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hetalia-angel · 2 years ago

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Could you do some headcanons for Prussia, Russia, France, Spain, England and Romano with a darling who's trying to learn their native languages, pretty please?

Ofc Pookie bear. 🩷🩷🩷

Darling trying to learn the countries native language

England

Arthur is so used to everyone already knowing English since it’s the most known language in the world, so having a Darling that wasn’t fluent was a very new experience for him.

Arthur is a dad at heart a dysfunctional one but that’s something for another day. He’ll print off those worksheets that make you write the cursive alphabet and spell different words as a fun activity. Arthur will also try and include reading, movie nights, and listening to music to boost his darling’s fluency.

Arthur will sit his darling in his lap while he reads one page to her and she reads the next as they alternate.

As mentioned before he’s an awkward dad at heart who’s trying to do his best to help.

7/10 for effort in his teaching skills

France

Francis will be very flattered that his darling has decided to learn his language. He’ll try to expose his darling to lots of French media and tv shows to accustom her to the language.

Francis will be whipping out the old children’s books and lullabies he used to use for Matthew and read them to his darling. The children’s books are easy to follow and simple for beginners to understand.

He’s not the best teacher his he’d rather just kiss his darling and murmur the sweet French into her ear instead of explaining it.

Be prepared to receive lots and lots of texts and letter in French. Francis will be declaring his love to his darling at 3am. These messages will be so long that they have the read more button at the bottom to click to see it in full.

Francis gets a 0/10 since I would get into a fight with him any day.

Prussia

Gilbert was immediately very supportive of the idea. He attempts to try and talk to his darling only in German but he has a bad habit of speaking in English so it doesn’t come naturally.

He attempts to show his darling german tv shows… but Germany is notorious for dubbing over them in every language possible. Gilbert could find every one besides the ones in german…

He keeps attempting to teach you until he gives up and asks Ludwig to come over and teach you. Ludwig is a strict and thorough teacher and Gilbert’s darling will definitely be fluent by the end of a few sessions.

4/10 Gilbert tried his best, okay?

Romano

Lovino loves his darling and his language… but he’s a terrible teacher. He has a short temper, doesn’t explain assignments, and is confused when his darling doesn’t understand things he finds simple.

He tries for a few week to teach his darling with no results. Eventually he makes his darling download duolingo and he pays for premium so she can learn faster.

Lovino will occasionally quiz his darling and check in on her progress.

2/10 Lovino is doing his best which isn’t that good. Still better than Francis though.

Russia

Ivan is a sweet guy to his darling 24/7 so when she decides to learn Russian he’s over the moon. He’s booking them a trip to St. Petersburg and taking his darling on a full tour.

He’s as calm and patient as possible with his darling while teaching. Ivan accidentally distracts his darling with his accent since she finds him a little bit too sexy to keep focus on learning.

Ivan’s teaching method is easy enough to follow and he goes all out getting lots of help for his darling to learn. Everything is going smoothly until the day he decides to teach you Russian cursive. Ivan’s darling can’t follow his teachings since she claims that it all looks like scribbles.

9/10 Ivan puts in the effort unlike Francis who I’ve decided I have beef with.

Spain

Antonio is more than happy to teach you everything about his culture and language. He’ll waste no time to show his darling telenovelas and Spanish songs.

Spanish is a widely learnt language so he searches up one of those curriculums online to teach to his darling.

Antonio loves that his darling is learning Spanish mostly so he can find a new way to flirt with her.

#aph england #hws england #aph france #hws france #hws prussia #aph prussia #hws russia #aph russia #aph spain #hws spain #aph romano #hws romano #hetalia au #hetalia #1p headcanons

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nowtoboldlygo · 2 years ago

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here are my language learning plans, in high detail! this post will be updated & revised as i update my goals. here's my directory for desktop folks. [last updated 6/2025.]

before jumping into plans: immersion has been the best method for me by far, and almost all of the below is modeled off of dreaming spanish's progression [link to website, link to PDF]. however, i'm a big believer in starting with your motivation & building out your process from there.

here's a link to my favorite article about methodology (about latin, but most of it applies to all language self-study).

'comprehensible input' (aka CI) is just media appropriate for a given level.

'crosstalk' means you both speak in your native language.

'extensive reading' means reading at your level, without getting caught in translations or dictionaries.

every link below is to a resource or a list of resources.

spanish 🇲🇽, media immersion to DELE C2.

dreaming spanish is a rare one-stop shop from day-one beginner to the start of native media.

they also espouse a specific immersion method, which was mostly copied below. from what i can tell, based on testimonials from the dreaming spanish communities, hitting 1500 hours sets you at B1 proficiency, maybe lower (example).

complete beginner content: comprehensible input

pre-intermediate / beginner content: beginner CI, tv shows made for learners

low intermediate content: low intermediate CI + beginner podcasts (español con juan) (see additional resources below)

high intermediate content: high mid-level CI, all podcasts made for learners

low advanced content: easy native podcasts, all podcasts made for learners, native kid shows and familiar/easy dubbed TV, graded readers up to middle grade, easy nonfiction books (currently here)

advanced content: native t.v. shows and movies (scripted and unscripted), extensive reading, crosstalk

threshold independent user: 200 hours speaking practice

vantage independent user: media immersion, conversation, writing (social and formal)

advanced proficient user

proficient user, mastery

korean 🇰🇷.

