#and like (5) languages i want to learn

[uncanny-tranny]

Another bonus to learning a fiber art is being able to speak to others in a Lovecraftian language that nobody else understands...

...and also being able to read things like THIS:

#art #crochet #fiber art #described images #image description in alt #used a crochet pattern for this because it's just INSANE #see i can recognize some of these stitch markings but i haven't done them all yet #i actually kind of prefer the diagram pattern because it actually shows you the shape and the way stitches compliment the piece #with a 'normal' pattern (e.g. 1 dc in fifth ch from hook ch 2 4 dc) i understand it sure but. it isn't the same. #i was reading somebodys recommendations for tapestry yarn and understood all the abbreviations and what they mean #plus i feel like diagrams can be a great way to teach you not only how stitches look but how they contribute to the larger piece #one of my crochet proficiency goals is to be able to look at a piece and know instantly what made it #*cue me at the store analyzing a crochet piece so i can replicate it for 5× the cost* #if you're selling a crocheted piece for like $20 then it's my imperative to replicate it and not buy it 🫡 #i think that has the same moral implication as like... 'proplifting' #did crochet as the example because thats what i do as a fiber art. if theres a similar thing for knit/weave/ect then DROP IT BELOW I BEG YO #i want to learn all the lovecraftian languages of the fiber artists <3 #i feel like describing the image in exactly what stitch marking indicates what would have been too much so hopefully the explanation as to.. #...what the diagram DOES and how it visually indicates a pattern was helpful <3

[queerofthedagger]

a couple of days ago i finished the spanish duolingo course so after some back and forth, i started on french, and not to repeat myself but it really is wild how much you subconsciously keep of a language if you ever engaged with it at all. like. i had three years of french at school which was literally over a decade ago, but between that and my latin and spanish, it's just coming back SO easily. the language brain is just WILD. my most beloved

#*mine #mona rambles #oh roman languages we're really in it now #like the fluency in spanish and semi-solid grasp on latin definitely help #as does that languages just come somewhat easily to me #but still just?? so much i did 13 years ago in school is just coming back to me it's just insanely cool #it's a bit off but i should start considering what to do after french because anything after that will be a completely fresh start #maybe italian to finish my roman collection. but i also do really want to learn gaelic.. hm. we'll see #it'd technically be language number 5 then. maybe basque in celebration after all lmao <3 #(basque is excellent it's just complicated af because it shares barely to no resemblance to any other language) #ANYWAY. languages my most beloveds

[thechildisgone]

went to the library to help at the bookstore and also got rly cool old impressionist books for rly cheap hehehe

#like originally 50 and i got them for like 5 bucks lmaoo #also one is actually in french #i need to practice i want to actually learn french #i took it in hs and college for 6 years total and i can read it sometimes but im soo baddd #i wanna learn spanish too bc that’d be legit useful but we’ll see im bad at foreign languages

[fukikoichinomiya]

i need to practice my japanese sooo bad but it’s sooo hard when i’m not in a class for it yet

#please please please @ my profs let me into the japan trip next year i know my gpa is a 3.7 i swear im good for it #im going CRAZY… #i want to learn japanese and french sooo bad #preferably many more languages too im just veeerrrryyyy slow #i’ve been thinking of making a sideblog to practice my japanese. like part of studyblr or whatever it’s called #IDK mostly i just want to read nobuko yoshiyas work which is hard because it’s not translated #but it’s SOOOOO influential on yuri ESP older yuri that i HAVE to read it.. #i looove learning abt lesbians around the world #very chatty all to say i am going to practice more #helping kids learn to read at my job really made me realize that learning languages is HARD even if u already speak them! #i took asl in high school but that was easier for me to conceptualize than spoken languages #i reallt don’t know much japanese at all mostly just introductory stuff #i can read hiragana but i’m still learning katakana #i know maybe. maybe. 5 kanji. that’s it #LOTS TO LEARN IM EXCITED i’m supposed to be taking a class this winter hopefully!!!!!! #jonesytag

[nordic-language-love]

Do you prefer self studying or studying with a tutor

I feel like they accomplish different purposes and are not in any way mutually exclusive. I take classes with tutors, but I also do a lot of self-study.

