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Lakota sioux. does someone knows any websites/has any resources that would help me to learn this language? :3

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Japanese: 貴方のWi-Fi/インターネットパスワードは何ですか。

feel free to correct my mistakes :3

Translate Game: “What is your Wi-Fi/Internet password?”

Translate this into whatever language you are studying. Let’s see how many languages we can translate this into.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFpzeGoP-Kg)

What’s your opinion?

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I just started a Russian course on Babbel on my phone, and since I have changed the language of my phone to Spanish I’m now learning Russian as a Spanish speaker! I didn’t even notice at first which I guess is a good sign that I am quite comfortable in my Spanish.

Oh well, we’ll see how it goes.. at least I’m practising two languages at once!

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THE 26 FUNNIEST EXPRESSIONS IN LITHUANIAN (AND HOW TO USE THEM)

1. A Lithuanian doesn’t have dirty mind, but sometimes he can have very, very “curly thoughts” (garbanotos mintys).

2. Lithuanians don‘t have to understand the meaning of something. They only need to “catch the corner” (pagauti kampą).

3. Lithuanians won’t lie to you. They’ll “hang pasta on the ears” (kabinti makaronus) or “cast a spell on you” (priburti).

4. Lithuanian kids don’t go the toilet. They “go and visit the dwarves” (eiti pas nykštukus).

5. A Lithuanian doesn’t go crazy. His “roof drives away” (stogas nuvažiuoja).

6. In Lithuania, those who don’t close the doors behind them are “born in a trolleybus” (troleibuse gimęs).

7. A Lithuanian doesn’t merely enjoy the view. He “swallows with his eyes” (ryti akimis).

8. A Lithuanian doesn’t ever abandon anyone. He just “leaves somebody on the ice” (palikti ant ledo).

9. A Lithuanian isn’t stubborn, he “shows the goats” (rodyti ožius).

10. A Lithuanian doesn’t get surprised. His “eyeballs pop out of his forehead” (akys ant kaktos iššoko).

11. Nothing is too far away for a Lithuanian. It can only be “nine seas away” (už devynių jūrų).

12. Nothing is too late either, but “spoons may be served after lunch” (šaukštai po pietų).

13. In Lithuania, there are no fights. Just “clarifications of relationships” (aiškintis santykius).

14. A Lithuanian isn’t indifferent. He just can’t “see further than his nose” (toliau nosies nematyti).

15. A Lithuanian may not be very straightforward, but he will never bother “wrapping words in cotton” (nevynioti žodžių į vatą).

16. A Lithuanian won’t give you a lecture. He’ll show you “where the legs grow from” (iš kur kojos dygsta).

17. A Lithuanian won’t ask if you want to grab a beer. He’ll ask if you want some “liquid bread” (skysta duona).

18. A Lithuanian doesn’t get fit. He “rolls the muscles” (užsikočioti raumenis).

19. A Lithuanian girl doesn’t wear a ton of makeup. She “wears a kilo�� of it (kilogramas špakliaus).

20. A Lithuanian doesn’t fail, become useless, or talk crap. He simply “slices a mushroom” (grybą pjauna).

21. A Lithuanian doesn’t have time for a hangover, because he has to take care of his “burning shafts” (šachtos dega).

22. In Lithuania, things don’t happen without a reason. They appear “from the air” (iš oro).

23. In Lithuania, you can‘t instantly spot a fool, but you can always see when a person’s “face is unharmed by intellect.” (intelekto nesužalotu veidu).

