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Favorite songs in your target language(s)
Japanese:
WanteD! WanteD! by Mrs. GREEN APPLE
Korean:
Days Gone By by DAY6
Chinese:
演员(yan yuan) by Joker Xue
Spanish:
Limón y Sal by Julieta Venegas
Reblog with yours!
이제 사랑은 ~오훈
Now, Love Is... ~ Hoon Oh
사랑은 신기루처럼 점점 흐려지는것
사랑은 무지개처럼 점점사라지는 것
사랑은 옛 주억처럼 점점 멀어지는 것
사랑은 오지않을 행운을 기다리는 것
Love is getting foggier like a mirage
Love is fading like a rainbow
Love is getting fainter like old memories
Love is waiting for good luck to stop coming
He's sleepy today
Want to learn Korean?
One of the best resources I've found so far has been howtostudykorean.com. They've got lessons all the way from learning Hangul to advanced grammar. Best of all, it's free. I highly recommend you use it along with memrise.
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A very special thanks to @randomtinywords for the tag 💖
Best experience:
The best experience of my year was definitely my job shadow. I had an assignment for my careers class to job shadow someone with a job we want to do in the future, so of course I went with a language professor. I visited the Japanese language professor at the state University, and it was one of the most life changing experiences I've ever had. She thinks I'd be great at things relating to linguistics or translations and her telling me that was easily the highlight of my year.
Best thing I ate:
Gyoza made from scratch. My friend and I sort of had a date night and it was honestly amazing. I can't wait until I have authentic gyoza, though.
Best thing I learned:
Definitely Korean. I can't believe I could pick up another language and run with it. I'm so glad that I can keep studying! Hopefully it will help me in the future.
Best thing I made:
Definitely my language binders. I was completely disorganized before and having my languages separated into binders that I can carry around without losing any major progress.
What I'm most proud of:
After the job shadow, the professor wanted to keep in contact with me! I am so happy that I have a reference who thinks I will do good in linguistics! I even got her business card.
Happy New Year! 新年快乐!開けましておめでとう!새해 복 많이 받으세요!
language checkpoints?
learning a new language can be very frustrating when you don’t see any progress or don’t know how to measure it, right? however, i have noticed several checkpoints regarding how much you understand.
reading comprehension:
you see how sentences are structured so you don’t stray in the dark while reading.
you manage to grasp the general sense, understanding most of the simple sentences.
you can understand pretty much everything, or can deduce the meaning of some words even if you don’t know them.
listening comprehension:
you start making out some words you know already and the language doesn’t sound like complete gibberish.
you can hear what the speakers talk about and understand simple sentences, also distinguishing words that you know even when put in between ones you don’t know.
you can repeat pretty much everything that is said, and you can spell words you hear even without knowing the meaning.
where are you at in your target languages? or maybe you’ve noticed other stages? in my case, my swedish is at stage 2 in both cases. good luck in learning!
Can’t afford FluentU? Here’s a free alternative!
There’s an awesome website called captionpop that you can find YouTube videos with timed subtitles! You can find everything from music videos to variety channels and more. I honestly can’t thank this website enough, it’s going to help me a lot. (No, this isn’t sponsored.) Give it a try! It features English, French, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, but has videos available in almost any language you can imagine.
Me, resorting to Google translate’s advice for my future career
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General Language Learning Resources (Free!)
Beginner!
Memrise - A good source for vocabulary lists. Very good spaced repetition system for remembering words and short phrases. Offers courses in almost any language imaginable, and you can make your own. I still use it, although I don’t recommend it for sentences.
Anki - This is what I use for sentence/grammar memorization. The spaced repetition is more customizable, and there isn’t a time limit on reviews. Great for long sentences or phrases. The Android app is free, but I don’t believe the iOS version is free. You can use it on desktop, though.
Mango languages - it doesn’t teach you writing systems, but I highly recommend it if you know the writing system of the language you are learning, or if it’s written in romanized letters. It will teach you useful phrases.
Duolingo - Great for European languages. The Japanese course got added too late into my study for me to get much use out of it. I don’t really like how it works for Japanese. But for Spanish and other languages like that, it’s a good jumping board.
Make sure you have dictionaries and keyboards installed for your target language!
Intermediate!
I highly suggest you continue using Memrise and Anki at least. Keep increasing your overall knowledge.
Now is the time for you to start conversing in your target language(s), so take a look at these.
Hellotalk - A great app for meeting language exchange partners. But you’re limited to one language at a time unless you have the paid membership.
Tandem - This is a great app, you can meet lots of people who speak languages you want to learn. You don’t have a set number of languages you are restricted to. Feel free to be adventurous. The only con is that it may take a while for your application to be approved.
It might seem like too much at this stage, but I highly, highly suggest setting your phone to your main target language. Start learning how to function in that language through using your phone.
Look into your favorite music genre, but in your target language.
Advanced!
Start using applications and websites natives would use.
Make vocabulary lists from news articles in your target language
Try using social media people that speak your target language.
For Japanese, I suggest LINE for social media and NHK in Japanese for news.
Try reading articles online in your target language.
Google things in your target language.
Make sure your phone is in your target language! I can’t stress enough how much this helps you get used to being around the language.
Have a wonderful day/night, and good luck with your studies! If you have any questions or requests, shoot me a message or send an ask, please!
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My main blog is linked here. Posts will be made!
This is the main blog of justanaspiringpolyglot.
Long time no see!
久しぶり! Tanto tiempo sin verte! 好久不见呢! 오랜만이에요!
Sorry for not posting lately, I haven't had much time to study languages.
On a side note, does anyone have an active language/polyglot blog? I'd love to get to know more people in the community!
Thanks! ありがとう!Muchas gracias! 谢谢你!고맙습니다.
依頼した単語リスト:感情 Requested Vocabulary List: Emotions
嬉しい - うれしい - Glad (more temporary)
幸せ - しあわせ - Happy (More like satisfied with current state, more permanent)
悲しい - かなしい - Sad
怒ってる - おこってる - Being angry
辛い - つらい - Painful (Either in an emotional or physical sense)
懐かしい - なつかしい - Nostalgic, but in a slightly bittersweet way
悩んでる - なやんでる - Worried
寂しい - さびしい - Lonely
緊張する - きんちょうする - To be nervous
びっくりしてる - Being surprised
驚いている - おどろいている - Being Amazed
煩がる - うるさがる - To be annoyed
恥ずかしい - はずかしい - Embarrassed
照れる - てれる - To be shy (Or シャイ can be used as an adjective)
嫌がる - いやがる - To dislike something (The emotion of distaste for the noun)
疲れている - つかれている - Tired
怖がっている - こわがっている - Being scared
嫉妬している - しっとしている - Being Jealous
依頼した単語リスト:料理 Requested Vocab List: Cooking
炊く - たく - To cook (grains)/To simmer
切る - きる - To cut
フライパン - ふらいぱん - Frying Pan
スキレット - すきれっと - Skillet
鍋 - なべ - Pot
泡立てる - あわだてる - To beat/Whisk
薄力粉 - はくりきこ - Wheat flour
強力粉 - きょうりきこ - Bread flour
砂糖 - さとう - Sugar
塩 - しお - Salt
チョコチップ - ちょこちっぷ - Chocolate Chip
オーブン - おおぶん - Oven
お菓子 - おかし - Snacks/Sweets
ご飯 - ごはん - Meals/Rice
パン - ぱん - Bread/Pan (Can be a loan word)
沸かす - わかす - To boil/Heat water
野菜 - やさい - Vegetables
肉 - にく - Meat
果物 - くだもの - Fruit