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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly
**UPDATE**
I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some
Please let me know any further suggestions
dropbox containing linguistics textbooks
contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies
dropbox containing language textbooks
contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh
dropbox containing books about language learning
includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb
if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!
Want to maintain or improve your writing skills in your target language this summer? Try this 30-day writing challenge for June: Every day, answer the following prompts in your target language (in a personal journal or in a tumblr post). Good luck!
Write a short letter to someone you haven’t talked to in a while.
What are your future career goals?
What’s your favorite childhood movie? Why?
If you could learn to cook anything this summer, what would it be and why?
List 5 (or more) things that make you happy.
What is your morning routine?
What is your night routine?
Who is one influential person in your life? Why?
Write a poem about someone (or something) you love :)
List 5 of your pet peeves.
What’s something about yourself that you want to improve?
What’s one place you’ve always wanted to visit? Why?
What’s one thing you’re looking forward to this summer?
What’s one of your favorite things about yourself? Why?
Write a haiku about summertime.
Describe a memorable dream you’ve had.
Who’s your celebrity crush? What do you like about them (besides how cute I’m sure they are lol)?
What’s your favorite summer memory?
Translate 3 of your favorite quotes into your target language.
Write 3 things that scare you and why.
Write about a challenge you’ve overcome!
Who is someone, dead or alive, you would love to meet? Why?
Who is your best friend and why do you love them?
What is your favorite item in your room?
What’s one book you had to read in school that you DIDN’T like? Rant about it.
What’s one good memory from school?
List an insecurity, then refute it by reminding yourself how great you are :)
How do you think someone would describe you?
How do you relax after a stressful or difficult day?
What was your favorite part of this month?
If you participate in this challenge and post your prompt answers, make sure to tag me with #studyingsenseless or #writingchallengejune ! I’ll be doing it too :)
foreign films 2.0
hi all! follow-up on THIS post.
this is another very long post giving you film and series suggestions in foreign languages - i have included my three target languages and french just to spice things up a bit.
if you’ve seen any of these or want to expand on the post please fell free to do so!! this list is obviously very subjective and contains things that i have seen and enjoyed, so i would love to see a greater variety of genres/directors featured on here.
SPANISH
wakolda - this is straight up one of my favourite films ever. 1950s argentina. a family accomodates a guest at their hotel, unaware that their guest is nazi monster josef mengele.
tiempo sin aire - colombian mum and son escape the horrors of civil war and move to the canary islands, but the mother will not rest until she has found her daughter’s rapist. contains some graphic scenes, not for the faint of heart.
la regenta - adaptation of 19th century classic, both film and miniseries (3 x 1.5 hrs) available on youtube. the film is mediocre but the miniseries stole my heart. pious wife anita torn between sexy local liberal and dark imposing priest. features an absolutely superb carmelo gomez as the cunning don fermin.
el crimen del padre amaro - another c19 classic, this time in a modern latin american setting where hot priest gael garcia b. can no longer fight his feelings for a certain young lady…
ocho apellidos vascos - SOOOOOOOO FUCKING FUNNY!!!!!
la piel que habito - almodóvar, banderas, weird, cringy, intriguing, “a horror story without screams or frights” [wiki]
la nana - “Raquel, la amargada e introvertida nana (eufemismo chileno para denominar a las sirvientas) de la casa de los Valdés … ve peligrar su puesto cuando éstos contratan a una nueva empleada para que le ayude durante su convalecencia. Raquel se dedica a hacerle la vida imposible a las nuevas nanas. Esta mecánica se repite una y otra vez hasta la aparición de Lucy, una mujer de provincia que logrará penetrar la coraza de Raquel.” [wiki]
el secreto de sus ojos - “Using a nonlinear narrative, the film depicts a judiciary employee and a judge in 1974 … as they investigate a rape and murder case that turns into an obsession for all the people involved, while also following the characters 25 years later reminiscing over the case and unearthing the buried romance between them.”[wiki] RECOMMENDED
vacas - portrays the conflict between two basque families that lasts three generations, starting in 1875.
la princesa de francia - looks ery promising, centred around a group of actors preparing shakespeare’s “love’s labour’s lost”, in buenos aires. read review here
PORTUGUESE
ligações perigosas [BR] - recently released tv globo miniseries, NOT A NOVELA, available on yt. adaptation of laclos’ les liaisons dangereuses. set in 1920s brazil. love, sex, intrigue, DRAMA, 1920s music. great acting by selton mello and alice wegmann. i cried watching this. i love selton mello
justiça [BR] - also a globo miniseries, follows various characters in recife as each of them searches for their own private justice. RECOMMENDED
amores roubados [BR] - yet another miniseries, based on the book “a emparedada da rua nova”. leandro returns to his hometown from SP and becomes involved with three women.
