My study progress ~

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[thetruthaboutjohnny]

Langblr activation challenge - Week 4 - Original content - How I taught myself  Esperanto

1. Learn the basic grammar rules. There aren’t many, they are very regular and very simple. I enjoyed this youtube channel. 

2. Get some vocabulary! I enjoyed starting off with the duolingo course. After that, I read the story “La teorio Nakamura” at Lernu to boost my reading comprehension and learn even more vocabulary. 

3. Time for some immersion! At this stage, understanding spoken Esperanto was still pretty difficult. However, watching videos in Esperanto with subtitles in Esperanto was very effective to me to get used to the flow and the phonetics of the language. I found this playlist with YouTube videos that are both spoken in Esperanto along with subtitles. As soon as you can, stop using subtitles. Tubaro is a great tool to help you find YouTube videos in Esperanto. 

4. Join a local Esperanto Group! There might be one closer to you than you think. Many speakers of Esperanto are seniors, and they are thrilled when younger people show up to their meetings. You make so many connections. I can travel almost wherever I want thanks to Esperanto. 

Other great tools:

Tujavortaro - The best dictionary I’ve found. 

Tatoeba - Search for a word and get example sentences.

Prepositions in Esperanto

Spotify playlist with 1400+ songs in Esperanto

Eklernu! 

Link to the Langblr activation challenge

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Langblr activation challenge - Week 3 - Langblr chatroom

My favourite is probably Langblr Gang. It’s the most active chatroom I’m in, and there are lots of specialty rooms. 

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Langblr activation challenge - Week 2 - Favourite Langblrs

Some cool langblrs! 

I follow a lot of people with other target languages than mine, it helps giving me some perspective over my own studies. 

The Inverted Langblr - Scandinavian languages, mostly Norwegian

rinkodesu - Basically everything!

spanishskulduggery - Spanish

warau-okami - Japanese

I follow 30 tumblrs but these four accounts make up most of my newsfeed, so I’m thankful they’re keeping the langblr community going. 

Link to the challenge!

[thetruthaboutjohnny]

Langblr activation challenge - Week 1 - Introduction

Who am I? - 23 year old Swede, currently on a break from college to get some work experience. My major was speech pathology and I hope to continue some time in the future. Currently jumping from job to job.

What is my native language? - Swedish. More than willing to help out if you have questions or just want to practice conversing. 

What language do I speak? - Besides Swedish, English is really the only other language I’d say I’m able to speak. I know I make mistakes from time to time, but I consider myself fluent because I can use English in any way I want. 

What languages am I learning? - I’m learning Esperanto and Japanese. I started with Japanese very many years ago and I’ve been studying it on and off. Esperanto is kind of new to me but I’ve had a more obsessive approach to it. There are so many opportunities within that community that I’ve felt much more motivated to learn it. 

What other hobbies do I have? - I’m into the stock market since about a year ago. I find it fascinating. I don’t own any stocks yet, but I think I’ll make my first few trades very soon. 

[tiantianxuexi]

Help me study & document learner-driven language study!

Hello!

I am currently writing my master’s thesis on language learning communities online, and I need your help! If you use/have used Tumblr as part of how you learn languages, please take this 18 question survey (<10 min). The Tumblr “langblr” community represents a unique moment in learner-to-learner interaction that I believe researchers/classroom teachers would benefit from reevaluating. 

I’m interested in hearing from you whatever language level you’re at, even if you only follow a few language blogs and don’t post any language-related content. The thesis will be available for anyone to read around late May. More details at the link as well, & feel free to reach out with further questions/comments!

Many thanks in advance, and please pass the word along~ 謝謝! Gracias! 감사! Merci! شكرا!

[tiantianxuexi]

thanks everyone that’s answered so far! still, I want even MORE of you to tell me things! (please)

surveymonkey confirms average time to complete is 8 min !(•̀ᴗ•́)و ̑̑ also I am obviously making a pdf stash of my lit review materials and I will organize it into something sharable soon 

[tiantianxuexi]

eyyy what a time!!! distract yourself with this survey bc unfortunately now I have to write the gd thing from home!!! (will post pdf stash after survey closes bc don’t want to inadvertently prime anyone about answers)

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漢字 = too hot for tumblr.