For me, there are two ways a tutor can function: 1) As someone to introduce concepts 2) As a resource for practising productive language and getting feedback

If you study exclusively with a tutor without doing self-study, your progress will be very limited. When I was teaching on italki, it was always painfully obvious which students expected to get fluent in English just by coming to my classes once or twice a week because they never improved. Even now, working with kids in a classroom environment, it's clear which ones study outside the classroom, which ones engage with native content and which ones don't bother. I would say you can learn a language more effectively through self-study alone than with a tutor/classes alone.

That being said, I do like having a tutor. I like having someone who is being paid to sit through my shit grammar and help me express my thoughts coherently. I like having someone who can answer my questions about the differences between A and B. Some people can happily talk to native speakers and ask strangers on apps to help them do that, but I would never be so bold lmao.

I also mentioned a tutor can introduce concepts. I found this really helpful when I first decided to get more serious about Japanese because Japanese is so different from my native language that I felt kinda lost trying to self-study. Having a tutor guiding me through a structured syllabus gave me a better idea of the language's foundations and how to apply some of the grammar I'd kinda half-learned myself. When I was B1/B2 in Norwegian, I wasn't really sure what I needed to learn or improve on and I struggled to see progress, so having a course to follow really helped me at that time.

BUT… having said that… I don't like group classes, especially for beginners. I would take self-study with no tutor over going on a course (generally speaking). The reason being such courses are designed to be as generic as possible in order to be relevant to as many people as possible. So instead of learning how to talk about topics I'm interested in, I'm forced to talk about shit like my family (no thank you), work (fine if you have a 9-5, not if your job is unconventional), sport (I don't play sports) and going to the cinema (I don't watch movies). For my Spanish exam a couple of years ago I had to write "advice for having the perfect party" and I was like do I LOOK like I go to parties. So I find them super boring. Not to mention 90% of the class is going over what a basic grammar concepts in English are or listening to my classmates slowly and painfully mispronounce everything.

So, in answer to your question… I prefer having a tutor to not having a tutor. But self-study is absolutely necessary even with a tutor, and I'd personally choose self-study over a generic "one size fits all" course.

#i was tempted to do the japanese intensive course here #but decided not to for the reasons stated above #plus i didn't wanna spend 3 hours of my morning in a classroom when i have to spend 5 hours of my afternoon/evening in one #i just know from experience i prefer to study languages on my own terms y'know #also i wanted to do beginner 2 but apparently they don't let you just jump in at beginner 2 and you have to do beginner 1 #and i was like. no fuck that i'm not spending weeks learning shit i can already do

[milquetoad]

the current direction of my affection; junebug, the harengon rune knight fighter. she started studying giant runes bc she wants to be tall and her name is junebug bc that was her fav snack as a baby. my heart belongs to tiny str. builds <3

#made her for many reasons. 1 im not a furry but i believe in their beliefs. 2 harengons racial trait that lets u negate opp attacks >>>>> #3 I realized that longswords don’t have the heavy property so a 4ft character can comfortably wield a 3 1/2ft sword. i love that #4 the way rune knights get a height increase of 3d4 inches just bc they learn the giants language is so fucking funny to me #and 5 i have just never drawn anything w like. actual clothes and weapons. and i wanted to try #so junebug <3 #my posts #dnd oc #harengon