3% [BR] - a dystopian thriller series, apparently available on netflix. “ The show is set in a future wherein people are given a chance to go to the “better side” of a world divided between progress and affluence in the Offshore, and devastation and poverty in the Inland, but only 3% of the candidates succeed.”[wiki] RECOMMENDED
pecado fatal [EU] - angst, drama, shy sweet love but also bitten family secrets. “a young man and woman fall in love on the night they meet, but he takes advantage of her when she gets drunk. although she doesn’t remember anything from that night, something nags at the back of her mind.” not the most accurate description - just watch it its good
o convento [EU] - a literature professor goes to a portuguese convent to confirm a conspiracy theory about shakespeare. this film is actually in english and french as well as portuguese, but i’ve included it here because it was directed by the great manoel de oliveira. stars john malkovich and catherine deneuve.
o dia de desespero [EU] - another one by oliveira, portuguese entry for 1992 oscars. the film shows the final days of the life of famed c19 writer camilo castelo branco, his blindness and eventual suicide. probably available on youtube.
ITALIAN
malena - a classic, story of how a beautiful young woman is ridiculed by her prejudiced community told through the eyes of a young boy lusting over her. very tastefully done and visually very pretty. plus it has monica belucci
la prima notte di quiete - 1972. scruffy alain delon is bitter and elopes with a mysterious student of his who keeps some dark secrets. very beautiful visually, lovely music, unexpected ending. watch this if you want to be sad and vague
lºeredità ferramonti - set in 1880s rome, cunning young woman weds into a split family and wreaks havoc. dominique sanda is brilliant in this. also very nice music by morricone.
FRENCH
des hommes et des dieux - algeria. eight monks live a secluded life in the mountains. when war breaks out, they are forced to make a choice between their faith and their lives. “a luminous tale of faith and heroism”, and also very prettily made.
venus noire - based on the true story of saartije bartman, a black woman showcased in 19th century europe because of her body. explores prejudice, otherness, fetishisation, directed by tunesian abdellatif kechiche. RECOMMENDED.
la dame aux camélias (1981) - isabelle huppert stars as the destitute and illiterate alphonsine who travels to paris and becomes a courtesan. based on alexandre dumas’ novel, of the same title.
can you show us some Brazilian slang?
OH BOY THERE IS LIKE HUNDREDS
but I will show the ones people use the most. If anything I do a part 2
eita: you can use it for everything, it’s like “wow” or similars. “it costs $300″ “EITA”, “Then we kissed” “EITA”
eita porra: eita intensifies “it costs $700″ “EITA PORRA”
ata: it’s like “oh okay” but it evolved to SOMETHING ELSE and you can use anytime you dont know what to say. “you need a 12/10 to finish this subject” “ata” / “My mom died and my cat is sick and my hair is falling off!!” “…ata”
treta: drama, or a clusterfuck. Like I'm so tired of drama = Cansei de tanta treta. (but we love drama)
arrombado: someone annoying or really lucky. “He won the best prize. Arrombado”
tua cara: reminds you of someone, translates to your face. “I just saw a band shirt so cool. Tua cara”
teu cu: your asshole. You know that thing you said about me? Now its about your asshole. “Dude you are so ugly I want to scream and die” “teu cu”
caguei: it translates to basically “I shitted”. Like bullshit, you don’t care. “so then Privilege McWhite kissed Banana CreamCracker” “caguei”
corno: men whose wife cheated on him, insult. “A corno like him can’t talk shit about anyone”
porre: LOTS of alcohol. “Tomei um porre” = “I drank WAY too much”
safado: someone without morals. “he just go around saying he loves them and then leaves out of nowhere” “Safado!”
