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french | 22 | linguistics major

[frenchiepal]

09.02.25 🌠 i wasn't sure whether i'd be able to write three term papers in one and a half months even before i found out one is twice as long as i'd thought. now all i can do pray and sacrifice a lamb.

[frenchiepal]

18.11.24 since someone (me) decided to put presentations within the span of two weeks, life has been stressful (╥﹏╥) and it's so freaking cold outside ❄️

🎧 - enough by ateez

[caramelcuppaccino]

the rumors are true: german b1 level is demanding and i am, in fact, lowkey struggling. gotta keep going though.

[a-study-in-dante]

July 9th, 2024 | I've been stuck in a reading slump for the past weeks (or months if I'm being honest) so it's time to get back to Annie Ernaux and let her work her magic.

[frenchiepal]

3.7.24 🌇 exam season is upon us :/ luckily it's not too bad this semester, just one oral exam and one take-home exam. i should be super relaxed but i can't help but feel a bit anxious about everything....

[frenchiepal]

24.5.24 🥳 no laptop pics today because i finally finished my ba thesis! my relief is immeasurable and my summer is saved <3

[catchymemes]

[labrador-entity]

You are like baby. Watch this

[sun-ni-day]

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[how-to-get-away-with-study]

Old school libraries and archives 📖

[frenchiepal]

- 📸 snapshots from the last few weeks

my motivation fluctuates a lot but lately my daily mantra of "i can do it i can do it i can do it" kinda helped tbh

[augustlanguages]

When you first start learning a language the meaning of all of the words that you learn depend entirely on the equivalent word in a language you speak, and without that word to give it a meaning it would just be a random sound to you, but later on you don’t need that equivalent word for the new words you’ve learned to have meaning anymore and they just exist on their own in your brain without attachment to any other languages and I think that that’s my definition of fluency, when the words stop depending on another language for meaning in your mind

[just-shower-thoughts]

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

[cynopansy]

They do actually!

[mauve-moth]

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

[hotmolasses]

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.” 

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea!  The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn.  I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did.  So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”

[wrote-my-own-deliverance]

My moms a sign language interpreter, and she’s signed with people from all over the US. According to her, when she signs with people from the south they sign with a “drawl.” They have slower hand movements and exaggerate certain parts of the sign. People from the Midwest sign very fast and people from the south sign very slow.

So we were at a restaurant once and my mom started interpreting for someone who was trying to order and she was like “oh you’re from the south!”

And they were like “how did you know that?”

And she said “you sign with a drawl.” And they were really surprised that it came through that much.

It’s really interesting that even when not speaking verbally accents and heritage come through.

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

Humans are so fucking fascinating

[faggotry-enjoyer]

@official-linguistics-post

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[mi-studies]

[research life]

The start of a new semester! Some snippets of the recent study sessions🎀✨📖

[gushuwa-deactivated20241004]

13.03.24 wtf is even latin. i’m especially enjoying the difference between the second and third conjugation verbs. like why 🐸

[mariagoesmed]

golden hour 💛🧡

[literaryaida]

8.3.24 | golden hour in my favorite cafe getting some writing done 🌞

[frenchiepal]

-> study date at the library with a friend

-> went to the movies to treat ourselves

-> found out my ba advisor works part-time as a dj and only plays german rap so now i'll have to consider if my degree is really worth it

[frenchiepal]

i just made a revolutionary meme