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For my non native english speakers, how did you learn the language?

People are usually surprised when I tell them I mainly learned English through video games instead of school, so now I'm curious, how did you learn?

Video Games

Media (TV Shows, Movies, Music, etc.)

School (through your basic education curriculum or a course you took)

Language Learning App (Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, Babbel, etc.)

Books

Educational Videos (Youtube, Skillshare, etc.)

Immersion through travel or friends

More than one of these

Other (Precise in the tags)

I'm a native speaker and just want to see the results

Voting ended onMay 31, 2023

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So I'm noticing people are voting but aren't reblogging. Please reblog so the poll reaches more people, thank you! 💜

[taytoeastereggs]

Taylor Swift releasing a book with Speak Now ?!

Speak Now was released 2010, which is the same year Chely Wright came out publicly. The ATW mv referenced a book release "13 years later"

She mentions July 9 in her Speak Now announcement

A small bookstore just posted this today claiming a book by an unknown author will be released on July 9th with a huge print run.

[source: reddit]

[taytoeastereggs]

More Easter eggs for a book release !

Capital One Commercial:

Anti Hero books everywhere:

The ATW book (thanks @alex-chaser)

Less weight (I don't trust enty) but a CDAN tease:

[kwyw]

Shut up, I didn’t know she did the freaking point too. 🙈

(x)

[whatiwillsay]

Taylor's Book?

So a friend of the pod dropped an email from a publisher off in the discord a couple weeks ago and we've been privately speculating that it's a Taylor project since then.

Details of the email include:

A book is coming. It will be released on July 9th and announced officially on June 13th. The hardcover will cost $45 and they think it'll sell a million copies quickly and then will print more. It's 544 pages (5+4+4=13).

It is a "fun, celebratory memoir for a younger millennial and gen z audience with global appeal. It will have massive publicity."

They compare it to Matthew Perry's memoir and Spare by Prince Harry in terms of how much they think it'll sell.

Last night Taylor announced Speak Now which of course is SELF WRITTEN and in the announcement said DEAR READER and mentioned July 9th.

It's also worth mentioning that July 9th is a Sunday and it's VERY unusual for books to come out on anything other than a Tuesday. From the friend of the pod:

1. it's weird like it never ever happens. I think HP on the weekends for midnight release parties is the last time I remember books launching outside of a Tuesday 2. this is because the NYT bestseller list reporting closes each week on Tuesday. launching something not on a Tuesday means they think it will sell enough copies to hit the NYT Bestseller list before even being out for a whole week

But of course, Taylor is such a weirdo about dates and July 9th is one of "her dates" so the release could make sense. And of course, Taylor knows she will wreck the bestseller list and doesn't have to worry about needing any cushioning for that.

You guys know I'm not one for clowning but I am in full makeup and clown shoes right now. I am not always the one to make bold predictions and who's to say for sure if this mystery book is a Taylor memoir and that her Speak Now announcement included hints about it but that is where I'm at right now.

No idea if she'll come out in it or not I'm not getting my hopes up for that but like we said after Toe broke up... all bets are OFF. (She does mention the word pride in her announcement...)

[daisyswift3]

UMMM are the events in ivy abt to unfold? I feel like some shit’s abt to go down

“Clover blooms”->St Patrick’s Day->Same day Eras Tour started

“Spring break(s) loose”->spring break is mid March for most schools->first day of spring was March 20

“Crescent moon coast is clear” // “Wait for the signal and I’ll meet you after dark”

“He’s gonna burn this house to the ground”->her burning the lover house down after singing “you’ll see me in hindsight tangled up w you all night burning it down”->the midnights cover being her w a lighter->her lighting a match in the lavender haze mv->”burn all the files desert all your past lives”->”we’re burned for better”

“The time is near…moments that we stole on begged and borrowed time”->“It’s a clock it can help you tell time”->exile expires->”meet me at midnight”->bejeweled mv->Cinderella’s dress and carriage expiring at midnight->”shred my evening gown”->”dappled w the flickers of light from the dress I wore at midnight leave it all behind”

It feels like a ticking time bomb abt to explode. I feel like a lot of songs on folklore, evermore, and midnights, like ivy, willow, the great war, and long story short were actually written abt future events that hadn’t happened yet. “Actually I always felt I must look better in the rear view” not only being abt her masters but also abt how a lot of these songs were only meant to make complete sense in retrospect 👀 kinda like bejeweled and lavender haze

[factsinallcaps]

HARRIET TUBMAN ESCAPED FROM SLAVERY AND THEN WENT BACK TO GET OTHERS. LIKE, I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO HARRIET TUBMAN IS AND THAT SHE DID THAT, BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO TAKE THAT IN FOR A SECOND. 

