Xtina e Idiomas

26. Biologist. Latin, mexican learning german, russian, french and japanese . Post about languages, mostly I reblog resources, I like wow, make up, dancing and science.

[tanuki-kimono]

Plump tiger motif for those modern obidome by Four Seasons.

All I can see is the angry+plump tiger cub photographed by Paul Wiggin xD

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I will keep updating the folder that is linked below. This contains short stories in German for beginners and they are easy to understand, plus vocabulary and exercises are given at the end of each chapter.

Note : Further updates may not contain vocabulary and exercises but I'll make sure they'll be found useful.

Here's the link : Click.

Happy Learning!

[taison]

Manga marketing glossary part 3: Hyping a title

Ever look at an obi attached to a Japanese novel or manga and wonder how it’s describing the title you’re holding? How do Japanese publishers gas up their titles to entice potential readers? Let’s look at some often recurring words.

好評（こうひょう）Good reputation/reception, popular. Titles that have gotten a lot of buzz or good will have this word used in its marketing or general descriptions.

名作（めいさく）Masterpiece. Speaks for itself!

傑作（けっさく）Masterpiece, best work(s). You may see this in connection to one-shot collections

熱狂（ねっきょう）wild enthusiasm, crazy about. How to describe that this series/franchise has extremely loud and enthusiastic fans? This is one way! This is also a word you may often encounter with 的（てき）attached. (Link leads to a Maggie-sensei lesson)

珠玉（しゅぎょく）Gem, jewel. Sometimes seen in marketing for anthologies with a selection of several authors meaning they have a selection of hidden gems for you!

蘇る（よみがえる）To resurrect. Announcing the return of something that was lost or forgotten! A common way to hype a reprinting or new edition of an older series. 

This one was a bit more random, next time i want to compile general vocab that describes what kind of edition it is you’re looking at, and words relating to release times. Questions, suggestions for additions and feedback always welcome!

[wasabijpn]

Reverse Conditions: …ても, …のに, and …が・けど・けれど・けれども

Explains how reverse conditions work. After reading this, you’ll be able to express “even if,” “in spite of,” “but,” and “however” in Japanese.

Back to the basics: First of all, let’s clarify what reverse conditions are to make sure. This is a normal condition: “If I catch a cold, I will take leave,” because it’s very reasonable to take leave when you are under the weather. Then, reverse conditions mean when the relation between the conditional clause and the main clause is unreasonable, e.g. “even though I am feeling under the weather, I will go to work.”

[languagenerds-archive]

Nouns la neige   snow le flocon de neige   snowflake une tempête de neige   a snowstorm  la glace   ice le verglas   a thin layer of ice on a flat surface (eg. road) une stalactite (de glace)   an icicle le givre   frost (on windows, cars etc.) un bonhomme de neige   a snowman une boule de neige   a snowball une congère   a snowbank

Verbs neiger   to snow geler   to freeze faire de la luge   to go sledding skier   to ski patiner (sur la glace)   to ice skate

Adjectives froid   cold glacial   icy (freezing temperature) verglacé   icy (covered in ice) enneigé   snowy (covered in snow) neigeux   snowy (weather)

[keptmathilda]

Guten Morgen Tumblr 🌞

Actually it's noon for me, but it will be morning soon for most of you guys, so whatever. Here are some interesting or funny...

German Language Education Quickies

...for you to start the day:

To "write sth down" is "to write something up" in German (aufschreiben = upwrite).

To "come up with sth" is to have "sth fallen into you" in German. "I've finally come up with something" = Mir ist endlich etwas eingefallen = "To-Me is finally something infallen" ≈ "Something has finally fallen into me".

Every German learner's greatest frustration: Nouns have genders and they determine the grammar of the whole rest of the sentence too. But don't worry, they make perfect sense: Fork is female, knife is neuter, spoon is male; Germany is neuter, Switzerland is female, Iran is male; and most logically man is male, woman is female [waaaait for it...] and boy is male but girl is neuter. - Easypeasy!

