#Studyblr but idk what to post

[why-the-heck-not]

01.09.23, friday

coffee, honey-mustard pretzels, laundry, pumpkin chai tea

#i’m trying this new thing of posting daily-ish bc idk maybe it’d help be distinguish days from each other and could look back like ’’oh okay #so that’s what I did couple days ago’’ lol #but that means; get ready for some very average/repetitive posts sorry in advance #bookblr #studyblr #booklr #aesthetic #books #study #reading #read #book #studyspo #dark academia #september 2023 #2023

[benkyoutobentou]

#i saw someone talking about how they had copies of the same book in multiple languages and i was like.... why tho #like i get collecting multiple language editions of a favorite of yours #but this was presented as specifically for reading in other languages #idk am i the odd one out here? #i will not read anything translated Into Japanese #the way i look at it is that i learn languages to get a deeper understanding of the author's original intent #but as of right now theres still a little bit of a language barrier #translation is already a type of barrier between you and the original work #so why would i want to be twice removed from what the author is saying #languages #langblr #studyblr #language learning #benkyou posting #polls #memes #studyinspo #polyglot #the only reason i can see myself reading a book translated into japanese is if i really want to read it but japanese is the only #available language i know #but even then #i always have so many books to read that it really wouldnt make a difference if i either a. read it or not #or b. waited for it to be translated into english #i do know that im weird about translations though

[xuexishijian]

音系学，音位学 - Phonology

音位学分析 yīnwèixué fēnxī - phonological analysis

音系表征 yīnxì biǎozhēng - phonological representation

心里表征 xīnlǐ biǎozhēng - mental representation

抽象表征 chōuxiàng biǎozhēng - abstract representation

单位 dānwèi - units

音段 yīnduàn - segment

音节 yīnjié - syllable

音节首 yīnjiéshǒu - onset

音节核 yīnjiéhé - nucleus

音节尾 yīnjiéwěi - coda

音拍 yīnpāi, 莫拉 mòlā - mora

音步 yīnbù - foot

莫拉理论 mòlā lǐlùn - moraic theory

音节长度 - syllable length

音位 yīnwèi - phoneme

最小对立体 zuìxiǎo duìlì tǐ - minimal pair

区别意义 qūbié yìyì - distinguish meaning

对立的 duìlì de - contrastive

边缘对立 biānyuán duìlì - marginal contrast

音位中和 yīnwèi zhōnghé - phonemic neutralization

音位变体 yīnwèi biàntǐ - allophone

环境 huánjìng - environment

条件变体 tiáojiàn biàntǐ - conditioned variant

自由变体 zìyóu biàntǐ - free variation (无条件变体）

预测 yùcè - predict

互补分布 hùbǔ fēnbù - complementary distribution

自然类 zìrán lèi - natural class

在一定条件下产生 "produced under certain conditions" (产生 chǎnshēng "give rise to, produce")

在其他实词中都呈现互补分布。"They all present complementary distributions in other content words."

如果有一群语音共享一个或多个发音或听觉特征，而且同一个语言的其他音没有，这群语音就组成一个自然类。"If a group of sounds shares one or more articulatory or auditory features, which are not shared by the other sounds of that language, then that group of sounds is a natural class."

音位配列 yīnwèi pèiliè, 语音组合法 yǔyīn zǔhé fǎ - phonotactics

规则 guīzé - rule

替换 tìhuàn - substitute, replace

语音同化 yǔyīn tónghuà - assimilation

语音异化 yŭyīn yìhuà - dissimilation

语音省略 yǔyīn shěnglüè - deletion, elision

插音 chāyīn - epenthesis, insertion

语音变换 yǔyīn biànhuàn - metathesis

补偿延长 bǔcháng yáncháng - compensatory lengthening

连音 liányīn- sandhi, liaison

变调 biàndiào - tone sandhi

底层表达 dǐcéng biǎodá - underlying representation (底层形式 dǐcéng xíngshì, 底层表现 dǐcéng biǎoxiàn)

