안녕. 저는 미스티예요. 저는 23살이에요. 한국어 아주 조금 할 수 있어요. 그런데 잘 못 알아들어요.. ----- corrects are welcome! [and probably needed]

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안녕. 저는 미스티예요. 저는 23살이에요. 한국어 아주 조금 할 수 있어요. 그런데 잘 못 알아들어요.. ----- corrects are welcome! [and probably needed]
i decided to re-write my korean notes
and i found so many mistakes in the first batch that i'm so glad i'm rewriting.
Not languagy stuff but
So I colourcode my phone calendar [green for work shift, pink for day off, reddish orange for my gf's payday, blue for mine, and then purple for normal days/events like birthdays etc] Since my work schedule goes Sat-Fri, I usually have 2/7 "Pink" days. This week, I have 3/7 "Green" days.
With one day being a short 3h45m shift. Cries
so i was writing my name today and for some reason when i was making a capital E my brain wanted to start writing in Korean
i think this is a good thing???
spreadingsassyaroundtheworld replied to your post: “tumblinguists are getting extremely pretentious and it’s driving me...”:
Also, the whole "I hate it when new speakers try to talk to me, who do they think they are?" but still preach that beginners should be respected thing...
exactly. ugh it's like tumblinguists now equal tumblr in general. i stopped using my fandom blog because of how shitty people have gotten. i'd rather not have to stop using my language blog because people here are doing the same thing.
This is why I can't speak any language properly
Program: How do you say "Do you speak Japanese?" Me after an hour of studying: いいえはなしますか Program: にほんごはなしますか Me: .... I literally just said "Do you speak no."
tumblinguists are getting extremely pretentious and it's driving me insane. yes getting asked questions and having incorrect phrases told to you is annoying, but like "don't you mix up languages?!" is a legitimate question. saying a phrase incorrectly shows interest in a language, but an inability to grammar correctly "what's the secret to language learning?" is actually legitimate because there are ~* secrets *~ there's scientific proof that some people are better at language than others [ie: secret, magic, etc] so y'all can stop right now with this better-than-thou attitude you all seem to have gotten recently.
Hello Monty Python. 1. Misty, Queen of the Americans 2. To seek the Holy Happiness. 3. African or European?
reblog if you want anonymous questions
when you're trying to work on Grammar better and you're just like
"what the fuck is that"
"what is this?"
"google pls tell me"
"what"
zoe is helping me understand quite a bit and i love her so much
@penguinflu replied to your photo: “Korean grammar notes from Mango. My handwriting is starting to look...”:
lol i don't think there is a ㄷ in this picture :S but i love this! i never knew how to write ㄹ /naturally/
penguinflu replied to your photo: “Korean grammar notes from Mango. My handwriting is starting to look...”:
wait, never mind.. there is a ㄷ in the center *facepalms*
My point stands pfft but omg ㄹgave me some many problems when I started learning how to write that it's the main reason i stopped for like 6-7 months. I couldn't do it and it frustrated me and I gave up [look at my icon for instance, it doesnt look natural at all] And then I started looking at handwriting using Google images and I realised it's literally just making a Z. and i was like "Oh."
Korean grammar notes from Mango. My handwriting is starting to look more natural [notice, I siad "natural" not "perfectly legible". lol] I still need to figure out a comfortable way to write "ㄷ" so it doesn't come out looking like a sloppy "ㄴ" (and vice versa) though.
Fr- FALSE FRIEND of the day
FR
chance, n.f. : luck - (chance, not main meaning)
chanceux (-se), adj. : lucky, fortunate
EN
chance, n.: hasard, probabilité - occasion - coïncidence
to chance, v. tr.: hasarder, risquer - découvrir qqch par hasard
See yesterday’s false friend: hasard / hazard
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What sub-field of linguistics should you be in?
I got phonologist, of course.
Phonetician. Yes that’s not a surprise.
I got syntactician no I literally don’t even know what diagrams are (i am beginning to figure out a way for me to learn though)
I got syntactician too. I’m not entirely sure what to think………… I really like socioling, but apparently I’d be good at being a syntactician???