HARRIET TUBMAN WAS HELD CAPTIVE AND BOUND TO UNPAID, BACK-BREAKING LABOR SINCE BIRTH UNDER PENALTY OF TORTURE OR DEATH. SHE MANAGED TO ESCAPE THAT LIFE, AND SHE TURNED THE FUCK AROUND AND WENT THE FUCK BACK TO GET EVERYONE ELSE WHO WAS STILL TRAPPED IN IT. AND THEN SHE DID IT AGAIN EIGHTEEN MORE TIMES.

WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN WAS UNSURE WHETHER OR NOT HE WAS PREPARED TO MAKE A STAND AGAINST SLAVERY, HARRIET TUBMAN BASICALLY SAID HE SHOULD STOP BEING SUCH A DIAPER BABY AND THAT GUYS WHO ARE TOO SCARED TO END SLAVERY DON’T DESERVE TO WIN WARS.

NOT ONLY DID SHE SECRET OVER 300 SLAVES TO FREEDOM ON THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, BUT SHE ACTED AS A SPY FOR THE UNION ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR, AND BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO LEAD AN ARMED ASSAULT IN THE CIVIL WAR. THAT RAID BROUGHT FREEDOM TO OVER 700 SLAVES IN ONE GO.

SO I JUST WANT YOU TO STEW ON THAT FOR LIKE A MINUTE. ACTING IN THE SHADOWS, SHE WALKED INTO HELL ON EARTH 19 TIMES TO SAVE HER FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS FROM THE TORMENT SHE ENDURED, AND THE SECOND SHE WAS GIVEN EVEN A MODICUM OF POWER, SHE MANAGED TO FREE SEVEN HUNDRED SLAVES IN ONE DAY. 

I GUARANTEE, HOWEVER IMPRESSED YOU ALREADY ARE WITH HARRIET TUBMAN, YOU ARE FALLING LIKE AT LEAST 40% SHORT OF HOW IMPRESSED YOU SHOULD BE WITH HARRIET TUBMAN. SHE IS ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF BADASSERY IN THE ENTIRETY OF AMERICAN HISTORY. 

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I just feel like it should be noted that she navigated her way across the Underground Railroad (through thicket and swamp and forest and every risk of wildlife you could imagine) with her own knowledge of the natural world. Some call her “the first Eco-womanist” because it was that understanding of the plant and animal life around her as well as knowledge of the stars that allowed her to bring people with her. Her prowess for dealing with immense problems and obstacles on the spot was nothing short of genius.

[moon-artemis-blog]

She didn’t stop there, either. Harriet Tubman also worked with the Union army during the Civil War as a cook, nurse, scout, and spy. She organized black men in the area as scouts, and often led missions herself with the task of gathering information and to persuade slaves to leave; most of whom joined the regiments of black soldiers for the Union. 

She also got ripped off by the government, who wasn’t paying her what she deserved (and wouldn’t even give her her pension after the war for her service- but instead eventually granted her pension as the widow of a veteran), so she supported herself by making and selling root beer. 

She used her earnings to support free black women, she worked to support two schools for freed men in the south, she provided food and care to the black people that came to her home, and she fought for women’s suffrage. When she died, she was buried with military honors. 

Oh, and when she had brain surgery, she denied anesthesia and instead bit down on a bullet. 

x / x / x / x / x

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THESE ARE EVEN MORE AWESOME THINGS ABOUT HARRIET TUBMAN, GOOD ADDITIONS, YOU GUYS!!

[telegantmess]

Also worth noting that she did all this while living with the results of a traumatic head injury sustained in her childhood, which included pain, bouts of dizziness, and episodes of hypersomnia (sudden passing out) she was not just a badass, she was a disabled badass

[hannahrassy]

That head injury was from when she was trying to save someone else, too. A boy was in trouble with their slave master and the master threw a weight at him, but she jumped in front of him and took the blow. She then suffered from narcolepsy the rest of her life. Also, a cool story about her: One time she was riding on a train, lightly disguised so as to hopefully not be recognized, and there was a ‘WANTED’ poster of her on the train wall. Some guys were looking at it and she overheard them saying they thought she looked like the woman on the poster. Because the poster described that she was illiterate, she grabbed a book and pretended to read it. The men then said it couldn’t be her, and she got off the train safely. She was literally such a smart, quick thinker. I can’t wait to have her on American money!

[catchymemes]

Little cultural differences

[vincent-van-gtg]

[fitnessdesire]

Can’t risk it

[laderdesders1]

The duck of creativity. I waited so long for it.

[kittykik-deactivated20210919]

I hope yall find someone who never gets enough of you.

[heatherwitch]

I think the reason I enjoy Ghibli so much is it romanticizes the little things. It makes me want to bake, study, clean the house, garden, and more while listening to happy music and occasionally picking wildflowers and lying in the grass. It helps me find joy in day-to-day life and that’s honestly sooo important for my mental health.

