A Beginner's Guide to Learning Tagalog Language Fast and Easy
Tagalog, an Austronesian language spoken mainly in the Philippines, is steadily growing in popularity among English speakers looking to learn a second language. In this beginner’s guide, we’ll look at why Tagalog is relatively easy for English speakers to pick up, provide tips for learning it faster, and highlight some of its key features. We’ll also explore resources for accelerating your…
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I was actually supposed to start teaching Irish to beginners very soon (already signed a contract)... and now I’m stuck at home filled with existential dread.
I’m thinking of starting here at least, so that I can develop some kind of a rough plan and we can go through some Basic Irish 101. You can also start with NO IRISH at all! How does that sound? Lessons would come out every day or every few days, really...and we could make it interactive, too!
If you’re interested, let me know! Like, reblog, send me an ask with specific requests (much appreciated!!!)
Hello, everyone! Dont see alot of people talking about Turkmen, so I decided to make a quick post about it! Hopefully later on I will be able to post some resources!!
Turkmen is a turkic language spoken in Turkmenistan, Russia, Iran, Uzbekistan, Iraq and Syria. It has roughly 6.7 million native speakers, contains vowel harmony, and is not a gendered language.
It has three different alphabets. At first it was written with an Arabic alphabet, from the start of the 20th century to 1928. Then, from the Latin script was adopted. In the 1940s, due to Russian influence, it adopted a Cyrillic alphabet. When Turkmenistan became independent in 1991, it re-adopted the Latin alphabet, and the Latin alphabet is what is used today.
Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin Alphabet
Basics in Turkmen:
Yes - Hawa
No - Ýok
Please - Baş / Baş üstüne
Thank you - Sag boluň
Hello - Salam
Hello (formally, usually to someone older than you) - Salawmaleýkim (women are only meant to say 'salam')
Hello (in response) - Waleýkim essalam (women are only supposed to say 'waleýkim')
How are you? - Nähilisiň?
What is your name? - Adyň näme?
My name is ... - Meniň adym ...
Nice to meet you - Tanşanymyza şat
I am ... years old - Men ... yaşymda
Where are you from? - Sen nireden?
I am from ... - Men ...dan
Hope this is interesting/useful to some people, and I apologize if there are any mistakes!!!
Because I haven’t done a French post in a while, I’ve put together a list of basic rules and grammar terminology for everyone studying French, whether you’re completely new to the language or want to recap! Some of the rules and terminology explained here can also be applied to other languages
Terminology
Subject - the person or thing performing the action being described
Verb Conjugation - when the verb changes grammatically to agree with the subject (see above)
Articles - context for a noun (example: ‘the’ or ‘a’)
Definite Articles - used only with specific nouns
Indefinite Articles - used only with unspecified, countable nouns
Partitive Articles - used only for a quantity of something uncountable
Elison - the removal of a vowel sound in order to avoid consecutive vowel sounds
Contraction (not the child birth kind) - when one word is made from combining two words
aspirate - consonant
non-aspirate - vowel
‘etre on train de’ - to be in the process of. Sometimes used in place of a specialized continuous verb if appropriate, because French doesn't have those. An idiomatic phase.
Idiomatic phase - language where the meaning is different from the meaning of the words in the expression
conjunction - when two or more phases, clauses or words are joined together
preposition - shows the relationship between the noun or pronoun and another word in the sentence
aimer - to love when referring to people or pets, but only to like if referring to anything else
aimer bien - always to like
adorer - always to love, but definitely more sexy. Not for pets, or your mum.
Rules
French has two genders: masculine and feminine
articles (see above) must agree with their gender and number
a word can elide (see above) if it is followed by a vowel. Examples: je, me, te, se, ce, ne, de and que
the letter H is always silent
When H starts a word however, it can be treated as an aspirate or non-aspirate (see above)
plural nouns and adjectives often (but not always) end in ‘s’, which is usually silent
‘Tu’ (see below in personal subject pronouns) is for friends, peers, relatives and people familiar to you
‘Vous’ (see below, personal subject pronouns) is for people you’ve just met, formal relationships and plurals. Its kind of the default, as it is the more respectful form.
pronouns, articles and adjectives must agree with their nouns in gender and number!!!!
there are two present tenses: simple and continuous
French does not have specialized continuous verb tenses (see above)
Examples (feel free to save and use!)
Personal Subject Pronouns
Subject Verb Agreement
Articles
Plurals
And Lastly!
Thank you so much for checking out this post, I really hope you find it useful. Please let me know if you need any help understanding any of this or would like anything clarified further! I also want to add a small disclaimer: the cheat sheets and header (including the artwork) is all my own.
don't crush on someone who has very limited experience reading your native language because ya know when you have a crush, it sometimes takes you a whole day to figure out what to text them.....but now you gotta write what you decided to say in their native tongue and you don't wanna fuck it up so you spend another additional day reverse-translating what you want to say, trying to be smooth and casual and shit and YOU KNOW WHAT SOMETIMES YOU STILL GET IT TOTALLY WRONG AND YOUR CRUSH IS LIKE ???? AND IT CAN BE VERY DISCOURAGING BUT IF YOURE LIKE ME, YOU WON'T LET SOMETHING LIKE LANGUAGE BARRIERS STOP YOU FROM SINGING YOUR SIREN SONG TO THAT HANDSOME MOTHER FRICKER
