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學 학
학계 academia
학교 school
학급 class
학기 semester
학년 school year
학력 academic background, academic ability
학비 tuition
학생 student
학원 cram school
학자 scholar
학회 academy
개학 beginning of term, first day of school
견학 field trip
공학 engineering
과학 science
대학 university
독학 self study
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수학 mathematics
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Pas-based negations
Absolument pas - absolutely not
Certainement pas - certainly not
Du tout/pas du tout - not at all
Mais pas du tout ! - but not at all/of course not
Pas absolument - not absolutely/exactly
Pas à ce point - not to that extent
Pas aujourd’hui - not today
Pas autant - not that much/so much
Pas ça - not that
Pas celui/celle-là - not that one (m, f)
Pas ceux/celles-là - not these ones (m, f)
Pas comme ça - not like that
Pas complètement - not completely
Pas du tout - not at all
Pas du tout, au contraire - not at all, on the contrary
Pas du tout le cas - not at all the case
Pas encore - not yet
Pas entièrement - not entirely
Pas exactement - not exactly
Pas forcément - not necessarily
Pas le moins du monde - not in the least
Pas maintenant - not now
Pas moi - not me
Pas nécessairement - not necessarily
Pas question - no way/out of the question
Pas si vite - not so fast
Pas tellement - not particularly/not so much
Pas tout à fait - not quite
Pas tout à fait cela - not quite that
Pas trop - not too much/not really
Pas vrai - not true
Pas vraiment - not really
Plutôt pas - rather not
Pourquoi pas ? - why not?
Probablement pas - probably not
Sans doute pas - probably not
Surtout pas ! - absolutely not!
Vraiment pas - really/truly not
Reciprocal verbs
Se parler - to talk to each other: ils se parleront tous les jours.
S’aimer - to love each other: elles s’aiment depuis longtemps.
Se voir - to see each other: nous nous voyons ce week-end.
Se rencontrer - to meet (each other): ils se sont rencontrés à la fac.
S’écrire - to write to each other: elles s’écrivaient souvent.
Se téléphoner/s'appeler - to call each other: nous nous appelions chaque soir.
Se comprendre - to understand each other: ils se comprennent bien.
Se quitter - to leave each other: ils ne veulent pas se quitter.
Se connaître - to know each other: elles se connaissent depuis l’enfance.
Se disputer - to argue/fight: ils se disputent parfois.
Se donner - to give each other: ils se donneraient des cadeaux.
S’aider - to help each other: nous nous aidons mutuellement.
Se serrer la main - to shake hands: ils se serrent la main le matin.
Se ressembler - to resemble each other: ses deux sœurs se ressemblent.
Se sourire - to smile at each other: ils se sourient timidement.
Se dire - to tell each other: ils se disent tout.
Se pardonner - to forgive each other: ils finirent par se pardonner.
Se retrouver - to meet up (again): ils se retrouvent au café.
Se manquer - to miss each other: elles se sont manqué.
S’embrasser - to kiss each other: ils s’embrassent pour se saluer.
Dont
Dont is an invariable pronoun with a specificity: it only associates with verbs that require the preposition de.
J'aime le garçon > le garçon que j'aime.
Le garçon m'aime > le garçon qui m'aime.
Je parle du garçon > le garçon dont je parle.
It has five meanings:
Whose/with (portional): l'homme dont les cheveux sont longs - the man whose hair is long/with the long hair
Of which/whom (indirect object complement*): c'est l'appartement dont j'ai parlé - it is the flat of which I spoke about; cette femme, dont le nom m’échappe, est venue ce matin - this lady, the name of whom escapes me, came this morning.
To/from whom (adjective complement): j'ai fait un cadeau à la collègue dont je suis la plus proche - I gave a gift to the colleague to whom I am the closest to
By which/whom: la famille dont il fut entouré - the family by whom he was surrounded.
Including/of whom: il a eu dix enfants, dont neuf filles - he had ten children, nine of whom being girls.
