#tl90days

[huangcha]

TASK 1 - Focus on Grammar

Comparisons in Chinese 

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比字句 bǐ zìjù

A比B+Adjective 

The formula for the comparison is relatively simple. Noun A is more [adjective] than Noun B. Where Noun A is the reference point for comparison. 

今天比昨天热。jīntiān bǐ zuótiān rè

Today is hotter than yesterday 

昨天比今天冷。zuótiān bǐ jīntiān lěng

Yesterday was colder than today. 

你比你爸爸高。nǐ bǐ nǐ bàba gāo

You are taller than your dad. 

Important things to note:

很 cannot be used in the comparison

The adjective cannot be negated using 不

The 比 comparison is used when two things are not the same, thus 一样, cannot be used 

A比B+更Adjective

更 can be added to the formula above, where 更 means “even more”. This sentence structure implies that Noun B is [adjective] however, Noun A is even more so. 

广东话比普通话更难。guǎngdōnghuà bǐ pǔtōnghuà gèng nán

Cantonese is even more difficult than Mandarin. 

老虎比狮子更大。lǎohǔ bǐ shīzǐ gèngdà

Tigers are even bigger than lions. 

俄罗斯的冬天比波兰的(冬天)更冷。Éluósī de dōngtiān bǐ bōlán de (dōngtiān) gèng lěng

Russia’s winters are even colder than Poland’s (winters).

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A有B+Adjective and A没有B+Adjective

Is another form of comparison in Chinese, however the connotation is slightly different. 比 comparison is used when Noun A is more [adjective] than Noun B, whilst 有 comparison is used to state that Noun A is ‘as [adjective] as’ Noun B. 没有 comparison is very similar except it states that  Noun A is ‘not as [adjective] as’ Noun B.

你妈妈有你爸爸的年纪吗？nǐ māma yǒu nǐ bàba de niánjì ma?

Is your mum the same age as your dad?

我妈妈没有我爸爸的年纪。wǒ māma méiyǒu wǒ bàba de niánjì.

My mum is not the same age as my dad.

这本书有那本书贵吗？zhèběn shū yǒu nà běnshū guì ma?

Is this book as expensive as that book? 

这本书有那本书贵。zhèběn shū yǒu nà běnshū guì. 

This book is as expensive as that book. 

A有B+这么+Adjective and A没有B+那么+Adjective

This form of comparison builds on the formula explained above. However, the difference is that this formula compares Noun A to Noun B, where Noun B is a reference point, to compare whether Noun A has reached the state of Noun B. In this instance 这么 means “this” and 那么 means “that”. 

这个橙子有柠檬那么酸。zhège chéngzi yǒu níngméng nàme suān

This orange is as sour as a lemon. 

德国没有法国那么大。déguó méiyǒu fǎguó nàme dà

Germany is not as big as France.

我的车没有他的车这么快。wǒde chē méiyǒu tā de chē zhème kuài

My car is not a fast as his car. 

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This is not an exhaustive list of comparisons in Chinese, I may continue this grammar topic in a future post.  

I used “Chiński - Gramatyka z ćwiczeniami” (a Chinese grammar book in Polish) to deepen my understanding on this topic before making this post. 

#tl90days #langblr year end challenge #language challenge #langblr #lingblr #tongueblr #polyglot #chinese #mandarin #chinese langblr #chinese language #chinese grammar #中文 #汉语 #比 #teatime

[langvillage]

Langblr Gang Presents

Langblr Gang Year End 90 Day Challenge #tl90days

While the year feels unending we can assure you, 2020 will be ending, quite soon actually!

With everything going on this year, studying your target language may have gotten pushed aside. We are inviting you to join us in a 90 day challenge, starting from 2 October 2020 and running till 31 December 2020, to close out the year strong and set a good foundation of learning and progress in your target language into the new year. 

