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FLIPANTTTT QUE HAN FET UNA CANÇÓ EN CATALÀ JUNTS

#*incohesive noises* #ho sento però l'amistat pony pisador/longest johns ha fet més per visibilitzar el català que qualsevol acte de l'irl i ho dic amb amor <3 #ho pronuncien fatal però m'és igual <3 que aquest video arribi a més visualitzacions que fucking money man sisplau <33 #potser faré una traducció algun dia d'aquests però ara per ara he de mantenir el meu lloc com a fan número ú del pony a tumblr punt cat #catalan:general #general:music #catalan:music #parlem de tonteries #coses de la terra #Youtube

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Got tagged by @minglana to post the music we have in common, we got bingo! :D

I'll tag @no-passaran, @chatwiththeclouds, @kutyozh, @gwendolynlerman, @girlmaturin, and anyone who sees this list of artists and is excited about it lol

#did not mean to repeat mika whoops #i feel like half of yours are artists who i really want to start actually listening to so i will consider it a to do list #i'm literally doing a presentation on catalan rap/urban music on monday and i think i'm going to use a mushkaa song :') #but yeah definitely need to listen to tribade au d'astí la ronda de boltaña etc #thank you for the tag! #parlem de tonteries #general:music

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He fet uns mems per una classe que al final no els vaig entregar, però crec que aquesta es mereix ser publicat

#eren sobre els dificultats de ser estudiant de català i que ningú et parla en català #però aquest crec que és molt universal i també un mood 24/7 #parlem de tonteries #catalan:general

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Catalan was so right about dugues and it's one of the worst crimes ever committed that it wasn't chosen as the standard form

#WHY would you say 'dues' when you could add a fun little epenthetic 'g' in there #extremely lame 0/10 on that one pompeu #i get that there are reasons and whatever but i don't care #this is a 'dugues' only blog #catalan:general #parlem de tonteries #(for those who are confused: a common non-standard pronunciation of 'dues' (feminine form for 'two') is 'dugues')

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Hi! I just wanted to say thank you so much for your 'Canto per un amic meu' playlist and notes, I listened through it today and it was really fascinating!

Thank you so much, I'm so glad that it's being enjoyed! This message made my day <3

#i know that releasing a thing out into the world means that it's out of my hands #but i had been wondering if anyone had listened to it through/read the notes #so thank you for telling me! i love to hear people's thoughts <3 #asks #parlem de tonteries

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Hey, apologies for disappearing from this blog for a hot minute (I may or may not have, in the span of the past couple weeks, finished finals, graduated university, attempted to move into an apartment, and also gotten covid ahaha) I should now have more time on my hands, and I’m trying to think through things I want to do language-wise, so let me know if there’s an vocabulary or grammar or whatever else posts you want to see! Also I have a couple of message that have definitely been just chilling in my inbox for way too long, so I’m going to try to clean that out 😅 Expect some goal posts at some point because I need to organize my brain after everything that’s been happening, and let me know what you guys would like to see!

#i also owe some people vocab posts from ages ago so maybe i'll try to make those??? #need to figure a way to work on basque and welsh more intensively #i really want to make actual progress on them this year i feel like i'm stalling #and people want me to do the c2 exam next year for catalan 😔 #the c1 went ehh??? not sure what i got but i sure did it #anyways sorry to poof i really want to get back into things though #might make some challenges to feel slightly more motivated #blog meta #parlem de tonteries

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Hello I did just post a vocab list but I realized it was missing like half the words, please pardon the interruption! I have not forgotten about the challenge, life just happened a bit and so I’m trying to get back into it.

#blog meta #parlem de tonteries #posted it and was like wait no i didn't even put different types of shoes #if you see it please don't reblog it thanks!

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Heyo, I’m back! Sorry for the very long break, I definitely needed it but I’m glad to be back. I have a few things to post over the next couple of days, it might take me a bit to get to everything but I will try my best.

#i am actually back i did not in fact leave forever 😅 #it is kind of insane though i feel like i need to recalibrate to using this website again #it was only five months but boy did a lot happen #anyways i will hopefully be doing language-y stuff and posting it here at some point. might be closer to june but we'll see #parlem de tonteries #blog meta

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I’m sorry to be Like This 24/7 but this is your daily reminder that here are valid ways to refer to Catalan:

català (Catalan name)

Catalan (English name)

catalán (Spanish name only)

....and here are not valid ways to refer to Catalan:

catalá

catalán (when speaking English)

Please, I’m begging you, if you want to use the accent MAKE IT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. If you’re writing in English and can’t retain that, I promise it’s okay to use the English-language term (and if you’re writing in Catalan please learn ASAP that á does not exist, there’s only à). Thank you for your time :)