Les déterminants
Les articles
#1. Indefinite articles (unknown noun)
Un (masculine sg) > j'ai une chienne - I have a dog
Une (feminine sg) > j'ai un chat - I have a cat
Des (plural) > il y a des oiseaux dehors - there are birds outside*
#2. Definite articles (known noun)
Le + consonant, L' + vowel (masc sg) > le dîner est servi - dinner is served
La + consonant, L' + vowel (fem sg) > la table est prête - the table is reay
Les (plural) > les invitées sont là - the (female) guests are here
#3. Partitive articles (portion of the noun, not all of it)
Du > je vais prendre du café - I'm going to get coffee
De la > je voudrais de la salade - I would like some salad
Des > le matin je mange des céréales - In the morning I eat cereals
*Des becomes De 1/ when there is an adjective before the noun > tu as de beaux yeux - you have got nice eyes or 2/ in negative sentences after avoir > je n’ai pas de chaussettes - I don’t have socks.
N.B. When attached to prepositions à or de, le and les become contracted articles: au (à + le), aux (à + les), du (de + le), des (de + les): au clair de la lune - in the moonlight.
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Les déterminants possessifs
#1. For a single owner
Mon, ton, son (masculine singular) - my, your, his > mon chat est blanc
Ma, ta, sa (feminine singular) - my, your, her* > sa chienne est noire
Mes, tes, ses (plural) - my, your, their > son lapin est gris
*When a feminine noun following a possessive determiner starts with a vowel, we use the masculine version > c'est mon amie - she's my friend.
#2. For several owners
Notre, votre, leur (singular) - our, your, their > notre chien est vieux
Nos, vos, leurs (plural) - our, your, their > leurs chats sont jeunes
N.B. French focuses on the gender of the property > c’est son chien - it's his/her male dog (there is no information given about the owner).
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Les déterminants démonstratifs
Demonstrative determiners (from verb montrer - to show, point at) are used to point out the thing or person that is being talked about. They all start with the letter C (mnemonic: here's what I want you to "see").
Ce + consonant, c' + vowel (masc singular) - this > cet arbre est grand
Cette (fem singular) - this > cette maison est immense
Ces (plural) - these > ces fenêtres sont en bois
Les déterminants exclamatifs et interrogatifs
Quel (masculine singular) > quel est ce bruit ? - what is that noise?
Quelle (feminine singular) > quelle belle maison ! - what a beautiful house!
Quels (masculine plural) > quels drôles d'oiseaux ! - what peculiar people!
Quelles (feminine plural) > tu vas acheter quelles chaussures ? - which shoes are you getting?
NB. In front of a stative verb (être, rester, sembler...), those determiners become modifiers and therefore agree with the noun they are referring to > quelle était sa surprise quand je suis arrivée ! - what great was her surprise when I arrived!
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Les déterminants indéfinis
Indefinite determiners are used when the object is vague or unknown, can come with another determiner (les quelques - the few) or be locutions formed by a quantity adverb and the preposition de. Some are invariable. They can express:
A non existent quantity: aucun-e - no(ne), pas de - no > Tu n'as fait aucun effort !
A quantity of one: chaque* - each, n'importe quel-le - any
A quantity slightly over two: un peu de - a little of, quelques - a few, plusieurs - several, certain-es - some, d'autres - some others (works with certains)
A large quantity: beaucoup de - a lot of, trop de - too much of, la plupart de - most of suffisamment de - enough of, tant de - so much, différent-es - many, divers-es - various, énormément de - a great amount of
Everything: tout, toute, tous, toutes > Tu as mangé tous les chocolats !
*Chaque is not very common except in à chaque fois (every time), one would typically use tous with a plural (tous les jours, not chaque jour).
N.B. It's always beaucoup de. Beaucoup des is sinful and punishable by death.
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Les déterminants cardinaux numéraux
Cardinal determiners express a quantity and take the place of an article. They are invariable (can't agree in gender or number) except for one (un, une) + twenty and hundred that get an -s when there's no other number after (vingt, cent: cent-trois but deux cents) + thousand, million, billion that can be pluralised (millier, million, milliard)
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L'article zéro (physically absent but theoretically present)
#1. Proper nouns
Je vis à Paris (works for cities and islands),
C’est Noël (holidays),
Je l'ai vu sur Facebook (brands),
Tu as rencontré Isabelle (first and last names)
#2. Regular nouns
Des livres pour enfants, des croquettes pour chats (categories),
Pierre qui roule n’amasse pas mousse (proverbs),
Hommes, femmes, enfants (enumeration),
Avoir faim, sans crainte, homme de loi (locutions),
Elle part vendredi (about something happening a particular day),
Appartement à vendre, sel de mer (signs, labels),
Céline Dion, reine du metgala (apposition)
Movie: La Jetée - Chris Marker, 1962 (inspo for Terry Gilliam's Twelve monkeys)
Other posts: is it les or des?
