#study spanish with me

[atompalace-official]

learning a few Spanish phrases with Pokémon ✨

#pokemon #eeveelution #sprigatito #Fidough #shiny sylveon #sylveon #espeon #umbreon #scorbunny #sobble #español #atompalace doodles #I’m going to irl paldea today heehee and my phrase study turned into pkmn doodles bc of course it did #yes food phrases are very important to me #I lov spanish food #also obsessed with polite fidough

[jell-o101]

I’m gonna put it out there because my brain cannot contain my excitement for this idea.

First, let me explain.

When I was around…what…6? I was gifted my first ever Gameboy Advance. I only had four games. Hamtaro Ham-Ham Heartbreak (never found all of the ham chats lol), Sonic Advanced (only ever beat the game as Tails because his flying allowed me to swim out of the water when I was drowning), Super Mario World Advanced, and a copy of Super Mario Bros 3 Advanced (gifted to me the day it came out. Never beat it because I kept dying to the sun on world 2 and then lost the copy)

Ok ok. This was my only source of Mario content at the time besides Mario 64, Sunshine, and Mario Party, so 6 year old me thought the “Bros” in the title meant like “friends”. You know? Like “This is my bro!” So little Jell-O here thought Mario and Luigi were friends, not brothers.

But Jell-O, you might ask. They look the same! Surely you weren’t that dumb? You underestimate my stupidity. But at the same time it made sense as to why I thought they weren’t brothers? Peach and Daisy also looked similar to me as a kid, and they weren’t related. So my confusion was justified!

So as a Hispanic child who was bilingual, when I first heard Mario say “Mama Mia,” I concluded that he was Mexican since that phrase also works in Spanish (fun fact, the direct translation of Mama Mia is “Mother of mine”). I should have taken the hint that they were blood related when I also heard Luigi say the same thing every time he died, but my dumb ass was so convinced that they weren’t related that I assume he was Irish because he was GREEN CNLKDWLKCWSNPKSDNKP. Somehow I knew what Ireland was, but not Italy 💀.

With all of this in mind, I wanna make a roommates AU where Mario and Luigi are NOT brothers. Mario is Mexican with a little bit of a potty mouth and Luigi is a superstitious Irishmen who is weary of mushrooms and ghosts (tbh, not that different from canon Luigi)

Just picture a scenario where they both try to gift each other flags of their respective countries, but they confuse both flags for the Italian Flag 😭

Luigi: *staring at the Italian flag that Mario is trying to pass off as the Irish flag* Jesus, Mary, Joseph, Mario, the flag has ORANGE, not RED.

Mario: *staring at the Italian flag that Luigi is trying to pass off as the Mexican flag* What happened to the eagle?

#luigi #mario #Roomates AU #I studied a bit of Irish to make enough jokes for Luigi #Mario stubbing his toe and cursing in Spanish is the funniest shit to me #Luigi’s accent becoming less understandable as he rambles on #and Mario getting confused is also funny to me

[arthursfuckinghat]

I wonder when Javier is going to offhandedly mention how the gang has been pronouncing his last name wrong the entire time he's been with them

#they say it like “escuela” which means school #unless its international then forgive me aha #I'm not fluent in spanish but I held onto it after studying it in school so I find it a bit funny how they pronounce his last name #it would be pronounced like “escue-ya” the double ll usually makes a “ya” sound (unlike welsh thats a v different double ll pronounciation) #“escuella” isn't even a word or a surname in itself funnily enough #javier is just too cool I guess #rdr2 #red dead redemption 2 #mick squeaks #javier escuella

[eyesoftxmorrow]

i'm not rly the type for mcyt stuff, but i think i finally managed to articulate why qsmp in particular just feels so incredibly special to me.

it's the way that the language proficiency of literally everyone involved is slowly evolving the longer they play together. the way that the english speaking players are making an effort to talk to one another in spanish and vice versa. when this thing started i remember hearing from multiple eng povs that they had to lean a lot on the google translate tab (and thats ok!), but something that really excites me is when i see those same eng ccs express how much they want to learn more about speaking spanish bc it's a way that thet can genuinely connect with their fellow players.

it's not even the fact that it's a minecraft smp; that just Happens to be the medium through which we get to watch this unfold. it's the first time, at least to my knowledge, that we're able to watch both the spanish and english-speaking communities bond over a game they love at a level as involved as this. both sides of the community are equally prominent, and more importantly, they're united in a way that i've never really observed in an online space until now. genuinely ive never seen anything like this before and its just really fascinating to see how all the players take on the challenge of building that bridge over something that once was a communication barrier for them. i love language i love cooperative gaming i love humans having fun learning new things from one another

#qsmp #sorry if this is incoherent its 2 am and im having feelings ab this series #as someone who spent their entire college career studying spanish and psychology and communications this smp is like the perfect storm #finally. a social experiment made specifically for me /J #the lore and the eggs and all that are just as entertaining ofc #but i think that the linguistic implications is what really got me invested. ygwim? #huge HUGE props to quackity for putting this smp together man. he really has created something so incredibly special #skip speaks

