops and panels at universities and conventions. That we inspire others to do the same or to work towards their own goals in the field. That we will have a little family of our own. This is quite emotional, but that’s who we still are. I always was like this but only recently I started to see it as a strength. Never give up and always keep going and asking for help if needed.

[mexicanheaux]

Sometimes u just gotta make yourself a quesadilla and move the fuck on

[mexicanheaux]

The worst part about this post??? People saying “with cheese!” Bitch cheese is literally in the word if it had no cheese it would be a dilla

[unleashed-imagination]

Art is simply the language of the soul.

— Robert Redford

[unleashed-imagination]

There’s nothing in life quite like autumn. Misty mornings and rainy afternoons. The crisp cool feeling that hangs in the air. A sense of warmth that comes from within. It’s nothing less than magical, really.

[unleashed-imagination]

I am eternally, devastatingly romantic, and I thought people would see it because ‘romantic’ doesn’t mean ‘sugary.’ It’s dark and tormented – the furor of passion, the despair of an idealism that you can’t attain.

— Catherine Breillat

[havebookwillread]

you don’t realise how many books you have until you have to pack them all to move house

[gushuwa-deactivated20241004]

12.09.24 baby got back

[sylvanas-girlkisser]

First draft does not need to be good or coherent it just needs to exist!

First draft does not need to be good or coherent it just needs to exist!

First draft does not need to be good or coherent it just needs to exist!

[poetrylesbian]

so many of the "i only use chat gpt for ___" excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.

you don't need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!

you don't need chat gpt to be a "more detailed search engine", because you're robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?

if you use it to write essays, you're taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!

and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there's supercook and the like. for creating routines, there's about a million apps!

whatever you "only" use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don't have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???

[actuallyvady]

Hey, look! A study showing that people who use chatgpt to study do worse on exams!

Seriously: you are not helping yourself.

[theequeerstrian]

my friend is a college professor and has reliably called a paper as being ai written before running it through the detection software. Because they fucking suck.

[helenstudies]

People always ask me how I learn languages! Well, I sit down and study. Sometimes I stand up and study. And no, there are no shortcuts. You actually have to engage with a language for hours to learn it. Even people who learn how to speak languages by speaking have to go up to other people and talk at length. Also, knowing how to speak 20 phrases you've memorized is not speaking a language. That's what people selling phrasebooks and premium study plans on youtube wants you to believe. Sorry. It actually takes years for you to become good at a target language. You'll just have to find a way to make those years bearable. Sorry again.

[holespoles]

Yutaka Murakami (Japanese, b. 1957)

村上ゆたか

[earlymoderngothic]

The Birth of Venus (Botticelli, mid-1480s)

[desigrrrl]

Underrepresented Langblrs Masterlist?

thinking of compiling a masterlist of langblrs that are NOT (just): English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Greek, and Latin.

No offence, I love these languages too but there are plenty masterlists for them already.

I would just love to be able to find more langblrs for SEA, Desi, African, Eastern European, and other lesser known, indigenous, or dying languages.

If you are a langblr of an underrepresented language or know one, please lmk!!

[uglierthanyou-deactivated201803]

meme for language lovers

1. What is your mother tongue? 2. What are the official languages of the country you live in? 3. Are there any minority languages in your country? Are you interested in them? 4. Are there any minority / extinct languages you are interested in? 5. How many languages can you speak and on what level? 6. When did you start learning your second language? 7. Is second language a mandatory subject in your country and how many hours per day do children learn it? 8. What do you think about immersion? Have you ever / would you like to try it? 9. How many languages are you learning at the moment {self-study counts} ? 10. What languages would you like to learn in the {near} future? 11. Do you prefer attending courses / classes or learning on your own? Why? 12. Is there a language you have just given up on although you really wanted to master it? 13. Is {are} there word{s} you just always misspell? 14. Do you have favourite words ? 15. What aspect{s} of langauge interests you? 16. What linguistic category interests you the most? {lexicology, semantics...} 17. Favourite language teacher? 18. What does your name mean and from what language does it come from? 19. Native speaker or not, as a teacher? 20. In case you are planning to have children, would you like to raise them bilingual {multilingual}? Or in another case, what do you think about teaching such young children languages? 21. Do you think that one day we will speak only English? 22. What is the hardest langauge to learn in your opinion? 23. Favourite foreign name{s}?

[stepstofluency]

hii which resources do you use for studying norwegian? like which books websites etc? i am also trying to study norwegian but i struggle with finding resources so :(

Hei hei!! I remember answering a similar question a few years ago! I'm happy to share all of the resources I use again 💌✨

These are the textbooks I use:

Colloquial Norwegian by Margaret Hayford O'Leary, Torunn Andresen

Short Stories in Norwegian by Olly Richards

Norsk På 1-2-3 by Elisabeth Ellingsen, Kirsti Mac Donald

These are the apps I use:

Duolingo

Drops

Memrise

These are the YouTube channels I watch:

Simple Norwegian

Norwegian Class 101

These are the websites I use:

learnalanguage.com

101languages.net

mylanguages.org

50languages.com

One thing I like doing when I practice a language is trying to bake or cook from the recipes in my target language! Here, you can find many recipes:

meny.no

matprat.no

godt.no

I also try to watch some random vloggers and listen to some music!

Here, you can find the playlist I made for Norwegian on Spotify

Hope this is helpful! If you ever want to practice or chat, I'm always here! 💌

[svennomaani]

Hej Nordiska vänner and everybody

There is a thing called Runeberg.org that is like Project Gutenberg, but focusing on Nordic texts. They have scans of old books, from which a computer has extracted the text, and that automatic text needs to be proofread and corrected to match the scanned page.

Its a lot of stuff in Swedish but also plenty other languages too (Danish and Norwegian and Finnish, but also German, French, English, Latin...)

So if you wanna do some volunteer good work in the world you can help out with the proofreading. It's all done in the browser, I've been doing it on the phone, so it really doesn't take anything special.

Some stuff is in blackletter, which can be hard to read if youre not used to it, but there's also stuff in more modern fonts.

Here are the instructions in how to do it:

I'm currently proofreading a Finnish translation of Danish stories from the 1800s. You can arrange the titles according to language, so you can find the ones you can read.

There are at least a couple of "English-speaking person travels in Sweden and describes what's there" -books that are in English in the time period I looked at.

[ilostmyheartintokyo]

Missing this view so much. Fun fact I put my sunglasses before the lens to filter the orange colour.

Fuji seen from Enoshima Sea Candle. April, 2023.