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Renée or Voron [ˈvorən] | mensch · they · elle · они | German [native]; learning: English, Spanish, Russian, Czech | "learning" Mandarin via osmosis | curious about Aymara, Qazaq, and languages in general | language corrections always welcome!! | language playlist masterpost

[kutyozh]

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Hi everyone!!

Listening to music in my target language(s) always helped me a lot with pronunciation, vocabulary and use of language, so i’ve decided to share my playlists that each focus on one language!

My playlists on Tidal and YouTube. [Spotify – retired]

A Albanian Amharic   Arabic (+ variety groups) Armenian Aymara Austrian German

B  Bambara Basque Belarusian Bosnian Bulgarian

C   Cantonese Cape Verdean Creole Chuvash Croatian Czech

D   Dari Dutch

E   Estonian

F   Farsi Finnish French

G   Georgian   German Greek Greenlandic

H   Hindi Hungarian

I   Icelandic Indonesian Inuktitut Irish   Italian

J   Japanese

K   Khmer Korean Kurdish Kyrgyz

L   Latvian   Lithuanian

M  Mandarin Māori

N   Norwegian

P   Panjabi Polish Portuguese

Q   Qazaq Quechua

R  Romanes  Romanian Russian

S   Sámi Serbian Slovak   Slovene   Spanish Swiss German

T  Tagalog Tamashek Thai   Turkish

U   Ukrainian    Urdu

V   Vietnamese

W  Welsh

X Xhosa

Y Yoruba

Z Zulu

Bonus: AAVE

Big playlist with non-English songs only: click here (Tidal)

🚧 "Pipeline" aka playlists I'm working on (recs needed)

💖 Drop non-english songs you think I need to listen to in my inbox!

😖 Not your taste? Try these resources.

❗ Disclaimer: these playlists may contain different dialects that may not be mutually intelligible/may vary from the dialect that you're learning. I therefore encourage you to ask about any uncertainties. I will try my best to answer your questions or to crowdsource answers.

‼️ Sometimes I mess up! Kindly send me an ask if I have. 🩵

Many thanks to everyone who has directly or indirectly contributed to this project:

@lesbianmangoes​ @orzamara​ @yibo-wang​ @jackisblu​ @malfunctioningsublime​ @kreideprinz-studies​ @holochromatic @arag0ns, @quatregats @sandushengshou @highwarlockkareena @lan-xichens @aheartfullofjolllly @sovietunions @surnudring @nonenglishsongs @kristina100000 @tomirida @metamorphesque @hexenmond various anons and many other people <3

[templetv-deactivated20260211]

hey can you come over and surgically remove this heavy, aching rot from my heart? we can watch a movie afterwards

[kutyozh]

looking forward to 3 hours of sleep yay

[kutyozh]

you know, the fact that i Could is tempting me a lot... even though this change would come to the dismay of literally Everybody Else

[kutyozh]

you know, the fact that i Could is tempting me a lot... even though this change would come to the dismay of literally Everybody Else

[kutyozh]

this, btw

[kutyozh]

we're simply fond of diphthongs 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

[kutyozh]

you know, the fact that i Could is tempting me a lot... even though this change would come to the dismay of literally Everybody Else

[kutyozh]

this, btw

[kutyozh]

we're simply fond of diphthongs 🥺👉🏻👈🏻

[kutyozh]

you know, the fact that i Could is tempting me a lot... even though this change would come to the dismay of literally Everybody Else

[kutyozh]

this, btw

[kutyozh]

you know, the fact that i Could is tempting me a lot... even though this change would come to the dismay of literally Everybody Else

[kutyozh]

short notice i know but i'm working on a presentation for tomorrow on the language situation in Qazaqstan, so if anyone has any like input from personal experience, hmu!!