complete beginner comprehensible input (CI)

complete beginner, beginner-level CI & preschooler-level kid shows

up to intermediate CI, preschooler-level kid shows, the easiest podcasts for learners, room tours on youtube (currently here)

up to advanced CI video, beginner to intermediate made-for-learners podcasts, real estate tours, easy cooking shows, maybe crosstalk

all video CI, intermediate & advanced made-for-learners podcasts, easy native podcasts, house tours, cooking shows, product reviews, easy familiar (already seen) kid shows, news, crosstalk

all made-for-learners videos & podcasts, easy native podcasts, easy &/or familiar dubbed cartoons/anime for all ages, youtubers speaking directly to the camera, vlogs, graded readers, chapter books, easy middle grade fiction, easy non-fiction (self-help, memoirs), crosstalk

dubbed TV, sitcom shows made in TL, single youtubers, easy quiz shows, middle grade fiction, young adult fiction, easy mysteries, lots of non-fiction (the news, familiar subjects), crosstalk & conversation, social media (bluesky, youtube)

conversations between two native speakers (podcasts, youtube channels), slice-of-life shows made in TL, backlist genre fiction (published 1900s), conversation, social media (hellotalk, discord voice channels)

reality/variety TV, podcasts / youtube channels with 3+ native speakers, dramas, comedy, historical and literary fiction, the classics, conversation, social media (twitch)

milestones/goals: 7000 cumulative media hours, 200 hours speaking practice, 100+ adult-level books read

relearning french 🇨🇦.

complete beginner comprehensible input (CI)

complete beginner and beginner-level CI

beginner-level and intermediate CI, and the easiest podcasts for learners

beginner-level and intermediate CI, all podcasts made for learners

all comprehensible input (including advanced), easy native podcasts, all podcasts made for learners, kid shows and familiar/easy dubbed TV

all audio/audiovisual (scripted and unscripted), 200 hours speaking practice, graded readers, chapter books, middle grade fiction, easy nonfiction books, building up to 100+ adult-level books read

milestones / goals: 750 cumulative media hours, 100 novels read, 200 hours of speaking

blog links: the blog tag, comprehensible input tag

#updating my fixed post mission statement #i am Planning and Doing and Studying and Looking #the best things for a person to do #nowtoboldlygo posts #mission statement #long post for ts

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nitinthakur10 · 3 days ago

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mollycoddle707 · 2 months ago

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I heard that Mango is pretty good (haven't tried it myself tho)

I use drops, it's really nice to learn vocab.

PROS: - You can either follow the standard route/lessons (for beginners) or you can pick your own themes you want to learn (f.e. learn vocab about sci-fi) - The quizes are really good! They actually ask questions about the words you learned, not just translating words. F.e. they will ask "What can you use to draw?" and you get to pick between the words "Crayon", "Car", "Plushy" - There is a streak, just like the app that shall not be named and you can add friends! - During the lessons they test your listening, writing and speaking skills. - They use images of things instead of teaching you to translate. F.e. They will show you a picture of a car and teach you that this picture is called "auto" (for Dutch haha). Later they will not ask: "What is "car" is Dutch?", instead they will ask: "what do you see here?" and show you a picture of a car. It's a good way to get proficient in a language, not just making you a human translator

CONS: You can only learn for 5 min a day without paying (not counting the "dojo" or the "quiz" functions)

It's a nice app to add to your daily schedule and do a bit of learning each day. :D I use it for French and I love it.

anybody got any good recommendations for language learning apps? considering the fact that one of my apps gone full ai, and the other ones trying to get me to pay for basic numbers, i could really use some new ones now lol

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leam1983 · 3 years ago

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On Linguistics

If you're familiar with Quebec, you know we have two official languages, and a recent strong push to add at least one third out of the handful of major Native American dialects spoken between the Saint Lawrence River basin and the upper North Coast. Unofficially, we have tertiary and, well, quarternary languages like Spanish and Mandarin.

The funny thing about my native language - French - is that Quebec's native speakers never really stepped off of a certain victimhood complex. I'm all for defending my native tongue, but I'm still a far cry from claiming that we're one or two generations away from ending up like certain Louisiana parrishes, where French is the focus of hyper-specialized classes attended by a nigh-on-invisible minority. We've got major Francophone news and media outlets, we can be served in French on a day-to-day basis, and being bilingual is, in many ways, more of a fun aside than a necessity.

More below.

Where I'm sort of confused is when my father prints out an article from Le Devoir that carries an editorial by Gérard Bouchard. For those who don't know, Bouchard is an author, a linguist, an essayist and a Postgrad professor that's focused on the particularities of French as spoken in Quebec. The article in question is titled Le Québec langue, which you could translate as meaning "Quebec as a language".

