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12/100 days of productivity

Watched a few more videos of the A1 part of Nico’s Weg

Planted some spices to have on the balcony

Started learning Russian

Made an Instagram for my language learning

Watched a livestream by one of my favorite artists in German

#language notes #language #polyglot #langblr #language learning #russian #learning russian #100 days of productivity

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Got an Instagram account to have besides this account feel free to follow if you want ✨

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Language Blog? Spanish Blog?

Are you a language blog? Learning a language? Learning Spanish in particular?

Please like / reblog so I can follow you on your journey. I am taking attempting to start learning Spanish myself and I’d love to connect with some of you all!

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Hey, I thought I would compile a selection of different resources dedicated to learning the Russian language. Feel free to reblog and add your own

Information about the language

Russian Language on Wikipedia

Russian Language on BBC

Russian Language on Encyclopaedia Britannica 

Russian Language on Real Russia

Books

I have a masterlist of different Russian language textbooks for all levels, as well as general Russian literature and Russian magazines for reading practice. It contains over 60,000 books and over 4,000 magazines

Children’s Books in Russian

Project Gutenberg Free Russian Books

Courses - Note that not all of these courses are free. 

Lingvist (comes with a 2-week free trial, and by far my favourite course)

Duolingo  (Joining with this link automatically adds me as a friend)

Busuu 

I Kinda Like Languages Russian Course

Learn Russian with RT (The audio files no longer work but there’s a lot of great resources that work)

Live Lingua Russian Tutors (Not a course as such, but a way to get a Tutor. You can get a free hour lesson)

Russian for Everyone

Russian for Free 

RussianLessons

Russian Made Easy

Way To Russia 

Russky

Lingodeer

Между нами

MasterRussian

Я говорю по-русски/ I speak Russian

Русский как иностранный: B1+. Russian as a foreign language: B1+

Русский как иностранный: B1+. Часть 2. Russian as a foreign language. B1+. Part 2.

Русский как иностранный B2-1 / Russian As a Foreign Language B2-1

Русский язык как иностранный B2-2 / Russian as a Foreign Language B2-2

A1 Elementary Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

A2 Basic Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

B1 I Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

B2 II Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

C1 III Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

C2 IV Certified Russian Course with Pushkin Institute

Beginner Russian Course / Курс России языка для начинающих

Intermediate Russian Course / Курс России языка среднего уровня

Russian Grammar Course / Курс грамматики России языка

Russian Course for Travelers / Курс России языка для путешественников

From Zero to Fluency Youtube Course

Start Speaking Russian Youtube Course

Russian Reading Youtube Course

Learn Russian Alphabet

Russian (Kazakhstan) Peace Corps Course

FSI Russian Course

Learn Russian

Yes Russian

Polymath

Learnalanguage

Ready Russian

Simplang

Russian Learning Reddit

Learn With Oliver

Memrise is a great resource as it has Memrise courses and user-created courses. These are the official Russian courses if you go through them one by one they amount to approximately 54 hours of content. The thing I like about Memrise is they test you on your pronunciation, and they have lots of videos by Russian native speakers. So it really tests you in all your skills.

Russian 1 by Memrise

Russian 2 by Memrise

Russian 3 by Memrise

Russian 4 by Memrise

Russian 5 by Memrise

Russian 6 by Memrise

Russian 7 by Memrise

These are some unofficial Russian Memrise courses you might like too. Although they tend to not have audio and they don’t have pronunciation tests or native speaker videos, they can still be a good resource.

Learn Basic Russian 

Top 10,000 words part one 

Top 10,000 words part two

Russian Grammar through Exercises

Assimil Russian

New Penguin Russian Course Vocabulary 

Vocabulary resources

Anki

Word Reference

Ba Ba Dum

L-Lingo

Russian Swadesh list

English terms derived from Russian

Wikipedia Russian Topics (Click on different topics then click on different words for their English translation and meaning)

Russian Idioms

Russian Proverbs

Russian Similies

20,000-word Frequency dictionary of the modern Russian language (the Russian National Corpus)

Russian spelling alphabet

Russian Frequency lists/1-1000

Russian Frequency lists/1001-2000

Russian Frequency lists/2001-3000

Russian Frequency lists/3001-4000

Russian Frequency lists/4001-5000

Russian Adjectives - Frequency List

Russian Nouns - Frequency List

Russian Verbs - Frequency List

Russian palindromes

Russian Pronouns

Alpha Dictionary

Dubbed Russian Songs (Russian songs with Russian lyrics alongside transliteration and English translation. They also accept requests)