The challenges will be weekly as opposed to daily, but will feature tasks you can complete daily if you are up for it! The goal for these 90 days will be to learn vocab, grammar, culture, and to practice speaking. We know, speaking is the toughest for a lot of us, but we’re all in this together. 

That is all for now! The first weekly challenge will be posted a couple days in advance to accommodate for time zones, so keep your eyes peeled. 

#langblrgang #tl90days #langblr #langblr challenge

[guillemelgat]

Image credit: Vaikom Temple Sreekovil Murals, Sivavkm on Wikimedia

For the tl90days challenge this week, I’m learning about Kerala mural paintings, which are a form of frescoes painted on the walls of South Indian (primarily Kerala) temples depicting scenes from Hindu mythology. Here is some vocabulary related to them, please let me know if you catch mistakes!

കേരളത്തിലെ ചുമർ ചിത്രങ്ങൾ /kēraḷattile cumar citraṅṅaḷ/ - Kerala mural painting

കരിങ്കല്ല് /kariṅkallŭ/ - granite

ചെങ്കല്ല് /ceṅkallŭ/ - laterite

നിർമ്മാണം /nirmmāṇam/ - construction

നിറക്കൂട്ട്‌ /niṛakkūṭṭŭ/ - coloring

ചുവപ്പ്‌ /cuvappŭ/ - red

മഞ്ഞ /mañña/ - yellow

നീല /nīla/ - blue

പച്ച /pacca/ - green

കറുപ്പ്‌ /karuppŭ/ - black

വെള്ള /veḷḷa/ - white

ഹിന്ദുമതം /hindumatam/ - Hinduism

ക്ഷേത്രം /kṣētram/ - temple

കൊട്ടാരം /koṭṭāram/ - palace

#tl90days #this is not a very good list but i was pressed for time #anyways please correct because i didn't super check these! #malayalam #vocab lists #language month #(?) #malayalam:general #malayalam:culture #malayalam:vocab #malayalam:challenge #malayalam:reference #general:culture #general:vocab #general:reference #general:challenge

[endasogiizhik]

Ahaaw niijiidog! I just learned about the #tl90days challenge by @langblrgang and decided to give it a shot. I’m just barely squeaking in for the last day of week 1. 

Challenge A: Read aloud an article

The audio above is me reading a page from the new book Akawe Niwii-tibaajim, a collection of stories by Anishinaabemowin speakers. The story is titled “Gidanishinaabewinikaazowininaan,” meaning “our Anishinaabe names.”

Challenge B: Introduce yourself in your target language

Aaniin gakina awiya, @aanzheni indizhinikaaz, migizi indoodem, gakaabikaang endaayaan. Anishinaabe miinawaa aabitawizhaan indaaw. Niizh ojichaag gaye indayaawaag, gaawiin indikwewisiin gaawiin gaye indininiiwisiin. Ingikinoo’amaagoo noongom gabegikendaasoowigamig, nandagikendamaan ji-gagwe-nitaa-anishinaabemoyaan. Ishkwaa-gikinoo’amaagooyaan omaa niwii-gikinoo’amaage indinwewinan. Maagizha gabegikendaasoowigamigong, maagizhaa ge gaawiin. Gaamashi ingikendanziin  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#langblr #tl90days #langblr challenges #anishinaabemowin #ojibwe #langblr challenge

[chenopodiumlang]

Week five of langblr gang challenge, Wednesday to Sunday.

#langblr #studyblr #icelandic #icelandic language #icelandic langblr #íslenska #tl90days #polyglot #langblr gang #photo #bullet journal #bujo

[learning-to-think]

Target Language 90 days challenge by the @langblrgang

I am a complete beginner in Occitan but I think it'll be nice to see my progress between early October and end of December, so I'll do this in Italian and Occitan :)

Italiano:

Ciao! Mi chiamo Taël. Sono francese, parlo inglese e imparo tedesco, italiano e occitan. Sono diciotto ani. Ho due fratelli, sono la più grande dei figli. Mi piace il teatro e la lecture.

