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16, England, currently studying for GCSE. French // Russian // Economics

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Bilingual books

Have I ever mentioned this gold mine? Check it out, it’s the best site I’ve found for bilingual books.

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French: Using Bon Vs. Bien

BON and BIEN are often confused, because they have somewhat similar meanings and they can both be adjectives, adverbs, or nouns. BON is usually an adjective. It modifies a noun and means good, suitable, efficient, correct, useful, etc. BIEN means good, moral, right, healthy, etc., and can only be used as an adjective with copular (state-of-being) verbs such as être.

Il est bon étudiant. - He is a good student. Il est bien comme étudiant. - He is a good student. J'ai passé une bonne soirée. - I had a nice evening. Ça serait bien ! - That would be good! Il a bon cœur. - He has a good/kind heart. Très bien ! - Very good! Ce timbre n'est pas bon. - This stamp is not valid. Je suis bien partout. - I’m at ease anywhere. Luc est bon pour le service. - Luc is fit for (military) service. Ce n'est pas bien de dire ça. - It’s not nice to say that. Je le trouve bien. - I think it’s nice.

BIEN is usually an adverb. It means well or can be used to stress something. BON, in the rare instances where it is used as an adverb, means good or pleasant.

J'ai bien dormi. - I slept well. Il fait bon ici. - It’s nice/pleasant here. Il se porte bien. - He is in good health. Il fait bon vivre. - It’s good to be alive. Je vais bien, merci. - I am well, thank you. Il fait bon étudier. - It’s good to study. La radio ne marche pas bien. -  The radio isn’t working right. Ça sent bon ! - That smells good! Je le vois bien souvent. - I see him quite often. J'ai bien dit ça. - I *did* say that.

BON can refer to any sort of important or official piece of paper: form, bond, coupon, voucher, etc. BIEN means good in the general sense, and biens means goods (as opposed to services).

un bon à vue - demand note le bien public - public good un bon de caisse - cash voucher le bien et le mal - good and evil un bon de commande - order form dire du bien de - to speak well of un bon de livraison - delivery slip faire du bien à quelqu'un - to do someone good un bon de réduction - coupon les biens d'un magasin - a store’s goods un bon du Trésor - Treasury bond biens immobiliers - real estate

[funwithlanguages]

Are there idioms that are not in English but are shared across the Romance languages?

Evan Iannuzzi’s answer on Quora:

Here’s one:

Echar agua al mar. (Spanish)

Lançar/levar agua ao mar. (Portuguese)

Portare acqua al mare. (Italian)

Porter l'eau à la mer/rivière. (French)

Tirar aigua al mar. (Catalan)

This idiom literally translates as “to throw water into the sea”.

The expression here means to do something that won’t help a situation or to do something uselessly or ineffectively. 

For example, “Tratar de convencerla es como echar agua al mar. Ella nunca va a cambiar.” (Trying to convince her is pointless. She’s never going to change.)

Apparently a similar British idiom is “carrying coals to Newcastle”.

Let me know if you know of any other examples. :)

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Good French Essay Phrases🇫🇷👌

Est omniprésent(e) dans nos vies de tous les jours = Is omnipresent in our daily lives

Est un phénomène de société = Is a social phenomenon

On ne peut nier qu’à un certain degré que = It can only be denied to a certain extent that

Hautement néfaste = Highly dangerous/harmful

Un pas en arrière = A backwards step

Ne peut être miné(e) par aucun inconvénient = Cannot be undermined by any disadvantage

Accroître la sensibilisation en ce qui concerne = Increase awareness in terms of

Il va sans dire que = It goes without saying that

Un problème incontournable = A problem which can’t be ignored

Se banaliser = To become more common

Certains soutiennent que = Some people maintain that

Il est primordial que (subj) =It is essential that

L'ampleur du problème = The scale of the problem

On constate = We bear witness to

Renoncer aux idées toutes faites = To give up preconceived notions

Ce problème est aggravé par la conjoncture économique = This problem is aggravated by the economic situation

N'est pas le fruit du hasard = Did not come around by chance

N'est plus une option viable = Is no longer a viable option

Faire partie intégrante de la vie moderne = To be a fundamental component of modern life

Est devenu(e) redondant(e) =Has become redundant

Cette affirmation est incorrecte et simpliste = This claim is incorrect and unsophisticated

Un impact comparable à = An impact comparable to

À juste titre = And rightly so

[dragonfruitdays]

