Mel

我叫Mel/ 24 • Electronic Engineer / INTJ / slytherin || spa • eng • jap • chinese • korean || music, writing.

[corvidconventicle]

My new favourite idiom is 画蛇添足 basically meaning to ruin something by overdoing it

Quite literally ‘draw snake add feet’

Pinyin: Huàshé tiānzú

Traditional: 畫蛇添足

[warlockstudy]

Would the language learning community be interested in a dubbing add on for your non-target-language TV shows? I've been thinking of building one since I've been unable to find my favorite superheroes shows dubbed in chinese.

Interested

not interested

Voting ended onNov 6, 2023

[eintsein]

ok so apparently not a lot of ppl know to do this when ‘reviewing notes’ but

look at section of notes

look away from section of notes

explain section of notes

check if explanation was correct

identify mistakes/gaps

recite correction for each mistake/gap

repeat until no mistakes

gotta practice recalling the info instead of just acknowledging its correctness

[xengineerstudies]

This is a reminder to drink water!

DO IT🙈

[davidgouldthorpe-blog]

I’m sorry but I won’t be able to take Ready Player One seriously. We’re supposed to believe a worldwide online forum where you can be anyone and anything would look like this

when in real life the concept has turned out far more like

[tabularojo]

VR Chat has honestly destroyed Ready Player One

[crystalwitch-in-the-tardis]

If you haven’t read the book I strongly suggest doing so. The movie looks like it’s going to be absolute shit! It’s not even the same story. The only thing the same is the name, not even the VR aspects are the same. I will not be wasting my money on this shit movie, when the book is so amazing!

[loloisafangirl]

Things My Friends Have Said That Makes it Seem Like They’re on Crack: Greek Mythology Edition

“zeus be like” *violently thrusts hips before almost falling over from the force of it*

“yeah, hades is a solid three feet tall”

“Artemis and Athena, my two butch lesbian icons” “Artemis and Orion?” “shut up, Rory”

“poseidon is the bottomest bottom to ever bottom”

“if Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades started dating, they’d be the big threesome” “Poseidon would bottom” “why are you like this”

“Dionysus, my favourite androgynous twink”

“bro I ship achilles and petropolis” “Patroclus?” “petropolis”

“do you think Athena would be accepted into university”

“oh-die-see-you-ss is overrated” “odysseus?” “no”

“Hermes, more like her-knees” *bursts out laughing*

“why is there that fucking ‘eee’ at the end of Aphrodite? It’s Aphrododi-tih, not Aphrodit-eeeeeeeeeee”

“straight up thought persephone was pronounced purse-a-phone until I got drunk a few weeks ago” “you’re underage and why are those two things even remotely related”

“nobody would ever do that” “this is zeus erasure”

[sommerlanding]

anonymously tell me what’s on your mind/something you’ve always wanted to ask

[thelanguagecommunity]

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

[lagom-languages-deactivated2022]

honestly like, dabbling in languages is fun and getting to learn little interesting facts about hundreds of different languages with different cultures, history and politics is so cool, because the world is so vast and has produced so much interesting content…

but nothing compares to really learning a language and going from nothing at all, to completely understanding it properly, knowing the culture and nuances of its speakers rather than just reading one article about it, being able to actually utilise the language to its full potential with its speakers and feel almost as though you have a second life because of it

[cwote]

love yourself enough to know when you aren’t being treated right

[grell-writes-stuff]

Literally the only thing I’m actually learning as an English major is that pretty much ever successful poet, novelist, etc, was either on drugs, full of rage, or an unholy and powerful combination of the two. Do drugs, be mad, write stuff,

[fuckwhoyoucamewith]

it’s never too late to start again. 5pm on a thursday can be your new monday. you don’t have to wait until the new year to better yourself. time is an illusion, don’t forget that. just because you woke up at 1pm, it doesn’t mean you messed your whole day up and that you can’t turn the mood around. it’s never too late to start again!!!!!

[wenchyfloozymoo]

[thighetician]

The second girl at least read the book to confirm that it was shit, she even had Capote on deck as backup. Chick 1 is just lazy

[kaylapocalypse-deactivated20201]

Nope. Girl 2 saw that Girl 1′s absolutely accurate analysis was being shut down just because it wasn’t stated in an intellectual way (in spite of its validity). So Girl 2 reinforced Girl 1′s opinions in solidarity and made sure that it was absolutely clear that Girl 1 was factually correct. WITHOUT taking credit for her observations (”kim is right” instead of “Actually, kim”)  

Girls supporting Girls. 

Girls not letting other girls be treated poorly.

[sweaterkittensahoy]

If you read thirty pages of a book and hate it, that’s a good analysis. Girl 1 literally said, “It sucked for these reasons, and I only got through 30 pages.” She was absolutely paying attention and trying to get it. But if all you get is a headache, fuck that book.

[mckitterick]

I love this exchange

[crtter]

Intentional misspellings and unusual handling of words is one of my favorite “minor” memes tbh I love it so much. Here are some of my all time favorites:

▪ Replacing “ck” with “cc” (ie. succ, thicc)

▪ Replacing “t” with “d” and vice-versa (ie. gotdamn,shid,blocket)

▪ Just… every kind of weird variation you can do with the word “fuck” (ie. fuckening, fucky)

▪ Weird jumbling of curse words that somewhat resemble something coherent (ie. mother fuck of a shit, shut the hell your mouth)

▪ Replacing a vowel in a word with another (ie. borger)

[guessed-starred-deactivated2025]

why have you analysed this

[crtter]

I don’t really remember the exact mindset I was in when I wrote this but it was probably something like “ohhhmmff english lamguage cool”

[topmeladies]

Don’t call me out like this

[jasntodds]

Look, creators need validation. Yeah, I preach the write for yourself, draw for yourself, CREATE for yourself, which is true. Everyone should create for themselves because it’s THEIR’S and it’ll always hold something special. Create what YOU need. BUT, creators still need the validation.

If someone is putting their creations out there for even 1 person to see, they need the validation that they are GOOD at what they’re doing. If they don’t get the validation, they will stop. Creativity, inspiration, and motivation will come to a halt because creators will no longer feel like people care about what they create. They may do it privately, sure, but YOU will never see any of it again because that validation is gone. That confidence to SHARE with you, is gone.

So, what I’m saying is that if you LIKE your favorite creator’s work whether that be writing, art, graphics, gifs, video edits, etc. you NEED to validate them otherwise you’ll stop seeing new creations. It takes 2 seconds to comment in the tags of a reblog. If you like what someone produced, TELL THEM.

[inactiveblogger-deactivated2018]

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

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