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chinese art compliments/replies
as a follow up to my post on online drawing vocab, here is a collection of comments you can use to compliment others' art :-)
the basics
喜欢 [xǐhuān] - i like it
好好看 [hǎohǎo kàn] - looks good
厉害 [lìhài] - amazing
好漂亮/帥/美 [piàoliang/shuài/měi] - so pretty/handsome/beautiful
太有才了 [tài yǒu cáile] - so talented (similarily, 画画天才 => drawing genius)
好神 [hǎo shén] - godly
神迹 [shén jī] - miraculous
仙品 [xiān pǐn] - high-quality product
好鮮活 [xiān huó] - vivid/lifelike
Klingon and High Valyrian are on Duolingo but not Finnish… It’s quite sad.
Actually Duolingo would be great if it let people build minority languages courses
CAN WE PLEASE GET AN INTERLINGUA COURSE????
AND CORSICAN???
AND SICILIAN??? AND SLOVAK???? AND RUSYN??? AND NEAPOLITAN???
RUSYN YES I SUPPORT THIS (also 💚BCS/BCMS💚 and Belarusian) Duo needs to step it the fuck up
BELARUSIAN AND CROATIAN OMG YAS PLEASE
AND WHILE WE’RE AT IT ADD BULGARIAN TOO PLS
I FORGOT TO LIST CHECHEN AND KAZAKH 🇰🇿 THERE ARE NO KAZAKH RESOURCES ANYWHERE COME ON DUO STEP UP YOUR SLAVIC AND TURKIK LANGUAGE RESOURCES
you do know that the duolingo courses are community made… people can apply to make a course and that course is given the green light based on the number of people contributing the course & their competency of the language (maybe also by the number of people interested in the course)… so not duolingo’s fault, gotta find bilingual people to make the course.
its all right here : https://incubator.duolingo.com/apply
I’m reblogging this for the last comment cause if you really want it, go make it. YOU need to step up.
To all conlangers, I think this might interest you !
This website vulgarlang.com helps you generate a language based on the input you give. You can select your phoneme inventory, choose your phonotactics and the way your words can be derived to build nouns, adjectives adverbs and other derivatives. It comes up with some phonological rules of its own.
This is for the free version (there is a full version for $9.95) but you can still have some fun with the free version.
For instance, this is some of the words and grammar the generator came up with based on the rules I have made for my developing conlang :
If it’s your first attempt at conlanging (like it is for me) it might be a useful tool to get some ideas when you feel stuck.
Enjoy !
what the FUCK this is SICK
Sometimes I wonder if native English speakers appreciate how much more comfortable the internet is for them than for the rest of the world
Like, you can go on tumblr and simply read stuff in your mother tongue? Amazing. Go on youtube and you don’t have to replay some sentences ten times to try to understand what they’re saying? Incredible. Look for practically anything on google and know that there will be a fuckton of results that you can read without having to spend half the time looking up words in a dictionary? Fascinating. Make a post or send an ask without panicking that you’ll make a silly mistake or that they won’t understand what you meant? Unbelievable.
@dovalayn I did. I’ve studied English for about 10 years and I have the official diploma for the C2 level (the maximum for a non-native speaker) given by the University of Cambridge.
But it’s still my 3rd language and there will be always things that escape me, mainly the slang. Always. Because you know you are always less than the majority. And it’s tiring.
That’s all I’m saying. It would be nice for once to not have to make the effort. And effort is something that no matter how many years of English class I take will always be there.
But not everyone can do that. Some people can’t afford private English academies or are bad at languages, and they should still be able to exist online as well. Why are you so bothered by people not speaking English perfectly? Or by people posting on the internet in other languages??
Since you think my English isn’t good enough, I’d like to see how you do in your 3rd language, and if you don’t get tired after a while 🤷♀️
@dasakuryo
I hope @no-passaran doesn’t mind me going on a sort of tangent here, but the fact English is a lingua franca is, like it or not, permeated by features of linguistic imperialism.