Occitan:

Adishatz! Soi Taël. Èi dietz e uech ans. Appreni l'occitan.

#langblr #occitan langblr #italian langblr #Italian #italiano #occitan #tl90days #langblrgang #langblr challenge #thinking there

[eloquenttoad]

Hallo! Meine name ist Cedar! Ich bin agender. Ich lerne Deutsch und Russisch.

Meine Lieblingsfarbe ist Orange oder Gelb, aber Rot ist auch sehr schön. Ich mag Kunst und Schreiben. Und ich mag Schnee und Regen.

Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber warum nicht teilnehmen? Es ist Übung!

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Hello! My name is Cedar! I am agender. I’m learning German and Russian.

My favorite color is orange or yellow, but red is also very beautiful. I like art and writing. And I like snow and rain.

My German is not very good, but why not participate [in this challenge]? It’s practice!

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This is for the first week of the current Target Language 90 Day challenge (task 2)! The prompt here was to write an introduction.

Advice is much appreciated! I did not know many of the words here so if anything is messed up please let me know! I’m not super great at grammar (in any language, to be honest) so if anyone has tips I would be thankful.

#tl90days #challenges #german langblr #my post

[mediocrelanguagelearner]

Hi!

Langblr gang has made a langblr challenge and I thought I'd give it a shot. Today is the last day of the first week and I read this article and recorded myself, but I'm too scared to share that recording. But the second challenge was to introduce yourself, and even though I did that many times here, I did it again - this time very shortly, talking just about few things, mostly relating to my life now.

Enjoy my short, rambly, probably very incorrect recording and as always, corrections welcome.

Yes it's in Swedish.

#tl90days #langblr #langblr community #moje #my swedish journey #swedish #svenska

[nordic-language-love]

I saw the @langblrgang End of Year Challenge and decided to give it a crack, so here’s my introduction and my article. Corrections/feedback welcome - I have a thick skin and I want to improve so don’t be afraid! (I know the word is ‘delta’ not ‘deltake’, other than that I’ve not really listened to it back, but I’m sure there are plenty of mistakes!)

#langblrgang #tl90days #langblr challenge #learning languages #language blog #langblr #norsk #norwegian #langblr norwegian #learning norwegian #jeg lærer meg norsk #rettelser velkomne

[studyscrasic]

I know I’m a few days late for week one, but I thought it’d be the most beneficial to attempt all the Target Language 90 Days challenges anyways, so here I am playing catch up!

For the first part, here are my introductions in a couple of my target languages:

Gàidhlig:

Halò! Is mise Nate agus tha mi fichead bliadhna ‘s a trì a dh’aois. Tha mi Aimeireaganach agus tha Beurla agam, agus tha mi ag ionnsachadh Gàidhlig, Innis Tìleach, Gearmailtis, agus cànan eile.

Ìslenska:

Halló! Ég er Nate og ég er tuttugu og þriggja ára gömul. Ég er Amerískt og tala ensku, og ég að læra skosk-gélisku, íslensku, þýsku, og annað tungumál.

English translation:

Hello! I’m Nate and I am twenty-three years old. I’m American and speak English, and I am learning Scottish Gaelic, Icelandic, German, and other languages.

For the second part of the challenge, I tried reading an article in Gaelic aloud, which is the audio attached to this post. The one I chose, An Sealgair Mòr agus An Grioglachan, is about constellations, which I thought sounded very interesting and also matched my url. My pronunciation isn’t very good and there was a lot of vocabulary I wasn’t familiar with, but I had fun with it and am looking forward to trying some of the other challenges!

#tl90days #target language challenge #gàidhlig | gaelic #íslenska | icelandic #langblr

[randomstudyblr]

🌱 @langblrgang target language 90 day challenge - Week 1 🌱

Hey, I'm also going to try to complete this challenge during the last weeks of 2020. I really like that it's structured in weeks instead of days, so I have a bit more flexibility when completing the challenges!

🌱 For the first task I read out loud a page of the book I'm reading - not much, but still something.