Said article is an exxagerated simulation of all of the anglicizations we use on a daily basis, and then ends with a sardonic note: the narrator is worried he'll have to pick up English for his new job, when he's spent twelve paragraphs with a roughly 50/50 ratio of French and English words in the same sentence.

The article doesn't pick sides, it simply illustrates a point. My father wags it in my face and says "See?! This is what your job is doing to you! This is how all of you Millennials sound; you can't find the right words for things in French even if not finding them would kill you!"

I look up from my script draft for Eastern Ontario - Kanata and the like - and realize I'll call a chunk of the country where a different set of roots for different idiolects of French has taken shape. Our English loan-words aren't the same in Ontario, and Franco-Ontarians have a deep history with so, used outside of its normal grammatical guidelines. It never implies a relation, but rather causation. "J'étais fatigué, so j'suis allé me coucher."

I ask my father to name one language of which the structure hasn't been altered by emergent technologies or new cultural trends. I tell him one springs to mind. He waffles for a bit, then admits defeat.

Latin. Latin is fixed in place. Latin doesn't shift, follow trends or alter itself to fit different regions. Latin has stripped itself of everything that isn't of scientific or religious importance, and only now are modern linguists attempting to piece it back together to the extent that it becomes a modern and complete conversation vector.

For all of the efforts of modern Latin schools, Latin is a dead language. The percentile of people who speak it at home is minuscule. The percentile involving everyday speakers is just as small. I remember seeing YouTube's Luke Ranieri pop-quiz deacons around the publically-accessible parts of Vatican City, and the only one who could hold a beginner-level conversation in Latin was Ugandan. The Italian, British and French deacons gave up after a scant few words.

That isn't the case for French. Millions of people use it everyday. It covers prose, everyday discussion, poetry, science, mathematics, emergent technologies, matters of faith and politics alike - it's alive. Just as alive as English is, and both languages are rife with new additions and subcultural plug-ins. You only need look at this freaking hellsite to see it for yourselves. This is the only place where saying you're writing a drabble on your scrunkly scrimblos wouldn't possibly raise eyebrows, and where you'd receive nods of understanding.

Of course, some purists see this as language being corrupted. I don't. French is alive precisely because it makes room for Anglicized words without rejecting its own French constructs. It's alive because I can speak to my IT colleagues in that language without feeling that there's a language level that's missing, in regards to, say, the need to reinstall Kubernetes or some colleague's missing credentials. I don't need to switch to a pidgin if I have to help out a colleague from the call center, and I also don't need to shoot for excessively formal constructs, either. Living languages are flexible. Latin isn't.

Predictably enough, however, this doesn't do it for my father and his dyed-in-the-wool Separatist roots. French is always under threat, as far as he's concerned, because we're geographically close to a basin that doesn't give a shit about our own culture - or so he believes. I always remind him that we're an annoyance to everyone in the ROC - who wishes we could just stick to English to make things easier for everyone - and a curiosity to people down south. To Americans, I'm a Budget Frenchman; a funny guy who gets American points of interest but who sometimes articulates them in a language that's rooted on the other side of the Atlantic.

As this brings up another thing: my French isn't even the "proper" French the Académie Française tries to drill into our heads at a young age, it's the French of colonists who left the Old Country in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. My French is the French of deported criminals and pardoned thugs, of provincial prostitutes and uneducated guys and gals tossed halfway across the globe on vain promises of royal cash and an allotted plot of land. My French is to French what Texas' drawl is to Elizabethan English, or what Ottawa's vaguely-Celtic consonants are to Australia's open vowels.

So what is there to defend, here? Do we cling to some arbitrary definition of a "proper" idiolect and insult everyone between myself and my fellow Cajun speakers between Montreal and Biloxi, or do we accept what linguistics teaches us, and that all signs, all signifiers, are arbitrary? Languages just can't evolve without that central aspect, that understanding that those who make up the sounds and structure of a language are its speakers.

#long post #linguistics #tumblrspeak #french #english #languages as arbitrary constructs #cultural sentiment #i'll never apologize for my copious frenglish out of the office

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idyoma · 4 years ago

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The Best Ways to Learn a New Language

Some of the Best Ways to Learn a New Language

My name is Tamara and I have always been interested in languages, how people communicate and how we can interact even more by learning new languages. I was able to take an international exchange program in 2019 and I started taking this interest to a new level by learning and interacting with friends and people that I was lucky to get to know.

I continue studying and trying to learn from home and this is what inspired me to write this article to help more people achieve their language goals and share some of my favourite ways to learn a new language.

People often recognize that being multilingual is associated with career benefits, but did you know that language learning can also enhance your cognitive health? Too often, people graduate from school and leave foreign languages behind in the classroom. Yet, there are some surprising advantages to tackling language learning later in life, too.

As you learn a new language, you build up your communication skills, supercharge your brain with heightened activity in its language centers, and possibly even open yourself up to new work and travel experiences.

