other learners: i really like to read the news in my target language to learn vocab and improve my reading skills!
me: looks at a japanese newspaper
me: recognises one (1) kanji
me: bursts into tears
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@polyglotchick
other learners: i really like to read the news in my target language to learn vocab and improve my reading skills!
me: looks at a japanese newspaper
me: recognises one (1) kanji
me: bursts into tears
“wow you’re so good at languages they must be so easy for you to learn” first of all i stayed up all night crying over an irregular verb
After quite a long hiatus, I'm studying Japanese again! This is my attempt at hand writing some kanji, but I feel like half of them look like they were written by kindergarteners 😂 Are there any fluent/native Japanese speakers who can even read these? Any advice on how to draw prettier kanji? Any kanji out of these that I need to work on more than others? Thanks in advance!
how people think bilinguals speak: bonjour comment ça va- oh my! :) was that français? silly me, im sorry, hon hon hon, oh! did i do it again? mon dieu, it's hard to switch sometimes, my brain doesn't realize, je suis désolée-
how we actually speak: no but you know that one thing, the uh, you put stuff in it?? no, nOT A DRAWER. it's... it's small!! and round!! oh my god, shit, fuck, u hh h... it's grey and metallic and uhhh.. fuck... it goes tin tin tin when you tap it with a fo- TIN CAN!! IT'S A TIN CAN!!
Today I Realised
that "where am I?" in Japanese *roughly* translates to "as for here... where is it?" & I thought that was pretty funny. The linguistics behind this are also really interesting: In Japanese: ここはどこですか? In romaji: koko wa doko desu ka? koko = here wa = as for... (topic marker) doko = where desu = is it (copula) ka = ? (question marker) I love Japanese grammar 😍😍😍
language learning technique: mess up using a word so bad you always remember the right word and the word you used incorrectly from there on out
FINALLY finished the german tree after 254 days! Time to make flashcards and move on to other resources :)
how do you say to eat pussy in french
aller à l'église
Most people are translating this as "go to the church", but it would actually be "to go to church" because it's in the infinitive, not the imperative.
French Tongue Twisters
because why not?
1. Pauvre petit pêcheur, prend patience pour pouvoir prendre plusieurs petits poissons.
2. Le blé s'moud-il ? L'habit s'coud-il? Oui l'blé s'moud, l'habit s'coud.
3. Il était une fois, un homme de foi qui vendait du foie dans la ville de Foix. Il dit ma foi, c'est la dernière fois que je vends du foie dans la ville de Foix.
4. Tu t'entêtes à tout tenter, tu t'uses et tu te tues à tant t'entêter.
5. Marcel porc tua. Sel n'y mit, vers s'y mit, porc gâta.
6. Une bien grosse grasse mère avec de biens beaux gros gras bras blancs.
7. Où niche la pie? La pie niche haut. Où niche l'oie? L'oie niche bas. Où niche l'hibou? L'hibou niche ni haut ni bas!
8. C'est l'évadé du Nevada qui dévalait dans la vallée, dans la vallée du Nevada, qu'il dévalait pour s'évader, sur un vilain vélo volé, qu'il a volé dans une villa, et le valet qui fut volé vit l'évadé du Nevada qui dévalait dans la vallée, dans la vallée du Nevada, qu'il dévalait pour s'évader sur un vilain vélo volé.
9. Gros gras grand grain d'orge, tout gros-gras-grand-grain-d'orgerisé, quand te dé-gros-gras-grand-grain-d'orgeriseras-tu? Je me dé-gros-gras-grand-grain-d'orgeriserai quand tous les gros gras grands grains d'orge se seront dé-gros-gras-grand-grain-d'orgerisés.
10. Chez les papous, y'a des papous à poux, et des papous pas à poux… Mais chez les papous, y'a des papous papas et des papous pas papas… Donc chez les papous, y'a des papous papas à poux, des papous papas pas à poux… des papous pas papas à poux et des papous pas papas pas à poux… Mais chez les poux, y'a des poux papas et des poux pas papas… Donc chez les papous, y'a des papous papas à poux papas, des papous papas à poux pas papas, des papous pas papas à poux papas et des papous pas papas à poux pas papas.
Little reminder:
🍪 Macaron is a French meringue-based confection.
😎 Macron is a French president.
🍘 Macaroon is a soft coconut cookie.
And Macaroni is a variety of dry pasta traditionally shaped into narrow tubes :-)
And Marconi was an electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio transmission!
And Macarena was a dance craze in the 1990s.
Duo, what ON EARTH am I supposed to do with 983 lingots!?!?!
me: *starts writing an email to a professional*
brain: use the formal 'you'
me: ?? English has no formal 'you'
brain: y'all
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THIS JUST BLOWS MY MIND.
Linguistics and Harry Potter are two of my favourite things.
I didn’t know which blog to put this on. So it’s going on both :]
honestly one of my favourite things.
please support this interracial french gay couple and their 20 kids