表层表现 biǎocéng biǎoxiàn - surface form

自主音段音系学 zìzhǔ yīnduàn yīnxìxué - autosegmental phonology

特征 tèzhēng - feature

音层 yīncéng - tier, level (as used in phonological context)

自主音段音系学理论把不同的区别性特征放在不同的音层上。

超音段 chāoyīnduàn - suprasegmentals

韵律 yùnlǜ - prosody

语调 yǔdiào - intonation

音高 yīngāo - pitch

响度 xiǎngdù - loudness

重音 zhòngyīn - stress, accent

节奏 jiézòu - rhythm, timing

重音节奏 zhòngyīn jiézòu - stress-timed

音节节奏 yīnjié jiézòu - syllable-timed

音拍节奏 yīnpāi jiézòu - mora-timed

表征的模型 biǎozhēng de móxíng - representation models

样本理论 yàngběn lǐlùn - exemplar theory

自下而上的过程 zìxià'érshàng de guòchéng - bottom-up process

自上而下的过程 zìshàngérxià de guòchéng - top-down process

优选论 yōuxuǎn lùn - Optimality Theory

制约排列 zhìyuē páiliè - constraint ranking

忠实性制约 zhōngshí xìng zhìyuē - faithfulness constraint

标志性制约 biāozhì xìng zhìyuē - markedness constraint

候选项目 hòuxuǎn xiàngmù - candidate

其他啊啊啊 (other)

范畴性的 fànchóu xìng de - categorical

阶层性的 jiēcéng xìng de - gradient

感知 gǎnzhī - perceive

发音 fāyīn - produce (sound), pronounce, enunciate

#中文 #汉语 #mandarin #mandarin studyblr #langblr #chinese langblr #词汇 #chinese vocab #mandarin vocab #vocab #I’ve been sitting on this post for like a year now cuz I couldn’t find translations of a few more terms I wanted #alas #idk I just wanted to post it finally and probably make another one for vocab abt syntax lol #since apparently that’s what my thesis is #and I’ve been talking a lot w a classmate who’s doing hers on Chinese syntax #fun stuff #linguistics #语言学

[koko056]

I got 80/80 in a math preboard exam conducted by my coaching and I was the only one who got a perfect score in a batch of nearly 150 kids, like not even 0.5 marks deducted.

but that dry 'well done' from sir can't even compare to what my grandfather, a retired army-school math teacher, said to my mom about my answer-sheet.

' achha likha hai, i remember giving 100 marks to such papers. presentation aur writing bhi sundar hai"

IM OVER THE MOON.

THE SMILE HE HAD WHEN I TOLD HIM I GOT A LITTLE TROPHY FOR MY SCORE AND MY "HOMEWORK-PERFORMANCE"

IM SO FREAKING HAPPY

JBISDBVALISDVGDYVG

#im on fucking cloud 9 #the SMILE on his face #it means so much to me #he's been sick for quite a long time now and is always tired and looks dull #i had barley been able to have any conversations with him b/c i felt like i would be bothering him #but thank god that was not the case #he was smiling ear to ear #it meant so much to b/c he taught me math in like 6-7 grade as well as last year in 9th #i owe him all my good grade in maths #im just blabbering now but i just cant stop smiling #desiblr #desi tumblr #studyblr #study tumblr #shitpost #shitposting #idk what else to tag #desi teen #desi academia #desi shit posting #desi tag

[loose-leafstudy]

22:59pm

monday, january 16

hi, i've started school again :) i've been working as a cna, and i enjoy patient care. but i also wanted to use my biology degree. so i'm working towards going for an accelerated nursing program

i'm taking pre-requisites that my bio degree didn’t cover (developmental psych, nutrition, and pathophysiology), and all of the classes are online. it’s been a transition to get back into school while also working. but it’s a new year and i'm trying to be optimistic haha

✿ wishing everyone the best in the new year (over two weeks later!) 