Fortunately, today’s language learners have a wide range of instruction options, like Idyoma, that don’t tether them to a traditional classroom. Finding time to learn a new language outside the home can be difficult for people with full-time jobs and busy households. By learning a new language at home, you can adopt an instruction schedule that suits your time frame — and you can fit in practice when it’s most convenient for you. As you decide whether to embrace ESL or learn Japanese, Spanish, or French, keep the following information in mind to help you create a learning dynamic at home that supports your learning style.

Best Ways to Learn a New Language

Benefits of being mulitlingual

Setting up your learning space

Top 10 tips for learning fast

Tips for teaching kids a second language

Why You Should Learn a New Language: The Benefits of Being Multilingual

Although there are many new pastimes one might embrace — knitting or gardening, web design or data science — to fill time, learning a new language is both enjoyable and professionally useful. Today, the career marketplace is highly global.

Bilingualism and multilingualism can catapult your resume to the top of an employer’s list, especially if the company is international and relies on its multilingual staff to communicate across borders. Learning Korean or German can open up an entire range of job opportunities that you may never have thought of before.

Of course, there are other benefits of learning a new language, too. Language learning actually enhances your mental health. As we age, our cognitive function can diminish just as our physical health can. But, language learning can reduce that cognitive decline, slowing its process as you forge new neural pathways.

When you learn a new language you can boost your ability to focus, keeping our minds alert and agile. Many people who engage in language learning report that the time they engage in the study actually improves their mood. As you focus on the enjoyment and challenge of your lessons, you’ll focus less on the stress of all things left undone, giving your mind the opportunity to recharge and rejuvenate from your usual anxieties and inner chatter.

Finally, you might opt to learn a new language so that you’ll be prepared to get out into the world and explore. Being multilingual makes you a more skillful traveler, building confidence and helping you navigate new, far-flung places for a grand travel experience. And learning a new language improves your communication skills — a core interpersonal and professional talent that’ll get you far in relationships, in business, and beyond.

How to Set up the Ultimate Learning Space

Of course, before you start pricing hotels in Barcelona or Paris, you’ll need to begin language instruction. But before you hire a language tutor or sign up for an online class, prepare your learning space at home so that you have everything you need to support your learning goals conveniently in one area. If you have a home office, you can enlist that space to learn, but you don’t have to dedicate an entire room to your new initiative. A special niche in your bedroom, kitchen, or family room will also suffice.

As you set up your language study area, you’ll want to ensure that it’s both quiet and comfortable. Distractions will prevent you from learning effectively. Opt for a space with good acoustics, since you’ll be doing a lot of language listening. Good lighting is important since you’ll be doing a lot of reading and writing. A desk or small table and comfortable chair are essential furnishings for your study area — but why not take your language learning space to an even more exciting level?

Whether you’ve opted to learn Hungarian or Turkish, why not set up your space with some international flair for inspiration? Add some travel posters to your wall, and keep a globe handy. Incorporate the spirit of your Spanish independent study with a Mexican blanket slung on your chair, or enhance your study of Chinese with some picturesque paper lanterns hung near your window. By creating a fun language learning space, you’ll have a special space with a retreat-like atmosphere that may very easily become your favorite place in the house.

Top 10 Hacks to Learn a New Language

Once your study space is ready and you know what language you want to learn, it’s time to get down to business. Consider all the various applications available for learning a language at home. The following hacks will help you transform yourself into a multilingual virtuoso — or close to it! Keep them in mind as you develop your language learning goals and make your plan.

Enroll in an online course

Formal instruction is a good option for individuals who prefer to learn a new language with a more-or-less traditional dynamic. If you’re concerned that independent study isn’t conducive to your learning style, consider this tried-and-true learning route. A formal course features highly structured lesson plans, assignment deadlines, and interaction with a teacher and classmates, albeit virtually.

Download the app

You’ve probably seen the advertisements online for any number of language learning apps. Less formal than an online course, these apps still offer learners a rich level of instruction designed to help them progress at a clip. Apps are ideal for independent learners who don’t have time to meet consistently for an online class.

Update your library card

Your local library system will have a wealth of materials to enhance your language-learning experience. Plan to borrow language dictionaries and picture books, novels, and even films in the language you’re learning so you can read, watch, and practice your listening skills. Check out materials in person or reserve them online and pick them up at your convenience.

Quality earbuds, headphones, or speakers

When you’re learning to speak a new language, you need to be able to hear your learning materials clearly. A speaker that crackles or earbuds that cut in and out will compromise your learning experience. Plan to invest in quality listening devices so that you can hear instructors or your language learning app with crystal clarity.

Use flashcards

Flashcards work for kids, and they will still work for you, too. In fact, if you have kids, you might want to enlist their help — invite them to quiz you on your German verbs after you quiz them on their multiplication facts. You can also find flashcard apps for literally any language you want to learn.

Hire a language tutor

There comes a point when you might hit a stumbling block or a series of obstacles while learning a new language. Don’t despair! Check with area colleges, and engage a language tutor. This can be especially helpful if you’ve never learned a foreign language before or you want to stay on track and pick up speed as you move from beginner-level learning to the more complex, intermediate stages.