24. A Lithuanian never changes his mind. His “fantasy comes off” (atšoko fantazija).

25. Lithuanians don’t date two partners at a time. They “act on two fronts” (varyti dviem frontais).

26. Lithuanians don’t fool around. They “spit and catch” (spjaudyti ir gaudyti).

– by IEVA IVANAUSKAITĖ on MATADORNETWORK.COM

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#lietuvių #kalbos #mokymas #sofios #universitete #ačiū

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Aš mačiau kaip vieną naktį Ant mano lango krito žvaigždės Taip gaiviai žiro fėjų dulkės Ir žvaigždės šoko mėnuliu Nakty ten kur pasaulis švinta Skambėjo amžiaus sutema Ir kas gi laukia kai kas rytą Išnyksta pasakų šviesa Ir kam atskirti tą šešėlį Nuo savo lauko tyrumos Juk visa tai kas greit išnyksta Nebesugrįžta niekados.

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A new project. Let’s see if this one sticks. 📚

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Day 1// I got off my ass and started learning Korean (from the Internet, cause why not) I thought I might as well learn how to read and write Hangul at the same time as understanding and speaking~

Anyone here fluent in Korean? I might ask you for help, if you don’t mind. Lol.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4eAqUGBzF8)

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昨日は寝ちゃってごめんね　「きのうはねちゃってごめんね」 “I’m sorry I fell asleep yesterday”

なんで？ “Why?”

あー それはわかってるよw “ lol, I understand that feeling”

タイミングが悪かったね　「タイミングがわるかったね」 “The timing is bad, right?”

That’s what the worst thing about messaging is, you can’t communicate your tone.

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August Polyglot Challenge: Day 17

Chinese, Japanese, Korean.

Today’s task was to learn the differences between Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Luckily, I already can recognise them but I noticed many people can’t so… Here’s probably the stupidest trick ever.

So, let’s begin with Korean.

THIS IS KOREAN:

저는 여자예요 (It should say “I’m a girl” but I can’t be sure since I don’t study Korean *yet*, so if it’s wrong tell me!)

It’s… Impossible to not recognise Korean, guys. You see, every block is composed by two/three smaller “character” which are some of the letters that form the Hangul, the Korean alphabet. Because yes, Korean is based on an alphabet, Chinese and Japanese (this one is a fifty-fifty, we’ll talk about it later) nope. Korean is more roundish(?), we can say, you can distinguish each letter even if you don’t know Hangul. Let’s take the third block: 자It’s composed by ㅈ andㅏ. Easy, no?

THIS IS CHINESE:

大家好！我是意大利人，学汉语。

(It means: Hello everyone! I’m Italian and study Chinese.)

Chinese characters are much more “rigid” and compact, you won’t see characters like な，ず，グ，わ or み. Nope, not here 🙅🏻 Every character has its own meanings and often multiple readings too. For example this 大: it means “big” (da4), or this 家 (jia1) means “family, house” (it’s also a counter but I won’t explain this, quite long speech). Combining characters together you form words and sentences. The sentence structure is SVO. It’s a tonal language so there are tones you have TO RESPECT in order to say what you want to say and not to say something else (let’s be honest, you don’t want to tell your mum she’s a horse, don’t you?)

THIS IS JAPANESE:

私が赤い林檎を食べた.

(It means: I ate the red apple.)

I know, from a first look it can look very similar to Chinese but look closer. Do you see those little things? が，い，を，べた. These, my fellow learners, are kana. For who doesn’t know, Japanese is based on three (four, if we count the roman alphabet used for transliteration) alphabets: hiragana (ひらがな), katakana (カタカナ) and kanjis (漢字). Hiragana is used for all the Japanese words (ざっし，magazine), Katakana for the transliteration of foreign word (ラジオ， Radio); they have the same syllables but written differently: for example, this な (na) in hiragana and this is always na but in katakana ナ. Got it? Not happy with these, they took some of the Chinese’s characters and replaced part of the world or the utter word in hiragana with the kanji (林檎，Apple in kanji, りんご apple in hiragana). A kanji can have multiple meanings and readings. To mark the subject, the object and others they use particles which will ALWAYS be in hiragana. So, if in a text you see characters like these は，が，で，に… Or the ones I have written before, it’s Japanese, 100% sure.

In conclusion: This is Korean 난 여자예요 This is Chinese 大家好！我是意大利人，学汉语。 This is Japanese 私が赤い林檎を食べた.

