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[b1rdwatch3r]

Quarantine ask game!

What’s your go to snack?

What’s a movie you could watch over and over?

Favorite show to binge?

5 songs that make you want to dance?

5 songs that make you feel less lonely?

Favorite meal to cook yourself?

How do you “treat yourself”?

Favorite thing to do when doing self care?

Who have you been talking to the most?

One thing you really miss right now?

If you could be self isolated with anyone who would it be?

Do you have any pets?

Favorite videgames?

Favorite podcasts?

Favorite YouTubers?

Wake up time?

Sleep time?

If you could go anywhere right now where would it be?

What’s a change you want to keep when self isolation is over?

Have you learned something?

Any new skills?

What’s a hobby you’d like to start learning?

What’s something you’d like to get better at?

What food do you wish you had right now?

Your go to quarantine outfit?

What have you done today?

Any plans for tomorrow?

What’s on your “to watch” list?

Any musicians/bands you’ve discovered?

Post a selfie right now!!

Post pictures of your pets!

When was the last time you drank water?

When was the last time you ate?

When was the last time you got up and stretched?

Favorite song right now?

Favorite social media to scroll through?

What’s the last thing you ate?

What’s the weather like where you are?

Have you been playing animal crossing?

How are you feeling?

Who’s the last person you texted?

What does your last text message say with no context?

Post a meme that made you laugh recently!

Outdoor activity you’d like to do right now?

Something you’re looking forward to when quarantine is over?

Someone you’d like to see when quarantine is over?

Any new games coming out you want to play?

New shows you’ve discovered?

Most comfortable piece of clothing you have?

Ask anything!!

[learnchinese-superchinese]

Did you know that Saturn is called the “earth” planet?

[spralern]

If any one is curious why Uranus, Neptune and Pluto have the same etymology as their English names, it's because those stars were discovered later and the names were borrowed as calques into Chinese

[spralern]

Don't let democracy die

[bilingualbutterfly]

I don’t know if that’s creepy or just nsfw

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[aeniith]

[liu-anhuaming]

spring vocab in mandarin

spring is almost upon us so here’s some lovely vocab related to the season, featuring some nice idioms and phrases that contain the word spring, and one or two that have the word flower in them as well

春天 chun1 tian1 spring

三月 san1 yue4 march

四月 si4 yue4 april

五月 wu3 yue4 may

回春 hui2 chun1 the return of spring

绿色「綠色」lü4 se4 green

花 hua1 flower

草 cao3 grass

开花「開花」kai1 hua1 to bloom, to blossom, to flower

花蕾 hua1 lei3 flower bud

晴天 qing2 tian1 sunny day

野餐 ye3 can1 picnic

野餐垫「野餐墊」ye3 can1 dian4 picnic blanket

篮子「籃子」lan2 zi basket

公园「公園」gong1 yuan2 the park

种「種」zhong4 to plant, to grow, to cultivate 

种子「種子」zhong3 zi seed

幼苗 you4 miao2 seedling, sapling

树苗「樹苗」 shu4 miao2 sapling, small tree

骑自行车「騎自行車」qi2 zi4 xing2 che1 to ride a bike

鸟「鳥」niao3 bird

蝴蝶 hu2 die2 butterfly

毛毛虫「毛毛蟲」mao2 mao chong2 caterpillar

蜜蜂 mi4 feng1 bee

蜜蜂房 mi4 feng1 fang2 beehive

兔子 tu4 zi rabbit

花粉 hua1 fen3 pollen

花粉热「花粉熱」hua1 fen3 re4 hay fever, seasonal allergies

花粉症 hua1 fen3 zheng4 hay fever, season allergies

花花绿绿「花花綠綠」hua1 hua1 lü4 lü4 brightly colored, gaudy

春光明媚 chun1 guang1 ming2 mei4 lovely spring sunshine

春秋鼎盛 chun1 qiu1 ding3 sheng4 the prime of one’s life

春风化雨「春風化雨」chun1 feng1 hua4 yu3 lit. spring wind and rain; fig. the long-term influence of a solid education