Find a learning partner

Convince your bestie, spouse, partner, or friend to consider learning a language with you. When you have a partner, you can keep each other motivated and take turns studying at one another’s homes. Of course, ideally, you’ll want to find someone who’s just as enthusiastic about learning Russian or Portuguese as you are, so choose your language learning pal wisely.

Listen to native speakers

One of the complaints that many students of languages have is that classroom and app models are too formal and not the stuff of everyday language you’ll hear on the streets of Rio, or Naples. Use your devices to track down native language speakers — like watching and listening to videos on the internet. This is particularly helpful if you plan to travel to the country whose language you’re learning.

Be kind and patient with yourself

Too often, people abandon their language pursuits because life interrupts them, and they find it difficult to resume their studies. Keep in mind that it’s okay to learn at your own speed and tempo. It may be asking too much of yourself to learn Italian in six months. If you need to adjust your goals, do it! The key is to keep going — and don’t be afraid to revisit old lessons when you need a refresher.

Immerse yourself in culture

Language learning may seem tedious at times, especially if you’re struggling with tenses or complex sentence structures.

Maintain your motivation to keep learning by immersing yourself in the culture of the language. Learning Greek? Invite your best friend to a luncheon at your favorite Greek restaurant. Learning Spanish? Set Saturday nights aside for a tapas feasting! You’ll find that cultural immersion boosts your learning — and enriches your life.

Tips to Teach Kids a Second Language

Speak It

If you speak a second or third language and you want your children to learn it, the first step is to speak it with them. Children learn through repetition. Consistency is necessary to develop a habit, so the more your kids listen to you speaking in another language, the easier it will be for them to grasp it.

Music

Just like for an adult, listening to music in a different language is one of the best tips to follow when trying to learn a new language. For both children and adults, starting with kid’s songs with easy and basic words can work best.

Audiobooks

For bedtime or nap time, you could aid yourself by using audiobooks. Following a story with the help of native speakers can work wonders for children to learn different intonations, accents, and vocabulary while also entertaining them.

Have fun

Doing fun activities in the language you are trying to teach your kids is another great way to help them grasp the language. If you grew up in another country, do you remember what activities you enjoyed when you were a child? You can plan a fun afternoon with games from your home country to do with your children. If this is not the case and you are just trying to teach your child to learn a new language, games with new vocabulary are always the best bet.

Video

Another good idea is to let them watch tv or movies in another language. Not only tv shows where they interact with the audience work, standard format movies, cartoons, and shows can help you at home, they don’t need to spend hours in front of a screen. This is only to aid you in the repetition, consistency, and the develop a habit side of the process. Remember it is important that they have access to other intonations, accents, and vocabulary for them to acquire the language faster.

Space to Learn

You can set up a special space for them to study. If they are being homeschooled, they would probably already have a designated space for their study work but if not, you can choose a corner in the kitchen, your home office, or their playroom for this purpose.

Things to add to their study space:

Get them a small table or desk their size with chairs.

Set up a whiteboard on the wall with markers for them to write down vocabulary words or to draw.

Corkboards are great to stick images and vocabulary words to.

Shelves for their storybooks and dictionaries.

Be sure to have good light.

Add color. Remember children’s classrooms are always colorful, this makes them feel in a fun and exciting environment. Bright colors stimulate the brain and can help children retain information.

Add storage. If you want to avoid clutter, add boxes or drawers for them to keep things they work with.

When is the best time to learn a language?

When young, human beings acquire new languages, they don’t actually learn them, so you could say the best age to learn a second language is as a young child.

But even if it’s easier to learn languages as a kid, don’t get discouraged. Remember that you can achieve anything you set your mind to. It’s scientifically proven that learning a language as an adult can also have its advantages. As adults, we can follow and understand grammar rules, so learning in a more technical way is easier for adults than for children.

Learning a new language enhances your life in numerous ways while providing you with a marketable skill. As you learn a new language, you’ll develop new communication skills, keep your brain agile, and even discover new writers and artists to read and enjoy as you encounter them in your studies.

Before you know it, you’ll be fluent in the language of your choosing, and who knows where you could go from there?

Written by Tamara Segal

#best ways to learn a new language #new language #tips to learn a new language

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labyrinth-runner · 5 years ago

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Hi again lovely :,) May I request another friends to lovers piece? “You’re blushing so hard, all I did was say “I love you” in French” or “Why are you looking at me like that?” with Reader x Obi-Wan? :) -🌙

Lmao Porque no los dos, moony?

You knew that Obi-Wan knew many languages. He was always using them to get rid of the telemarketers who called. Usually he yelled at them in German. Sometimes in Russian. Either way, he was great at getting rid of the annoying people who called your landline for your apartment off campus. You’d been a little wary of living with your best friend off campus, but you figured it would have been better than living with some random stranger on campus, which is what would have happened otherwise.

Books were strewn across the coffee table as the two of you crammed for finals. Occasionally, you’d take a break to quiz each other on important information or to eat like normal human beings that care about their bodies.