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doing extra credit assignments after doing bad on a test you didn’t study for is kinda like taking the morning after pill after hitting it raw
i finally figured out why i was studying wrong for literally my entire life and i'm MAD
okay so. storytime.
i spent ALL of last year studying like 6-7 hours a day for boards. i'm talking full dedication. highlighters in every color. notes so aesthetic they could be on studyblr. i was COMMITTED.
and you know what i got? mid scores. like perfectly average. nothing terrible but nothing great either.
meanwhile my friend? studied maybe 3-4 hours a day MAX. didn't even make pretty notes. and she TOPPED our entire class.
i was so confused and honestly kind of salty about it lmao like what was she doing that i wasn't??? was she just naturally smarter? did she make a deal with the devil? WHAT.
so i finally asked her and she introduced me to these study techniques that basically changed my entire life and i'm actually MAD that nobody taught us this earlier because we're really out here studying the wrong way for YEARS.
technique 1: the feynman technique (aka the "explain it to a kid" method)
this one BLEW MY MIND. here's how it works:
pick any topic. let's say photosynthesis or the french revolution or whatever. now imagine you have to explain it to a 10 year old using only simple words. no fancy jargon. no complex terms.
try it right now with something you studied recently.
notice how you keep getting stuck? yeah. those are the parts you don't actually understand. you just memorized them.
i tried this with organic chemistry and realized i'd been fooling myself for MONTHS. i could recite definitions but i couldn't actually explain WHY reactions happened.
so now whenever i get stuck explaining something simply, i go back and relearn that specific part. and suddenly everything makes sense??? like ACTUAL sense not just "i memorized this sentence" sense.
this technique is literally perfect for boards because cbse LOVES asking application questions where you need to actually understand concepts, not just vomit memorized facts.
technique 2: active recall (or as i call it, the "close the damn book" method)
here's what i used to do: read chapter. highlight important parts. read again. maybe make notes. done.
here's what actually works: read chapter. close book. write down EVERYTHING you remember without looking.
the difference is WILD.
when you force your brain to retrieve information instead of just passively reading it, you create stronger memory pathways. it's literally science. your brain has to work harder so it remembers better.
i started making flashcards for everything. formulas. dates. definitions. concepts. and i test myself constantly. even the stuff i think i know.
especially the stuff i think i know tbh because that's usually where i'm overconfident and wrong lmao
technique 3: spaced repetition (the "review before you forget" method)
okay this one sounds boring but it's MAGIC.
instead of cramming everything the night before (we've all been there), you review material at specific intervals. study something today. review tomorrow. then after 3 days. then after a week. then after two weeks.
each time you review it gets easier because you're reinforcing the memory right before it fades.
i use a simple calendar for this. nothing fancy. just reminders for when to review each chapter.
the result? when board exams came around, i remembered stuff i studied in JUNE. effortlessly. no last minute panic cramming needed.
technique 4: pomodoro (aka "25 minutes of actual focus is better than 3 hours of distraction")
i cannot stress this enough: those 6-7 hour study sessions i was doing? maybe 2 hours were actual focused studying. the rest was me on instagram, checking messages, getting distracted, daydreaming, etc.
pomodoro technique is stupidly simple:
set timer for 25 minutes
study with COMPLETE focus (phone in another room level focus)
when timer rings, take 5 min break
repeat 4 times then take longer break
i get more done in 6 pomodoros (3 hours) now than i used to in entire days of "studying"
technique 5: mind mapping (the "visual brain dump" method)
linear notes never worked for me. i'd write pages and pages and remember nothing.
mind maps changed everything. you put the main topic in the center and branch out with related ideas, using colors and little drawings and connecting related stuff.
one good mind map can fit an entire chapter on one page AND you'll actually remember it because visual memory is powerful.
before exams i just review my mind maps and everything comes flooding back.
the real tea:
i wish someone had taught me this in like class 6 instead of letting me waste YEARS doing ineffective studying. but better late than never i guess?
since learning these techniques my scores have literally jumped 20+ percentage points. but more importantly? studying doesn't feel like torture anymore. it actually feels... productive? satisfying even?
wild concept i know.
oh and i found this platform called Cubegon that actually builds some of these techniques into their study modules which is pretty cool. like they structure content in a way that forces active recall and spaced repetition, so you're using effective methods even if you don't realize it. wish more educational apps did that tbh.
anyway if you're still studying the way we were taught in school (read, highlight, repeat, cry), maybe try these techniques for like two weeks?
your future self will thank you.
trust me.
