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On god today was THE most stressful day of my life 😭 thesis finally submitted, I had to resubmit it once and the uni website was under maintenance, it's literally hard to believe it's over gdkdhskdhjd I've been working on this bad boy for months

#@ anyone I haven't replied to today! I've been going thru it bc of the deadline gdksdhks I'm sorry and I will now ❣️ #now only the graduation exam and the uni language exam are left before I can graduate #I can't wait tbh #but at the same time I'll kinda miss it #personal #rambling #it sure has been a day huh #I hope y'all are doing well!!

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To the person who texted me about being pen pals/language learning buddies, I'd absolutely love that!!! Your message was sweet and I can't know the reason why you deactivated so suddenly but if you do see this and have another account, feel free to text me, I'd love to chat 🌸

#you can also message me on Instagram if that's more comfy #@shrews_things there! #this goes for other people too btw #please don't be scared to reach out to me #I swear I don't bite!!

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The way I have to force my tiny little brain to think in Russian it's taking up every single piece of mental energy I have left

Friend: ohh you kinda speak Russian right? Can we chat for a bit?

Me: sure mate gimme a sec *chugs scalding black coffee down like it's water* *the longest raspiest most pathetic and tired sigh ever witnessed by a human being* ...здравствуй

#ah I feel this dhgdkdhjshd #where does one even get the confidence to talk

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I think I mentioned here an upcoming C1 level Russian exam? Well it's over! It was last Friday-Saturday and I have high hopes that I passed, though I'll only find out in about a month :')

Anyway special thanks to everyone on here who posts Russian resources or just study motivation stuff, y'all kept me going 💕

#personal update #langblr #I'm currently working on finishing my thesis #only the last touches to go! I need to write a conclusion for it and an abstract in Russian #also gotta format it properly and stuff like that but I did most of that as I went #it's strange that #since my exam is over and all that pressure is off my shoulders #I find even more motivation in myself to study and practice Russian #it just goes to show that I work best from passion not from pressure #anyone else find that relatable?

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Hiii I've recently started being active here again but my dash is painfully empty of language learning posts so please interact if you post about:

Any of the following languages: Russian, Hungarian, Romanian, Arabic, Serbian and Korean

Just generally language learning resources, study tips, advice, about your progress, anything

Literature, best if Slavic <3

Other kinds of humanities related studies

Art!! While this isn't my art blog, I'm always looking to find cool fellow artists 🌸

#langblr #studyblr #russian langblr #hungarian langblr #romanian langblr #korean langblr #arabic langblr #serbian langblr #a lot of the people I follow who were active when I last was #don't post anymore #so I'm trying to freshen things up #shrews post

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Daily vocab 🌱

недоверие - distrust

наколка - tattoo

тревога - anxiety

угроза - threat, danger

[Кого/что] воспринимать [кем/чем] - to perceive [someone] as [something]

карать - to punish

намерение - intention

поражаться [чему] - to be amazed by [something]

отчётливо - clearly, visibly

чудаковатость - oddity, strangeness

#russian langblr #russian language #vocab #shrews post

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Či razuměješ li medžuslovjansky? (To jest jezyk tutogo posta). I kaky jest tvoj rodimy jezyk?

Чи разумєјеш ли меджусловјанскы? (То јест језык тутого поста). И какы јест твој родимы језык?

(Do you understand interslavic? Ie the main language of this post. And what's your native language?)

#woah this is cool af I can understand it without trouble #(don't fit any categories bc I'm Hungarian native but I do speak one East Slavic language and studied one South Slavic for a while) #I have never heard of this btw and I find it so so cool #languages #slavic languages #interslavic

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So my thesis is on Slavic-Romanian-Hungarian etymological connections and so far I have quite a good amount of Romanian sources, the Hungarian ones are pretty promising too, but I can't for the life of me find any Russian books on the topic 😭

If anyone happens to know texts in Russian that work with vocab of Slavic origin in eastern and middle European languages, I'd be so so happy to receive some recommendations! Please and thank you :')

#it could also be just generally about general phonetics development of Slavic words over time! #can also be English but I need Russian sources the most #studyblr #langblr #русский язык #russian langblr #today on: will I finish this thesis or will it finish me #shrews post

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Some vocab from today!!

пещера (сущ. ж.) - cave

чугунный (прил.) - cast iron

нарочно (нареч.) - purposely, deliberately

обрыв (сущ. м.) -cliff, precipice

перебить (гл. св.) - to interrupt

неодобрение (сущ. ср.) - disapproval

крайне (нареч.) - extremely

листва (сущ. ж.) - foliage

завернутый (прич.) - wrapped, covered (in something)

копьё (сущ. ср.) - spear

крюк (сущ. м.) - hook

повод (сущ. м.) - occasion, reason, excuse

схватить (гл. св.) / схватывать (нсв.) - to grab, grasp

#vocab #russian langblr #russian language #langblr #русский язык #russian vocab #just some random stuff #my goal is to learn 1k new words by the time my C1 exam comes around (in about a month) #so I'll be posting a lot of vocab!! #might not do the little grammar info in brackets in the future #pls correct me if I'm wrong about any of these btw gdksgdksh #shrews post

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szia! még tanulok magyarul

Szia! Csak így tovább, hajrá ❣️ mennyi ideje tanulod?

