International Love

Taking a temporary break from taking a temporary break from langblring to present to you langblring. Actively learning: Russian and Spanish. Hypothetically/formerly learning: Indonesian and French. Wishlist: Every single language in the entire world

[foxlanguages]

Say this instead of that

Some synonyms for common adjectives in Spanish

bonito - agraciado, bello, lindo, precioso

feo - antiestético, desagradable, horrendo, atroz, feúcho

grande - mayúsculo, voluminoso, amplio, vasto

pequeño - minúsculo, diminuto, chico, reducido

perfecto - ideal, magistral, sublime, insuperable, magnífico

malo - malvado, maligno, malévolo, infame, vil, cruel

bueno - bondadoso, benévolo, benigno, clemente, indulgente

cómodo - descansado, placentero, confortable, grato

común - general, genérico, ordinario, usual, frecuente

extraño - raro, insólito, singular, inverosímil, curioso

alegre - jovial, gozoso, regocijado, jubiloso, radiante, animado, festivo

triste - sombrío, melancólico, deprimido, acongojado, mustio

vacío - desocupado, libre, deshabitado, solitario

lleno - colmado, saturado, pleno, repleto, atiborrado, atestado

frecuente - repetido, continuo, periódico, usual, regular

inteligente - lúcido, listo, ingenioso, hábil

[tiny-loudness]

Period euphemisms in Russian

месячные – monthly [bleeding] (the most commonly used)

критические/“эти” дни – critical/“those” days

женские дела/дела – women’s matters

(now the silly ones)

гости из Краснодара/гости – visitors from Krasnodar (a Russian town; “красный” is the Russian for color red)

красный день календаря – the red day of the calendar (used to mean a state holiday in the Soviet union)

сезон дождей – rainy season

физиологические причины – physiological reasons (something you would say to your PE teacher as an excuse for not attending a lesson/not doing a certain excercise; at my school at some moment they somehow transformed into “ideological reasons”)

Красная армия/красные кавалеристы – the Red Army/Red cavalry

[pitbull-official]

First time eating Indonesian food in the US and man, it is incredibly palpable how much more meat and protein Americans eat compared to Indonesians. The place I visited was pretty authentic but every dish had twice, if not three times the amount of egg/chicken that I'm used to seeing it with. It really changes the flavor and feeling of the dish even with everything else held constant, not to mention that it's twice as filling. Just my casual observation.

[real-language-facts]

world's first cruel language discovered

[real-language-facts]

elephant is actually spinach for "the ephant" but that's not true

[headaching]

march 4th? unto where?

[giliszta]

I feel bad for people who try to practice a language with native speakers in everyday life but everyone keeps switching to English for them. You know you can lie right? Act like you've never heard a single English word in your life. Even if it is your native language just pretend it isn't. They'll never know.

[whatkindoffuckeryis-deactivated]

[finelythreadedsky]

"none of those words are in the bible" but it's me nitpicking about what textile manufacturing techniques weren't invented until late antiquity and are thus anachronistic translations of biblical language

[copperbadge]

Every so often when browsing AirBNB in Europe you'll get a listing from someone who clearly speaks English but has an especially whimsical grasp on the language.

I am a peace-loving people too, my prospective hosts. I do not seek after 10pm loudliving.

[pitbull-official]

Ok not to support advertising (I've never used Babble, don't know anything about it, not interested in trying it), but can I just talk about how much I LOVE all of the new interest in learning Spanish that we've seen since the Superbowl?

I've been very vocal about the fact that I think America would be a significantly better place to live if we had more widespread interest and emphasis on foreign language, and of course Spanish is a natural choice to lean into. Not only is it a beautiful and super fun language with a massive catalog of excellent media behind it, but it's the one language that basically every American can have the chance to practice and use in real life.

In fact, in my opinion, we are much closer to being a de facto English-Spanish bilingual country than most anglophone Americans realize, and this is our chance to go all the way. Let's MABA (Make America Bilingual Again)! Vamos a estudiar el español!!

[pitbull-official]

Pam Bondi getting slaughtered at a congressional hearing, the Supreme Court ruling the government must pay for the return of illegally deported migrants, the ICE surge in Minneapolis ending. The US has already become a better place ever since Bad Bunny declared us Latino.

[persianmom-deactivated20260602]

I do not want the ai overview. I want to read six wikipedia pages as god intended.

[pitbull-official]

I've discovered that French podcasts make amazing background/white noise for listening to while working because the entire language is so soft and palatalized and vowel-heavy that if you zone out enough, it truly begins to just sound like static

[pitbull-official]

Я думаю, что я буду продалжать просто поставать ежедневные посты на этот блог на моих языках - особенно на русском, но может быть тоже на испанском и на францсзуском. И, чтобы лучше видеть, помагает ли это, я внизу напишу слова, которые мне нужно было искать или проверять.

Новые слова:

- Ежедневный (relearning - I had a vague semblance of this word still in my brain, but had to look it up to actually use it)

- Испанский и францсзуйский (checked spelling, but I'm pretty sure I still got францзфвсузускзизкйй wrong)

[hospitableasacactus]

Quick, someone start speaking French to me

[loveridden1999]