My Language Learning Blog

L1 - English (birth).......................................... L2 - Russian (May 2012)................................ L3 - Spanish (August 2014)............................ L6 - American Sign Language (March 2015). L5 - Arabic (August 2015)..............................

[sleepbby]

reblog and tag the languages you speak/understand in order of proficiency!!

[polyglotparenting-blog]

Wow...

I haven’t been active in a while...

Shit.

Well, I’m still here, still doing Russian. and Spanish. I actually took Latin 101 last semester (in the fall), and I’m taking Navajo 101 right now. I’m working through (or trying to) Latin 102 on my own because it didn’t fit in my schedule. 

Baby is a full out Toddler now. She loves Russian songs. She talks in ASL about as much as she talks in English (so, two words). 

I want to start being more active in our language learning. Just got over some emotional stuff, so I want to start fresh by going all out in my languages, my parenting, my religion, and my coursework at the university.

So. I’m back. 

Давайте учиться языки! 

[catsandbreadandbikes-deactivate]

I need to practice writing with icing in a piping bag, so reblog this and ill send you a picture of your url written in chocolate frosting

[happicuppa]

😻

[thedigimomsx]

My husband and I want to raise my child bilingual- spanish/english. Any moms have experience with this? What toys/learning kits did you use?

ooo good question. Mamas with bilingual kids, tell us how you did it!

-H

[polyglotparenting-blog]

I'm doing the same! My husband and I are making a point to use Russian as much as possible in front of Baby. I sing her Russian songs. She doesn't say words yet, but that's what we're doing!

[the-language-journey]

What's your favorite word

in the language you’re learning?

[polyglotparenting-blog]

достопримечаттелпость

[spanishskulduggery]

So, guys, probably more reliable than Google Translate is in many cases there’s Linguee.

Linguee is a sort of dictionary filled with examples and sentences from all over the internet so you can look up individual phrases or words and see how they’re used and in what contexts.

So if you want to type in an actual phrase or something in English or Spanish (or a different language if you pick it) you can see your words used in sentences and see how actual sentences look… rather than relying on Google Translate to mess up the grammar or false cognates.

And more than that, you can also check the sources they take the example sentences from.

I highly recommend Linguee for people who are trying to figure out specific phrases rather than particular words (which I would use WordReference for).

[glossikos-blog]

Linguee is a god send!

[polyglottalstop]

Linguee is bomb!

[linguisticsblr]

My French teacher introduced me to Linguee and it really is spectacular!

[desidrake]

If anyone’s trying to learn a language I’ve recently discovered this company called the Language Pod Company and it is so much better than Rosetta Stone and it’s completely free (unless you’d like one-one-one teacher-student help then it’s like $25 a month which tbh you shouldn’t really need because they make it really clear in the lessons). It’s super easy to navigate and it even gives you a history of the language. There are audio and video lessons. Real-life situations and different speakers. They even write the letters for you because I know sometime it’s hard to learn to write in a language that doesn’t use the same alphabet that you’re used to. You’re welcome.  

Arabic

French

Spanish

Italian

German

Swahili

Thai

Portuguese 

Japanese

Russian

Turkish

Chinese

Vietnamese

Swedish

Polish

Persian

Norwegian

Korean

Indonesian

Hungarian

Hindi

Hebrew

Greek

Finnish

Filipino

English

Dutch

Danish

Czech

Cantonese

Bulgarian  

[polyglotparenting-blog]

El niño que vivió

párrafo 1

orgulloso: proud

esperar: wait, hope, trust

encontrar: find, discover

algo: something

tontería: nonsense

[polyglotparenting-blog]

Liveblogging Harry Potter

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal

piedra: stone, large rock

filosofal: (piedra filosofal) elixir of life

So, I’m going to read Harry Potter 1 in Spanish, look up any words I don’t know on wordreference. And post it here.

[polyglotparenting-blog]

My Russian final is tomorrow. 

Am I studying?

No. I’m watching Avatar.

[trabajadora]

Reblog if you’re a langblr!! Looking for foreign language/culture blogs to follow (particularly Mainland European) 

[willkommen-in-germany]

For Students of German

3 free books as PDF files:

German Language Course.

Basic German - A Grammar Workbook.

Mark Twain - The Awful German Language.

[fenrismp3-hasmoved]

tfw u finish a test in half an hour and no one else is even close to being done

[fenrismp3-hasmoved]

“i’m either really smart or i fucked up entirely”

[polyglotparenting-blog]

omg this is me constantly. and usually its like, reading and listening: im really smart. writing: i fucked up entirely

[jenthepoet]

You are beautiful. Remember that.

Du bist schön. Beachten Sie, dass. あなたは美しいです。それを忘れないでください。 Eres hermosa. Recuerde que. 你很美丽. 记住这一点. Vous êtes belle. Ne oubliez pas que. איר זענען שיין. געדענק אַז. Sei bello. Ricordate che. أنت جميلة. تذكر ذلك. Ты красивая. Помните об этом.

[lookatmylanguages]

I know this is supposed to be an uplifting message but the German one is completely wrong… 'Du bist schön. Vergiss das nicht.' would be more correct, even though it's not a direct translation.

[polyglotparenting-blog]

Bы красивая. Помните об этом. or Ты красивая. Помни об этом sorry, but youre changing pronoun here.

[spanishskulduggery]

When you’re learning Preterite and then Imperfect joins the party

[thedigimomsx]

Any mumblrs that are also studying at uni/college?

If you’re a parent in studying at uni or college, like/reply/reblog this post please :)

-H

[polyglotparenting-blog]

Yup. Currently majoring in Foreign Languages.

[lavidapoliglota]

soooo, what are our favourite/least favourite self-study language materials?

[polyglotparenting-blog]

See I'm weird. I have so so so much trouble learning on my own. My best bet is a classroom environment.