#languah

[surprisebitch]

what kind of ad for pokemon go is this

#pokemon go #my dash did a thing #do ppl say that expression or is this too tumblr boomer languahe #pkmn go #t

[doyouknowthis-grishaverse]

#sorry im kinda going freestyle with these polls now #i did have a plan when i started but not anymore #just livin my life #also i love ulla #grishaverse #shadow and bone #my polls #fandom polls #grishaverse polls #languahe of thorns #lives of saints #when water sang fire #fjerda #ulla morozova #sankta ursula of the waves #senje ursula #the darkling #baghra morozova #aleksander morozova #i LOVE the idea of the sildroher #and i hate how its not brought up that they exist

[divorcetual]

Jamaican patois my beloved U are suxh a helpful referwnce

#ITS SUCH AN INTERRSTING LANGUAGE TOO the number of other languahe influences is crazy #i wld LOVEEE to know more abt hlhow the grammer and vocab is effected bt them #it more or less uses english as a base #but words like me/my/I/etc. are all simplified to “mi” (I THINK) rather than having multiple versions #would be interested if thats how west african languages work or if thats jusy a product of it being a creole #the participles are so interesting too #the function to cobjugate verbs but work entirly differently than that of english #i wonder again if thats an infkuence of west african languages #then there are paticiples like “fi” which have a TON of different uses where english ones tend to only have one #it expresses posession or obligation. it can be used as “for” in some cases. so cool #I mentioned this with “mi” but often the pronouns dont have much change between like. position #i forgot the word. I mean like “He” and “Him” are the same word (im) #“they” “them” and “their” are all the same too (dem) #theres also a plural you which I always enjoy #it has a lot of notabke similarities to spanish esp. jn the different “to be” verbs #which is cool bcs I wld usually thnk it wld be omitted from a pidgin and creole #it does have spanisha and portuguese jnfkuence but considering its mainly english and west african languages it makes me wonder if #WA languages also have that equative abd locative “to be” verb

[helianskies]

feeling a bit miffed and frustrated.. just had a simultaneous spanish interpreting class and we had to go into the booths and just. sim interpret from spanish to english. but i have not used the booths before, nor have i done any kind of simultaneous practice. i feel like my classmates have all done like english speech shadowing in lesson to practice. but i haven't done that. my sim lessons have been sight translation and memory exercises. so of course i fucked most of it up where others didn't. and i just kind of feel like an idiot who is onthe wrong fucking course. basically.

#helia rants #helia's ma adventure #i dont want to be all woe is me but i just. everyone is being taught different things across their languahes at different ti.e #evidently french and german - bc they share a teacher - have done skills that i have not come across #as the only student not doing french or german #but when they assure you in induction you focus on english -> english interpreting for the first couple of weeks #i wasnt exactly ready to go ahead and interpret from spanish SIMULTANEOUSLY #like i couldnt even use the booth equipment and i feel like that shouldve been a fucking hint #she's given me advice on how to practice for sim going forward #but boy. boy. #i am not in the best mood now

[flustersluts]

cries in german aka the most unattractive language in the world

NO UR RIGHT GERMAN IS AS UGLY AS PORTUGUESE BUT THATS WHAT. makes it So goddamn sexy. i love the sound of german i am kissing u with tongue

#LIKE IN A GOOD WAY #i love the harsher languahes i love rhe throaty languages theyre so so cool #flusterasks

[oars]

what the hell does this say . like actually what does this mean

#i get the last half what does luh calm fit mean... are we both speaking the same languahe

[makwandis]

unapologetically Indian in this Fandom.....sometimes these people need to be shaken up even if it is with just goofs and gabs. look at shit from a non western pov your mind opens.

#its my own little world i do what i want ya know #i also know like im speaking a different languahe from ppl like if u dont know ndn worldview it is a different world #but i also dont care

[the-cookie-of-doom]

So I've been watching Call Me By Fire and this show is batshit but it's also so fun and wholesome??

#cookie speaks #and it's reminding me #that my childhood dream was to learn chinese #(along with like 6 other languahes) #its one of the hardest to learn tho so I chose japanese instead #failed #attempted korean bc it #is supposed to be relatively easy #STILL failed #i cannot do character-based languages apparently #i would love to learn thai just bc the characters are so pretty tho #like even if i couldn't speak it i want to learn how to write it #same for arabic #both beautiful written languages #this is why i can't get into foreign media i want to learn All The Languages but im REALLY BAD with languages #legit lived in germany for 2 years #learned nothing #except how to say i dont speak german lmfao

[ilexdiapason]

me yesterday: i kinda miss school

me today, the instant someone gives me the chance to talk about linguistics: WHO NEEDS SCHOOL WHEN I HAVE OPINIONS

#descriptivism my babygirl kissing u sweetly in the moonlight #accurately denoting which linguistic forms are used by which language populations im tucking u in so gently #REALISING HOW LANGUAHE USE CAN REVEAL BOTH INDIVIDUALLY PERCEIVED AND SYSTEMIC HIERARCHIES? SO SEXY #not me paying nine grand a year for a linguistics degree when i can have disputes with internet strangers for free

[berryesque]

feeling when I say merci beaucoup to a group of french customers and immediately get bombed with "Tu parles français??? Tu parles très bien, Wow tu n'as pas un accent!"

