#language skills

[gwydion-aacblog]

why is people obsess with idea " just use AI " to make fix words when have language disability ? language disabilities look different in everyone .

sometimes what say , is not exactly what mean , and maybe not even realise . sometimes have so little grammar to work with , that no , machine can not do anything useful , and same words in same order can mean different things . sometimes what say have great grammar , but still can not understand because disconnect in what want and what really do communicate .

also , really ? think should force people with language disability to go through extra step that remind , every time , how no one respect what say unless look right ? think that really better than people without language disability just learn be patient and kind ?

AI not some magic tool , much less one that should use so can pretend disability not exist . AI is machine fill out patterns , not mind reader magic fix . stop fucking suggest use AI to make words look right , would not even if could , because fuck off .

#aac user #language skills

[femmefatalevibe]

How do I sound and appear more intelligent and sophisticated? I've read books and stuff but how do I apply the knowledge in real life? How do I make my everyday vocabulary more sophisticated? Ik the general advice to read books and converse with people etc, but how do I actually apply it irl?

Hi love! Here are some of my suggestions/tips:

How do I sound and appear more intelligent and sophisticated?

Keep your language and explanations simple & concise

Speak slowly & deliberately: Take your time between sentences, and pause between your thoughts. Always think before you speak. Silences, while slightly awkward, are not always best avoided

Use the proper propositions when speaking: Avoid small grammar mistakes (know when to use less vs. fewer, I vs. me, graduated from an institution, etc.)

Articulate complex concepts into layman's terms: Break concepts down into different parts of the conceptual equation – chronically, from beginning to end or outcome to origin, simultaneously moving parts/micro-stories or situations; Use analogies (metaphors, mundane/real-life examples, or hypothetical situations) that require the same thought-process or methodology)

Apply conversational "show don't tell" when sharing a story: Describe the situation using the 5 senses to convey the implied meaning (e.g. "I could feel the pit in my stomach." vs. "I was nervous.")

Use subtle tonality to convey particularly emotional or significant points while speaking

I've read books and stuff but how do I apply the knowledge in real life?

Relate cultural references or learned concepts to add clever humor to everyday conversations

Create parallels and analogies to outside information to convey your understanding of what someone is saying, ask more thoughtful follow-up questions, or smoothly transition into a new conversation topic

How do I make my everyday vocabulary more sophisticated?

Use everyday/simple sentence structure and replace one simple word choice with another more sophisticated word that is equally apt to the message you're trying to convey

If you're ever confused about whether a particular synonym makes sense to use IRL, look at how it is used in the dictionary sentence examples and in other books/articles

Ik the general advice to read books and converse with people etc, but how do I actually apply it irl?

Reiterate a concise, simplified version of the other person's anecdotes to convey your understanding. Drive the conversation forward by asking specific follow-up questions based on one "part" of the idea or story

Use cultural parallels to convey your understanding of what the other person is saying (sounds like this TV show character, like a certain artist, historical/current event, etc.)

Leverage metaphors to connect the dots between the points you and your conversation partner are making. Make an insightful connection to break up the air time between their anecdote and contribution

Conversational word choice should be used to create vivid images in people's minds – to paint a picture of the concept, scene, emotions, or sensations one would engage with or experience if the person was living your conversation in the present moment

Learn how to use wit conversations – context and delivery are vital to its success and positive reception

Hope this helps xx

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[fantasticenthusiasttale]

I was thinking, Donald Duck is called "Paperino" in italian, in the same way Daisy Duck got "Paperina", and if you work logic on that, you will see that is like, in english, their names were "Donald" and "Donalda"!! Italian Donald shows up in home with his girlfriend for the first time and Della is like DAFUQ

AND IT HAPPENS because in portuguese, Grandma Duck's real name is Donalda! So, yeah, Mrs. Donalda raised her grandson Donald (that by the way was probably named by his dad Quackmore in honor of his own mother)!!

#language skills #donald duck #della duck #daisy duck #donald duck and daisy duck #donsy #grandma duck #paperino #paperina #vovó donalda #disney duck comics #midnight thoughts

[mapsontheweb]

Languages of various Foreign Ministers of Europe.

by u/languageseu

#maps #languageseu #foreign ministers #europe #language skills

[hebrewbyinbal]

Thank you for sharing your pictures with me! You know it makes my day but more importantly it shows others the resources available to help them start loving and learning Hebrew!