Native English speakers are used to having the world, and by extension all non native speakers, accommodate to their language. If someone doesn’t know English then said person is uneducated, isn’t wordly, is not qualified enough. If a person doesn’t pronounce English like a native, they’re pronouncing it wrong. Tourists are expected to speak perfect English and be proficient in it to avoid any inconvenience to native English speakers when travelling abroad to English speaking countries (USA and UK particularly, yet interestingly enough we are demanded to speak in English when these people visit our countries). These are all mindsets and situations that exist and are part of the broader context, in which English does operate on linguistic imperialism grounds on a global scale; I’m going to quote Phillipson really quickly:
Linguicism: the ideologies and structures which are used to legitimate, effectuate and reproduce an unequal division of power and resources (both material and non-material) between groups which are defined on the basis of their language (i.e., of their mother tongue). This condition is best seen within the broader context of linguistic imperialism - an essential constituent of imperialism as a global phenomenon involving structural relations between rich and poor countries in a world characterized by inequality and injustice.
Language expansion is considered an essential part of a core country’s policy of extending its power and influence in order to achieve its imperialistic strategies. Phillipson holds that the legitimization of English linguistic expansion has been based on two notions: ethnocentricity and educational policy, with ‘ethnocentricity’ being the “practice of judging other cultures by standards of it own.” These two practices have been used to impose a distinction between languages. It has also been a way to promote the notion of the assumed inferiority of secondary languages with respect to the norms determined by the dominant culture.
Phillipson takes this notion one step further with ethnocentricity transformed into that of ‘anglocentricity’ with the consequence that the dominance of English is justified in terms of such oppositions as superiority/inferiority, civilization/backwardness, progress/regress, the first element of which is constantly attributed to the dominant English language.
According to Phillipson education serves the imperial center by having three functions: ideological, economic and repressive. The ideological function serves as a channel for transmitting social and cultural values. In this role English is regarded as a “gateway for better communication, better education and higher standards of living.” The second function – economic – legitimizes English as a means of qualifying people to contribute to their nation and operate technology that the language provides access to. The third function – repression – serves to dominate languages.
Linguistic imperialism calls attention to the potential consequences of English teaching worldwide when center country ideologies are embedded in instruction, having the effect of legitimizing colonial or establishment power and resources, and of “reconstituting cultural inequalities between English and other languages.”
[Cited and paraphrased from
-Phillipson, R. 1992. Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford. Oxford University Press. -Phillipson, R. 1988. Linguicism: structures and ideologies in linguistic imperialism. In J. Cummins and T. Skutnabb-Kangas (eds.), Minority Education: From Shame to Struggle. Avon: Multilingual Matters.]
It’s… interesting, for the lack of a better word, how non native English speakers must even accommodate to native English speakers, when in actuality non native English speakers far surpass natives by several millions and, if anything, it should be them who ought to change, not us.
English becomes our second/third/etc language, we use it with several degrees of proficiency, being affected all the time by our L1, or all the other languages that we might know, we are constantly building on our current interlanguage and gaining a better grasp on how to operate with English. When we talk or chat with other NNE speakers with whom we don’t share a language, we make ourselves understood, we manage to sort any misgiving in communication, if we make a mistake we re-phrase, re-arrange, express things in another way. We are communicating, we still get our messages across despite some slips of the tongue, little mistakes or even a few errors here and there.
We are able to engage, through the use of English, in cross-cultural exchanges, in cross-linguistic exchanges that are allowed by using English as a lingua franca. We are making the language ours, we’re reclaiming the language that for so long was used to shush us down and we’re using it as an asset, we’re using it as a weapon, we’re using it so our voices cannot be silenced any more.
Our messages do get across, they can be understood. When native English speakers claim our Englishes aren’t clear, or we aren’t making any sense, they are really not making the extra effort. In short, many are uncapable of cross-linguistic and cross-cultural exchanges and communication. It’s easier to say we don’t make sense, and by extension snuffing us out, than paying attention to what we are saying.
