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The very last time i’ll be making an exam planning. This semester i have 5 classes to take exam for:
Competition law: june 10
High courts: june 13
Traffic and transport law: june 16
Private international law: june 18
Criminal procedure: june 23
On top of that, i have to defend my thesis the 27th of may. Wish me luck 🤞🏼🤞🏼
Hi everyone!!
Incredible if you’re still following me. I wasn’t really away, I was just lurking and not posting anymore. But maybe I wanna change that? And start posting again? So quick life update: I got a master degree in linguistic a while ago, but since I thought that wasn’t enough I decided to also get a masters in law, for which I’m graduating in June (hopefully). I got a traineeship for Bar membership starting in September, so hopefully in 3 years I’ll be a full lawyer 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 next year I will also be taking some additional university classes to specialize in corporate law since that’s the area of the firm I’m doing my traineeship with, but I didn’t do much of that in my regular degree ahah. So I’m still not leaving university. Eternal student-mindset yk 🧑🎓
Soo, I got quite a few options for this blog imo. I could keep doing purely langblr stuff (I’m still studying languages, currently focusing on spanish), maybe with a few hints of linguistics since I’m now officially qualified to talk about that. I could also do more generic studyblr stuff, with the classes i’m still taking at uni, but also some personal curriculum stuff, which is something that sounds really interesting and that I definitely want to try out after graduating. Or I could go lawblr and post about the way on becoming a lawyer and all that entails. Or combination of all three… If you have been following me this long you deserve a vote so tell me your opinions!! And if you post / are active in any of these topics/tags please interact with this post so I can follow you too!!
I want everyone to see this section of a mostly unredacted judgement I’ve been reading. Mostly it’s fine, but occasionally they have to X out a word or a profit margin or something. But then I encountered paragraph of the year.
wow! cool 🐚
Sorry but this is hilarious
can I take a picture of the moon?
the tower of Pisa: yes, sorry
Hey! Would love to know if you could recommend any Farsi learning resources. I’d usually go for Duolingo but seeing as they’re for some reason unwilling to add a Persian language course, that’s unfortunately not possible rn. Thanks :)
if you're looking for something duolingo-like, there's a persian course on memrise that I can definitely recommend!
also chai & conversation has been a really helpful resource, they make videos on instagram and yt for persian learners. if you're willing to spend money on this, they also have a website with more in-depth lessons and courses. i haven't tried those though, can't attest to the quality
finally, two more youtube channels that are pretty neat imo are Persian Learning and Persian with Azin
have fun learning!
Collection of Old Church Slavonic texts in PDFs
I've been collecting Old Church Slavonic texts that have been dated to the 9th and 10th century Great Moravia and the First Bulgarian Empire, and reconstructed to as close to the original as possible with restored orthography, since most surviving copies are from much younger manuscripts and some details might have been lost in transmission and changes to the orthography.
LINK (Google Drive folder)
All files with (g) at the end also contain text in the Glagolitic alphabet.
PLEASE SHARE!!!
Mogolian Language Resources
I finally got around to combining and sorting through the various material, so here are the materials that I currently use!
Memrises Mongolian 1/Mongolian 2 Great courses for learning the alphabet (the non-traditional Cyrillic script) and some basics e.g. introduction, some basic verbs.
CJV Langs Traditional Mongolian Script. A solid intro to the traditional writing script. I'm sticking to the cyrillic script for now, but this may come in useful in the future.
Open163 Mongolian Basics (Chinese). Another great video course from Inner Mongolia University for learning mongolian basics and pronunciation. The only possible issue is that it's entirely in Chinese and the traditional script is used.
MGL Radio. My level isn't high enough to understand it, but for now it's good to understand how spoken mongolian sounds and later for listening practise.
Radio Garden. This site allows you to listen to various radio programs from pretty much any country in the world, so it's great not just for mongolian.
MNB. This newsite may be currently a tad too advanced, but it's still good reading practice nonetheless.
This site. I love this site, this is a free collection of works in and translated into Mongolian. Reading Dostoevsky in Mongolian is a challenge that I one day will attempt.
Apps
Gertrainer. This is a relatively new app (6 months old?), which had a pretty good collection of vocabulary. The only downside is that the pronunciation recordings are available only in the paid version which comes at around 5 euros per month or 30 per year. Something to consider if I choose to study Mongolian more intensively, but for now I'm quite content with my current pace.
Ling. This seems to be also ok, but it charges a subscription fee and I am not ready for this commitment yet.
Simply. This is quite basic but it covers some vocab in the free version, with the rest of the vocab charging a fee.
Learn Mongolian. This is also has quite a solid vocabulary set, with pronunciations included.
