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Mr. Bone Spurs Long History Of Disrespect Towards The US Military

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website Resoures:

https://www.cali.org/the-elangdell-bookstore

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Hey guys!

I’m so excited to share this language learning challenge that I created with you!

It’s called Brick-By-Brick Language Learning Challenge and it’s made for anyone who already knows the basics of their target language and wants to improve their knowledge :)

If you participate in this challenge, make sure to use the hashtag #brickbybricklearning and to tag me here on tumblr (@mylinguisticadventures) and on instagram (@mylinguisticadventures). 

That’s it for now. Happy language learning!

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Tigrinya Resources

Memrise

BABADADA

Goethe Verlang

Tigrinya Online

Tigrinya – English Picture Dictionary (PDF)

Tigrinya Lessons | The Habby (Youtube)

Tigrinya Lessons | Betelihem (Youtube)

Tigrinya for beginners in 100 lessons (Youtube)

The Sound of the Tigrinya language (Youtube)

Afro-Asiatic: Semitic: Tigrinya (MEGA)

Tigrinya Keyboard

Omniglot

Library Genesis

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

Wikivoyage

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2+ Months of Language Learning Prompts!

Sometimes it can be tricky to know what to learn if you are teaching yourself a language. Here are some ideas for what you can focus on learning each day for the first two months of learning a new language! I formatted it so there is the general topic for the day and then in parentheses are some ideas to get you started but you can definitely learn a lot more than what I’ve written down! These are just to help generate some ideas!

This definitely would move pretty quickly if you covered all this material in 2 months so you could definitely spend more time on each topic if you need! This would require quite a bit of time each day in order to learn it all. This could totally work for a 4 or 6-month challenge where you spend 2 or 3 days on each of the topics I listed if you don’t have enough time to cover each topic in just one day!

Polite phrases (thank you, please, yes/no, you’re welcome, I’m sorry)

Introductory phrases (hi, my name is, I’m from, I speak, how are you?)

Pronouns (I, you, he, she, they, we)

Basic people vocab (girl, boy, man, woman, person, child)

Basic verbs in present tense (to eat, to drink, to walk, to read, to write, to say)

Sentence structure (how to form some basic sentences)

Negative sentences (I do not __)

Question words (who, what, where, when, why, how, how to form questions)

Numbers (0-20, 30, 40, 50, 100, 1,000, 1,000,000)

Time (hour, minute, half hour, reading the time)

Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, appetizer)

Basic foods (apple, banana, rice, bread, pasta, carrot, soup, water)

More foods (beef, pork, fruit, vegetable, juice, coffee, tea, chocolate, cake)

Kitchen (stove, oven, kitchen, fridge, table, chair, bake, boil)

Eating supplies (knife, spoon, fork, plate, bowl, cup, glass)

More verbs (to make, to have, to see, to like, to go, to be able to, to want, to need)

Family (father, mother, son, daughter, aunt, uncle, cousin, grandmother, grandfather, parents, grandparents)

Transportation (car, train, plane, bus, bicycle, airport, train station)

City locations (apartment, building, restaurant, movie theater, market, hotel, bank)

Directions (north, south, east, west, right, left)

Adjectives (good, bad, smart, delicious, nice, fun)

More verbs (to give, to send, to wake up, to cry, to love, to hate, to laugh)

Colors (red, yellow, blue, green, purple, black, white, brown)

Emotions (happy, sad, calm, angry)

Physical descriptions (tall, short, blonde, brunette, redhead, eye color)

Body parts (arm, leg, hand, finger, foot, toe, face, eye, mouth, nose, ears)

Descriptors (rich, poor, beautiful, ugly, expensive, inexpensive)

Basic clothing (shirt, pants, dress, skirt, jacket, sweater, skirt, shorts)

Accessories (belt, hat, wallet, gloves, sunglasses, purse, watch)

More verbs (to keep, to smile, to run, to drive, to wear, to remember)

Animals (cat, dog, horse, cow, bear, pig, chicken, duck, fish)

More animals (turtle, sheep, fox, mouse, lion, deer)

Months (January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December)

Seasons (fall, winter, spring, summer)

Weather (sunny, cloudy, hot, cold, snowing, raining)

States of being (I’m hungry, I’m tired, I’m thirsty)

House (bedroom, living room, bathroom, stairs)

Furniture (bed, lamp, couch, door, window)

