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#tumblr polls #langblr #ipaaciir #do you mind if i monologue?

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Hi @ipaaciir !!! I'm your Langblr Secret Santa (@langblrsecretsanta2021), so I thought I'd put together a list of youtube channels related to linguistics and fashion with a few extras thrown in! I hope you enjoy them! <3

(Before you start, I have two songs about language itself for you to listen to: Língua and Meu Bairro, Minha Língua)

Língua - Vidas em Português: This is just a documentary about the Portuguese language and the many places it's spoken that I remember really liking when I had first seen it.

Professor Noslen: He has a ton of videos on a lot of school related topics, but he has specific playlists dedicated to linguistics, here's the one for phonology!

LeveLetras: The channel is dedicated to linguistic theory and I thought it was super helpful for explaining concepts I wasn't quite getting that are a bit more out there.

Museu da Língua Portuguesa: If you're looking for long talks, this channel is perfect, since it goes over a lot of topics related to the Portuguese language. Here's one I particularly enjoyed on pluricentrismo.

MOPC Linguística: This channel gives me sort of a Langfocus vibe, it just gives little overviews of various languages, but I admittedly haven't watched it extensively.

Tus clases de portugués: You might already know this channel! It was really helpful for me when I started learning Portuguese, and the more recent lessons are still helpful even now. It's great for spot-checking your skills.

Descomplicando a Moda: This channel talks about famous fashion figures and brands. I truthfully am not that knowledgeable on fashion history but I believe this channel is more about the history and the industry rather than what to wear.

Blonde Venus: This channel is pretty similar to the other! However, their focus is more on vintage style. Here's a video that could interest you: Como pesquisar a história da moda

Leitura ObrigaHISTÓRIA: This one is a podcast on a ton of different humanities and history topics, and I saw quite a bit of anthropology videos as well! I really like the deep dives into topics like this, so I hope you do too.

A Modista do Desterro: More historical fashion! This one, aside from history, has a ton of tutorials as well! I really liked this video: Moda Feminina no Brasil nos tempos do imperador

feliz natal! <3

#langblrsecretsanta2021 #langblr #pt #pt; listening

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Tagged by the amazing @jesterthepink

rules: tag nine people you want to know better: @iamnotademigodkiller , @nargles-everywere, @orangebug, @prontaentrega, @mutantdilf, @ipaaciir

favourite colours: gray, verde agua, and purple. I have had a special place in my heart for the grey of storms clouds since I was a kid Idk why but that one is my favourite grey ever <3 i'm still pissed of my mom didn't let me have my xv's dress be stormy grey it would've been so awesome

currently reading: De la langue originaraire à la langue de l'autre by Patrick Anderson and Laseldi-Grelis gish thank for the bonus french practice, professor I guess

last song: TremBala by Ana Vilela, my to-go song for when I need something soft but cheerful to remind me life can be good/ I need something to absently sing while working

last series: the BBC Pride and Prejudice serie cause, uh, P&P?

last movie: Oxygène, by I've no idea who. It...did great things to my claustrophobia lmao

sweet, savoury or spicy: S P I C Y. It might make me a walking stereotype but I'm the kinda person that will bite and chunk into ajies putaparió like they are some snack just for the burn. If it's spicy or salty then is good food no matter what <3

craving: hot chocolate, like the whole week :(

currently working on: fuck if i know, babe, fuck if i know

#basic rules of tagging work here: if u don't wanna do it/did it before/ forgot to do it that is fine and I will say nothing #have i ever met the required amount of ppl for this? #probably not #if u see a mistake no u didn't and if u wanna do it even tho u weren't tagged considered urself tagged <3

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tagged by: @ipaaciir thanks! :)) (btw my main blog is @boredperuvianllamas this is my sideblog lol but I just like to reblog stuff on my main and I only really post stuff on here)

rules: tag nine people you want to know better

@portugue @not-used-to-being-normal @elevatedlotus

@lalala-languages @loverboystudyblr @farwestlinguist @cityrat @kara-core and whoeverelse feels like doing it!

favorite colors: green and blue. idk why I just like how they look so like 90% of my wardrobe is some shade of green/blue or black.

currently reading: nothing :( (except webtoons, do those count?), I did read a Ton when I went on vacation tho. Really loved the Not Even Bones and Chaos Walking trilogies, they were fun.

last song: Holiday by Greenday as apart of this playlist I just found on youtube: https://youtu.be/d2bPlEC8LBA

last movie: uhhh can't remember, I think it was a rewatch of Adventures in Babysitting, which is a fun movie from the 80s where a babysitter from the suburbs has to take the kids she's babysitting into the dangers of Chicago.

last series: I just finished Word of Honor. Oh my god, it was So Good. Pls recommend me another Chinese drama bc i need something else to watch.

sweet, savory or spicy: sweeett! i have such a bad sweet tooth. craving: sleep, rip to my nonexistent sleep schedule.

currently working on: uhhh trying to get my shit together before classes start and finishing up my knitting project and studying for the HSK 4 (which I haven't signed up for yet, another thing to do by the time the new semester rolls around). Also trying to figure out how to work out bc I get free gym w/uni so I might as well try to get fit.

