julia

she/her | 23 | brazilian | ce major | trying to learn some languages main: @in-the-mood-for-sunshine

[juliacdstudies]

Intro post

Hi! I really wanted to join langblr (and studyblr?), so here is a little introduction about myself! :)

about me:

Julia, 23yo, she/her

Brazilian (but living in Germany)

Computer Engineering student

INTP

languages:

native: brazilian portuguese

fluent in: german and english

learning: spanish (~intermediate) and korean (beginner/almost intermediate)

dabbling in: norwegian and french

[linguistness]

Yes, the German words "Magenschleimhautentzündung" and "Nasennebenhöhlenentzündung" might be a bit longer and more complicated than "gastritis" and "sinusitis", but at least i know immediately what the hell they mean

[pathtofluidez]

sometimes learning a second language means writing an essay about the dangers of political fanaticism in your target language one day and then realizing you forgot the word for “bowl” the next

[more-than-monoglot]

Fun things to do for immersion in your target language

Some things you can do in your target language that are fun and make you care more than when reading a textbook:

Cook a traditional recipe

Find a video in your target language on how to cook something you like from somewhere that speaks your target language. The motivation here is obvious- if you don't understand the recipe you won't be able to make the dish. Watch it once to find out what the ingredients are, and again when making the dish. Use your dictionary of choice to help out if needed.

2. Play a video game

I prefer turn-based games with RPG elements as I get a mix of dialogue and utility words like save, menu, attack, etc. Right now, I'm playing Dicey Dungeons in Chinese and Pokemon SoulSilver in Japanese (hiragana only). The consequence here is obvious, if you can't navigate menus or choose the wrong attack, the game will be harder.

Hard mode: Find a server with voice chat in your target language where teamwork or communication is important. Any MOBA or MMORPG comes to mind. You'll learn to communicate on the fly, and you'll learn a plethora of the foulest swear words imaginable.

3. Share your personal interests with others

Learn to talk about things that you do that are unique to you. Standard language courses teach you words that tend to be generally used: eat, sleep, drink, etc. What about things that are of special interest to you? Chances are, you will use this vocabulary more often than the average person, and you will be more passionate about the subject- this leads to higher motivation to retain this specialized vocabulary.

Then post it wherever you want, or in a diary, or talk about it to a native speaker.

4. Learn to tell a joke

Recite and rehearse jokes you find funny. Jokes in other languages reveal so much about the underlying culture that can't easily be translated. By understanding how to tell a joke in another language, you will gain more appreciation for the language itself. The upshot here is that telling a joke comes with social risk, so you will have to build the confidence before delivering the joke.

Bonus: Foreign language puns are hilarious.

5. Listen to a local radio station

Local radio stations have it all- interviews, ads, music, traffic updates, and more. Many of these are available online, so no need to move to the city and pull out your FM receiver! What's especially nice about this option is that radio hosts tend to enunciate and use proper language. Even if you don't understand every word, the grammar and structure of the language will slowly ingrain itself.

This is the most passive of the immersion techniques I use, but I've found many songs I enjoy through local radio stations. Then, I take a deep dive into the song lyrics and learn them, which is much more active. The goal is to learn the lyrics and rehearse them until I can sing along with the music.

[buchi-to-pichi]

Sometimes it can be hard to communicate 😅

Download our free book to learn hiragana!

[linguistness]

German Sign Language Resources

I'm a hearing person, so if you're like me and want to learn a sign language, i suggest you take a look at this post first:

-> Do you want to learn a sign language?

DGS (German Sign Language):

online courses all over Germany

gebaerdenlernen.de (free course & dictionary)

manimundo (online self-learning course)

"Fliegende Hände" (downloadable PC programme)

Verlag Karin Kestner (offers loads of self-learning programmes, books & infos)

Das große Lernprogramm der Deutschen Gebärdensprache (download or DVD)

list of sources for DGS

If you're speaking/learning another sign language and know some good resources to learn them, please feel free to reblog and add yours!

[sayitalianolearns]

Multilingual post about (some random) animals!