春风和气「春風和氣」chun1 feng1 he2 qi4 amiable as a spring breeze

春风满面「春風滿面」chun1 feng1 man3 mian4 pleasantly smiling, radiant with happiness

四季如春 si4 ji4 ru2 chun1 four seasons like spring

that’s it for this post! if there’s any mistakes i missed please let me know

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Langblr asks

1. What do you think is the most beautiful thing about your target language(s)? 2. Is/Are your target language(s) more difficult than your native language? 3. How long have you spent learning foreign languages? 4. Do you prefer traditional methods with textbooks and vocab lists or do you have other methods to learn? 5. Do you find it helpful to speak to other learners? 6. If your native language didn’t exist, which one of your languages would you pick in its place? 7. What does multilingual mean to you? 8. Do you prefer languages from the same language family or from different families? 9. What do you struggle with the most while learning a language? 10. Are you able to pick up a book and read it in your target language(s)? 11. What advice would you give to somebody trying to start learning your target language(s)? 12. Have you noticed and short term and long term language learning benefits? 13. What are your language learning goals? 14. Do you prefer learning alone or in a group? 15. Subtitles or no subtitles when you’re watching in your target language(s)? 16. What is going to be your next target language? 17. Which language you’ve learned could be considered the easiest? 18. Which language you’ve learned could be considered the hardest? 19. Have you got a favourite language? (you don’t have to be able to speak it) 20. Has anything got you inspired to learn foreign languages? 21. Three things you wouldn’t be able to go without while learning a language. 22. Have you ever thought about teaching or doing translation? 23. Do you like using Duolingo? (Or other learning apps) 24. How is it important to you to be able to speak different languages? 25. Would you ever like to work in your target language(s)?

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[thatswhywelovegermany]

ausrufen = to exclaim

das Zeichen = sign, mark, letter

das Ausrufezeichen = exclamation mark

ausruhen = to rest

das Ausruhezeichen = …

[languagesandstuff]

English - Polish - Yiddish

Tu BiShvat - Tu bi-szwat - ט"ו בשבט January - styczeń - יאַנואַר February – luty - פֿעברואַר New Year of the Trees - Nowy Rok Drzew - ראש השנה לאילנות [Rosh HaShanah La'Ilanot] tree - drzewo - בוים fruit - owoc - אויפּס, פרוכט olives - oliwki - מאַסלינעס dates - daktyle - טייטלען pomegranate - granat - מילגרוים ,גראַנאַט apple - jabłko - עפּל walnuts - orzechy włoskie - װעלטשענערס peanuts - orzeszki ziemne, fistaszki - פֿיסטאַשקעס pear - gruszka - באַרנע cherry - wiśnia - קאַרש   grapes - winogrona - ווייַנטרויבן raisins - rodzynki - ראָזשינקעס honey - miód - האָניק grain - zboże - תּבֿואה [tvue] dinner – kolacja - וועטשערע

to plant - sadzić - פֿלאַנצן

What is Tu BiShvat? my other Yiddish vocabulary lists

[allthingslinguistic]

The World’s Writing Systems is a website presenting one symbol from each of the 292 currently-known writing systems in the world, which you can sort in various ways, such as by name, time period, region, or Unicode support (whether you can view it on a computer without needing to use clunky workarounds). From the project description: 

Unicode 11.0 (June 2018) covers exactly 146 writing systems. That’s an important milestone for worldwide communication and typography. But what about the missing scripts? How many of them are still out there? What do they look like?

This web site presents one glyph for each of the world’s writing systems. It is the first step of the Missing Scripts Project, a long-term initiative that aims to identify writing systems which are not yet encoded in the Unicode standard. As of today, there are still 146 scripts not yet encoded in Unicode.

They also have a cool-looking poster to bring attention to how many writing systems exist and which of them aren’t encoded yet. 

This silkscreen poster presents one glyph for each of the 292 known writing systems of the world, together with their names, regions, and timeframes. A four colour code indicates living / historical scripts and Unicode encoded / not yet encoded scripts. 

Here’s a talk with more information about the Missing Scripts Project and a note on which scripts the researchers are still looking into. For those scripts which are already encoded in Unicode, you can play around with them at the earlier project, DecodeUnicode.org. 

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my girlfriend: *is finnish*

me: finnish time

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my girlfriend: *is japanese* me: japanese time

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my crush: *is from basel*

me: baseldütsch time

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my boyfriend: *is taiwanese*

me: chinese time

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Some of you have never read David Crystal’s Language Death and it shows

[songs-of-the-east]

The Waning Crescent by Selim Korycki. 

A photography project about the Polish Tatars, Poland’s oldest native Muslim population

The Podlasie region of North-Eastern Poland is home to the largest remaining population of Polish Tatars, also known as Lipka Tatars, a Sunni Muslim minority group that have resided in Eastern Europe for more than 600 years. 

