★ The Language Accountability Project Invites You ★
♢ To Join Us in a Mid-Summer Polyglot’s Dream ♢
Happy Summer from the Northern Hemisphere! (And Happy Winter to the Southern Hem!) My discord, designed to keep you accountable in achieving your language goals, is inviting you to participate in another challenge with us!
Studying in the summertime can be tricky. We have an illusion of having a large chunk of time, when suddenly it hits us - a couple rest weeks, some travel plans, spontaneous summer fun, and suddenly the season is over as quickly as it started.
Let's face it, it can be difficult to sit down at a desk and digest grammar when taking a walk with an iced drink is so appealing.
So we're coming at you with a portable challenge - one you can digest with your morning coffee or on a train between travels. And all it takes is three easy steps!
Step 1 - Find a list of the 1000 most common words in your target language. Apps like Memrise, Quizlet, Tinycards, and Anki are sure to already have sets of these. You can also find a book or article online which lists them out.
Step 2 - Tackle 10 words a day. You're sure to already know some of these words! Don't stress out about knowing how to use them perfectly. Focus on digesting their meanings and getting acquainted with them.
Step 3 - Check in with us! We're here to help build a community of folks who keep each other accountable for their language learning goals. Pop into our discord to jot down the words you learnt that day. Make a social media post or a video of your success and tag us with #laptop1000 so that we can see and share your efforts!
We hope you’ll consider joining us! We look forward to lots of fun learning. And, if you want to join the discord, head on over! We assign new language accountability partners at the start of every month and we want more people to sign up.
Today was all in all just a nice day! I met up with my besties to finish our London-trip planning and I also had work! But more importantly I managed to get some studying done!
50 hours club
Korean ~ 1hr
At this point, I think I have already surpassed the 50 hours of studying, but I am not sure and I still have to calculate everything together!
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And furthermore it’s going really well with this challenge too and I’m really happy about that!
Today’s words are:
저 - that (far from speaker and listener)
못하다 - to be unable to do sth
생각하다 - to think
모르다 - to not know
속 - inside ("within the water, inside the forest")
Words in italic are words I already knew beforehand
I only did five words today, because I reviewed about 30 old ones and I thought I didn’t want to do any new ones besides these 5!
Rude Ways to Refer to People☆人について失礼な言い方(ひとについてしつれいないいかた)
Today I thought I’d have some fun with rude vocabulary referring to people. A great deal of these are frequently used in anime or yakuza movies.
Disclaimer: Do not use in polite company or if you want to actually make friends! It’s a fun discussion topic, but please don’t use when referring to actual people.
きさま rude pronoun 'you'
手前 てまえ rude pronoun 'you' (often pronounced as てえめえ)
こいつ・あいつ rude, overly familiar expression for a third party (”this guy”)
この野郎 このやろう this piece of sh!t (generally used for males)
馬鹿野郎 ばかやろう stupid piece of sh!t
くずやろう piece of trash
最低 さいてい the worst, disgusting (e.g. 最低な人間・さいていなにんげん)
やつ unpleasant person (can also be used for someone you like but it’s very informal and usually used by males esp. gangsters - 良いやつ)
くそったれ sh!thead
クソガキ stupid brat (often used for children or someone younger)
I hope I didn’t offend any sensibilities, but perhaps you learned something that will help you watch a yakuza movie without subtitles! Please don’t use this on your friends, teachers, or strangers but enjoy knowing some insulting ways to refer to people in Japanese.