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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#sometimes. most times. if i cant articulate things properly i feel like my heads gonna explode. which is unfortunate bc i have the #language is hard brain problems. my neurology makes articulation difficult. but i try reguardless. which is sometimes. most times. #exhausting. that words gets thrown around a lot when i describe the patterns of my thoughts. exhausting. and it is i guess. tho id say its #more annoying and frustrating. but maybe its also exhausting. hard to tell when its how u think. but ive been reading a lot of papers this #weekend. enjoying the papers i read. papers about photosynthesis at the edge of habitability. about genetis and the structure and functions #of proteins. and the learning curve is steep but im learning bit by bit. and it just sorta makes me sad bc the way that my brain works has #so damaged the way that i interact with the world and i can see it at every step of my academic career. i dont even kno what to say abt the #past 2 years of my life. from where i stand now its just a black hole of self destruction. y did i do that? i dunno. at the time i was just #following the arbitrary rules and restrictions laid out for me within my head. did these rules have a rational basis? no. not usually. but #thats how it had to be. exhausting. but even then i coukd sometimes see thru to the wonder. and it was agony bc i wasnt allowed to think #abt it. its still agony now but i can feel it more often. maybe that's what happiness is to me. to be so full of wonder that i cant take it #i cant exist in that state or id b nonfunctional. its too big for my chest. it makes me want to scream and weep and pull at my hair. and #and its maddening bc i cant articulate it properly. except to call upon media short hands. there is wonder here. a nightmarish description #but not always. sometimes it was beautiful. theres a reason ive read annihilati0n 5 times despite hating the book. theres a reason i rewatch #the terror nearly once a month. to find beauty in a thing that causes you such terror and pain. theres something about it i can't find the #words for and its driving me nuts. exhausting. but so it goes #unrelated

[odysseys-blood]

now more than ever i think i need to rewatch gullah gullah island

#cliffnotes/.txt #i do just want to. learn the language but theres ao few resources on it #for those that dont know gullah is a creole la guage kinda like patois they sound very similar #around the southern us from around nc to ga #biggest population i believe is in my state but like. in a small area so ive never really heard anyone speak it #outside of bhm programs #and i miss that. may have been my ancestors culture but still my culture yknow #but bc its a language where everything is passed on physically theres like. no way to learn it unles you know a speaker #i know some songs but thats abt it #any learning resources that ARE online are like. k-5 and aimed at just children like adults dont speak it #it feels almost like infantilizing it bc its a dialect snd not proper english #and that makes me so sad #i can understand some of it since aave stems from creole languages but i wanna speak it yknow

[deus-ex-mona]

[shakes the duolingo owl threateningly]

#d u o l i n g o w h y don’t you have the language i wanna learn?? i’m sadded :(((( #i want to smacc the me from like 10-13 (wtf am i really that old) years ago for slacking off during the conversational 3rd language classes #i could’ve learned something too!! but noooo all i know is how to count to 5，how to say ‘watercolour’ and ‘pig’… #…and ‘don’t know’ and ‘don’t have’ (but i picked up those two phrases from work lol) #so i’m left out of the loop of p. much all the juicy work convos and i’m sadded at the lack of good gossip— #but man… this new non-chinese staff member can speak chinese better than i can and i’m just. a little shook tbh #tfw you can only speak english，can barely speak your mother tongue language，and know like 3 phrases from your dialect group #just how are people able to learn languages so easily?? aaa???? i’m soooo envious???? #i’m only able to (kinda) read japanese bc the sentence structures are similar enough to chinese sentences… and bc i watch too much anime #(though i think i read too much japanese text that i can no longer read chinese texts whoooops—) #so anyway. yup. that’s just my angst of the day… ig #tune in tomorrow where i’ll cry about being unable to focus on the yujiro event epilogue bc the vbs cover of yy is on loop in my head and— #inedible blubbering

[artificerstimetable]

Wowa!! It us!!!!

#was inspired off of tempest's sona thing #we would add tup but not that big of a fan of it #we really just wanted to practice other styles and we tend to draw in this weird style when we draw ourself #we dunno what flags to use for our murica pride plus we puerto rican but dont live there and a lot of things are confusing and we are proba #bly doing things wrong!!! we really need to do research on our own stuff but man history is fucking cluttered #apparently when i was like 4 or smt i was multilingual??? where did the languages go we knew spanish and pidgin #plus english #wait no im a dumbass thats trilingual BUT STILL WHERE DID THE LANGUAGES GO #we trying to learn spanish still #its actually going pretty tastey #the limbus thing was an accident but we are keeping it #still getting into homestuck but we really enjoy it #only on act 5 or 6 wethinks #surprisingly proud of this drawing #its cute #art #sona #we have really fucking big eyebrows and hate drawing them unless its in the rizz pose #or the megamind pose

