Oh Boy

19 years old and tired. I’m like learning french or something.

[theclonewriter-blog]

“This is your daily, friendly reminder to use commas instead of periods during the dialogue of your story,” she said with a smile.

[onewordtest]

“Unless you are following the dialogue with an action and not a dialogue tag.” He took a deep breath and sat back down after making the clarifying statement. 

[joehywheelah]

“However,” she added, shifting in her seat, “it’s appropriate to use a comma if there’s action in the middle of a sentence.”

[tenoko1]

“True.” She glanced at the others. “You can also end with a period if you include an action between two separate statements.”

[cj-amused]

Things I didn’t know

[prismatic-bell]

“And–” she waved a pen as though to underline her statement–“if you’re interrupting a sentence with an action, you need to type two hyphens to make an en-dash.”

[jawnwats-deactivated20160713]

You guys have no idea how many students in my advanced fiction workshop didn’t know any of this when writing their stories.

[notesoftruth]

Okay, but someone please explain question marks when followed by a dialogue tag. How do?

[flootzavut]

“The speech tag is still part of the previous sentence,” she explained, ‘so it isn’t capitalised.“

“What do you mean?” he asked. “But there’s a full stop as part of the question mark!”

She nodded gravely. “I know!” she said. “A lot of people find this confusing. But the speech tag belongs to the line of dialogue, it’s still part of the sentence, so it’s wrong to capitalise it.”

She reblogged the post again, because she had recently read far too many potentially enjoyable stories marred by poor dialogue punctuation.

[dechart]

I’ve only seen this post in screenshots till now..

[eddiestarchild]

NOICE. Can’t wait to use this

[magpiefngrl]

“There are two more ways"—she pointed to the blackboard—“to punctuate interruptions. One is with the em dashes outside the quotations marks to indicate continuous speech. The action occurs at the same time as speech. The other—” she sipped from a glass of water “—is em dashes within the quotation marks to indicate interrupted speech.”

[clawmarks]

Kärnthenschen pfauenschweifig​en Helmintholith - 1793 - via Internet Archive

[gabiestudies]

march 1st 2021, 16:00, 🎵: favor - julien baker

um?? so it’s march?? again?? anyways it’s reading week so i’m taking advantage of a bit more free time to get ahead in my projects but also do things like redecorate my walls!! (again!!)

[russianwave]

Hey, I thought I would compile a selection of different resources dedicated to learning the Russian language. Feel free to reblog and add your own

Information about the language

Russian Language on Wikipedia

Russian Language on BBC

Russian Language on Encyclopaedia Britannica 

Russian Language on Real Russia

Books

I have a masterlist of different Russian language textbooks for all levels, as well as general Russian literature and Russian magazines for reading practice. It contains over 60,000 books and over 4,000 magazines

Children’s Books in Russian

Project Gutenberg Free Russian Books

Courses - Note that not all of these courses are free. 

Lingvist (comes with a 2-week free trial, and by far my favourite course)

Duolingo  (Joining with this link automatically adds me as a friend)

Busuu 

I Kinda Like Languages Russian Course

Learn Russian with RT (The audio files no longer work but there’s a lot of great resources that work)

Live Lingua Russian Tutors (Not a course as such, but a way to get a Tutor. You can get a free hour lesson)

Russian for Everyone

Russian for Free 

RussianLessons

Russian Made Easy

Way To Russia 

Russky

Lingodeer

Между нами

MasterRussian

Я говорю по-русски/ I speak Russian

Русский как иностранный: B1+. Russian as a foreign language: B1+

Русский как иностранный: B1+. Часть 2. Russian as a foreign language. B1+. Part 2.