“I feel like we’ve been studying for days,” you groaned. “I don’t think I’m getting any smarter!”

He chuckled. “What’s troubling you the most?”

“This stupid French exam.”

“Darling, you’ve been getting straight A’s all semester. What seems to be the problem?” he asked as he took your notebook from you. He’d taken French back in high school. Whenever he picked you up from class, he’d always have a full conversation with your Professor. You sometimes understood what was said, but you were only in beginner’s French.

“I’m worried about the listening portion of the exam. Sometimes she talks so fast that I genuinely don’t know what she’s saying,” you said, puffing out your cheeks in a slight pout.

He chuckled, poking your cheek. “Here. I’ll say some random phrases and you tell me what it means.”

You nodded. “Alright.”

“C’est la vie.”

“That’s life.”

“Qu’est-ce que tu fais?”

“What are you doing?”

“Je n’aime pas la musique.”

“I don’t like the music.”

“Good. Last one?”

You nodded.

“Je t’aime.”

“I-I don’t know.” You blushed, turning away from him slightly. That one was definitely not in your notes, but you knew what he said, because your professor had said it to her husband on the phone numerous times.

He was staring at you intensely, eyes roaming your face.

“Why are you looking at me like that?” You asked, looking at your hands in your lap.

“You’re blushing so hard, all I did was say “I love you” in French,” he murmured.

“That wasn’t on my vocabulary list,” you told him.

“No, but it was written in the corner,” he said with a small smile.

“What? Let me see,” you replied, reaching for the notebook. You scanned the page, noticing that he was right. You had written it in the margins.

“Je t’aime, Obi-Wan,” he told you. “That’s what you wrote.”

“So it seems,” you whispered, eyes snapping up to his. They were wide with fear. You’d ousted yourself with your own notes.

“Did you mean it?” he asked, sliding closer until his knee touched yours.

“It’s just a note,” you said nervously. “You’re my best friend. Of course I love you.”

“In what sense of the word?” he asked.

“What do you mean?” your brow furrowed.

“Is it a familial love? Romantic love?” He questioned.

“Obi-Wan, we should get back to studying.”

“Darling, please. I need to know.”

You sighed. He wasn't going to drop this.

“Obi-Wan, you’re my best friend. I don’t know what you want me to tell you,” you chuckled nervously.

He took your hands in his. “Tell me you love me.”

“I do love you!” you sighed in exasperation.

“No, tell me,” he murmured, cupping your cheek, “you love me.”

Suddenly, he’d gotten very close. You swallowed the lump forming in your throat. Your eyes dropped down to his lips.

“I could tell you, or I could show you,” you whispered before connecting your lips to his. Time slowed as you kissed him. When he slipped his hands into your hair and kissed back? You thought you were going to melt. He pulled you into his lap to continue the kiss. All thoughts of studying were gone. Now it was just you and him and the endeavor of showing each other all the things you’d been afraid to say for years.

When you finally pulled back, you were out of breath as you leaned your forehead against his.

“This isn’t studying,” you panted.

“No, I suppose it’s not,” he smirked, “But I like it better.”

#moon anon #friends to lovers #obi-wan x reader

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kiraawrites · 6 years ago

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21 Questions

thank uuu so much @re-writing-h for tagging!!

rules: answer and then tag who you’d like to get to know better

nickname: kira, kiwi

zodiac sign: cancer

height: 168/169 cm :D

hogwarts house: gryffindor! according to pottermore. in another quiz i took, i was almost a hufflepuff too. a little bit of ravenclaw and very small fraction of slytherin.

last thing i googled: the website for my french language centre lmaO (exams are on tuesday,,,,,,,)

favourite musicians: lorde, mxmtoon, conan gray, cavetown, troye sivan, billie eilish ++ random vocaloid producers and japanese singers uwu

song stuck in my head: meteor shower by cavetown :D it sounds suPER cute and i am very much in love with it <3

followers: 75 (it has been going up q a lot recently even though i have been so inactive,, oops i promise to post more okays)

following: 184 (this number will triple by the end of this month, i swear)

do you get asks? a few! i love getting asks so pls flood my inbox if you have nothing to do :D

amount of sleep: 5 to 8 hours ,, it’s currently school hols but i’ve gotten 8h only once in this whole week oop--

lucky number: nine!!! it always has been :D

what are you wearing? a navy dri-fit shirt i got from school ++ white basketball jersey shorts!

dream job: literature prof/teacher at a nice school. with students that are as passionate about pages filled with wonderful words as i am.

dream trip: serbia to visit my bf :”)

instruments: i took piano when i was younger and it was ehh... but i’ve played the guitar a couple of times and i wanna be more serious about self-learning it! it’s an amazing instrument. much recommend.

favourite songs: i’ve never had a song that really stuck to me... searching for it is an agony but i do have a collection of songs that i enjoy. it changes rapidly though :/

languages: english (native), malay (2nd language for school,,, should honestly be taking indonesian but Okay I Guess), french (moderate to beginner skill level?? i like it lots though) and a small bit of singaporean sign language (i picked it up in a workshop).

random fact: i greatly enjoy looking at wonderful architecture. pls show me beautiful buildings and i will love you Forever.

aesthetic: closest wld probably be dark academia... gotta channel those inner nerd vibes lol

tagging: @galaxy-charm @mimzy-writing-online @serphics @flyingfalconflower12

#writeblr #tag game

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hardwearingsoftware · 5 years ago

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Best Smartphone Apps for this Quarantine

We’ve all heard by now about everything that’s happening outside recently with the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Most probably, if you’re living in a country where the virus has begun to spread quickly, you might have been suggested to stay at home for some days, weeks or even months. Yeah, it sucks!