#it's not all bad ig #people when you speak just a little bit of their languahe

[rigelmejo]

Despite japanese being objectively fucking hard (in the sense it DOES take more hours to learn the same topic versus learning it in French, and the grammar IS simply very different and DOES have conjugations and the Kanji pronunciation just MUST be learned word by word and I need to keep the new pronunciations separate from mandarin)

I just dont end up studying it the way I know would work for me, and work well. What I know would work, based on how I study French and Chinese? Read a full fucking grammar guide first of all (I read 2 japanese grammar guides to intermediate but like in reality I usually read that stuff all the way through in a cram session of weeks all the way through advanced). Then study 2000 words (realistically in some SRS program or app since like chinese the benefit of srs scheduled reviews speeds up how long this cram session of 2 weeks split between a few months would actually take). Start reading GRADED READERS (hello Satori Reader app you'd be perfect!), then possibly get frustrated by unknown word amount at some point and to make my life easier cram up to another 3000 common words on some app over a few weeks with weeks of breaks in between. Then dare to read some normal stuff for native speakers, and volley between normal stuff and graded reader stuff with click-word translation until I get better.

What I'm fucking actually doing???? NOT THAT FOR SOME REASON

(Okay I suspect I know the reason... it's because I'm both an upper beginner in japanese but also have artificial inflation of "cognates" to help guess meaning because of hanzi knowledge resulting in me actually doing good enough with graded readers that they don't hold my attention as much as Intense Challenges do. I sure am motivated by intense challenge... even though a balance of "filling in my knowledge gaps" with "challenge" would be better. And I hate SRS and can't focus on flashcard apps and when I can't focus I can only get through 10 words an hour at which point any other study method will cover more words ToT)

Anyway I guess my brain hates me because with japanese it really mutually thinks it can be cocky and just DO stuff while also I am quite viscerally aware I'm drowning and barely know shit and REALLY SHOULD PREP MORE IN THE ABOVE STATED STUDY METHODS I KNOW WORK EXCELLENTLY FOR ME AS PREP WORK FOR BEING ABLE TO READ.

So yeah. This has been my fucking japanese study plan the last few months:

Listen to glossika japanese. I've only gotten to file 33 despite more days passing. I'm clearly barely using it. What can I say I hate focusing on flashcards even in audio only mode. This is really atrocious lmao considering I planned to listen to these when gaming and I've played like 150 hours easy this past winter so far so I shouldve fucking gone through like 300 lessons at 1/2 hour each, or at least half that since I pause the glossika audio during cutscenes. I'm gonna blame the adhd partly here and say i don't remember to fucking turn audio back on, and also if I see my phone I goof off on my phone so I hide it when I video game so I don't play audio glossika cayse I can't get up and pause it easily ToT just. Not very effective overall the whole thing is a mess. (Actually I love the audio files and I learn well from them and get through them better than anki by far, they just... aren't as easy to incorporate into my daily schedule as I expected). They are helping fill in some word pronunciation gaps I have. To be fair to me.... when I'm playing games with no voiced dialogue I do more glossika. Also to be fair to me... I'm considering playing this card game by Yoko Taro that's text rpg, entirely in japanese. Which would cover both reading and listening AS the game playing. Instead of listening to japanese audio while playing something in English.

Playing japanese video games. I've only done like 6 hours this winter and again should've done more, but tbh its an accomplishment. Brain is still fried to hell playing Persona 3 in japanese but I am much better at doing it and doing it faster to English playing speeds now. I uh lowkey hate the level of informality and slang I have to guess most fucking unknown words because I don't even get results trying to look this slang up. Meanwhile Final Fantasy X was very relaxing to play in japanese and I'll continue once I hook up my ps3 again instead of ps4. Still considering playing Nier Automata in japanese but I remember the level of tech words I DONT know then keep chickening out. This is by far the method I'll likely currently be most successful with - like when I go back to FF X there's a good chance I'll get 20 hours or more of study time just playing it since I will finish it I love the game (20ish hours cutscenes plus any in game dialogue and text in the 40 hours gameplay).

