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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!

weltenwellen

I Do Know Some Things Richard Siken

vazhaithandu

When I was younger, I believed deeply in communism, in the idea that people could live and work together for the greater good. It felt righteous, almost natural, to imagine a world where everyone cared equally and shared fairly. It was a beautiful vision: simple, clean, and hopeful.

But over time, I began to see how complex people really are. Most don’t ignore the greater good out of selfishness or cruelty. They’re simply absorbed in their own lives, their families, their insecurities, their daily struggles. Life keeps people so busy just trying to stay afloat.

Even among those who do care - the activists, the reformers, the dreamers; there is often conflict. Egos clash, small differences grow into divides, and the energy that could build something lasting is spent in argument. I’ve been part of that too. I’ve seen how even good intentions can lose their way when pride and frustration take over.

I no longer believe that perfect systems or grand ideologies can change human nature. People need awareness and guidance. They need direction rooted in compassion, not control. They follow examples more than manifestos. What inspires change is not the sharpness of an idea, but the steadiness of a leader who can see beyond the noise.

Violent revolutions, I’ve come to realize, don’t really change much. They topple what exists, but they rarely create what is better. Power may shift hands, but people remain the same.

Real transformation happens slowly, almost quietly. When the majority begin to alter their behaviour, when daily choices start to reflect a different kind of thinking. That shift doesn’t come from fury, it comes from policy, from laws and systems that make fairness easier and thoughtfulness habitual.

Good policy shapes the conditions in which empathy can grow. It rewards honesty, protects the weak, and nudges people gently toward cooperation. Over time, those habits become culture. And culture, once changed, is almost impossible to undo. It takes patience, and it takes faith, faith in the ability of people to learn, adjust, and do better when they are shown how.

That is the change that endures.

theinternetarchive

harp-lute, varnished wood; overall: 90.5 x 37.5 cm; london c. 1700s.

weltenwellen

May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

typodescript

[text: Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.]

expressions-of-nature

Sugatami Trail, Japan by 3811

letsbelonelytogetherr

— fatima aamer bilal, from being unwanted is a language

faithschaffer

-The birth of Aphrodite-

noosphe-re

I’m full of contradictions. Manthia asks me that all the time, and I don’t know how to answer. I assure you, I have no secrets, but I don’t like to explain anything. OK, I use Marxist dialectics to try to understand the walk of the individual within a community. The dynamics of Marxist economic theory are very important to creating this complexity. Man needs to eat, but did he produce what he’s eating or did someone else? These are questions that arise when I’m writing. There is a proverb in Bambara that says, “If you manage to eat for a whole year without touching your wallet, it’s because you are living in someone else’s pocket.” So when you’re in contact with a man like that, you have to describe his whole mentality as well as the society surrounding him, to understand how he thinks. That’s how I proceed.

Ousmane Sembène, Ousmane Sembene by John Singleton and Reginald Woolery, BOMB Magazine, Spring 1993 issue

campcomputers

fandom-trash-goblin

like matryoshka, one inside another inside another inside another.

Birthright, George Abraham // tumblr user dogsmouth // The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: White Flock //Anne Carson, Nox // A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails, Halyna Kruk // Herman Melville, from a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne //tumblr user eridan-amporna // tumblr user boyflesher(deactivated) // For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick // Elizabeth Robinson, Brothers

fandom-trash-goblin

i suppose i love this life, in spite of my clenched fist.

Time Is A Mother, Ocean Vuong // The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky // The Cow, Ariana Reines // Ask Polly, Heather Havrilesky // October, Mary Oliver // Dead Stars, Ada Limón // Night Walk, Franz Wright// Xenotransplantation, Sam Sax // Angels In America, Tony Kushner // Birthday, Andrea Gibson (thank you @saint-garbage, i have zero idea whether they are poems or quotes for most of them, so i can't help out there, forgive me, i'm trying my best)

for @shestrying