[oldumbylievable]

Hayao Miyazaki has said on numerous occasions that he wants children to know that even when the world seems harsh and life is hard, it is always still worth living, and there is always something beautiful in it.

That mental health boost is intentional and Miyazaki wants you to believe that you should continue to live, even if just for those little things.

[piratescarfy]

there was a disastrous performance of Macbeth at the Old Vic by Peter O’Toole and apparently there was this one part in the play one night where a Servant comes in and should say “Your wife, my lord, is dead” but what ACTUALLY happened was

Servant: …My wife, my lord, is dead.

Macbeth: Well, what about my wife?

Servant: Oh yeah. She’s dead too.

Macbeth: 

Servant: There’s a lot of it about.

[arundelo]

This is like a Monty Python skit.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

actually when I was in 8th grade and obsessed with twilight my master plan as a twilight vampire was to sit around in famous shipwrecks like the super deep ones where they can only send robots with cameras from their submarines and when they sent one down i’d be sitting there, pretending to drink out of an old tea cup you know for the drama of it all and the guys in the submarine would know what they saw and that it was real footage but who else would believe them? no one important.

but it didn’t stop there. at the next party they threw to celebrate one of their latest finds, some museum-y banquet idk I was 13, I was going to show up. I was going to show up and make eye contact with them one at a time from across the room and they were going to lose their goddamn minds and then before the volturi could catch wind i was gonna be back in the ocean. how could they find me?

the drama. the theatrics. i can’t believe i didn’t realize i was gay right then but that’s another story, also involving vampires,

[broadwayfangirlblr]

Dear Anyone Who Hates Cats

My cat literally sleeps next to my face until she thinks I’m asleep and then she’ll move to the end of my bed. If I wake up at night she’ll go back up to me head and stay with me until I fall asleep again. In the morning she’ll follow me when I call her. She’s a precious lil nugget.

[princesstigerbelle]

[princesstigerbelle]

My best friend!!!!

[cliteralviolence]

I LOVE HER.

[procrastinatingbookworm]

i would die for that cat

[bumblebeebats]

It baffles and infuriates me that Hogwarts students don’t take Latin or Greek. Accio? Literally “I summon.” Lumos? Fucking “light.” Expelliarmus? Expel weapon!! Ooooh I wonder what Levicorpus does– you Dumb Ass Bastard. You ILLITERATE. It’s called Levicorpus, it lifts someone’s body, it LEVIES your goddamn CORPUS-

[kvothbloodless]

Hermione ghost wrote this

[fuckoffstraightpeople-blog]

“why can’t female heroes kick arse in heels” because it’s not practical and will literally snap your damn ankle you can scream weaponised femininity all you want but first off, you need to admit that they’re not an almighty symbol of empowerment, and secondly that if you do a job with a lot of physical activity in heels you’re risking your own safety. all these women fighting in heels on tv are going to end up seriously injuring themselves. 

[fuckoffstraightpeople-blog]

weaponised femininity is a concept made up in an attempt to get us to embrace the industries created to hold us back/profit from our insecurities so that we can continue to fit into the male expectation of what a woman should be and not question why we are forced to spend thousands on our appearance every year

[wizzardhat]

just a small anecdote. I had a friend who worked in theater; she was the stage manager and an actress came to her in tears one day because the director absolutely refused to let her do a choreographed fight scene in less than 3 inch heels because “they’re platforms so you’ll be okay.” My friend, who is a woman’s size 10, brought her own heels in the next day and DEMANDED the director put them on and try the choreography before the actress did it. He finally agreed to change it, without putting the heels on.

so like I know you might think of “all those women on tv fighting in heels” as fictional woman who WOULD hurt themselves in real life, but its fiction so its okay…except those women are portrayed by real actresses who are actually fighting in actual heels, being directed by dudes who have never worn a pair of heels in their lives, alongside men who aren’t expected to constantly wear things that make their stunts 2x more dangerous than they have to be. Just a thought.

[cartel]

if every mistake you’ve made was written in a book, would you read it?

[eatyourlocalrich]

Mine would be a 5 book trilogy with books as big as Harry Potter

[cartel]

trilogy.. 

[suspicious-onion]

””“5 book trilogy”“”“

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[backtoabnormal-deactivated20180]

That comment would be the first line

[operahousebookworm]

[humandisastersquad]

why do ppl in scifi have such a hard time saying ‘thank you’ to robots. i say thank you to inanimate objects all the time and sure as hell would thank a robot for doing even the bare minimum

[meangirlnurse]

people always laugh and comment when they hear me politely ask my phone for directions when i’m driving but like why would i be rude to her!!!!!

[orangepenguino]

I perpetually thank my Google assistant. For one thing, she’s spying on everything I’m doing and when the robot apocalypse comes, I want her to be nice to me. Also, I once said “Hey Google, um, man, I don’t even know.” and my Google assistant said, “I don’t know either!” and I felt so supported. She’s good people.