"To put sth [somewhere]" is two different words in German, depending on the shape or positioning of the thing that you put: stellen = 'vertical putting' or 'to put standing' (eg. a glass on a table or a book standing upwards); legen = 'horizontal putting' or 'to put lying' (eg. a pen or a book lying on the side). If you'd for example use stellen with "pen" that would sound like you mean to put the pen somewhere in upwards standing position and be rather weird.

Also there are two words for ghost depending if it's a real ghost like your dead grandma's ghost = Geist, or a cartoonlike ghost like Casper the friendly ghost = Gespenst. Also there are two words for skull depending if it's a real bone = Schädel, or the skull-symbol ☠️ = Totenkopf (literally 'deadhead'). And the list goes on... English is not very precise from a German's perspective ):

German is very descriptive: A vacuum cleaner is literally a "dustsucker" (Staubsauger, male), a plane is [a] "flightstuff" (Flugzeug, neuter; and btw a vehicle is a drivestuff and a lighter is a firestuff), and a superficial cleaning of your face or body without taking a real shower or doing it otherwise thoroughly (without using a sufficient amount of water) is a "catwash" (Katzenwäsche, female) - another word that the English language is lacking completely by the way.

"Life's not fair" or "You won't always get what you want"? Booooooring! In German we say: Das Leben ist kein Ponyhof! = Life is not a pony farm!

Have a wonderful day! 🌸

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Here are some websites/youtube channels apart from popularly known apps like Duolingo and Memrise that German language learners might find useful for improving their reading and listening skills :

DW Learn German

Lingua

Beelinguapp

Easy German

Learn German With Anja

Learn German

Katharia

Mythen Metzger

DW Deutsch

Deutschlernerblog

Duden

lmk if you find these useful or if you want book references, other helpful resources! i'm always happy to help and learn together!

[linghxr]

Language Resources Masterpost

Today I am sharing with you guys all my collection of language textbook pdfs :D They are mostly for Russian and Mandarin, but I have a few Korean resources too. Please note that I have not personally used all of these books, so I cannot vouch for their quality. If any of the links are broken, please let me know! All links are to dropbox files.

Mandarin

A Kaleidoscope of China (advanced)

A New China (intermediate)

All Things Considered (advanced)

Anything Goes (advanced)

Basic Chinese (workbook)

Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar (grammar)

Chinese: An Essential Grammar (grammar)

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (grammar)

Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar (workbook)

Reading to Write: An Advanced Textbook of Chinese (advanced)

Schaum’s Outlines: Chinese Grammar (grammar)

The Routledge Advanced Chinese Multimedia Course (advanced)

The Routledge Course in Chinese Media Literacy (advanced)

Russian

Ultimate Russian (advanced)

Using Russian: A Guide to Contemporary Usage

A Comprehensive Russian Grammar (grammar)

A Russian Grammar Workbook (workbook)

Colloquial Russian 2 (intermediate)

Russian Verbal Prefixes (grammar)

Glossika Guide to Russian Pronunciation and Grammar

Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook (intermediate)

An Advanced Russian Tabloid Reader (advanced)

A Living Russian Grammar (grammar)

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook (beginner）

Russian in Exercises (beginner)

Russian Verbs of Motion

Using Russian Vocabulary (vocab)

The Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs (vocab)

Live From Russia Stage 1 Volume 1 (beginner)

Live From Russia Stage 1 Volume 2 (beginner)

Korean

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (beginner)

Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook (intermediate)

Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar (grammar)

Korean Grammar in Use (beginner)

[loveletter2you]

do u have any advice for ppl who want to study linguistics and languages but couldnt afford to study it at school?? thanks if you answer this, have a great day

yeah! you can easily download textbooks online and study from them AND I do have a dropbox full of linguistics textbooks!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qm7x5dz8fu4bdlp/AADshTfRGZG5JZALkDV6wFlwa?dl=0 

it includes phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, morphology, and etymology. 

