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chinese-english flashcards I found in my late taiwanese grandparents' garage. they were manufactured in hong kong, around the 1970s-80s. what stands out to me is the western clothing - from other old photos one can see that my grandparents would typically dress their two sons in styles nearly identical to the little boys in the above image, and my grandmother would wear her hair permed and short, often with a blouse and skirt like the card above.
learning about weaponized incompetence in chinese, universal experience fr
Are you currently learning a foreign language, either online or in person?
Yes, I'm currently learning multiple foreign languages
Yes, I'm learning English
Yes, I'm learning Spanish
Yes, I'm learning French
Yes, I'm learning German
Yes, I'm learning Japanese
Yes, I'm learning Italian
Yes, I'm learning Korean
Yes, I'm learning Chinese
Yes, I'm learning a foreign language not mentioned above
No, but I have learned (a) foreign language(s) in the past
No, I've never learned a foreign language
(Languages taken from the top 10 foreign languages learned on Duolingo in 2024.)
I would like to bring your attention to two fundraisers that are near and dear to my heart.
@elhamhamdan-gaza is a young woman trying to survive in Gaza with her family. She was a top student at university until October 2023, when she and her family were displaced from their home in Khan Younis and forced to flee to Rafah. After the invasion in Rafah, they returned to their home in Khan Younis only to find it burned. They had no choice but to live in it. Elham and her family desperately need funds for blankets and clothes, because winter is here and nights in Gaza are very cold right now.
Elham's campaign is very low on funds! So far they have only been able to raise £594 and they desperately need more support. Please donate to them if you are able, and share this post and campaign with as many people as you can.
This campaign was verified by the Butterfly Effect Project (instagram) and is number 1180 on their spreadsheet, which you can access through the link on their instagram profile.
You can contribute to Elham's campaign by clicking on the link below:
Hi I’m Antonia Bithell and I’m helping raise emergency funds for Elham, a… Antonia Bithell needs your support for Help Elham Hamdan to su
Secondly, @drdarine is a young woman who is a medical student in Gaza. Despite being displaced and suffering hardships we can only imagine, Darine is continuing her studies and helping out others in the refugee camps and shelters in southern Gaza. Her family consists of seven people, one of them being my friend @dawoudi who is selflessly and unfailingly helping many other families in Gaza by verifying their fundraisers and promoting them on Tumblr. Everyday I see more campaigns added that he has verified, providing an important service to the many families in Gaza that need our help.
Darine's family has been fundraising since February, which is almost ten months! Despite that, they have only been able to raise $5,765, 19% of their goal. Progress on their campaign is extremely slow, often needing to wait multiple days for another donation to come in. We can do better than that.
This campaign was vetted by @gazavetters, and is number 15 on their spreadsheet, which you can find in the pinned post on their profile.
You can contribute to Darine's campaign by clicking on the link below:
Israel has taken more members of my extended family. Are we next? Does… ENASE ZAGOOT needs your support for Help future Dr Darine and her fa
Please support these fundraisers! Thank you!
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【许你十年】vocab ep. 01
罪人 zuìrén = sinner; convict; guilty person
下一秒 xià yī miǎo = the next second; in a moment
媒体大肆报道 méitǐ dàsì bàodào = the media gave extensive coverage; the media sensationalized
陷害 xiànhài = to frame (someone); to set up
红了 hóng le = became popular; became famous; went viral
赔偿 péicháng = compensation; to compensate; damages
综艺 zōngyì = variety show
全新 quánxīn = brand new
都小事啦 dōu xiǎoshì la = It's no big deal; It's nothing
宣传 xuānchuán = to promote; publicity; propaganda
变态 biàntài = pervert; abnormal; freak
背地里却是个变态 bèidìlǐ què shì gè biàntài = behind the scenes/behind people's backs, (he) is actually a pervert
恶心 ěxin = disgusting; nauseating; to disgust
粉丝吃点好的吧 fěnsī chī diǎn hǎo de ba = Fans, you deserve better (content/celebrities) / literally: "Fans, eat something better."