But hey, don’t worry because we now have some good apps that you can get right now for your smartphone to stay productive, learn some skills and some for entertainment, so let’s get right into it.

1. Udemy

Inside home, we have quite a lot of time to be using in so many useful things. What about start learning something new and fun?

Udemy is one of the biggest online course platforms in the world! It’s packed millions of courses regarding a wide variety of topics, like:

Business

Finance

Computer Engineering

Personal Growth

Photography

Digital Design

Music

And many more!

Best of all, the courses offered are incredibly accessible for their pricing. You can even find some professional courses starting at $120 MXN that offer very high-quality content and exclusive resources for you to work with. Don’t waste more time and keep on learning with Udemy.

2. Duolingo

Have you ever wanted to start learning a new language? Maybe French? German? Chinese? Well, we present to you Duolingo, the world’s biggest free platform for beginners to start to learn the basics of any language included in their large catalog.

But this is not just a regular and boring learning app, it makes learning a new language a very fun experience, since all of its activities are games that are quiz based. You can get rewards every time you keep improving thru the learning levels and get your own achievements.

Learn a new language at your own pace and having fun in the process with Duolingo!

3. Digital Wellbeing

Being locked inside our homes is kind of boring, so we very often tend to pick up our smartphones and not let go of it for hours. This is very harmful for our eyes in the long term, because we’re constantly exposing our eyes to very intense lights and we don’t exercise the much. And the worst part is that it’s very difficult to stop using it willingly, we find it so hard to just let go and do something else.

Worry no more! Google has created an app that you can quickly setup and build daily usage routines for your phone called Digital Wellbeing. Start by setting a daily limit to how much screen time you can use, and after that, the phone enters a locked state that only lets you make phone calls and use the camera until the lockdown time is over.

Maybe what makes you stick to your phone is a specific app, like Instagram or Tweeter. Maybe you’re watching so much YouTube or Netflix and its very hard to stop without watching “just one more”. Well, Digital Wellbeing also has you covered with that, since it includes a timer for specific apps that you’d like to limit usage of. Once the time is up, you won’t be able to use the app until the next day.

Let’s enjoy a little bit more the real world, let go of your phone once in a while.

4. 30 Day Fitness Challenge

We understand, one of the biggest problems of staying home is that we can’t go to the gym or to run outside in the park. But there’s no reason to stop working out, in fact, is so much more important to keep moving to avoid any health problem that sedentarism could bring.

Start building a 30-day routine with a variety of exercises that you can easily do from home, no special equipment required at all! You can choose from their different levels of difficulty and go up from there until you achieve your workout goals.

It also includes a virtual personal trainer and tons of videos showing you how to do every exercise correctly. And just in case you forget, the app will notify you regularly to do some exercise.

And for all of you winners out there, completing the first 30-day challenge is just the beginning, you can continue leveling up and repeat every level whenever you want.

5. Google Tasks

Are you of the ones that also forgets what things do you have to do during the day? Never forget another task again using Google Tasks. It’s a very simple and lightweight app that allows you to create a list of tasks for any day and any time you want. Add subtasks and specific notes to every task so you never forget a detail again!

And the most important part is that Google Tasks also gives you a heads-up every time you have a task with a due date set. Useful, isn’t it?

This is one of the most useful apps to plan your daily routines and never forget upcoming tasks that you should do.

6. Geometry Dash

We cannot end this list without a game for those times of boredom. Geometry Dash is one of the most popular games out there. It´s a very entertaining game with many playing modalities that make every level a complete challenge. You can even create your own levels to your liking and play other players levels in their huge level database with over 5 million custom made levels.

We azure you that this game won’t disappoint your need for a good challenge and will make time pass a lot easier. Enjoy every level with music that sets up the theme and rhythm for the level. They’re 6 level difficulties: easy, medium, hard, harder, insane, demon; each one harder than the previous one.

You can have countless hours of fun trying to unlock the hundreds of achievements available, find all of the possible characters and collect stars, coins and gems to buy nice perks inside the game. And for those out there that are looking for a real challenge, check out the “Weekly Demon” level that the game features every week.

#quarentine #mobileapps #productivity #android #ios #smartphone #entertianment

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mygutsforgarters · 6 years ago

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21 tag game

tagged by: @dancemajicdance 💍💖

Rules: answer 21 questions and tag 21 people you want to know better

Nickname: gus or guts. my real name doesn't lend itself very well to diminutives.