#student #back to school #post graduate #studyblr #lifeblr #trying to study #studying developmental psych #also omg sorry this post basically became a stream of consciousness diary entry #proceed ahead to the rambles #and this is the second time I've learned about freud erikson piaget #but i still struggle to take notes and stay focused haha #listening to glass animals new album #*new as in aug 22 lol #pretty cool noises going on #also in search of a new pfp but idk what i want #wow isn't that the story of my life lol #is this a lifeblr or studyblr post? #there needs to be something where it's like shouting into the void and hoping to connect with someone #from abby

[the---hermit]

what's a historical fact or event that you think is super cool and more people should know about and appreciate?

Hello anon! This got briefly lost in my drafts, sorry.

There's so many cool history facts, here you can find the masterlist of my random history fact series (I have not written new posts for this series in a while, but I will get back to them in the future). Some honorable mentions of weird/not talked about historical facts are:

The 1932 emu wars in Australia, in which you guessed it the birds won against the Australian government.

The fact that the Roman emperor Claudius tried to hide when we was about to be crowned because he thought the guards wanted to muder him. This emperor is really interesting because he has always been looked down on. He didn't fit the physical standars of his time and was highly criticized for that, he was old when he got power, but he is also responsable for allowing non-Romans into the senate.

The emperor Hadrian had a major mental/emotional breakdown when his lover Antinoo died. From then on he started dedicating to his lost lover cities, temples, a huge amount of statues, and if I am not wrong he also dedicated a constellation to him.

On the same not of Roman queer history the emperor (or empress) Eliogabalus was trans. She was amab but there's sorces that very clearly state she offered half of the empire to the doctor who could give her a female body.

Jesus wasn't born in the year 0, it's probable he was born around 4 B.C. This is one of the funniest historical fact I know, and very little people know about it. It's all because a monk messed up the calculations. Also the fact that Jesus existed as a human in more or less that time is the only certain thing we know as historans nothing else can be proved because of the lack of certain and unpartial sources.

The iust prime noctis is only one of the many myths we have surrounding the middle ages. It is the right of the landowner to have sex with a woman on the first night of her wedding, if you have seen the movie Braveheart you know what I am talking about. Anyway it's only a myth, and if you think about it it makes sense, do you honestly believe people would not have rebelled against it? The lack of records of such rebellions proves it's only a story.

Witch hunts aren't the highlight of Medieval times. Although there certainly were some witch trials during the middle ages the most violent and the majority of trials were during the Modern era. Violent trials are a thing especially for me late 1400s to the 1600s, although we have trials that go all the way into the 1700s, amd of course there were some during the middle ages.

On the topic of witches (which as you might know is very dear to me) did you know the Italian town of Triora is called the city of witches because of how heavy the trials were in 1587-1589, almost all women of the town were processed as witches.

Not really an historical fact but historical terms that aren't really spoken of are the time periods. They are only a practical tool that helps us difine the past so you have always to keep that in mind, but also we are not living the Modern era, we are living the Contemporary era. The Modern period is usually dated from 1492 (when Columbus found the American continent) to 1815 (when Napoleom was defeated). The Contemporary era starts from 1815 and goes on till today.

I could go on, and I could talk more of some of these topics, these were only the first few things that came to mind!

(Disclamer: I wrote this all thanks to my memory so there could be some details that aren't super precise, but if you find these topics interesting and look more into them you can find lots online)

#sorry it took a whole day to post idk what happened in the process #i might write specific random history facts post on a couple of these but i have not planned yet when i'll get back to it #also thanks for keeping me company anon! #ask #asked #asks #answered #random history fact #random history facts #cris speaks #historyblr #history #history fact #studyblr #mine #the---hermit

[iceblaeze]

Last night I went to the common room because I saw it was empty, and sat down to do part of a past paper. It's a really nice place to sit down and do work. Would be nicer if it weren't pitch black outside though...

#study #studyblr #studying #university #university life #zzz idk what to post? it's just the same type of stuff everyday oh well

[theuglybujo]

My (ADHD) focus/organization strats

Here's some stuff that I've found works, and is working for me this semester! I want to go back and make cute graphics for this but. We'll see.

Doing a reading: Going for less visual clutter (tip: throw everything in a box, a pile behind you, or tucked behind your computer so you can't see it). Just need:

Computer to keep pomodoro timers and use with...

