#languages 101

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The useful post *Master List* (Part three)

This is a list in progress.

Part one || Part two || Part Three || Part Four || Part Five || Part Six

Languages 101

♡ Languages in General *Master List #1*

♡ PDF Workbooks for 30 Languages

♡ Do not use Duolingo

♡ Langblr Challenge *Master List #2*

♡ Russian, Korean & Spanish *Study Plan*

♡ Language Learning Tips

♡ Langblr Playlist

♡ Christmas Music in different languages

♡ Learning is Personal

♡ How to improve pronunciation

♡ 2 Months of Learning: Languages Prompts

♡ Learning languages and how to make it fun

♡ Linguistics and Languages: MEGA & Google Drive Pack

♡ Translations can be tricky

♡ See? Duolingo is not good 😌

♡ Language is too an instrument

♡ How slang spreads

♡ Singular & Plural across several languages

♡ Using mixed language as a tool

♡ Bloom Library

♡ 79 Languages

♡ Multilingualism

★ ✨ ★ ✨ Japanese ✨ ★ ✨ ★

♡ Harry Potter JP Ver. 1~7

♡ Websites for learning Japanese

♡ On'yomi or Kun'yomi??

♡ Furigana is crazy sometimes

♡ Japanese Reading Resources for Absolute Beginners

♡ くなる and くする

♡ Read in Japanese

♡ More reading in JPN

♡ Learn Japanese on the Toilet

♡ Dictionaries

♡ Kanji Vocabulary *Master List in progress*

♡ Cultural and Linguistic Nuances *this is very beautiful tbh*

♡ Phones in Japanese

♡ Japanese Social Media

★✨ ★ ✨ ★ French ★ ✨ ★✨★

♡ 100 Common French Verbs

♡ French Expressions

♡ Mildly Polysynthetic

♡ Adjectifs

♡ Notes on French Verb Tenses

♡ Preferences

♡ Cemantix

♡ Vocab Master List

★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ Russian ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★

♡ First lesson: Not everything is Russian

Korean ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★

♡ A very detailed Master List

♡ Korean

♡ Google Drive: Korean Free Learning Resources

♡ A Pop of Korean - One Page Master List

Spanish ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★

My Spanish Lesson♡

Linguistics ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★ ✨ ★

♡ Switching between languages

♡ Linguistics Master List #1

♡ Irish & AAVE (African American Vernacular English)

♡ Etymology

♡ Loanwords

♡ Generational Gaps

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What’s holi means? Is that the slang for hola? Or Mapi’s just trying to sound cute lol

Yes exactly, that's just an informal, friendly and kinda cute way of saying hola!

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Hi I hope this is not a weird question...I understand English pretty well and I can write in English but I'm weaker when I have to speak as I'm not confident enough. Do you have any suggestions for people like me who want to improve in that area during lockdown?

Hello 👋 not weird at all!! I may not be able to have the best advice because the only language I've tried to learn when I was older is French and once I stopped studying it I've barely kept it up with my own initiative but I can still try to give you a few pointers!

Practice makes perfect, and talking to yourself out loud is not a sign of madness but rather one of intellect (lol I just made that up but I do actually believe in this!!). Basically, just practise speaking English as much as you can. Rather than just read something in your head say it out loud. If you're thinking about something then maybe try to go through your reasonings out loud in English. If you have someone to practise with then even better but if not, just take at least a chunk out of each day to just talk to yourself in English about whatever and I'm sure you'll become much more confident very quickly!

I know that especially over these last months a lot of volunteering networks have been set up where you can speak with people living on their own over the phone/video call. I can't remember the names of any of the companies right now but I'm sure if you Google it some will come up! These people are here for a chat, with no judgement about your level of English. This is obviously something more daunting but it could be very rewarding if you ended up giving it a go!

Confidence, strut your stuff. This is a tricky one and pretty hard to teach, but genuinely the more you believe you can speak a language well the better you will actually speak it because you'll be less focused on trying not to mess up and rather let you speech flow more naturally. Suggestion no1 will especially help to build confidence up in my experience :)

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Creo que eres bilingüe, no? como crees que un español podria mejorar su acento ingles?

Si lo soy! Aunque siendo binacional también pues no seré la mejor en dandote consejos que yo mejoré mis acentos estando rodeada de los dos idiomas desde que nací. Pero por alli irían mis consejos.

Practicar siempre que puedas (aunque sea hablandote a ti misma o diciendo lo que acaba de decir en la seria o entrevista o lo que sea que te estes viendo) y si puedes hablar con gente inglesa aun mejor, que las mejores formas de mejorar en un idioma es estando sumergida en ella. Tambien hay bastantes apps donde puedes hablar ingles con otros usantes, no te podria decir muy bien las mejores porque nunca las he usado pero con una busqueda por el internet seguro que te saldran algunas. Si no puedes o no te llama esto pues incluso con solo oirlo mucho te ayudaria a mejorar el acento ya que hay que interiorizar los acentos para poder replicarlos

Perdon por no ser mas util, pero espero de que te sirva de algo esto :)

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correction it's "wahabee" (got caught up in the language sorry) and yes leila is a very common name in arabic, it loosely translates to "a night" and honestly it's a beautiful name. I'm currently learning Spanish and the common words that arabic and Spanish have is making the language so incredibly easy for me to learn and very enjoyable as well.

Ooh that really is lovely, I'm liking the language exchange going on! Yeah I think people sometimes get caught up in the predominantly Latin roots of the spanish language that the arabic influences are semi-overlooked, glad to see its helping you out though and you're enjoying it so far :))

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I'm the anon about Vis a vis - thank you for your answer and tips!! Also for the anon wanting to improve their English: For me something really easy/obvious but still heplful thing was reading aloud? You can do it for yourself or if you want it to be more daunting to someone else. And I know that there used to be tapes for learnig languages where they say a phrase and then you have to repeat it, maybe something like this could be helpful? <3

Ahh no problem at all!! And thanks for your own tips about improving speaking skills, I definitely agree that the one of the best and easiest ways to get better is to just read allowed. The tapes sounds like another helpful thing to consider :))

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THE CONS OF LEARNING TWO LANGUAGES BROUGHT TO YOU BY A FRUSTRATED FIRST-YEAR FANGIRL:

korean: bam = night japanese: bam/ban = night chinese: ban = half

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