Common French -er Verbs

accepter ~ to accept

aimer ~ to like, to love

annuler ~ to cancel

apporter ~ to bring

attraper ~ to catch

augmenter ~ to increase

bavarder ~ to chat

casser ~ to break

chercher ~ to look for

commander ~ to order

couper ~ to cut

danser ~ to dance

déjeuner ~ to have lunch

demander ~ to ask

dessiner ~ to draw

donner ~ to give

emprunter ~ to borrow

enlever ~ to remove

étudier ~ to study

exprimer ~ to express

gagner ~ to win, to earn

garder ~ to keep

habiter ~ to live

laver ~ to wash

manger ~ to eat

mériter ~ to deserve 

oublier ~ to forget

porter ~ to carry

prêter ~ to lend

refuser ~ to refuse

regarder ~ to watch

saluer ~ to greet

sauter ~ to jump

tomber ~ to fall

travailler ~ to work

visiter ~ to visit ( a place )

- rin

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

i wanna be a girl who walks into first period with a smile on her face and a spring in her step and a really cute ponytail swinging behind her. like i want to have a neat color coded binder with postit notes sticking out of it, a matching water bottle, organic rose tinted lip balm and my homework stapled and highlighted every day

[languagemoon2]

Hi!! Could you perhaps list some blogs/resources focusing mainly on Russian? Thank you! :D

Sure thing, anon! Now I’m not super focused on Russian atm but I’ve managed to scrounge up something for you :)

Free Online Russian-Learning Websites:

http://www.study-languages-online.com/

http://masterrussian.com/

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/

http://www.yesrussian.com/

http://www.russianlessons.net/

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ru/en/Learn-Russian-Online (I’m sure you’re familiar with this one)

Cyrillic Alphabet:

http://masterrussian.com/russian_alphabet.shtml

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm (I absolutely love Omniglot and would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in languages)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKX9RYOX5w (For children, but good for learners as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrSpf8kaqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vWY8YIijY

Russian Keyboard:

http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm (Online Cyrillic keyboard)

http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm (A downloadable phonetic keyboard instead of the Microsoft keyboard that is already formatted in Microsoft computers, the phonetic keyboard is easier to use because Cyrillic letters are placed with the closest roman letter equivalent on an English QWERTY keyboard)

Online Dictionaries:

http://www.rustran.com/

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html

http://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_dictionary.htm

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/ (Reverso is pretty good in my experience)

Immersion:

http://www.bbc.com/russian

http://ria.ru/radio/ 

http://all-radio.ru/

http://www.rususa.com/fun/radio/

http://ru-news.ru/

http://rusnovosti.ru/ (News)

http://www.pravda.ru/ (News)

http://rutube.ru/ (Russian youtube)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33661.Best_Russian_Children_Books (For some beginner’s reading)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYC—L3hwnJHZZGpCaPo2DxiSFwjkYd (The children’s show ‘Masha and the Bear’ in Russian)

Movies in Russian (Click on title to see the wiki page):

Leviathan (2014)

Solaris (1972) 

Stalker (1979)

The Return (2003)

Hard to be a God (2013)

The Mirror (1975)

Russian Ark (2002)

Elena (2011)

Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Battleship Potemkim (1925) 

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

12 (2007)

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

The Thief (1997)

Faust (2011) 

Mongol (2007)

The Fool (2014) 

A Driver for Vera (2004)

Russian Music:

Aria (Heavy metal)

DDT (Rock)

Kino (Post-punk)

Nyusha (Pop, R&b)

Yulia Savicheva (Pop rock)

t.A.T.u (Pop, electronic)

Nautilus Pompilius (Alternative, post-punk)

Russian Novels:

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (BEST)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol)

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Apps - Android specific (Sorry, I don’t have Apple ios so I cannot offer anything there):

Duolingo 

Memrise

Mango Languages (Offers a free trial)

Babbel

Learn & Speak Russian - Mondly

Radio Russia

Learn Russian by Babel Yak

Learn Russian 6,000 Words

Verses of Russian poets

Multitran Russian Dictionary

Tumblr Blogs:

@learn-russian-language

@russiangrammar

@rashn

@gemrussian

@lovsiberianhusky

Haha, this may be more than you were asking for but it was fun to make and I hope that this helps you and anyone else who may be studying Russian!

[haxyr3]

I thought I should share this, because somebody did great job collecting and systematising Russian resources.

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Reblog this if you’re currently in year 11 and are about to sit your gcse exams this summer! I want to follow more studyblrs I can relate to!!

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[steadily-glowing1]

19/03/2017:

Went to the library today and analysed 'Punishment' by Seamus Heaney which was actually lot more interesting that I thought it would be. Then I worked on some ugly notes for the beginning of the second module of physics.

We have so many daffodils where I live and it makes me so happy :) 57 days until my first exam..!

[studyingbrains]

British Studyblrs?

I want to follow more of you please! Like/reblog this if you study in UK. 

Preferably those who aren’t Russell Group. 