nego: it would translate to n*gger, but here it lost basically all the meaning, I dont even know if it had a racist conotation to start. sometimes, you mean “sweatheart” like: “your baby is so cute” “meu nego <3″
cabueta: a tattletale. “he just told the teacher I cheated!” “Cabueta morre cedo” (tattletales die young)
oião: big eyes, someone who envy others often. “I want your dress” “saí daí (get out), oião”
ai dentu: its basically some kind of annoyed “fuck”, like when someone says something stupid, annoying or obviously a lie “I wish Brazil had a president like Trump” “aí dentu”
quenga: bitch
tribufu: ugly bitch
rapariga: bitch, and a rebelious act against portugal (where rapariga just means girl)
boçal: thinks very highly of themselves, are annoying for that. “She said she doesnt want to ride the bus” “ Ela é muito boçal”
how differently do people in different regions of Brasil talk? what are some of the differences?
I can’t speak for everyone, so I’d love if my fellow brazilians could help me with their insight on this.
First of all: Brazil DOES NOT have an “official” or “standard” accent. If someone tells you it does, it’s probably someone from São Paulo, you don’t wanna talk to them, trust me.
Also, accents are not related to where you live only. An accent can be influenced by your gender, your ethnicity(“race”), your social status, your age etc, so you can have people in the same city who speak differently. Their accent is similar, but there are noticeable differences.
Let’s just say that if people from Pará do not want you to understand what they’re talking about, you will NOT. I’m from Rio and one of my best friends is from Pará and he taught me some of their slang and it’s so different I thought he was fucking with me. Turns out he wasn’t.
Like I said, it’s slang, they’re not proper dialects. It’s not like, say, italian dialects, which vary from region to region. Brazil is a HUGE country, originally habitated by the indigenous people(of various tribes), that was a portuguese colony(therefore we speak portuguese) and was heavily influenced by mainly italians(mainly southern italians), dutch, germans, and africans. We’re over 200 million people. That’s a lot.Our accents aren’t particular to the regions, but more to the states.
Again, I’m from Rio, which was the main portuary city back in colonial times, so the portuguese attention was focused on us. Our accent is, by the way, partially the result of the colonial-era brazilians trying to imitate the portuguese accent for status. We speak in a more relaxed way with a lot of /ʃ/ sounds and we tend to turn Ds into / dʒ/ and Es into / i /. Our Os usually turn into / u /as well. We also curse like hell.To someone who doesn’t speak portuguese, we sound like drunk russians.
I’ve also lived in Minas Gerais, which had more italian influence, and their accent is very reminiscing of italian. They tend to use clearer Ds(/ d /) and Es(/ i /). They tend to eat up a lot of letters and mend the words together, depending on where they live. The countrier they are, the more they mend the words. It can be hard to understand sometimes.
Northeastern Brazil had more dutch, portuguese, and african influence. Their accents cannot be complied into one, as people usually do. They’re pretty much completely different from state to state. One characteristic they have in common is turning Os into / u /, Es into / i /, and Ss into /ʃ /, like people from Rio do(but their speech is more open, if it makes sense).
Southeners had more italian and german influence. They pronounce everything almost exactly like it’s written. Their Ns are more stressed. To someone who doesn’t speak neither portuguese or italian it’d be easy to think it’s the same language.
Northeners(which foreigners might call north-westeners) had more indigenous, portuguese, african, and hispanic(as in spanish AND neighbouring countries) influence. They speak really fast and their slang lexicon is insane. It’s also more open, like the northeastern one, but they definitely sound different.
There’s also the people that live near the borders to our spanish-speaking and french-speaking neighbouring countries(that means southern, center-western, and northern regions). Their accent is also influenced by them.
This langblr appreciates corrections because I know I can’t improve without them.
Do you know these times when you’re sitting in front of your textbook, trying to learn these boring af vocabs you’ve seen 1000 times but still can’t remember and just wish to do something different (or hoping that the world explodes so you can at least stop)?
Well, there are more ways to learn a language and I think because we just learned how we “should” learn a language at school, we’re limited in creativity. Thanks to school it’s hard to think outside of this “textbook, vocab lists, tests, etc.” stuff but there are ENDLESS things you can do to learn a language. Remember: everything you do in your native language, you can try to do in your target language!
This is for all the people who are tired and exhausted, who are thinking about quitting or don’t have fun with their target language anymore. DON’T YOU DARE TO GIVE UP! YOU’VE COME SO FAR!
