je ne m'enfuis pas; je vole

22 / V (they, she, he) / Sweden French + German langblr I'm hot for grammar. My main blog, and only partly linguistic one, is over at hextechery, where you can find more of my interests!

[nudelstudion]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge / week 1, day 3

For today I’m creating a plain list instead of a mindmap, but lists are cool. Topics relevant to me (in varying broadness! and in no particular order):

university and education

D&D and fantasy

psychology

literature and poetry

housing (and household supplies)

exercise

music

[indoorhyena]

week one, day two: langblr reactivation challenge

designed lovingly by @prepolyglot 🪡

i'm told the prompt for day two is to make a list of goals for my target languages, so here we go!

overarching goals:

- move abroad, study eastern european (and specifically slavic) languages and their philology. i am russian, but i have lived in america most of my life, so visiting and practicing feels like home to me. it's one of the most important things in my life. i also think languages like polish and lithuanian are extremely beautiful, ideally i would never stop learning about these in the grand sense, even outside of formal schooling.

- use posts like these as an opportunity to journal and write about my day to day life, keep in touch with myself about where we're at and how it affects us (me) (i'm us)

smaller goals:

- continue on my study track with french flashcards. i have found a deck that i enjoy very much and it's EXTREMELY well-made!

- find a good deck for intermediate russian vocabulary. perhaps i need to make my own for this, but finding audio for each anki card will be time consuming

- continue listening to foreign jams and see if i find any new artists that i really love

- read a book in russian every so often. read a book in french once i feel comfortable enough! structure my day in a way that allows short bursts of reading (like on a commute or while cooking. or before bed!)

- try a 1-3 month challenge to see if i can jump start my vocabulary ability and gain confidence in a language learning setup that works for me

- dont take myself too seriously or beat myself up over it. i have adhd which puts me at a very tangible disadvantage and i need to uncouple my expectations for myself in high school with the way my world works now. be realistic. be forgiving with myself.

- keep up with langblr reactivation challenge! check in even just to say i've completed nothing.

- maybe get back into duolingo (not a great primary resource, but good for motivation and re-centering when i get off track!)

- use these posts to show you guys fun stuff in my life. that's a photo of my friend's cat and that's a photo of me in my bathroom. ravissante!

thanks for reading, chaps.

[eraandlanguages]

Langblr reactivation challenge | Week 1 | Day 2

I think I will mostly speak of Swedish now as it is my priority language. I have achieved what I wanted when it comes to Dutch (intermediate level - can read, listen to and watch media with understanding of what's happening, but the language needs some practice so I don't forget it).

Swedish short-term goals:

Finish A1+A2 theory (currently working on Rivstart textbook+workbook+grammar revision)

Read 2-3 books beginner level

Start practicing my active vocabulary and either do some writing challenge or start talking to myself (I have not scheduled it so it's a bit vague)

Watch a cartoon or a teenager TV-series

Swedish long-term goals:

Reach Intermediate level B1-B2 theory-wise

Get comfortable with reading any adult books

Be able to understand radio/podcasts/videos all exclusive in Swedish

Manage to speak the language enough to communicate

Dutch short-term goals:

Get back to reading one of the books I dropped several years ago

Dutch long-term goals:

Potentially get more active practice to keep the language at a decent level

Be able to enjoy reading and listening without need of translation

[nudelstudion]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge / week 1, day 2

Overall goals I’ve been thinking about lately:

improving my speaking and listening

repeat vocabulary or grammar rules

More specific goals:

learning the subjonctif

become more confident with conjugations

finishing L’Ètranger

finishing Harry Potter à l’école des sorciers (and later the entire series)

writing little stories in French or translating bits of my own work

As for German, which is a language on ice for me at the moment as I’m focusing on French, I’d like to someday finish reading The Hunger Games. Only one book left in the series!

[nudelstudion]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge / week 1, day 1

Hey, again! I’m V, 22 years old from Sweden (they/she/he). My target language is French though I’ve also studied a bit of German, and other than that I’m fluent in Swedish (native) and English. Mostly I’m just looking forward to having some fun with this challenge. I know I won’t be able to participate regularly but it would be fun to do a couple of things at least. Now that I think about it I might post things in Swedish as well as a way to hopefully help others out, because I’ve seen a couple of people on here having it as one of their target languages. So feel free to ask me anything and everything about Swedish! I’ll answer to the best of my ability, if I remember to check this blog. Mostly I’m just messing around over on my main blog @hextechery.

