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I'd rather be in outer space 🛸
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Language moodboard: Croatian
Croatia has always been a place of eternal holidays to me. Always hot, always sunny. Sea, sunlight, salt, the smoke of cigarettes, the rough stones on the beach and the smooth stones in the towns, warm nights, books, dresses, bare legs…that’s Croatia to me. And that’s Croatian to me.
all photos are mine
Susanna’s French Verb Masterpost!
Hello! I’ve been inundated recently with messages from lovely studyblrs asking me to post the verbs from my French verb wall - so voilá! I’m really sorry for the delay, I’ve been meaning to get around to it for ages, but what with oral exams, art projects, geography projects, graduation planning and general Head Girl stuff it’s been hectic.
I hope these help a few of you out, I know from experience how difficult it is to find a concise collection of all the French verbs (or certainly those necessary for the Leaving Cert/similar exams). I love having these stuck up on my wall beside my desk, they make French homework an absolute doddle. And by the way, my mum is a French teacher, so you can rest assured that this isn’t a load of ol’ inaccurate baloney!
Hope you all have a splendid day!
Winter Greetings in Russian
Here are a few phrases that you may use for your holiday greetings when talking or chatting with your Russian friends:
С Новым годом! - lit. (My greetings to you) with the New Year!, Happy New Year!
Счастливого нового года! - Happy New Year!
Пусть новый год принесёт тебе (Вам for formal, вам for plural) счастья, удачи, радости, здоровья, любви, процветания, успехов - May the New Year bring to you happiness, good luck, joy, good health, love, prosperity, success… Mind you, all the wishes should be in Genitive
Счастья, улыбок и радости в новом году - Happiness, smiles and joy in the New year! (again, the wishes should be in the Genitivee case).
С Новым годом и Рождеством! - Happy New Year and Christmas! If your friends are religious, you may modify to:
С Новым годом и Рождеством Христовым!
Со светлым праздником Рождества Христова! - lit. (My greetings) with the light (=holy) day of the Birth of Christ!
Just a reminder: the Russian orthodox church celebrates Christmas on January 7th.
Update: Sure, all the wishes are in Genitive! Sorry for the confusion!
Novara di Sicilia (Sicily, Italy) by Rosario Timpone
If your job can be taken by a hypothetical unskilled, non-English-speaking illegal immigrant or outsourced worker, I’m going to give you some bad advice.
I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave millennials: stop whining, you’re not entitled to anything and nobody owes you a job.
I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave minimum wage workers: stop being lazy. Get a skill. work harder and you’ll move up.
I’m going to give you the same bad advice you gave sexual assault victims: you should have made better choices and this wouldn’t have happened to you.
And when you find that this advice is not helpful or even true, then instead of attacking your fellow worker, the one who’s willing to work for less than a legal wage to feed his family, maybe you should go after the structures of power that allow and incentivize your employer’s choice to relocate your job.
This is amazing
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I’VE GIVEN UP in French
Au comble du désespoir - in the depths of despair
Baisser les bras - to give up/surrender
Donner sa langue au chat - to give up (guessing)
Jeter l’éponge - to throw in the towel
Lâcher l’affaire - to give up/throw in the towel
Lâcher prise - to let go/give up
Le désespoir - hopelessness/despair
Perdre (tout) espoir - to lose (all) hope
Perdre/abandonner tout espoir de faire (qch) - lose all hope of doing/give up hope of doing
rengracier (argotique) - to call it a day/give up
Renoncer à - to give up on something
Se désespérer - to despair/lose hope
Beirut, lebanon 🇱🇧
this is like a painting in motion
It’s so much easier to find langblrs that have the word “languages” or “polyglot” in the url, so if you are a langblr that DOESN’T have these words in the url, please reblog this so I can take a look at your blog and perhaps follow it!
Vocabulaire français - des verbes
remorquer - to tow, lug
râler - to grumble, complain, gasp
ébranler - to shake, rattle, weaken
sonder - to sound, plumb, probe, survey
germer - to germinate, sprout, grow
étreindre - to embrace, clasp, clutch, choke
remuer - to move, touch, stir
étouffer - to suffocate, stifle, smother
bêler - to bleat, whine
gémir - to moan, whine
s’égarer - to get lose, lose one’s way, digress
ficeler - to tie up, bind
frotter - to rub, scrape, scrub
délier - to untie, undo, unknot
énerver - to annoy, irritate
effarer - to alarm, frighten
crisper - to tense, contract
haleter - to pant
balbutier - to stammer, stutter
bégayer - to stammer, stutter
harceler - to harass, pester
accabler - to impose, overwork, overburden
épier - to observe, spy on
délayer - to mix, water, dilute
éventrer - to disembowel, gut
étreindre - to embrace, clasp, clutch, grasp
sévir - to hit, strike
Words taken from: Le Horla (Maupassant)
next time someone tells you Muslim countries oppress women, let them know Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Turkey, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, and Senegal have all had female Presidents or Prime Ministers and 1/3rd of Egypt’s parliament is female but the US has yet to even have a female vice president and can’t say “vagina” when discussing female reproductive rights
I just cracked my screen I reblogged this so hard.