#hungarian language #ask #anon #makes me happy when I see people learning my native language <3 #shrews post

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Arguably the funniest Russian proverb to me is Хоть горшком назови, только в печку не ставь ([You may] call me a pot, just don’t put me in the oven). The meaning being, “whatever you say won’t hurt me as long as there’s no action following”.

#Russian language

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About me and this blog!

I'm Álmos and I'm Transylvanian Hungarian :]

I use he/they pronouns (preferred he/him)

My main blog is @shrews-things , I follow from there

The languages I speak/learn are Hungarian (native), English (C2), Romanian (B2-C1), Russian (B2-C1) and German (A2)

Next planned target languages are Arabic and Korean

I'm also an artist so you might see stuff about that too now and then <3

I tag all original posts as "shrews post"

#will edit this if anything changes or smth #on the topic of art #icon and header are by me! not using uncredited art of others #intro post #shrews post

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im also a native russian speaker but im confused how do you use they/them in russian. can you please provide example. hope you have a great day )

It's really simple: you just replace gendered endings with plural ones:

Саша очень талантливые | Sasha is very talanted

Ты бы хотели сходить в кино? | Would you like to go see a movie?

But you keep the singular form when it's neutral:

Саша играет с котом | Sasha is playing with the cat

Саша пойдёт гулять? | Will Sasha go on a walk?

And you use the plural form after the pronoun:

Они пойдут гулять | They will go on a walk

Они будут есть суп | They will be eating soup

That last one is not a hard rule, you could use singular (пойдёт, будет) here, but it doesn't flow as well, in my opinion

Overall it's very simillar to speaking to someone using Вы, only you replace it with ты

Hope this helps!

(The translations are kinda useless here, but I added them just in case)

#I have a Russian native friend who uses they/them pronouns so this is super helpful!!! :0 #they prefer talking in English so we normally use that #but I do wanna be correct about it when we talk in Russian #russian language #grammar

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Rating/reviewing my Russian lit compulsory readings (Part 1)

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Евгений Замятин - Мы) 8.5/10

I had a lot of fun with this one!!! I was actually surprised by how much it pulled me in and how much I enjoyed it, I finished it in two days and I usually read really slow. If you like 1984 by Orwell, this was what inspired it so you can expect something very similar in vibe and themes. There's racism in the descriptions of one character and it really irked me so that's what made my rating drop a bit.

Red Cavalry by Isaac Babel (Исаак Бабель - Конармия) 6/10

It was not bad but not to my tastes, it's a short story collection and some of them I liked, some I didn't enjoy as much. It's quite gruesome at parts in the "realities of war" kinda way so if you don't take those topics well, I don't recommend.

The master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov (Михаил Булгаков - Мастер и Маргарита) 9.5/10

I loved it!!! I know it's a big classic and I actually read it many years ago and now that it's required for class I only leafed through it again, but still it's among my faves. It's suspenseful, the story and the characters are all great, overall just such a good read. Not giving a 10 only bc I rarely give a perfect rating to anything vsjdgskgdjd

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov (Владимир Набоков - Приглашение на казнь) 8.5/10

I read this back in high school too but it was really fun to freshen up my memories about it, it's quite a condensed and hard read if you ask me, as it's very surreal and philosophical, but it's very good! If I had to describe it in one expression, it would be fever dream.

Liompa by Yury Olesha (Юрий Олеша - Лиомпа) 7.5/10

It's just one short story but I decided I'd rate anything longer than two pages so here we go. It was fun and I really liked the atmosphere of it, it gave peace of home (other than the obvious theme of dying gdksgskdhjs).

#russian literature #russian langblr #studyblr #русская литература #the course is called 'Russian literature from avant garde to present days' #and it's my very last semester lit course! #I have a lot a lot of workload this semester so I decided to start posting again to motivate myself :') #I have a C1 Russian language exam on April 6th I'm so anxious about it #and my thesis is due on 15th April #shrews post #if you're curious about any of them or have read and wanna chat #you can message me anytime!

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Learning languages is SO FUN right up until you need to learn conjugation and then suddenly it turns sour real fucking fast

#ah yes and then you get to Nouns and it's Even Worse #in Russian I'm pretty okay with verbs but my god the nouns #I'm in my last year of my Russian uni course and I still struggle with them

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"that language is useless!" "but everyone speaks english!" "you'll never use that language, why are you even learning it?" "it's pointless learning new languages" shut up shut up shut up

#lately saw someone online talk about German like “I know it's a useless language but I wanna learn it” #ma'am even if we disregard the fact that no language is useless (very important fact tho!!) German is one of the #languages most commonly considered as “useful” #but also yeah what the fuck people even mean by useless language #America centric ass view #as long as people speak a language #any number of people #it's important and useful

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maybe it's better to learn a language slowly. maybe we're too obsessed with things happening as quickly as possible. maybe it's more beautiful to dedicate years of your life to a language and have it grow with you as you journey through life rather than "become fluent in one week!". idk just a thought.

#This is what I adore about it #I don't want it to ever end and it makes me happy to know that it won't #languages