the word “sabotage” is p much short for “fucking shit up with a wooden shoe”
what
fucking shit up with a wooden shoe
oh my god
well wooden shoe look at that
I’M FUCKING CRYING AT THAT PUN BE MY FRIEND PLEASE
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the word “sabotage” is p much short for “fucking shit up with a wooden shoe”
what
fucking shit up with a wooden shoe
oh my god
well wooden shoe look at that
I’M FUCKING CRYING AT THAT PUN BE MY FRIEND PLEASE
as a polyglot, i think the biggest advice you can ever give to someone who learns a new language is to stop treating it like a system. language is a human force. it has exceptions, weird "rules", completely different words that somehow make sense together, because it's human. because it's evolving throughout a time. something was left in the past, something stuck like an annoying bug, because humans wanted to keep it.
when you stop treating it like a computer code and making an attempt to apply rules of your language, you'll get the pure joy of learning and discovering the same world through different lenses.
People on language learning YouTube videos are always like “We are learning languages to speak them”
But I’m not. I talk to enough people in English. As I’ve said before, I’m learning Spanish in order to eavesdrop on people in the grocery store.
We get so many words thrown at us every day. Probably most of your use of language involves reading or listening. Even in a conversation likely half of your time is spent listening if not more.
Why would I speak from day one if I don’t have to? To stumble through a short exchange about eating apples? Boring. I could be watching a telenovela right now and you want me to frantically gesture at bananas?
Yeah sometimes in some circumstances you need to learn to speak right away but if you don’t have to speak right away you don’t have to. You may never need to speak if you don’t want to. If your only goal is to read obscure poetry in the language why would you be having baby level conversations about apples? Open your poetry book and a dictionary and hop to it.
I don’t need to talk to people all the time. I just need to read literature, eavesdrop, eat hot chip, and lie.
¿tres novias? ¿en esta economia?
[#i know enough spanish to know my friends coworker has three girlfriends at the same time and they don't know about each other #i dont know enough spanish to know what happened when they did find out and that is why i am learning]
We love a versatile and multifaceted word!
I will admit that I almost forgot to post today.
Pa ladjé mwen- don't fire me.
With all these definitions I think I may have an interesting time finding sentences to share this week.
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The joy this brought me…. Unspeakable
The coolest thing happened to me the other day!
I was listening to Le Petit Prince for the second time (first time I understood like three words every 10 mins) after having listened to it in English (why did none of y’all warn me! T.T out here talking bout The Little Prince is my favourite book! Why? Why? *sobs violently*). But anyway, I’m listening to it in French for the second time and I have a lot more context and when he meets the king and starts to yawn it’s easy to determine which word means yawn in French and then the next time I hear it, it makes me yawn!
Like isn’t that amazing!?
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Do you know how we call a very bald british gentleman? (archi : slang for very)
The weather is lovely
Oh you know the weather will also be lovely on the day of the end of the world
My family : so how’s adult life?
In Kyoto, the snow’s weight broke a statue’s nose so they put a plaster on it
Everybody in the language learning space that tries to tell you that you can learn a language in a certain amount of weeks or months is probably trying to sell you something
All these people start with some variation of “the way you were taught languages in school is bad and doesn’t work”
Which is true. However, if that hasn’t occurred to someone yet and this sounds like a new concept to them then they’re more likely to listen wide-eyed to this person opening this new world of possibilities to them and get coerced into buying an e-book.
I know this because I was that person when I first started in this hobby.
When I was sixteen I got scammed into spending part of my tiny allowance on Benny Lewis’ Fluent in 3 Months book which is full of bad information. I don’t trust like that anymore. Everybody in this space is trying to sell you something.
If you’re new to the language learning space here’s what you’ve gotta know.
It’s a myth that adults can’t learn languages as well as children.
Any method you use for study is probably fine. Even not studying is fine if you can find videos or tutors that’ll help you understand. Just get some foundations into your head.
The most important thing at any level is to listen to and read the language a lot. Even if you don’t understand all of it. Get input.
The second most important thing is to do what’s fun for you and what gets you to keep going. The correct method is the one that keeps you learning.
Focus on what’s right for your goals. People will tell you that this or that is more important and you shouldn’t waste your time on “useless” things but they’re not you. If your only goal is to watch fantasy anime in Japanese then looking up the word for dragon will probably be useful for you and you might never need to practice speaking. If you’re unexpectedly moving to Japan next week, looking up how to order at a restaurant is probably more relevant to your life.