...Overear headphones to (1) block out distractions and (2) give me enough stimulus to stay present. My fav is white noise + the lofi study stream (nothing else fits my brain's requirements of no voices, round not sharp sounds, minor or no fading/switching side-to-side)

Critically, mini notepad for distracting thoughts. Anything that's not the reading (cool websites, chores, people to text, games to try...), write it down, deal with it when you're done. By which point it will probably not feel as important lol

A notebook if the reading is digital, or the reading + stickynotes if it's physical (bc I take notes like this but without the rewriting part usually)

Taking notes: Going for faster & easier writing, reviewing, & remembering

Color code classes and use that color in my headings, boxes (if we watch a video, i'll box my bullets on the video so I can differentiate from the lecture content), and...

...Pictures/diagrams, esp during lecture for Speed. Easier to look at and easier to remember than words.

Color code annotations (underlines/highlights in my notes, or the sticky note colors). I use big point, subpoint, new term / names / etc stuff I'll probably be tested on, and my thoughts/stuff i like

Annotate everything. Add your emotions, reactions, connections, examples, questions, ideas. I give these their own color. They go good in margins. Easier review, better remembering.

Surviving lecture: Thankfully my professors are very engaging this semester but I still use some strats

Fidgets omg. I got over myself and started bringing a fidget spinner and popit to class and it saves my life

Chop up video lectures, this is Prof. Mary Latta's idea she gives us 2-3 shorter video lectures instead of 1 long one. Pomodoro it.

Get involved with people. This is hard and took me years but it's awesome. Complement people and ask questions (stickers they have? their outfit, hair, nails, tattoos? work? major? interest in the class?), because you can (1) get friends/study buddies/people to sit next to, and (2) break the ice to asking for help and getting different perspectives. Hang out a little after/before class, ask for their reactions, examples, ideas. Gush your excitement or confess your confusion to the prof, or overhear someone doing that and jump in if you relate. None of us know 100% what's going on and it feels great to fill the gaps (or validate asking the prof for clarification!)

And important addition, when you get the pomodoro breaks (and before you start), ACTUALLY TAKE A BREAK. Do you need a shower/snack/water. You probably need to stretch. You might even need to move locations or get a different chair or move the light just to shake things up.

#studyblr #adhd #adhd studyblr #adhd student #study tools #idk tags anymore i havent been on tumblr for years #i want to be active on here but idk if i have tIMe #working 20h/week. full-time class. #volunteering at a local school for my education class. #perhaps running the campus childcare center's library. for a bit. #bc i love biting off more than i can chew #but at least it's activities with people this time and not hyperfixation projects alone on my computer #as if thats not what this post was lol uh byee

[eggmeralda]

the secret history literally rewired my brain but my god going through the tag is so annoying LIKE. THE SPAM

#what if i want to see posts about a specific character. impossible #bc every secret history post is tagged as Every Character + the obligatory hashtah dark academia hashtag studyblr hashtag other stuff idk #just let me see those fucked up little characters without a load of aesthetic posts clogging up the tag #ramble

[noisytenant]

i started daily journaling/de facto bullet journaling in may and i've kept it up ever since with at most ~a week downtime. this might be the longest i've held onto one organizational habit. sharing my strategy in case it helps anyone else...

i purposefully bought multi-packs of really cheap crappy ~5x7 lined paperback journals (in my case moleskine, i know they're shit but that's the point) so i wouldn't feel any preciousness toward using them. i can take them anywhere in my bag and i don't care much if they get banged up (though they hold up well). i started numbering and dating them on the front as well.

they're both task journals (to-do lists etc) and personal journals. i scribble anything i want in there. i take notes from conversations and write down peoples' contacts in there. i write entries stating what i did during the day and sometimes i have neurotic breakdowns in there. it's like a boring survival horror diary LOL.

i will say this isn't an effective reflective/introspective journal. it's essentially notetaking on my own life; it isn't the kind of journal to meditate on and reach deep insights about my psyche. that's okay.

