Teach me languages

20. native: Polish. fluent: English. learning/target: Japanese, Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish. wishlist: Dutch, Korean, Hebrew, Danish, Mandarin, Okinawa dialect

[lavidapoliglota]

me: I study Spanish

stranger: oh cool can you say something in Spanish then

me: not now you’ve used the Magic Phrase

[linguisticnerd]

Tfw you’re typing too fast on memrise and mess up

thestrugglingpolyglot (via yetanotherlanguage)

[af-hverju]

language hoe things

says they know/are more proficient in more languages then they actually are

demands that their native language is the most difficult to learn

has every language book out of the local library and hasn’t returned a single one. keeps renewing them. 

talks about how much they hate cases but does the whole “your language only has four shut up!1!” thing

against conlang yet wants to learn esperanto

only needs 3 months 

[hiragananinja]

Coffee break! Yabai!! Japanese Slang

Check more info  Yabai Japanese Slang by HiraganaNinja

[fake]

when did we replace the word “said” with “was like”

[roachpatrol]

i think it’s really interesting and cool actually that language has shifted so that ‘said’ implies that you’re quoting, while ‘was like’ means ‘i’m doing a general impression of this dude’. i mean you can’t really harsh on someone when ‘she was like aaah!’ means exactly that, doesn’t it? she was doing something very similar to the particular scream being made. so, ‘like’ indicates that you’re dealing with generalities and inexact terms, and want to convey the gist of things rather than focussing on exact phrasing and technical details—which is pretty great for young people, who are still developing cognitively and thus not always great at stringing a coherent sentence together. 

[jumpingjacktrash]

and then there’s “was all”, which tends to indicate a parody or exaggeration, or an even looser impression.

she said: “I know I’ve filed these for you before, but it’s really not part of my job duties and I’m very busy today.”

she was like: “done filing your paperwork, not my department, do it yourself.”

she was all: “shyeah, no.”

i am all in favor of flexibility in language and i think this is fantastic.

[omgkimwtf]

linguistics & the evolving language YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[vvesl]

if you talk to me about your native language i will listen for 9000 hours

[indielinguist]

I will listen for ever.

[dovalbun]

RIGHT so when I started my sociology course in college, my teacher stated us off with 

‘well I guess we have to do icebreakers. i’m Jon, and I fear bears. why do I fear bears? because bears can run at 30 miles per hour and Chester Zoo is 30 miles away. that means a bear can be outside this door in an hour. why would a bear be here? because they can smell fear and I fear them.’

[wolfsteps]

Your self-esteem won’t come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

[artpopintodarkness]

Linguists are people who never got over the fact that they could talk

(via artpopintodarkness)

[langstudyblr]

people: why do you always wear black?

me: tengo, tengo la camisa negra, porque negra tengo el alma

[aeternitatis]

My life with languages.

[djdarklink-deactivated20160502]

[lavidapoliglota]

me normally: fluency is a really difficult term and I don’t like to use it to define linguistic skills because there are so many understandings of what it means to be fluent and really I think we should assess competence rather than fluency because that’s easier to define and generally expresses a more realistic picture of the language learning process

me in job interviews: I guess I’m fluent in Polish, I know what dzień dobry means

[langstudyblr]

duolingo: you have a typo in your answer

me: .................................

me: ........... yeah...

me: ..... a typo....

[yetanotherlanguage]

Duolingo just released Ukrainian and Norwegian so obviously the only logical thing to do is to start learning both

[just-shower-thoughts]

I know more about WWII, which happened 50 years before I was born, than I do about the war Iraq War, which happened while I was alive

[langstudyblr]

i should totally actualize my bio lol