It’s hard. It’s also incredibly worthwhile. Just try to have fun. Being tired is normal. Taking a long time is normal. You still have the same mechanism in your brain now that let you learn your first language as a baby. You’ll be okay.
this is so cool and also rosencrantz and guildenstern's sign names are killing me lol
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I'm talking to an 85-year-old neighbour, I'm telling me "What's your longevity secret?" "I like no one, keeps you fresh" I had a ten-minute-long fit
I love it when you're on a walk and men on bikes come next to you to do figures omg so royalcore I have my own jester to entertain me
When they replace fries with broccolis at the cafeteria
My dad bikes with friends on Sundays and call themselves "the bakers' club" because they all have a brioche (: a belly)
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Something fascinating is happening to me rn where I'm dreaming in my target languages.
A few weeks ago I had a dream in French... which made some sense because I had just met a French family even though I haven't done any active French acquisition in aggeeessss.
But last night, completely unprompted, I dreamt I met a really cute HOH guy and I waited around to ask him his name.
And while I waited, I started talking to one of his friends and asked if he signed. But he started signing so fast I had to get him to slow down and I tried to tell him that I was still a student. But I think I ended up using the word for "teacher" actually now that I think about it.
And then I chatted with the cute guy and he taught me a new sign which I honestly think was just an opportunity to hold my hand T.T. It was adorable!
But anyway, I woke up soooo impressed with myself.
Korean Provinces and Cities
Hello! This is Admin Sun here. Today I’m going to talk about the main administrative divisions in our country! Today we’re going to just cover the basics of Korean geography.
Korea is a peninsula, with the west meeting the Yellow Sea (황해), the south the Pacific Ocean (태평양) and the east meeting the East sea (동해). We share a land border with North Korea, but since the relationship between North and South Korea is unstable at best we cannot travel to another country via land.
We have a lot of mountains on the Eastern part of our country. There are two main mountain ranges, Taebaek Mountains (태백 산맥), and the Sobaek Mountains (소백 산맥). The lowlands are located in the Southwest of our country. Overall we have a lot of mountains in our country, so while you travel around you will be able to see a lot of beautiful mountains. The highest mountain is 한라산, located in Jeju.
Since we covered the basics of Korean Geography, let’s move on to our administrative divisions!
First let’s talk about provinces. “Provinces (도, 道)” are the highest-ranked administrative divisions in our country. As you can see in the map above, there are 8 main provinces. North Chungcheong (충청북도), South Chungcheong (충청남도), Gangwon (강원도), Gyeonggi (경기도), North Gyeongsang (경상북도), South Gyeongsang (경상남도, North Jeolla (전라북도), South Jeolla (전라남도).
There’s also other provinces, like the Jeju Special Self-Governing Province (제주특별자치도), which means a total of 9 provinces with one special self-governing one.
There are also 8 cities (시). There are 6 metropolitan cities (광역시) Busan (부산), Daegu (대구), Incheon (인천), Gwangju (광주), Daejeon (대전), and Ulsan (울산), and also one special city (특별시) Seoul (서울) and one special self-governing city (특별자치시) Sejong (세종). Though the name ‘city’ can fool you, these are not part of the provinces mentioned above and both are the first-level divisions (Upper level local autonomies, 광역지방자치단체) of our country.
So to recap all the information above, the first-level divisions of South Korea consists of…
1 special city (서울특별시)
6 metropolitan cities (부산광역시, 대구광역시, 인천광역시, 광주광역시, 대전광역시, 울산광역시)
8 provinces (충청북도, 충청남도, 강원도, 경기도, 경상북도, 경상남도, 전라북도, 전라남도)
1 special self-governing province (제주특별자치도)
1 special self-governing city (세종특별자치시)
Which makes a total of 17 Upper level local autonomies (광역지방자치단체) of our country!
We elect governors (도지사) for our provinces and mayors (시장) for our cities every 4 years.
-Written by Admin Sun
-Edited by Admin Yu
Some helpful resources for learning Irish
Pronunciation and Spelling
abair.ie - is a website as Gaeilge. Just type in the word you want to hear in the textbox and press “Déan sintéis” to hear it
“Sounds and Spelling of Irish / Fuaimniú & Litriú na Gaeilge” by Karen Reshkin - is a youtube video that explains the phonetic spelling and pronunciation of Irish words
“Sounds & Spelling of Irish/Fuaimeanna agus Litriú na Gaeilge” - a PDF with more information on spelling and pronunciation as Gaeilge, with IPA for those of you who understand it
Grammar
“Graiméar Gaeilge na mBráithre Críostaí” - is an Irish grammar book that’s written entirely as Gaeilge
Irish Grammar: Wikipedia - the Wikipedia article on Irish grammar. It’s surprisingly thorough
Vocabulary
“Useful Irish Phrases and Words” by Bernd Biege - a short introduction to Irish. Includes basic helpful phrases and grammar
Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla - The official Irish-English Dictionary
Media
Raidió Teilifís Éireann, Ireland’s National Public Service Broadcaster - Link to the online broadcast of RTÉ. A lot of the broadcast is in English, but some is as Gaeilge
Litríocht - online Irish bookstore, read books as Gaeilge!