Women's rights in France
1791 - Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne published (Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789) excluded women); first explicit feminist demand for equal citizenship; Olympe de Gouges (author, feminist)
1848 - Women were allowed to become primary school teachers; Ministry of Public Instruction, early feminist associations
1850 - Falloux Law makes primary education compulsory for girls in communes 800+; first state-mandated education for girls; Comte de Falloux (minister of education)
1865 - Women were admitted to French universities (Sorbonne); higher education previously barred to women; feminist activists (Louise Michel), university reformers
1880 - Women were permitted to sit the baccalauréat (high school); secondary education exams previously limited to boys; Jules Ferry (education reforms), feminist groups
1881 - Camille Sée Law establishes public secondary education for girls (emphasis on domestic skills); Camille Sée (politician, lawyer)
1884 - Naquet Law re-establishes divorce abolished in 1816; Alfred Naquet (politician, chemist)
1895 - Married women gain the right to work without husband's permission; feminist unions, socialist feminists
1900 - First French woman doctor graduates; Madeleine Brès (pioneering physician), women's medical societies
1907 - Law grants married women control over their own earnings; feminist movement, labour activists
1919 - Women allowed to serve as jurors; women's rights organisations, Ministry of Justice
1938 - Paid maternity leave was established; Suzanne Lacore (feminist senator), socialist government
1944 - Women (outside of colonies) granted suffrage by the Provisional Government (Ordinance 21 April); Charles de Gaulle, Resistance women, Cécile Brunschvicg
1945 - First elections where women voted and were elected; French provisional government, women's political organisations
1946 - Women allowed to become judges; women's legal associations, Ministry of Justice
1965 - Law reforms matrimonial regimes; women can work and open bank accounts without husband's consent, final dismantling of husband's marital power; government of Charles de Gaulle, Minister of Justice Jean Foyer
1967 - Neuwirth Law legalises contraception, banned since 1920 under natalist policies; Jacques Neuwirth (MP), Simone de Beauvoir, MFPF (family planning movement)
1970 - Parental authority replaces "paternal authority"; Women's Liberation Movement (MLF), feminist activists
1971 - Manifesto of the 343 published (women admitting to illegal abortions), abortion criminalised, clandestine procedures were common; MLF, Simone de Beauvoir, Christine Delphy
1972 - Law for equal pay between men and women; Simone Veil (Minister of Health), feminist activism
1975 - Veil Law legalises abortion (IVG) up to 10 weeks; Simone Veil, Gisèle Halimi (lawyer), Choisir association
1975 - Divorce by mutual consent legalised; Government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing
1975 - Abolition of marital power; Yvette Roudy (Secretary of State for Women's Condition)
1980 - Law defines rape as a specific crime against the person, previously treated as "crime against morality"; Gisèle Halimi, feminist lawyers
1983 - Roudy Law creates gender equality committees and enforces equal pay; Yvette Roudy, Ministry of Labour
1992 - Neiertz Law criminalises sexual harassment in the workplace; Véronique Neiertz (Secretary of State for Women's Rights)
2000 - Parité Law requires gender-balanced candidate lists in elections (against <6% of deputies prior); Ségolène Royal, feminist NGOs
2001 - Duration of legal abortion extended from 10 to 12 weeks; improved access, more time for decision; Élisabeth Guigou (Minister of Employment and Solidarity)
2004 - Law on domestic violence introduces protective orders; Ministry of Justice, Fédération Nationale Solidarité Femmes
2005 - Equal Pay Act imposes penalties for gender pay gaps; Ministry of Labour, trade unions
2006 - Law on gender equality action plans for companies; Ministry of Economy, business-women networks
2008 - Law defines and criminalises sexual harassment; Ministry of Labour, feminist NGOs
2010 - Law explicitly recognises psychological violence in marriage; Women's rights NGOs, legal experts
2011 - Law requires 40% women on boards of listed companies (>90% male prior); Christine Lagarde (Minister of Economy), feminist business groups
2014 - Law for Real Gender Equality expands parity, pay transparency, and anti-violence measures; Najat Vallaud-Belkacem (Minister of Women's Rights), feminist coalitions