Electronics (phone, TV, computer, camera, radio, headphones)

Nature (tree, flower, plant, animal, grass, animal, outside, sky, sun, moon, clouds)

More verbs (to teach, to learn, to understand, to know, to listen, to hear)

School (classroom, elementary school, high school, college, student, class, grade, homework, test)

School subjects (math, science, English, art, music, chemistry, biology, physics)

School supplies (book, pencil, pen, paper, notebook, folder, backpack, calculator)

Classroom features (student desk, teacher desk, whiteboard, chalk, clock, bell)

Jobs (teacher, scientist, doctor, artist, dancer, musician)

More jobs (surgeon, manager, engineer, architect, lawyer, dentist, writer)

More verbs (to buy, to sell, to work, to ask, to answer, to dance, to leave, to come)

Comparisons (less than, more than, same, __er than)

Languages (French, German, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, English, Japanese)

Countries (France, Germany, China, Russia, Spain, Mexico, United States, Japan)

Religion (church, temple, mosque, to pray, Judaism, Christianity, Islam)

Past tense (I was, he ran, she wrote)

Hobbies (shopping, sports, soccer, chess, fishing, gardening, photography)

More verbs (to describe, to sleep, to find, to wish, to enter, to feel, to think)

Art (paint, draw, painting, gallery, frame, brush)

Morning routine (to wake up, to brush teeth, toothbrush, toothpaste, comb, soap)

Future tense (I will run, he will write)

TV + internet (online, internet, to watch TV, TV show, movie, documentary, cartoon)

More verbs (to look for, to stay, to touch, to meet, to show, to rent, to wash, to play)

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Putting all my Japanese Resources in one place.

Well, I wanted to make my life easier by cataloguing my resources, and I guess it might be helpful to someone so… This is gonna be  long. (sorry for spelling mistakes)

Main Tools: what I use frequently

Dictionaries

Jisho (Web) - Classic, Clean and Easy, probably the best Dictionary out there.

Takoboto (App/Web) - really like this one it has a grammar section, and the App has JLPT lists.

Akebi (App) - You can search by writing the Kanji, very useful, but not a very eye pleasing design.

Memorization

Memrise - LLJ Series of decks (Kanji, Tae Kim’s Grammar and Core Vocab), a think because Memrise uses a multiple choice system it works better for me, more than Flashcards.

Anki -  With Anki, I use Mostly Anime decks, for example, Japanese Like A Breeze. Jo-Mako decks: Core Anime Deck, Yotsuba, Your Name (Jo-Mako decks are really well done).

YouTube

Comprehensible Japanese -  AMAZING resource, her videos are all in Japanese and they range from complete beginners to intermediate.

Japanese Ammo with Misa - Explains grammar, has Pacific vocab videos and even breakdown music lyrics.

Cure Dolly - More grammar, she has the most eye-opening explanations I’ve ever seen, some might get annoyed by the robotic voice but ITS worth it.

The Japanese Page - Less Known but cool short videos about kanji, vocab, idioms, etc.

Game Gengo - Learn with games, his N5 Grammar video is great if you’re lazy like me

Japanese with Shun - Great Genki Podcast.

Immersion (aka. The best part)

Anime (How you can study with anime)

Immersion Kit Dictionary - PLEASE USE THIS! If you’re like me and the sentences provided by normal dictionaries never stick in your brain, this is perfect for you, you insert a word or sentence and it will find an Anime/drama/game with it. You can even send sentence cards to Anki.

Animelon - Made to Learn Japanese with dual subtitles, translation history and quizzes.

Animebook - Video player Works With Yomichan and Anki, I use this notation type (Eminent Note Type V2) drag video file and subs in this page and Done.

Kitsunekko - Subs for Anime and J-drama

Nyaa - Anime Raw Files (No subs)

Japanese with Anime -  If I could hug this person I would, very informative  Manga/Anime Slangs and grammar in general.

Japanese Anime & Manga - Cool site with an interactive manga, kanji games, and quizzes.

JPDB beta - Has already Built decks of Animes, Texbooks, Novels and more, also if you insert a sentence, it explains each part of the sentence to you.

Ichi.Moe - Same thing  it explains each part of the sentence to you, but it’s easier to use.