My Favourite Youtube Channels for Studying Languages 🌷
- innerFrench -
innerFrench is a channel ran by Hugo Cotton, a French teacher situated in Poland. Hugo is a native French speaker and speaks only in this language on his channel - you will never hear a word of English! Even when he explains the meanings of more obscure French words, he still uses French to both convey the word’s meaning, and enable his viewers to continue practicing their comprehension skills. The French Hugo uses is slow, clear and easy to understand for intermediate speakers. Begginners will also find this channel useful as a way to immerse themselves in the language. Hugo focuses on explaining different aspects of French culture in his videos, with a foreign target audience in mind. Since he is both a French teacher, and has had to learn Polish, it’s fair to say that Hugo understands the struggles of learning a foreign language and so is able to help his viewers improve their French skills in a suitable way. This is by far my favourite channel for learning French and I truly believe it has helped me a lot over the years!
- The Purple Palace -
The Purple Palace is a channel ran by Shayna Klee, an artist from the US who moved to Paris for art school. She makes videos in both English and French, often combining the two. When she speaks in French, she always includes English subtitles so that beginners don’t feel lost. Most of Shayna’s videos are vlogs in which she talks about art (which is incredible btw), fashion, French lifestyle / culture and her own personal life. She is quite open about her personal life which definitely makes her viewers feel more close to her as a person. What makes Shayna’s channel so unique is her artwork. I have never seen anything like it before! Seeing her creations makes learning French so much more enjoyable. If you love art or French culture you must explore this channel!
- Easy German -
This is my favourite channel to use for learning German. The hosts of Easy German just seem so sweet and every video puts me in such a positive mood. The Easy Languages network make videos on a range of languages (German, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Polish, Greek, English, Russian, Turkish and many more) and the main premise of their videos is to “learn from the streets”. Most of their videos consist of street interviews with native speakers on various topics. This, of course, is a great way of learning because you get to hear conversational phrases, different accents and see different parts of the world. What makes Easy German so special is definetely the hosts. The channel has several hosts but the two main ones seem to be Cari and Janusz who just seem so lovely. Idk why but it seems like everyone they interview is always so friendly and sweet. It definetly breaks the stereotype that Germans are cold and distant. Easy German also make videos about grammar, vocab and any other things about German which they feel are important to point out. Another thing about this channel is that they don’t just focus on Germany - they also have videos situated in Austria and videos that talk about Swiss German and Austrian German.
- Spanish After Hours -
This channel reminds me of innerFrench as the host (Laura) speaks only in Spanish. Like Hugo from innerFrench, Laura uses a clear, slow register that makes it very easy for intermediate speakers to comprehend. Laura is a native Spanish speaker from Spain and so, if you are looking to speak Castilian Spanish, her accent is perfect to take inspiration from. Her videos are usually shorter than those at innerFrench which might help viewers who find it hard to concentrate for long periods of time. Laura’s videos are very diverse. In some she reads Spanish children’s stories, in others she does ASMR and sometimes she focuses on vocabulary. Nevertheless, her videos are always enjoyable and have definetly helped me with my Spanish listening skills recently.
- Parpalhon Blau -
This channel focuses on the Occitan language which is definetly a language which has very few learning resources. Occitan is a minority language, referring to several dialects spoken in Southern France, Monaco, Northern Spain and Western Italy. It is a romance language which has very close ties to Catalan. On Parpalhon Blau (which means blue butterfly), Gabrièu teaches his viewers how to pronounce Occitan words and helps them to improve their listening skills, catering for both beginners and intermediate learners. Before finding this channel, I had never even heard of Occitan but after hearing how beautiful it sounds, I just had to subscribe. Often with smaller languages like Occitan, the learning resources are very limited and the ones that do exist aren’t really the best quality. Parpalhon Blau however, is a great channel and the perfect introduction to the language.
- Langfocus -
On Langfocus, Paul makes videos surrounding an incredible range of languages. He has videos on almost every language I can think of! the chances are, if you are studying a language, Paul will have made a video about it. I genuinely cannot understand how one person can know so much about so many languages. Most of his videos focus on individual languages or dialects, however, he also has some very interesting ones in where he compares two languages together, highlighting the differences and similarities between them, whilst also explaining the reasons behind this. In each video, Paul aims to give a good overview of the language, discussing it’s origins, pronounciation, alphabet and grammar. Sometimes these videos can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t know anything at all about the language so I mostly use his videos to learn more about languages I am already studying or as an introduction to a language I want to study in the future.