[notafraidtodissapear]

i dont think i can go 10 minutes without thinking of everlark

i quite literally called my brother and his bf "everlark coded" yesterday

#im insane #everlark is taking over my brain #math? no. katniss and peeta<3 #spanish test? no. katniss and peeta<3 #everlark #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #thg #the hunger games #they make me SICK #“why is ga studies lowkey kinda everlark coded??” -me last year

[segretecose]

i think i'm sooooo good at understanding spanish when it's rioplatense but some of these other accents/dialects........... madre mía ayudame

#girl who has never taken studying spanish seriously and hasn't practised it in years: #why isn't this like super easy to me rn

[capricores]

sagittarius gemini virgo and pisces placements when u tell them they cannot successfully study and become fluent in eight different languages at once

#astrology #sagittarius #pisces #gemini #virgo #me and my sag mercury gemini moon pisces rising and my learning eight billion languages at once.... #ive forced myself to channel my fixed sun energy and just study TWO at a time but its so hard to commit omg #focusing on Japanese as well as my partners native language rn #but I wanna learn my two besties native languages too #but they’re all HARD languages w minimal resources #crying!! #and now I wanna go back to studying Spanish French and Indonesian too #mine

[bookwyrminspiration]

broo fuck me we've gotten to the condicional/imperfecto/pluscuamperfecto in nahuatl and i'm not even confident in them in spanish

#quil's unholy underworld #in the background of the lecture recordings see me frantically googling 'hey what tf is pluscuamperfecto again and when #do we use it?????' #up until now we've been entirely in like. present/past/future #the simple versions #uh ohhhh!!!! for me!!!! #i've never definitevely learned the others #now I have to learn them in a third language with that as my connector ough!!! #pain misery if only i'd bothered to study spanish the past. like 5 months I've been using it multiple times a week

[watermelinoe]

i really think the US should fund spanish lessons starting in elementary school on a national level

#i think the national attitude towards spanish is really embarrassing... #and ok semi-unrelated but the guy i was involved w in college who always wanted to make me feel stupid over every thing #tried to tell me that my spanish minor was a waste of time and not useful #guess what language he studied #german #😐 ok if u never leave the midwest i guess #but he was like no german is the superior language in every way. why would you study spanish there's no point #but he also told me as a linguistics major ''no one uses python'' so really it was just anything *i* studied that had to be silly

[lightningbig]

I know everyone has been talking about the psychology study u could be doing rn with qsmp but can we please talk more about the linguistic study of it bc it's so fucking COOL

#i need to find the post again bc i didnt reblog it but someone was talking about cellbit's name #bc in portuguese they dont generally have consonant sounds like t at the ends of words so the phoneme is different when they say it #which is such a neat thing to learn!!! #and im thinking also about the 'z' sound and the different ways its pronounced in both spanish speaking communities as well #like little things like that are so interesting to me #i want to study this server under a microscope #i wish i was still in school so i could bring this up with my phonetics prof i want to rattle their brain and talk about this #block game #qsmp

[oliwrightofficial]

I saw in one of your tags that Oli went to uni. Do you know more about that?

well I'm so glad you asked, not because I have much info but because the little I do know is from the funniest possible source: his tinder bio from 2020

#among other things we don't know exactly WHEN he went #but I like to think he studied some kind of media/ management stuff #that is relevant to his learning to do tour management #which we know from Louis he was doing #and apparently also spanish! #anyway I thought I was SOOOO funny making an account where I leave Oli but blur Louis #but the man himself was way ahead of me #galaxy brain oli living in the future back in 2020

[truthem]

i posted this on langtwt but no one likes to respond to me there so…

fellows on langblr, does anyone else have the issue of knowing words when they’re spoken/when you read them in your TL, but can’t recall them when you want to use them???

i have this issue with korean and spanish which is my main problem when i go to speak them or when writing (also why i haven’t been blogging in spanish or korean)

is it just a me problem or is it normal???

#languages #langblr #language #bilingual #polyglot #studyblr #study hard #trilingual #just talking #korean #langauge learning #spanish #spanish langblr #korean langblr #learn spanish #learn korean #study korean #study spanish #help a language learner out #please say it isn’t just me #i need help pls

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Bruh it's been such a bad day for Mexicans 😭😭😭

#i talk #Akira Toriyama passing... #A bunch of Spanish streamers being super racist (and yeah fork found in kitchen but the frickin GALL to be so bold and blatant about it... #and then everything going on with Quackity (the racism against him + all the other BS i see every time I make the mistake of opening twt) #Can we please catch a frickin break 😭😭😭 #I still remember when my cousin emailed me and mom #(yeah it was that long ago) #''Hey I'm hanging out with the cast of the Dragon Ball movie rn lol'' #she was in Mexico studying at the time #she's so charasmatic and funny she was just There hanging out with them #frickin wild #I texted her a bit ago to talk about Dragon Ball #I think it's time I watch it

[crimeronan]

writing bilingual characters like "alright. so. i am 100% aware that characterization-wise and emotions-wise and narrative-wise, she'd be speaking spanish here. however. i am Also 100% aware of hOW SHIT MY SPANISH IS-"

#writing bilingual convos in the original fiction project is delightful bc it's a lazy conlang #meaning i get to study irish i get to have a whole document with phonetics n constructs and i'm never wrong #writing camila noceda on the other hand. I CANT GET HER SPANISH WRONG SHE ACTUALLY KNOOOOWSSS THAAAAT #toh #for the tags. i suppose. #once alf corrected my trc fic latin 4 me like years after i wrote it. mark of everlasting friendship there

[dykedvonte]

im here to ask more about fallout PLEASE talk abt raul hes also my favourite and i need to hear more aboht him :3 do u have any hcs ??

