sounds like good clean scholarly fun

it's a language blog or whatever

[lavidapoliglota]

I am having a horrible time with my mental health for the thousandth time and on examination having spent so much of my adolescence and young adulthood on this hellsite is a huge part of it

it has eaten away at my soul and I have nothing left of myself

[elenianz-deactivated20200816]

You: *says English is hideous* ALSO YOU: *Writes in english*

Ну, я могу писать и на русском, но тогда меня никто не поймёт.

[tuxedosaiyan]

[lavidapoliglota]

recommend me some resources?

howdy gang, 好久不见, I’m trying to make some progress with my Mandarin after over a year of not studying it - I’m kind of post-beginner, but a lot of the grammar is lost on me after so many months of neglect

does anyone know of any resources that could help? 谢谢

[unclepolyglot]

asdfghjkl german is so adorable like the word for glove is Handschuh??? shoes for your hands?? so cute

[iohdjfjgdflfdpkd-deactivated201]

I approve of such feelings towards my native language

[dave-pen]

ksjdhfjdsfhl and the word for nipple is Brustwarze?? a wart for your breast!? fuckin adorable  😋😘😙😚😗💕❣💘💝

[hownottolearnalanguage]

what about Scheidenpilz?? a mushroom for your hoohah?? 🍄🍄🍄

[dave-pen]

Whats vagina mushroom?

[hownottolearnalanguage]

Yeast infection, my dude

[unclepolyglot]

what the heck happened to my post

[dave-pen]

if you can’t handle german at it’s breast wart, then you don’t deserve it at it’s hand shoe

[lavidapoliglota]

I really wanted Grammarly to change that to “Dani can write in two languages”

[lavidapoliglota]

listen, I may know literally nothing about the Democratic candidates for 2020

but Buttigieg taught himself Norwegian and speaks Spanish, Italian, Maltese, Arabic, Farsi, and French

so you know who’s my favourite

[disc80s]

me: okay this summer I will study the languages I want, I will download online grammar and vocabulary books, I will look for online sources and actually open the duolingo app

[lavidapoliglota]

hmmmmmmmmmm

[franzis-frantic-thoughts]

I started “Titans” on Netflix. One of the first scenes is set at a petrol station in Austria… there was an attempt

@official-german-translationen, @official-german-puns, @official-german-schulsystem

[lavidapoliglota]

I need to read faster because I want to learn everything, but if I want to learn everything I should really read slower

[lavidapoliglota]

actual language learning tip: looks like the babbel pricing is cheaper from the website than it is through the app, at least on android, so like, if you use babbel, double check the pricing

[omashuqueen]

[amer-ainu]

Outsiders are not not saving a language by learning it.

While I’m personally grateful services like Tribalingual exist, creating some academic access to Indigenous languages, particularly for Indigenous diaspora (if they can afford it), I’m extremely dubious of the notion that a outsiders learning an Indigenous language is somehow “saving” it. There was a testimonial from some white American girl learning Ainu itak, and she spoke of it as if she were collecting some rare Pokemon card before it went out of print or something, framing it in typical dying Native rhetoric. What is she going to do with Ainu itak, except as some obscure lingual trophy?

If you want to save a language, save the people.

Language means nothing without history and culture breathing life into it, and in turn we are disconnected from our history and ancestors without it. Support Indigenous quality of life, ACCESS to quality education, quality health services (mental and physical), land and subsistence rights, CLEAN DRINKING WATER, advocate against police brutality and state violence, DEMAND ACTION FOR MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN.

Damn, if you really want to “save the language” pay for an Indigenous person’s classes for them to reconnect to their mother tongues. I’m not saying outsiders shouldn’t learn languages they’re invited to learn, but don’t pretend like you learning conversational Ainu itak is saving it from extinction.

[b-bumb]

[linguistika]

This is what it’s like to learn a tonal language

[polyglotten]

FRIENDLY REMINDER that not everyone who’s interested in languages has an end goal of fluency or becoming a polyglot and that’s okay. it is very possible to study languages w/o wanting to become fluent. you can be interested in hundreds of languages or just one language. it’s up to you and you shouldn’t have to justify your interest or disinterest to anyone.

just remember that! now you may go on and proceed to have a lovely day.

[tecnobabushka]

Russian handwriting