#I'm still learning the same languages

[tofulearns]

I miss studyblr actually. I'm an adult with a full time job now but there is nothing more I want to do than sit in a nice library with coffee making sure I hit my learning targets

Let's see if we can revamp this place

[dkettchen]

she would've told them unlike her canon! version who decided not to be an ally smh

[nereb-and-dungalef]

I keep drinking coffee thinking it's gonna make me Productive and then instead of doing the work I actually have to do I just compulsively make spreadsheets :(

[seawitchkaraoke]

So how much benefit is there to listening to an audiobook or podcast in your target language when you really don't understand most of it? Is there any point to it or should I just stick to stuff I can really properly follow (which is really just like. Things for small children or stuff made specifically for learning so they talk a lot slower, but is also usually y'know boring)

[blujayonthewing]

really frustrating to have extremely strong feelings about 'art is for everyone' and 'drawing is a skill just like anything, anyone can learn' and 'it's worth doing even if the end product isn't '''good art''' ' as the kind of person who just never stopped drawing as a kid like. yes I know it's easy for me to say but I'm still RIGHT

[royalberryriku]

The more I learn about the history of the middle east in general, the more I realise that the "Israel-Palestine conflict" is actually just a group killing their own fellow shared ethnic group who are "too brown".

Hebrews and Arabs both originate from Phoenicians, aka "Abraham's descendents" according to their respective oral stories and passed on histories. They are from the same place and people. However, there is a narrative that twists this and claims that Arabs were "always an outside force that invaded", when the various groups within that ethnicity always had their share of cooperation and conflict in various stages of history. Just like, say, the various groups in France. They were of the same group and no particular ethnicity had no more of a "claim" to the land than the other, they just had their beef and eventually integrated.

So when I see "but the Arabs are colonisers" I can't help but ask; what is a colonisers to you? Seriously. If colonisation means "any conflict in the past between a shared group from the same place" every single group would be colonisers. There's no such thing as "an innocent conflict" where atrocities weren't committed by either side. So please get that out of your head if you want to say "but the Arabs did X, Y, Z to the Hebrews so it's colonisation and they don't belong in A, B or C areas". That's just not how colonisation works. It's like calling TERF or cis a slur when they're not. Conflict between the same people from the same area is, yeah, a conflict hit not colonisation. However, a people who are from a completely different place who want to erase an ethnic group and take over their culture, erase their history and get rid of their physical features? Yeah, that's what colonisation is. It's genocide with the aim to erase a specific group or culture and take it and the land over. For example, the British in the Middle East.

The problem with calling Arabs "colonisers" is not only is it completely historically wrong, they're from the same place and have the same origins as the Hebrews, but they (like Palestinian Jews) have been their since before the British came. Compared to European Jews who came later on after having lived in Europe (and became European as that is genuinely a part of their culture and ethnicity as well and shouldn't be erased or forgotten, that's also cultural erasure of Germanic, Polish, etc traditions passed on) and, sure, do have origins there *as well* but it needs to be understood that they, specifically Zionists, are a part of the British colonial project aimed at killing *both* Arabs and Jews. The point isn't to help Jews against a colonisers from the first few centuries (sorry to tell you everyone, but no, the Ottoman Empire, Baylon and the Pharaohs literally do not exist anymore, like how Italy isn't the Roman Empire by default because that's where Rome is), but a group of people who've just been living there for the past few centuries and generations who just want to live. The problem is, they haven't been allowed that and propaganda keeps being pushed that completely jumps around historical facts like, for example, Jews (ethnically speaking) were not always Jews but the Ancient Hebrews, aka, Phoenicians, aka where Arabs came from ethically. They are the same people, just who moved to different areas and developed different cultures and languages. Sort of like, you know, every other nation with specific dialects for specific regions and different cultures and folk stories depending on where you go.

The point is, so much of Jewish history is actively being erased to "protect the Jews" by...commuting cultural genocide of the Jews and Arabs. It ignores the actual impact of Nazism within Israel's formation and history, how much it influenced policy, how Jews who were "too visibly Phoenicians" aka appeared too Jewish or arabic or middle eastern in appearance were deemed as "weaker" and "lesser" for my surviving the holocaust and used as a reason to deny rights to both Jews and Arabs who were too visibly Semitic. It ignores how antisemetic Israel is towards Jewishness and how utterly antisemetic Islamophobia is because they are literally from the same origin and, yes, hatred and fear of one does carry into hatred and fear of the other. So much of the propaganda and denialism of history happening right now is a direct response to dear and hatred of "big noses", "brown skin" and people deemed as too middle eastern because they, just like in World War II, World War I and beforehand, antisemetism is the backbone of British imperialism and conquest of the middle east (yes, this also means a targeting of Arabs and Jews as people who look a specific way). And yes I'm annoyed and yes this is a ramble that's probably not very coherent, but damn I'm so sick and tired of misinformation and the twisting of everything to suit this narrative of "Arabs versus Jews" as if they aren't both just Semites who are being collectively oppressed, erased and reinvented by the west to suit western ends.

[loeewenzahn]

I purposely stayed away from a lot of finnish media in the past years because I knew how sexy the finnish language is and it wouldn't take much to tempt me to learn it. Fuckin hell, now I really want to learn it, I shouldn't have joined this fandom 😭

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I was ruminating while in my hebrew class about how similar hebrew and spanish are (to me) before remembering that arabic actually influenced spanish in some ways... like I feel dumb for not remembering this

[kasumingo]

Using English not as a native but just someone who spends a lot of time in English-speaking circles both at work and among friends is wild, because I can feel what things mean and I think mainly in English but I could not translate some of those sentences to Polish even if my life depended on it

[meichenxi]

learning chinese like 

and then learning scottish gaelic like 

this word guga ‘young gannet’ is on lesson 3 of duolingo. if there is any better way to exemplify the difference between these languages than these two screenshots, I’ll wait

[citrijp]

sometimes i'm really glad that i love learning grammar and am really determined to learn JP bc this was a Time to get through

btw the full sentence is アリスは空っぽの瓶でも下へ落としては悪いと思った。

also hi i chose to stop doing daily posts bc holding myself to that while managing my illness and trying to be a person and doing my lessons and doing other things like D&D is hard but i will still post about my journey!!

anyway, about these notes: they aren't even that long but i needed to do that breakdown for myself lol

shoutout to my bestie ∅ i love zero pronouns bc i wish that was me i want no pronouns and to be Void

but jokes aside i don't always write them out like this but i needed to understand the sentence. i've since put parentheses in the translation where the zero pronouns would be

[laughingwith-bluelips]

I am actually so mad that I had to learn English so I could access content both for academic as for personal reasons while people who's born in an English speaking country can live without learning a shit about Spanish.

[eyivibyemi]

✧ I won’t really write descriptions for these, but see original post tags for explanation/commentary on the song snippet ✧

[majoresca]

A nickname my high school friends gave me at school, which is a pun on my name and some slangs.

Majo: It's a small part of my name.

Fresca (o) : It would be like calling someone a fussy/picky.

So they took the "F" out of fresca.

So it's major + resca.

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USERNAME LORE GIVE IT TO ME NOW YOU ALL

[coffeeworldsasaki]

Day 2 of trying to recover from the state of panic that rage and overworking have reduced my body to. I guess I'm feeling slightly better, my chest hurts just a bit now

[mcjimc]

tfw you can read a different alphabet but it's still unnatural to you so you're going through a word letter by letter.

also when you can remember the word you want but can't recognise it instantly written down in it's proper script.