[prepolyglot-moved]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge

Hello everyone! As you may know I've created this challenge to help revive the langblr community. It's a three week challenge designed to get you back into learning languages and (hopefully) give you ideas on how to study and share your knowledge of them. It is completely optional to do, but try to reblog other people's posts if you aren't participating.

The challenge is designed to be done daily, however if you miss a day, you can go back and do it later or continue from where you left off. I do encourage you to do your best to keep up with the challenge though. Tag your posts with #langblr reactivation challenge so that others can find your posts.

If you have any questions, please send me an ask or a message and I'll do my best to answer it.

I'll put the prompts under a read more so this post isn't ridiculously long. Good luck to everyone participating! Remember the best way to promote the langblr revival is by reblogging other people's work.

Week 1

Day 1: Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge? Add whatever else you’d like to your introduction post!

Day 2: Write a list of goals you have for your target languages. Make both long term and short term goals. An overall goal could be to have the ability to talk with native speakers with ease and a smaller goal would be to finally learn that difficult grammar point that's been plaguing you for ages. How will you achieve them?

Day 3: Create a list or a Mindmap of vocabulary topics. Start with a broad topic and narrow down to more specific topics. An example could be bedroom - furniture - closet - clothes or travelling - languages - study words - school supplies. Keep a hold of this because you'll use it later to create vocab to study. Some broad topics to start with: house, school, work, travelling, friends and family, nature, city. Feel free to use these or think of your own. Share your mindmap so others can get some ideas if they need it. Here are some mind map creation tools (x) (x) (x).

Day 4: Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people's lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!

Day 5: Find a video in your target language and watch it as many times as you need to in order to understand it. Make a post about the video. What was it about? Did you like the video? Was it difficult to understand? Make sure you link the video. Try to write your answers in your target language, but if you can’t that’s okay!

Day 6: Look up 3 idioms in your target language and explain what they mean and how you use them in a sentence (with an example!).

Day 7: Send asks to other langblrs (bonus points if it's in a shared target language!) asking them about whatever (for example, ask how their day was, ask questions about their target languages, or share some of your thoughts with them). If you receive one, answer it! You can ask more than one person and it can be on or off anon.

Week 2

Day 1: Over the next week, create a playlist/playlists of songs in your target language(s), they can either have a specific mood or genre or they can be a collection of songs you've discovered. When you feel like you're done with your playlist, share it so others can find some new songs. If you already have a playlist, you can add songs to it and update it.

Day 2: Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.

Day 3: Either make a vocab list or find a vocab list you like and make sentences using those words. You can make them as long or as short as you like. This is a good way to contextualise vocab words and learn them in context. Share your sentences and highlight the vocab word.

Day 4: Record yourself reading an article, short story, or passage (basically anything written in your target language). Listen to it and see if you can point out any areas you can improve with your speaking and any areas that you're doing well. You can post your recording if you wish.

Day 5: Post at least 2 songs that you like in your target language. Make sure you add a link to them so people can go listen to them.

Day 6: Share a study tip you have. This can range from how you organize your notes to playlists that help you study to apps you use to review. Just something that you find makes studying easier (and more fun).

Day 7: Share with everyone some langblrs you enjoy seeing on your dash, try to put at least 5 people (and make sure you @ them!).

Week 3

Day 1: Remember that playlist you made/are making? Take a song you really like and make a vocab list of words you don't understand, learned from the song, or recognize but don't quite remember. Post so others can see and link the song. If you have extra time and/or want a bit more of a challenge, translate the song as well, either into English or another language.

Day 2: Write about a festival or holiday that is celebrated in a country that speaks your target language. This can be either something you’ve celebrated yourself, have wanted to participate in, or have never heard of before. You can write this in any language you’d like.

Day 3: Make another vocab list from the list you made at the beginning of the challenge. If you are learning two or more languages, make the vocab list in 3 languages (meaning for example: French, German, and English or Japanese, Arabic, and Ukrainian).

