Níl an rath ach mar atá an smacht

Beth, xxvi. (they/she)   aspiring polyglot with adhd . celtic and minority/regional languages enthusiast  Languages: English, Irish, Czech, German. Target languages: too many Currently focusing on Norwegian and Welsh, Always happy to receive questions ♥️

[ravenlesslangblr]

would anybody like to see my pens???

[aorish-deactivated20251222]

Y'know, if a formerly well-behaved straight A student suddenly starts almost not passing their classes and crying all the time and getting into trouble, maybe the default conclusion from every authority figure should not be that they are lazy and simply need to pull themselves together. Maybe instead you should give them stimulants or HRT or let them kill their parents and see if one of those three things resolves the issue.

[maeve-an-bhanchainti]

my favorite word in any language I know is without a doubt "uafásach" like not only is it something I mutter under my breath 76 times a day, its one of those words that just sounds exactly right. like that word means exactly what it sounds like it should mean

[homercidal]

[izzycodes]

I like this a lot.

[disgruntled-welshgirl]

Chapter 3 of Cariad Ddamweiniol the Welsh ronance fic is now live on AO3!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[soljos2023]

Irish Cursive Handwriting, nualeargais.ie

[cambiodecodigo]

I now have polls and want to find out about language communities on tumblr!

If you speak a celtic language, which do you speak?

Irish/Gaeilge

Scottish Gaelic/Gàidhlig

Welsh/Cymraeg

Manx/Gaelg

Breton/Brezhoneg

Cornish/Kernewek

A language not listed (hi medievalists)

More than one celtic language

Voting ended onFeb 27, 2023

I'm considering doing another with languages like Old Irish and Middle Welsh if any of that crowd see this to see what people have studied coz I'm nosy and sad that I'm not gonna be able to study them at uni and so learning bits of Old Irish through memrise and books lol

[matilda-aseo-deactivated2025043]

how often do you switch between languages? you can put in the tags where you're from

daily

weekly

less often

Voting ended onFeb 21, 2023

[catgirlcaliphate]

Tried to teach my kids how to say 'no problem' in Irish and now they won't stop talking about fire bees...

[shinesurge]

You are at the book fair :)

Cool eraser

Multicolor gel pen

Holographic notebook

Scented highlighters

Bendy pencil

Tassel bookmark

Ballpoint with pompom

Weird pencil sharpener

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

[shinesurge]

too expensive!! you only got enough money for one small thing!!

[alittlenobodystudys-deactivated]

Nobody’s Study Techniques for Kinesthetic Learners!

Red Pen, Blue Pen, One Pen, Two Pen: Make a list of the facts you remember in black pen, then look at your notes and write down all the facts in red pen that you forgot.

Flashcards: Use flashcards to study definitions and concepts.

Mind Maps: Use mind maps to plot out concepts. Great for timelines.

Get up and move: Recite the material while walking around or bouncing a ball.

Speed matching: Lay out definitions, descriptions, pictures, etc and try to match them to the corresponding item.

Study group: Meet up with someone(s) and teach each other the material.

Do Practise Problems: Practise what you’ve learnt!

Reread your notes: Refresh your memory.

Specialty Idea! Box it out: Make flashcards and tape them on a surface you can punch. Alternate punching the notecard, and when you hit it recite all the information on the subject you can! Don’t forget to bounce, dodge and punch more while reciting!

[cornishjosh]

Reading my Cornish dictionary

WHY DO I FIND MASHED POTATOES SO FUCKING FUNNY IN CORNISH?

mashed potato

 patatys skattys

[cornishjosh]

STILL FIND THIS FUNNY

[tenorgender]

ˈsɑri, bʌt wi kənˈvɜrtɪd jʊər ˈbɔɪˌfrɛnd ˈɪntu aɪ-pi-eɪ. jæ, ði ˌɪntərˈnæʃənəl fəˈnɛtɪk ˈælfəˌbɛt. ɪnˈstɛd ʌv ˈbiɪŋ meɪd ʌv wɜrdz naʊ hiz ə ˈstændərˌdaɪzd ˌrɛprəzɛnˈteɪʃən ʌv spiʧ saʊndz ɪn ˈrɪtən fɔrm. jæ, ˈprɪti mʌʧ ˈɛniˌwʌn ˈspikɪŋ ˈɛni ˈlæŋɡwəʤ kʊd ˈfɪɡjər aʊt haʊ tu seɪ hɪm. ˈsɑri

[drunk-poets-society]

People learning multiple languages will be like “I’m sorry I’m not fluent I’ve been learning this for months but my level is that of a six year old”

My brother in Christ how long do you think it took the six year old

[lingwistyka-balto-slawistyka]

Ok I'm going to redo that linguistics poll that I accidentally only made last a day

Choose a major field of linguistics

Phonetics + Phonology (the study of language sounds)

Morphology + Syntax ("grammar")

Semantics (the study of meaning)

Generative Grammar (complex sentence analysis as per Chomsky)

Historical + Comparative (language evolution, related languages etc)

Theoretical + Applied (philosophy of language, meta linguistics)

Neurolinguistics (the brain processes of language)

Lexicology + Lexicography (word formation + dictionary writing)

Computational (language algorithms)

Developmental + Didactics (language acquisition)

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2023

[linguistness]

Weird German words that are equally as weird in Swedish, #1

Since I’m a native German who’s currently learning Swedish, I noticed that Swedish shares some of our weird German words.

The first example is the word for turtle

The German word for this is ‘Schildkröte’, the Swedish word is ‘sköldpadda’. 

Both of these literally mean ‘shield toad’.

Artist: this post by @amphibianaday