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Passed the German language proficiency exam offered by my university as well so now I will have TWO little lines on my transcript about my language knowledge :)

Also I am seriously considering taking one of the advanced German courses offered next semester to keep working on my language skills, especially since it'll be helpful for grad school.

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It's interesting taking an actual German course and writing more things about myself in a highly gendered language (as opposed to when I was taking Norwegian, which only kind of sort of has genders, and you don't really change the forms of nouns so much), because even though I waffle a little on masculine terms in English, I'm finding I love talking about myself as male in German.

Like, ja, ich bin Student! Ich will Professor werden!

I don't know, it's just fascinating how even though I don't always want to be called a man (hashtag transmasc but also nonbinary feelings), I love how using masculine word endings makes me feel.

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It's that time of year again! Applications for OSRJL classes for the 2024-2025 academic year are open from now until September 16.

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Opposite Adjectives 2

sulten | mett hungry | full

hvit | svart white | black

lett | vanskelig easy | difficult

frisk | syk healthy | sick

vid | trang wide | tight

åpen | lukket open | closed

rett | feil right | wrong

fast | løs fixed | loose

bein | skjev straight | oblique

blid | sur cheerful | grumpy

bratt | slak steep | gradual

rask | sakte fast | slow

hurtig | treg rapid | sluggish

sliten | opplagt exhausted | freshened

energetisk | trøtt energetic | tired

riktig | gal correct | incorrect

tam | vill tame | wild

uklok | smart unwise | smart

stolt | flau proud | embarrassed

stram | slakk tight | slack

sjenerøs | gjerrig generous | stingy

grådig | velgjørende greedy | charitable

morsom | kjedelig funny | boring

modig | feig brave | coward

lik | ulik like | unlike

hyppig | sjelden frequent | rare

dyp | grunn deep | shallow

identisk | annerledes identical | different

bråkete | stille loud | quiet

våken | søvnig awake | sleepy

mektig | umektig powerful | weak

rolig | rastløs calm | restless

skyldig | uskyldig guilty | innocent

praktfull | grusom splendid | awful

trang | romslig narrow | spacious

solfylt | skyggelagt sunny | shaded

streng | mild rigid | mellow

subjektiv | objektiv subjective | objective

teoretisk | praktisk theoretical | practical

tilfeldig | planmessig random | systematically

tillatt | forbudt permitted | forbidden

vannrett | loddrett horizontal | vertical

variert | ensformig diverse | uniform

voksen | barnslig adult | childish

sta | medgjørlig stubborn | pliant

komisk | tragisk comic | tragic

konkret | abstrakt concrete | abstract

moderne | gammeldags modern | old-fashioned

naken | påkledd naked | dressed

positiv | negativ positive | negative

konstant | skiftende constant | volatile

aktiv | passiv active | passive

homogen | heterogen homogeneous | heterogeneous

først | sist first | last

arrogant | ydmyk arrogant | humble

flat | kupert flat | jagged

fysisk | psykisk physical | psychological

obligatorisk | frivillig compulsory | voluntary

kriminell | lovlydig criminal | law-abiding

beruset | edru intoxicated | sober

dynamisk | statisk dynamic | static

glatt | ru smooth | rough

fin | grov fine | rough

blek | brun pale | brown

fet | mager fat | skinny

generell | spesiell general | special

individuell | felles individual | collective

brå | gradvis abrupt | gradual

maksimal | minimal maximum | minimum

maskulin | feminin masculine | feminine

optimistisk | pessimistisk optimistic | pessimistic

spiss | butt pointy | pointless

skarp | sløv sharp | blunt

sentral | perifer central | peripheral

rund | kantete round | angular

naturlig | kunstig natural | artificial

informativ | intetsigende informative | inane

muntlig | skriftlig oral | written

pratsom | taus talkative | silent

innvendig | utvendig internal | external

profesjonell | amatørmessig professional | amateur

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A question -- what are everyone's favorite websites for German reading practice? I want to start doing little vocab exercises like the ones I sometimes do with Norwegian news articles, but I haven't been able to find a good site for German practice.

Part of it is that I like trying to read articles that would interest me in English, too, on topics I'm actually invested in -- things like history, science, nature, folklore, queer issues, and books/fiction. Any suggestions for German websites that frequently have articles on those topics?

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Pulled some new Norwegian vocabulary words from Glad i vårtegn? Vårsoppene er her -- as a forager myself I thought it would be interesting to read about foraging in another country! It turned out to have a lot of really technical language and species names, and not all of them are actually edible mushrooms (some are the opposite!), but it definitely still made for interesting reading.

en vårfagerhatt (n) - St. George's mushroom (Calocybe gambosa) å forveksle (v) - to confuse, mix up giftig (adj) - poisonous en tilpasning (n) - an adaptation, adjustment å tale (v) - to bear, stand, tolerate et omslag (n) - a change å anlegge (v) - to build, construct et legeme (n) - a body å dukke opp - to emerge, turn up et skarlagen vårbeger (n) - scarlet elf-cups (Sarcoscypha austriaca) en kvist (n) - a twig en bekk (n) - a brook, rivulet et svart vårbeger (n) - ebony cups (Pseudoplectania nigrella) å antyde (v) - to hint, imply, suggest en egenskap (n) - a property, trait, characteristic et oransje elgbeger (n) - (Byssonectria terrestris) en hvitveis (n) - wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) et symrebeger (n) - (Dumontinia tuberosa) en stengel (n) - a stem, stalk en sandmorkel (n) - false morel (Gyromitra esculenta) grov (adj) - coarse, rough et tilfelle (n) - an occasion, case, occurrence kreftfremkallende (adj) - carcinogenic å påvise (v) - to point out, prove en nedbryter (n) - a decomposer en grankonglehatt (n) - sprucecone caps (Strobilurus esculentus) en furu - a pine tree

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God syttende mai!