So tumblr removed a video of me highlighting some kanji on a paper because it was “adult content”. 

While kanji is exciting, I wouldn’t say it’s that exciting. 

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20Q

I almost missed it, but I was tagged by @daisy-jackson! ❤️

Name: Daniel

Nicknames: Colt

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Height: 203cm, 6 feet

Languages: Swedish and English mainly, some Japanese and Esperanto.

Nationality: Swedish

Favorite Season: Spring. April is to the months what Friday is to the week. Good times coming! 

Favorite Flower: Pansies.

Favorite Scent: Peppermint

Favorite Color: Yellow

Favorite Animal: Red pandas

Favorite Fictional Character: Haida is pretty cute.

Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: I love coffee but it gives me a tummyache. So tea. 💔

Average Sleep Hours: Exactly 8.5 hours. 

Dog or Cat person: Big ol dumb dogs is the best thing ever. 

Number of Blankets Slept With: One and yet I’m burning up.

Dream Trip: I’d love to go way up north in Norway. Perhaps even Svalbard.

Blog Established: I think I started my blog in August 2017.

Followers: 24 oh hello

Random Fact: My main reason for learning Esperanto was so that no one could read my bullet journal entries. 

I haven’t kept track of who has done this, so I won’t be tagging anyone. 🌸

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I really want to order a huge book stand like this one, but I can’t find a store that ships to Sweden without it being ridiculously expensive. :(

Does anyone know any EU-based stores that sell them? 

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Some tough love from struthless.

I’ve been really scatterbrained recently and this video about learning how to draw popped up on my YouTube. I’m not learning how to draw, but the advice really stuck to me nonetheless.

I need to stop thinking about studying Japanese and how I’m supposed to go at it, and instead start actually studying and using Japanese. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6NsEDwHHiE

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Studied to this view tonight.

These sunsets feel like they're winters way of apologizing for the dark and cold days.

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Same energy as

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The guy I've been teaching Swedish to on Skype sent me a postcard when he was on vacation! 😭❤️

[easy-japan]

Let’s Learn Japanese Vocabularies!

｡ﾟ✶ฺ.ヽ(*´∀`*)ﾉ.✶ฺﾟ｡ Today we will learn about our hand 手 (te) and fingers 指 (yubi) . 1. 親指 Oyayubi - is thumb! - Oya is a kanji means parents/intimate - Used in 親子丼 - oyakodon food (Literally means parent and child rice bowl, which is basically egg & chicken) - 両親 - ryoushin: both parent - 親切 - shinsetsu: kind

2. 人差し指 Hitosashi - is index finger! - 人 hito (people) - 差す(sasu) to raise hands but there is another 指す (sasu) which means to point/select. So you can think of it as a finger to point out people ~

3. 中指 Nakayubi - is middle finger! - 中 naka (middle/center)

4. 薬指 Kusuriyubi - is ring finger! - 薬 kusuri (medicine) The story behind the name: In the old days, medicine is in powder shape and taken with finger. Our ring finger is the least movable finger and we rarely use it to touch things, so it seems cleaner than the other finger. That’s why people use this finger to take medicine and named it the Medicine finger! Interesting right?

5. 小指 Koyubi - is pinky finger! - 小 ko (small/little)

Happy learning °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°  

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Links:

• CrunchyNihongo - Easy to Learn Japanese Lessons Site • Get our easy Japan lessons on your facebook timeline • FREE DOWNLOAD! Resourceful app to start learning Japanese! • Books to guide & help you learn Japanese

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Got this lovely pen stand for Christmas! My pen case was a mess, but now there's even some room to grow in. ❤️

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I bought new lights to combat my SAD. The sun sets at 3PM right now and it makes me super sleepy. 

As you can see, the room to the right (my room) is a lot less yellow than the other room. It helps soooo much with staying alert!

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Been tutoring Swedish to a guy on Skype since summer and it’s been so much fun. He recently took TISUS (a proficiency test that lets you enter Swedish universities if you pass it) and we’re waiting for the results! 

We’ve been using Skype to talk and Google Docs to take notes simultaneously.  

[thetruthaboutjohnny]

My Halloween themed October in the Forest App!

The week where I did nothing was when I started a new job, I was really tired when I was not working. Sounds like a bad excuse but technically I was learning and studying during work!