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Education system vocab

English - German - (MX) Spanish - (BR) Portuguese

education system - das Bildungssystem - el sistema educativo - o sistema educacional

education - die Ausbildung - la educación - a educação

school - die Schule - la escuela (usually public) / el colegio (usually private) - a escola

preschool - die Vorschule - el preescolar - a pré-escola

elementary school - die Grundschule - la (escuela/educación) primaria - a educação primária

middle school - die Mittelschule - la (escuela/educación) secundaria - a educação secundária

highschool - das Gymnasium / das Abitur (?) - la (escuela/educación) preparatoria / el bachillerato - o ensino médio

college - die Fakultät - la facultad - a faculdade

university - die Universität - la universidad - a universidade

bachelor’s degree - der Abschluss - la licenciatura - o bacharelado

master’s degree - der Magister - la maestría - o mestrado

doctorate (PhD) - die Promotion - el doctorado - o doutorado

postgraduate degree - die Graduiertenausbildung - el posgrado - os estudos de pós-graduação

diploma - das Diplom - el diploma - o diploma

degree - der Abschluss - el título - o diploma

grade report - der Notenspiegel - la boleta de calificaciones - o boletim

grade/mark - die Note - la calificación - a nota

assessment - die Beurteilung - la evaluación - a avaliação

test - die Prüfung - el examen - o teste

certification - die Bescheinigung - la certificación - a certificação

certificate - das Zeugnis - el certificado - o certificado

grade - die Klasse - el grado / el año (escolar/académico) - o grau / a turma / o ano

Any corrections are appreciated! (especially for German)

Call to Revolution and Table of Universal Brotherhood (Science, Labor and Art), by Jose Clemente Orozco (Muralism)

#german vocab #german #spanish vocab #spanish #portuguese vocab #portuguese #vocab #education system vocab #education system #langblr #do you mind if i monologue? #ipaaciir #alt id #id

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german songs recs?

#do you mind if i monologue? #german #langblr #ipaaciir

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Lanbglr reactivation challenge: Day 5

Find a video in your target language and watch it as many times as you need to in order to understand it. Make a post about the video. What was it about? Did you like the video? Was it difficult to understand? Make sure you link the video. Try to write your answers in your target language, but if you can’t that’s okay!

What was it about? It was a day in my life but in German video. The person went to some places, especially to eat food at some restaurants and hang out with friends.

Did you like the video? In general I did. I didn’t like the part with the Tarot cards, I don’t like that kind of stuff. With what I saw idk if I would watch another video of their channel.

Was it difficult to understand? I tried not to read the sub in English, only the German ones. Since I just began my German journey I could only recognize some words but not what they were referring to. I think the day was very cold tho.

#langblr reactivation challenge #langblr #german #ipaaciir #do you mind if i monologue? #esperando las tortillas #Youtube

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Langblr reactivation challenge: Day 6

Look up 3 idioms in your target language and explain what they mean and how you use them in a sentence (with an example!).

Einen Vogel haben

Literal Translation: Have a bird English Meaning: Crazy Er hat einen Vogel. (I selected this one because I recognized all the words)

Alles hat ein Ende, nur eine Wurst hat zwei

Literal translation: Everything has an end. Only a sausage has two English meaning: Nothing lasts forever Mein hund starb. Alles hat ein Ende, nur eine Wurst hat zwei. (I selected this one because I knew some of the words and I found it very funny) (Very sad example, I know)

Das Ei des Kolumbus

Literal translation: The egg of Columbus English meaning: A light bulb moment Die Lösung war das Ei des Kolumbus, ganz einfach. (I selected this one because I recognized all the words)

Please let me know of any mistakes!

#langblr reactivation challenge #langblr #german #german expressions #expressions #german idioms #idioms #esperando las tortillas #ipaaciir

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Langblr reactivation challenge: Day 4

Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people’s lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!

I’ll make a different post for this one, in case a make more than one list.

#langblr reactivation challenge #ipaaciir

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[ID: A four panel comic titled "Yellow", below the title it reads "@ nycktheartist. The comic is yellow with black outline

nyck the artist on instagram

#found this on my drafts #ipaaciir #do you mind if i monologue?

