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Viqui, xxii, intj; langblr & bookblr. Studying translation and interpreting. native language: spanish second and third: english and french others: german, japanese, latin and greek [currently reading "memoirs of a geisha" by Arthur Golden] I track #viquistudies ♡

[hazelbeewitched]

expectation: i leave these browser tabs open, and they serve as a reminder to do the activities on those sites

reality: i become very good at ignoring browser tabs

[disc80s]

talking in your head in your target language

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actually talking to ppl in your target language

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[dark-academia-in-russia]

[1hx]

“I don’t know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty…. love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain. You know, my sky, you rain on me and I, like the earth, receive you.” - Frida Kahlo, October 1946

[study-lofi]

𝟐𝟏:𝟎𝟕 | 𝐨𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐛𝐞𝐫

here are some clips from my post on my studygram and these summary pages took a decade at least oml

[essayisms]

If this essay doesn’t kill me, nothing will. I’m currently grappling with the concept of connecting Du Bois’ concept of double consciousness with post-structuralism. I don’t know whether I’m being very clever or very stupid. (x)

[artwithlama]

02.02.21

Good morning guys🤍. Been a long time since I posted here but I’ve been busy with lectures honestly. And ofc my cat is always there to remind me to take breaks and stretch.

Listening to: Martha’s dream - Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

[doubleca5t]

I mean on the one hand, yes, shipping spongebob characters is certifiably absurd and people who do it do not deserve rights but on the OTHER hand if you took Spongebob and Squidward's personalities and dropped them into, say, a pair of anime girls from a gacha game or two white guys from a teen drama everyone would be like "oh of COURSE this is a big ship"

[doubleca5t]

glad to see everyone reading this post is just as upset as I was when I thought of it

[golden-redhead]

one of the aspects of being bilingual that we don’t talk about enough is that awkward moment when the structure of your other language slips into your first language so you phrase a sentence like you would in your second language but using your native language (or vice versa) and so the syntax gets all fucked up and for a long while you just stare at nothing like, what the hell just happened, questioning your entire existence

[sadcypher]

sorry for always disappearing, im just not sure if i exist anymore and exams arent helping

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

making friends (especially after you’ve lost a couple or several ones) can be hard and incredibly isolating. finding people we can connect and be vulnerable with is no easy task, so often we feel like it’s a moral failure when things don’t work out between us and someone else. just know there are so many people in this world you have yet to meet who will love you and it’s okay to drop all this heavy relationship baggage now. you’re not defined by the people you’ve lost.

[macrolit]

Giveaway: We’re giving away twenty-one (hello, 2021!) miniature-sized, vintage classics by Charles Dickens, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Anne Frank, and others. These books are smaller (4.25″ x 6.5″) than your mass market paperbacks, and it took me three years to assemble these! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 28 February, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck!  Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaway. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

[macrolit]

Special IG Giveaway: We’re giving away twelve vintage Penguin Classics by Homer, Emile Zola, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henrik Ibsen, and others. This is a special giveaway for macrolit followers who are following on both Tumblr and Instagram. Won’t these books look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr and on Instagram (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post and adding your Instagram profile as a tag. We will choose a random winner on 27 February, so reblog now!  For full rules to this giveaway, click here. Good luck!

[macrolit]

Giveaway: We’re giving away twenty-one (hello, 2021!) miniature-sized, vintage classics by Charles Dickens, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Hardy, Mark Twain, Anne Frank, and others. These books are smaller (4.25″ x 6.5″) than your mass market paperbacks, and it took me three years to assemble these! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 28 February, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. Good luck!  Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaway. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

[violetsnotebook-archive]

21.11.20 / this penguin parallel text: short stories in japanese is probably my first japanese book purchase so many years ago. thought i would revisit it since today is a “reading day” for me. how’s your saturday so far? happy weekend ♡

[loveletter2you]

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

[tinsnip]

Don’t assume malice. Assume ignorance. Life is easier, the world is kinder, and you can educate. Actual malice is pretty rare, I find. 

[froborr]

Always remember Hanlon’s Razor–”Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice as an explanation.”

That’s said, never forget Fred Clark’s Law, either: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” There’s a certain point at which ignorance becomes malice–at which there is simply no way to become that ignorant except deliberately and maliciously.

[whogivesa-ship]

Also, confusing ignorance with malice tends to create malice. If you refuse to explain and keep calling someone names for their ignorance, the other person will start trying to hurt you just to defend themselves. By assuming malice, you create more malice in the world.