There appear to be quite a few language schools offering lessons over zoom and classes in person (in Mongolia) but I have no idea if they're legitimate or not.
Courses for learning Thai language
Thailand Foundation and Chulalongkorn university have many self paced courses (mooc) for learning Thai language. It’s translated into many languages (as you can see). You can check them out here
Just found out this and wanted to share :)
Boost your Spanish with more complex synonyms for words you already know
Here you have some words/expressions (in bold) that you can use to show off while speaking Spanish. A native will know them, but if you use these you will impress them. Also, in your writings these words will look quite good. NOTE: Some of them are quite formal and not used in conversations.
similar - semejante, afín, cercano, aproximado, símil, parecido (adj.) (similar)
parecerse - asemejarse, semejar, darse un aire, recordar a (to resemble)
divertido - ameno, entretenido (adj.) (fun)
difícil - peliagudo, arduo, espinoso (adj.) (difficult)
fácil - sencillo, factible (adj.) (easy)
empezar - emprender (to begin)
terminar - concluir, ultimar, finiquitar (to finish)
la misión - la empresa, el cometido, la tarea, la labor, el quehacer (mission, duty)
caro - costoso, prohibitivo (adj.) (expensive)
barato - asequible, económico (adj.) (cheap)
distraer, desentender, simular - hacerse el sueco (expression, lit.
to do the Swedish. To avoid doing something that you must do)
enfermo - aquejado, indispuesto, alicaído (adj.) (sick, ill)
la historia - el cuento, la leyenda, la fábula (story, tale)
el cotilleo - chisme, chismorreo, enredo (gossip)
aprender - cultivarse, formarse, educarse, empollar (to learn)
gustar - cautivar, embelesar (to like)
saber - estar al corriente, estar al tanto (to know about something)
siempre - perpetuamente, constantemente, continuamente (always)
malo - diabólico, maléfico, maldito, ruin, infame, sinvergüenza, insolente, maligno, malicioso, depravado, inmoral, pérfido (adj.) (bad, as in “a bad person”)
malo - nocivo, dañino, perjudicial, nefasto (adj.) (bad)
comprar - adquirir, obtener (to buy)
la tienda -el comercio, el establecimiento, el negocio, la botica (shop)
continuar -prorrogar, prolongar, preservar, aguantar, proseguir (to continue)
buscar - indagar, rebuscar, escudriñar, revolver (to search)
contestar - objetar, contradecir, rebatir, refutar, rechazar, disputar, discutir, argüir (to reply, as in refute)
abandonar - marcharse, desaparecer, largarse, ausentarse (to abandon, as in “to leave a place”)
feliz - radiante, contento, risueño, campante (adj.) (happy)
triste - afligido, apenado, desconsolado, abatido, entristecido, apesumbrado, desolado, deshecho, desamparado, mustio, taciturno, tristón (adj.) - sad
antipático - desagradable, enojoso, aguafiestas, pesado (adj.) (obnoxious)
la ciudad - la urbe, la localidad, el municipio, la población
(city)
el país - la nación, la patria, el pueblo, el estado (country)
la familia - la estirpe, el linaje (family)
los padres - los progenitores, los ascendientes, los antecesores (parents)
la casa - el domicilio, la vivienda, la residencia, la morada, el inmueble, la edificación (house)
An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.
I know that—objectively—this is bullshit, but I have chosen to believe that the reason the US hasn't formally changed to the metric system is for the poets. When the going gets tough you can still claw your way forward inch by inch, but centimeter by centimeter just doesn't quite carry you. You're in love/excited/nervous/scared and your heart is beating a hundred miles per hour, whoa that sounds fast and dangerous! But a hundred kph? I've been passed by people going faster than that coming out of downtown on capital boulevard. The pound of flesh they take from you is raw and bloody and full of pain, the kilogram of flesh is impersonal and excised in laboratory conditions under strict observation. Liters are okay tho, if only because they sound like meter and a meter is used to measure things, so the measure of a man can be siphoned (as a byproduct of the kilogram) into a bottle with a screw cap lid and stored in a dark cool room until he is found wanting. A gallon would be wasteful, a quart too unserious, and a cup not enough to keep him from withering in the desert sands under 100 degree faeghreignheit sun. ...Okay maybe celsius gets a pass too.