And we don’t only have to defend our languages and our cultures in a globalised world (in which the normalised culture is that of the center), but we also have to use English as a tool for doing it.
And we should be allowed to express ourselves, exist online without having to constantly accommodate to native English speakers. Because no matter how good our English is, how proficient we are, someone is always going to argue we aren’t good enough, that we aren’t trying hard enough.
Cantonese Vocabulary
I don’t think anyone on Tumblr is learning Cantonese, but I’d thought I’d just share a bunch of basic vocabulary for the heck of it :’D. Some of the transcriptions I put down aren’t official Jyutping pronunciations; I kind of adjusted it to the way I would read it as an English speaker~
Note: ME = Mandarin equivalent
Pronouns
我 [ngo] - I
你 [nei/lei] - you
佢 [koei] - he/she/it (ME: 他/她/它)
我地 [ngo day] - we (ME: 我們)
你地 [nei/lei day] - you (pl) (ME: 你們)
佢地 [koei day] - they (ME: 他/她們)
Verbs
食 [sik] - to eat (ME: 吃)
住 [juu/jew] - to live (somewhere)
瞓 [fun] - to sleep (ME: 睡覺)
做 [joe/jo] - to do
飲 [yum] - to drink (ME: 喝)
{Side note: 飲茶 [yum cha] (lit. to drink tea) - to eat dim sum }
有 [yau] - to have/to exist (equivalent to 있다 or ある)
冇 [moe/moh] - to not have/to not exist (sort of like 없다) (ME: 沒有)
識 [sik] - to know (ME: 認識 or 會) - similar to connaître/conocer
知 [jee/zee] - to know (ME: 知道) - similar to savoir/saber
行 [haang] - to walk (ME: 行 / 走)
去 [hui] - to go
嚟 [lei] - to come (ME: 來)
話 [wa] - to say, to tell (ME: 說)
講 [gong] - to speak (ME: 說/講)
係 [hai] - to be (ME: 是)
開始 [hoi chee] - to start
睇 [tai] - to watch (ME: 看)
鍾意 [jung yee] - to like (ME: 喜歡)
Adjectives/Adverbs
好 [ho] - so (adv.); as in “so loud” or “so dirty” (ME: this word can function the same way in Mandarin, but can also be expressed as 很)
咁 [gum] - so (adv); exact same usage as 好, except 咁 is usually used in questions. (ME: 那麼)
ex: Why is it so difficult? 點解咁難嘅? It is so difficult. 好難呀。 點解 - why, 難 - difficult, 嘅 - question particle, 呀 - statement particle
靚 [leng] - pretty, beautiful (ME: 漂亮)
大 [dai] - big
細 [sai] - small (ME: 小)
難 [laan] - difficult, hard
(容)易 [yung yee] - easy, simple (ME: 容易)
多 [daw] - many, much
少 [siu] - few, little
快 [faai] - fast
慢 [maan] - slow
一齊 [yut chai] - together (ME: 一起)
adjective + 少少 or adjective + 啲 [siu siu or dee] - a little bit + adjective (in comparative form) (ME: 一點)
ex: 你可唔可以行快少少呢? [lei haw m haw yee haang faai siu siu leh?] or 你可唔可以行快啲呢? [lei haw m haw yee haang faai dee leh?] Can you walk a little bit faster??? (said with extreme frustration) 可唔可以 (lit. can cannot) = question form of can, 行 = to walk, 快 = fast
Conjunctions
同 [tung] - and, with (ME: 跟, 和)
但係 [daan hai] - but (ME: 但是)
所以 [saw yee] - so, that’s why
雖然 [seoi yeen] - although, even though
不過 [but gaw] - but, however
咁 [gum] - so…, well…, then…
Tense Markers
左 [jor/jaw] - expresses past tense/perfect tense (goes after a verb) (ME: 了)
會 [wui] - will + verb; goes before a verb (future tense)
緊 [gun] - V + ing; goes after a verb (present progressive) (ME: 在+verb)
唔 [m] - not (negates a verb) (ME: 不)
Questions
點解 [deem gai] - why (ME: 為什麼)
邊度 [been doe] - where (ME: (在) 哪裡)
點樣 [deem yeung] - how (ME: 怎麼/怎樣)
邊個 [been gaw] - who (ME: 誰)
邊 + quantifier [been] - which (ME: 哪)
幾時 [gay see] - when (ME: 什麼時候)
幾多 [gay dor/daw] - how many/how much (ME: 多少)
乜 [mut] - what (ME: 什麼)
Time Words
今日 [gum yut] - today (ME: 今天)
聽日 [ting yut] - tomorrow (ME: 明天)