HCs are a bit hard cause it’s so hard to create little things for such expansive characters but here are my little things I like to think are real :y

Needed glasses before becoming a ghoul and being old. Regrets not getting them cause it makes repairs slightly harder

He canonically has a big sweet tooth so I feel like he remembers some prewar dessert recipes

Connecting to that he generally knows a lot of prewar recipes and isn’t a bad cook

Gate keeps them tho as most are family recipes or culturally significant and he doesn’t want another faction running around appropriating

As much as he talks about being old and out of practice this guy has a vengeful streak. (Remidner the only reason he didn’t kill all the raiders who burned his house/family is because he had his sister left to protect.)

They slept, he didn’t

Never thought about having kids but is actually pretty good with the ones not scare of ghouls.

Treats the Courier as a surrogate grand kid. Is infinitely better than them at repairing and revolvers and like to act like a cool old guy about it

Think of seeing an old guy riding a Harley.

I like to pair him with Lily not romantically but as in “look at the kids playing, dearie” and Raul’s always amused cause the playing is everyone else fist fighting an entire ant colony that’s trying to steal their food

Not super religious but likes to pray before meals with the group cause it reminds him of his youth with his family at the dinner table

Named his gun after his sister if he becomes a vaquero again and his mechanic shop after his old family ranch.

Can’t fall asleep easy and needs to be on watch due to trauma about not being able to safe his family… twice

Can ride a Brahmin bull like a bucking bronco but insists he’s too old every time (his agility stat is fucking 8 like pop off ig???)

This is all I have cause there so much already there and I just like him :) I tell his to become a vaquero again cause I love his little outfit. Why’d he just have it folded into his pocket???

#like sir that’s a whole cowboy hat whered you keep that #no judgement that just means you can store more #another companion that I gladly run up on cazadores for #they won’t hurt a single hair on my abuelito #I’m taking Spanish in college now so he also helps with that #double win he encourages me to study #fallout #fallout new vegas #raul alfonso tejada #raul tejada #raul fnv #ask #cult of the lamb #cathartic crypt

[da-proti-toku-grem]

my mom found this super detailed online test that helps you find careers that you'd probably like according to your answers (ofc we know that it's just a test and it doesn't mean you have to study what they give you, but i just can't find anything that i like and i'm running out of time, so we were like, why not yk) so, i took the test and after 30 minutes of answering questions you know what i got? biotechnology. the same career that i chose last year and the one i dropped out of in january.

idk if i want to laugh or cry tbh

#i mean it gives you more than one option but this was the one with more compatibility #and the other ones are also a big no for me so... #god idk what to do with my life #and atp i can't help but start thinking (again): did i drop out bc i didn't like the career or bc my mental health is SO bad #i think it's a combination of the the two bc yeah i probably would've enjoyed the few months i did at least a bit more if i wasn't depresse #but i REALLY didn't like it #tho then again i don't know what changed bc it WAS what i wanted and then i got there and i went NOPE almost immediately #and like i know your opinions can change and that is good that i dropped out if i realized that's not my thing #but i can't help but wonder if it is really not my thing or is my brain just not letting me enjoy the things i like? #bc every option i've been looking at to start next year is like... No #i can't find anything i think i might enjoy at least a little bit #i found this university that i gives you the possibility of doing the classes and exams online and everything #and that would be to study 'translation and interpretation' with english & french (& spanish ofc) #and since i'm already bilingual in english & i've a certificate in french (not bilingual but is smth) i would be able to skip some subjects #which is good i guess and i like languages but it's also like the opposite of what i've been doing my whole life bc i studied science in hs #and then again idk if i'll like it or not #and i know i won't know if i like it or not until i try it out and everyone is like 'well if it's not your thing then you drop out again' #which i mean is true i Can but god i don't want to go through all this again i need at least a bit of certainity or i'm gonna go insane #also i've been searching for so long w/o findinf anything that my parents are already saying #'well if you don't want to study you'll have to look for a job' #and if the thought of studying a carreer is already scary #if i have to look for a job rn (there are not many options here if you don't have a degree)...... #the thought itself makes me sick :/ #i just don't know what to do and i'm so fucking tired i just want to curl up in bed and not do anything for at least 2 months #(am i having another existential crisis after that panic attack 3 days ago or did the existential crisis not stop since january?) #(probably sooner) #(i guess we'll never know........) #venting #maca speaks