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I’m moving to a side blog @foundintranselation (in case you wanna continue following me) and I’m following w my main account @whyannitheone 

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Me: *coming out of the bookstore*

Parent: Did you buy more books

Me:

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boys complimenting me:

me: :// 

my teacher leaving an ‘excellent work!!!’ on my essay: 

me, holding a wall for support: bro i’m just…..bro i’m just really teary i’m ghjdgfsdhjfjsdhf i’m hgjggjkhfkdjgj wow thank you idk what to say….bro idk why i’m fjhdsfkjdfg crying right now 

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me: *is reading in another language*

also me: *reads numbers in native language*

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I’m just super fucking bitter that once the flint water crisis got it’s 15 minutes of fame people stopped giving a shit. The water is still poisoned, people! Donations have plummeted and people have been forced back into drinking and bathing with the water! The medical effects of this are astounding, cases of legionnaires disease have skyrocketed, people are having seizures, people are having weird rashes break out over their body, people (including me!) are having their blood poisoned, and it’s not just lead! it’s coliform bacteria! it’s THMs! it’s all in the water and it gets into the bloodstream and breaks down blood vessels, causing bruising and petechiae and internal bleeding and no one gives a shit anymore and it’s only gotten worse like how many people are going to have to die until people realize this is still a problem

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SOME SPANISH IDIOMS + THEIR ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS

as requested by @she-learns ♡

tomar el pelo: to pull somebody’s leg

vamos al grano / punto: let’s cut to the chase, let’s get to the point

no andarse por las ramas: don’t beat around the bush

es pan comido: it’s a piece of cake

pedirle peras al olmo: ask for the moon

dar en el clavo: hit the nail on the head

cuesta un ojo de la cara: it cost an arm and a leg

meter la pata:  to mess up / to screw up

échale un ojo a…: keep an eye on it

dar a luz: to give birth

entre la espada y la pared: between rock and hard place

le falta un tornillo: to have a loose screw

de buena fe: of good faith

salirse con la suya: to get away with it

estar sin blanca: to be broke

poner el dedo el la llaga: to open up an old wound

es como hablar a la pared: it’s like talking to a brick wall

a las espaldas de alguien: behind someone’s back

peor es nada: better than nothing

no hay pero que valga: no ifs or buts

tener agallas: to have guts

buscarle tres pies al gato: to go looking for trouble

a fin de cuentas: at the end of the day

estar en las nubes / estar en la luna: to have one’s head in the clouds

ir de mal en peor: to go from bad to worse

llorar a lágrima viva: to cry one’s eyes out

mover cielo y tierra: to move heaven and earth, to leave no stone unturned

no pegar un ojo: to not sleep a wink

valer la pena: to be worth it

tomar a pecho: to take something to heart

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Help

Someone knows anything about the polysystem theory? I’m supposed to read the article by even zohar but I’m not understanding anything like at all

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any spanish speaker: cojer

méxico and argentina:

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People studying english lit, have you done any comparative essays? I have to do one and I already have what I’m going to compare. the problem is I don’t know how to come up w a thesis statement bc for me the point of the essay is to say look at these two things they have similarities but the teacher says I HAVE to have one so idk what to do

any advice?

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Apparently people in the victorian era said “yaas“ too

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The Computer Room is such a weird concept nowadays but growing up in the 90s/00s we really had a whole ass room dedicated to our computer. Anthropologists 1000 years from now are gonna think we worshiped computers so much we had shrine rooms for them

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Spanish Idiomatic Expressions

No tengo donde caerme muerto - I’m broke

Te estoy tomando el pelo - I’m pulling your leg

ser un cero a la izquierda - to be useless

estar para chuparse los dedos -  to be delicious/finger lickin’ good

estar hasta las narices - to be fed up

de tal palo, tal astilla - like father like son

te gusta o no (gústete o no) - like it or not

empinar el codo - to drink alcohol

enredarse con - to have an affair with

tener una aventura con - to have an affair with

¡Qué tiempo de perros! - What awful weather!

Dicen las malas lenguas - Rumor has it…

No hay mal que por bien no venga - Every cloud has a silver lining

Ser la comidilla del pueblo/barrio - to be the talk of the town

almas gemelas - soulmates

mi media naranja - my other half

estar como pez en el agua - to be right at home

no tener pelos en la lengua - to be very outspoken

tener malas pulgas - to be short-tempered

perder los estribos - to lose your temper

andarse por las ramas - to beat around the bush

estar fuera de quicio - to be out of your mind

sacar de quicio - to infuriate, annoy, blow out of proportion

ir por cuenta de la casa - to be on the house

traer entre manos - to be up to something

a la larga - in the long run

de buena gana - willingly

de ahora/hoy en adelante - from now on

de arriba a abajo - from top to bottom

en pleno día - in broad daylight

de puntillas - on tiptoes

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Review: PIBO

A Japanese picture book app.

Difficulty level: beginner | intermediate | advanced

Options

Japanese only: ☑ Yes; ☐ No

Free: ☑ Yes; ☐ No (Paid version available)

Interaction with others: ☐ Yes; ☑ No

Score: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆

PIBO is a really neat picture book app available on iOS from the App Store. It’s exactly what it says on the tin: A really big collection of picture books entirely in Japanese.

After downloading the app, here’s what you see. The selection available to you changes each day. Now, this interface is important to explain what differences there are between free and paid users. Paid users

Get an unlimited number of books to read per day’.

See where it says 「０かい」? That’s because I’ve already read my 3 free books for the day when I took this picture.

Can access the full list of available books (through「すべて」).

Can access the books they’ve marked as favorite (through 「おき��いり」).

Which, obviously, free users can’t do, but I find that just going through 3 small books a day is a very good form of practice. And, as a free user, if you really liked one book, you can still find it under your 「りれき」 tab!

Opening a book will give you information about its intended age group - bearing in mind that ‘intended age group’ refers to Japanese children, who have grown up with the language! - and a little bit about the story you can expect. I’ve seen mostly books for the 3-6 age group, but also something marked appropriate for ages 10-12, which made me mark this app as suitable for the lower intermediate level.

Final comments

I’m really enjoying this app. It’s a good way to get some exposure to very simple, but natural Japanese. You run into odd variations of conjugations that a textbook probably won’t provide for you, which is only a good thing! The texts are entirely in hiragana, too, so if your kanji knowledge isn’t that solid yet, this is a safe bet for you.

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Any translation studyblrs?

Hey I’m studying translation and I wanna follow other blogs that do so as well so like or reblog this and I’ll check your blog :)

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you know you’re too tired to write your essay when you misread “wordsworth” as “voldemort” 

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me: can remember lyrics from the 2007-2011 pop classics

also me: can't remember what happened in a lecture last week