i think "journaling" is sometimes touted as a tool for self-expression and deep emotional healing, but that assumes a very particular mindset, approach, and skillset within the writer. personally, i can't think much about how i feel when all i can think about is what i need to do during the day, so the first step in taking better care of myself emotionally is simply equipping myself to get those things done--to free up mental space.

there's also a lot of talk about whether "introspection" as discussed in the modern day is a means of mindfully reflecting your inner experience, or more an attempt to individualistically define and externalize all aspects of yourself so you're an easier customer. i think it can be both, but the point is it isn't a universal good. ...but i digress.

the journal works because i don't try to preemptively filter my thoughts into different locations. oftentimes my feelings+experiences reflect actions/tasks and vice-versa. i don't think i could use a journal that was only to-do lists, or a journal that was only my feelings. but now most of my notable thoughts and experiences are all in one place.

anyways, for the to-do lists, i write one every night as one of the last things i do before the next day.

i rarely get everything on the list done, but i don't necessarily need to (consider adding ABC(DE) prioritization labels; i do this mentally). what i take from bullet journaling is that i reference the previous to-do list (and sometimes go a few lists back) and copy over relevant tasks while allowing myself to leave things unfinished and to drop tasks completely. if i do something i didn't plan on my list, i add it and immediately cross it off.

when you notice yourself rewriting the same tasks for several days, usually it's because there's some hidden step you're missing or a subconscious reason you're avoiding it. the art of defining and scoping tasks is a really important skill that i won't get into here, but the point isn't to get frustrated when something keeps getting kicked along--it's to get curious and to try different approaches.

in general, i think a lot of the skill is in striking a balance between what emotionally feels good for you (what triggers a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment, what makes you feel insecure and demotivated) and what you need on a technical level to maintain progress. for example, you want to balance setting manageable task scopes with not overwhelming yourself. you want to celebrate the little things without feeling like you're fluffing up your list with inconsequential tasks. you want to figure out how much work you need to frontload without making the act of task-writing itself a chore. and you'll definitely need to plan for your practices to evolve based on your current needs.

something my friend told me when getting started is to start a to-do list with a box that says "make a to-do list" so you always have one thing checked off from the start LOL. i think trying little tricks like that helps you test the waters of what feels good for you.

if i were to add anything to my practice, i'd like to get into making a monthly backlog like what the original bullet journal guy suggested (IIRC), where i've recorded every task for the month in one page and i can review what hasn't been done by the end. sometimes i drop something because it can't be a priority for the next 1-3 days and then have to circle back, and it might be easier to do that if i referenced a more clean-cut page. but i can be neurotic about page space allocation so i've held off. maybe i'll start it this month o'december...

but yeah. it's kind of crazy to have been doing this for this long, and though i'm still often struggling with executive dysfunction, i feel it's borne some tangible benefits and generally has made me feel a lot more in control of my life during a difficult time. hope you can find something that works for you as well. smiles :)

#indexed post #long post / #this is like not super well worded for sharing but it is cool to reblog if it helps you. i might reword and put on #external neocities blog when i get that done (ETA 2025 lol) #I wonder what those studyblr people are up to i never rly got into that stuff because i uh... didnt study much #but i feel like we have an affinity. idk. i associate studyblr with aestheticized notetaking and stationery but thats a false impression #for the record each journal covers abt a span of 0.8-1.25months but ymmv

[younglibrariansworld]

hello, i'm emme ★ (she/her)

i'm really not sure where i'm going with this blog, but follow to embark with me into the unknown :)

i'm into

books

crochet

writing

language learning (korean, japanese and french)

productivity

blog about witchcraft: @witchinthemaking

i like

both coffee and tea ☕

dark and light academia aesthetic

fantasy books

CATS

no seriously i love cats 🐾

kpop (stray kids and dreamcatcher mostly)

tv series, c/k-dramas

#aesthetic #moodboard #booknerd #dark academia #light academia #light academic aesthetic #studyblr #studyspo #readingblr #language learning #productivity #writeblr #book aesthetic #new on tumblr #idk what this post is #sorry lol

[namelessdeceased]