骚扰电话 sāorǎo diànhuà = harassing phone calls; spam calls
要不然 yàobùrán = otherwise; or else
哥们儿 gēmenr = bro; buddy; dude
最山的山炮啊 zuì shān de shānpào a = the biggest hick/bumpkin; the most uncool person
Greetings everyone, welcome to my first post!
I'm new to Tumblr and I created this account to dive more into the cultural aspects and language of humans, hoping to meet an awesome buddy/penpal to help with the study process so we can both help motivate each other and learn!
I have always loved learning new stuff, as a lot of things in this world have intrigued me.
The languages I'm currently learning are the following listed to priority:
Currently Studying:
🇩🇪 1. German (3+ years, around A~B).
🇯🇵 2. Japanese (off and on).
🇫🇷 3. French (beginner!).
On Hold:
🇨🇳 Chinese.
🇪🇸 Spanish.
🤟 ASL (American Sign Language).
Haven't Started:
🇧🇷 Portuguese (Brazillian).
🇷🇺 Russian.
🇰🇷 Korean.
✨️ Latin.
Might Want to Learn:
🇸🇪🇫🇮 Scandinavian Languages.
🇦🇪 Arabic.
🇮🇩 Indonesian.
🇺🇦 Ukranian.
If you thought, "hey, these languages align with the one(s) I'm studying right now!", then feel free to send me a message! *Even if It's non-language related, feel free to send me a message about culture, music, your interests, etcetera!
Things to keep in mind:
I don't study everyday, I study only when I want to. Though ofcourse once you've sent a message, I'll try to reply as fast as I can.
I'm very bad with grammar (e; Japanese), so I naturally lean more towards a language's vocabulairy first. We can still learn grammar, It's just something to keep in mind.
I'm a casual and slow learner, I take my time to learn a language.
Thank you so much for having reached this far, to the end of my first blog! Let me know what you think. I look forward to becoming soon-to-be-buddies, I'll be waiting! 💕✨️
Where there’s determination, there’s also me… still trying.
我来学中文 (wǒ lái xué zhōngwén)
“I came to learn Chinese”
现在词汇认识我 (xiànzài cíhuì rènshi wǒ)，我不认识它们 (wǒ bù rènshi tāmen)
“Now the vocabulary knows me. I don’t know them.”
Honestly, notebooks with busy page designs look nice, but they're not very practical to write in.
These are the apps and links I currently have on my phone to study Chinese:
SuperChinese: my main study resource. There are currently 7 levels, level 7 (still incomplete, they are still slowly adding lessons to it) being HSK 5 stuff. Each lesson has vocabulary, grammar and a short dialogue where those are used in context (I love context). It has a few free lessons in the lower levels but after that you have to buy a subscription. There are many sales though. When I was a beginner I used HelloChinese instead, which has more free content, and switched to SuperChinese when I finished all the free content there. It also has social network features and chat rooms I don't use.
TofuLearn is like a flashcard app with many pre-made decks (you can also create your own on their website and import decks from Anki) and the option to practice writing hanzi. Anki didn't work for me, but I find Tofu very helpful. Practicing writing helps me with character recognition, and it also helps me remember the tones thanks to the audio in the pre-made HSK decks.
Dot is a reading app with new texts being added every day. It used to be completely free, which actually seemed too good to be true, and then they put practically everything behind a paywall and very strict limits for free users. After a couple of months they made it a little less restricted though - we still can't choose the articles but we can read as many as we want as long as we do the vocabulary exercises after each article (plus, during the Spring Festival, they made all articles available for free for 3 days and we could save the ones we were interested in to read later). It follows the new, not-yet-implemented (and harder) HSK levels, so you should start one or two levels below yours and if the texts are too easy move up.
Google Translator: not the best but helpful when I need to translate whole sentences, plus I can point my camera or open an image and it translates writing.
Pleco: best Chinese to English dictionary.
Stroke Order: not an app but a website, does what it says in the tin: shows stroke order for a specific character.
YouGlish: also a website, you can put a word or phrase and it shows videos where people say that word/phrase. Very cool.
Todaii is a graded news app that has only two levels: easy and hard. I'm around level HSK4 and the "easy" level is quite hard though (but I admit reading is my nemesis).
I also use YouTube and Spotify a lot.
