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anemone-screams · 4 months

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I just love your language, Iceland ♡

#langblr #icelandic #icelandic language #foreign languages #language learning

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only-when-i-write · 2 years

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Þegar allt sem mig vantaði var allt sem þú varst

when all I needed was all you were

#Himininn er bleikur og blár #fridrik dor #icelandic music #langblr icelandic #icelandic #Friðrik Dór #Spotify

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chiara-klara-claire · 1 year

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funny idioms

My personal selection of idioms collected here and there. my posts - resources masterpost | aesthetic idioms | words with cute literal meaning

Icelandic 🇮🇸

Ég borga bara með reiðufé 🐑💰 - I only pay with an angry sheep: Okay, but I don't have to like it

að taka einhvern í bakaríið 🥯 - to take someone to the bakery: used as a threat, often in sports, when your adversary is about to experience a heavy defeat.

Finnish 🇫🇮 @finnish-sayings

kissanristiäiset 🐱 - a cat’s christening: an unimportant event or holiday

nakki ja muusi 🍲 - in the year sausage and mashed potatoes: long ago

Ilma on kuin linnunmaitoa 🥛🐦- The weather is like bird’s milk: The weather is wonderful.

Hänella ei ole kaikki muumit laksossa - he/she doesn’t have all the moomins in the valley: they’re crazy

Norwegian 🇳🇴 @hazel3017

Nappe seg i løken 🧅 - Yank the onion: a man who masturbates

Høy på pæra 🍐- High on pears: someone who is arrogant (head gets so big it looks like a pear)

Det er helt Texas! : That’s completely Texas! That’s crazy!

Swedish 🇸🇪( @escapenorth-blog )

Den är paj 🥧 - It’s pie. “It doesn’t work.”

du är ute och cyklar! 🚲 - you’re out and riding your bike! “You don’t know what you’re talking about!”

Fårskalle 🐑 💀 - sheep skull ; hissen går inte gela vägen upp- the elevator doesn’t go all the way up: stupid

släng dig i väggen - throw yourself against a wall: take a hike 🌲

Danish 🇩🇰 @vikinglanguage

der er kommunister i lysthuset*- communists are in the funhouse: when someone has their period 🩸🏠

skide grønne grise 🐖 💩 - to shit green pigs: be extremely frightened 😰

gåsevin 🍷🦆– goose wine: Water

pølsetysker 🌭 🇩🇪 – sausage german: a very German German or just a way to call Germans you dislike

ikke helt appelsinfri* 🍊 - not entirely orange-free: drunk 🤠

at tale flydende svensk* 🗣🇸🇪 - to speak Swedish fluently / tale i den store hvide telefon**☎️- talk in the big white telefon / ringe til Ulrik** 📞 : to call Ulrik: to throw up 🤮

at skyde papegøjen 🦜🔫- to shoot the parrot: to have luck

Dutch 🇳🇱

Helaas Pindakaas 🥜 - too bad peanut butter (“peanut cheese”): too bad, which rhymes with pindakaas = 🇩🇪 Schade Marmelade: same as Dutch, but with jam

German 🇩🇪 this post by @for-the-love-of-wolves-studies and this @moami

einen Clown zum Frühstück essen/frühstücken 🤡 🍽️- eating a clown for breakfast: not behaving decently/having bad humor

bekannt wie ein bunter Hund 🐶 🌈 - known as a colorful dog: someone known all over town

fuchsteufelswild 🦊 - fox devil wild: super mad

einen Vogel haben 🐦 - to have a bird: to be crazy

Ich glaub mein Schwein pfeift 🐷 - I think my pig whistles: I think I’m dreaming

die Gurkentruppe 🥒 - cucumber brigade: bunch of bunglers

Durch den Kakao ziehen 🍫- throw someone into chocolate: to make fun of somebody or something, to roast someone

die beleidigte Leberwurst spielen 🌭 - to play the offended liver sausage: being very resentful

Hans Wurst 🌭 - Hans Sausage: name to call a stupid person (both m/f)

jetzt haben wir den Salat 🥗 - now we have the salad: look at this disaster that we now have

jemanden hinwünschen, wo der Pfeffer wächst 🧂 - wish somebody would be where pepper grows: to want somebody to be as far away as possible

nah am Wasser gebaut 💧- built close to the water: someone that is easily moved to tears

italian 🇮🇹

Cascare dal pero 🍐 🌳 - fall from the pear tree - find out about something when you were supposed to know it

Far venire il latte alle ginocchia 🥛- make milk come from one’s knees: being a pain/ annoying,

