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learning: spanish

[languageoclock]

[languageoclock]

when you you hear someone speaking your target language but then realise that you don’t understand them

[somelinguisticshit]

Encouragement in Russian

Cheer up! — Не унывай(те)! Chin up! — Выше голову! Every cloud has a silver lining. — Нет худа без добра. It’s not the end of the world. — Это не конец света. Lighten up! — Расслабься! Practice makes perfect. — Повторение - мать ученья. Smile! — Улыбнись! There’s no use crying over spilt milk. — Слезами горю не поможешь. Worse things happen at sea. — Бывает и хуже. You’re coming along well — У тебя хорошо получается! Keep up the good work — Так держать That’s a good effort — Ты хорошо поработал That’s a real improvement — Это реальный прогресс You’re on the right lines — Вы/ты на верном пути Keep going — Продолжай(те) Come on, you can do — Давай, ты сможешь

[useless-swedenfacts]

The Swedish National Land Survey will release a minecraft map that is a to-scale map of the whole of Sweden.

All of Sweden will be available for download Dec 18 2015.

[themyrmor]

[evanthorizon]

All of Sweden will be available for download. All. Of. Sweden.

[mica-padilla]

Spanish prepositions…You are the pink dot

[misshermionestranger]

when i get the Duolingo question wrong because I misspelled a word in my native language.

[languageworshiper]

French Person: I've got four twenties, ten and nine problems and the way my language counts is one of them

[lingasms]

learning a language related to a language you already speak

[polylingualfailure]

The Polyglot Cycle

Devotes time to one language

Discovers more languages

Wants to learn them

Tries to juggle learning 58 languages at once

Can’t

Goes back to one language

Cycle continues

[godswithinus-deactivated2019041]

When your clippers 🔥🔥🔥 as shit

[letitbesome-jazzplaying]

Ayeee

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[polandcanintospace-blog]

Part of me doesn’t want to spread the ‘kurwa’ stereotype, but just observe how subtly the amount of ‘a’s and ‘u’s changes depending on the reaction… 

[languageoclock]

[polnitsch]

That language learner feel: saw a show called “easy chinese” and got excited before I realised it was a cooking show…

[raumdeuter-deactivated20190603]

me @ that müller assist

[useless-finlandfacts]

i can smell the eurovision it’s so close

[haxyr3]

Different Ways To Say “Fall In Love” In Russian

Poetic/ Bookish/ High style: Воспылать стратью (к кому-то) — lit. Be on fire with passion

High style/ Neutral: Почувствовать влечение (к кому-то) — lit. To feel attraction

High style/ Neutral: Потерять голову (от кого-то) — lit. To lose one’s head/mind

Neutral: Влюбиться (в кого-то) — to fall in love

Colloquial/Slang: Запасть (на кого-то)— to have a crush on smb.

Low/ “Simple speech”/ Colloqial: Втюхаться, врюхаться, втюриться (в кого-то) - to have a crush on smb. (with some local variations)