Oh thank fuck - I got sociolinguist. I’m not gonna lie, I was kinda dreading finding out there was something else I should be doing.
I also got sociolinguist. So it’s a good thing that I happen to find socio interesting, I suppose.
Oh god, I got syntactician. I’m terrible at syntax. Sticking with socioling instead…
oh my goodness I got syntactician NOOOOOOO (I’m not particularly terrible at syntax but it’s not my favorite subfield at all. I much prefer phonetics or socioling.)
Sociolinguists! :)
Syntactician. To be honest I was expecting sociolinguist, but I do like order and grammar so, that does sort of make sense.
Historical Linguist
The Suffixed Article
Iceland has no indefinite article (English ‘a’, ‘an’), but it has a definite one (English ‘the’). However, unlike English, the article is attached to the end of the word as a suffix, not before it. In addition, both the noun and the suffixed article need to be declined.
Masculine:
nom sg: -inn, acc sg: -inn, dat sg: -num, gen sg: -ins
nom pl: -nir, acc pl: -na, dat pl: -num, gen pl: -nna
So, for example, we find hesturinn, hestinn, hestinum, hestsins, hestarnir, hestana, hestunna, hestanna.
Feminine:
nom sg: -in, acc sg: -ina, dat sg: -inni, gen sg: -innar
nom pl: -nar, acc pl: -nar, dat pl: -num, gen pl: -nna
So, for example, we find kinnin, kinnina, kinninni, kinnarinnar, kinnarnar, kinnarnar, kinnunum, kinnana.
Neuter:
nom sg: -ið, acc sg: -ið, dat sg: -nu, gen sg: -ins
nom pl: -in, acc pl: -in, dat pl: -num, gen pl: -nna
So, for example, we find barnið, barnið, barninu, barnsins, börnin, börnin, börnunum, barnanna.
Notice that the dative and genitive plural articles are the same, regardless of gender.
A few things to watch out for though:
The loss of -m in the dative plural because of n-m clash (hence hestunum, not hestumnum).
The loss of -a in the genitive plural after á, ó, ú in all feminine nouns and certain masculine and neuters (ánna, not áanna… skónna, not skóanna).
The loss of -u in feminine and neuter -ur nouns (lifrin, not lifurin… hreiðrið, not hreiðurið).
The loss of -i in monosyllabic articles after a, i , u, é (tímann, not tímainn… tréð, not tréið), and in disyllabic articles in masculine/neuter dat sg (staðnum, not staðinum… búinu, not búiinu) and feminine acc/dat/gen sg after a vowel (liljunnar, not liljuinnar). Technically this loss also occurs in disyllabic articles attached to all plural nouns, but we already shortened them for you in the above paradigms (-num is technically -inum, etc.).
Many of these happen for obvious reasons and shouldn’t be too difficult to remember when happened upon. Like áanna clearly doesn’t look right… this isn’t Finnish. XD
And, if you’re ever confused about whether or not you’re doing it right, BÍN provides the correct noun+article combinations alongside the standard noun declensions.
The Free Article
In addition to the suffixed article Icelandic also has a free article, which is actually the full form of the suffixed article (hinn/hin/hið). However, it’s not commonly seen. The reason is that it’s only possible if an adjective intervenes (hinn góði maður), and even then the suffixed article can still be used (góði maðurinn). While relatively unheard in spoken language, it’s common enough in literary and formal settings to warrant knowing.
Masculine:
nom sg: hinn, acc sg: hinn, dat sg: hinum, gen sg: hins
nom pl: hinir, acc pl: hina, dat pl: hinum, gen pl: hinna
Feminine:
nom sg: hin, acc sg: hina, dat sg: hinni, gen sg: hinnar
nom pl: hinar, acc pl: hinar, dat pl: hinum, gen pl: hinna
Neuter:
nom sg: hið, acc sg: hið, dat sg: hinu, gen sg: hins
nom pl: hin, acc pl: hin, dat pl: hinum, gen pl: hinna
Notice again that the dative and genitive plurals are the same. This will also apply to Adjectives, which we’ll see next week!