Andare a rane** 🐸 - go (as) frogs: something like online connection is lagging

fare la figura del cioccolataio 🍫 - make a chocolatier’s impression: to make a fool of yourself, be responsible for embarrassing cockups

Che pizza! 🍕 - What a pizza!: “Nuts!”/ used Wien you are bored or annoyed at something

Essere alla frutta 🍎 🍌 - to be at [the moment of] fruit: when the situation is very bad (meals usually end with eating fruit), to emphasize this some people might say al caff��, al dolce ☕️ 🍰(coffee, dessert time)

Un limone 🍋- a lemon: a make out session

French 🇫🇷 this

Chanter en yaourt - sing in yogurt: singing in gibberish, random sounds pretending to sing in [English]

Poser un lapin 🐇 - to put a rabbit: To stand someone up

Avoir le cafard 🪳 - to have the cockroach: To be depressed

Tomber dans les pommes 🍎🍏 - To fall in the apples: To faint

Donner sa langue au chat 👅 🐈- to give one’s tongue to the cat: I have no idea/I give up. used to say you don’t know about something and are unable to give an answer.

Polish 🇵🇱 @pol-ski this post

można z konie kraść 🐎- you can steal horses with him: a trustworthy person

co ma piernik do wiatracka - what does gingerbread have to do with a windmill: it’s irrelevant

*: apparently not used much but wanted to include them cause they’re hilarious; **: maybe regional/use limited to an area

Thanks for contributions: @dasloddl (de), @tetsunabouquet (nl)

#idioms #funny idioms #food idioms #langblr #language blog #foreign languages #danish #Italian #German #Norwegian #Icelandic #finnish #mine #my lists #most are either animal or food

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chenopodiumlang · 1 year

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No zero days in 2023 langblr challenge

The idea is to spend every day of 2023 engaging in both of my languages (Icelandic and German) every single day. Even if it's just a few minutes on an app or a short video, I have to spend at least a little bit of time with each of my languages. The underlying concept is to force myself to develop some sort of routine.

I will be filling out a google sheet-based heatmap to visualize my progress, which can be found here (you can make a copy!), and I'll post screenshots of it every day, as well as telling what I did that day in both languages!

If you want to participate with me, you can! You don't have to do it for the whole year, you can pick a month or a season or whatever feels right. The tag I'll be using will be #no zero days 2023 langblr. You can tag me in your posts as well, I'm excited to see your progress!

Catch me in January :)

#no zero days 2023 langblr #langblr #studyblr #polyglot #language learning #langblr challenge #no zero days #tongueblr #icelandic #icelandic langblr #íslenska #german #german langblr #deutsch

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gwendolynlerman · 10 months

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Untranslatable words (part 3)

Here are part 1 and part 2. I have also made other posts with untranslatable words in Spanish and German.

Arabic: غرفة [ḡurfa] (the amount of water that can be held in one hand), يقبرن [yaqbirna] (literally “may you bury me”, wishing that a loved one outlives you because of how unbearable life would be without them)

Bantu: mbuki-mvuki (to shed one’s clothing spontaneously and dance naked in celebration)

Dutch: gezellig (cozy, nice, pleasant, sociable), struisvogelpolitiek (literally “ostrich politics”, an evasive style of politics that fails to address problems by either ignoring them or by creating a false sense of security through ineffective measures)

Finnish: poronkusema (the distance a reindeer can comfortably travel before taking a break, around 7.5 kilometers/4.7 miles)

French: feuillemorte (of the color of a faded, dying leaf), l’appel du vide (literally “the call of the void”, the inexplicable draw of the dangerous and unknown future), noceur (someone who goes to sleep late or not at all or one who stays out late to party)

German: Drachenfutter (literally “dragon fodder”, the gift a husband gives a wife when he is trying to make up for bad behaviour), Kabelsalat (literally “cable salat”, cable clutter)

Greek: μεράκι (intense passion)

Hungarian: szimpatikus (nice, likeable)

Japanese: ぼけっと [boketto] (gazing vacantly into the distance without thinking about anything), 風物詩 [fūbutsushi] (the things that evoke memories of a particular season)

Hawaiian: ʻakihi (listening to directions and then walking off and promptly forgetting them)

Hindi: जुगाड़ (jugāṛ) (a process or technique that lessens disorder in one’s life, making it easier to manage or more convenient)

Icelandic: tíma (not being ready to spend time or money on a specific thing despite being able to afford it)

Indonesian: jayus (a joke so terrible and unfunny it can’t help but make you laugh)

Inuktitut: ᐃᒃᑦᓱᐊᕐᐳᒃ [iktsuarpok] (the act of repeatedly going outside to check if someone is coming)

Italian: commuòvere (to move in a heartwarming way)