Clozemaster (I’d say this is more for intermediate-advanced, but beginners might make use of this as well)

Vikida Children’s Encyclopedia (Entirely in Russian)

Russian for Children by Pushkin Institute (Entirely in Russian) This actually contains resources for 5+ to 18+ so it covers a broad range of levels

Slow Russian Podcast

Slow Russian Youtube

Beginning Russian through Film

Amazing Russian Youtube

Bab.La English - Russian Dictionary

Grammar

Grammar Exercises Youtube Playlist

MasterRussian

Online Interactive Grammar 

Learn Russian Grammar Tables

Russian Grammar Youtube

Russificate

Conjugation Tool

Russian Grammar

Russian News Sites

Russia Today (In Russian) / Russia Today (in English) (They also have a whole database of documentaries/shows/films that are in English or Russian. Just click on a show here and it’ll give you the option to watch in English or Russian) 

The Moscow Times (In Russian) / The Moscow Times (In English) (They have free English PDFs of past print publications too)

Tass Russian News Agency (In Russian) / Tass Russian News Agency (In English)

Moskovskij Komsomolets (Московский комсомолец) (only available in Russian)

Komsomolskaya Pravda (Комсомо́льская пра́вда) (only available in Russian)

Izvestia (ɪzˈvʲestʲɪjə) (Only available in Russian)

Rossiyskaya Gazeta (Российская газета) (Only available in Russian)

Kommersant (Коммерса́нтъ) (Only available in Russian)(There is also a UK news website entirely in Russian)

Trud (Tpyд) (Only available in Russian)

Moskovskiye Novosti (Московские новости) (Only available in Russian)

Nezavisimaya Gazeta (Независимая газета) (Only available in Russian)

Novye Izvestia (Новые Известия) (Only available in Russian)

Vedomosti (Ведомости) (Only available in Russian)

Pravda Правда (Only available in Russian)

Delovoy Peterburg Деловой Петербург (Only available in Russian)

RBC daily (Only available in Russian)

Sport Express (Спорт-Экспресс) (Only available in Russian)

Sovetsky Sport (Советский спорт) (Only available in Russian)

Russia Beyond The Headlines (In Russian) / Russia Beyond The Headlines (In English)

Krasnaya Zvezda (Кра́сная звезда́) (Only available in Russian)

Moskovskaya Pravda (Московская правда) (Only available in Russian)

Argumenty i Fakty (Аргументы и факты) (Only available in Russian)

Sovetsky Sakhalin (Советский Сахалин) (Only available in Russian)

Tyumenskaya Oblast Segodnya (Only available in Russian)

Vecherniy Murmansk (Вечерний Мурманск) (Only available in Russian)

Vecherniy Novosibirsk (Вечерний Новосибирск) (Only available in Russian)

Vecherniy Stavropol (Вечерний Ставрополь) (Only available in Russian)

Novaya Gazeta (Новая газета) (Only available in Russian)

Novgorod (Новгород) (Only available in Russian)

Sankt-Peterburgskie Vedomosti (Санкт-Петербургские ведомости) (Only available in Russian)

Literaturnaya Gazeta (Литературная газета) (Only available in Russian)

Parlamentskaia Gazeta (Парламентская газета) (Оnly available in Russian)

Meduza (In Russian) / Meduza (In English)

Please note that sites listed do not equal an endorsement. I don’t know the political background or views of each of these publications. I’m merely compiling a variety I saw through various Russian news lists and search engine results. Content warnings may apply and not all content may be suitable for minors

Listening practice (Note, I may make another masterlist compiling various Russian podcasts and Youtube channels so I’m leaving them out of this section)

LibriVox

Listeningpractice.org

Slavic Languages and Cultures Department, University of Groningen Listen to the Slavic languages

Audio Lingua

Learn Russian with Peppa Pig

Forvo

StarMediaEN (Russian shows, documentaries etc with English subtitles)

Russian Films With English Subtitles Youtube Playlist

Alosha (Алёша Попович и Тугарин Змей) Children’s Film

Dobrynya and the Dragon (Добрыня Никитич и Змей Горыныч) Children’s Film

Ilya Muromets and Sparrow the Robber (Илья Муромец и Соловей Разбойник) Children’s film

How Not to Rescue a Princess (Три Богатыря и Шамаханская Царица) Children’s Film

Russian Animation (Mixture of dubbed content and subtitled content)

Киноконцерн “Мосфильм” (Moscow Film, only some of these are subtitled)

фильмы о Холмсе и Ватсоне (Movies about Sherlock Holmes with Russian audio and English subtitles)

Okay, so this list has gotten long enough lol. If you have any resources you feel should be added feel free to reblog and add them or message me and I’ll edit it in. If you have any requests for resource compilations that you want me to do (e.g. compiling Russian podcasts, general Russian websites, Russian YouTubers etc) please let me know. 