_____________________________________________ Examples for different ways of learning a language:
write a diary
summarise an article about a topic you like (cooking, fitness, etc.)
listen to a podcast/radio
listen to music (while reading the lyrics)
try to sing along with music
read out loud while reading a book/magazine/blog/etc.
watch movies/series/videos
record videos in your target language or about how studying is going (progress, problems, etc.)
write a blog (well hello there :))
use apps that make it more fun (duolingo, memrise, lingodeer)
chat with native speakers
actually talk to native speakers ( I know what a crazy idea)
read websites about things you’re interested in
use social media only available in your target language
change the language of your smartphone
change the language of your pc
change the language of your life
play games in your target language (like not necessarily for learning it, I mean just playing a normal game IN your target language)
take online lessons with teachers that make you forget you’re learning
do a challenge! (I love this one so much)
find a learning group
be active in forums (no matter about language learning or a forum in your target language)
find a language exchange partner. (You should, seriously.)
watch lessons on youtube
read a (children-)book (with audio)
talk to yourself
think in your target language (a fun way is to tell a story about your life while it’s happening like “I went down the road with a stranger always behind me, who could it be? What does he want? It got quite… too quite. I tried to keep calm but was it really a coincidence? All in the middle of nowhere?” I know I’m bad at this but I hope you get what I mean, think of it like reading a book.)
learn vocabs with pictures, type in the word you want to know and ONLY look for pictures, try to feel the word. If you google for “strawberry” (in your target language and don’t know what it means) look at the pictures, the colours, how could it smell? Make a sentence with the new word. When was the last time you ate it? How was it?
Write a story/book online or just for yourself.
Make a mindmap
Use a topic jar (a jar where you put in notes with different topics on it, you take one every day and write/talk about it)
use social media to find groups interested in learning a new language or your target language
translate texts and act like you’re a famous translator who’s the only person on earth who can translate your target language (for example if you’re reading articles about historical stuff, act like you’re the only one who can find out what happened back then and the whole world is counting on you!)
try to solve random online tests
listen to a song/audiobook/whatever and write down what you hear
search for words you want to learn and build up (funny!) sentences with them or even whole stories
read comics/mangas/etc.
search for receipts in your target language and pray to god you’re doing it right… if not, well you won’t forget the vocab again. Win-win situation. :p
search for language learning groups near your living place and actually meet them (stay safe and check everything before)
listen to children songs (I still remember the first children song I learned in English lessons… like… 11 years ago in 5th grade) these songs are supposed to stick… *cough* head shoulders knees and toes knees and toes *cough* sorry where was I?
connect with language learners over Skype (useful groups of course like German trying to learn French, Frenchman trying to learn Turkish, Turk trying to learn German)
write a list (you know… like I do right know so I don’t forget English)
describe things you see (more fun with a partner)
teach your target language to others
listen to audio while sleeping
take notes in your target language (I don’t mean for grammar rules or something like that, I mean notes you would take in your native language anyway)
write a letter (so much better than an e-mail)
write an e-mail (who has time for letters)
learn rimes
learn jokes (it’s also useful for social interaction)
talk to your pets (at least if they listen to you, if I start to talk to my cat she starts yelling into my face)
translate songs and learn the vocab of it so you have more fun listening to it later
think about a topic and write down every word you can think of and then translate them into your target language
there’s a widespread myth that it’s impossible to learn to sound like a native speaker of a language other than your mother tongue if you didn’t learn it as a child and while being surrounded by it 24/7, but this is far from the truth! having good pronunciation and a convincing native-like accent is definitely achievable, especially if you have the right mindset and are determined to work hard.
