#reasons for studying languages

[uncanny-tranny]

What I think is so important to learning how to truly appreciate life is learning how to appreciate the creatures and things we've categorized as "disgusting" or "gross."

When I learned to appreciate wasps, I realized how much they just... don't really care about anything, and they're not trying to be an asshole because they're uniquely cruel. If they have any wants, it is to live. Why would I punish that when I also want to live?

This isn't to say you need to fall in love with the creepy crawlies that stalk this world or to love what you cannot, but to recognize that in their arrangement of atoms, they are trying to persevere, and in the end... aren't we all?

#positivity #bugs tw #this is why i think science is a love language btw #learning to love and appreciate through study is still love and appreciation #i've always been fine with bugs which might make this ring hollow to somebody with a phobia #and this isn't saying that people who are phobic of bugs are Evil or dumb (quite the opposite- humans are Good at fearing things) #what this is saying is find something you don't appreciate and learn about why you should appreciate it - for whatever reason #i learned to stop being neutral about bugs when i learned how cool they are - how they live! #i stopped being neutral about this planet when i learned how ancient it is! #i stopped being neutral about humans when i learned about how we lived and survived and loved! #i stopped being neutral about these things because i started to love them because i saw just how intricate EVERYTHING is #when you learn to see things through an appreciative lens you sometimes direct that viewpoint inward #so now instead of viewing myself as outside the universe i see myself and every little bug as PART of the universe #i stopped believing that i almost... wasn't worthy of being Part of Nature when i realized just how big everything is in the scale of it al #you should see my google searches omfg #everything is an argument and boy does this world have the ability to argue so well

[bisan-is-trying]

Pros of reading something (anything!) in a foreign language when none of your family members knows it: you don’t have to hide the thing you're reading when they walk behind you, you could be reading the most embarrassing stuff and no one will know!!!

#learning languages #langblr #ive been reading really cringy stuff lately #but my family doesnt know hebrewww #new reason to learn foreign languages: you can be as weird and cringy as you want and you will still look cool #because you're reading something they cant #are u reading the news or some random fic? are you catering to that specific hyperfixation or studying? who knows? certainly not them

[avephelis]

you know what you guys can have some early design exploration for a hypothetical tmnt iteration. as a treat.

#my ass does not have a name for this ill come back to tag it when i do #tmnt iteration #avepharts #posting this now because if BEAN CAN SO CAN I i can be brave sometimes #BASICALLY i want to develop this further BUT! i need to consume more tmnt iterations FIRST so i have a wider scope of influence #i have the core character dynamics/traits and mikey + donnie's designs worked out though #also want to think a bit more about style because i really want a punk/grunge collage influence but id need to do like #style and background studies and fake screenshots to figure it out proper #i really like strong shape language and the peanuts dot eyes though #um yeah if anyone has questions fire away i might have answers? maybe? #oh the reason theres more donnies than mikeys here is that i had mikey's relatively sorted already

[studies-in-the-art-of-deduction]

Deduction Tips #16

The size of a bag is indicative of how much a person needs to carry, and usually we prefer to carry less things. When you see someone with a bag (be it a backpack, a purse, or anything else) think about why this person needs a bigger one rather than a smaller one, and what that says about the contents of the bag and the situation of the person carrying it

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[wariocompany]

More questions because I'm chatty tonight. You can have one relatively mundane item from your life preserved exceptionally well and rediscovered by historians a thousand years later. What do you want it to be?

#I feel like the most obvious choice for me would be my diary #But I think it might be a hastle for historians because it chances languages frequently for no reason #Studying 21st century English in the future might be hard enough you gotta add 21st century French Japanese Hungarian fucking everything #But I think it paints a good image of the average bloke's emotions #Alternatively my cortex mug #because it's just funy

[sysig]

Handplates and haircut and more Handplates after that (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Sans #Phases of reading Handplates: Haircut edition #Lol #Started rereading before the haircut and finished after! #It took about four days - same as my original run on reading Vargas! Huh - which was only one over my projection #I say ''about'' because I did take a fifth day and catch up on all the solo Handplates images as well #All the ones in the main gallery were read along with the main comics tho lol they're important context! #Really I just couldn't read Gaster's ''tear a paper perfectly in half'' without the followup lol #I am planning a full reread sometime in the future but probably not for a while lol - need to simmer #But I know there's even more context than just the DA galleries! Like the QnAs!! Wanna read Everything in order lol #But for now I'm just happy to have finally read the whole main comic (and all the solo pieces on DA lol) #It really is a beautiful piece of work ♥ More context is not the only reason I want to reread! #I have a few things in my notes I wrote for my future self to look out for on rereads lol #Want to study more! Look at the visual language ♥ There's just so many lovely things #Oh yeah! Does anyone remember my tears rating system? X/5 💧? #Well Handplates scores at 💧💧💧💧! :D A very good crying score! #Several scenes that reliably make me cry <3 Yes I have gone back and cried multiple times to them lol #It's important data! <Said not at all similarly to any particular scientist at all (lol) #I did actually find myself empathizing with Gaster wanting to study Papyrus' and Sans' glitch abilities - and thinking about intent to harm #The data collection isn't the problem it's all the everything about how and why he was collecting the data in the first place #Being someone who also collects data as a way to make sense of and not be overwhelmed by - well anything and everything lol #Sans calling him out was really interesting to me! Obviously he deserves to be called out lol but That Particular Action wasn't The Problem #Now if he could just use his coping mechanism in a positive helpful way lol #Anyway lol the images in the post that I'm rambling on pfft - as I mentioned I broke out my colour cube :) #Both of them but I've only really been playing with my 2x2 - I reviewed my notes and remembered! #The haircut really does feel nice ahh <3 I just feel more me in short hair :) #And I really did hurt my hand from drawing too much lol I guess three full pages in one day was asking a lot

