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@nathanwpyle

I literally love this.

I couldn't stop laughing for 20 minutes.

No joke.

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yeag

#a win for the aros #learning a romance language to rizz up the next one

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I can pretty much read in Spanish at an intermediate level and listen to a lot of music so a lot of the vocab I use or understand is literary or more flowery. Meanwhile I can't speak a word of it and have the most basic knowledge gaps.

this is a friendly reminder that language proficiency levels aren't 100% accurate and appliable to everyone. you can be able to talk about evolution and use the subjunctive mood but have no idea how to describe your daily activities. you can not know many synonims but be adept at explaining stuff. you can be able to name every single thing at the supermarket but unable to form a sentence with reported speech. you can not remember jobs names but know slang and dialects. you can read the classics but barely speak or write.

language learning is multifaceted and it's completely normal to develop certain skills before others. sometimes it's because some are easier for a particular person. sometimes it's because some are more useful in one's context. the point is, whatever set of skills you have, it's great. keep going.

#tbf i aimed to understand Spanish #rather than use it/speak lol #so my work here is done

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!! even when I don't know a word in English, I usually look up examples so I know how to use it (especially with technical words that I learn/use at uni)

Look, I knew five languages by age 19 and now I am learning like 3 more. I work as a language instructor and a consultant. If I can give language learners only one advice, this is it.

STOP LEARNING WORDS ON THEIR OWN.

You're doing yourself a disservice by learning lists of "30 words you must know!" "100 most common words!" like it literally means nothing if you cannot use those words in an appropriate context with proper grammar. So what you actually need to do is learn those words via example sentences.

Of course, sentences have more words so you may think you're learning less but you're actually learning the way to use it in context. That's what's important.

Language is about communication, which also means if you want to learn languages, you have to observe how people communicate with each other universally. Native speakers never have a list of words they know and they don't count every single new word they've learned. So why are you doing it to yourself? What native speakers do is listen to the new word, remember the context they're spoken in, and keep using that word in that context. And that's why people go "wait, you can use that word LIKE THAT?" all the time. So you, a language learner, are also allowed to do that. I'm not even saying those word lists are useless but they're the most useful AFTER you've known most of them and are trying to go over them for practice etc. Native speakers do click on those word lists to check out how many words they don't know or to remind themselves of those words or to learn some facts about each word. That should be your goal as well.

Learn sentences. Learn them in context. Do not fall into the "I must know xx amount of words or I'm a failure at language learning" trap perpetuated by bloggers or youtubers or whatever. Have fun with it!

#language learning #langblr

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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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I've never really revised in the traditional sense (only when doing homework) and thought it was so weird that I did my best work when I just explained/taught the material to someone else/discussed it/made analogies that worked for my brain

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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It's been a while — I honestly don't remember if I've posted on here before lol but I've been lurking on langblr for a couple of years and now I'm here !!

× going by logan online (for now) for anonymity :)

× they/he

× native 🇬🇧 (🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)

× a2 🇪🇸

× dabbling 🇩🇪 🇧🇻 🇯🇵

× interested in 🇨🇵 🇷🇺 🇵🇹 (also bsl & minority/indigenous langs)

× english student — interested in linguistics, languages, different alphabets/writing systems, learning, translation, research

#languages #langblr #language learning #learning spanish #learning norwegian #learning japanese #one day logan will be multilingual!!

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Queer Multilingualism Linguistics Survey

Hi! My name is Gabe, and I am an undergraduate Linguistics student. You may have seen me put out a linguistics survey previously; this was for a graduate course, and I am still organizing that data and working on that paper. However, I have another research paper in a different linguistics course on Globalization of queer identities, and how language may affect the way queer identities are viewed and talked about. I am running another survey to collect data for this paper as well.

If you are queer and bilingual/multilingual, please consider taking this survey! How long it will take depends on the depth of your answers, but I would say 15-20 minutes is maybe a good estimate.

The survey can be found here, and I ask that you please reblog so it can reach more people! The survey will close on Friday, April 14th, at some point, so that I can begin organizing my data.

Thank you!

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international asexuality day TOMORROW how are we all feeling

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QPR February Prompt Challenge 2022

(ID, full prompt list transcription, and further elaboration under the read more!)

Basic Things To Know/Resources:

(What is a QPR?/What does queerplatonic mean?)

(Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week)

(Tagging QPRs on AO3)

(Flag Credit)

~Guidelines~

This event is for fun! Have fun and take breaks and don't beat yourself up if you miss some prompts!

This event is not limited to any specific fandom or content source! Original content featuring original characters is absolutely encouraged as well!

Any content goes! Art, writing, edits, headcanons, all types of content are valid prompt fills so long as the focus is on QPRs or has queerplatonic themes!

If you'd like for us to reblog your content, tag us at @qpr-prompts! (Slight disclaimer: while we encourage you to create whatever kind of content you like for this challenge, we won't reblog nsf-w content here to keep this blog open to all ages!)

We'll be tracking the tag (#qprfebruarychallenge), but we won't reblog anything unless you tag us!

Similarly, if you're following this blog and you only wish to see prompts, you can blacklist the tag (#qprpromptfill)

If you're interested in participating, we encourage you to reblog this post!

(ID: A calender of the month of February 2022, recolored using the colors of the queerplatonic flag. Each day is labeled and lists a prompt beneath it. The prompts are as listed below. /end ID)

Day 1: Silly

Day 2: Soft

Day 3: Hands

Day 4: AU Day - Coffee Shop AU and/or Adventure AU

Day 5: Crimes

Day 6: Home

Day 7: Hurt

Day 8: Healing

Day 9: Last

Day 10: Misfit

Day 11: AU Day - Fantasy AU and/or Modern AU

Day 12: Listen

Day 13: Look

Day 14: "No romo."