ENG - ITA - FRA - ESP - KOR

Animals - (gli) Animali - (les) Animaux - (los) Animales - 동물들

dog - (il) cane - (le) chien - (el) perro - 개 cat - (il) gatto - (le) chat - (el) gato - 고양이 goldfish - (il) pesce rosso - (le) poisson rouge - (el) pez dorado, (el) pez de colores - 금붕어 turtle - (la) tartaruga (d'acqua) - (la) tortue - (la) tortuga - (바다)거북 tortoise - (la) tartaruga (di terra) - (la) tortue (terrestre) - (la) tortuga (de tierra) - 거북 bird - (l')uccello - (l')oiseaux - (el) pájaro - 새 pig - (il) maiale - (le) cochon - (el) cerdo - 돼지 donkey - (l')asino - (l')âne - (el) burro - 당나귀

cow - (la) mucca, (la) vacca - (la) vache - (la) vaca - 소 horse - (il) cavallo - (le) cheval - (el) caballo - 말 sheep - (la) pecora - (la) brebis - (la) oveja - 양 rooster - (il) gallo - (le) coq - (el) gallo - 수탉/닭 hen - (la) gallina - (la) poule - (la) gallina - 수탉 swan - (il) cigno - (le) cygne - (el) cisne - 백조 duck - (l')anatra, (la) papera - (le) canard - (el) pato - 오리 goose - (l')oca - (l')oie - (el) ganso - 똥침 fox - (la) volpe - (le) renard - (el) zorro - 여우 goat - (la) capra - (la) chèvre - (la) cabra - 염소

mouse - (il) topo - (la) souris - (el) ratón - 생쥐 rabbit - (il) coniglio - (le) lapin - (el) conejo - 토끼 hamster - (il) criceto - (l')hamster - (el) hámster - 햄스터 squirrel - (lo) scoiattolo - (l')écureuil - (la) ardilla - 다람쥐 snake - (il) serpente - (le) serpent - (el) serpiente - 뱀 fish - (il) pesce - (le) poisson - (el) pez - 물고기 bear - (l')orso - (l')ours - (el) oso - 곰 crocodile - (il) coccodrillo - (le) crocodile - (el) cocodrilo - 크로코다일

giraffe - (la) giraffa - (la) girafe - (la) jirafa - 기린 elephant - (l')elefante - (l')éléphant - (el) elefante - 코끼리 lion - (il) leone - (le) lion - (el) león - 사자 zebra - (la) zebra - (le) zèbre - (la) cebra - 얼룩말 monkey - (la) scimmia - (le) singe - (el) mono - 원숭이 dolphin - (il) delfino - (le) dauphin - (el) delfín - 돌고래 whale - (la) balena - (la) baleine - (la) balena - 고래 shark - (lo) squalo - (le) requin - (el) tiburón - 상어

(bros, you really didn't have another word for hamster?) for Korean nouns I didn't know I used Papago

[funwithlanguages]

You can say a surprising amount with ~300 words

This is part of my guide on how to start learning a language more quickly. You can find the guide homepage here.

You can express yourself surprisingly flexibly when you know 300 well-chosen words (and grammar) in a language. (By “words”, I really mean lemmas, i.e. I’m counting “run” and “runs” as one word.) When trying to talk about a topic, there will probably be some key words that you don’t know, but you can ask for or look up those words and then use them for the rest of the time that you’re talking about the topic. You can see an example of how using the 300 words works.

Here’s the list of 300. I hope it’s a useful guideline and starting point for you. I may revise it, so please refer to the original post for the most up-to-date version. In addition to these general words, there will probably be some others that will be among the most useful for you (e.g. “class” if you’re a student). When you find yourself using them again and again, learn them too.

* Note: You should really think of this as a list of concepts. Your goal isn’t to translate each word to a word in your target language, but to figure out how to express that concept in your target language. In some cases, a concept may translate to multiple words (for example, I listed “you” as a concept, but in some languages there are different words for “formal you” and “informal you”). Some concepts may translate to no word at all, but rather a certain grammatical structure (for example, Russian doesn’t use the verb “have”; to say “I have a cat” in Russian, you say “at me there is a cat”).

Use a dictionary to find out how to express these concepts in your target language (for some subtleties, you’ll need to google or ask in a forum). After that, I suggest memorizing the words by making yourself a Memrise course with the words and going through the course. Learn to be able to go from the concept to the word in your target language, not the other way around; you want to be able to produce the word, not just recognize it. You should also learn how to pronounce your target language. To hear native speakers pronounce words in your target language, check out Forvo.

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This list has been translated into: Cantonese, Finnish, French, Spanish.