[amateur-deductions]

When it comes to the observation weeks in the training program. Could you elaborate on why we shouldn’t deduce then? Is it only about the time when we are doing the exercises?

Hello! great question, i gotta say i didn't write that program, but i did follow it, so i can only give you an answer based on my experience with it and with deduction as a whole. Unfortunately L isn't available to give you the original reason, but if i get in contact with them i'll make a post with their answer.

So, there's this quote from Sherlock which sums up the reasoning behind this very clearly:

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

During this stage of the program it is assumed you're coming into deduction as a complete beginner, and therefore that you haven't honed your observation skills yet. This means you'll inevitably be at a point where if you try to deduce you'll be doing so while missing a large amount of information, and fall into the trap of not knowing you're missing information and trying to work with what you have, which leads to often taking big leaps in reasoning to reach conclusions, because you don't have enough data to work with.

This is also why when i teach people i make sure they're at an acceptable level in their observation skills before i move onto other stuff. Later on in the process you learn how to make the most out of a situation where you have little to no information to deduce from. But that's a bit too complicated for a beginner, so it's important that they don't try to deduce until they have a solid grasp on what information they can gather

Aditionally, the training program, as incomplete as it may be, attempts to separate the process of learning deduction into manageable chunks. That program was written during a time where the community was much bigger and everyone attempting to find some way of learning this skill. Everyone was coming up with solutions to their problems and sharing them in the community, and that program is an attempt to solve the overwhelming feeling that comes with trying to learn a massive skill with multiple possible points of entry. It segments it into manageable, organized chunks for people to have a neat way of getting started with deduction, and one of those chunks is just observation, since it's complex enough of a base skill to have its own section

#deduce #learning deduction #deductionist #deductive reasoning #deduction #sherlock #logic reasoning #observant #observation #profiling #psychology #logic #sherlock holmes #bbc sherlock #sherlock bbc #Sherlockian Deduction #How to think like Sherlock Holmes #study #studyblr #learning #tips #memory #mind palace #microexpressions #criminal minds #the mentalist #house md #elementary #body language #answers

[5eyed]

another yayo just for fun :)

#yayo #i think i may make her an american student to match all the rest of the cast... :) #++ my explanation for why i write them little dialogues in english so far is theyre all immigrants or expats for whom french is a second or #third language so english ended up being their shared language #(klein speaks german english and french - xeres speaks tamazight arabic french and english - soona speaks arabic english and french) #in that order so both soona and klein spoke english before they did french and would have been more comfortable w it #at least when they first all met lol. so thats why they dont speak french among themselves! #i think kleins french is v good for professional reasons but he still prefers english #and possibly selected xeres as a roommate bc she was comfortable speaking english to him lol #maybe for yayo ill make it so that she has 1 french parent and was raised bilingual #so she moved to france for studying bc its cheaper #thatd make sense.. so theres my thoughts on my ocs today :)

[kierensjpnjourney]

tfw youre learning japanese and half of you memorizing hiragana is from reading utaite names and recognizing the particles

#┊♪┊. kieren's rambles #learning japanese #japanese learner #japanese langblr #language study #language learning #langblr #studyblr #utaite #i am so fr #the only reason i know half the hiragana and can distinguish them easily #is from reading utaite names #shoutout to mafumafu #and soraru and uratanuki #carrying my ass through japanese #i have never memorized something so fast

[stardial]

i should do a poll abt which language to learn first…

#the ones i’m most excited to learn r like. arabic greek and mandarin. #arabic is definitely the most relevant given the amount of arabic speaking ppl in sweden #but mandarin is one i already studied a bit in high school so i’ve got the very basics somewhere in my head #romanian is also up there for obvious reasons but i really wnana be annoying and learn another of the eastern romance languages instead #like istro-romanian (500 speakers) or dalmatian (dead since the late 1800s) #but i’ll settle for daco-romanian if it proves too hard. cuz i can already (very) vaguely understand some spoken romanian from exposure #i should learn hungarian too just because. cuz my irl name is at least partially hungarian in origin? #arambles

[haunted-medievalist]

in news from grad life, my supervisor asked me about phd plans today and upon hearing i want to take a few years to do various non-academic things before i start one, immediately produced an application form for a scholarship to study abroad in iceland for a year? like this was not remotely on the radar of what i was planning for next year but tbf i hadn't actually planned that much, and i was initially looking at a master's programme in iceland before i settled on the one i've actually ended up on, so... why not! could be living in iceland this time next year! sometimes niche, half-buried teenage dreams do come true!

