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langbr, language enthusiast, native slovak, fluent in english and czech (kind of), learning german and vietnamese

[moniquill]

[infinitemachine]

That is wild. I love it.

[vietnamesepod101]

🌴☀️ Want to sound more natural in Vietnamese? Start with the most common adjectives ✨ Describe more, speak better, and level up fast. 💬 Learn Vietnamese for FREE ⬇️ 🔗 https://www.vietnamesepod101.com/?src=tumblr_infographic_adjectives_4_012926

[dogpuppy]

[tragbarerpanzrabwehrkomplexfagot]

[tarragonthedragon]

idk i just feel like "it is more acceptable and in fact encouraged to mock anything enjoyed primarily by women" and "being enjoyed primarily by women does not make thing feminist and righteous" are thoughts that can and should coexist

[tarragonthedragon]

oh and also "even if the thing is bad your criticism of it can come from a place of patronising misogyny"

[moonybamboony-deactivated202508]

you guys gotta stop deactivating your blogs cause you're making it harder for me to go back in a reblog chain to remove the annoying additions

[arlo-maintenanceman]

I reblogged this specifically for the prev tag because it made me feel like I was having a stroke

[vietnamesepod101]

Ways to Connect Speech in Vietnamese! 🗨 More FREE resources here: https://www.vietnamesepod101.com/learn-with-pdf?src=tumblr_special_infograph_adverb1_012726

[vietnamesepod101]

🌴🌳 Want to sound more natural in Vietnamese? Start with the most common adjectives ✨ Describe more, speak better, and level up fast. 💬 Learn Vietnamese for FREE ⬇️ 🔗 https://www.vietnamesepod101.com/?src=tumblr_infographic_adjectives_3_012226

[parkchanwoohoo]

Heard this stupid dad joke that killed me: Which Chinese word takes the longest to write? "Friend" (朋友) because it takes two months just to write half of it

[parkchanwoohoo]

Which character is faster, hot (热) or cold (冷)? Obviously hot, which has 4 legs to cold's 1

[parkchanwoohoo]

Why do Chinese vampires hate spicy food? They only drink 不辣的

[claire-witch-project]

[sololangs]

everyday i mourn that my parents did not make me study five languages during my critical window of language acquisition (2 to 7 years)

[honestlyhardmilkshake]

Every "new language learning technique that will change your life" just boils down to "Did you know that if you learn/practice the language you're learning you will get better at it?"

[typicalsimswhore]

For anyone looking to learn Vietnamese, here is what I personally use:

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Apps

* Duolingo (yes, I said it. It's a good foundation.) Free -includes premium

* Drops (use topics that correlate with what you are already learning, good for retaining memory. Like flashcards but fun.) Free -includes premium

* Learn Vietnamese Speak, Listen (yes, that is the name of the app 😭. Really good for speaking/listening especially if you don't have anyone to practice with. Learn content that correlates with your Duo/Drops lessons.) Free -includes premium

Books

* Lonely Planet Vietnamese Dictionary (self explanatory, good for reference. Any dictionary works.) $$$ pricey / may be found in public library ✅

* Reading and Writing Vietnamese: A Workbook for Self-Study (found on Amazon here, covers basically everything needed for beginners) $$$ pricey

YouTube

* Tieng Viet Oi- Vietnamese Lessons (here)

* What the Pho (here)

* Vietglish Fun (here)

* Learn Vietnamese with Annie (here)

* Learn Vietnamese With SVFF (Southern Vietnamese. here)

Individual Video Recs:

*The Vietnamese Alphabet

*Vowel Pronunciation

* Vietnamese Tones

* Counting 1-10

* Travel Basics

* Accent Discrimination

Hope this helps. Vietnamese is hard, but I believe in you!!! 🇻🇳💖

Q: What helps you learn? Let me know!!

[liebelesbe]

my favorite prefix in german is "er-", meaning "to death" <3

[liebelesbe]

trinken -> to drink | ertrinken -> to drown

schießen -> to shoot | erschießen -> to shoot to death

würgen -> to choke | erwürgen -> to choke someone to death

stechen -> to sting | erstechen -> to stab to death

etc etc :]

[german-enthusiast]

*stechen -> to stab (as well, not just sting)

schlagen -> to hit | erschlagen -> slay (also: overwhelm)

drücken -> to press | erdrücken -> to crush

etc.

[daylightsavingcrime]

Completive transitive "er-" my beloved! It has a less productive counterpart in non-lethal transitive "an-".

anschießen -> to shoot non-fatally

anfahren -> to hit (but not run over) with a vehicle

[charlesoberonn]

Japanese can have one syllabic consonant, as a treat.