#russian

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Dates and Days of the Week

How to write it?

The order is:

Year: 년

Month: 월

Day: 일

Day of the week: 요일

예: 2010년 5월 7일 목요일 (2010 May 7th, Thursday)

For dates you will use the Sino-Korean numbers, so if you gotta check that lesson yet, you can do it here

몇 년?: What year?

예:

2010 년 = 이친십 년 이친십 년:    - 이친 (2.000)   - 십 (10)

1998 년 = 천구백구십팔 년 천구백구십팔 년:    -  천 (1.000)   -  구백 (900)   -  구십 (90)   -  팔 (8) 

1864 년 = 천팔백육십사 년   -  천 (1.000)   -  팔백 (800)   -  육십 (60)   -  사 (4)

몇 월?: What month?

January: 1월 / 일월

February: 2월 / 이월

March: 3월 / 삼월

April: 4월 / 사월

May: 5월 / 오월

June: 6월 / 유월 (not 육)

July: 7월 / 칠월

August: 8월 / 팔월

September: 9월 / 구월

October: 10울 / 시월 (not 십)

November: 11월 / 십일월

December: 12월 / 십이월

며칠?: What day?

it’s not 몇 일 as we could guess with the others, but 며칠 all together and combined.

And the days are:

1일 / 일일

2일 / 이일

3일 / 삼일

4일 / 사일

5일 / 오일

6일 / 육일

7일 / 칠일

8일 / 팔일

9일 / 구일

10일 / 십일

11일 / 십일일

12일 / 십이일

13일 / 십삼일

14일 / 십사일

15일 / 십오일

16일 / 십육일 (read it as 심뉴일)

17일 / 십칠일

18일 / 십팔일

19일 / 십구일

20일 / 이십일

21일 / 이십일일

22일 / 이십이일

23일 / 이십삼일

24일 / 이십사일

25일 / 이십오일

26일 / 이십육일 (read it as 이심뉴길)

27일 / 이십칠일

28일 / 이십팔일

29일 / 이십구일

30일 / 삼십일

31일 / 삼십일일

무슨 요일?: What day of the week?

You can either write the whole day, aka 월요일, or just write the first part, aka 월 in your diary or some calendar. Actually you will find it in the short form in most of the agendas or calendars since it’s already know that the days of the week end with 요일 and would be useless to repeat it all the time 

Monday: 월 / 월요일

Tuesday: 화 / 화요일

Wednesday: 수 / 수요일

Thursday: 목 / 목요일

Friday: 금 / 금요일

Saturday: 토 / 토요일

Sunday: 일 / 일요일

In conversation

A. 오늘이 며칠이에요? (what is today’s date?) B. 5월 5일이에요 / 오월 오일이에요 (it’s May 5)

A. 오늘 무슨 요일이에요? (what day of the week is today?) B. 화요일이에요 (it’s Tuesday)

A. 언제 결혼했어요? (when did you get married?) B. 2001년에 결혼했어요 / 이천일 년에 결혼했어요 (we got married in 2001)

Activity

Complete each sentence with the appropriate dates in Korean:

1993.06.23 (금)

2009.03.18 (토)

1982.09.07 (일)

2013.10.31 (목)

source: Korean Grammar in Use - Beginner

#korean

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11/100 days of productivity

Went shopping for my room with my mom

Did a placement test in German and they placed me in A2

Watched some A1 episodes on Nico’s Weg on the DW app to be up to speed on the story when I start A2

Watched Hotel Transylvania in German and understood about 30% but it’s a movie I know very well so that’s good!

