#langbrl

[khaikylglr]

Hi, I'm trying to find people from #langtwt here,if you are also in the language learning community follow me 😊

[rmxcore]

studying a language is so satisfying!!!! like yeah its hard in the beginning, specially when you see a lot of words and have no idea what they mean but then you finally start to understand and when you can finish a paragraph without having to google a word or phrase you feel so proud and you start hearing songs and understanding them and you can read texts and understand it's concept and you can watch a video and understand what they're talking about and when you see you're writing a whole essay in this specific language and you're like woah-

[hindisoup]

Mismatched ep 5 of (6)

GIF source: @storiesfromthegrave

Vocabulary

इसरो - ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) पंगा लेना - to meddle with, interfere, intrude (transitive) टट्टू - pony (masculine) उस्ताद - teacher, master (masculine by default) मूड के अनुसार - according to (one's) mood (adverb) नमूना - example, specimen (masculine) तगड़ा - strong, sturdy (adjective) बदबू - foul odour (feminine) रद्दी - waste, junk (feminine noun/adjective) सड़ना - to become rotten (intransitive) झल्ला - crazy, stupid, foolish (adjective) खम्मा घणी - a local greeting used in Rajput (source: Quora) पधारना - to visit, to sit (intransitive) देखभाल करना - to take care, raise (transitive) गिरगिट - chameleon (masculine) जंग का मैदान - battlefield (masculine) औक़ात - means, capacity, ability (feminine) पोतना - to smear, paint (transitive) तमीज़ से - politely (adverb) बकचोदी - nonsense, rubbish (feminine) उखड़ना - to be uprooted, destroyed (intransitive) पीटना - to beat, strike, beat up (transitive)

This episode was such an emotional rollercoaster और कितनी गालियाँ सीखी हैं मैंने! I didn't even dare to type all the words on the list I had to Google (sincere apologies to my FBI agent).

Grammar wise, this time I paid attention to the use of conjunctive:

तुम्हारे लिए लेके आया हूँ। I brought it for you. (Literally: having taken it for you I came)

मल्होत्रा को जाके इसका मतलब बताओ। Tell Malhotra what it means. (Literally: having gone to Malhotra, tell it's meaning)

तुम यह पहनकर जाओगी डेट पे? Are you going on a date wearing this? (Literally: will you go on a date having worn this)

[oneleggedflamingo]

Some Finnish winter aesthetic words :)

viima = a cold wind

hanki = a thick layer of snow, which has naturally formed from the falling snow. 

takkatuli = a fire in the fireplace. I warm my hands takkatulen edessä. 

hankikeli = when a person can walk on hanki without sinking into the snow. Typically the weather needs to be under 0 degrees of celsius. Kun on hankikeli, it is worth going on a walk on the fields. 

suojakeli/suojasää = the weather, when you can make snow balls. Suojakelillä children make snowmen everywhere.

lumikinos = A thick layer of snow. The snow might have naturally gathered more in certain areas, or it might have been pushed into kinos by a plow. Tällä säällä lumikinoksia on kaikkialla. 

puuterilumi = powder snow

loska = icy and watery slush. Running on loska covered road is awful.

räntä = sleet, watery and icy rain. Ränta sade is not my favourite type of rain. Don’t tell me that taas sataa räntää. There is an idiom: sataa räntää vaakatasossa, which means a horizontal räntä rain, this means that things are shitty and annoying. 

huurre = frost. When the moisture in the air has condensed into a colder surface.

hengitys huuruaa = when you breath out on a cold day, and you see the air going white.

menee huuruun = your car windows can go huuruun, when you turn the AC too high too soon and you can’t see through the windows, because they start to turn white. You should never drive huurteisilla laseilla. 

pakkanen = when the temperature is sub zero degrees of celsius. 

kirpeä pakkaspäivä = A face burningly cold day. The kirpeä part is not a necessary word, but some people add it, when it is so cold that your face and fingers hurt while being outside.

pöllytä = when moving air lifts particles. In an old barn you should never pöllyttää dust covered things, because you might breath in harmful microbes. 

‘’Pakkasella auton ikkunat menevät huuruun. Suojasäällä loskaa on kaikkialla ja hanki sulaa. Hankikelillä lumikinokset kestävät ja viima pöllyttää puuterilunta.’’

[greentea-n-cats-langblr]

LANGUAGES STUDY TIPS

1. Every day read and listen to something in your target language. 🎧📖

It doesn't matter if you are not able to fully understand, this kind of exercise will help you improve your pronunciation and it will make your reading skills improve.

Example: I read a newspaper article about something that interests me and I listen to scary stories in my target languages.

2. Use apps that are meant to teach you something 📱

Even Instagram can help if you ue it wisely!

Example: I use Duolingo and Quizlet daily to improve my knowledge. Why is that? First of all, on Quizlet I like to add every new word that I find, in order to study them. Secondly, I use Duolingo because it helps me understanding the way the phrase is structured in my target languages.

3. Try to think in your target language. 🤓

It may be hard at first, but you will get better with it with practice.

4. Schedule. ⏰

I believe that it is very important to write down what you have to do and to keep things organised.

Example: I divide the work week into three languages. On monday I study german, on tuesday russian, on wednesday english and so on.

[fussballstuff]

[pinkstrawberrylanguages]

Who speaks or studies one of these languages

Swedish

Norwegian

Italian

Greek

Japanese

Portuguese (Europe)

Russian

[readinsomnia]

Word history #1

Poetry, from Latin pŏēsis, that is from Greek ποίησις, derived from ποιέω «to make, to create»