PINTEREST ACADEMIA SHIT HELPS MOTIVATION TO STUDY OKAY

if you have crappy stationery like i do go get some good ones that look pretty ie. stabilo highlighters, black gel pens, maybe even glitter pens if you're feeling fancy

pinterest academia moodboards. chaotic college. pretty notes. leaving the country and drinking a soda as you swing your legs over a jetty. waking up at sunrise and running around to your classes. campus by vampire weekend. does that help?

if not get like something along the lines of campus (highlighted in orange up there) and oh yeah, you're gonna cry? by lovejoy i have a playlist of stuff like that and lemon demon it helps a lot

#studyblr #shitpost #idk lmao #idk what this post is

[slasherstudies]

16.05.22 | throwback to the hedging course I attended back in february that started me on my current farm volunteering position!!

had a lot of fun learning to pleach trees into hedging with bill hooks and an axe, as well as discussing different conservation topics with the directors leading the course. I’m super proud of my work on the hedge nd get a little happier every time I walk past it on the farm fields. I rlly can’t wait for the colder seasons to come again so we can do the second half of the hedge once all of the wildlife has moved on for winter!!

(the top two photos are of the trees before and after pleaching, while the bottom two are of the directors showing how to use the tools on some trees with difficult placements - i.e trees clumped together that make angling the tools for a proper cut more awkward)

#studyblr #study #langblr #studying #studyspo #nature #conservation #farm #farm work #farm volunteering #trees #horticulture #agriculture #idk what else to tag this lol #slash posts

[satostudies]

satostudies' bulletin board ‧₊˚✩彡

hello! as a long time tumblr lurker and horrendous student, i thought what better to do than to make a study blog? >:)

about me:

you call me sato! (no real names soz :p)

nineteen, she/her, isfp-t

cancer☉ leo☽ taurus↑

second year uni student

health sciences major

what to expect:

unaesthetic unserious study pics and posts

inconsistent posts

complaining about school LOL

me trying to study when idk how to study (i just wanna pretend like i'm so academic and shit when i'm the furthest thing from that)

silly personal posts about my interests, etc!

♡'s:

anime! (currently hyperfixated on jjk; my blog name and alias are literally inspired by gojo satoru LMAO)

cats :3

little treats to get me thru the day (sweets/starbucks)

listening to music/singing in the car by myself

THE SIMS 4

thank you for reading, have a good day! (˵ •̀ ᴗ - ˵ ) ✧˖°.

#lets be moots #studyblr intro post #studyblr #stemblr #idk what else to tag #ily

[rongzhi]

Just wanted to say I really really really love what you're doing here. When I was just browsing Tumblr back then when I didn't have an account, I'd always gravitate to your posts. Now that I have one, I enjoy seeing your posts. Now I have one question: how can I passively get better at Chinese? I don't have an intention to learn Chinese any time soon however I still want to get better at understanding it, even if it is just basic vocab. Any tips?

If you're a heritage speaker, I would seriously say to just go on Chinese social media/watch dramas/immerse yourself. I'm not a langblr/studyblr and I don't really actively study Chinese but since I had foundational/instinctive understanding of the language, I personally improved really quickly after I started engaging with more content. My listening ability is still far greater than my reading ability but honestly my Chinese literacy used to be practically nonexistent and now I can read ~HSK 5 (idk exactly since again, I don't actively study).

If you don't know any Chinese at all, I don't really know what to say because I feel like it's unlikely you'll magically be able to recognise words beyond the most common forms of address, pronouns, exclamations, modal particles, etc, unless you're a language learning genius. For example, what I mentioned is essentially how much Korean I can understand from years of watching kdramas/variety and just reading subtitles.

Chinese grammar/sentence structure is not the same as in English so if you only know English, you'll have an even harder time at recognising patterns and passively picking up anything I imagine.

Another thing to take into account is that there are four tones in Mandarin Chinese which will give homophones different meanings.

For example, even without reading the characters, listen to the different tones in this post below. Although the focus here is specifically on characters that also have different definitions/tonal readings, if you listen carefully, you can hear that they are read with different tones, which gives them a different meaning immediately and does not sound all that confusing to the trained ear. This is different from, for example, "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" which honestly still doesn't make that much sense even if you read it with inflection (imo).