Did face masks

Stretched

#100 days of productivity #langblr #dw

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english phrasal verbs: keep

keep in - держать взаперти

keep on - продолжать

keep to - придерживаться

keep up - сохранять, продолжать

keep up with - успевать за

keep away - не пускать

keep back - не подходить

keep down - мешать, подавлять

keep from - не давать сделать

keep off - держаться подальше, не подходить

keep out  - не пускать внутрь 

#russian

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épithètes homériques

Homeric Epithets // please correct me if anything is wrong + add more // 

brillant(e) - shining

argenté(e) - silver, silvery

langue argentée - silver tongued

doux parlé - sweet spoken

du discours sans fin - of the endless speech

mercuriel(le) - mercurial

fidèle - loyal

sage - wise

toujours jeune - ever-young (always young)

joues roses - rosy cheeked

aux doigts roses - rosy fingered

courageux de coeur - brave of heart

avec le coeur d'un lion - with the heart of a lion

avec le visage d'un renard - with the face of a fox

avec des yeux de rosée - with dew eyes (dew-eyed)

avec des yeux brillants - with bright eyes (bright-eyed)

aux yeux de bœuf - with eyes of an ox (ox-eyed)

avec des doigts habiles - with deft fingers

aux cheveux non tondus - with uncut hair

aux cheveux enflammés - with flaming hair

au pied léger - with a light foot (light-footed)

aux pieds rapides - with quick feet (swift-footed)

avec des pieds en argent - with feet of silver (silver-footed)

aux mille ruses - with a thousand tricks

à l'âme endurante - an enduring soul

mer de vin (noir) - sea of (dark) wine

qui aime la foudre - who loves lightning 

le maître des nuages/le cueilleur des nuages - master of clouds/gatherer of clouds

père non seulement des dieux mais aussi des hommes - father of not only gods but also men

la déesse au clair regard/la déesse aux yeux clairs - the goddess with clear eyes

amie des sourires, qui sourit par amour - friend of smiles, who smiles for love

la nymphe - the nymph

les dieux - the gods

héros - heroes

#french

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Langblr Asks

🗣 What language do you speak most often?

🧠 What language has been the most difficult for you to learn?

✍🏽 How many scripts do you know?

📱What language is your phone set in?

🌏 If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, all expenses paid, where would you live and why?

😍 What’s a language you really want to learn?

🎼 Who is your favorite singer in your target language?

🎬 What’s the best movie you’ve watched in your target language?

🚑 What sound do emergency vehicles make where you live?

📷 Share your favorite picture you’ve taken while traveling!

⚖️ Would you rather have a huge vocabulary, perfect grammar, or a perfect accent in your target language?

⭐️ What inspires you to learn languages?

🎉 What has been your biggest language-learning milestone so far?

🗝 What is the key to language learning success?

📚 Have you ever read a book in your target language?

📝 Have you ever written an essay in your target language? What was it about?

🔥 Langblr you admire?

💬 Coolest thing about your target language?

📓Have you ever kept a journal in your target language?

🤯 Langblr pet peeve?

👍🏻 What’s the best langblr post you’ve made?

💝 What is a compliment you like to receive?

📎 What is your dream job? Do it use your target language?

#ask game

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Japanese YouTubers I watch for listening practice

のってん- Unboxing and presentation of toys. She’s very funny and speaks fast, so hearing her is very good listening practice.

Minicuteclub - Also toy unboxing and some tutorials.

ハピバニChannel - Two little, cute girls are the protagonists in the videos. Mostly blogs, sometimes toy unboxing. Great to get used to the way a native Japanese child speaks and to very informal, short speech.

中野恵那ちゃんえな - Beauty blogs.

さぁや Saaya - Beauty blogs. She does very cute and useful makeup tutorials.

Miniature room - Love miniature stuff? This channel is awesome! Not speaking though…

なかねんわ-るど - Miscellaneous blogs.

JPCMHD - Japanese TV commercials. You can know the culture of a country by looking at the way they try to sell stuff.

こばしり - More beauty blogs! Great makeup tutorials.

まあたその「ほぼメイキャンネル」- Funny blogs. She speaks very energetic and fast!

はじめしゃちょ-の - Still trying to figure out what this channel objective really is. It’s a bunch of guys yelling in a funny way. I like it, though. Seems very popular, since their videos are almost always on trend.

#japanese

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So I’ve decided to run with the idea of making a langblr & linguistics directory. I think it’s important for the langblr community to be just that - a community.

As someone who’s new to ‘langblr’ it was pretty daunting trying to find blogs to follow - and it was tricky trying to find blogs of interest that were actually active. Which is why I think something like this would be really useful for us all.

It’d mean that people can easily find active blogs about their target language/s, or check out lesser-known languages or even languages they’re curious about learning. It means that even smaller blogs can get a bit of promotion and be involved in the community from the very beginning. 