Reading Kokoro on a parallel text website with audio. Why is this the first japanese novel I'm trying to read? Who the fuck knows. That one and his cat story are the only real novels I've been chipping away at. Also reading Kokoro manga adaptation (which I have an ocr to help me but it translates as bad as Google translate so tbh I'm just reading and doing my best from context - SIGNIFICANTLY easier to read than the novel form)

Reading some stuff thats free on Satori Reader (honestly fun and I was doing 2 chapters a day, if and when I'm willing to pay subscription this is definitely still the PLAN for studying to prep for reading novels if I can prove to myself I can consistently use the app first)

Using app ListLang to learn 5000 common words. First, great free app I recommend! Second, the app has some kinks to work out for saving more than 100 words at a time so upside I'm learnjng a TON of helper basic common words I didn't know but downside I can't save more than 100 to reference later without finding their specific module first. I was using this cause memrise was burning me out. But honestly like all srs like apps? I can't do more than 40 words a day over 2 hours I'm just sooo slow studying this way.

Memrise. I got through Nukemarine LLJ 4 but still slowly chipping through rip ;-; so much for goal to get to lesson courses 6 or 7 by spring. Maybe by a miracle I'll go into a cram session of being able to hyperfocus on memrise. The thing is? If I COULD FOCUS this single study method I think is the BEST prep I could use to improve quickly, its well structured and covers all I need. But I .... can't focus, so it's not very helpful currently.

Watching japanese let's plays. Comprehending the main idea wooh, but also I rationally know I'd build a better foundation and rely less on hanzi carryover and fill my gaps in knowledge if I went and watched Comprehensible Input Japanese.

Using nihongo con teppei (do you see the trend? I love a challenge apparently I focus better, this is the least challenging listening I do BUT it's only in japanese so more challenging than glossika).

On bilibili and youtube listening to audio dramas with japanese subs.

#rant #japanese #progress #study plan #just so fucking funny to me i dont take the easy clear proven route with the difficult languahe #which i could most benefit from TAKING THE TRIED AND PROVED WORKS ROAD

[llycaons]

It’s athleisure, but designed for someone who competes in professional napping.

oh hehe

“Nie Huaisang, nonbinary femme-leaning aromantic pansexual non-hierarchical polyamorous slut, at your service.”

oh...pansexuality 😨

#that's wthe worst thing I've ever read in a work I'm otherwise enjoying #the entire conversation is so gddamn bizarre. I don't like the term demi and I don't like the idea of lwj discussing his sex life so openly #and he can just be gay even with these experiences he's describing. he can just be gay #a lot of fics that lean into this are just very very modern millenial american sounding and ig that's technically what they are #but a lot of the languahe and dialogue is like. idk it just feels off #plus the nonsense with 'pansexuality' #also the mogai bs just gives me a headache in almost any context #and the very liberal use of the q slur #like they just feel like generic white americans in a lot of scenes idk #like I know people like this irl and I want to be like well your experiences aren't universal #the non hierarchical stuff is interesting though #and polyam nhs I can def see #ficblogging

[mordcore]

new rule: if u wanna tell me someone i rb'ded from is problematic, wether you provide proof or not, ur gonna have to come off anon or i'll just ignore you

if u r gonna cast judgement on me u'll have to let me do the same @ u 👁️

#only symmetric relations allowed #oh yea as it turns out the link post did have bad ableist languahe i deleted it #i hadnt read the whole thing; my mistake #venty

[8-bitdyke]

sometimes i open a fic that includes a multilingual character and i clock in the first sentence that the person writing it is monolingual

#ix.txt/en #it’s just . so obvious sometimes based on like #how does the character treat their second language how do they code switch how is it relevant to the story whats theur relationship to th #e languahe #liks.

[natalancee]

HELP

i have that weird lag its just stops registering my clicks plz help

I SWEAR IM CLICKING ive been putting up with this shit for almost 2 months now and i have this fucking lag almost every song

help what do i do i tried everything and i couldnt find anybody with ghe same problem

PLEASEHELPHELP PLEASEE

(please i dont wanna have to install this game again i dont wanna lose everything on my account)

#project sekai #pjsk #pjsekai #please help or im gonna cry #this game is my life and i cant even enjoy it #english isnt my first languahe im sorry if i said something incorrectly

[obsessive-bear-walking]

I don't know enough to say for sure but I honestly wonder if my reading and writing issues aren't dyslexia but are more related to my dissociation. Who knows 🤷‍♂️ talking to doctors after my autism dx is like pulling teeth.

#i was diagnosed with a writing disability #but like #damn my reading issues are baf #theyre better now though??? #like my reading issues used to be so bad that i would lkterally accidently start reading a post in a languahe i didnt speak #and just assume i was having reading pronlems and get frustrated