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langblr (re)introduction

¡Hola! Since I started a new language journey, I decided to change my image and do a reintroduction!

Relevant info about me:

Aciir is the name I go by on the internet

(Mexican) Spanish is my native language

I’m in my last semester of my degree (pedagogy)

Main: @ardenenearde

“esperando las tortillas” [waiting for the tortillas] is my queue tag. You know… because you’re in the queue… for the tortillas…

Languages:

I got certified in English level B2 at the end of highschool, but I guess now I’m C1.

I'm currently learning German because I'd like to live and work in Germany or some other country that speaks that language in the future. I'm still on level A0.

I think I’m level A2 transitioning to B1 in Brazilian Portuguese.

LSM (Mexican Sign Language) is something I really want to study but I always find excuses.

I’m interested in minority languages and I also think conlangs are very cool :))

Interests and hobbies:

LINGUISTICS!!! This is something I’ve always loved but never realized until I was in college. And don’t get me wrong, I love my degree and don’t plan to change it, but when I finish, studying linguistics or smth related is definitely a possibility! (ipaaciir comes from IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) and my internet name)

History and anthropology. This is a passion I developed during my first year of college and it’s a class I would love to teach.

I also enjoy embroidery and sewing.

Podcasts. I haven't listened to many episodes this past year but I hope I can this year. Some of my favorites are Lingthusiasm, Field Notes, Linguistics Everyday, Life on Side B, Hablemos Arte, and The Cult of Pedagogy.

Arts and design. I actually wanted to study graphic design before I realized I like education way more.

Job:

I currently work as an online private English teacher. It has helped me a lot to improve my skills and get better at teaching languages.

I want to study a diploma course in the teaching of Spanish as a second language. This is because I want to work as a Spanish teacher here in my country or abroad.

Slowly preparing for an actual job. My goal is to get one in my field by the end of the year.

Some blogs I follow:

@theloveoflanguage

@langsandlit

@etymology-findings

@stepstofluency

@ravenlesslangblr

@aro-langblr

@thatswhywelovegermany

@languageslibrary

@fremder-freund

@lalala-languages

If you know more german (active) blogs I'd love to hear of them (I'm begging)

#langblr intro #langblr #lingblr #studyblr #german #german language #do you mind if i monologue?

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How do I get good grades?

[ID: A banner that reads "Study tips" in all caps in pale green color, with pale yellow background and a geometric pattern in pale green in the corners. End ID].

If there's something I've learned from getting straight A's at school and university is that it's less about what you know and more about what your habits and skills are.

Look, I have this classmate who is always reading advanced books, listening to podcasts, and watching conferences. She knows A LOT. But this adorable person doesn't do homework, when she does, it's late or poorly done. Her comments in class are lacking coherence and her essays are badly referenced. All of this just lower her grades.

So what can she do? How do I get good grades?

[Disclaimer: these tips are based on my own experiences and observations as I study a social science and some of the things that worked for my in high school, I've also helped my classmate but these tips might not apply to you].

1. Strengthen your language four basic skills.

If you study languages you know we have to practice four skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Well, it's not very different for your native language. After all, is with language that we're able to communicate, share ideas and knowledge. You know... like, everything we learn at school (and more).

a. Reading: If you don't know a word, underline it, search the meaning and write it at the margin of the text, on a post it, or in your notebook. Underline main ideas and take notes or write a summary. This will help you not only for better understanding or studying, but also to participate during class. If you need to, read out loud and/or try to explain each paragraph. This is helpful for very complex text. Doing a diagram works too!

b. Writing: Learning how to express our ideas in the written form is... weird. I seriously don't understand why on earth we can't write just like we speak. Why do we must write differently? Is it such a crime? (I mean, I know why, I just find it so interesting and funny). Anyway, must teachers' corrections are like "uSe sYnOnYmS", "bReAk YoUr PaRaGrApHs", "cOnNeCt YoUr IdEaS", "aRgUmEnT mOrE", "UsE aPa CiTaTiOn". So, yeah, follow those comments... I'll try to make a post on how to improve your writing.

c. Listening: Pay. Attention. To. Your. Teacher. I know it's hard, I know some people have a lot of difficulties because of ADHD or other learning disabilities. I can't speak for that, but what works for me is to doodle or embroider, sometimes being on Pinterest works too. Just doing something that requires low cognitive effort while I listen to the teacher keeps me on the class without getting lost in my mind. Even if you didn't do the reading, if you listen to your teacher (and classmates) you'll be able to participate.

d. Speaking. I think many people can imagine how frustrating it is to watch a presentation by your classmates and that they just... don't know how to present?? (it's even more frustrating when you know this people want to become teachers). Practice in the mirror, practice with your pet, practice in the shower, practice everyday. Remember the "explain each paragraph from the reading"? Yeah. When you can explain something it means you understand it. So try to explain everything you learn, everything you understand. Even just chatting with your friends, family, about it. This will also help you to participate in class. The other day a friend of mine just randomly shared her screen and started explaining the bacteria that causes tuberculosis to me... I don't know anything about medicine but I still learned a lot because she knows how to lower her knowledge. Practice. Practice 40hrs a day.