#one day i will get people to stop calling it catalán or catalá #one day #it might take 100 years but i'll do it if it kills me #i'm just so tired of seeing it written wrong #so you know. if i write enough of these eventually word will get out #or at least that's the hope #anyways this has been a psa i'm done now #parlem de tonteries #de les quals no hauriem de parlar pero vaja #catalan:general #(also like addendum but if you've said these before you don't have to feel guilty. this is just a psa) #(like everyone has to learn something for a first time sometime and i promise it's 100% okay) #(but if you do them AFTER seeing this post. then legally i'm required to challenge you to a duel)

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Hey all! So if you remember last year I made this post, and unfortunately for everyone I’m back to do it again :p

What the idea here is, is that every year for the past two years, I’ve tried to keep a running playlist of songs that I get really into over the course of the year, mostly for posteriority’s sake because otherwise I’ll forget them. But it’s also cool because I can use it to get a handle on the linguistic sonoric landscape of my life for the year, and also to see if my perceptions of my music consumption actually match what I’m listening to. So here are the results:

Catalan (40.3% or 93 songs) - This is much higher than I thought, as happened last year, but it is a fair amount less than last year, when it was more than half of the music I listened to.

English (18.2% or 42 songs) - This number went up a horrifying amount, mostly because I went through Mika, traditional folk, and Eurovision phases though. That being said, I’m still disappointed in myself for buckling to the anglophone domination of the music world 😔

Spanish (11.3% or 26 songs) - This was really low and I’m kind of surprised, I literally have no clue why. I know I always think I listen to more music in Spanish than I think I do but this is an eyebrow-raising drop.

Basque (6.5% or 15 songs) - I’m always surprised by how little Basque music I listen to in practice, all the songs are bops that are pulling above their weight and so while the actual number is small, their place in my heart is much larger <3

Galician (4.3% or 10 songs) - I discovered Ezetaerre this year and instantly became very annoying about it, last November and December all I did was listen to Pólvora e Tormenta over and over. Also I’ve been vibing with Tanxugueiras’ new songs which are all bops.

Italian (3.0% or 7 songs) - I mean, Mahmood is eternal, what else can I say. I also went through a Måneskin phase immediately post-Eurovision, as one does (thank you Italian Eurovision entries for half of my music tbh).

Welsh (2.6% or 6 songs) - This went up a bit from last year, but I was surprised it didn’t go up more. I’ve been listening to so much Welsh music, ever since Sŵnami saved us all by coming back with that EP in February. In fact, about 99% of this is just Sŵnami, ngl.

French (2.2% or 5 songs) - Listen. We all make mistakes.

Arabic, (Scottish) Gaelic, Malayalam, and Ukrainian (1.3% or 3 songs) - “Ha’oud” slapped but besides that I’ve calmed down on the Mashrou’ Leila front. I listened to a lot of Julie Fowlis in the winter for absolutely no reason?? hence the Gaelic. For Malayalam I actually found music I like!! I’m very excited about that development. And Ukrainian was all Go_A, the pretty forest cult lady got hold of me I guess.

Romani, Irish, Georgian, Russian, and Portuguese (0.9% or 2 songs) - Romani should probably have been more, idk why I didn’t add the Šaban Bajramović. Irish was from the recs I got on here for the songs game, Portuguese was also from a recommendation, Georgian was songs from the And Then We Danced soundtrack because I’m gay, and Russian was Zemfira my beloved <3 and “Russian Woman” which is a bop.

Tamasheq, Asturian, Breton, Greenlandic, and Hungarian (1 song) - Asturian was from “Veleno” which I am trying to indoctrinate every uQuiz maker into listening to because I feel like if Tumblr as a whole discovered that song it would go feral for it. Breton and Greenlandic were from the ask games, shout out to the people who recommended those songs <3 Tamasheq and Hungarian were me back on my usual BS.

It also stands to add that I went with the language the majority of the song was in, but there were songs with pretty significant portions in (Northern?) Sámi, Albanian, Zulu that I ultimately decided not to count for those languages and instead counted for English. In addition, several of the songs I counted for one language on here also contain significant portions in others of the languages I put on here, so some of these numbers could be shuffled a bit.

If you’re a music listener and have your music in any sort of library, I’m curious to see what the composition of other people’s listening habits are, so please post and @ me if you do it!