2017 - Law extends IVF access to single women and lesbian couples; Agnès Buzyn (Health Minister), LGBT+ women's NGOs
2018 - Law defines rape as any sexual act without consent (previous definition required violence or threat); Nicole Belloubet (Justice Minister), #MeToo
2019 - Law criminalises street harassment; #NousToutes, feminist collectives
2020 - Law adds gender identity to anti-discrimination statutes; Ministry of Equality, LGBTQ+ advocacy groups
2021 - Law strengthens sexual assault penalties; Éric Dupond-Mélin (Justice Minister), feminist coalitions
2022 - Law makes IVF free for all women regardless of marital status; Olivier Véran (Health Minister), feminist & LGBT+ advocacy groups
2023 - Law reduces mandatory abortion waiting period to 48 hours (against 7 days prior); François Braun (Health Minister), women's rights NGOs
2024 - Abortion enshrined as "guaranteed freedom" in the French Constitution, first country to provide constitutional protection for abortion; Emmanuel Macron, Parliament, Planning Familial
French feminists; women's right to vote in colonies; Code de l'indigénat (citizens VS "subjects"); Mediterranean syndrome
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Japanese is an incredibly fun and rewarding language (if you’ve ever wanted to learn it for ANY reason, most importantly including the “silly” reasons) but the fearmongering and capitalist intervention involved in the language learning process have given it a reputation as an “impossible task” for English speakers, leading to confusion and dkn learners and weird pessimist attitudes about the whole thing. In this thread I will explain how to effectively learn and retain Japanese. This is a tried, tested and true method; probably 99% of all people who try to learn Japanese give up, but everyone I’ve met who has tried and stuck with this has been at or above N3-N4 after 6 months or less including me
You can teach yourself Japanese for free if you have a little free time every day and a computer
1. Drill yourself on hiragana and katakana. These are the phonetic building blocks of Japanese, think of them as equivalent to english letters. This site is a good resource in general. Once you have a solid grasp on this, DO NOT LINGER HERE; move to step 2. You will master kana later.
2. Download Anki. This is a flashcard service. They have a paid app if you’re willing to invest for it, but if not, they have a mobile website (create an account and sync it with your computer).
This is the deck you’re going to download. Import it to Anki and do this every day. I have learned the hard way (twice) that skipping this is bad. If you become overwhelmed, you can change the number of new cards and reviews by clicking the cog next to the name of the deck!
3. Cure Dolly (Youtube, grammar) + transcript. She has kind of a posh accent, you might want to turn subtitles on. Watch a few videos when you feel like it but most importantly set up 4 and 5 as soon as possible
4. Yomitan (must have) is a browser extension that functions as a pop-up dictionary. you need to install dictionaries for it to work. here are some dictionaries you can use with yomitan and explanations of what they do
5. READ. DO NOT LET YOURSELF GET STUCK BEFORE THIS STEP. JUST READ!!!! Most people who fail to learn Japanese do so because they are afraid of not being ready to move on, which is counterproductive. Just read. When you were a child did you spend years on vocab and grammar before reading? No I bet you did not. Pick something to read and learn what you don’t already know by reading in Japanese.
Jiten.moe has a list of novels and visual novels that you can read on your computer sorted by difficulty. So does jpdb. There’s also this document. There’s also this document. Hey look this website is cool too
For visual novels: download LunaHook. It “hooks” to your VN and allows you to use Yomitan on words you don’t know. Turn off the translation feature, it does nothing to help you learn
For literary texts: ttsu e-reader supports epub and htmlz files.
You can also learn Japanese by watching anime, but it’s a little more convoluted and requires a lot more patience.
For manga, utilize Mangatan, but I don’t recommend this right out the gate because when you’re first learning sentence structure you’ll want something with complete sentences.
Set your computer up for mining vocab before you start reading. Once you finish your kaishi deck, you can drill your mining cards (I didn’t do mine until after finishing kaishi because it was too much).