Manga (and reading in general I guess)

Manga.reader.to - I use this site to read my manga it has quite a big collection. Better Scans, and has Japanese options in most mangas

Docsumo Free OCR Software - Now let’s say you don’t know a word and want to search for it use this OCR, really easy to use and works quite nicely. There are better  options specifically for manga, but again, I’m lazy so…

Aozora - This site is for public domain novels (EX The Little Prince) Audiobook on YouTube.

Japanese.io -  You can read articles and news

Raikun - Pop- up dictionary for Words and Kanji. Simple and Quick

Yomichan - Now this one is a little more complicated, pop- up dictionary, but you have to download and set up the dictionary, Much more customisable than Raikun and create Anki cards

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Mini Speaking Challenge!

My Norwegian tutor’s away for the next two weeks (boo) and I’m left without a lot of opportunities for speaking practice. So! I’ve come up with a mini speaking challenge. If anyone wants to join me, feel free!

Official start date: Monday 13th June (I’m actually starting today because it’s the start of my two weeks without my tutor, but I’ll post everything a week late so it feels like I’m doing the challenge with you!) Of course you can join late or do this any time! It’s 15 days long, so it will end on Monday 27th June.

To take part:

Do the daily tasks

Upload or don’t upload the recording - it’s up to you! (You don’t even have to record yourself if you don’t want to, but it can be useful!)

If you do post the recording, let people know if you want feedback/corrections or not

Make a short summary of what you did/how it went/how you felt

Use the hashtag #langblrminispeakingchallenge

Like and leave kind/encouraging comments on other people’s posts

Remember that the rules are more like guidelines, and you should absolutely do what works for you!

The Daily Tasks

Day One: Free Speaking

Introduce yourself or talk about your day or maybe some thoughts you have. Just go with the flow. This day is for you to see how you feel! Write down how you felt while speaking and what areas you think you need to work on. Then, set yourself at least one specific goal to focus on (e.g. improve my pronunciation of X sound, learn to differentiate between sounds X & Y, stop making X grammar mistake.) My suggestion is to pick 1-2 sounds, 1 specific grammar point or 10-20 words you want to learn (or a combination, of course). Try to refrain from setting lots of goals as this will be overwhelming!

Day Two: Research & Drilling

Try to find information about the sound, grammar or vocabulary you struggle with most. (If there are multiple things, you can work on multiple things, but it’s a good idea to start by focusing on just one or two.) Find/come up with some tongue twisters/minimal pairs to practise that sound or write some sentences with your target grammar/vocabulary, then practise saying them aloud.

Day Three: Describe a picture

Find a picture on any website (unsplash, pixabay, pinterest, social media, news websites etc). Try to describe it: say what’s in the picture, what you think it shows, whether you like it and why (not). If you’re a beginner, look up some words and phrases such as “there is…” and “I can see…” and practise saying them. You can describe multiple pictures if you like.

Day Four: Drills

Practise the drills/sentences you came up with on day 2. Maybe come up with some new ones too if you want!

Day Five: Parroting

Watch a short video or listen to a podcast in your target language. Try to parrot back phrases, words or even just sounds (depending on your level). Pay attention to intonation and rhythm in the sentences!

Day Six: Retell a Story

Think of a book/TV show/film and try to summarise the story or the premise. If you’re still a beginner, learn some book/tv/film genres and say which ones you like/dislike.

Day Seven: Drills

Practise the drills/sentences you came up with on days 2 and 4. Remember to reflect on your progress!

Day Eight: Free Speaking

Talk about your day/week/thoughts/any topic you want. Reflect on your progress so far (there might not be much/any at this point, and that’s okay!) and your goals. Make some adjustments to your goals if you want (e.g. add some new words into the mix, focus on a different grammar point or focus on a different sound).

Day Nine: Read aloud

Find an article, a book or some simple beginner sentences from a textbook/website and read aloud. Make a list of new words/difficult words to pronounce/examples of grammar you often mess up.

Day Ten: Drills

Practice the drills/sentences you came up with previously. Alternatively, practice the words/sentences from the list you made yesterday.

Day Eleven: Would You Rather

Go to this website. Translate the Would You Rather prompts given, then say which you’d rather do and why. You can do this as many times as you want! If you’re still a beginner, look up useful phrases or verbs for giving opinions (e.g. “I think…” “I believe…” “In my opinion…”), or just try to translate the prompts.