#much more diverse listening habits this year and hopefully that only grows #also in hindsight i was godawful at adding things to this list and i should have added a lot more songs #i think the ask game and the playlist making definitely added a lot though #also eurovision ofc but people should still sing more in their languages >:'0 #anyways sorry not sorry :p #it's my blog i can post all the dumb shit i want #general:music #parlem de tonteries

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This Welsh course just called a rotary a “roundabout” and I legitimately would have thought it was the adjective if it wasn’t marked as a noun, how dare they not cater to my New England dialectical needs 😤

#i'm filing for discrimination #jkjk i am just very attached to 'rotary' #it's the only full new england feature i have in my speech #i think roundabout is standard american??? and standard british too possible #idk someone else tell me what you call a circle road intersection #where like instead of going straight or turning you have to go around???? #i only know that rotary is how i call them and very new england specific #general:memes #parlem de tonteries #oh the word is cylchfan in welsh btw

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I had an idea for a somewhat convoluted ask game, I’m kind of unsure if it’ll work but I want to give it a go so here it is:

Send me a language and I’ll reply with a song I know/like in that language! If I can’t name any songs in the language then you have to give me a recommendation to listen to (it’s kind of a game but everyone wins so the stakes are very low).

Anyways, if you feel so inspired, feel free to send me in a language and I’ll do my best to reply!

#you can send me obscure languages but if you can't name a song in them then that's dangerous territory #it's sort of like a memory game but also languages and music and music recommendations in languages so we all win #feel free to reblog if you want asks too! #parlem de tonteries #language music game #<- will be the tag if people want to blacklist

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Hi folks, gonna make some posts here I think?? so let me know if there’s anything you want to see. This is currently the list of things I am Thinking Of Making:

CATALAN (because I finally found my notebook 🎉):

clauses/pronoms febles (probably gonna be a 3 part post)

negative particles/adverbs

pronunciation of the final r

possessive pronouns

train vocab/Tintin vocab/other self-indulgent vocab lists

colors vocab/clothes vocab/farm vocab/music vocab (Very Long but I have started compiling them so)

Judaism vocab??? this one is somewhat tough for me but I did take a ton of notes at the Jewish museum in Girona and I could potentially do it, especially if people let me know what they want to see

vocab from Mirall Trencat

honestly anything people want, especially content for beginners because I could make that pretty easily

BASQUE:

house vocab

animal vocab

describing people vocab (I have notes for like...basic descriptors but also body vocab, clothes vocab, and jobs vocab that I might just throw into one post)

comparatives/superlatives

possibly just going through all the verbs because I forget all my synthetic conjugations and pretty much everything besides the present tense for auxiliaries

cases??? especially with demonstratives

shops/shopping vocab

WELSH:

SSiW Level 2 vocab/grammar if people want it

ABENAKI:

highkey considering remaking the resources post but idk

colors vocab??

garden vocab????

still undecided for most of this

possibly like....a language overview post

MALAYALAM:

think I wanted to do colors at some point??

saying yes and no

This is really just to give you guys an idea of what I *could* post if you’re interested. That being said, it’ll probably take some time to make most of these, so just let me know what you want to see and I’ll try to get it done soonish!

#could have spent the afternoon making an Actual Post but i did this instead ahaha #think i'll try to do some of the grammar/vocab for catalan first #because those have been on the docket for a long time #oh also i have some basque food vocab that i need to post!! i'll do that asap #anyways just system maintenance i love making lists <333 #blog meta #parlem de tonteries

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If anyone has songs they want to see translated from Catalan, I did just make a LyricsTranslate profile so feel free to spam me with requests! I’m trying to make Catalan music more accessible to an English-speaking audience and I figured that would be a better way to do it than just posting things here, and I would love to add any songs that you guys want added.

#i've just been thinking about it for a while because if i was a random person who wanted a translation of a song in catalan #i don't think search engines would direct them to my blog #but hopefully if i post my stuff on lyricstranslate as well then it'll get to the people who need it #anyways i am always happy to take song requests #this is just a music blog i'm not even going to pretend #parlem de tonteries

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An installation at Quebec City Hall, it says Ayonhwentsa’ yawenda’ yäatsih, which means “My land is called language” in Wendat. Quebec City is on Wendat land.

#am mostly just posting this because it's in wendat idk #it's a very small gesture so i'm not going to overexaggerate its importance i just liked the quote #anyways i'm back from my trip head full many thoughts #parlem de tonteries

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So update, I am now taking an Abenaki class in August because of uhhh someone telling me about it and so that’s going to be an interesting plot twist. I’m super excited though, it’s going to be amazing <3

#thanks to the person who messaged me and told me to do it #didn't want to take spots from people but apparently there are lots of spots open and i could pay full price #and this seemed like a fortuitous time to do it because (a) i can spend lots of time on it and (b) i actually have the money #which are two things i will probably never have ever again in my life so like #it might as well be now #plus it's on zoom and making it to the in-person one would be complicated #i'm really excited though #like very nervous but also very excited #i hope i learn a lot! #also heard very exciting things about immersion courses and i'm so glad the language is making a full comeback #i hope it just keeps on growing and gaining speakers because it deserves it <333 #parlem de tonteries #blog meta #(?) i think this is the sort of post i made that tag for but idk #western abenaki:general