Most importantly: reading is going to be hard at first. It is going to piss you off. You need to muscle through with this because this is where the bulk of your learning will happen. After a while you will just feel like reading because you love reading! Try not to pick something too hard for your first read, but if you’re interested in the story you might be able to muscle through something a little tougher.
Remember to consult yomitan and cure dolly where needed, that’s what it’s there for. As you can see I am quite normal about the Japanese language, so if you have any other questions or need help with anything else feel free to shoot me an ask and I will get back to you promptly. Japanese is not your enemy and it is not impossible. It is your friend
70 People Try 70 Tongue-Twisters From 70 Countries
This is so much fun!
This is so cute omg
the canadian woman is from an alternate universe where anyone has ever mentioned PEI
Aw so cute
For the Philippines, they could have tried : Pharmacy, Lizard, Liver = Botika butiki bituka
…Don’t make me say it. I’ll bring shame to my ancestors. :D
Yes the Swiss one is in Italian too, ig they found somebody from an Italian Cantone
The Italian one should be: “trentatré trentini entrarono a Trento tutti e trentatré trotterellando” = 33 inhabitants of Trentino/Trento entered Trento (city) all 33 trotting along (the guy stopped after the start LOL)
And we also have a similar one with tigers: “tre tigri contro tre tigri” = 3 tigers against 3 tigers (almost had troubles just writing it lol)
Loved that they chose some of the most famous cause just “cane pazzo, pazzo cane” could bring huge damage if repeated fast and lot of times (the entire tongue twister is: “Dietro il palazzo c'è un povero cane pazzo, chi darà un pezzo di pane a quel povero pazzo cane.” = behind the building there’s a poor crazy dog, who will give a piece of bread to that poor crazy dog) - BEWARE
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RUS: На дворе трава, на траве дрова. Не руби дрова на траве двора.
ESP: Plou poc però pel poc que plou, plou prou. (ig it’s Catalan? js) I remember this i think: “Como poco coco como, poco coco compro.“ And also “Pablito clavó un clavito en la calva de un calvito. En la calva de un calvito un clavito clavó Pablito.” (similar to Chile and Peru’s ones)
FRA: Les chaussettes de l'archiduchesse sont-elles sèches? Elles sont sèches, archi-sèches.
KOR: 강장공장 공장장은 장공장장이고 된장공장 공장장은 강공장장이다. (prolly name are inverted but that’s what i found) anyway lemme adjust it: 강장공장 공장장은 강공장장이고 된장공장 공장장은 장공장장이다
가끔 언어 도전을 해볼 거야. 오늘 (day11): Sometimes I will do a language challenge. Today (day11) ^^
(I think I’m failing big time but not giving up, may it take me until next week 화이팅)
Do you know the feeling where you remember a certain sentence but have no idea how to adjust it to fit the current conversation? That's why these sentence builders exist! Read ahead to learn how to get more out of less~
Original sentence: 이 중에서 아무거나 골라도 돼요? = Among these, can I pick just any?
1. 이 중에서 = among these 저 중에서 = among those (over there) 이 사람들 중에서 = among these people 이 책들 중에서 = among these books 친구들 중에서 = among my friends
2. 이 중에서 고르세요. = Choose among these. / Pick [something] out of these. 이 중에서 뭐가 제일 좋아요? = What’s your favorite among these? 이 중에서 뭐가 제일 싫어요? = What’s your least favorite among these? 이 중에서 하나만 고르세요. = Pick just one out of these.
3. 아무거나 고르세요. = Pick/Choose/Select anything. 아무거나 주세요. = Give me anything. 아무거나 괜찮아요. = Anything is fine. 아무나 괜찮아요. = Anyone is okay.
Wanna test yourself? Go ahead!