Their history in the region begins with Tokhtamysh, who was a prominent Khan of a subdivision of the Golden Horde, a Turkicized entity of the Mongol Empire. Tokhtamysh and his clan were granted asylum in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania by Vytautas the Great. At the beginning of its history the Grand Duchy, a Pagan ruled-state, had come to occupy parts of Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine. Being that it was a multi-ethnic and multi-religious entity ruled by a pagan leader, it developed an early history of religious tolerance as its Pagan leaders were not fond of the proselytism. Eventually the Grand Duchy would combine itself with the Polish Kingdom to create the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 

For most of its history the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth upheld and legislated the previous values of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Due to these circumstances the Islamic population of the Commonwealth were allowed to mobilize in society freely and practice their religion without fear of persecution, unlike most other parts of Christendom. This religious freedom also brought about more Islamic settlers in the form of Crimean and Nogay Tatars, who would soon be absorbed into the general Polish Tatar population. The Tatars were also granted nobility status and  frequently intermarried with the Polish nobility, however when this occurred it was mostly between those Tatars who converted to Catholicism or Orthodoxy and Christian Polish or Ruthenian nobles. Tatars remained a free people unlike the majority of the non-nobility Christian population in Poland who lived their lives as serfs. They were also permitted to own Christian serfs, again something not seen in most other parts of Europe.The Lipka Tatars were heavily valued as cavalrymen due to their horse-riding skills, and fought against both the Teutonic Knights and later the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Vienna. despite the fact that this would ensure an Islamic expansion into the rest of Poland. Due to their intermingling with the Slavic and occasionally Baltic populations of the region they quickly lost their language, however other traits of their culture survived, particularly their adherence to Islam. Most Lipka Tatars adopted the Polish or Belarusian languages as their native tongue, but interestingly enough also used the Arabic script when writing those languages. Making them the only Slavic languages outside of Bosnian to have used that form of calligraphy. After the partition of Poland and eventually its independence, most Lipka Tatars ended up living between Poland and Belarus.

The Waning Crescent is a photography project created by Selim Korycki, who had this to say about it:

“Despite being brought up as an atheist, I was always very aware of my family history as well as the history of Lipka Tatars. Following many discussions about rising nationalism and Islamophobia, I realised just how very few people are aware of the Muslim community peacefully settled in the heart of Europe for over 600 years. Knowing that Podlasie region is the only place within today’s Polish borders where Tatars not only lived for generations, but are still present today I decided to execute the project there. This was my first visit to the region,” 

Despite the Polish Tatars influence on Polish history and culture, there has been a lot of misunderstanding of the Tatars since the end of WWII when the country experienced great homogenization and radical assimilation, which increased under the Communist regime. When commenting on the views of many of his countrymen Selim said:

“There is a belief, for example, that Polish Tatars look like Mongolian nomads, that they speak ‘another’ language, and are generally un-Polish. In reality, after 600 years of assimilation, Poles of Tatar heritage are mostly [indistinguishable] from the rest of the population. Just as their parents, their grandparents and their great-grandparents they speak Polish, think Polish, feel Polish, have Polish surnames, eat Polish food.” At the same time Polish Tatars cultivate their culture by practicing Islam, preserving traditional Turkic names, and nurturing traditional Tatar cuisine (Central Asian dishes with Eastern European influence).

Today when less than 5% of the population of Poland consider themselves to be a member of an ethnic minority, and over 85% Poles declares themselves to be Roman Catholic; the Lipka Tatars are a striking reminder that Poland was once a hugely multicultural and multi-religious country”

[lettercollectors]

bookish asks

1: What book did you last finish? When was that?

2: What are you currently reading?

3: What book are you planning to read next?

4: What was the last book you added to your tbr?

5: Which book did you last re-read?

6: Which book was the last one you really, really loved?

7: What was/were the last book/books you bought?

8: Paperback or hardcover? Why?

9: YA, NA or Adult? Why?

10: Sci-Fi or fantasy? Why?

11: Classic or modern? Why?

12: Political memoirs or comedic memoirs?

13: Name a book with a really bad movie/tv adaption

14: Name a book where the movie/tv adaption actually was better than the original

15: What book changed your life?

16: If you could bring three books to a deserted island which would you bring and why?

17: If you owned a bookshop what would you call it?

18: Which character from a book is the most like you?

19: Which character from a book is the least like you?

20: Best summer read?

21: Best winter read?

22: Pro or anti e-readers? Why?

23: Bookdepository or Amazon?

24: Do you prefer to buy books online or in a bookshop?

25: If you could be a character from a book for just one day who would you be and why? (Bonus: any specific day in the story?)

26: If you could be a character from a book for their entire life who would you be and why?

27: If you could change one thing about mainstream literature what would you change? (i.e. more diversity, better writing, better plot etc.)

28: How many books have you read so far this year?

29: How do you sort your shelves? (i.e. by color, author, title etc.)

30: Who’s your favorite author?

31: Who’s your favorite contemporary author?

32: Who’s your favorite fantasy author?

33: Who’s your favorite Sci-Fi author?