Русский как иностранный B2-1 / Russian As a Foreign Language B2-1

Русский язык как иностранный B2-2 / Russian as a Foreign Language B2-2

A1 Elementary Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

A2 Basic Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

B1 I Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

B2 II Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

C1 III Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

C2 IV Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

Beginner Russian Course / Курс России языка для начинающих

Intermediate Russian Course / Курс России языка среднего уровня

Russian Grammar Course / Курс грамматики России языка

Russian Course for Travelers / Курс России языка для путешественников

From Zero to Fluency Youtube Course

Start Speaking Russian Youtube Course

Russian Reading Youtube Course

Learn Russian Alphabet

Russian (Kazakhstan) Peace Corps Course

FSI Russian Course

Learn Russian

Yes Russian

Polymath

Learnalanguage

Ready Russian

Simplang

Russian Learning Reddit

Learn With Oliver

Memrise is a great resource as it has Memrise courses and user-created courses. These are the official Russian courses if you go through them one by one they amount to approximately 54 hours of content. The thing I like about Memrise is they test you on your pronunciation, and they have lots of videos by Russian native speakers. So it really tests you in all your skills.

Russian 1 by Memrise

Russian 2 by Memrise

Russian 3 by Memrise

Russian 4 by Memrise

Russian 5 by Memrise

Russian 6 by Memrise

Russian 7 by Memrise

These are some unofficial Russian Memrise courses you might like too. Although they tend to not have audio and they don’t have pronunciation tests or native speaker videos, they can still be a good resource.

Learn Basic Russian 

Top 10,000 words part one 

Top 10,000 words part two

Russian Grammar through Exercises

Assimil Russian

New Penguin Russian Course Vocabulary 

Vocabulary resources

Anki

Word Reference

Ba Ba Dum

L-Lingo

Russian Swadesh list

English terms derived from Russian

Wikipedia Russian Topics (Click on different topics then click on different words for their English translation and meaning)

Russian Idioms

Russian Proverbs

Russian Similies

20,000-word Frequency dictionary of the modern Russian language (the Russian National Corpus)

Russian spelling alphabet

Russian Frequency lists/1-1000

Russian Frequency lists/1001-2000

Russian Frequency lists/2001-3000

Russian Frequency lists/3001-4000

Russian Frequency lists/4001-5000

Russian Adjectives - Frequency List

Russian Nouns - Frequency List

Russian Verbs - Frequency List

Russian palindromes

Russian Pronouns

Alpha Dictionary

Dubbed Russian Songs (Russian songs with Russian lyrics alongside transliteration and English translation. They also accept requests)

Clozemaster (I’d say this is more for intermediate-advanced, but beginners might make use of this as well)

Vikida Children’s Encyclopedia (Entirely in Russian)

Russian for Children by Pushkin Institute (Entirely in Russian) This actually contains resources for 5+ to 18+ so it covers a broad range of levels

Slow Russian Podcast

Slow Russian Youtube

Beginning Russian through Film

Amazing Russian Youtube

Bab.La English - Russian Dictionary

Grammar

Grammar Exercises Youtube Playlist

MasterRussian

Online Interactive Grammar 

Learn Russian Grammar Tables

Russian Grammar Youtube

Russificate

Conjugation Tool

Russian Grammar

Russian News Sites

Russia Today (In Russian) / Russia Today (in English) (They also have a whole database of documentaries/shows/films that are in English or Russian. Just click on a show here and it’ll give you the option to watch in English or Russian) 

The Moscow Times (In Russian) / The Moscow Times (In English) (They have free English PDFs of past print publications too)

Tass Russian News Agency (In Russian) / Tass Russian News Agency (In English)

Moskovskij Komsomolets (Московский комсомолец) (only available in Russian)

Komsomolskaya Pravda (Комсомо́льская пра́вда) (only available in Russian)

Izvestia (ɪzˈvʲestʲɪjə) (Only available in Russian)

Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Российская газета) (Only available in Russian)

Kommersant (Коммерса́нтъ) (Only available in Russian)(There is also a UK news website entirely in Russian)

Trud (Tpyд) (Only available in Russian)

Moskovskiye Novosti (Московские новости) (Only available in Russian)

Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Независимая газета) (Only available in Russian)

Novye Izvestia (Новые Известия) (Only available in Russian)