2. Organization.

a. Have a schedule. Set alarms for everything if you must. Look, I forget to eat, literally. I focus so much on what I'm doing that I tell my stomach to stop being annoying and he just... listens to me?? He's like "oh, okay, finish what you're doing and when you're done just tell me and we can go to grab some food". So, I set an alarm to eat, to shower, to have dinner, etc.

b. Color code!! Color coding is my best friend since I was in preschool. Assign a color to each subject. My notebooks or folders are classified by color. My schedule has the corresponding colors. My Trello has tags by color. My folders on the cloud and on my computer have colors. This way I don't mess up things.

c. Agenda. Write all of your assignments (with color code if you can) and everything on an agenda, to-do list, calendar, etc. Whatever works for you, but be conscious of all of your assignments. There was a point when I was in high school that I no longer used the agenda. I would write the homework and never look at it again, I just memorized (by accident) all of my assignments. I seriously don't get how no one noticed I had a big problem called anxiety. Before the modern plague I used a regular week by week agenda and it's what best works for me. I switched to a day by day agenda for a while... A nightmare. Fortnight by fortnight... Anxiety trigger. Now I use Trello since I have to do almost everything on digital.

d. Digital files. You must have well organized digital files on the cloud. I use my color code and my folders go like "university -> semester -> subject". I add a folder for each unit when I have many files. So inside "subject" or inside each "unit" folder I have "readings" and "homework". File names go like "1. Author - Title" for readings and "1. Type of homework (aka essay, diagram, synthesis, etc.) - Author/Title".

3. Discipline

If you don't do what you must when you must... It doesn't work, no matter how organized you are or how smart you are. As I said, my classmate learns a lot outside of school but she doesn't do her homework. I read just the absolute necessary (which I know is not ideal) but I have straight A's. To build habits is complicated, it will be hard but not impossible. Doing a bit is better than nothing. But keep doing stuff.

I have this friend who's very smart but procrastinates a lot, and she still gets straight A's. How? She does things when she needs to. Even 4 hours before the due date but she gets things done because she knows don't completing an assignment will lower her grades.

4. I don't want to do this specific assignment

When I don't find the energy or just want to avoid to do a specific assignment or advance on my projects, I... you're gonna call me nerd and you'll be on the right... I do other homework. Specially on finals. I just don't want to do a certain project and I go "well, what else do I have to do... Okay, this seems easy". And there you got me three days before the important due date with all of my homework for the day after done and the important thing just laying there... BUT, it does help!

That's it for now, I hope they help!

#studyblr #study tips #ipaaciir #college tips #school tips

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Problems, Difficulties and Learnings during the Translation of Scientific Contents for the Interactive Museum "El Rehilete"

The other day I participated in an online congress about innovative educational practices during the pandemic. Each day they talked about a different topic. My main interest from this Congress was Intercultural Education, and today I want to share with you some of my notes. Since sharing all of them would make a very long post, I'll make three different posts.

The first conference was a round table discussion titled "Problemas, dificultades y aprendizajes en la traducción de contenidos científicos en el Museo Interactivo 'El Rehilete'" ["Problems, Difficulties and Learnings during the Translation of Scientific Contents for the Interactive Museum 'El Rehilete'"].

So for context, El Rehilete is an interactive museum for children in the state of Hidalgo, Mexico. Other similar museums in the country are Papalote, Museo del Niño in Mexico City and Trompo Mágico in Jalisco. Their aim is to teach children about multiple sciences by playing.

Mexico is one of the most linguistically diverse countries, with 68 indigenous languages, each with its own variants, besides Spanish. In Hidalgo, around 12.3% of the population speaks an indigenous language. It's for this that the museum wanted to make its contents more accessible. They hired three indigenous women: Irla Elida Vargas del Ángel, speaker of Nahuatl; Lauriana Ñonthe Silis, speaker of Hñähñu (Otomi); and Juana Quirino Santiago, speaker of Tepehua, to translate texts and make recordings for the guided tour in their own indigenous languages. For now, the museum is closed due to the pandemic, but everything is ready for when it opens.