I’m very excited to be a part of your journey and grateful for your trust in me. I look forward to hearing about your progress, let the studying begin 📖📚🤗

Hebrew 1&2 teaching the Print and Cursive Alphabet along with the Notebook is a winning combination but it all begins with your committment 💫🚀

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[system-of-a-feather]

Honestly, I think people who don't have language issues / speech issues kinda assume that it is just learning words or making sentences that are the issue - and yeah! That can be part of it

But a lot of the time its a lot more complex than that because language is a lot more complex than that - it's just something that a lot of people with typically-developing language and speech skills take for granted because it comes naturally to them

I was thinking about a response I was trying to say to my fiance as a joke (verbally where we struggle a lot more than written) and had a very kind of funny in-hindsight language "glitch". I was going to use it as an example but I couldn't remember the exact contact and phrasing that made it made sense.

Everything from here is how my brain works and may not apply to all people with language / speech issues.

But often when speaking certain words cluster together into conceptual groupings and they together fall into general functions in sentence structure (adjective) (noun) or (action) (noun) or (pronoun) (noun) and they generate a specific concept and idea together that isn't always the same as when translated individually. Additionally, in my experience, chunks of phrases and semantically similar words (ie words that tend to frequently be used together) are easier to draw upon and tend to be pulled into my awareness / "speaking pool" better than individual words.

So "bite you" "bite me" and "bite that" are all actions of biting something in specific and they tend to register in a chunk and operate much like an independent word probably does to an individual without language / speech issues (I am assuming based on how my written language skills are because I usually have little impact on my writing ability)

Taking that into consideration of that with the fact that sometimes it is just hard to find the phrases I'm looking for and thus a common cheat sheet to getting around that is to use the phrasing of the other person if their words were 'close enough' to what I wanted to say, there are certain moments where something entirely different than what was MEANT to be said is actually spoken.

Again, I don't remember the exact details to make it make sense as an example with just the script but him and I were joking around. He made a joke that it is "his job to bite me" which is a play jab cause we bite him 5x more than the other way around. So I wanted to reply "Bitch no, it's MY job to bite YOU" - but I had issues pulling the words together

To say that I needed to state the subject, the action, and any necessary modifiers.

Modifier: "No" (disagreeing)

Subject: "Your job" "(unlabeled concept of me / mine / I)"

Action: "Bite me" (<-stolen from his original phrasing, "me" is taken because brain said I was missing a word that represents the concept of myself in relation to the sentence and "me" is one of those words that fills that + its conveniently already attached to another word)

So my brain put it together "No your job is to bite me"

Which when put next to what I was TRYING to say, is the exact opposite. And so unreliable speech moment which had us both laugh a bit because I just responded to him saying that it was his job to bite me with "no your job is to bite me" which is silly

And honestly unreliable speech takes more forms than this cause theres a lot of different types of unreliable speech errors and what not, but I did kind of want to breakdown one of them for people since I have the written language skills to do so.

#alter: riku #language skills #unreliable speech #language processing disorder #speech processing disorder #speech issues #language issues #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

[manogirl]

I don't make resolutions, but I really want to double down on learning Thai this year. I know my watching is enhanced by what little I already understand, and I decided learning to read and write is probably a good idea.

At the same time, I'd like to keep up with my Italian enough that I can keep reading it fairly easily. Might be time to read some more Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables etc) in Italian.

#language learning #learn thai #learn italian #2024 goals #language skills #thai bl #anne of green gables

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Luke Gentile

Published: Dec 7, 2022

A teacher in California who identifies as "cringey" is going viral after claiming she does not teach grammar usage and writing skills in an attempt to defeat white supremacy.

Marta Shaffer teaches English at Oroville High School and uses linguistics to fight "white supremacy in my classes" and be "inclusive of all kinds of ways we use the language," she said.

The expectation that students should use syntax and proper grammar is based in a deep-rooted white supremacy culture, she argues, according to a report.

"I try to undermine that B.S. in my classroom as much as I can," she said. "We study linguistics and the rules that we actually use to communicate instead of the made-up rules that white supremacy created for when we write papers and stuff, which is what scholars call the 'language of power.'"

"As an educator, I constantly worry if I'm the problem. What do I mean by that? Well, public education is an institution that upholds lots of problematic systems in our society like white supremacy and misogyny and colonization, etc.," she said. "Well, let's look at how we write essays [in which we] start with an introduction that includes a thesis, always cite your sources, use transition words like 'however' and 'therefore.' These are all made-up rules. They were created by Westerners in power. Which got me thinking, what if I started my school year with a unit honoring how we talk rather than teaching students how to write properly."

One example is a prompt in which Shaffer has students examine how they communicate at home.