A year of unspeakable suffering and renewed hope – here is United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) 2016 Year in Review. http://www.unocha.org/2016_year_in_review/#top
THE LIST
My “Read Around the World” project is essentially my wish to read more than just typically published American authors. I want to read books by people from different parts of the world, who have emigrated from other nations, or who have heritage from other countries in the world. Originally, the project was only going to include books in translation, but due to inadequate funds and resources, I’ve opened criteria and focused more on the concept “read more diversely”. While maybe not entirely accurate in name, I’m very excited to start my Read Around the World project, which focuses on 80 recognized UN nations!
So, without further ado, for anyone with an interest in what I’ll be reading or looking for some recommendations, my list:
Afghanistan: The Pearl that Broke it’s Shell by Nadia Hashimi
Algeria: The Lovers of Algeria by Anouar Benmalek
Argentina: Purgatory by Tomás Eloy Martínez
Australia: Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
Austria: The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann
Bangladesh: A Golden Age by Tahmima Anam
Belarus: A Factory of Tears by Valzhyna Mort
Belgium: The Life of Hunger by Amélie Nothomb
Brazil: Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis
Bulgaria: Bai Ganyo: Incredible Tales of a Modern Bulgarian by Aleko Konstantinov
Cambodia: Never Fall Down by Patricia Cormack
Canada: Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro
Chile: The House of Spirits by Isabelle Allende
China: The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan
Colombia: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
Costa Rica: Costa Rica: A Traveler’s Literary Companion by Barbara Ras
Croatia: The Ministry of Pain by Dubravka Ugrešić
Cuba: Before Night Falls: A Memoir by Reinaldo Arenas
Czech Republic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Denmark: The Exception by Christian Jungersen
Dominican Republic: In the Time of Butterflies by Julia Alvarez
Ecuador: The Queen of Water by Laura Resau and María Virginia Farinango
Egypt: The Palace Walk: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz
Finland: The Year of the Hare by Arto Paasilinna
France: The Confidant by Hélène Grémillon
Georgia: One More Year by Sana Krasikov
Germany: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
Ghana: Changes: A Love Story by Ama Ata Aidoo
Greece: Freedom or Death by Nikos Kazantzakis
Haiti: The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Hungary: Metropole by Ferenc Karinthy
Iceland: Independent People by Halldór Laxness
India: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Indonesia: The Rainbow Troops by Andrea Hirata
Iran: The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
Iraq: Nostalgia, My Enemy by Saadi Youssef
Ireland: The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
Israel: A Tale of Love and Darkness by Amos Oz
Italy: My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante
Jamaica: The Book of Night Women by Marlon James
Japan: The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
Kenya: Petals of Blood by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Latvia: The Earth is Singing by Vaness Curtis
Lebanon: June Rain by Jabbour Douaihy
Lithuania: Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys
Libya: In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
Malaysia: The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng
Malta: Death in Malta by Rosanne Dingli
Mexico: Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Morocco: Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood by Fatema Mernissi
Mozambique: Sleepwalking Land by Mia Couto
Nepal: Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
Netherlands: In Lucia’s Eyes by Arthur Japin
New Zealand: The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Nigeria: Half a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
North Korea: The Girl with Seven Names by Hyeonseo Lee
Norway: A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
Pakistan: I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai
Peru: The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
Philippines: Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal
Poland: This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski
Portugal: Blindness by José Saramago
Romania: The Land of Green Plums by Herta Muller
Russia: Queen of Spades and Other Stories by Alexander Pushkin
Rwanda: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
Saudi Arabia: Cities of Salt by Abdul Raman Munif
Slovakia: The House of the Deaf Man by Peter Krištúfek
South Africa: The Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
South Korea: Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin
Spain: The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sri Lanka: Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera
Sweden: The Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Switzerland: Small World by Martin Suter
Syria: In Praise of Hatred by Khaled Khalifa
Turkey: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
Uganda: Tropical Fish: Tales from Entebbe by Doreen Baingana
Ukraine: Fieldwork in Ukrainian Sex by Oksana Zabuzhko
Uruguay: Open Veins in Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
Vietnam: The Sorrow of War by Bảo Ninh
Zimbabwe: When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Peter Godwin
Language and Linguistics Resources
1. All sites are online and free.
2. It’s hard to separate into Languages and Linguistics because there’s a lot of overlap. Many of these sites could be on either list.