34: List five OTPs

35: Name a book you consider to be terribly underrated

36: Name a book you consider to be terribly overrated

37: How many books are actually in your bookshelf/shelves right now?

38: What language do you (most often) read in?

39: Name one of your favorite childhood books

40: Name one of your favorite books from your teenage years

41: Do you own a library card? How often do you use it?

42: Which was the best book you had to read in school?

43: Are you the kind of person who reads several books at once or the kind of person who can only read one book at a time?

44: Do you like to listen to music when you read?

45: What is your favorite thing to eat when you read?

46: What is your favorite thing to drink when you read?

47: What do you do to get out of a reading slump?

48: Where is your favorite place to read?

49: When is your favorite time to read?

50: Why do you love to read?

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Language learning ask game !!

So I got bored and decided to make a language learning ask about your experience as a language enthusiast/leaner, I hope you will enjoy it ! You can send me numbers ofc and reblog it to be asked !

What is/are your mother tongue(s) ?

Can your friends and family members speak a language you can’t speak ? Would you like to learn it ?

What is the first foreign language you’ve ever (tried) to learn ?

How long have you been learning the languages you’re currently learning ?

How old were you when you first started learning a foreign language ?

What languages have you learnt at school ?

Is learning a particular foreign language an obligation in your country ? What language(s) ?

Have you always have the possibility to choose the foreign language/s you wanted to learn at school ?

How many foreign languages do you have to learn at school in your country ?

Have you ever had the opportunity to choose an optional language course at school ? What language(s) did you choose ?

Have you ever been on a school exchange ? Where ? What language(s) did you speak ? Was it a good experience ?

Have you always enjoyed language learning ? What made you enjoy it ?

What do you think about language learning/teaching at school in your country ?

Have you ever tried to learn a language on your own ? What one(s) ?

Have you ever failed to learn a language ? What one(s) ? Do you know why ?

Have you ever started your language learning over ? Why ? Is it better now ?

Do you share your language learning with your friends and family members ?

How do your friends and family members feel when they see you learning multiple languages ?

How do people react when you tell them you learn multiple languages ?

Do you live in a region where there is a particular language or dialect ? What one(s) ? Can you speak it ? Would you like to ?

What motivates you to learn a foreign language ?

Are you interested in more than the language itself (like, a country’s culture, history, nature…) ? Can those things motivate you to learn a language ?

Can some things prevent you from learning a language ? What things ?

Would you like to study/work/live abroad in order to improve your skills ? Are you planning to do so ?

Have you ever studied/worked/lived abroad ? Where ? Was it a good experience ?

Would you be capable of/enjoy leaving in foreign country you don’t speak the language of and learn it as you go along ? Are you planning to do so ?

Have you ever done that (see question above) ? Where ? Was it a good experience ? Do you speak the language now ?

Are you planning on learning another language ? What one(s) ?

What do you like learning the most ? (vocabulary, grammar, writing skills, oral skills… Whatever you can think of!)

On the opposite, what do you dislike learning the most ?

What frequent mistakes do you make in your language learning ? Any bad habits ?

What mistakes/bad habits have you overcame ?

What achievement(s) are you the most proud of ?

What do you think is the best for learning ? Websites and apps or books and notebooks and stuff ?

Any ultimate goals ?

[xuexiblr]

HOTPOT VOCAB 火锅词汇

火锅 (huǒguō) hotpot

鸳鸯锅 (yuānyang guō) two broth hotpot

白锅 (báiguō) non-spicy broth

红锅 (hóngguō) spicy broth

蘸酱 (zhànjiàng) dipping sauce

做调料 (zuò tiáoliào) pick out sauce

肉 (ròu) meat

海鲜 (hǎixiān) seafood

蔬菜 (shūcài) vegetables

土豆 (tǔdòu) potato

冻豆腐 (dòng dòufù) frozen tofu

菌类 (jùnlèi) mushrooms (refers to all fungus)

面条 (miàntiáo) noodles

粉条 (fěntiáo) vermicelli

爽 (shuǎng) refreshing

嫩 (nèn) tender

饮料 (yǐnliào) beverage

熟 (shú) to cook

煮 (zhǔ) to boil

开了 (kāi le) boiling

拿 (ná) to take

放 (fáng) to place

边 (biān) side

热性 (rèxìng) heating foods (traditional Chinese medicine)

凉性 (liángxìng) cooling foods (traditional Chinese medicine)

上火 (shànghuǒ) to suffer from too much internal heat (too much yang or heating foods have been eaten. Said to cause acne, indigestion, sore throat etc)

降火 (jiànghuǒ) to decrease internal heat

Feel free to add on! I’m not too familiar with traditional Chinese medicine but hope this helped.