Day 15: Animal

Day 16: Broken

Day 17: Safe

Day 18: AU Day - Hanahaki AU and/or Enemies to QPPs AU

Day 19: "I am here."

Day 20: Little things

Day 21: Bright

Day 22: Appreciation

Day 23: Music

Day 24: Support

Day 25: AU Day - Soulmate AU and/or Fake Dating AU

Day 26: Flowers

Day 27: Treat

Day 28: Free Day! - (Quote), (Trope), (Song), (AU)

~More Info~

This section is additional information and elaboration on the prompts; you don't really need to read anything below to participate fully, but to those who may be confused, need an explanation on some prompts, or simply want to know how to better participate, this is where you'll find it!

You don't have to follow the prompt list. You all get unlimited excuses to skip a prompt if you don't like it, or if you just want to use your own prompt!

Some days are dedicated specifically to AUs, but you can incorporate as many AUs into your content as you wish!

Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week takes place during this prompt challenge! If you'd like to focus specifically on ASAW, (here's a link with more information about it). The days for ASAW are February 20th - February 26th.

Day 14's prompt, "No romo." is a joke based on the phrase "No homo.", playing on the word "romantic".

The AU Days are on Fridays! Again, if you want to skip the prompts on those days or use a different prompt entirely, you are absolutely allowed to. If you want to use both AUs given on those days, you absolutely can! If you need further prompting on the AUs we've chosen, just keep reading!

Day 28 is your free day! If you were diligent about fulfilling all the prompts, this one's your prompt-blog assigned excuse to let loose. We've suggested picking a quote, your favorite trope, your favorite song (or maybe the song that speaks to your favorite QPR), or an AU you just really like! Of course, you can also use your own ideas if you want!

Our (ask box) is open if you have any further questions about this challenge! We may or may not turn anonymous asks off if people can't behave; if we do, we'll answer your ask privately if you request it!

~AU Elaboration~

We wanted these AUs to be as broad as possible to give you guys some choices, so here you go!

Day 4: Coffee Shop AU/Adventure AU

a.) Can't go wrong with a feel-good encounter at the local coffee shop! Or maybe it's not local? Who knows! Maybe it's not even a coffee shop. Maybe its a flower shop, or a tattoo parlor, or a different kind of shop entirely!

b.) Adventure is out there! Sailing the high seas and foraging through lands or waters unknown on a grand quest, running into the local superhero or vigilante or supervillain and accidentally getting swept up in an entirely new world, the possibilities are endless! Or maybe every day is an adventure with this QPR?

Day 11: Fantasy AU/Modern AU

a.) Medieval times await! Or maybe your favored taste of fantasy is the supernatural! Angels and demons, knights and dragons and royals, mermaids and fairies, or maybe the QPR are rival wizards who just have to one-up each other. Maybe the decrepit house down the street is rumored to be haunted. Escape from reality!

b.) What's their slice of life look like? Are they in school together? Is one of them is a celebrity of some kind? How does the QPR fare in a modernized setting?

Day 18: Hanahaki AU/Enemies to QPPs

a.) The disease born of unrequited love isn't just limited to romantic love! How does the QPR deal with blooms born of unrequited queerplatonic love?

b.) There's no greater journey than the one taken by two enemies who have learned to trust and love each other. How has their initial relationship changed from those who hate each other to those who trust each other?

Day 25: Soulmate AU/Fake Dating AU

a.) Ending with the classics! Any soulmate AU will do! How does the QPR fare in this predominantly romantic AU? Maybe platonic soulmates are barely heard of, or maybe the QPR fall right in with each other as they were meant to be!

b.) Fake dating, but are they faking a romantic relationship to cover for their queerplatonic love, or are they faking their QPR and eventually fall in queerplatonic love with each other? Who are they hiding it from? What'll happen if they're found out?

Have fun everyone!!

~ Mod Comedy and Mod Tragedy 🎭

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Love the argument "oh but if you transition you'll have to deal with being trans your whole life" because first of all there is nothing bad about being trans and second I'm still gonna be trans even if I don't medically transition I'll just be trans and miserable instead of trans and happy

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Books to help you deal with life when you have ADHD (totally not free 👀)

Delivered from distraction

The queen of distraction

The ADHD Advantage

Smart but stuck

Driven to distraction

Driven to distraction at work

Smart but scattered

Finish what you start

Mindset

The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD

Organizing Solutions for people with ADHD

Self-regulation & Mindfulness

ADHD: A guide to understanding

The disorganized mind

Overcoming distractions

Coaching college students with executive problems

Learning outside the Lines

Faster than normal

ADHD 2.0: New Science

Thriving with Adult ADHD

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don't talk to me because i'll police your language in both an obnoxious english major way and a snowflake way 🙃

#logan talks nonsense #i am a hypocrite w language/grammar use oops #my thoughts

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Want to learn something new in 2022??

Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)

40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)

Excellent basic crochet video series

Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)

Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)

How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)

Another drawing character faces video

Literally my favorite art pose hack

Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??

Introduction to flying small aircrafts

French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding

Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)

Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)

Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)

Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:

Calculus 1 (full semester class)

Learn basic statistics (free textbook)

Introduction to college physics (free textbook)

Introduction to accounting (free textbook)

Learn a language:

Ancient Greek

Latin

Spanish

German

Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)

French

Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)

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Best/most comprehensive list I’ve seen of Cornish learning resources/media!

Sharing for those who are interested!