Linguistics:
World Atlas of Language Structures Online
Speech Accent Archive - listen to a paragraph read in English by speakers of other languages
List of Languages by Writing Script
List of Endangered Languages
Type the IPA
Ethnologue - Information about the languages of the world
23 Maps and Charts on Language
Endangered Languages Project
Listen to the IPA
Linguistics pdfs
Articles and videos on linguistics
Google Ngram Viewer - looks at the use of words over time
Concise Encyclopedia of the Languages of the World
Language learning:
Lang-8 - practice writing and receive corrections from native speakers
Memrise - practice vocab
Tatoeba - find a sentence that uses your word
Harry Potter - listen to the beginning of Harry Potter read in 60+ languages
A User’s Guide to the Best Swear in Every* Language (*obviously not every language. whatever buzzfeed)
Wordreference - the French and Spanish dictionaries are really good, the others are meh
BBC Languages - Not very in depth but offers quite a few small European languages such as Manx, Luxembourgish, and Guernésiais
Languagehelpers.com - Translation, language facts, and information about some scripts
Transparent Language Blogs - occasionally has interesting articles about various languages
Students of the World Penpals - Correspond in your target language with a native speaker
The Polyglot Project - Read books in your target languages; built in translation feature
mylanguages.org - offers a huge variety of languages; introductory/beginner level
SayJack - Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
Duolingo but I’m sure you all know this one XD
A-Z Index of Omniglot - SUPER informative resource especially for smaller, lesser known languages; provides information as well as LINKS to learning resources for each language
Dramafever - watch TV in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, Japanese, and English (they have like one or two in Portuguese as well)
Interesting/fun article about some interesting languages (I don’t really like their use of the word ‘bizarre’ here)
Interesting blog about a guy’s experiences with 37 languages
Look at videos trending on youtube by country
Top websites by country - useful in finding advanced content in your target language
Project Gutenberg - Read books in English, French, Dutch, and Portuguese
Yabla - Watch videos in your target language
Wikitongues - A youtube channel featuring speakers of a wide variety of languages (they have a tumblr too!)
Foreign Language Music
Forvo - listen to words pronounced by native speakers
Rate your foreign language fluency
Lingro - “the coolest dictionary known to hombre”
The world’s most multilingual countries
World Language Store - by products (for example, books) from around the world
Foreign Service Institute Language Courses
Interlinear books - foreign language books with the english translations below
Global Language Online - material drawn from radio, newspaper etc.
Resource list for learning over 50 languages
Tumblr blogs for specific languages - most are inactive but may still be good resources
Read articles in your target language!
Babla - online language dictionaries
Collins Dictionaries Online
Peace Corps Language Courses
Culture Talk - Videos about culture
Innovative Language Learning - Youtube channels teaching over 30 languages
Verbix - CONJUGATES VERBS YAY
Dictionaries for a LOT of languages
Read Grimm’s fairytales in other languages
European radio stations streaming live
TV streaming live
How I Learn Languages - pdf of the book by Hungarian polyglot Kató Lomb
Lyrics Training - this is a REALLY FUN way to practice listening
Here are some podcasts that you can listen to in Russian. Podcasts helped me when I started learning Russian and hopefully they can help you too. Many you can find on iTunes, on Android using Pocket Casts, or on their own websites/RSS feed. A list of podcasts about Russia will follow up.
Language Learning
A Spoonful of Russian : includes videos
Learn Russian
Learn Beginner Russian
One Minute Russian
RusPod : includes transcript
RussianPod101 : also has a youtube channel
Russian Made Easy: includes transcript
Russian Survival Phrases
Speaking Russian
Beginner-High Intermediate
A Taste of Russian : transcripts for many episodes
Everyday Russian: includes transcripts
Ochen Po-Russki : includes transcripts
Proper Russian : includes transcripts
Russian Podcast :includes transcripts
Slow Russian: includes transcripts
Russian Only
For high intermediate-advanced since most have no transcript or for listening practice since they don’t speak slowly. Look at the last link for more.
Аэростат: Music and a lot of things
Чтение: Literature
Чтение для детей: Children’s stories read aloud
Эхо Москвы : Politics. Many programs within the site. Podcasts come with full transcripts.
Game Club & Pub: Sci-fi/videogames
Galyonkin: Video games
Хочу всё знать: Answering questions about everything you want to know
In Russian Terms: Current events and the language.
Как стать русским: Russian culture & history
Ликвидация Безграмотности : Russian linguistics
Мода, стиль: Fashion
Мозг: Wide variety of topics. Science, history, philosophy.
Научные Бои: Science
Наука 2.0: Science
Опытные на кухне: Science
Пост наука: Russian Linguistics
Russian Language Insight: Discussions about the language.
Радио Свобода:Radioshow about politics & current events.
Радио Маяк: Radio Mayak has around 100 podcasts with different themes! You are bound to find something you like.
Children Speaking Your Target Language
We all know that children speaking your target language is The Greatest Thing On This Earth so I decided to link some videos of children speaking different languages. Feel free to add, even if it’s another video in a language I’ve already linked!
Arabic
Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Icelandic
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Norwegian
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Xhosa
Yoruba
Also while teaching today I got this gem from a student:
“I have been living… mais putain merde y a 3 verbes là”