[albanymphea]

Russian movies

Hey there, fellas. I’ve posted recently a list of modern russian writers, but let’s be honest not everybody has time for books. But what do boys and girls love these days? Movies.  Sometimes I search through tumblr looking for russians who give advises to poor kids learning the language. And, of course, every once in a while somebody asks for russian movies. It’s great, I don’t mind, movies are good for developing a proper oral comprehension. Sadly, my fellow compatriots often don’t know what to recommend. I don’t blame them. For the most part cinematography in Russia is a disaster. But have no fear! Sometimes you can find real diamonds in tons of all this crap. So listen carefully, lists of movies like that don’t come around very often. 

1. Остров / Ostrov / The Island (wiki)

Thought-provoking drama about a monk. Trailer, and here is a link on youtube with english subtitles. 

2. Овсянки / Silent Souls (wiki)

Russia is the largest country in the world, so you should understand that it is multinational. We still have small tribes in Siberia as well as highly-developed cities.  “Silent Souls” is a personal story iserted in a wider context of Russian folklore. Specifically in a context of an old tribe Merya (Finno-Ugric people), who doesn’t exist anymore. Trailer with english subs. The film itself without subs.

3. Жмурки / Zhmurki / Dead Man’s Bluff (wiki)

That’s a criminal comedy about 90s. Sort of a russian Snatch. Link. No subs, unfortunately. 

4. Окно в Париж / Window to Paris (wiki)

If you liked Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris” you’ll definately need to see this. Trailer in English. Movie with no subs.

5. Дурак  / The Fool (wiki)

Drama with an ancient conflict person vs. system.  Movie with subs. English trailer.

6. Левиафан / Leviathan (wiki)

It was nominated for Oscar. I recommend this mainly beacause critics (russian and foreign) are pleased by this work and everybody seemed to like it. I personally find lots of flaws there, but anyway the picture is very nice. Cameramen did a good job. Trailer. Movie with no subs. 

7. Брат / Brother (wiki) and Брат 2 / Brother 2 (wiki)

This two movies are iconic. It’s a criminal drama and the second part takes place in the USA. Highly recommend you to watch it since russians cite it every now and them.

Trailer of Brother. Movie Brother with subs.

Traler of Brother 2 in Russian. Brother 2 without subs.

I’ve been struggling to find suitable trailers and movies on Youtube for you, but it’s not omnipotent. These are five bonus-movies which might not be translated in English, but are worth watching. 

Интердевочка (wiki)

Eлена (wiki)

Ночной продавец (wiki) (IMDb)

Долгая счастливая жизнь (wiki) (IMDb)

Я тоже хочу (wiki) (IMDb)

I remind you that it is not an ultimate list, and it’s subjective at some point. I’m not a movie-guru. But this movies are proven to be good by a large audience. 

As for the links I gave that do not provide subtitles. I hope you understand why I can not give you torrent files, but you can try to find this films on web-sites where you usually watch something. I’m just not sure what those sites are, it veries from country to country. Plus, you guys are smart, so you probably know, that there are ways to download subtitles and insert them in movies. If you don’t know how to do that, just google it. It will help with other languages as well. 

Here is also Russian site where you can watch some movies for free. 

Приятного просмотра!

[bonbonlanguage]

FEMININE 

la terre : the world/land la forêt : the forest la feuille : the leaf la mer : the sea la montagne : the mountain la rivière : the river/stream la vallée : the valley la plage : the beach la jungle : the jungle la baie : the bay

MASCULINE

le monde : the world l'arbre : the tree l’océan : the ocean le lac : the lake le fleuve : the river le glacier : the glacier l’étang : the pond le désert : the desert

quizlet practice here

note : une rivière is a river in general, while un fleuve is a river that empties out into the ocean. les rivières never empty into the ocean. not listed is un ruisseau, which is a stream, brook, creek, etc.

[josephskeery]

A platform of hate and division assumed power yesterday, but the president is not America. His cabinet is not America. Congress is not america. We are America, and we are here to stay. We march today for our families and our neighbors, for our future, for the causes we claim and the causes that claim us. We march today for the moral core of this nation against which our new president is waging a war. He would like use to forget the words “give me your tired, your poor, your huddles masses yearning to breathe free” and instead take up a credo of hate, fear and suspicion of one another. But we are gathered here, across the country and around the world today to say, Mr. Trump:

[blackmodel]

wow she addressed reproductive rights and was ALSO inclusive of the trans community and WASNT transphobic

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RUSSIAN LEARNING LANGBLRs

Hey guys, I’m learning Russian and I want to follow any other langblr who has it as a target language. I’ve been having lessons for about 2 months but due to my full time university studying and some researches I’m a bit behind but I’ll catch up. Please reblog or like this so that I can follow you!  I plan to start posting more original content soon.