[mintbees]

Trying to find a YouTuber to watch in my target language for immersion learning while not speaking the language well enough to be able to figure out their political views

[kutyozh]

had to do a double take on this

no idea who wrote this but i asked around a bit and 'immigrant' in english really doesn't seem to be used in the sense of someone who moved from one city to another within the same country – ofc Kalmykia, if i may assume that the character in question is from there, is a republic of russia, which might make the term more appropriate? it still smells like imperialist wording to me tho

[kutyozh]

turns out the portrayal of said Kalmyk man in this film is giving me an ick. he's portrayed as ignorant to technology, socially incompetent, clumsy, sexually transgressive... it just feels racist

[kutyozh]

getting transphobic now :^)

[succumbing-song]

[kutyozh]

had to do a double take on this

no idea who wrote this but i asked around a bit and 'immigrant' in english really doesn't seem to be used in the sense of someone who moved from one city to another within the same country – ofc Kalmykia, if i may assume that the character in question is from there, is a republic of russia, which might make the term more appropriate? it still smells like imperialist wording to me tho

[kutyozh]

turns out the portrayal of said Kalmyk man in this film is giving me an ick. he's portrayed as ignorant to technology, socially incompetent, clumsy, sexually transgressive... it just feels racist

[ancientstuff]

1,600-year-old Roman padlock with spring mechanism discovered in Germany — and it's tiny

A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.

Astounding workmanship, and so small!

[aandvarchaeology]

Oh you KNOW a find is good when even the Tagesschau reports on it! (I saw it on TV last week and literally almost screamed.) And this truly is spectacular - Roman cylinder locks are normally a) WAY bigger (the lock is only 1.2 cm x 1.1 cm, that's less than half an inch tall and wide), and b) NOT made out of gold.

The find was made by local hobby archaeologist and licensed metal detectorist Constantin Fried on a field near Petershagen and turned over to the appropriate governing body, the LWL-Archäologie für Westfalen, in 2023. Since then, it has been subjected to a variety of analysis methods. We now know that it worked, that the internal mechanism is made of iron, and that it probably dates to the 3rd or 4th century BC. Here, have some cool pictures:

Yes, that is how it was found. Come to Germany and bother a farmer enough that he lets you walk over his field, and you too could find 1,600 year old gold artefacts! (Don't actually do this, the farmers will get mad at you and the archaeologists don't like it either. You need a license for metal detectoring in many German states and fieldwalking with the intent to find and keep archaeological material as a private person is illegal, yes, literally.)

This is the large-scale brass reproduction made by one of the restorers at LWL-Archäologie. Since the original was found with a single gold link, it was possible to reconstruct the chain that would have held the lock to whatever it was supposed to hold closed (probably a small box, maybe a jewellery box). In order to work, the chain would have needed a minimum of six links. Also not found but added to the reconstruction: The key.

There's still a lot of unsolved questions around this find: Where is it from? Was it actually used as a lock, or did its owner wear it as a piece of curious jewellery? The lock seems to have been forced at least once, was this because someone stole the contents of the box it was locking, or was something stuck in the mechanism and the owner couldn't get at their stuff? And maybe most interesting of all: How was it made? Because, as far as we know, the Romans did not have magnifiying glasses, and this thing is TINY!!! It's TINY!!!!

Sources (apart from the article link I'm reblogging):

Tagesschau, Archäologische Sensation. Goldenes Minischloss aus der Römerzeit gefunden (article uploaded Jan 28, 2025).

LWL-Newsroom, Römisches Miniatur-Dosenschloss aus Gold. Besonderer Fund in Petershagen (press release from Jan 28, 2025).

[amemait]

This is the lockpicking lawyer and what I have for you today is a bit of an unusual piece.

[copperbadge]

I saw the image of the cylinder with the chain and had an intensely surreal moment, because functionally speaking you can still buy these. Master Lock makes them for bikes.

(Lockpicking Lawyer is, in fact, notoriously disdainful of Master Lock and with good reason.)

[adamsvanrhijn]

what did your GRANDMOTHERS do? #feminism

[redstonedust]

it's usually morally correct to make fun of the usa but whenever i hear british people do it it feels kinda tone deaf. idk if we have the high ground here guys. its like your mom making fun of your mental illness like ma'am where do you think i got it from.

[flowerbobatea]

[redstonedust]

while i hope the AI boom dies out i also hope we start acknowledging data center water overconsumption as it's own unique issue because like. it's not AI itself that harms the environment it's the hardware hosting it, right? same reason nfts and cryptocurrency were also bad for the environment. the root problem isn't going away so long as we allow big companies to continue hitching their wagon to the next big tech trend. i worry if they don't get stronger regulation we'll just be repeating the same issue whenever the next toy comes along.