"Just because your teachers, your professors, and your boss may expect you to write and speak in a certain way that may not be natural to you, does not mean that your more natural ... languages are not important," she said.

"They are just as important, if not more important, than the 'language of respectability.'"

Despite her efforts, Shaffer wants to make sure she does not become a "white savior."

"Did I worry I was being a white savior? Absolutely. Was it uncomfortable? Definitely, but a lot of my students come here, and they're uncomfortable with the white mainstream culture of public school life," she said.

"So I think it's good for them to see their teacher deal with linguistic discomfort, too."

==

When the inmates aren't just running the asylum, but society itself.

Reminder that K-12 teachers do not have academic freedom. They're government employees. They have no more freedom of expression in the performance of their job than Kim Davis has freedom of religion the performance of hers. Firing Shaffer is removing a dangerously unqualified employee, like removing a bus driver who doesn't have a license.

One could easily be convinced that Shaffer is a member of the KKK deliberately undermining students and particularly minorities, with her rhetoric of school being a white place, syntax and grammar being white things, writing skills being for white people. What better way to keep them in their place than by sabotaging their education? Marta Shaffer herself is a full-blown white supremacist. She's exactly that.

What's not mentioned in the article but stated in the video is that she didn't just come up with this on her own. She cites "Dr." April Baker-Bell's "Linguistic Justice," which has over 160 5-star reviews on Amazon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Baker-Bell

April Baker-Bell is an American academic and the author of Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy. She is the 2020 recipient of the Orwell Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.

She is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and is an associate professor in the English department of Michigan State University.

Baker-Bell's website proudly boasts that she's been featured on the BBC and in USA Today.

When a Muslim beats his wife, he knows he's doing the right thing because the quran says so. Marta Shaffer isn't just some random nutter; she has certainty that she's doing the right thing because the scripture says so. Which also means that there's even more Shaffers out there doing exactly the same thing with exactly the same certainty. We just haven't identified them yet.

#Marta Shaffer #April Baker Bell #Linguistic Justice #corruption of education #TikTok teachers #academic corruption #education #reading and writing #linguistic skills #language skills #grammar #syntax #white supremacy #woke activism #cult of woke #wokeism #woke #wokeness as religion #religion is a mental illness

[nikki201626]

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[chineseffect]

If you want to actually move somewhere on your language journey, here is one thing I highly recommend: 

Learn useful sentences by heart.

It takes a little bit more energy in a short run but in a long run it saves much more because it delivers very good results fast.

I wouldn't be proficient in Chinese if it wasn't for this method. 

Thanks to MAGIC CARDS you can have a lot of fun with this method. MAGIC CARDS are a part of every MAGIC PLAYBOOK.

Just follow the link :)

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[gwydion-aacblog]

have you ever had experience learning languages other than english? if yes, was your comprehension similarly affected, or are some things clearer than others? im not confident in the way i worded this, so sorry in advance if i messed something up!

ydw, mae gwydion yn deall rhywfaint o gymraeg. little tiny bit japanese too but not enough that confident try put in words .

regardless language have trouble use words , but welsh give more trouble than english , and japanese more than welsh . japanese because just not learn enough , know more welsh but not same amount experience in try . ( and , well , only have AAC in english . )

but understand welsh fairly well … if text only or have captions , because audio process still big problem . and . hard time find welsh with captions .

#language skills

[femmefatalevibe]

Aspiring Writers Guide: Part II

Tips For Writing Fiction:

Study your subject and the primary motivations, desires, insecurities, and fatal flaws that would plague the characters within the chosen setting/plot. Consider your narrative's culture and structure its "norms." How do your characters navigate these settings – conform, rebel, lead, follow? Structure your plot points around dilemmas, successes, and tensions that the reader would expect to occur within the plot you've set up.

Develop characters that you illustrate how they are a "product of their environment." Allow readers to get inside the characters' minds. Ideally, each character struggles with their own "moral dilemma" that they contemplate or attempt to work through over the course of the story. Build tension through plot points that provide contrast between characters with different "moral" scripts to undercover something deeper about each character and the fabric of their "society."

Embrace the "ugliness" inside of each character's mind – the deep or unprovoked thoughts that others relate to, but outside of a literary context, wouldn't dare to say out loud. Use show, not tell to display their flaws, triumphs, and other natural ebbs/flows that come with existing.

Have a plan for writing, but let the work finish itself, depending on how the characters develop themselves

Use descriptions, not observations to set the stage. Evoke and show provoked emotions, not describe the characters' feelings directly

Tips For Non-Fiction Writing:

Dive deep into a subject of interest, and consider its history, trends, and innovations. What conclusions or new perspectives can you articulate from this information?