Vedomosti (Ведомости) (Only available in Russian)

Pravda Правда (Only available in Russian)

Delovoy Peterburg Деловой Петербург (Only available in Russian)

RBC daily (Only available in Russian)

Sport Express (Спорт-Экспресс) (Only available in Russian)

Sovetsky Sport (Советский спорт) (Only available in Russian)

Russia Beyond The Headlines (In Russian) / Russia Beyond The Headlines (In English)

Krasnaya Zvezda (Кра́сная звезда́) (Only available in Russian)

Moskovskaya Pravda (Московская правда) (Only available in Russian)

Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты) (Only available in Russian)

Sovetsky Sakhalin (Советский Сахалин) (Only available in Russian)

Tyumenskaya Oblast Segodnya (Only available in Russian)

Vecherniy Murmansk (Вечерний Мурманск) (Only available in Russian)

Vecherniy Novosibirsk (Вечерний Новосибирск) (Only available in Russian)

Vecherniy Stavropol (Вечерний Ставрополь) (Only available in Russian)

Novaya Gazeta (Новая газета) (Only available in Russian)

Novgorod (Новгород) (Only available in Russian)

Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (Санкт-Петербургские ведомости) (Only available in Russian)

Literaturnaya Gazeta (Литературная газета) (Only available in Russian)

Parlamentskaia Gazeta (Парламентская газета) (Оnly available in Russian)

Meduza (In Russian) / Meduza (In English)

Please note that sites listed do not equal an endorsement. I don’t know the political background or views of each of these publications. I’m merely compiling a variety I saw through various Russian news lists and search engine results. Content warnings may apply and not all content may be suitable for minors

Listening practice (Note, I may make another masterlist compiling various Russian podcasts and Youtube channels so I’m leaving them out of this section)

LibriVox

Listeningpractice.org

Slavic Languages and Cultures Department, University of Groningen Listen to the Slavic languages

Audio Lingua

Learn Russian with Peppa Pig

Forvo

StarMediaEN (Russian shows, documentaries etc with English subtitles)

Russian Films With English Subtitles Youtube Playlist

Alosha (Алёша Попович и Тугарин Змей) Children’s Film

Dobrynya and the Dragon (Добрыня Никитич и Змей Горыныч) Children’s Film

Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber (Илья Муромец и Соловей Разбойник) Children’s film

How Not to Rescue a Princess (Три Богатыря и Шамаханская Царица) Children’s Film

Russian Animation (Mixture of dubbed content and subtitled content)

Киноконцерн “Мосфильм” (Moscow Film, only some of these are subtitled)

фильмы о Холмсе и Ватсоне (Movies about Sherlock Holmes with Russian audio and English subtitles)

Okay, so this list has gotten long enough lol. If you have any resources you feel should be added feel free to reblog and add them or message me and I’ll edit it in. If you have any requests for resource compilations that you want me to do (e.g. compiling Russian podcasts, general Russian websites, Russian YouTubers etc) please let me know. 

[russianwave]

Just to update: 

Someone re-uploaded the RT learning Russian course here: https://learnrussian.github.io/. You won’t be able to log in / make an account but all the audio will be working and so will the tests

[kitthecan]

The idea of going to study a subject I don’t really understand in English for a year in a country where I don’t yet fluently speak the language, I would be the only person coming from my university and everyone already there has their own friends is mildly terrifying but so is the idea of graduating next year so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[kitthecan]

But on the plus side I’ll have access to amazing bread and croissants for a whole year

[mapsontheweb]

The Infinitely Recursive Mediterranean.

