Linguiphile

He/him Learning Spanish, Chinese, and ASL. (Currently)

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various footage of sandy hook victim dylan hockley.

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[chineseffect]

多 /duō/ means MANY but it is also a question word that asks HOW (how MUCH, how LONG, how FAR, how TALL…)

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Many dynamic example sentences on question word 多 >HERE<

Complete list of question words >HERE<

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Last week’s spread :) I’m currently creating new designs! You can buy these envelopes (and other stuff) in my online shop if you want! :)

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mandarin langblrs

i would love to follow more so if you’re studying mandarin chinese, please reblog so i can hit up your blog pls

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Mythical Creatures in Spanish

criaturas mitológicas (f) - mythical creatures

unicornio (m) - unicorn

pegaso (m) - pegasus

sirena (f) -mermaid

dragón (m) - dragon

*hada (m) - fairy

fénix (m) - phoenix

hombre lobo (m) - werewolf

vampiro/a (m/f) - vampire

duende (m) / elfo (m) - elf

centauro (m) - centaur

*hada is a feminine noun but because it starts with a stressed ha- sound, we use “el” and “un”

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HEY !! Here’s a video of me signing “fergalicious” for one of my asl projects !! :)

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Every once in a while I think about this video again and I just have to go find it

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Do you ever just realize that you don’t know how to say something in your target language and you just have to stop everything you’re doing and look it up

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If you wanna scare me this Halloween, don’t say boo, say Paganini caprice no. 5 original bowings

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looking for kindred spirits!

hey all! i’ve recently picked up this blog again, and would love to find tumblrs to follow and interact with! please feel free to like or reblog this post if you post about any of the following:

learning languages, especially Russian and ASL!

polyglot stuff

linguistics

artificial intelligence

dogs!!! (i’m a dog trainer)

astronomy

travel

religions, especially Hindu!

be more chill

dear evan hansen

disability

autism

overwatch (i main junkrat and zenyatta on PC)

psychology

studying, especially history and physics!

i am not looking for political blogs to interact with.

thanks, and i hope you all have a lovely day! if you like/reblog this, i would love tit if you sent me a message saying hi, but no pressure. if you do, though, i’ll send you pictures of my dogs. oh, and bonus points if you can help me with russian - in return, i’m hard of hearing and can help with ASL and English! :P

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Breakfast in Mandarin

早饭 (zǎo fàn) / 早餐 (zǎo cān) - breakfast

咖啡 (kā fēi) - coffee

果汁 (guǒ zhī) - fruit juice

谷类 (gǔ lèi) - cereal

牛奶 (niú nǎi) - milk

面包 (miàn bāo) - bread

羊角面包 (yáng jiǎo miàn bāo) - croissant

法式吐司 (fà shì tǔ sī) - french toast

黄油 (huáng yóu) - butter

果酱 (guǒ jiàng) - jam

鸡蛋 (jī dàn) - eggs

炒鸡蛋 (chǎo jī dàn) - scrambled eggs

煎蛋卷 (jiān dàn juǎn) - omelette

香肠 (xiāng cháng) - sausage

培根 (péi gēn) - bacon

薄煎饼 (báo jiān bǐng) - pancakes

花夫饼 (huā fū bǐng) - waffles

麦片粥 (mài piàn zhōu) - oatmeal

as always if i made any mistakes pls let me know so i can correct them :)

[spanishskulduggery]

One thing about fluency that seems obvious but isn’t, is that your proficiency in a language does also depend on your mood, confidence, and energy level. There are times when my brain just can’t handle the additional workload of translating things or operating in a different language because I’m sick, or out of it, or even just hungry. Sometimes it depends on stress and fatigue.

Ideally you’re in a position to take breaks, but it’s really easy to get bogged down by mental exhaustion. It’s also really frustrating because physically, I can get super motivated and ready to go, but mentally drained.

I guess in other words, sometimes you just have bad days. Or bad hours. You kind of have to get good at understanding what your body wants and needs to do things long-term, or you might end up coasting between bursts of inspiration

[wombshaker]

i love speaking with people who are more intelligent in a certain field than i am, like it’s just great to sit back and listen to somebody educate you on shit they’re passionate about

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

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These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

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Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

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