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crazy how if you do your chores and obligations first thing on a day off you can enjoy your free time more than if you feel like you’re procrastinating your chores and obligations the whole time. i will not be learning from this experience

mayonezli

Turkish coffee

hays-code-evader

Reading the Wikipedia pages for 1910s films is like

"Made on a budget of $75, the film was an unexpected smash hit, selling out theaters across the country. Thought lost after a vault fire in Paris in 1954, a full print was discovered in a Brazilian nursing home in 2013, where it was being used as a doorstop."

punkitt-is-here

mucho texto i know but i wanted to write a lil thing about how u can treat yourself nice!!

catilinas

goldensunset

>‘this thing is too generic and tropey’

>look inside

>forefather of that genre

firestorm09890

frankbelloriley

wishingformemoria

just because someone can articulate their point better doesn’t make them right, it makes them articulated.

wishingformemoria

and you aren’t stupid for having trouble articulating yourself.

904 days left

If i may give one (1) tip to A0-A2 learners of Slavic Languages:

Study both verb aspect forms from the get-go.

Slavic languages have a grammatical category called 'verbal aspect' which, simply put, expresses either that you are/were/will be in the process of doing something (imperfective aspect) or that you have or will have gotten a certain result (perfective aspect).

What do I mean by 'study them from the get-go':

Personally I use Anki (beloved) for vocabulary study, but I guess you can apply this to whatever suits you best.

Russian example sentence in the text book: "Вчера я купил яблоки." [Včerá ja kupíl jáblka. Yesterday I bought apples.]

In the vocab list* I find the infinitive of купил [kupíl; bought]: купить [kupít'; to buy].

I head over to wiktionary and type in the search bar the infinitive form and hit enter. You should now see something like this:

What we're looking for is the 'Verb' section, and, specifically, that first line of the paragraph that mentions the infinitive, an abbreviation for its aspect [ipf. = imperfective, pf. = perfective] and, in brackets, the 'opposite' verbal aspect. In this example, we learn that купить has the perfective aspect, and its imperfective equivalent is покупать [pokupát'].

This is how I structure my Anki card then:

(german is my mother tongue so it's russian - german - spanish. the latter is there just as a reminder for myself, please ignore lol)

I always put the imperfective form on the left - then slash - then perfective form. I highly recommend to maintain a consistent order.

How I study:

So, our textbook example mentioned only one form. That is the one I am going to be studying actively. Meaning: When the card 'to buy' pops up, I try to remember only the word that came up in class/read in the textbook etc., in this case купить. I turn the card and check if I got it right, then read both forms (optional, but helpful: read them aloud).

What this does is that it familiarises you with both aspect forms without putting the pressure of learning twice as much vocabulary on you.

You will have to learn both aspects at some point, but it will be so much easier when you're already actively familiar with one form and passively familiar with the other. I started doing this during my second semester and it was SO WORTH IT.

Let me know if you have any questions or if this was helpful to you! <3

*in absence of a vocab list, I use this website for Russian and this website for Czech. you can type the exact verb form as you encounter it (in this example купил) and it will show you the entire conjugation table. extremely useful to have at hand

cybermanes

Not now kitten daddy’s building a wildly incriminating digital footprint

swallowtail-ageha

It's too late, i have already portrayed myself as the rational and curious william of baskerville and you as the fanatic and dogmatic jorge of burgos

#the name of the rose #il nome della rosa

ladyofmelk

ohhhhh my god u found a dead monk in your abbey? should we tell everyone? should we throw a party? should we invite bernard gui?

#the name of the rose #il nome della rosa

axl-ion

Idk if the other translations for Felvidek (game) also do something with the language, but in the Slovak language version of Felvidek, nobility (Jozef, Adam) and church members (Matej) use proper Slovak, their sentences are grammatically correct, here's the town leader for example:

With Jozef even using Hungarian in his speech, which IS historically accurate for the area, we're in the 15th century, the area that's currently part of Slovakia was Nothern Hungary back then and a lot of nobles were Hungarians, so it wouldn't be out the ordinary for Jozef to speak both common (in this case would actually be the dialect of the area as modern standard Slovak wouldn't emerge until the early 19th century) and Hungarian, with also Latin added on. Here's an example of him talking in Hungarian:

Meanwhile the common folks and other characters of lower status (Pavol etc.) use Šariš dialect:

But some interactions with the environment use a combination of proper Slovak and dialect:

In this example the first half of the sentence is dialect, the 2nd part is proper.

And then we have Ida who uses words frequently used by Romani people, specifically in this case the phrase Dig more (Oh look/Look there) and gádžu (meaning non-Roma):

And the Husits, since they are Czech are speaking Czech:

Which I think is absolutely beautiful. Again, I am wondering how the dialogue plays in other languages, if they actually do change up the language. I could imagine a world where in the English dialogue, nobility uses Queen's English meanwhile the common folk have an implied Cockney accent or use some sort of street English or something, but I also understand that would be pretty hard to do.

But am curious how it would look like

Language quirks addition - Matej failing Czech

mist-the-wannabe-linguist

central slavs and their silly medieval/early modern media

#kcd #kingdom come deliverance #felvidek #1670

ludwig1beethoven

I think it's a wise diagram

power-chords

I almost forgot to mention: this woman came into the penguin enclosure with a KESTREL??? I said “oh my god is that an American Kestrel?” and she said “Yes! She was outside doing raptor education for the kids, but she doesn’t like to get rained on.”