[mytwofaces]

Genitiv my beloved <3 Egal, was man sagt, es klingt abnormal kultiviert. like Hat jemand des Vaters Jacke gesehen? Nein. Ich suche des Müllers blaue Brille, meines Freundes Haare sehen heute toll aus, deines Bruders Freunde sind kacke. Des Lebens Hürden, Des Himmels blaue Farbe. Heute hab ich des Senders neue Serie gesehen. Heute bin ich des beschissenen kaputten Weckers wegen nicht pünktlich aufgewacht. Heute war des Müllers Brille wieder da. Es tut mir leid, ich hab des Scheißhauses Eingang nicht gefunden. Des Trampels Dummheit tut einem sehr weh, ihm am allermeisten. Genitiv my beloved <33

[icebluecyanide]

there’s this post going around that’s like ‘what if alien languages had pronouns that didn’t include gender information!’ and there’s about five different enthusiastic replies and like, i get the excitement but i’m begging you to learn about languages other than english

[icebluecyanide]

An incomplete list of languages that don’t have gendered pronouns (based on what people mentioned in the notes/tags:

Mandarin Chinese (spoken)

Cantonese

Japanese (they exist but are rarely used)

Korean

Indonesian

Malay

Tagalog

Swahili

Xhosa

Farsi

Turkish

Armenian

Finnish

Hungarian

Estonian

Sámegiella (& most other Sami languages)

Yaqui

ASL

[assuming-dinosaur]

Let’s be real here, English is highly unusual among languages in having grammatical gender align so precisely with the social concept of gender. In many other languages, not only do you get “masculine” or “feminine” inanimate objects, but you also get words that are gendered socially that don’t take the grammatical gender you expect. German Mädchen “girl” is neutral. Latin virtus “manliness” is feminine.

KiSwahili and isiXhosa arguably do have grammatical genders—more than a dozen of them. None of them have anything to do with the social concept of gender. In the Dyirbal language of Australia, there are four genders: “masculine” (which includes most animals), “feminine” (which includes fire, water, and violence), fruit, and miscellaneous.

[yrn-te-ao]

Te reo māori (distant relative of aforementioned Tagalog, in the Austronesian language family) also has no gendered third-person pronouns, instead basing them on the amount of subjects, making a further distinction between two or more subjects, as well as whether the speaker or listener (or both) are included

[maybeasunflower]

Also French has gendered possessive pronouns that have nothing to do with the person possessing. “Son chat” does not mean “his cat”; it means “his/her cat”. It’s “son” because “chat” is masculine.

But on the plus side: it’s good people are willing to entertain the idea that gendered pronouns are not required for a functional language.

[esoanem]

One of the reasons English’s pronominal gender is so weird is that it isn’t grammatical gender

No aspect of it is grammaticalised - the pronoun choice has no relation to the words used, but only to the pragmatics of what the word refers to

Thing is, languages without grammatical gender tend not to have gendered pronouns at all

[datasoong47]

#I’d argue that the marginal use of she for certain vehicles#is actually anthropomorphism and not grammatical#because it’s rarely done except by or when talking to people with strong emotional connections to the vehicle#and not in normal speech by those without such connection#i.e. it occurs exactly in those people you’d most expect to view their relationship with the vehicle as analogous#to that between two *people*

Yeah. That’s definitely the origin, too. Old English scipu, the ancestor of ship, the prototypical example of an inanimate she in present-day English, was a neuter noun, so the use of “she” is not some weird survival of the Old English grammar system, but rather a later anthropomorphism

[dramatic-dolphin]

Okay I’m gonna be a language nerd here. Calling English so weird and unusual for having grammatical gender align with social gender is just more English language exceptionalism I fear. That’s actually pretty normal.

What happened with English is this: it used to have three grammatical genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) like any good Germanic language. Somewhere in the shift from Old English to Modern English, it got rid of that, EXCEPT for pronouns. Now the only remnants of grammatical gender it has is personal pronouns and newsflash! Those ALSO conform to societal gender in all other languages with a masculine/feminine distinction!! It’s not specially regressive or whatever!

And grammatical gender is nearly ALWAYS shaped by societal exceptations for gender as long as it includes a masculine/feminine divide. (Other noun class systems include animate/inanimate and systems similar to the aforementioned isiXhosa.) In some languages the grammatical gender of a word is related to its shape and pronunciation more than the acrual meaning, but when it comes to words describing people it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why the Latin word poēta (poet) is masculine, even though it behaves the way feminine words do. (The answer is society.)

Uhhhh for more information on this read How Gender Shapes The World by Alexandra Aikhenvald. Very good book I enjoyed it and keep aggressively recommending it on here lmao

[eyelessseraphim]

in my phonology. straight up stressing it. and by "it", haha, well, let's justr say. my penult

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[duckbunny]

"Irish doesn't have a word for please, you have to say if it be your will" buddy do I have news for you about "please"

"Irish doesn't have a word for hello you have to use a shorthand religious blessing" buddy do I have news for you about "goodbye"!

"In Polish the word for car is that which walks by itself" BUDDY what do you think an AUTOMOBILE is?

you have got to understand that your mother tongue is not the model of language. all your words have secret histories and layers of meaning just the same as other people's words. the word you think of as just a word has etymology, it wasn't handed down from God as a finished word. English doesn't have a word for movie you have to either refer to the recording medium or use a short version of "moving picture", isn't that cute?