If you don't study or know a bit of Chinese, you might not be able to distinguish tones which might lead you to think you recognise a sound when in fact you've misidentified it.

That said, to try and actually answer your question, I guess I could just reiterate that the best way to get better at passively understanding Chinese is to just watch more subtitled content? That way, you might be able to pick up on patterns.

Of course, the pitfalls of this would be that some subtitled content (even of dramas, such as—notoriously—ones streaming on iQiyi) is not good/leaves out a lot. Also, you'll probably not be able to understand or recognise any regional accents.

Some examples of patterns to look out for:

A sentence that ends in the sound "ne" （呢） or a neutral "ma" (吗）is most likely (but not always!) a question.

A sentence that ends in the neutral sound "ba" (吧）is a suggestion or may indicate a sense of obviousness.

The sound "ta" (他/她/它/TA) is usually referring to someone else "he/she/it/they".

"men" (们；sounds like "min") added after the sound "wo" (我; I), "ni" (你; you), "ta" (他/她/它/TA) makes it plural ("we", "you all", "them"). This is also true for any other person-noun. There is no English equivalent for this character so it is hard to translate in some instances. For example, if someone adds "们" to a noun for comedic effect, like in the phrase "小baby们", this joke can't really be translated. But it sounds funny in Chinese.

"na ge" and "nei ge" (sounds like "nay guh") (那个）means "that".

"zhe ge" and "zhei ge" (sounds like "jay guh")(这个） means “this”. Also the same without the "ge" (个）sound attached.

I also don't always translate forms of address (i.e, honorifics) on my videos, so the most common to remember are:

"xiongdi" (兄弟), pronounced "shyohng-dee", means anything from "brothers", "brother", "bro", or "dude".

"Ge"/"gege" (哥哥) means "older brother" but is also what you would call a man, especially a young man, who's older than you. If the age gap is wider, then you would call them "shushu" (叔叔；uncle) or “yeye"（爷 ; grandpa). The main difference between "gege" and "ge" is that "gege" is a little bit cutesier; kids usually say it, or you would say it to your blood older brother, or you might say it to be flirtatious. There are a lot of nuances to this that I won't get into here or for the following terms.

"jiejie"/“jie" (姐姐) means "older sister" but is also what you would call a woman, especially a young woman, who's older than you. If the age gap is wider, then you would call them "ayi" (阿姨; auntie) . If it's a visibly old woman, then you can call them "nainai" （奶奶；grandma), but it's usually more polite to call a woman "ayi" or better yet "jie"/"jiejie".

"didi"（弟弟) = little brother

"meimei" (妹妹) = little sister

"da-ge" (大哥) = literally "big older brother" but it means more like "boss", as in, of a gang or social circle. You might also see "da-ge" being used ironically among friends.

"shuai-ge" (帅哥) = "handsome guy", "handsome"; a polite form of address for (esp. young) men. "Xiao-ge" (小哥; "little big brother") is also a polite form of address for young men, but it's more of a regional usage (such as in Sichuan).

"xiao-jie" (小姐) and "mei-nv"/“mei-nü” (美女)= lit. "little big sister", "pretty lady"; a polite form of address for women that's pretty much like "miss". "Xiao-jie" also means "prostitute" sometimes but in the context of the videos I translate it's always just like "little miss" or whatever. "Xiao-mei"/"mei-zi" (小妹; "little little sister"; 妹子； "little sister"/"girl") are also forms of address for young women but, again, regional (such as in Sichuan lol).

"lao-gong" (老公) = husband

"lao-po"/"xi-fu ( r )" (pr. "she-fu") (老婆/媳妇（儿)) = wife

"lao-ban" (老板） = shop keeper / manager / boss

"xiansheng" (pr. "shyan sheng") (先生) = mister

I think that's pretty much all the common ones that show up.

Idk if this was helpful lol but I guess I should at least write out some of the honorifics since I tend not to explain what they mean in the translated videos anymore.

Truly, though, I don't think the average listener is likely to have any way of passively picking up that much of a new language without at some point doing some research/studying.

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