just another polyglot

aiming for persistent motivation | ex-AFS exchange student in Chile | studying: English, Spanish, Russian | duolingo: Milena3012 | snapchat: studyglot

[leahrning]

a cute study abroad story from my history teacher

so his friend goes to Germany to study abroad for 3 months, right? and she’s studied German in school, but she certainly isn’t fluent, and she never put a ton of effort into it, just a normal amount. And when she gets to Germany, her host family doesn’t speak English. at all. not a word. two adults and four children and none of them are speaking english. it’s absolute hell to get by, she’s constantly gesturing and enunciating and having to speak perfect German (they weren’t very good at understanding her unless it was perfect) and it’s three tiring months of nonstop German action. and on the last day they’re sitting at the dinner table and the father turns to her and says in wonderfully fluent english, “so I’d say your German’s improved quite a bit since you got here.”

[polyglotaspirations-blog]

OH MY GODDDDD

[thatswhywelovegermany]

Germans are your best friends – the hard way.

[cashmeremilk]

[kryphic]

I’m alive

[patagonianvoyager]

Friends, we need your help.

For the last couple of days, Chile has been affected by more than 90 wildfires covering more than 230.000 hectares (568.342 acres), and most of them are out of control. As I’m writing this, the death toll has risen to ten. 

Last night, an entire town was burned to the ground, more than 1000 families lost everything the had in a matter of minutes. But that is just one town and there are hundreds more in danger. Our helicopters and firefighters are doing everything they can but unfortunately, it is not enough. Which is why I’m writing this. Please donate if you can, even by spreading this post you’re helping . The money would go towards the firefighters (energy drinks, food, water, sunscreen), water tanks, and the people who’ve lost everything (food for cattle, hygiene products, etc).

We are familiar with natural disasters and well prepared, but this is the worst wildfire Chile has seen in modern history and we are obviously overwhelmed. Chile is long but very narrow and there are parts of the country where the fire barricated entire towns, the fires go from the Andes to the ocean, and people have nowhere to go.

https://www.desafiolevantemoschile.cl/como-aportar/con-dinero/#transfer

https://www.desafiolevantemoschile.cl/

[polyglotswede]

I didn’t know anything till TODAY , Trump is all over my news… However i’m praying that my family (and my chileans ) will stay safe

[supersonicart]

Olly Moss’s Harry Potter.

Olly Moss surprised everyone and is currently doing a timed release of these new, official, Harry Potter illustrations.  Check them out.

[silentbutlively]

honestly these are fucking gorgeous

[just-another-polyglot]

disculpa, pero tu post sobre el lenguaje chileno tiene varios errores (¿como lo sé?...porque yo soy chileno po hueón) ....me da lata (another chilenismo, means "its boring") explicar cuales son porque son varios... pero por un punto a tu favor , es muy difícil comprendernos a nosotros los chilenos...PD: no puedes ver holasoygerman, es muy aburrido y una vergüenza ara nosotros los chilenos.

Gracias por corregir! Sé que no puedo asumir que todo lo que entendí/aprendí en Chile es correcto, por eso puse el "a short note". Sin embargo, pues el post ya es viejo y casi nadie lo rebloquea de mi blog, no tiene mucho sentido cambiarlo o poner otro note (y desgraciadamente cuando uno cámbialo no cambia en los otros blogs, algo que odio mucho...). Pero gracias igual, porque comentarios como el tuyo me hacen aprender y crecer. :)Saludos

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but when did i start saying ‘yo’ unironically

[surprisebitch]

when you have to be emphatic in 1st person Spanish

[hogywarts-aesthetic]

Hogwarts Aesthetic: Slytherclaw fashion (REQUESTED)

There are no facts, only interpretations ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

[just-another-polyglot]

Schrödinger's exchange student

Alive and dead in both countries at the same time.

[auq-deactivated20160707]

reblog if youre still not over the library of alexandria

[darkfrostwitch]

I’m thinking about going to the USA in 2017. Seeing some new things, getting to know new people and speaking English even in my free time will improve my skills and it will look good on a CV… Also, I’ve always wanted to go there so why not do it during school?

If any exchange stundent has good programs for 3 to 6 months, I would love to hear about them! I’m a German person and will turn 18 on September 28 2017.

( @just-another-polyglot could you maybe reblog this? You have a bigger and better range for this)

[just-another-polyglot]

500 subscribers!

Omg thank you so much guys!

[just-another-polyglot]

Coming home #1

the feel when you permanently have 10 tabs already tracking all of next months the relevant flights

[just-another-polyglot]

Nachhausekommen #1

das Fühl wenn du permanent 10 Tabs offen hast, mit denen du alle im nächsten Monat relevanten Flüge jetzt schon trackst

[kieletlanguage]

Goal: reaching a respectable level of fluency in a foreign language without anyone knowing that you have been learning it then randomly starting to speak that language

[dacilgonz]

El pequeño principito en #visualthinking

[nbstevonnie]

so I was talking to the polish guy and because I didn’t know how to say ‘I’m going to the shops’ i guessed and said idę na sklepy and he started laughing but didn’t correct me so when it next came up I had to use the same phrase which made him laugh again and I finally asked him today what was the correct way to say it and why did he find it amusing and he said that to him idę na sklepy means kind of ‘I am going to conquer the shops!’ and that he imagined me standing on the shops refusing entry to people because I was controlling the shops and he said the reason he didn’t correct me was because he thought it was an interesting way of saying ‘I’m going to the shops’ and he didn’t want me to stop and that he wanted it to take off in poland