[kitthecan]

The idea of going to study a subject I don’t really understand in English for a year in a country where I don’t yet fluently speak the language, I would be the only person coming from my university and everyone already there has their own friends is mildly terrifying but so is the idea of graduating next year so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[spraak-och-lunnefaaglar]

So here’s a folder containing grammar from eVERY LANGUAGE I CAN THINK OF holy shit

Seriously, there’s like even 10 Aboriginal languages

Enjoy it lol

[obsessedwithlanguages]

omg

[polyglotweekly]

POLYGLOT WEEKLY’S REBLOG OF THE WEEK

I feel bad about not following all of my lovely followers back.  Unfortunately, I have a tendency to get sucked into social media and not come up for air if my Dashboard is too full.  So as a compromise, I decided to add this feature.  Once a week, I’ll browse my followers’ blogs to find something pertinent to the blog and reblog it to help spread the love and information.

So for the other grammar nuts like me, this is pretty freaking incredible.  There is even a separate folder for sign languages with multiple resources.  Beautiful resource.

[victoriangold]

24/09/2019 // I went to a exhibition on hunting over the weekend and decided to dig out my old books to do some revision on ground game. I forgot so much, it's kind of embarrassing. I also talked to a really nice lady who organises talks and workshops for female hunters and I might join them in the future, so that's fun 🌱🙈

[coralstudiies]

i'll be gone for the next two weeks mostly ! remember to miss me HAHA jk remember to study hard and take breaks folks

[luminous-studiess]

a rainy day, some constitution notes, and a lot of sleepiness. 

[juliennestudies]

a late night biology study session from last week. I forgot to post this a while back but this was when it was still midterms week. Fortunately, it’s over and I can spend more time binge watching anime, and Gossip Girl (: 🥞☕️🍂🥢

[comebackcampus-deactivated20210]

[minaraslangblr]

No language is useless.

I don’t care how many people speak it. I don’t care if it’s already a dead language and only those who study it in uni will properly understand it. I don’t even care if it’s a fictional language.

You want to learn a new language? GO FOR IT.

And don’t let bigots convince you that it is useless. Because IT IS NOT.

[lingolden-deactivated20200629]

à ou de? French verbs that change meaning

1. décider

décider de: to make a decision.

J’ai décidé de m'inscrire au cours de gym.

décider (quelqu’un) à: to persuade someone to do sth.

J'ai fini par la décider à changer de voiture.

se décider à: to make up one’s mind.

Je me décide à déménager. 

être décidé à: to be determined to do sth.

L'adolescent était décidé à retrouver ses parents biologiques.

2. jouer

jouer à: to play a game or sport.

Mon grand-père joue souvent aux échecs.

jouer de: to play an instrument.

Paul joue du piano et de la guitare.

3. manquer

manquer à: to miss (sentimentally).

Je manque à mes parents.

manquer à: to break a moral obligation.

Ce n'est pas la première fois qu'il manque à sa parole.

manquer de: to lack, to have little of.

Ce jeune employé manque d‘expérience.

manquer de: to nearly do sth.

Le garçon a manqué de tomber dans les escaliers.

4. penser

penser à: to think of, to consider.

Je pense souvent à Julie depuis son départ.

penser à: to remember to do sth.

Il faut que je pense à couper le gaz avant de partir.

penser de: to have an opinion on.

Que penses-tu de sa décision ?

5. rappeler

rappeler (à quelqu’un) de: to ressemble.

C'est fou comme tu rappelles ton père à tout le monde.

se rappeler de: to recall, to remember.

Je me rappelle très bien de lui.

6. profiter

profiter à: to benefit.

Leur séjour à la mer profite beaucoup à mes parents.

profiter de: to make the most of.

J'ai profité du beau temps pour aller me promener.

7. venir

venir à: to happen to, to end up doing.

Si les abeilles venaient à disparaître, nous n'aurions plus ni fruit ni légume.

en venir à:  to come to.

J’en viens à penser que cette expression est intraduisible.

venir de: to have just done sth.

Je viens d’acheter du lait d’amandes.

[kitthecan]

Im the only person in this Starbucks on a Saturday morning... what’s going on...

Samedi matin et je suis la seul personne dans ce Starbucks et ... je ne comprends pas... où est tout le monde ...

[smalllhandwriting]

an old spread, of when i actually journaled everyday.