▷ remember that babies usually have over a year of pure input before they actually begin to speak their first language. get as much audio exposure as you can. listen to the language in lots of different contexts (radio, tv, music, movies, conversations, speeches, audiobooks, youtube videos) and just focus on replicating what the language sounds like to your ears without necessarily trying to say actual words or worrying about grammar. @polysprachig made this video that goes into more detail on this topic and i’d also recommend checking out this article on omniglot. ▷ pick the specific accent that you want to emulate. this is especially important for people learning pluricentric languages like english/portuguese/arabic/etc where there is more than one spoken standard. the more widely spoken the accent you choose is, the easier it will be to find audio materials to listen to and people who speak with that accent (e.g. there are a lot of tv shows and movies in american and british english, but not many in australian english). blending multiple completely different dialects/accents (and mixing up slang from different regions and social groups) can make you sound very weird and unnatural, however narrowing it down to a particular region whose accent you’ll focus on imitating will allow you to easily develop a sense of belonging and closeness to the language. ▷ pay really careful attention to the sounds that are different in your target language to your native language(s) and any other languages you already speak. look for videos/instructions online for how to pronounce the sounds that you find difficult and practise every day by listening to them in natural speech and copying them as best you can. ▷ get to know your mouth. you may have to adjust the position of your jaw, tongue, lips, the way you breathe or the distribution of saliva if your mouth to comfortably replicate some sounds. if your mouth doesn’t feel a little uncomfortable with a new sound, you may not be pronouncing it right. ▷ find a native speaker to listen to you speak for a little while and ask if they can narrow down any areas you seem to have particular trouble with. concentrate on accuracy rather than speed. ▷ find the lyrics to some songs you love in your target language and sing along as best you can. it takes away your intrinsic need to worry about vocabulary or grammar and allows you to just focus on naturally replicating the way the language sounds. ▷ children’s books are often available with audio accompaniment that you can listen to while you read the text and also pause and repeat after if you wish. it’s like the perfect combination of simple easy to understand language and nice clear voices because they’re specifically designed to help children learn to read their own native language! ▷ for certain words or sounds that you find particularly difficult to pronounce, work on learning a few tongue twisters in the language that contain them. ▷ subtitles can help you mentally connect the symbols of the written language with the sounds of the spoken language, but they can also slow the speed at which you accustom yourself to processing the spoken language without assistance. try watching content both with and without subtitles to see what works best for you. ▷ if you’re having trouble with the pronunciation of a particular word or phrase, look it up on rhinospike or forvo. ▷ talk to yourself out loud whenever you get the chance. this not only helps you practise your pronunciation and build confidence speaking, but it forces you to put your thoughts into words in your target language, which is great for improving speed and accuracy when speaking and writing. ▷ don’t worry if you fear you’re not making any progress, you will improve slowly with consistent practice and also get the opportunity to hone your listening skills at the same time!
epic language learning resource
this is ReadLang. it is a cute little website that gives you all kinds of texts to read in your learning language.
when you sign in, you go to a dashboard that shares your progress so far. because i have just joined this website today, i’m still working on the opening progress page.
right now, i’m working on finding cool stuff to read in spanish. ReadLang will give you texts in your target language at the level and word count you want! check it out, it is pretty cool.
don’t know a word? click it! ReadLang will define it for you. free accounts will let you get 10 translations per day, but paid accounts ($5 per month) can get unlimited translations per day. you’ll be able to see your translations here:
lastly, there are flashcards. this is a really useful feature. it even charts the amount of studying you did each day.
i’m definitely adding this to my favorite list for online language resources. reading is an excellent way of studying a new language, and ReadLang makes it easier to do just that.
OKAY GUYS I DON’T KNOW IF THIS HAS BEEN DONE BUT I NEED TO TALK ABOUT BILINGUIS. ya’ll, this site is amazing. it’s a site of free, public-domain bilingual books. and there are SO MANY LANGUAGES. it’s not just french and spanish, but also dutch, mandarin, ukrainian, esperanto and way more. there are only five books but they are all classics and they are all amazing!
see that? that’s Alice in Wonderland in Esperanto and English. AND IT GETS BETTER. in certain languages, YOU CAN PLAY THE AUDIOBOOK ALONG WITH IT AS YOU READ. it’s also worth noting that you don’t have to have it in english and another language. you can have it in any two of the languages offered.
anyway, here it is. so please guys, spread the knowledge, because it’s totally great and i have a new addiction.
52 basic portuguese (BR) expressions
here are some basic expressions you should know before travelling to a portuguese speaking country :) (some of them may apply only to brazilian portuguese, i’m sorry) click “read more” to see it
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I can only assure you those words exist in Brazilian Portuguese. (tumblr destroyed my quality T.T)
When you can’t think of a word in your target language so you find other words to explain it instead
the people in the VAR room were watching netflix during the Brazil x Switzerland match. Brazil was robbed. Fight me if you think i’m wrong.
Swiss Team: They can’t make a goal if they can’t walk
Neymar was fouled 10 times this game. 10! What the fuck!