- JuLingo -
This channel is quite similar to Langfocus in the way that Julie mostly focuses on a different language per video, offering a general overview of it. Julie tends to focus on smaller languages, like Ainu and Basque that people may not know a lot about rather than more popular languages like Spanish and French. Julie’s channel is a great way of exploring new languages that you may have never thought to learn before. Like Paul from Langfocus, she doesn’t just talk about grammar and sentence structure, she also includes information on the language’s origins, which I personally find fascinating.
- Ecolinguist -
On Ecolinguist, Norbert challenges native speakers of different languages to try and understand a language foreign to them. Through these experiments, he reveals how similar and how different languages are to one another. Usually, he chooses speakers of the same language family as the language which they are listening to and, being a viewer, you are invited to test yourself too. As a native English speaker, I particularly enjoyed discovering how much Old English I could decipher but also since I speak intermediate French and Spanish, I was able to test myself against Latin, Italian, Romanian and Lombard too. Since Norbert is Polish, he also makes videos focused on learning Polish, mostly regarding speaking and listening. Another series Norbet has is his guess the language challenge, in which a guest is presented with audios of language from anywhere in the world and has to guess it. Although I am very bad at these theyre always fun to watch. Its incredible how skilled his guests are!
Many of you may know that I keep youtube playlists of language samples, and I thought it was about time to compile them all into one post. They contain pretty much anything where you can hear the language clearly – music, dialogues, tutorials, movie trailers, readings, etc. I’ll probably add more in the future. Hope someone finds them useful!
afrikaans
ainu
akkadian
albanian
american sign language (ASL)
amharic
angolan portuguese
arabic
aramaic
aranese
armenian
aromanian
assamese
asturian
aymara
azerbaijani
bashkir
basque
bavarian
belarusian
belizean creole
bengali
berbice creole dutch
biblical (classical) hebrew
bosnian
brazilian portuguese
breton
british sign language
bulgarian
canadian french
cantonese
cape verdean creole
catalan
chechen
cherokee
chickasaw
coptic
cornish
corsican
cree
crimean tatar
croatian
crow
czech
danish
dogri
dutch
early modern english
egyptian
emilian-romagnol
esperanto
estonian
etruscan
faroese
fijian
finnish
flemish
french
french sign language (LSF)
frisian
fula (fulani, fulah, peul)
galician
gallo
garifuna
georgian
gottscheerish
greek
greenlandic
griko
gujarati
gullah
guyanese creole
haitian creole
hawaiian
hawaiian pidgin
hebrew
hiberno-english (irish english)
hindi
hindko
hittite
hungarian
icelandic
indonesian
irish
italian
jamaican patois
japanese
javanese
kannada
karelian
kashmiri
kazakh
khmer
kinyarwanda
konkani
korean
kristang
kurdish
kyrgyz
ladino
lakota
latin
latin american spanish
lebanese arabic
lemko
lithuanian
livonian
lombard
louisiana french
luganda
luo
luxembourgish
macedonian
malagasy
malay
malayalam
maltese
mandarin
maori
mariupol greek
martinique creole
mayan (general)
meitei (manipuri)
mirandese
mongolian
mossi
nahuatl
neapolitan
nheengatu (língua geral amazônica)
norwegian
nuosu (yi)
odia
ojibwe
okinawan
old english
old french
old norse
old welsh
pashto
pennsylvania german
persian
piedmontese
polari
polish
punjabi
rajasthani
rioplatense spanish
romani (general)
romanian
romansh
russian
ryukyuan
saint lucian creole
salish
sami (general)
samoan
santali
saraiki
scots
scottish gaelic
serbian
shanghainese (hu dialect, wu chinese)
shona
sicilian
silesian
sindhi
slovak
slovene
soga
somali
sumerian
swabian
swahili
swedish
swiss german
tagalog
tahitian
taíno
tajik
tamazight (general)
tamil
tatar
telugu
texas german
thai
tibetan
tlingit
tocharian
tokelauan
tongan
totonac
trinidadian french creole
tuareg
turkish
turkmen
ukrainian
urdu
uzbek
venetian
vietnamese
vurës
welsh
wolof
yiddish
zaza (zazaki)
zulu
So here’s a folder containing grammar from eVERY LANGUAGE I CAN THINK OF holy shit
Seriously, there’s like even 10 Aboriginal languages
Enjoy it lol
POLYGLOT WEEKLY’S REBLOG OF THE WEEK
I feel bad about not following all of my lovely followers back. Unfortunately, I have a tendency to get sucked into social media and not come up for air if my Dashboard is too full. So as a compromise, I decided to add this feature. Once a week, I’ll browse my followers’ blogs to find something pertinent to the blog and reblog it to help spread the love and information.
So for the other grammar nuts like me, this is pretty freaking incredible. There is even a separate folder for sign languages with multiple resources. Beautiful resource.