이 중에서 / 아무거나 / 아무나
_________ 하나만 고르세요. (among these)
시간이 없어요. _________ 골라도 돼요. (anything)
_________ 누가 제일 친절해요? (among these people)
메뉴가 너무 많아요. _________ 추천해 주세요. (anything)
_________ 뭐가 제일 좋아요? (among these)
여기 있는 _________ 읽어 봤어요? (among these books)
이 중에서 하나만 골라 주세요. 진짜 _________ 괜찮아요. (anything)
_________ 도와줄 사람 있어요? (anyone)
_________ 누가 제일 늦게 와요? (among my friends)
Answers below
Podcasts (2)
Education
1940-1944 (resistance)
A chaud (recent cinema)
Actus du jour (daily news)
A deux heures de Paris (cities to visit 2h from Paris by train)
Arte radio (several pods, very varied)
Bestioles (animal portraits) - for children
C'est la rentrée (Q&A) - for children
Culture générale (trivia)
Double-clic sur la mode (fashion)
French touch (French electronic music)
Jeux Olympiques (sports, history)
La grande histoire de l'opérette (operetta history)
L'Antiquité (episodes of history)
La Terre au carré (ecology, science)
La tête dans les étoiles (astronomy)
La voix des invisibles (historical randos)
Le monde devant soi (news commentary)
Les décolonisations africaines (portraits)
Les discours (important speeches)
Les grands méchants (fictional villains)
Les super-pouvoir des bébés (children)
Monumental (monuments history) 2024
Mourir moins con (trivia)
Philosophes (seven portraits)
Votre cerveau (brain science)
Fiction/portraits
Coco Chanel (fashion)
Correspondance de Flaubert (letters)
Des ailes de mouette noire (Frida Kahlo)
Divas (great female singers)
Franz Kafka (writer, tortured artist)
Jean-Sébastien Bach (music)
Hildegarde de Bingen (composer, healer, philosopher)
Journaux de Sylvia Plath (diaries)
Malcolm X (activism, history)
Maria Montessori (education)
Sorcières ! (witches)
Society
Beau voyage (travelling)
Floodcast (life talk show, relaxed) 2015-2025
Hot girls only (womanhood, relaxed)
In extremis (survival stories)
Kiffe ta race (race, activism) 2018-2024
La leçon (failure and its impacts)
Les couilles sur la table (masculinity)
Les histoires extraordinaires (true crime)
Storylific (adventure, exploration)
Transfert (anonymous testimonies)
Francophone content
Contes des soirs perdus (fairytales) BE
Femmes d'aujourd'hui (Morroccan entrepreneurs) MO
Gouinistan (lesbian breakup stories) SW
Hantées (paranormal stories) CA
L'autre moitié de l'histoire (indigenous lands) CA
L'Ecole des rites (religion, spirituality) SW
Le débat africain (African news, politics)
Limitless (debates about African issues)
L'insolence du quotidien (living disabled) CA
Malabary (Madagascan culture) MA
Qu'est-ce tu regardes ? (cinema) CA
Une plage pour la francophonie (news) CA
+ three podcasts by the Institut du Monde Arabe: Aswat (arab music), Paris arabe (stories), Idées (debates, history)
My first podcast MP - RFI - podcast to learn French
Fanmail - masterlist (2016-) - archives - hire me - reviews (2020-) - Drive
True Crime shows/channels
#1. Hondelatte raconte, on Europe 1
#2. Faites entrer l'accusé, on RMC Story
#3. Murders explained
#4. Canal crime
credit goes to calle börstell for this one
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Korean Word of the Day
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Leaflet
One of my favorite things about learning about traditional textiles is the little ghosts they left in the language. Of course the ghosts are there, now that I know to look for them. Once upon a time, half the population spent a majority of their day making textiles. Spinning, at the very least, has been a part of humanity since the Neanderthals. That kind of knowledge doesn't just disappear.
A heckle was a device with sharp metal spikes, and people drag flax through the spikes to separate out the fibers from the chaff. When you say someone heckled a performer, you think you are being literal but you're speaking in an ancient metaphor.
When my grandpa says "spinning yarns" to mean telling stories, he knows that one's not quite literal, but its vividness is lost to him. There is no image in his mind of rhythm, muscle memory, and the subtle twist that aligns clouds of fibers into a single, strong cord.
When a fanfic writer describes someone carding their fingers through someone's hair, that's the most discordant in my mind. Carding is rough, and quick, and sometimes messy (my wool is full of debris, even after lots of washing). The teeth of my cards are densely packed and scratchy. But maybe that's my error, not the writer's. Before cards were invented, wool was combed with wide-toothed combs, and sometimes, in point of fact, with fingers. The verb "to card" (from Middle English) may actually be older than the tools I use, archaic as they are. And I say may, because I can't find a definitive history. People forget, even when the language remembers.
The "text" in textbook comes from textile. Turns out a lot of people thought the metaphor of weaving a story was an apt one, and when you're finished weaving you have a text