Jeg skal ferie i dag og lese artikler på norsk. Se på bloggen min for noen nye ordforrådlister!

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Officially took my university's German entrance exam and tested into the 3rd semester course, which I'm pretty happy about! I had been hoping I might test a little higher, but I'm still pretty proud of the fact that I'm officially at an A2ish level despite having only ever self-taught myself the language.

I'm looking forward to taking an intermediate German class next semester and excited to see how much more my skills can grow in a classroom environment!

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college is college-ing

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There's a symposium happening at my university right now on Hebrew printing and type (inclusive of Yiddish, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, and other languages, too) and I am absolutely geeking out about it. There are folks here from some amazing institutions, including the Yiddish Book Center, and the talks so far have all been amazing. It's making me really want to work on my Yiddish again, and also just making me so happy for Jewish reasons!

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trying to finish my dissertation in 3 weeks, hopefully i can finish the introduction today 🥀 listening to my lastest ambient mix while i write

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Holy grail for Yiddish learners- a massive collection of over 100 Yiddish audiobooks books recorded by native speakers! You can listen on the internet, download to listen as mp3, and read along from the free uploaded copies on the Yiddish book center website - and it’s all completely free and accessible, no password needed

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I discovered that my university offers a wholly online placement test for German that I could take on my own time to try to test into a higher level course, since I'm thinking about taking some German next semester!

I'm going to try to kick my studying into overdrive over the next few weeks before taking the test, which has reading, listening, and writing components, because while my reading skills are pretty decent, I definitely am lacking more in the other two. But I'm really interested to see what course I'm able to test into.

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THE DAY OF LANGUAGES!!!

This 7th of May, 2024, we use our own language again!

If your language, native or not, is something other than English, on May 7th you can speak that language all day!

You’ll blog in your chosen language(s) all day: text posts, replies, tags (except triggers and organizational tags).

Regardless of what language people choose to speak to you, you can answer in your own.

Non-verbal, non-written languages (like sign language, dialects, otherwise non-written languages) are more than welcome! See my FAQ for tips

English native speakers can participate in any other language they're studying/have studied/know.

The tag is gonna be #Speak Your Language Day or #spyld for short.

Please submit me some language facts for me to share on this day <3

Pinned post and FAQ

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Hi! I noticed that you said at some point that you were learning a northern Norwegian dialect! I was just wondering, which resources could you use for something like that? Ever since I started learning Norwegian I wanted to learn a dialect but unfortunately I can't find many resources for any of them.

hi there! 

unfortunately i haven’t really been any luckier than you.. finding resources for dialects is  h a r d. for nordnorsk, i basically read the wikipedia page to learn the things that are specific to this dialect but i didn’t learn much.. try to find some music made by artists from the area where the dialect you want to learn is spoken! for nordnorsk, i like to listen to sondre justad (lofoten), resikulert (tromsø), kristian kristensen (harstad), virkelig (bodø) and snö (tromsø). reading the lyrics often helps learning the particularities of the dialect. another idea could be to listen to the radio. nrk offers a bunch of radio channels from the different regions of norway, they don’t always speak in one specific dialect but it could still help! (to do that, go to this website, click on the little arrow next to NRK P1 and choose the place you want).

Really hope that helps at least a little bit! Norwegians, if you know any great resources, feel free to leave them here!

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celtic languages mega drive folder

i've been meaning to share my folder of celtic language pdfs for a while now, especially since duolingo has gotten even worse. the folder has pdfs of language-learning material, as well as some stuff on literature, history, indentity, etc. this is very much a work-in-progress, as i will add to the folder as i find more resources.

my folder currently has: welsh, breton, cornish, irish, scottish gaelic, manx, béarlagair na saor, early modern irish and classical gaelic, old irish, middle welsh, old welsh, and proto-celtic (although not all of them have a lot of pdfs in their folders yet).

(also if you want online resources, fiction books, media, etc, then take a look at this website: https://www.celtic-languages.org/Main_Page - it has both free and paid resources for irish, scottish gaelic, manx, welsh, cornish, breton, old irish, and classical gaelic.)

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It's a new semester and I've got a new slate of classes keeping me busy. I'm excited about them though! This semester I'm taking:

Scientific Thought (a philosophy of science class)

Introduction to Medieval History

Writing on Issues of Science and Technology

Human Health and the Environment in History

...and a short ongoing half-semester course for my history mentor program (teaching middle and high school students history research skills and resources)