尋日 [chum/kum yut] - yesterday (ME: 昨天)
成日 [sing yut] - always (ME: 總是)
而家 [yee gah] - now (ME: 現在)
啱啱 [ngaam ngaam] - just now (ME: 剛剛)
耐 [noi/loi] - a long time, a while (ME: 久)
好耐冇見 [ho noi/loi mo geen] - lit. long time no see (ME: 好久不見)
Phew, this turned out to be quite a long post… I’ll probably record myself saying all these vocabulary words so that you guys have something to refer to with regards to tones, since I didn’t mark down any tones in this list.
Being able to speak another language at birth is pretty cool until you slowly unlearn it because you only speak English at school and then suddenly you can’t speak your own language anymore and you have to speak in a mix of that and English because you can’t speak it any other way
Since I’m a huge fan of both Disney and languages I thought that this sort of list is not only fun but also quite helpful and might be useful while learning :)
Cantonese
Croatian
Danish
Dutch
English (Auli'i Cravalho/Alessia Cara)
Finnish
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Malay
Mandarin (Mainland/Taiwan)
Norwegian
Polish
Portugese (Brazilian/Portugese)
Russian
Serbian
Spanish (Castillan/Latin)
Swedish
Thai
Vietnamese
Bonus: 24 languages version that actually inspired me to make this post
Yes! Chinese Graded Readers
Recently, I found a really useful Chinese reading resource for learners of all levels. As the name states, it contains a bunch of graded readers split up based on grade level and HSK level. I’ve selected Elementary School Grade 1 (HSK-1), and here’s what it looks like:
I’ve selected the story 少了一头驴. As you can see, the vocabulary and grammar should be tailored to the grade level, so it’s really useful, especially if you’re studying for the HSK. All the stories include audio, and some of the lower grade levels even have nice background music and sound effects. Some of the higher levels only have Google Translate audio though (even though Google Translate for Mandarin still pretty decent). Here’s the layout of the stories:
There are 3 tabs: Picture Story, Vocabulary and Print. “Picture Story” is just the story itself, and “Vocabulary” is exactly what it sounds like, although not every story has a vocabulary list ready to go. Here’s a snippet of a vocabulary list from another story:
Going back to the story itself: if you hover over the words, you’ll highlight a vocabulary word/phrase and two things will pop up:
If you click on the audio button, the highlighted words will be pronounced, and if you click on the screen looking button, the following will pop up:
This is a really thorough one-on-one analysis of each character. It gives you some common usages of the character (there are several panels of common words; just click on the numbers in the top left), the Pinyin, and the stroke order.
Pressing the “P” will show the breakdown of the Pinyin and how it’s pronounced:
Pressing the play button will play the stroke order gif, and the rewind button is to restart the gif:
Definitely check out this site for reading practice, I can’t believe I just found out about it. Keep this bookmarked if you’re planning on doing the HSK anytime soon!
Yes! Chinese Website: (link)
“Drum Major, is your band ready?”
The little experiment I started a while ago
Hey, hey !
I don’t know if anyone noticed but the latest post I published contained references and sources. I did so to back up the submission but also help language learners who might need the one or the other resource.
