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[sayitaliano]

in spiaggia = at the beach

la (sedia a) sdraio = deckchair il costume = swimsuit il sole = the sun l'ombrellone = beach umbrella la crema solare = sunscreen le pinne (da sub) = flippers il salvagente (ciambella) = life saver, rubber ring il cappello = the hat le infradito (le ciabatte) = flip flops (slippers) la maschera (da sub) e il boccaglio = diver's mask and snorkel la radio = the radio il telo mare = beach towel (la) paletta e (il) secchiello = bucket and spade prendere il sole, abbronzarsi = to sunbathe, to get a tan il gelato = ice cream le onde del mare = the waves of the sea gli occhiali da sole = sunglasses il cocktail = cocktail tuffarsi = to dive (oneself) la palla = the ball la conchiglia = shell costruire i castelli di sabbia = to build sandcastles la stella marina = starfish il granchio = crab giocare a palla = to play with the ball

Bonus:

il canotto = dinghy il pedalò = pedale, paddle boat

[linguisticmaps]

Nonconcatenative morphology

Nonconcatenative morphology, also called discontinuous morphology and introflection, is a form of word formation in which the root is modified and which does not involve stringing morphemes together sequentially.

It may involve apophony (ablaut), transfixation (vowel templates inserted into consonantal roots), reduplication, tone/stress changes, or truncation. 

It is very developed in Semitic, Berber, and Chadic branches of Afro-Asiatic. It also occurs extensively among other language families: Nilo-Saharan, Northeast Caucasian, Na-Dene, Salishan and the isolate Seri (in Mexico).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonconcatenative_morphology 

[studynorwegian]

This is a personal attack

[inactiveblogger-deactivated2018]

me learning a language: wow! this is so easy!

verb conjugation:

[langblrwhy]

[languageoclock]

[catchymemes]

[wanderlustlanguages]

TEDTalks related to language (learning)

because (sometimes) they motivate me

How language shapes the way we think | Lera Boroditsky

The secrets of learning a new language | Lýdia Machová

How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity

Learning a language? Speak it like you’re playing a video game | Marianna Pascal | TEDxPenangRoad

Why We Struggle Learning Languages | Gabriel Wyner | TEDxNewBedford

5 techniques to speak any language | Sid Efromovich | TEDxUpperEastSide

Breaking the language barrier | Tim Doner | TEDxTeen 2014

How to learn any language easily | Matthew Youlden | TEDxClapham

The Irish Language and Beauty | Dónall Ó Héalaí | TEDxBerkeley

How to Talk Like a Native Speaker | Marc Green | TEDxHeidelberg

How the language you speak affects your thoughts

Hacking Language Learning: Dr. Conor Quinn at TEDxDirigo

How learning German taught me the link between maths and poetry | Harry Baker | TEDxVienna

We'r Needin tae Talk Aboot Wir Language | Michael Dempster | TEDxInverness

One Simple Method to Learn Any Language | Scott Young & Vat Jaiswal | TEDxEastsidePrep

Learning a Second Language | Shinyoung Grace Kim | TEDxYouth@AISR

Let me know if I missed your favourite!

[allthingslinguistic]

Inventing your own ad-hoc transcription system: • no one else can understand it • not even you a month later • dull

Using the International Phonetic Alphabet: • fun symbols • It Just Works™ • puts you in the good company of linguists and opera singers

[linguisticparadox]

me @ every foreign language learning book or dictionary I’ve ever seen

[suma-tokha]

reblog with "I know that I know nothing" in your native language, languages you are learning or have learned at some point!

🇷🇺я знаю, что ничего не знаю

🇬🇧I know that I know nothing

🇲🇫je sais que je ne sais rien

🇳🇴jeg vet at jeg ikke vet noe

🇮🇱אני יודע שאני לא יודע כלום

⁦🇲🇦⁩tôi biết rằng tôi không biết gì cả

🇵🇱wiem, że nic nie wiem

[geschiedenis-en-talen]

Dutch: Ik weet dat ik niets weet

French: je sais que je ne sais rien

Italian: so che non sappia niente (? non so se si debba usare un congiuntivo qui o no)

German: ich weiß, dass ich nichts weiß

[sciogli-lingua]

For @geschiedenis-en-talen: in Italian we usually just say "so di non sapere" (if we're translating so-called Socratic paradox), a literal translation of the sentence would be "so di non sapere nulla"

[canariesarchive-blog-deactivate]

HELLO I JUST FOUND THE BEST FUCKING WEBSITE FOR WORKING ON CHARACTERS AND WORLD BUILDING YEET FUCKERS SEE YOU IN 8 YEARS

[canariesarchive-blog-deactivate]

If you have been struggling with world building and finding a way to keep track of everything PLEASE GOD LOOK AT NOTEBOOK.AI

Notebook.ai has different categories for different things:

And then once you make something each category has different questions for you to answer about your world:

This website is literally a blessing

[langsandlit]

Mahmood - Barrio

Dicevi sempre “Vattene via Che non mi importa più di te" Che te la scrivo a fare una poesia Se brucerai le pagine? Leggeri come elefanti In mezzo a dei cristalli Zingari come diamanti Tra gang latine