Zodiac sign: aquarius ♒ which probably explains a lot.

Height: 5′1″ 😬

Hogwarts house: the first time i took the quiz i got ravenclaw, and the second time i took it i got slytherin.

Last thing googled: “secret agent man” lyrics.

Favorite musicians: oh, christ, uhhh. hozier, janelle monáe, emily kinney, elle king, the dixie chicks, johnny cash, billy joel, the monkees, queen, nat king cole, the beach boys, gin wigmore, the carpenters, fleetwood mac, ABBA.

Song stuck in head: currently flipping back and forth between “secret agent man” by johnny rivers and “back in baby’s arms” by patsy cline.

Following: 42!

Do I get asks?: yeah.

Amount of sleep: ugly laughter.

Lucky numbers: seven, because my first, middle, and last names all have seven letters in them.

Wearing: a blue beauty and the beast t-shirt, rainbow pajama bottoms, and gray ankle socks.

Dream job: romance novelist.

Dream trip: i haven't really thought about it.

Instruments: i nearly learned how to play the piano in middle school but gave up while i was still in the beginners’ stage. does that count?

Languages: english, but i’m learning spanish. i also know how to say “it’s raining bread” in french because a friend of mine took it in high school and that’s all she retained.

Favorite songs: “daydream believer” by the monkees, “uptown girl” by billy joel, “some kind of wonderful” by grand funk railroad, “do wah diddy diddy” by manfred mann, “wouldn’t it be nice” by the beach boys, “nfwmb” by hozier, “sunlight” by hozier, “last chance” by emily kinney, “when i fall in love” by nat king cole, “short skirt / long jacket” by cake, “flathead” by the fratellis, “ring of fire” by johnny cash.

Random fact: idk, i’m not that interesting. uh. i have hitchhiker’s thumb?

Aesthetic: slouchy sweaters, old books, work boots, pumpkins, crunchy leaves, pastels, lace, afghan blankets, opal jewelry (which i can’t afford but no one said it had to be an attainable aesthetic), rainy days.

tagging: anyone who sees it and wants to do it!

#shut up shannon #maj we like too many of the same artists it looks like I copied your answers #long post //

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roli08199 · 3 years ago

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globalteachonline · 3 years ago

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What you'll learn Use full, grammatically correct sentencesRead and write simple textsApply the rules of the language to make an infinite number of utterancesTalk about yourself, other people, animals, things and whateverPronounce and spell French words correctlyAsk questions and answer them both positively and negativelyGive orders and commands, ask someone to do something for youCountDescribe people and thingsModify your language by means of adverbs and other linguistic meansUse the correct conjugation patternsMuch moreShow moreShow lessDive deep into the realms of the French language. Master all the ins and outs of French grammar and you’ll feel much more comfortable about the language. In this course we’ll explore all the main areas of French grammar, pronunciation and spelling. Discover How Fantastic the French Language Is and How Marvelous It Is To Use It Correctly. Pronunciation and Spelling Conjugation Patterns of Regular, Slightly Irregular and Irregular Verbs Number and Gender of Nouns and Adjectives Indicative and Imperative Mood Articles Personal Pronouns Prepositions Word Order in Declarative and Interrogative Sentences Cardinal Numbers Direct and Indirect Objects Impersonal Verb Forms: Infinitives, Participles Reflexive Verbs Possessives ... and much more Become a Highly Skilled User of French – It’s All Well Within Your Reach. French is definitely one of the most popular languages in the world. There’s a whole bunch of benefits to knowing French. Let me just mention a few. In our global society you can make use of it in business, becoming a more valuable worker, in private life, on vacation, chatting online, reading literature and press or watching satellite TV. In some parts of the world French is either the main language spoken or one of the main ones. And I could go on and on like that... This is an intensive course, which means it covers the basics from level zero (absolute beginner) and then you wander across all the lectures and learn quite a lot of stuff. The explanations are concise and clear. You should have no difficulty following and understanding them. A lot of stuff and a lot of practice. Contents and Overview This course is pretty comprehensive. It contains all the basic areas of French grammar. Starting off with French spelling and pronunciation, touching upon all the main grammatical categories in the first sections and then going into much more detail in the following sections. The language I use is simple and should be easily understood by absolute beginners. This course is divided into 10 sections, each of them covering a broad topic subdivided into lectures. The pace is up to you, you can go through the easier parts faster and then take more time to study the more sophisticated ones. To help you memorize and practice all the new stuff, there are loads of exercises. Most lectures are accompanied by additional resources. These are downloadable files with exercises. After you finish each section, there’s a quiz for you that covers the material discussed in that section. Who this course is for:This course is best suited for students who want to learn French in a systematic way, diving into its grammar and being eager to understand how the language works, how all the inflections, articles, tenses, moods etc. should be used cor-rectly.This is a beginner course but is also suitable for students who already have some knowledge of French but would like to refresh it in an ordered and systematic way.This course is NOT suitable for students who only want to learn some everyday vocabulary or expressions like how to order food in a restaurant, book a ticket or something like that but don’t care about grammar.

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