If the directory gets pretty popular I can also expand it to be a directory where people can advertise the tutoring they’re doing.

If you’re interested in joining all you need to do is go to: https://langblrdirectory.tumblr.com/submit and fill out the submission form. You don’t need an account with a certain amount of followers, an account over a certain age, or even to post original content. You just need a blog that’s dedicated (even slightly) to language learning.

[linguist-dreamer]

10/100 days of productivity

Worked 9 hours my first shift after quarantine

Organized two drawers at work

Finished ‘Contact Details’ in Nico’s Weg on the DW app

Stretched for 30 min

#100 days of productivity

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Get to know me, send me a symbol.

📱 Show your phone lock screen and/or home screen

💕 Your two top fave fictional characters

🕹 Video game you are currently playing

🌡 Fave season

🏫 Are you in school, what grade

 🎒 Are you in college, major area of study

🏢 Your job (You don’t have to be specific) or dream job if you don’t work

📷 Post the 12th photo from your phone’s gallery

📅 Your birthday

🎂 How old are you

📏 How tall are you

🔑 Key to your heart

📖 Fave book

📝 Fave quote

🌐 Languages you can speak and/or are learning. Which are you fluent in

💻 Desktop/Laptop/iPad/other

📔 Do you keep a traditional diary

☠ Something that angers you

🐷 Junk food you can never get enough of

🌼 Fave flower

📺 Fave anime

🎥 Fave film

📻 Fave song currently

🎙 Can you sing

🎁 Best gift you ever received and why

👾 Do you believe in aliens

👻 Do you believe in ghosts

⛪ What is your religion

🌎 What country do you live in

📸 Post a selfie

#ask game

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✨Langblr asks✨

Target language?

Last language that you considered learning?

Language(s) that you could know but don’t?

Languages do you speak at home

Languages do you speak with your friends

Favorite movie in your target language

Favorite food from the country that speaks your target language

Favorite word in your target language

Favorite spot to study

Study snacks?

Favourite folk tale in target language?

Vocab or Grammar

Pen or pencil

Favourite book in target language

First book you read in your target language

Vocab word you are struggling with right now

Favourite time to study

How do you say your favourite food in your target language?

Introduce yourself in your target language. GO!

First movie or tv show you ever watched in your target language

First foreign language you learnt

First language you learn by yourself

How did you get into languages?

Why are you studying your target language?

Describe your target language as an aesthetic

Favourite pet name in your target language

Favourite pet name in any language you know

Do you want to visit the country that speaks your target language?

Proud moments regarding target language

What language would you speak/teach to your new pet in so no one would understand?

Feel free to reblog it~

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9/100 days of productivity

Went for a run

Finished cleaning and organizing my room

Finished reading ‘milk and honey’

Wrote down German vocabulary

#100 days of productivity #milk and honey #rupi kaur

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Hi, my fellow language learners! I'm back from a way to long break! My dashboard went pretty inactive while I wasn't on Tumblr, so i want to refresh it a bit. Reblog if you:

- are active langblr

- learn German (or German is one of the languages you learn)

so i can follow you.

[linguist-dreamer]

Today I've learned about 'zwar..., aber...', 'wieso, warum, weshalb // weil' and 'woher, wo, wohin'

Zwar can basically go everywhere, aber goes right after the coma, and nothing is impacted.

Ich bin zwar kalt, aber ich esse Eis.

Wieso and weshalb are synonyms to warum. They are all three answered by a sentence with weil. In the 'weil' phrase, the conjugated verb gets yeeted to the end.

Ich bin kalt, weil ich keine Kleidung habe.

Ich bin soltz, weil ich Deutsch gelernt habe.

Woher + kommen : where are you from? is answered by aus + dative, but if one comes from some islands, one can say use von + dative.

Ich komme aus Frankreich.

Er kommt aus dem Kongo.

Sie kommt den Bahamas.

Wo + leben : where do you live? is answered with in + dative. With the islands, auf + dative may be used.

Du lebst in Paris.

Sie leben in der Schweiz.

Ihr lebt auf den Bahamas.

Wohin + reisen : where are you going/traveling to? is answered with nach + accusative, but if there is der die das die, it's in + accusative, and islands may use auf + accusative.

Es riest nach Berlin.

Wir reisen in den Jemen.

Sie reisen auf die Bahamas. (yes these are the only islands whose name I know in German)

As always, corrections are welcome!

#german