It’s quite some work for me to do but because @liu-anhuaming provided me with useful links for a post, I wanted to introduce this ‘format’.
Do you want to me to continue this ? Have you opened the links given or do you just ignore them ? :D
It would be incredibly helpful for me to hear your response to this and see if it is useful for some. :)
I still want to hear your opinion on this matter ! :)
Yeeess that would be great
hit me up on twitter to hear about my life @/sunnychaitea is my personal and @/saphfics is my writing acc 💛
South Korean National Anthem (애국가)
[Verse 1]
동해 물과 백두산이 마르고 닳도록
Until the day when the East Sea’s waters and
Mt. Baekdu are dry and worn away,
하느님이 보우하사 우리 나라 만세
God protect and preserve us. Long live our nation! (Yay, our country!)
[Chorus]
무궁화 삼천리 화려 강산
Three thousand Li of splendid rivers and mountains, filled with Roses of Sharon;
대한 사람 대한으로 길이 보전하세
Great Korean People, stay true to the Great Korean way
(most public events usually stop here)
[Verse 2]
남산 위에 저 소나무 철갑을 두른 듯
바람서리 불변함은 우리 기상일세
The pine tree atop foremountain stands firmly unchanged under wind
and frost as if wrapped in armour, as is our resilient spirit
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 3]
가을 하늘 공활한데 높고 구름 없이
밝은 달은 우리 가슴 일편단심일세
Autumn sky is void and vast, high and cloudless,
the bright moon is our heart, undivided and true.
[Repeat Chorus]
[Verse 4]
이 기상과 이 맘으로 충성을 다하여
괴로우나 즐거우나 나라 사랑하세
With this spirit and this mind, give all loyalty,
in suffering or in joy, love the country.
[Repeat Chorus]
full version with lyrics
Math Vocab
수학 | math
숫자 | numbers
use sino-korean numbers in math: 일,이,삼
홀수 | odd numbers
짝수 | even numbers
마이너스 | negative
마이너스 백 | -100
더하기 | plus
1 더하기 1은 2 | 1 plus 1 is two
빼기 | minus
4 빼기 1은 3 | 4 minus is 3
곱하기 | times
2 곱하기 2는 4 | 2 times 2 is 4
나누기 | divided by
12 나누기 3은 4 | 12 divided by 3 is 4
이다 | equals
24 더하기 3은 27이에요 | 24 plus 3 equals 27
2 빼기 0은 2다 | 2 minus 0 equals 2
제곱근 | square root
9의 제곱근은 3이다 | the square root of 9 is 3
등식 | equation
함수 | function
공식 | formula
각도 | angle
괄호 | parenthesis
(소수)점 | (decimal) point
일점사 | 1.4
백분율 | percentage
when saying __%, use 퍼센트 or 프로
25퍼센트/25프로
나머지 | remainder
16 나머지 3 | 16r3
변수 | variable
해 | value
분수 | fractions
반 | half or ½
사분의 1 (4분의 1) | one fourth, ¼, or 1 over 4
8분의 1 | 1/8
16분의 1 | 1/16
Korean Idioms
Ok so I’ve noticed a particular phrase get popular recently (at least amongst monbebes) because of something Monsta X’s Minhyuk said in a V Live:
My mouth was bored
Basically this isn’t like a weird phrase he came up with, it’s actually super common! (And we should start using more often in English, too lol)
You know when you’re bored in general and you just want to do something so you start snacking? That’s basically what this means.
The phrase itself is:
입이 심심하다
(Of course you can conjugate it to fit the formality or sentence you’re using it)
New Langblr! :)
Hello!
About me.
My name is Heir, I’m 16-years-old, and I’m a rising junior in high school.
I’ve started a new langblr in order to motivate myself to learn my many target languages and hopefully be able to document my progress in one place. I’m learning Spanish, Greek, Korean, and Latin, as of right now, but I’d eventually like to be fluent in Dutch, German, Romanian, Russian, Hungarian, Italian, and Portuguese, as well!