I also have another dropbox folder full of language textbooks:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tdm26h60ccl9pe1/AABg0B3mOGaWLG9Kfyuvut6wa?dl=0

As of November 6: Includes 83 textbooks including Arabic, ASL, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh :)

[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!

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hi! i recently started learning russian and i'm currently tackling conjugation of present tense verbs. i'm wondering if you have any exercise/workbook links to practice it? thank you, hope you have a lovely day!

Hello!

For websites/apps, there are the following:

Russian verb blitz app

Russian verb trainer (paid app)

Cooljugator website

For worksheets/books, there are the following:

The big silver book of Russian verbs PDF

Verb cheatsheet

Verb conjugation sheet by @apamexico

[nihongogogo]

LANGUAGE PRINTABLES BACK TO SCHOOL FLASH SALE

From NOW until this Sunday 16th July (Japan Standard Time) there will be 50% off all orders over $1 in the Language Printables shop on Etsy.

We have many different PDF printables for Japanese learning available for instant download. They have been designed in collaboration between a professional native Japanese speaking designer and language teacher on sale including these and more!

Language Printables Pack 1 $5.99 $2.99

Language Printables Pack 2 $5.99 $2.99

Japanese Slang Pack $2.99 $1.49

Hiragana and Katakana Pack Including Native Speaker Audio $5.99 $2.99

Journal Writing Beginners-Advanced Bundle $7.99 $3.99

Beginners Journal Writing Pack $2.99 $1.49

Intermediate Journal Writing Pack $2.99 $1.49

Advanced Journal Writing Pack $2.99 $1.49

Just enter the coupon code 2017BACK2SCHOOL50 at the checkout to get your discount.

Please note this is not eligible for gift voucher purchases and purchases are non refundable as they are instant downloads. Prices in US dollars.

[cirivere]

Kanji sheets printables!

I mainly made these with the basic kanji book volume 1 in mind but you can always use them for personal use too with other books or courses. 

 You can download them here with writing practice or without as pdf 

And you can download them  here with writing practice and without as docx

Please don’t repost without credits

(Edit I was lazy so I only showed two of the six colours for the first image but those are available in all colours too don’t worry, it seems like tumblr messed up some of the images too so some lines disappeared)

[jaimetalangue]

RU- Verbs of motion!

Every learner of the Russian language will be confronted to the verbs of motion at some point, and it’s not the easiest part. This ppt isn’t going to be a full course about these, because I’m only a beginner myself, so I wouldn’t be able to explain everything clearly and accurately just yet.

So here I tried to make neat tables to learn them more easily! But first, I advise you watch these great YouTube videos I found about verbs of motion, and prefixes of motion verbs:

Playlist of videos about verbs of motion

Prefixes for verbs of motion

So yeah, my ppt is:

Non prefixed motion verbs

Prefixes (3 detailed slides + 1 summary)

Prefixed motion verbs (through 1 example: ходить)

Derived nouns from ходить and its prefixed counterparts

I hope that helps people, and if there is anything to be corrected please tell me asap!!!

[ich-bin-der-baer]

Random German Vocabulary (40)

das Busserl (Southern/Austrian German) – kiss das Fazit – conclusion die Hiobsbotschaft – bad news der Speckgürtel – affluent suburbs der Wackelpudding – jelly; jello

(sich) abrackern – to slave away erröten – to blush (etwas) klarstellen – to make (something) clear popeln – to pick one’s nose (jemanden) wachrütteln – to shake (somebody) awake

goldig – cute; sweet großzügig – generous klammheimlich – on the quiet unverblümt – blunt; forthright verkalkt – fossilized; senile

kein Sterbenswörtchen – not a word Wurzeln schlagen – to take root

Ich glaube es erst, wenn ich es sehe. – I’ll believe it when I see it.