[absintheanflare]

very funny to me how i didnt realize a language-based job is entirely an option for me. how the hell didnt i notice it

#selfpost #ive tried to learn 12+ languages since i was 14 (failed bc of lack of adhd meds but the desire was there) #wants to be a polyglot #knows at least 5 alphabet/character systems #very good at mimicking sounds and recognizing subtle vocal differences #it seems not 100% relevant but im also really very good at recognizing voice actors to a degree that confuses /everyone/ #like apparently i pick up on the Subtle Aspects of a voice that is unique per person #futurama kif's va is in mystery incorporated as a dracula-ric goth actor #so is johnny bravos va #i have recognized keith silverstein in so many things that at this point its become a running joke #once i started learning german i got to B1 in 6 months

[atom-writings]

hey guys i will not be posting anything until next monday (8/5) and then i should be posting a lot more!!!!!

#i have to do my performances and then immediately go to german language camp #i dont even like german (i have been learning russian for 5 years) but i just wanted to do something with my friends /:

[a-chaotic-dumbass]

its so nasty that i have to learn languages when i dont want to

#who wouldve thought that u wouldnt want to learn a language of the country that colonized u like?? #chaotic but like not on topic #so happy theyre considering takin russian out as an option but so salty that if it goes through then i wouldve suffered for 5 years for #nothin

[phantasyhalation]

sick. started thinking about how i can read and understand poetry from 500 years ago and just started crying. however, sick. tried to read thomas wyatt; failed spectacularly. but it doesn't end there. my mind wandered. sick:

#ive had a day #i do actually want to learn latin or greek for scholarly purposes at some point but this goes for like 5 other languages #i want to be Okay Enough at japanese to move there without issue (doubtful i ever will given my skillset. but it's a last resort?) #everything else i really only want to learn for reading literature. but that would still be about 6 languages at a literary level #god forbid i try and learn for religious texts #i don't know if i will learn latin now i have enough on my plate as is. but it WOULD be fun #latency.txt

[suttttton]

i started learning french, which will be my third language after english and arabic, and after 5 years of studying arabic i am FLOORED by how easy this language is

#like i knew going in it would be easier because arabic is Hell for english speakers but #god there are tears in my eyes #all those fucking romance language majors in the mll department and you mean to tell me THIS was what they were dealing with????? #like i don't want to downplay french because i'm sure it has some hurdles i can already tell the pronounciation is gonna be hard but like #after 5 years of arabic i'm like jared 19 i never learned how to read #my arabic is BAD is what i'm saying and you mean to tell me??? #that i'm actually not just awful at foreign languages??? #you mean to tell me that the languages that are related to english are actually a lot easier to learn??? #that's real???????? #i feel like i'm going insane like this isn't news to me but it feels like news #knowing is different from understanding etc. #(also none of this is to speak poorly of arabic my love) #(if english is your first language and you're considering studying arabic do it definitely do it it's awesome but also) #(maybe don't make your primary goal to ever be good at it)

[jetblackheavt]

thinking about how some of my current interests rn are hugely influenced by my dad and i would be forever thankful for that

#still remember i used to fail math so many times when i was 7 y/o #and i think it was normal though but my dad did not like that #so he registered me under this tution called kumon #and i was in kumon for like 5 years and look at me now!!! #literally became the top students in math for 5 years in high school #also in reading #my dad would buy me some short stories for me when i was still young and never hesitate at all to bring me to any book store and book fair #as long as i like to read #until now... and im 22 rn and he still told me to tell him if i wanna go to any book fair or book store so he could bring me #and oh yeah english language!!! #english is my 2nd language and i can honestly say i love learning english bc of my dad #he spoke in english to me sometimes #and have me listening to english songs and watching english shows/movies with me so i can learn english more #even marvel movies omg #he doesn't have much interest now as he used to regarding the mcu stuffs #but he always keep me company if i wanted to watch the movies and the shows #and just listen to me rambling some theories #i would be forever grateful for him #sab talks