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strange-duolingo · 3 years

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probably i just said it but i want to say it again:

- don’t apologise if you don’t know english.

- yes, english is the most common language on the internet but you are not forced to know it perfectly.

- your own language is beautiful.

- non-english people make a huge effort to write in English everyday on this website.

- support non-english people and don’t make them feel bad if they do not know English.

- actually support all the languages.

- spread more language diversity on Tumblr.

thank you.

#langblr #don't apologize for not speaking english ‼️#not a meme #not strange #not duolingo

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strange-duolingo · 3 years

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So I found this cool website for learning ancient languages

go wild

#interesting!!#not duolingo #not strange #reblog #ancient languages #latin #greek #langblr #language learning #language resources

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strange-duolingo · 3 years

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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly

#this is really useful!#not strange #not duolingo #not a meme #resources #language learning

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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ICE has been ordered to release children but they're the ones who get to decide if they release their parents as well or if they're just throwing these kids out, so please at the very least sign this petition

#boost #not a meme #not duolingo

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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reblog this if your icon could kill a man

#👀#old jokes but i am scraping the barrel ❤️

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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ALL BLACK LIVES MATTER EVERYWHERE.

ZIMBABWE NEEDS YOUR HELP (please read and signal boost!) there is little to no coverage on this crisis worldwide. Rally for it just like you have for Black Lives Matter in the US, Yemen, Australian bushfires etc.

˗ˏˋ Link to petitions/donations! ˊˎ˗

reposted from: @theslacktivists on IG

#not duolingo #not a meme #blm #black lives matter #Zimbabwe

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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Duo's flirting skills are truly something else 😄

(submitted by @carryonmytardisjohn)

[Image Description: Two French phrases, translated into English. The first reads "Je ne suis pas saoul, je suis juste ivre de vous.", translating to "I'm not drunk, I'm just intoxicated by you."

The second phrase reads "J'aimerais vivre dans tes chaussures pour être avec toi à chacun de tes pas.", translating as "I want to live in your shoes so I can be with you every step of the way." End Image Description]

#duolingo memes #strange duolingo #langblr memes #language #english language #english #languages #langblr #french language #french #flirting

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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My friend from Lebanon wrote up a really good thread on Twitter I thought I should share here, just to clear up some of the inaccuracies floating around:

And here are some of the links they provided:

https://www.supportlrc.app/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/prevent-suicides-due-to-poverty-and-unemployment

https://www.gofundme.com/f/medical-relief-to-lebanon

https://www.gofundme.com/f/hope-for-lebanon

https://www.gofundme.com/f/lebanonneedsorg

http://www.caritas.org.lb/get_involved/donate

https://beitelbaraka.net/donation/pay/

https://gogetfunding.com/beirut-emergency-relief/

https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/lebanon-relief

https://www.givingloop.org/offrejoie

https://www.gofundme.com/f/beirut-explosion-emergency-disaster-relief

#not a meme #explosion tw #beirut #donation

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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ok youtube just said “fuck you if youre deaf or hard of hearing or just want to watch a video in a different language”

https://twitter.com/LiamODellUK/status/1288869766980042752

and you know what the fucking bullshit is they’re replacing it with a ~6 months free of a subscription to a third party captions provider~ which of course you’d have to pay for after those 6 months are up and you KNOW random youtuber #9039 isn’t going to bother to keep paying for that either because they won’t have the money or they just won’t care. and youtube’s going to act like that’s a perfectly fine alternative that won’t result in the majority of the site suddenly going from “more or less accessible” to “Fuck You If You’re Disabled”

“citing low usage” are you fucking kidding me nearly every worthwhile video i watch uses community captions. sometimes they’re kind of janky cuz they were made by some 14 year old who thought it’d be funny to put their own irrelevant jokes and commentary in there but that wasn’t a reason to ditch the feature entirely when its so useful and important

i’m not even hard of hearing and i rely on them to watch videos in other languages…this is literally how people have been making english subs for japanese songs and the like for years and it was great because you didn’t have to reupload the videos yourself and take away views from the original creators. many creators don’t allow reprints of their work whatsoever so if they go through with this (which unfortunately they seem pretty deadset on because lololol moneyyyyyy) it’s entirely likely that there just won’t be a way to watch that content with captions

there’s a petition to keep community captions…i don’t know if it’ll really do anything since they’re already going ~oh but we have Paid Alternatives!~ but don’t just let this pass by this should be a huge deal but i’ve barely seen anyone talking about it (not that i expect people to talk about things of any particular importance on tumblr but it’s not even getting attention on twitter beyond that one thread and like 2 other posts)

so like. sign this and shit don’t let youtube just actively get rid of accessibility features without anyone caring (though i’d say probably use twitter if you want to actually get their attention i don’t think they’d look here) http://chng.it/LN9HRNmnkg

#long post #please take the time to sign!#closed captions #youtube #not duolingo #not weird #not strange #not a meme #petition

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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Quick Tips for Learning Languages on Your Own

Here are some mindsets and techniques that helped me study Italian on my own after classes ended. Hope this helps :)

Also, I’m trying out a new format for shorter posts–let me know what you think!

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Keep reading

#good tips #language learning #language #languages #langblr memes #langblr #not duolingo #not a meme #not strange #not weird

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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We need to talk about LingoHut

I’m supposed to be studying some Italian, but instead, I was googling in my computer how to learn a new language (no, googling how to learn will not teach you shit, you have to sit down and learn your target language not how to do it, I know but I’m lazy.) and I came across LingoHut, and I have to share it.

I don’t know if someone ever talked about this page, but if they did is worth mentioning again.

So basically you go to the website and in the Home Page you have to choose what is your first language and what language are you trying to learn.

Once you choose it’ll take you to another page in which you have tons of lessons, for ex. In Italian, there are 109 lessons.

I haven’t checked every lesson yet but for example, the first one is greetings and such. You click that lesson and you have 16 flashcards that will show you the word in your target language and the translation, at the same time that someone pronounces the words.

Below the flashcards, you have this ⬇️

And basically is a bunch of game, an easy matching words kind of game, some kind of tic tac toe with words, a memory game do you know the one that kids play in which they have to find the matching pictures? Same but with words and lastly a listening and matching game.

Below the bar of the games, we have the vocabulary list of the words we are taught in that lesson, and you can click the word and listen the pronunciation.

In the end, you have a bunch of the next lessons.

The lessons vary from the content it can be greetings, numbers, health stuff, office words, computer terminology, etc.

The website doesn’t have every language in the world, but it has a lot of them. choose your target language, in my case Italian, and enjoy, is fun and simple if you want to practice or do something related to your target language but you don’t have the willingness that day to study something more consistent like structure.

And the best part is that as far as I went looking around in this page it’s fucking free. Sure, you won’t end the one hundred and something lessons speaking like a native from whatever target language you’re learning, but it can be useful to expand your vocabulary.

#i'll check this out myself!#not duolingo #not a meme #not strange #not weird #language learning #language #languages #langblr memes #langblr

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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Ominous!

[Image Description: A Russian phrase, translated into English. The phrase reads "На билете кровь.", translating to "There is blood on the ticket." End ID]

#duolingo memes #language #langblr #language learning #duolingo meme #language blog #russian #russian language #english language #english #strange duolingo

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strange-duolingo · 4 years

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