Day Twelve: Practice mouth shapes

Watch a video of a native speaker speaking your target language (choosing something that’s your level will make this activity easier!) Pay close attention to the person’s mouth. Video yourself saying some of the same words/sentences. Watch both videos back and compare your mouth shape. Repeat the exercise, trying to mimic the native speaker’s mouth shape.

Day Thirteen: Drills

Practice the drills/sentences you came up with previously. Reflect on your progress and come up with new drills/sentences if necessary.

Day Fourteen: Choose a Topic

Talk about one of the topics from the Speaking in 20 challenge week 2 (or any of the other weeks, or choose your own topic). If you’re still a beginner, learn some vocabulary/simple sentences related to the topic and repeat them aloud. If you’re more advanced, try to talk about one (or more!) of the prompts.

Day Fifteen: Reflect

Talk about the challenge (if you’re advanced enough - otherwise just write some thoughts in your preferred language), reflecting on your progress and general thoughts/feelings. Were the exercises helpful? What did you struggle with most? Did you make progress in the areas you wanted to? What else could you do in future to help you progress?

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How to Learn an African Language: Resources

I have been working on a database of resources for learners of African languages. You do not to search manually to find the best resources anymore—this site does it for you.

It includes material for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners.

Already has a wide variety of languages for you to explore—from major languages such as Amharic, Igbo and Swahili to smaller languages such as Basaa, Coptic and Moba.

You can filter by language, type of resource, rating and level.

Continually updated with more resources every day.

Honest and unbiased ratings and reviews; no affiliate links.

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I really wanna bring attention to another fundraiser I trust.

This fundraiser belongs to a man named Hossam Bardawil who has lost so much due to this war. Not only has he lost his material belongings, his job, his home, but more importantly, he's lost his family. His parents and siblings tragically lost their lives, and now Hossam is trying to survive, living out of a tent in horrific conditions.

Now, Hossam is tasked with looking after the remaining family, including his nieces and nephews, as well as their mothers, as they navigate this terrifying world they are in. He's raising funds now to evacuate to safety.

They need $20,000 to evacuate the remaining members of their family, and currently have received less than $100 in donations.

They urgently need your help. Please share and please donate. Even a small amount brings them closer to safety and a life away from the constant fear of death.

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happy pride to everyone who has no idea what they are. Those that are fine with not having a label or those that desperately want to find an identity but don’t know the right term yet.

Happy pride to people that don’t have anything figured out but just keep on going. You deserve the world. Keeping following your heart.

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Whats Happening in Haiti?

A critical point was reached after armed gangs attacked government buildings and forced Ariel Henry to announce resignation.

More than 2,500 people have been injured or killed in Haiti between January and March and around 15,000 people where made homeless.

Former Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in July 2021 and was replaced — by Henry who had been the acting prime minister.

Henry delayed election several times but faced strong domestic and international pressure to initiate a transition.

  Gang violence have surged since 2022 and the number of Haitians facing acute food insecurity has increased

The gangs seized control of large swaths of the capital of Port-au-Prince last summer. In Oct. 2023, the UN Security Council authorized the deployment of an international security mission to help quell the violence.

Besides the violence, the country has been also affected by earthquakes and tropical storms. The country has still not fully recovered from the 2010 earthquake that killed more than 100,000 people.

There were mass protests on the day that Henry had planned to step down, however he declined and elections were delayed.

In late Feb., Henry goes on a trip to Guyana and then Kenya. While in Guyana, leaders agree to hold elections in August.

On Feb. 29, Haiti's criminal gangs stage coordinated attacks across Port-au-Prince. Over several days, the gangs burn police stations, shut down the country's main airport, storm the two biggest prisons and free thousands of prisoners. On March 3, a state of emergency was declared . Jimmy Chérizier, the most powerful gang leader, claimed responsibility.

As the violence increase. Henry found himself stranded abroad in Puerto Rico.

Henry announced his resignation but did not mention the timeline.

A new interim council had formed, which is responsible for choosing the new prime minister, along with setting up an agenda for a new cabinet, along with setting up a national security council and a provisional electoral commission.

, Henry has been under U.S. Secret Service protection

Some in Haiti believed that the US was propping up Henry through to stabilize the country.Kenya and a number of Caribbean countries offered to deploy security forces to Haiti.

The US pledged $58 million of additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti along with the evacuation on non important embassy staff.

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