🌱 Für die zweite Ausgabe, hallo zusammen! Ich heiße Al und will mein Deutsch besseren :) ich habe es für circa 6 Jahren hin und wieder studiert, aber jetzt ziehe ich für zwei Jahre nach Deutschland ein und denke, dass ich mich mehr wohl mit Deutsch machen sollte. Deshalb werde ich dieses Challenge machen hahaha. Über mich, ich werde ein Masterstudium in Molekularbiologie und Biotechnologie in zwei Wochen anfangen. Außerdem studiere ich mein zweites Bachelorstudium in Englischer Sprache gern, aber für mich ist es nicht zu vorrangig. In meinen Freizeit finde ich Sports, Literatur, Theater und Tischspiele nett, und freue ich mich sehr, wenn ich in der Nähe von, Natur bin.

I hope I didn't make too many mistakes, I have to go now! If you spot any, please let me know!!!

#tl90days #langblrgang #target language challenge #mine #text #i typed this while sitting in the car waiting for my friends to arrive #i made up all the declensions #sue me #german

[langvillage]

Target Language 90 Day Challenge: Week One

Week One: 3 Oct - 9 Oct

Welcome to the first 7 days of our 90 days challenge! It’s time to begin, and to make it more manageable, the first couple weeks are going to be simple. Around week 3 it will start to get really fun. Let’s get started!

Challenges:

Read aloud an article

Find something that interests you, like an excerpt from a book you want to read. Try recording yourself, just to listen back to in a few weeks to hear your progress! If you are in the discord group you could also join a voice chat to get feedback.

Introduce yourself in your TL

If you already know how to describe the basics about yourself, get more descriptive: talk about your hobbies, what you are studying, your favorite weather, etc.

Remember, this starts Saturday October 3! If you post about the challenge be sure to use the hashtag. Have fun!

#tl90days #target language challenge #langblrgang

[guillemelgat]

WOTDs in Malayalam

I’m cramming a week worth of Words of the Day into one post for Week 4 of the Target Language 90 Days Challenge. Theese were all words that my dad sent to me when we were doing a WOTD thing, plus the sentences I wrote with them and his corrections, so they should be reasonably correct?? Although he also can’t spell super well so??? Let me know if you see any mistakes.

തണുപ്പ് /taṇuppŭ/ - cold (n.)

അച്ചന് തണുപ്പ് ഉണ്ടൊ? /accanŭ taṇuppŭ uṇṭo/ - Does father have a cold?

ഒന്ന് /onnŭ/ - please*

ഒന്ന് ഇവിടെ വരു /onnŭ iviṭe varu/ - Please come here (polite/formal)

സുഖം /sukham/ - health

എനിക്ക് സുഖം ഇല്ല /enikkŭ sukham illa/ - I am sick (lit. I do not have health)

ഉപ്പ് /uppŭ/ - salt

ഉപ്പ് എനിക്ക് ഇഷ്ടമാണ് /uppŭ enikkŭ iṣṭamāṇŭ/ - I like salt

ഉടനെ /uṭane/ - immediately, at once

ഞാൻ ഉടനെ പറയഞ്ഞില്ല /ñān uṭane paṛayaññilla/ - I did not say it immediately

കുട്ടി /kuṭṭi/ - child (n.), small (adj.)

എന്റെ പൂച്ച കുട്ടിയല്ല /enṛe pūcca kuṭṭiyalla/ - My cat is not small

ഉന്തുക /untuka/ - to push**

അമ്മേ മാലതി എന്നേ ഉന്തി! /ammē mālati ennē unti/ - Mom, Malathi pushed me!