You used to say “Go away, I don’t care about you anymore” Why would I write you a poem If you’re going to burn down the pages? Light like elephants In a china shop Gypsies like diamonds Among Latino gangs

Morire, morire per te Non serve a nulla perché Lascerò il mare alle spalle Cadendo su queste strade Ti chiamavo, mi dicevi

To die, to die for you Is  pointless because I’ll leave the sea behind Falling on these roads I would call you and you’d say

Cercami nel barrio Come se, come se fossimo al buio Nella notte vedo te Casa mia mi sembra bella Dici: “Non fa per te” Però vieni nel quartiere Per ballare con me Tanto suona sempre il barrio*

* [barrio is a Spanish word Mahmood uses to mean quartiere “neighbourhood”. It’s not an actual loanword in use in Italian.]

Look for me in the neighbourhood As if, as if we were in the dark I see you in the night I think my house is nice You say “It’s not for you” But you come to the neighbourhood To dance with me Because music’s on all the time in the neighbourhood

Guido veloce, cambio corsia Ma non per arrivare a te Se devo scalare la tua gelosia Preferirei una piramide Bevevo acqua con Oki* Soltanto per calmarmi Giocavo coi videogiochi Per non uscire

* [Oki is the name of an anti-inflammatory medicine in Italy]

Driving fast, switching lanes But not to get to you If I have to climb your jealousy I prefer a pyramid I used to drink water with Oki Just to calm me down I used to play video games To not go out

Morire, morire per te Non serve a nulla perché Lascerò il mare alle spalle Cadendo su queste strade Ti chiamavo, mi dicevi

To die, to die for you Is  pointless because I’ll leave the sea behind Falling on these roads I would call you and you’d say

Cercami nel barrio Come se, come se fossimo al buio Nella notte vedo te Casa mia mi sembra bella Dici: “Non fa per te” Però vieni nel quartiere Per ballare con me Tanto suona sempre il barrio

Look for me in the neighbourhood As if, as if we were in the dark I see you in the night I think my house is nice You say “It’s not for you” But you come to the neighbourhood To dance with me Because music’s on all the time in the neighbourhood

Sai che l'ultimo bacio è più facile Poi cadiamo giù come Cartagine Mai, non sparire mai come Iside Mai, mai

You know that the last kiss is easier Then we fall down like Carthago Never, do not disappear like Isis Never, never

[not-a-polyglot]

me: learning a language is a long, beautiful journey of patience, practice and consistency

also me: i shall to be fluent by TONIGHT

[secondclassvines]

[ormano]

She glowed up

[gaywig]

Ok…. So I was skeptical that this was just a voiceover when I first watched it, but then I decided to actually flex my skills as a linguist and look a little closer.

For context, the only speech sounds that require use of the lips are called labials. The labials in english are [p, b, m, f, v, w]. Therefore, any speech without these sounds could be spoken without moving the lips at all.

Here’s a transcript (labial sounds made while moving lips colored in green, while those made while not moving lips colors in red):

[begin mouth stationary] Hi guys I just wanted to let you all know that I literally started crying cause I didn’t know that I [begin mouth moving] could talk with my mouth like that [begin mouth stationary] and I’m so scared cause it literally doesn’t look like I’m talking and I’m not sure how I’m doing this [begin mouth moving] but it’s literally the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Help.

As you can see, the vast majority of labial sounds occur while she is moving her lips. The only exceptions are “wanted” and the four times she says “I’m”.

If you listen closely, you can hear that the ‘w’ in “wanted” doesn’t actually sound like a 'w’ at all (it’s distorted, since [w] requires use of the lips, but she is not moving her lips here), and she doesn’t actually pronounce the [m] in “I’m”: she is just using nasalization (allowing air to release from her nose) during the preceding vowels - the reason why this sounds like “I’m” is because the only time English speakers nasalize vowels is when they occur before m, n, or ng, so when you hear [aɪ̃] (the phonetic transcription of what she’s saying instead of “I’m”), you automatically understand it as /aɪm/ (“I’m”), since there is no /aɪ̃/, /aɪn/, or /aɪŋ/ in English (it’s your brain’s automatic process of elimination). Additionally, if you watch closely, you can even see her bottom lip twitch on the final “I’m” (right before “doing this”).

So, in conclusion: science confirms that this is actually legit.

[insomniac-arrest]

tumblr: on languages

[alias-milamber]

The thai for “5″ is pronounced roughly “Ha”, and so where english internets would generally put “lol” or something, they put “555555555″.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Croatian has “c”, “č” and “ć” and all of them are different letters. Both č and ć are pronounced like “ch” is pronounced in English, except č is pronounced in a stronger way, while ć is pronounced softer. So make sense of that.

[mysmall-studies]

concept: me actually becoming good at a language instead of crying over how difficult it is

[italianpod101]

Italian Phrases for Going to the Movies! 🎥 PS: Learn Italian with the best FREE online resources, just click here: https://www.italianpod101.com/?src=social_special_infograph_movies_080619

[sayitaliano]

“Could you please be quiet?” more often translates as a strong “SSHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!” sound, generally said by people with their index finger on their lips.