Malay: pisan zapra (the time needed to eat a banana)

Norwegian: forelsket (the indescribable feeling of euphoria experienced as one begins to fall in love)

Portuguese: nefelibata (literally “cloud-walker”, one who lives in the clouds of their own imagination or dreams or does not obey the conventions of society), saudade (a vague, constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, a nostalgic longing for someone or something loved and then lost)

Russian: разлюбить (razliubit) (to fall out of love)

Sanskrit: कल्प [kalpa] (the passing of time on a grand cosmological scale)

Scottish Gaelic: sgrìob (the peculiar itchiness that settles on the upper lip before taking a sip of whiskey)

Spanish: cotisuelto (someone who insists on wearing their shirt tails untucked)

Swedish: mångata (the roadlike reflection of the moon on the water), smultronställe (literally “place of wild strawberries”, a special place treasured for solace and relaxation, free from stress or sadness), tretår (on its own, “tår” means a cup of coffee and “patår” is the refill of said coffee, so a “tretår” is therefore a second refill)

Tagalog: kilig (to experience shivers and suffer pangs from strong emotions, usually romantically)

Ursu: گویا [goyā] (a transporting suspension of disbelief, an “as-if” that feels like reality), ناز [nāz] (the pride and assurance that comes from knowing one is loved unconditionally)

Wagiman: murr-ma (the act of searching for something in the water with only one’s feet)

Welsh: glas wen (literally “blue smile”, one that is sarcastic or mocking), hiraeth (homesickness, nostalgia, a longing for somewhere one cannot or will not return to)

Yiddish: לופֿטמענטש [luftmentsh] (literally “air person”, someone who is a bit of a dreamer)

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nordic-language-love · 1 year

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having one of those days where i want to start learning another six languages right now and ideally become fluent in all of them immediately

#langblr #those languages are finnish french spanish ukrainian korean and icelandic btw

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language-hyperfixation · 6 months

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Langblr intro~

Hello! - Hallo! - こんにちは! - 안녕하세요!

We're new to this community and wanted to see what it's all about. We've been practicing languages on and off for years but still have a long way to go!

📖 Studying:

German

Japanese

Korean

📖 Previously studied:

Spanish

Mandarin Chinese

Swedish

Sign language

📖 Want to study:

Hindi

Ukranian

Icelandic

Tagalong

🩷 Some info about us! 🩷

Pronouns: They/them

We're plural system and prefer the term "headmates" over alters, plz! Due to being a system we'll be using I/me and we/us interchangably

Hope to move abroad someday ✈️

Wanna become a polyglot but ADHD makes studying hard 💔

Dividers by cafekitsune and saradika

Tschüss!~

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dejablonde · 5 months

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I'm enlisting Tumblr for help expanding a playlist of mine on Spotify.

It's called "No English, Just Vibes" and the only rule is...right there in the title. But right now it's a little heavy on like, three artists in particular, and on just a couple languages.

Here's where you come in! Tell me your favorite songs that aren't in English. While I prefer rock, I'm polyjamorous and will take anything into consideration.

Playlist below for anyone who wants the existing vibes to see what we're working with.

(When I queued this, I didn't realize it would be Wrapped day, so honestly this is perfect, please tell me your songs)

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aro-langblr · 2 years

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really fed up with the realization that I can’t learn every language 🙃

#I wanna eff around with latvian and icelandic soooo badly #and don't @ me but also old prussian #langblr #language

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idiotsquadassembly · 6 months

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Man we can never make up our minds. We wanna learn SO MANY languages but have no motivation for it

We wanna learn:

Spanish

German

Swedish

Chinese

Korean

Japanese

Ukrainian

Hindi

Icelandic

Like plz we wish we could learn all of these but brain says fuck you

And since we're a system we can never make up our minds

#langblr #language learning #Spanish #german #japanese #korean #hindi #swedish #Ukrainian #icelandic #talk talk #- blurry #study #studyblr

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aoscf77 · 1 month

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DAILY LANGUAGE MERGE 3: ICELANDIC - FRENCH

Sample text: Tuws huwmænnes e naisen fria eg igau eð reisn eg droittin. Þils seru dæggir sunsuw eg samvisky eg ssuwd eð starf huwer tuwr æw i anda brað. ---------------------- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

#daily language merge #constructed language #conlang #french language #french langblr #icelandic language #icelandic langblr #lowkey hate this #also sorry for posting this late my mom wouldn’t leave me alone yesterday

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taispinimoragam · 1 year

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Just found out that in Icelandic they call Dermatology (the Icelandic equivalent of) "skin lore" cause they never adopted the Greek and Latin Suffixes and prefixes as heavily as English did and so stuck to the Germanic way if expressing it.