Version 1 of this list, which had 200 words, was translated into: Afrikaans, Czech, Dutch, Esperanto, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Swedish, Thai.

If you’d like to translate this list into another language, please feel free! :) Just include a link back to this post, and let me know when you’re done so that I can link to your list here.

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First Verbs

be

there is

have

do

go

want

can

need

think

know

say

like

speak

learn

understand

Keep reading

[adito-lang]

🌸 å lukte 🌸 & 🍕 å smake 🍕

å lukte - "to smell"

My brain automatically inserts som when I use this verb, since my two native languages (German/English) would use an equivalent preposition: "Es riecht/duftet nach Orangen" & "It smells like oranges"

However, å lukte doesn't usually take a preposition if you’re describing how something smells:

Det lukter appelsiner.  It smells like oranges.

Du lukter sigaretter. You smell like cigarettes.

Some adjectives:

å lukte godt / vondt / rart to smell good / bad / strange

å lukte på - to smell (something), to sniff (something)

Use på when you refer to the action of smelling/sniffing something:

Du må lukte på alle blomstene. You have to smell all the flowers.  

Hun begynte å lukte på håret mitt. She began sniffing my hair. 

However, if one smells an aroma of something in general, don't use på:

An interesting article titled: Bier I Nederland ble trent til å lukte korona. Bees in the Netherlands were trained to smell Corona.

Hunden kan lukte frykt. The dog can smell fear.

Hai kan lukte blod på stor avstand. Sharks can smell blood at a great distance. 

Han lukter blod. He smells blood. (if you use på, it sounds like he found the blood and is sniffing it)

å smake - "to taste"

å smake (a sense strongly linked to smell!) also does not take som. You can see an example of both å lukte and å smake in this news article about a family noticing a gas leak in their home:

luktet sprittusj - smelled like permanent marker

smakte bensin - tasted like gasoline

It also includes the plural forms of the nouns for "smell" and "taste":

lukt (en) - smell Jeg elsker lukten av kokos og sjokolade. I love the smell of coconut.

smak (en) - taste Katter elsker smaken av fisk. Cats love the taste of fish.

Corrections/additions are welcome!

[adito-lang]

Podcasts for intermediate/advanced Norwegian listening practice

Finding Norwegian podcasts has always been a bit daunting for me, because I don't listen to a lot of podcasts in general, but over the past weeks I've discovered some that I really enjoy!

1. Lær norsk nå!

This podcast (norsknivå B1 – B2) cover all sorts of interesting social, cultural and political topics - coffee, the Cold War, right-wing populism in Norway, feminism, Sámi history, etc - as well as aspects of the Norwegian language 🔡 You can listen to all the episodes and find transcripts for them (starting with episode 5) here. The host, Marius, is originally from Nærbø (in Rogaland, near Stavanger), and speaks in both his dialect and also standard østnorsk depending on the episode.

2. Relax With Slow Norwegian

I'm a tinglehead (someone who loves listening to ASMR ✨), so I was super excited to find this podcast and Lene's YouTube channel! She speaks bergensk and has lots of great episodes and videos dedicated to learning Norwegian centered around a specific topic.

3. Norskpodden

An awesome podcast (norsknivå B1 – B2) with episodes ranging from grammar to salary negotiation to the the history of queer rights in Norway. Episodes and transcripts can be found here. I find the transcripts helpful, because the host Camila speaks at a quite natural pace (so it gives me a huge confidence boost whenever I can understand most of an episode without the transcripts 😎).

4. Nylig Norsk

This is a fun little podcast created by students at the University of Bergen. They speak a lot slower than the other podcasts here, which sounds a bit unnatural, but that makes it quite easy to understand (norsknivå A2-B1). The topics are engaging and there's transcripts here for each episode. I like the "city-trip"/regional episodes, and it felt really cool having been to some of the places they talked about! ✈️

5. Språktalk

This podcast isn't aimed at people learning Norwegian, which is good practice for listening to natural-sounding dialogue. The episodes are all about languages and linguistic topics, so if that's your cup of tea I highly suggest giving it a listen. They had a German guest for one episode who spoke Norwegian sooooo well, it gave me hope for myself 😂

6. Forklart

Forklart, another podcast that isn't aimed at people learning Norwegian, takes a topic from the news (sometimes domestic news, but more often international news) and breaks it down into a compact 15-minute episode 🗞 There is one episode every day, so if you're interested in keeping up with current political events in Norwegian, this is a great podcast to listen to! Although keep in mind that the podcast is run by Aftenposten (as is Språktalk), which has historically been a centre-right newspaper.

