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You’ve heard of forgetting words in your target language, but now, in 2020, get ready to remember the word but forget what it means in your native language!

You’ll love knowing that путешествовать is absolutely a Russian word that you’ve learned but having no idea what it means!

Speaking Russian and finding creative ways to keep all nouns singular since I know the declensions for singular but the plural ones are a work in progress.

#russian #langblr #languages #russisch #русский язык

The active voice: Jane ate the cookie.

The passive voice: The cookie was eaten by Jane.

The passive-aggressive voice: I don't mind that Jane ate the cookie, even though it was her second cookie and the rest of us only got one each.

#me af

From my weekend in Berlin back in July. Fulfilled a lifelong dream in seeing this and it felt surreal. Ich vermisse Deutschland und meine Familie in München jetzt so viel...

#deutschland #brandburggate #brandenburgertur

Mass Graves

*Me going over corrections on my last essay for 306 talking about visiting Dachau* * Sees where my professor circled a sentence and wrote “um...”* *Rereads sentence* *Translates to- “The memorials and mass graves were beautiful ”

Oh my God I wasn’t paying attention and wrote Mass Graves were beautiful.

Always proof read your essays kids.

#myadventuresingermany #3 more days

me when people correct my sentences in a language i don't know well: wow! thanks! i'm learning so much. i'm going to remember this and i'm going to improve a lot and everything is going to be great. :) can't wait til this all comes naturally to me.

me when people correct my sentences in a language i've been studying for a long time: this is it. i'm an idiot. i'm giving up. what the hell is a preposition? how did i ever pass any of my classes? where did i go wrong?

#Truth

thelazypolyglot

im getting really into romanian its so slavic but its a romance language its like a linguistic hannah montana

#alinguisticHannahMontana

thelazypolyglot

has anyone here ever met a linguist who is a republican/conservative??? anyone?????? i don’t think they exist

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i think there was one guy on tumblr a while back who was a senior undergrad ling student and a conservative

i interacted a few times with him; he was a harsh prescriptivist too

thelazypolyglot

i bet all his professors hated him lol

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You know what’s funny about languages? That you have a different voice for each one you speak.

polyglotinprogress

The Phoenicians started settling the [Iberian] peninsula only around 800 BC. At the time, it was a sparsely populated land of dense forests and open plains teeming with wild boars, deer, wolves, and bears. Among the many novelties the Phoenicians discovered, one small mammal caught their attention. It was similar to a furry, tailless Middle Eastern creature with round ears that they called a hyrax, except this version had long ears and long legs, and multiplied at an astonishing pace. The Phoenicians were evidently much impressed by these prolific little mammals. They named their new territory after them: I-shepan-ha, literally “land of the hyraxes.” Centuries later, the Romans Latinized this name to Hispania. And centuries after that, the name morphed into España. In other words, Spain’s names originally meant something like “land of the rabbits.”

Nadeau & Barlow, The Story of Spanish, p. 7 (via polyglotinprogress)