#it is a scholarship to study the first year of the BA in icelandic as a second language #and i think after that year you can choose whether to reapply for the scholarship and keep going with the rest of the degree or not #i have other vague post-masters ideas such as enrolling in a 6ish month long creative writing course i've had an eye on for a while #but that is online and could theoretically be done alongside a uni course in icelandic #if anyone following me for whatever reason knows anything about being an international student in iceland i am eager for advice #spending my evening hyping myself up and going down study abroad research rabbit holes #15 y.o. magnus studying a beat-up second-hand icelandic grammar book on their school lunch breaks is thriving rn #oh i am also taking very *very* beginner's icelandic classes at uni alongside my master's this year but it's not certified/accredited #i don't even think the teacher is qualified i'm p sure they just enlisted the first icelandic man they found who happened to be in the city #rambles

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Never forgetting the girl that openly criticized me for studying German when she learned japanese because of the Nazism thing, it's been more than 6 years but I can't forget how confused I felt for a couple minutes

#if only she hadn't known japanese.... like any other language would have worked but it was exactly the language of the country #committing horrors and war crimes during ww2 #i ended up not even replying because my brain was filled with the shit Japan did that was as bad as what the nazist were doing and when #i got over that the message was already gone because others kept talking in the channel #when someone starts studying Japanese for weabo reasons they should be forced to do a crash course ln Japan's history #it's too embarrassing otherwise

[evadingreallife]

#exams #fr jm jorderline panicking #like #im tryina stay very zen about it #but uhmmmm thing is i started studying/revising for this exam like 7 days ago after avoiding the books for a whole year and a half sooo #things have been weird this last year and my drive to study practically nonexistent #last week i got the sudden itch to gut do this exam and let it be done #come what may #but its really awkward trying to cram a year of language learning in a week ofc #its all stuff ive heard before and once even knew along with new stuff #but i dont got the ease yknow #the grammar confidence in sentence structure #the ear #so yknow #its gonna be fun for sure #also im the only examinee today for some reason soo yay me i guess

[studies-in-the-art-of-deduction]

Deduction Tips #13

Don't fall for the trap of thinking there can only be one way to deduce something. A lot of the time the presence of an a physical indicator (for example, bitten nails and skin around them) suggests the presence of a trait (prone to high anxiety levels), but the absence of an indicator doesn't necessarily mean the absence of a trait (no bitten nails and skin doesn't mean no anxiety). There can always be some other thing that points to that trait that you might be missing, be it because you discarded the trait, or because other things that point to it might not be visible at that moment

#deduce #learning deduction #deductionist #deductive reasoning #deduction #sherlock #logic reasoning #observant #observation #profiling #psychology #logic #sherlock holmes #bbc sherlock #sherlock bbc #Sherlockian Deduction #How to think like Sherlock Holmes #study #studyblr #learning #tips #memory #mind palace #microexpressions #criminal minds #the mentalist #house md #elementary #body language

[linguenuvolose]

I applied for a new job today 😩

#don't even know if I want to/feel ready to leave my current job #kinda not honestly #idk I had a lil breakdown a few weeks back and was like what if I did nothing for 6 months? #yeah I was fed up with the rigidness of my job and so jealous of the flexibility of my boyfriend's job #I feel bad leaving my job for me because it's such a perfect fit for my Italian studies #like I managed to find a job where my ''''useless'''' language studies actually are 100% crucial #and idk it just feels ungrateful to myself to leave? #nah idk I don't think I'm done with this job just yet #good thing I think I botched the personal statement of this application jesus #oh well we'll see #like I kinda don't want to get called for an interview so I don't have to mention it to my boss or think about it at all #ughh it's like I know I can get better than what I have but I also do kinda like this job #but also it's probably going to change a lot within this next year for different reasons so that's also something to consider #at least a colleague of mine told me people usually only stay in my post for 1.5-2 years so I feel a bit less bad about wanting to leave #but like where else in Sweden am I going to find a job where I can use Italian as my main working language? #I only see a phd as another option #idk maybe I should start ponder about that instead? #idk man #snicksnack

[ladiemars]

despite literally having a toponymic name myself for some reason i never put together that “du mortain” meant “from mortain” as in the town in france. but then a few weeks ago i got insanely high and my third eye was wide fucking open and i was like “woah mortain is a place in france. that’s so fucking crazy because the normans are from normandy and that’s right by mortain i think…wait.”

not going to lie up until that point i just thought adam had a gay little european last name

#one day scientists will study my mind #but listen. #it’s because the only other language i speak is german and ‘du’ is the singular familair ‘you’ #and for some reason it just never occurred to me until i was seeing god that ‘du’ could mean something else in another language #the wayhaven chronicles #twc #wayhaven #adam du mortain #a du mortain #blight talks