Day 4: Find a recipe written in your target language and translate it into your native language (or another language of your choice) or find a recipe in your native language and translate it into your target language. Bonus points if you actually make it (share pictures if you do)!

Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.

Day 6: Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.

Day 7: How do you feel at the end of this challenge? Did you meet any goals while doing this? Do you feel more confident in your language abilities? Where do you think you'll go from here? Answer these questions either in your native language or your target language.

Hopefully you guys enjoy/enjoyed this challenge. After you've completed the challenge, I encourage you to continue your studies in your target languages and support others in theirs.

[nudelstudion]

A collection of my favourite poems in English without any particular theme:

Sounds of the Winter by Walt Whitman

The Leash by Ada Limón

Blue Vase by Cynthia Zarin

Accidental Blues Voice by Anna Journey

Vapor by Sara Eliza Johnson

At the Last by Witter Bynner

[nudelstudion]

For me, language practising has very much fallen in my priorities. Not being allowed to physically attend uni has given me loads of more time, so I’ve started practising bass again, more properly -- meaning scales, and, stuff -- while participating in this year’s escapril. In my spare time I work on music and my novel, so I’m finding it a bit difficult to “fit” languages into my daily activities. However, I’m queuing to read the rest of the Hunger Games in German, so I’m looking forward to that. Still really, really love languages.

[nudelstudion]

Langblr activation challenge

I figured the least I could do for the langblr activation challenge (w2), given hooow faaar I’ve fallen behind, would be to recommend a few (but important!) of the langblrs I follow in an attempt to cling to linguistics. All the love to these people (and thank you):

@fluencylevelfrench, @frenchy-french, @prepolyglot, @la-linguistique, @lovinmybaguettes

Needless to say, I could use with some more German.

[nudelstudion]

Tödliche Spiele: Die Tribute von Panem

So, as part of my monthly reading challenge this year, I read the first novel in the Hunger Games series in German. These are some of the words I figured out along the way or were way too frequent for me not to look up! It’s a short and sweet word list of vocabulary I’m taking with me, short partly because I have to return it to the library tomorrow.

die Wange, die Wangen – cheek

wütend – furious

während – while (conjunction)

flüstern – to whisper

der Bach, die Bäche – creek

der Vorrat, die Vorräte – supply

die Kettenreaktion – chain reaction

der Friedenswächter – peacekeeper

das Füllhorn – cornucopia

der Schlafsack, die Schlafsäcke – sleeping bag

entkommen – to escape

schwellen – to swell

der Ernte – reaping

[nudelstudion]

Langblr activation challenge

Here’s what I’m talking about.

Hi! I’m inactive deluxe on this blog, but this is a fun initiative.

I’m V, 19 years old and I study psychology. My native language is Swedish, but I’m pretty good at English as well. I’ve been studying French for seven years in school and German for nearly four, so I’m ready to take my learning to the next level and just finished reading the first book of the Hunger Games in German! I’m also halfway through Nos Étoiles Contraires (The Fault in our Stars). 

When I’m not languing, I study psychology at university and work on music projects and a novel. I also exercise frequently, whether it be yoga, pilates, going to the gym or taking classes. If you want to chat about languages, writing, Critical Role or something else, my main tumblr is @whellks, where I’m actually active. Sometimes. 

This blog is a mess! It will be fun!

[nudelstudion]

Vocabulary from Le Petit Prince, pt.2, chapters XVI - XXVII

The second dose of vocabulary from Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince:

Adjectives

quelconque - any

doré, dorée - golden

Adverbs

côte à côte - side by side

tantôt - sometimes

Nouns

une aiguille - a needle

un blé - (a) wheat

une chenille - a caterpillar

une consigne - a deposit

une épargne - a saving

une girouette - a weathervane

un pli - a crease

un pommier - an apple tree

un puits - a well

un roc - a rock

un tabouret -  a stool

un tarif - a tax

un tonner - (a) thunder

une vigne - a vineyard

Verbs

(s’)abriter - to shelter (oneself)

aiguiser - to hone

apprivoiser - to tame

entasser - to pile

offusquer - to offend

se remuer - to stir

renflouer - to refloat

tonner - to thunder

[nudelstudion]

La Planète des singes: le vocabulaire

La Planète des singes est un roman écrit par Pierre Boulle (1912-1994) en 1963. Il est un écrivain français plus connu pour ses romans La Planète des singes et Le Pont de la rivière Kwai.