Now *I hope* you know the difference! See you tomorrow 😁

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pro tip: want to start studying more? start off by doing a little and then increasing. it makes zero sense to go from studying nothing to everything in a day and all that ends up happening is that you feel discouraged and frustrated for not meeting your goal. start out by doing a little bit every day and increasing each week or every other week! this way you get used to taking time out to study and are ready to increase when you decide to take on more. happy studying!

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To all my language learning friends out there…

In my Spanish classes, I always make sure I teach them what “good (Spanish) learners do”

1. Make mistakes! (they always have open mouths at this one, because it is the first thing I list, and they are actually being told to make mistakes. It’s a new concept for them.)

2. Practice!

3. Take risks!

4. Have fun!

This alleviates a lot of the nervousness, because students don’t like to make mistakes in front of their peers, but if they know that everyone will, they feel more comfortable in the language learning atmosphere. I keep these tips on a poster on my wall the whole year and reference it frequently to remind my kiddos. The first thing you have to do in a language classroom, I think, is make students feel safe and accepted, and then they will be more open to learning a language. Last year was a very successful year for me, and I attribute it to teaching these tips. I also learned that sharing my own language learning journey with my kiddos helps them as well. I was a beginner like you. I learned in school. I practiced, and made millions of mistakes, but I wasn’t afraid to take risks with the language, and because of that I had a lot of fun, and that is why I love languages.

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what do you think is the best way to learn Japanese? and I notice that some sentences have both hiragana and kanji how do I know when to use which?

Ah! This is THE question, Anon!

Honestly, I don’t think exist an infallible method: you’ll learn it in the way that best suits you. Try to find the one that go equally over grammar, vocabulary, listening, writing, speaking and learning Kanjis.

Some advices I can give you are:

-Make a plan. Seriously, it will be more useful than you think and try to stick on it. Writing down what you’ll learn and in how much time will help you to organise your time and not waste it.

-Learn as much vocabulary as you can. Without vocabulary you won’t go anywhere but learn first the “useful” vocabulary: words related to school, work, common situation (at the restaurant, in a shop…) and then the related ones to your hobbies and interests.

-Learn the basic grammar structures. You don’t have to study only grammar but I highly recommend to study first the very basic structures like で，に，から… まで and so on.

-Read. Read, read, read. On this website:

https://chokochoko.wordpress.com/the-great-library/

You’ll find a lot of texts divided by JLPT level. You’ll learn new vocabulary and grammar structures by reading and it’ll give you an idea on how to actually write texts.

-Speak. Find a language partner, Skype, sing along songs you like but speak, please.

For your second question, it’s actually pretty simple: you have to learn words. There’s no other way, I’m deadly serious. Only by learning them you’ll know what has to be written in kanji and what in hiragana. For example: 良い, good. I suggest you to first learn the words in hiragana and then, when you can recall them easily, look up which are the kanjis (if they have kanjis) and practice until you can recognise those kanjis in a text.

I call baroness-of-languages for this, if you have other questions or want the opinion of a by far more expert than me.

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Hello! I'm not sure, if I can talk in German to you, so I write everything in english now haha :D First, I wanted to say, that I like your blog very much!♥ I just found it, but I already love it :) Second, I wanted to ask, if you know some trumble blogs or instagram people who are based on learning russian or japanese hehe :3 Thanl you!♥

Hey! 😄 Du könntest auf Deutsch geschrieben haben, ich hätte ja verstanden 😂Ich kenne eigentlich keine Leute auf Instagram, aber hier sind ein Paar Tumblr Blogs, die dich vielleicht interessieren könnten 😊baroness-of-languagestupaya-devushkalinguisticsyallflersprakig-polyglottefrancais-russei-polyglot-thislanguagestudyblrspraakdellavidapoliglotalithuanianpolyglotlittlelinguaphilemyworldoflanguagespkeoj