a fellow language nerd

exhausted student and also a language nerd. My native language is Turkish and I speak English and French. Currently practicing Italian.

[rivkahstudies]

12.30.2019 11:25 AM

I love setting up language journals. I got one for Portuguese & downloaded Anki just in time for the new year. My goal is to learn at least 1,500 words in 2020 (30 words a week) and get my level up to conversational. I'm sharing this goal with all of you so I'm sure to meet it. I've already learned 30 words in the past three days, since I've had a lot of time on my hands. That'll slow down as my second semester of sophomore year in college starts.

Hopefully I won't be too busy tomorrow and I can post a last reflection for 2019 rolling into 2020. But if I don't, Happy New Year everyone!

[stepstofluency]

looking for more studyblrs/langblrs!

hellooooo, can you please reblog (or like) this if you are an active studyblr/langblr?

+ feel free to message me and be my friend! 🍓

[para-referencia]

my favorite page from my 2020 bullet journal for now.

[nordic-language-love]

My dash has been a little devoid of langblr content lately so I’d really appreciate it if you could like/reblog/comment on this post if you’re a langblr who posts about any of the following:

Any nordic languages (especially Norwegian, Icelandic, Finnish and Old Norse, but also Danish, Swedish and Faroese)

Spanish

Tswana

Linguistics

Language-learning in general

[ravenlesslangblr]

Reblog if you’re an active studyblr/langblr

My dash has been very dead recently

[ravenlesslangblr]

Language learning listening&speaking tip!

I have only recently heard about this method to improve your listening comprehension alongside your speaking skills. It’s called shadowing.

The concept is that you listen to your target language recording whether it be radio, samples, a podcast… And you repeat immediately. Without stopping, simultaneously, as if you were an interpreter and had to belt out a translation right away. 

This helps you to truly sharpen your hearing skills since you have to say everything immediately afterwards. If you find it too had at first, try listening with a transcript. 

[polyglotswede]

Found this on instagram (languisto)

Not sure who excatlly made this but IM DEAD 😭😭

[strawblondiestudies]

Some of you may have seen the video I did on my study planner but I thought I would do a post on it too ^^ I’ve been working on a downloadable/printable study planner designed specifically with language learners in mind! It includes over 30 different pages that you can print as many times as you need. It’s meant to be flexible to each learner so you can pick and choose the pages you need and the order in which you need them. 

Pages include:

100 days of productivity Books to read/films to watch in your target language Daily, weekly, monthly and yearly planner pages Goals and grade trackers Key phrases, grammar, vocabulary and verbs pages Language study tracker Lesson summary and reflective learning journal Reading, writing, speaking and listening focus pages Resources and wishlist

You can download it here!

[thelanguagecommunity]

Many of you may know that I keep youtube playlists of language samples, and I thought it was about time to compile them all into one post. They contain pretty much anything where you can hear the language clearly – music, dialogues, tutorials, movie trailers, readings, etc. I’ll probably add more in the future. Hope someone finds them useful!

afrikaans

ainu

akkadian

albanian

american sign language (ASL)

amharic

arabic

aramaic

aranese

armenian

aromanian

assamese

asturian

aymara

azerbaijani

bashkir

basque

belarusian

belizean creole

bengali

berbice creole dutch

biblical (classical) hebrew

bosnian

brazilian portuguese

breton

british sign language

bulgarian

canadian french

cantonese

cape verdean creole

catalan

chechen

cherokee

chickasaw

coptic

cornish

corsican

cree

crimean tatar

croatian

crow

czech

danish

dogri

dutch

early modern english

egyptian

emilian-romagnol

esperanto

estonian

etruscan

faroese

fijian

finnish

flemish

french

french sign language (LSF)

frisian

fula (fulani, fulah, peul)

galician

gallo

garifuna

georgian

gottscheerish

greek

greenlandic

griko

gujarati

gullah

guyanese creole

haitian creole

hawaiian

hawaiian pidgin

hebrew

hiberno-english (irish english)

hindi

hindko

hittite

hungarian

icelandic

indonesian

irish

italian

jamaican patois

japanese

javanese

kannada

karelian

kashmiri

kazakh

khmer

kinyarwanda

konkani

korean

kristang

kurdish

kyrgyz

ladino

lakota

latin

latin american spanish

lebanese arabic

lemko

lithuanian

livonian

lombard

louisiana french

luganda

luo

luxembourgish

macedonian

malagasy

malay

malayalam

maltese

mandarin

maori

mariupol greek

martinique creole

mayan (general)

meitei (manipuri)

mirandese

mongolian

mossi

nahuatl

neapolitan

nheengatu (língua geral amazônica)

norwegian

nuosu (yi)

odia

ojibwe

okinawan

old english

old french

old norse

old welsh

pashto

pennsylvania german

persian

piedmontese

polari

polish

punjabi

rajasthani

rioplatense spanish

romani (general)

romanian

romansh

russian

ryukyuan

saint lucian creole

salish

sami (general)

samoan

santali

saraiki

scots

scottish gaelic

serbian

shanghainese (hu dialect, wu chinese)

shona

sicilian

silesian

sindhi

slovak

slovene

soga

somali

sumerian

swabian

swahili

swedish

swiss german

tagalog

tahitian

taíno

tajik

tamazight (general)

tamil

tatar

telugu

texas german

thai

tibetan

tlingit

tocharian

tokelauan

tongan

totonac

trinidadian french creole

tuareg

turkish

turkmen

ukrainian

urdu

uzbek

venetian

vietnamese

vurës

welsh

wolof

yiddish

zaza (zazaki)

zulu

[blue-spider-lily]

Hebrew in the demon world

I’m pretty sure you all already know that the rank system in Mairimashita! Iruma-kun manga (and anime) is based on the Hebrew alphabet buuut…

Why is no one talking about their writing system? 

Now, this is entirely anime thing (it’s not in the manga, I’ve checked) but they have their own writing system that is loosely based on the Hebrew alphabet. First - there are letters that look really similar and  Second - the rules are also similar -  they skip vowels sometimes I was supposed to study really bored so I took a closer look and deciphered some texts Basically, it’s Japanese written with pseudo-hebrew letters. And you can read it! Let’s see some exhibits, shall we?”

Exhibit A: Rank announcement board

this shit literally spells: S(h) I N N Y U U S E I  R A N K  H A P P Y O U which translates as New Students Rank Announcement.

Exhibit B: Signs

K I K E N - danger

K(u)R(u)N(a) - Stay away - here they skipped vowels

 Exhibit C: Clara’s book

H A J I M E T E  N O  Y U U W A K U - first seduction As you can see - you can read every text written this way like text messages Azz and Clara are sending to Iruma, that one Prophecy Scroll, etc. I don’t know why did they put so much effort into this since it wasn’t in the source material but it’s pretty neat, don’t you think? (or racist, depends on how you look at it because I’ve seen some people who didn’t like the Hebrew - demonology connotations but we’ll have to ask Hebrew speakers how they feel about it) Bonus: Iruma’s name

[linguageek]

GREETINGS LANGBLR

Hello! I am a law student from Turkey and I love learning languages, so I decided to share my studies on tumblr to motivate myself and maybe get a few friends from langblr.

Languages I can speak:

-Turkish (my native language)

-English (B2)

-French (B2)

-Italian (beginner, currently practicing)

Languages I want to learn: Russian, Finnish, Mandarin, Portuguese and Amharic.

Feel free to dm me! I’d love to make new friends and I can help you if you have any questions about Turkish or my experiences about learning foreign languages🌸🌸🌸