The translators found many difficulties, here I'm going to point out the ones I found more interesting:

The translating job in Mexico is not very valued/appreciated. [Personal note:] In other words, they think it's easy and/or pay too little, and/or they don't see it as relevant.

Some words don't exist in the other language. This might not come as a surprise to some of us. Nevertheless, when we think of this situation, we tend to think about rare or specific words, like "cafuné" from Portuguese or "tsundoku" from Japanese. This was not the case for the translators. Two of them (explicitly) pointed out "dinosaur" as a nonexisting word. In fact, many scientific terms showed the gap in indigenous languages. Therefore, they turned to use loan words.

There's a lack of standardization for indigenous languages. This meant some difficulty for the selection and writing of some words and expressions.

Also, the lack of resources. When you need a word in Spanish or any other majority language, you just go to a dictionary or to a thesaurus to find it. But for indigenous languages, there's not such a thing.

These are just the linguistic difficulties, but Irla Elida Vargas del Ángel, translator for Nahuatl, also mentioned some cultural problems:

We know there are living (animals, plants...) and nonliving things (minerals), but for the Nahuas, everything is alive. How do we deliver this information if it goes against their beliefs?

Also, in the Nahua culture, the wind is a deity, so when talking about wind energy ("energía eólica" in Spanish, from Eolo, the god of wind in Greek mythology), how do we name it without violating the deity, the religion?

For these people, everything is concrete, everything exists. So, what do we do when talking about optical illusions?

The shadow is of great importance to this community. In the Nahua culture, it's believed the shadow is related to ancestral health (as far as I understood, some clarification would be appreciated). At the museum, there's an activity called "Congela tu sombra" ["Freeze your shadow"]. Just... how?

Other reflections made by the translators was that they weren't completely alone for this project, they turned to their elderly to find a way to handle some topics or how to translate some things. That way, the main source is not only the norm of the language (if it even exists) but also your own family and community. They also commented that the translation and interpretation labor requires a lot of preparation since you have to know very well both cultures. Finally, one of them said it's definitely not the same thing to speak and to write, since they also made the guided tours recordings.

This is it for now, later (and I mean, another day) I'll upload the rest of my notes.

#mexican indigenous languages #indigenous languages #nahuatl #otomi #hñähñu #tepehua #mexico #language and culture #translation #spanish #ipaaciir #lingblr #linguistics #indigenous people #langblr #languages #museum #education #esperando las tortillas #multiculturalism

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me normally: i love linguistic diversity, learning about the variants from a language it's so interesting and an enriching experience

me when i hear someone call "tomate" what clearly is a "jitomate": why can't we have a universal language

#i saw a reblog with this formart and i had to do it #for context: #in some parts of mexico #a jitomate is a red tomato #and a tomate is a green tomato #not like green because it's not ready yet but a different kind of tomato #i have understood that the 'ji' in jitomate means red #Spanish #mexico #do you mind if i monologue? #ipaaciir #langblr #linguistics #esperando las tortillas

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Happy International Translation Day!

The role of language professionals

"International Translation Day is meant as an opportunity to pay tribute to the work of language professionals, which plays an important role in bringing nations together, facilitating dialogue, understanding and cooperation, contributing to development and strengthening world peace and security."

"Transposition of a literary or scientific work, including technical work, from one language into another language, professional translation, including translation proper, interpretation and terminology, is indispensable to preserving clarity, a positive climate and productiveness in international public discourse and interpersonal communication."

Why 30 September?

"30 September celebrates the feast of St. Jerome, the Bible translator, who is considered the patron saint of translators."

"St. Jerome was a priest from North-eastern Italy, who is known mostly for his endeavor of translating most of the Bible into Latin from the Greek manuscripts of the New Testament. He also translated parts of the Hebrew Gospel into Greek. He was of Illyrian ancestry and his native tongue was the Illyrian dialect. He learned Latin in school and was fluent in Greek and Hebrew, which he picked up from his studies and travels. Jerome died near Bethlehem on 30 September 420."

#translation #international translation day #st jerome #saint jerome #ipaaciir #esperando las tortillas

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have you ever dreamt with someone you love and it ached so badly because they can hurt you even in your dreams? yeah... here's a playlist for those bittersweet dreams

#not languages #but it does have some songs in spanish #playlist #music #spotify #bastille #arctic monkeys #the kooks #neon trees #dua lipa #the jungle giants #glass animals #san cisco #the 1975 #haim #half alive #saint motel #ipaaciir