Edit: Apparently this translation is innacurate. I had read this in a book, but apparently it is false. Apologies.

#this is infinitely fascinating to me #also I find the word ''skinlore'' really funny #my dad didn't appreciate this tidbit of information but I know you linguistics freaks on tumblr like me wwill appreciate it #Icelandic #icelandic language #icelandic langblr #germanic languages #Germanic #proto germanic

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langguessr · 11 months

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8 new languages available in the Learning section:

Basque

Danish

Icelandic

Macedonian

Marathi

Norwegian

Occitan

Tagalog

#langblr #language learning #polyglot #learn basque #learn occitan #learn danish #learn icelandic #learn macedonian #learn marathi #learn norwegian #learn tagalog

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chiara-klara-claire · 10 months

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Books I got in May 2023 🇮🇸 🇿🇦 🇳🇱 🇩🇪

#polyglot #language blog #got the Dutch cities one from flea market on king’s day!!#language lover #foreign language #dutch #Netherlands #Afrikaans #Icelandic #mine #language books #langblr #bookblr #how long has it been since the last study-ish photo post #too many social media oh boy

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chenopodiumlang · 9 months

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that feeling when you write a fckn essay of a letter on slowly to someone in your target language and even though oftentimes you have to dumb your wording down because you don't know that many idiomatic expressions yet you still get your point across and can discuss complex topics and Actually Communicate with someone. that feeling

#langblr #guess who wrote 800 words in icelandic #in like an hour and a half #and had FUN doing it #fuck yeah august has started great #i wish everyone who reads this a very same feelinh #feeling #aaaa i love learning

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gwendolynlerman · 1 year

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Languages with the most sounds

Languages have different phonetic inventories. Some languages use more sounds than others. Two sounds are different if they are perceived to constitute two distinct phonemes by native speakers.

Here is a ranking of the most common languages by the number of sounds (phonemes) they use. Diphthongs are not considered because they are merely a combination of vowels that already exist in a language.

Lithuanian: 12 vowels and 47 consonants = 59 sounds

Danish: 32 vowels and 20 consonants = 52 sounds

Hindustani: 11 vowels and 37 consonants = 48 sounds

Welsh: 14 vowels and 31 consonants = 45 sounds

German: 20 vowels and 25 consonants = 45 sounds

Belarusian: 6 vowels and 39 consonants = 45 sounds

Norwegian: 19 vowels and 25 consonants = 44 sounds

Irish: 11 vowels and 33 consonants = 44 sounds

Bulgarian: 8 vowels and 36 consonants = 44 sounds

Hungarian: 14 vowels and 27 consonants = 41 sounds

Ukrainian: 6 vowels and 34 consonants = 40 sounds

Russian: 6 vowels and 34 consonants = 40 sounds

Slovak: 10 vowels and 29 consonants = 39 sounds

Latvian: 12 vowels and 27 consonants = 39 sounds

French: 17 vowels and 22 consonants = 39 sounds

Estonian: 9 vowels and 30 consonants = 39 sounds

Dutch: 16 vowels and 23 consonants = 39 sounds

Icelandic: 16 vowels and 22 consonants = 38 sounds

Portuguese: 14 vowels and 23 consonants = 37 sounds

Polish: 6 vowels and 31 consonants = 37 sounds

Czech: 10 vowels and 27 consonants = 37 sounds

Albanian: 7 vowels and 30 consonants = 37 sounds

English: 12 vowels and 24 consonants = 36 sounds

Catalan: 8 vowels and 28 consonants = 36 sounds

Swedish: 17 vowels and 18 consonants = 35 sounds

Mandarin: 9 vowels and 26 consonants = 35 sounds

Finnish: 16 vowels and 18 consonants = 34 sounds

Arabic: 6 vowels and 28 consonants = 34 sounds

Hausa: 10 vowels and 24 consonants = 34 sounds

Esperanto: 5 vowels and 27 consonants = 32 sounds

Persian: 6 vowels and 26 consonants = 32 sounds

Turkish: 8 vowels and 23 consonants = 31 sounds

Serbo-Croatian: 5 vowels and 25 consonants = 30 sounds

Italian: 7 vowels and 23 consonants = 30 sounds

Basque: 6 vowels and consonants = 30 sounds

Romanian: 7 vowels and 22 consonants = 29 sounds

Galician: 7 vowels and 19 consonants = 26 sounds

Spanish: 5 vowels and 20 consonants = 25 sounds

Greek: 5 vowels and 18 consonants = 23 sounds

Japanese: 5 vowels and 17 consonants = 22 sounds

This is by no means a complete list and is also very Eurocentric, but the source only had information for these languages.

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