* - also means one, as in the numeral

** - I think this might be my family’s dialect, if other people don’t recognize it that’s probably why, also the sentence may not be spelled 100% correctly

#tl90days #these are very much in a context which none of you have and also half of them make no sense because i was just trying to write #but yes here you go #also i can probably spell better in malayalam than my dad #as in i learned a lot of these in conjunction with the written malayalam so i know how to spell them #and he just sort of sounds it out i think #like he's not illiterate in malayalam but he's not literate either?? #that's contradictory but he falls somewhere on that boundary #and i'm not quite good enough at words to correct some of these #so let me know if you see corrections #language month #vocab lists #malayalam #malayalam:general #malayalam:vocab #malayalam:challenge #general:vocab #general:challenge

[chenopodiumlang]

Langblrgang challenge week 3

Here are the tasks. This is a post about grammar, namely,

cases and prepositions in Icelandic!

1. Overview

Icelandic has four cases: nominative (nefnifall, literallly name-case), accusative (þolfall, withstand-case), dative (þágufall, benefit-case) and genitive (eignarfall, ownership-case). The translations are not 100% accurate in terms of grammar, but I think it is important to have a vague understanding of what the name means!

No preposition takes nominative, like in many other languages, so let’s focus on the other three. Prepositions that govern þólfall and þágufall can be divided in two groups: those which only take this case and those which may take other cases in different contexts. I took the lists of them from Ýmir, which is, by the way, an amazing resource.

2. Þolfall

Here are the prepositions that take only the accusative case:

fyrir ofan, gegnum, kringum, um, umfram, umhverfis.

That’s a lot of ums! In fact, this might help to remember those. If you see um, go for the accusative.

(Note: this doesn’t work 100% of the time. For example, sökum can govern eignarfall.)

3. Þágufall

Again, here’s the list from Ymir:

að, af, andspænis, ásamt, frá, gagnvart, gegnt, handa, hjá, meðfram, mót/móti, nálægt, undan, úr.

I don’t have any tips on remembering them, but maybe you do!

4. Þ vs. Þ

Some prepositions can take both accusative and dative. Here’s the list:

á, eftir, fyrir, í, með, undir, við, yfir.

How does this work? Well, in some situations, the literal meaning of the case’s name might give you an idea. As Ýmir puts it, usually the Accusative is associated with motion or a change of state, while the Dative is associated with situation.

Many of these prepositions are used extremely often, so the rules about them can get quite lengthy. But I will give you an example, just to illustrate the difference:

Ég fer í húsið = I go inside the house. Húsið is in accusative here.

Ég er í húsinu = I am inside the house. Húsinu is in dative here.

4. Eignarfall

As far as I know, there are no prepositions that govern this case specifically. It is just not its main function (as the name suggests, it is most oftenly shows posession). However, here are the prepositions that may govern the genitive case:

án, auk, austan, innan, í stað, meðal, megin, milli/millum, neðan, norðan, ofan, sakir, sunnan, sökum, til, utan, vegna, vestan.

Ýmir has a tip for those: if you see fyrir preceding any of these, you should go for the accusative!

That’s all, folks. Hope this helps someone (and myself) understand Icelandic better!

(where I got the information: Ýmir, Icelandic made easier, my own knowledge)

#tl90days #langblr gang challenge #langblr #studyblr #polyglot #grammar #prepositions #cases #icelandic #icelandic langblr #íslenska #i am in fact so late for this #lmk if there are any mistakes please!

[learning-to-think]

Word of the day: (sat and sun)

Il gatto, i gatti; la gatta, le gatte: the cat (sm, pm, sf, pf)

Ho due gatte! La mia prima gatta si chiama Grisouille, et la seconda si chiama Isabelle.

Il gatto degli miei vicini è chiaro.

La gallina: hen

La gallina canta quando lei depone un uovo. Le galline mangiono tutto.

#thinking there #italian #langblrgang #tl90days #langblr #word of the day #italian langblr

[mediocrelanguagelearner]

TL90days - week 2

Challenge B was to learn a new song in my target language. I haven't completely “learned” this song but I've been listening to it a lot and I've tried singing it with lyrics at least 10 times. I'll keep on learning it!

#tl90days #langblr #swedish #svenska #learning swedish #swedish music