Develop a multi-layered "thesis" to organize your ideas and clarify your POV. How do these interpretations help us come to unique and a deeper understanding of previous studies, research, anecdotes, and developments within this field of interest?

Begin your story on an unexpected or controversial note. Consider using a personal story or historical "fun fact" to draw the reader into the piece. Introducing your story with a personal story, question, or seemingly deviant question can easily hook your audience.

Give them a chance to ponder your new insights or thought-provoking ideas while reading your story. Use personal stories and research study findings to give authority to your story. Extract the main takeaways from these anecdotes, and use them to offer questions about the situations, dilemmas, or overall subject matter to your audience.

Be clear about your structure and how you organize your points. Ensure there's a logical flow between paragraphs, grafs, and sections (or chapters).

Don't forget to evoke emotion through your language and word choice. Allow your humanity to come through, use clever, relevant, humor. Make the audience feel like they're entering an educational fantasy land where the "storylines" envelop your mind as much as they do the page.

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[anna-neko]

no fuckk...... spoonerisms my brain can remember easy just think of that one Aerosmith album name (Night in the Ruts) or *le sigh* Meth Bay that DnDaddies sets up

(flipping corresponding letters in a phrase, or between 2 words)

but this type of rhetoric has a name too!!! OMFG, i forget it exists until i dont, and then go absolutely insane tryin to find the word again

zeugma (of course it'd have a greek base.... doesn't it always) another good example , is of course everyone's most hated worst~est uncle Scar lyric ♪ "Yes, my teeth and ambitions are bared" ♫

#words are hard #language is weird #language skills #writing #memo to self #boring irl

[angelicsaggie]

Language Learners 🗣

Topic: Gender Nouns

The language tips that I provide are usually in English/Spanish however, you can still apply your target language in the examples below because my language tips are for everyone and all levels. So, let’s end our introduction and start learning! This exercise focuses on your listening skills and helps you add more vocabulary to your vernacular. Remember to speak in your target language the same way you would speak in your native language which is with a strong, confident pronunciation.

Are you having difficulties learning a language? What if I told you that learning a language is not as difficult as you think. If you want to master your target language then all you have to do is be open-minded. Some languages have gender nouns while others do not. If your native tongue is English and you have encountered a word in another language like "la mesa" then you might be confused, but before you roll your eye to the side in disgust you should know that English used to be a gendered language until the Middle English period. 

Masculine vs. Feminine Nouns

What is your gender? If someone were to speak about you then they would say he or she and these nouns work the same way. Think of these words as people and call them by their appropriate gender. 

What's the difference?

Depending on the language depends on their rules for masculine and feminine nouns. In Spanish if the word ends in o it is masculine and if it ends in a then it is feminine, sometimes. Languages are like math formulas which can create irregularities so in order for you to fully know when to use masculine or feminine nouns you must follow the rules and memorize the irregular nouns.

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[academicelephant]

My English lessons started when I was 10 years old. At first I did well, but after the first year it became difficult and I no longer wanted to learn the whole language. In fact, I considered it as totally useless and saw no reason whatsoever to learn it. At the age of 13 I started watching pro wrestling and got interested in learning the language since I needed it to understand what’s going on in the ring. I quickly learned the jargon of pro wrestling but not much more (or that’s how it feels at least, since it had no effect on my English grade). 

After joining the university I feel like a whole new world has opened to me ‘cause it was not until I started my studies there that I first read a book in English. Now my English skills have improved significantly and I can read nearly whatever I please that’s written in English, including my dads military and self defense books, of which I used to only look at the pictures. Of course, I still need a dictionary from time to time, but in general I understand most of what I read. I still think that you must get by in a country by speaking the national language, but I don't deny that English opens doors and is a good language to learn. 

It's funny, though, how I feel like I've learned English effortlessly, without noticing nor really trying, even though that's not true. I've been studying it for a decade and it hasn't exactly been easy. Admittedly, pro wrestling and movies have served as a great motivator, much more so than anything else, excluding my academic desire for knowledge over the last year and a half. Anyway, learning always takes time, but looking back now, it still seems to have happened on its own. That's why it would be best to start teaching English early, so that as young adults people would have good English skills and, if they want to enter the academic world, would be able to do well from the start and not stumble on the lack of language skills.

#english #language #foreign languages #language skills #jargon #school #university #education #academic #literature #pro wrestling #movies #motivation #nationalism

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)