[korstudying]

When / While 🤔

[multilingual-masha]

Speaking another language is like gaining a new you, you have a new mindset, a new personality, a new way to express yourself. You’re able to reach into a new culture and see a whole new side to how life can be. Speaking another language gives you a gift that being monolingual cannot ever offer. It’s worth it. No matter what language you are learning, no matter what people say, no matter your reason it’s worth it.

[dreamer-hangugeo]

𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐕𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐲

설날: Korean New Year

음력: Lunar calendar

십이지신: 12 traditional zodiac

제사: Ancestral rites

새해문안: New Year’s greetings

덕담: Words of blessing, well-wishing remarks

세배: Traditional bow to elders

세배를 가다: Pay a visit (of respect) on New Year´s Day

세배하다: Perform new year’s bow

세뱃돈: New Year’s money given to children

설음식: Festive dishes for the New Year

떡국: Traditional rice cake soup

윷놀이: Yut - a traditional Korean board game

설빔: New Clothes for New Year’s Day

한복: Hanbok - Korean traditional clothing

만사여의하다: everything turns out as one wishes

묵은 해를 보내고 새해를 맞다: see the old year go and welcome the new (year) in

#KoreanVocabulary #KoreanLanguage #LearnKorean #Studywithme

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[seongpinkhwa]

my blog is, and always will be, a safe place for people who are not confident in their english speaking abilities. you will never be judged or mocked here.

[koreanstudyjunkie]

MINI-VOCABULARY LIST

⚠️weather-related vocab

번개 = 🌩⚡️ Lightning

안개 = 🌫🌁 Fog

천둥 = ⛈ Thunder

구름 = ☁️ Cloud

태양/해 = ☀️ Sun

Here Are Example Sentences :

나는 폭풍 중에 번개를 많이 봤어요.

I saw a lot of lightning during the storm.

번개가 쳤어요.

Lightning struck.

번개가 치다

(For) Lightning To Strike

안개가 걷힌다

The fog clears away

도시는 안개에 싸여 있습니다.

The city is covered in fog

싸이다 - to be covered, shrouded (in)

그녀는 천둥 소리를 들었어요.

She heard the sound of thunder.

천둥이 친다

It's thundering

밤새도록 천둥소리가 났어요.

There was thunder all night long.

하늘에는 구름 한 점 없어요.

There is barely a cloud in the sky.

도시가 구름에 가려져 있다

The city is covered by clouds.

먹구름은 보통 폭풍 전에 나타납니다.

Dark clouds usually appear before a storm.

태양은 태양계에서 큰 별이다

The Sun is the largest star in our solar system.

맨눈으로 태양을 보지 마라.

Don't look at the sun with the naked eye.

[pinkstars-jpeg]

Learning a language sparks so much joy and excitement in me.

Retaining that language makes me wanna bang my head against every table I can find.

[michelle-languages]

How to use Notion for Language Learners - a masterpost

So, I have been learning languages for a while now, and one of the things I have always been struggling with is having a space that could gather all the info I need, the spreads I used to make on my bullet journal, and maybe even something more.

Notion has become my best friend all over the last couple of years, but as I am a pretty sick perfectionist, I am still mastering the art of creating efficient templates, but I am slowly overcoming this problem of mine… In the meantime enjoy my favorite YouTube videos all about Notion x Language Learning:

how to make the best language learning plan | notion templates | AD by Anna Lenks

ULTIMATE LANGUAGE PLANNER IN NOTION FOR POLYGLOTS by me :)

How to make a language learning plan that WORKS ✨ Notion for language learners by Elysse Speaks

How To Make A Sentence Mining Database in Notion | Language Learning | Tutorial + Free Template by Leafling Learns

How I Created a 30-Day Language Study Plan That Works! by Shea Jordan

Create a language learning schedule that works + Notion Template! by Jusuf

updating my language learning notion 🖊 by Jo Renee Languages

Language Learning: Notion, RemNote And Reverso (French) by Red Gregory

How I plan and organize my life and languages | Notion tour 📝 by Lindie Botes

Hope you enjoyed this post, in the meantime I'll go and create the best language-learning hub you will ever see