hi, op here. you're my new favorite person and i am express airmailing you 10 thousand high fives and this heart emoji: 💜
i hate it when i cant even write a poem about something because its too obvious. like in the airbnb i was at i guess it used to be a kids room cause you could see the imprint of one little glow in the dark star that had been missed and painted over in landlord white. like that's a poem already what's the point
you get it. you get the themes. i dont have time to do it justice. just look at it its on the ceiling
these exchanges and this fiddling about for the collective to appreciate in passing is, to me, true artistic spirit. I don't know what the past was truly like to live, but in my heart i know that humans have always been... like this
These are the apps and links I currently have on my phone to study Chinese:
SuperChinese: my main study resource. There are currently 7 levels, level 7 (still incomplete, they are still slowly adding lessons to it) being HSK 5 stuff. Each lesson has vocabulary, grammar and a short dialogue where those are used in context (I love context). It has a few free lessons in the lower levels but after that you have to buy a subscription. There are many sales though. When I was a beginner I used HelloChinese instead, which has more free content, and switched to SuperChinese when I finished all the free content there. It also has social network features and chat rooms I don't use.
TofuLearn is like a flashcard app with many pre-made decks (you can also create your own on their website and import decks from Anki) and the option to practice writing hanzi. Anki didn't work for me, but I find Tofu very helpful. Practicing writing helps me with character recognition, and it also helps me remember the tones thanks to the audio in the pre-made HSK decks.
Dot is a reading app with new texts being added every day. It used to be completely free, which actually seemed too good to be true, and then they put practically everything behind a paywall and very strict limits for free users. After a couple of months they made it a little less restricted though - we still can't choose the articles but we can read as many as we want as long as we do the vocabulary exercises after each article (plus, during the Spring Festival, they made all articles available for free for 3 days and we could save the ones we were interested in to read later). It follows the new, not-yet-implemented (and harder) HSK levels, so you should start one or two levels below yours and if the texts are too easy move up.
Google Translator: not the best but helpful when I need to translate whole sentences, plus I can point my camera or open an image and it translates writing.
Pleco: best Chinese to English dictionary.
Stroke Order: not an app but a website, does what it says in the tin: shows stroke order for a specific character.
YouGlish: also a website, you can put a word or phrase and it shows videos where people say that word/phrase. Very cool.
Todaii is a graded news app that has only two levels: easy and hard. I'm around level HSK4 and the "easy" level is quite hard though (but I admit reading is my nemesis).
I also use YouTube and Spotify a lot.
The most common diminutive suffixes in Iberia and most of Latin America.
A diminutive word or suffix is usually used in describing something small, often with the added suggestion that it is appealing or lovable in some way.
While the -ito ending is most common in Latin America, in countries like Colombia, Venezuela, Panamá, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, & parts of eastern Spain, they frequently use the endings -ico/-ica when the last consonant in the last syllable is a “t.”
The suffix ending “-illo” which is common in the Spanish region of Andalucía is also used throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Some ways to say “A tiny coffee” in Latin American, Canarian, & Andalucian Spanish:
“Un cafecito” (ito)
“Un cafecico” (ico)
“Un cafecillo” (illo)
In Costa Rica, where the people are known to call themselves “ticos” they are known to take the -ico diminutive suffix a step forward. Where in other countries a small coffee might be a “cafecito” or “cafecico” in Costa Rica it can also be a “cafecitico”.
“You are very small” in Spanish:
Eres chiquitito (ito)
Eres chiquitico (ico)
Eres chiquitillo (illo)
Eres chiquitín (ín)
Eres chiquitino (ino)
Eres chiquituco (uco)
Eres chiquitiko (iko, Judaeo-Spanish)
okay what did i miss
(yes some of these overlap and some are suppositions. for example if parchment is always used for ephemera, rough drafts, notes, and never re-used or re-purposed, we can also assume that the author is unaware of wax tablets as a concept)
Yiddish learning resources
YiddishPOP - A free online Yiddish resource, has lots of animated videos teaching grammar and vocabulary!
Yiddish Book Center - A collection of books (including audiobooks!), archival recordings, as well as oral histories, newspapers, and children’s books!
The Yiddish Forward - A daily online newspaper in Yiddish, the Yiddish counterpart to the Forward
Yiddish Dictionary Online - An online dictionary, it’s clunky, but good for figuring out vocabulary!
Vaybertaytch - A podcast in Yiddish that frequently discusses Queer and feminist issues in contexts of both modern and historical Yiddishkayt. I personally have been obsessed with this lately.
Yiddish Stories - A collection of stories in Yiddish by various authors, both written and read aloud
iVelt/Yiddishevelt - A general internet forum in Yiddish, generally home to both Yiddish learners and native speakers of modern Yiddish
Kave Shiebl - A similar internet discussion forum in Yiddish, generally less active than iVelt is
I will do my best to keep this updated! Please leave suggestions if anyone has any!!