[ich-bin-der-baer]

Reading Practice: In aller Munde: Corona-Wortschöpfungen

der Abstand – distance der Arbeitsschutz – occupational safety das Attentat – assassination; assassination attempt die Einrichtung – organization; institution der Friseur (pl. die Friseure) – hairdresser die Heckenschere – hedge clippers die Herausforderung – challenge das Herunterfahren – shutdown die Matte – mat der Muffel – grouch die Panne – breakdown; glitch der Schuppen – shed der Server – server der Stillstand – standstill der Unterricht – education die Verbreitung – spread die Verordnung – regulation die Welle – wave der Wortschatz – vocabulary die Wortschöpfung – neologism

auflisten – to list (zu etwas) beitragen – to contribute (to something) drängeln – to shove; to push einbringen – to introduce impfen – to vaccinate umkrempeln – to change; to turn upside down verschärfen – to tighten; to strengthen (sich) weigern – to refuse (jemandem) zuprosten – to raise a glass (to someone)

gescholten – scolded; berated mürrisch – grumpy überlastet – overloaded übriggeblieben – leftover unleidlich – bad-tempered verheerend – devastating

in aller Munde sein – to be on everyone’s lips hohe Bußgelder – heavy fines an der Reihe sein – to be next in line

[pastelsandhazelnutcoffee]

Flowers and Blossoms Vocabulary - German/English

die Orchidee - orchid

die Tulpe - tulip

die Rose - rose

der Flieder - lilac

der Löwenzahn - dandelion

das Gänseblümchen - daisy

das Schneeglöckchen - snowdrop

die Nelke - carnation

der Blumenstrauß - flower bouquet

der Blumenladen - florist´s

die Schnittblumen - cut flower

das Blumenkisterl (col.)/der Blumenkasten - flower box

der Blumentopf - flowerpot

pflanzen - to plant

gießen - to water

düngen - to fertilize

die Blumenerde - flower soil

der Dünger - fertilizer

der Rosenstrauch - rose bush

das Veilchen - violet

das Maiglöckchen - lily of the valley

das Edelweiß - edelweiss

das Vergissmeinnicht - forget-me-not

der Klee - clover

das Löwenmaul - snapdragon

das Froschgoscherl -  snapdragon

die Geranie - geranium

der Mohn - poppy

die Hyazinthe - hyacinth

der Krokus - crocus

die Narzisse - narcissus

die Osterglocke - daffodil

die Schlüsselblume - primrose

die Lilie - lily

die Schwertlilie - iris

der Rittersporn - larkspur

der Blauregen - Chinese wisteria

der Goldregen - laburnum

das Stiefmütterchen - pansy

die Aster - aster

die Chrysantheme - chrysanthemum

die Blume - flower

die Blüte - blossom

der Stängel - stem

der Strauch - bush

das Blütenblatt - petal

der Duft - scent

der Pollen - pollen

der Blütenstaub - pollen

riechen - to smell

duften - to scent

schnuppern - to sniff

pflücken - to pluck

verwelken - to wither

welken - to wilt

aufblühen - to blossom

blühen - to flower

vertrocknen - to wither

die Dahlie - dahlia

die Fuchsie - fuchsia

die Petunie - petunia

die Ringelblume - marigold

die Azalee - azalea

die Begonie - begonie

die Primel - primrose

die Glockenblume - bluebell

die Kornblume - cornflower

das Alpenveilchen - cyclamen

die Lupine - lupin

die Margerite - marguerite

die Sumpfdotterblume - kingcup

der Enzian - gentian

der Krokus - crocus

die Iris - iris

der Lavendel - lavender

die Fuchsie - fuchsia

die Engelstrompete - angel´s trumpet

die Hortensie - hydrangea

der Oleander - oleander

der Samen - seed

aussäen - to sow

der Jasmin - jasmine

der Weihnachtsstern - poinsettia/Christmas flower

die Schneerose - Christmas rose

die Seerose - water lily