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Language Map of Germany.

by u/Zohaibrayan123

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Toponymic map of Great Britain.

by Steven  Kay

Czytaj dalej

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The most ancient of all Spanish wisdom, passed down from generation to generation from time immemorial: “The word embarazada means pregnant not embarrassed”

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baltics 🤝 finno-ugrics 🤝 slavic languages

hating on articles

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Polish

język : language, tongue

Norwegian

språk : language

mål : language, dialect

tunge : tongue (rarely/poetically also language)

In what languages are the words “tongue” and “language” the same?

Arabic lisan (لِسَان) : tongue, language luga (لُغَة) : tongue, language English tongue : tongue, language language : language idiom : language, language variety Hebrew lashon (לָשׁוֹן) : tongue, language safa (שָׂפָה) : language Italian lingua : tongue, language idioma : language (vernacular) linguaggio : language Spanish lengua : tongue, language idioma : language Swedish tungomål : tongue, language tungo : tongue mål : language språk : language Turkish dil : tongue, language lisan : language

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Things I love about language learning

You learn for yourself, not for school/university/whatever.

You get to know other cultures.

You don't have to feel bad after buying ten new notebooks because you might need them for vocab.

Native speakers support you.

You can listen to Disney songs as much as you want because I HaVe To LiStEn To My tArgET LaNguAgE (I love Disney, okay?)

You feel cool because you talk to yourself in Norwegian in the shower. (I saw a meme about it and yeah, that's me)

You understand some tourists from other countries.

Whenever you understand something you get motivation.

You have an aim.

It's useful.

It's my passion and I won't stop.

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Globe of Poland

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Click HERE for more facts!

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Do you like the rhythm of your life? What would you remove from it, and what would you add to? 😊

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Fun fact: bc I kept forgetting the word "trench" I used to (and probably still will a few times in the future) refer to it as "the perv coat". It resulted in sentences like "god, I need to buy myself a perv coat".

People who send unsolicited genital pics are the modern version of the trenchcoat flashers of old.

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While we are revamping the major website Proper Russian, please, take a look at the updated Useful Link page. I’ve collected a list of resources for Russian learners there – blogs, YouTube channels, free online libraries, applications and more. Now this page also has a list of textbooks and reading books that you can buy on Amazon. Enjoy! 

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The word ‘Mamihlapinatapai’ is thought to be one of the most difficult words to translate. Derived from Yaghan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego, it’s listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the ‘most succinct word,’ and refers to “a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other would initiate something that they both want, but which neither wants to begin.” 

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

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Hi!! Could you perhaps list some blogs/resources focusing mainly on Russian? Thank you! :D

Sure thing, anon! Now I’m not super focused on Russian atm but I’ve managed to scrounge up something for you :)

Free Online Russian-Learning Websites:

http://www.study-languages-online.com/

http://masterrussian.com/

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/

http://www.yesrussian.com/

http://www.russianlessons.net/

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ru/en/Learn-Russian-Online (I’m sure you’re familiar with this one)

Cyrillic Alphabet:

http://masterrussian.com/russian_alphabet.shtml

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm (I absolutely love Omniglot and would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in languages)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKX9RYOX5w (For children, but good for learners as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrSpf8kaqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vWY8YIijY

Russian Keyboard:

http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm (Online Cyrillic keyboard)

http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm (A downloadable phonetic keyboard instead of the Microsoft keyboard that is already formatted in Microsoft computers, the phonetic keyboard is easier to use because Cyrillic letters are placed with the closest roman letter equivalent on an English QWERTY keyboard)

Online Dictionaries:

http://www.rustran.com/

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html

http://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_dictionary.htm

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/ (Reverso is pretty good in my experience)

Immersion:

http://www.bbc.com/russian

http://ria.ru/radio/ 

http://all-radio.ru/

http://www.rususa.com/fun/radio/

http://ru-news.ru/

http://rusnovosti.ru/ (News)

http://www.pravda.ru/ (News)

http://rutube.ru/ (Russian youtube)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33661.Best_Russian_Children_Books (For some beginner’s reading)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYC—L3hwnJHZZGpCaPo2DxiSFwjkYd (The children’s show ‘Masha and the Bear’ in Russian)

Movies in Russian (Click on title to see the wiki page):

Leviathan (2014)

Solaris (1972) 

Stalker (1979)

The Return (2003)

Hard to be a God (2013)

The Mirror (1975)

Russian Ark (2002)

Elena (2011)

Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Battleship Potemkim (1925) 

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

12 (2007)

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

The Thief (1997)

Faust (2011) 

Mongol (2007)

The Fool (2014) 

A Driver for Vera (2004)

Russian Music:

Aria (Heavy metal)

DDT (Rock)

Kino (Post-punk)

Nyusha (Pop, R&b)

Yulia Savicheva (Pop rock)

t.A.T.u (Pop, electronic)

Nautilus Pompilius (Alternative, post-punk)

Russian Novels:

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (BEST)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol)

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Apps - Android specific (Sorry, I don’t have Apple ios so I cannot offer anything there):

Duolingo 

Memrise

Mango Languages (Offers a free trial)

Babbel

Learn & Speak Russian - Mondly

Radio Russia

Learn Russian by Babel Yak

Learn Russian 6,000 Words

Verses of Russian poets

Multitran Russian Dictionary

Tumblr Blogs:

@learn-russian-language

@russiangrammar

@rashn

@gemrussian

@lovsiberianhusky

Haha, this may be more than you were asking for but it was fun to make and I hope that this helps you and anyone else who may be studying Russian!

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JUST IN TIME FOR THE NORWEGIAN ELECTION

Here’s a helpful guide to the main political parties of Norway. Presented as a comic sans powerpoint cause that’s how you do on tumblr I’m told.

I’d name this "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" but there’s already a book called that.

Alternatively “holy crap I can’t believe both the revolutionary socialists and the environmentalists might actually get seats in parliament this year!”

Norwegians, remember to vote!

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The World’s Most Fragile States 2019.

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Hey! I was wondering how everyone on the ISS adjusts to each other’s culture and language. It seems like it might be hard with language barriers and other factors, to live in a confined space with people from another country. Do others try to teach you their language? Does everyone mostly speak English, or do some people speak Russian?

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What are must-see things to see and must-try foods in Norway?

Must-see things and must-visit places in Norway:

Nidarosdomen in Trondheim

Operahuset in Oslo

Vigelandsparken in Oslo

Det kongelige slott in Oslo

Norsk folkemuseum in Oslo

Maihaugen in Lillehammer

Bryggen in Bergen

Nordkapp

Geiranger / Geirangerfjorden

Trollstigen

Lofoten

Atlanterhavsvegen

Preikestolen

Trolltunga

Kjerag

Vøringsfossen

Vesterålen

Senjatrollet

Borgund stavkirke

Vikingskipmuseet

Kon-Tiki-museet

The Zoo in Kristiansand

Tusenfryd

Hunderfossen familiepark

and more!

Must-try foods in Norway:

FårikålLutefiskPinnekjøttSmalahove (never tried this personally, but many says it’s delicious)PotetballSoddLefseSveleand much more!

I wish I could include the pictures for the foods too, but Tumblr wouldn’t let me post this with all the pictures. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this and maybe you want to come to Norway some day :D

(There may be some typos or mistakes in this post, so anyone let me know if there are any and I’ll correct them right away!)