Adjectifs

aplati, aplatie - flattened

atterré, atterrée - aghast

ému, émue - affected

encéphalique - encephalic (of or relating to the brain)

épais, épaisse - thick, heavy

déguisé, déguisée - disguised

grillagé, grillagée - meshed

irréfutable - irrefutable

lointaines - distant, remote

paille - straw-coloured

paresseux, paresseuse - lazy

posé, posée - laid

précoce - precocious

ravi, ravie - delighted, ravished

rougeâtre - reddish

saillant, saillante - protruding

stupéfait, stupéfaite - stunned

tiède - lukewarm

velu, velue - hairy

Adverbes

avec méthode - methodically, strategically

couramment - fluently

dès lors - since then, thenceforth

juste en face - right in front

Noms

une angoisse - an anguish, an anxiety

une auberge - a hostel

une bâche - a tarpaulin

un carnet - a notebook, a pocket book

un délire - a delirium

un dompteur - a tamer

une ère - an era

un fouet - a whip

un fusil - a rifle

une mâchoire - a jaw

une méfiance - a mistrust

un miaulement - a meow

un museau - a muzzle, a snout

une paille - a straw

une peau - a skin

un piéton - a pedestrian

un rocher - a rock

un scaphandrier - a diver

un seigneur - a lord

une seringue - a syringe

un sifflet - a whistle

un vacarme - a din, a noise

un vol - a flight

Phrases

ne pas se faire de souci - don’t worry

Verbs

acquérir - to acquire

amener - to bring, to induce

anesthésier - to anaesthetise 

reculer - to back, to retreat

miauler - to meow

secouer - to shake

siffler - to whistle

subir - to undergo, to suffer

se tenir - to hold

tourmenter - to torment

ululer - to whoop

[nudelstudion]

Liste de choses à faire, semaine 16

Fais une analyse d’Humain à l’eau par Stromae

Compile une liste des mots et quelques pensées de moi

Lis quelques chapitres de La planète des Singes pour F5 au lycée

Compile une liste des mots

Pratique de lire (quelque/-s article/-s au Figaro)

Parle d’un sujet du site fluentu - décris le jour ou réponds une personne au télé (en français)

La grammaire de la semaine: encore/toujours

[nudelstudion]

Vocabulary from Le Petit Prince, pt.1, chapters I - XV

Hey! V here. I’m currently reading Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry for my French class, so here is some of the new vocab I’ve picked up on:

Adjectives

fier, fière - proud

grincheux, grincheuse - grumpy

lugubre - dismal

orgueilleux, orgueilleuse - prideful, arrogant

sotte - foolish

vierge - virgin- or maidenlike

Adverbs

à la légére - lightly

à peine - hardly, barely

au hasard - randomly

de loin - from afar

en lui-même - by himself

quant à - as for, regarding

voire - indeed

Expressions

avoir de la peine - to grieve

ça ne fait rien - it doesn’t matter

du premier coup d’œil - at first sight

il s’en fut - he didn’t bother

un éclat de rire - a burst of laughter

Nouns

un arbuste - a bush

un bonhomme - a boy, a lad

un boulon - a bolt

un brindille - a twig

un buveur, un ivrogne - a drinker

un coucher de soleil - a sunset

un épine - a thorn

une évasion - an escape

un marteau - a hammer

un préambule - a preamble, an introduction

une proie - a prey

un réverbère - a street light

un troupeau - a herd

Verbs

apercevoir - to glimpse, to perceive

arracher - to snatch, to extract

arroser - to water

avaler - to swallow, to gulp

bâiller - to yawn

breveter - to patent

cueillir - to collect

frotter - to scrub, to rub

gonfler - to inflate, to pump up

par conséquent - therefore, thus

parvenir à faire qc - to be able to do something

ramoner - to soot

s’enfoncer - to sink into

s’étirer - to stretch, to elongate oneself

se fier à (qn) - to trust (someone)

se hâter - to hurry

songer - to daydream, to contemplate

soulever - to lift 

tâtonner - to fumble

tousser - to cough