Objective.
This blog will probably consist of vocabulary, notes, grammar, and possibly some bullet journaling depending on how well I motivate myself to actively study and work towards my goals. I’ve also planned out a few challenges and networks to participate in, and they all seem very fun and informative.
Inspirations.
I’ve had several langblrs motivate and inspire me to start my own:
@lovelybluepanda
@greeklangblr
@greek-langblr
@studykorean4me
@my-little-langblr
@fluentlee
Just to name a few. :)
That’s about it! Thanks!
Welcome! ^^ good luck with your studies and if you need anything, feel free to ask for help!
Ay come join the langblr party!!
USEFUL VOCABULARY FOR STUDENTS IN KOREA
If you are planning to study at a Korean University then there are some phrases that may be useful for you to know. As you might already know, to study in Korea, you don’t need to speak amazing Korean and therefore, you might get accepted into a language course or an international university without speaking the language. For this reason, I have included some basics that are helpful to know when you come to Korea. This was a requested lesson so I hope that you find it to be useful.
DIRECTIONS
You might need to ask for directions in order to find your way around the university campus so here are some basic phrases that might be good to know.
저기요, 죄송하지만 길 좀 물을게요 - Excuse me? I’m sorry but I’d like to ask you for directions 저를 도와줄 수 있나요? - Can you help me? 보여주실래요? - Can you show me where it is? 영어 할 줄 알아요? - Do you speak English? 저는 길을 잃었어요 - I’m lost
PLACE어디에요? - Where is PLACE? PLACE어떻게 가는지 좀 알려주시겠어요? - How do I get to PLACE? PLACE어느 쪽이에요? - Which way is PLACE?
왼쪽으로 가세요 - Turn left 오른쪽으로 가세요 - Turn right 직진하세요 - Go straight ahead 멀다 - Far 에서 가까이 - Near 전에 - Before 뒤에 - After 사이에 - Between 돌다 - Turn 겉에 - Outside 안에 - Inside
저도 잘 모르겠네요 - I also don’t know 여기서 걸어가기에는 거리가 좀 있어요. 버스 타셔야 될 거예요 - It’s a long way from here, you should take the bus 한강둑의 왼쪽 - On the left bank of the Han River 한강둑의 오른쪽 - On the right bank of the Han River
교통표지판 - Road Sign 교차로 - Intersection 오르막 - Uphill 내리막 - Downhill 일방통행 - One way street
UNIVERSITY-RELATED WORDS
뭐 전공해요? - What do you major in? 선생님 - Teacher 교장 - Principal 급우 - Classmate 학과 - Department 전공 - Major 출석 - Attendance 강의 - Lecture 강당 - Auditorium 수업 - Class 시험 - Exam 졸업 - Graduation
USEFUL CLASSROOM PHRASES
미안합니다. 제가 늦었습니다 - Sorry, I’m late 설명해 주세요 - Please explain 저는 아파요 - I’m sick 숙제를 안해 왔습니다 - I haven’t done my homework 질문해도 되나요? - Can I ask you a question? 맞았습니까? - Is it correct? 화장 실에 가도 되나요? - May I go to the bathroom? 시험이 우리에게 있습니까? - Do we have a test? 나는 우리가 친구가 될 수 있기를 바란다 - I hope we can be friends
TEST YOURSELF REFERENCE: 2.11 QUIZLET: https://quizlet.com/_50ie25
Model Mother Tongue
I came across this series on youtube and thought it would be nice to make a post with links to these videos. Basically there is always a model speaking some phrases in her mother tongue. Enjoy :)
Japanese - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0hVrjD5HcI
Mandarin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKOpjRElEEM
Danish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5iVsdPeOO0
French - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8CNpNUKoQA
Polish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbcQ8eD_mpc
Portuguese - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrZJKwkMS_k
Hungarian - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08pt5jzyD9Y
Russian - https://youtu.be/CKPjd_O5Ieg
