#Spanish and French required

[thatscarletflycatcher]

There are few things as wodehousian as that weird period in the 1800s where several nations were looking to hire royals to become their princes/kings/emperors.

[aegoromantic-shipper]

Saw this and couldn't help thinking that they didn't but...

[bettylatrepadora]

Hold up what is going on why are people mad at Dan again

[murky-tannin]

I hope more qsmp creators get some sort of subtitles for their streams past the qlobal translater. Whether it's something like Baghera's or the extension that Forever uses- or a combo of things like Badboyhalo. Especially the english creators. I think only Bad has the translator extension?

[moonchild-in-blue]

Watching you blog in Portuguese as somebody who understands Spanish is so funny to me. I comprehend a good amount of what you’re saying, and then something distinctly Portuguese comes through and I just have to to “ah, well, shit” -whataboutyouisamascot

(let me break my pt only rule today) @whataboutyouisamascot

Yeah, that's the thing about romance languages. We all sort of pretty much understand each other without too much difficulty. Especially Spanish and Portuguese, they are so so incredibly similar (since Portuguese did in fact originate from spanish), that you hardly need to change anything aside from certain terminations, etc.

I do see how wild it must be for someone who knows Spanish but isn't too familiar with Portuguese/isn't Spanish native to read random pt comments and stuff hahaha.

[rpfisfine]

i wanna take a law class so much this semester i took 4 years of law in high school so i consider myself somewhat of an expert and this is literally like an introduction course so itd just be free credits which is exactly what i need but it clashes with like 3 of my other subjects at once which is bad kind of

[lqnar]

”being bilingual is a privilege” is the most anerican and tumblr take to exist

[thatsuncleharrytoyouyoungman]

also my mom's coworker-ish has a daughther in the same spanish class as me lol whatever n they were talking yesterday apparently n my mother was like he told me his daughter got a job at the colombian embassy bc there was this event at uni thru the spanish class and she went n yada yada n i was like lkajdfkjsd????? what do you want me to say to this????????? idk crying

[pvffinsdaisies]

I have to be so honest I think for what Duolingo is and what it offers it’s wayyyyy overly criticised

[labwebs]

🕸y’know while i get *some* of the criticisms that the mcu borrowed some of miles’ stuff for mcu peter (mostly ned sorta being ganke), i really don’t understand the “he speaks spanish!!1!” bit tbh. like. yeah. he’s a high schooler in the ny school system. he’s gotta take another language to graduate if he wants his regents degree. several years if he wants a higher diploma or did since uh y’know. and spanish is probably the most useful. so like. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[bookwyrminspiration]

Existing is cool. We all exist in some capacity.

I hope you do well in the seal of biliteracy test! I personally have another few years before I need to take it, and that will be in French most likely.

Hopefully if I do write a fanfic you will just end up finding it in the wild. Not likely but it could happen

Anyway, I hope that you start to feel more human later.

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Existing is pretty cool! And thank you. I have no clue what my scoring is gonna be on that one, because I know my speaking section was...subpar at best, but maybe the other 3 sections were good enough to offset that? Who knows!

At least you know that it's a possibility! I didn't even know the seal or the test was a thing until like a month ago when I got an email like "hey quil sign up to take this test you took enough foreign language credits for it" like...you mean the courses I took...over a year ago??

just because I have an associated in spanish doesn't mean I know what I'm doing

And even if its unlikely for me to find your fic in the wild, I can still hope! I mean, i'll never know whether or not it was yours, but still! But yeah unlikely. I don't read a lot of fanfic, actually. Like 95% of the time I read a fic it's to support a mutual who wrote it, not because I particularly felt like reading fics. Ironic considering I'm a fic writer, but true.

Thank you for the well wishes though! I'm not particularly concerned with feeling human, but I understand and appreciate the sentiment, and I wish the same for you!

[somegaymernerd]

my genuine guess for the first one is that it has something to do with bisexuals at the doctor getting prescribed antibiotics…? I don’t get the joke

genuine guess for the second one is something like “the problem is the monolinguists” with the guy labeled as “you” I think??? then the bottom text is something like “a casual conversation” or something?

i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

[isa-renee]

spent an hour and a half in a spanish class today despite not speaking a word of spanish so that was a fun time aslgkskgkdk

[magz]

"Advocating For Palestine" - a free 16-page booklet for Pro-Palestine allies, recommended by journalist bisan (wizard_bisan1). A basic primer.

Available Languages: English, Arabic, German, French, Spanish, Mandarin Chinese.

Link to download and view page:

Edit (June 15, 2024): This is an old post. The reblogs have been turned off for at least *months*. The reason is that, have come to the conclusion that it just isn't worth it to have such a flawed primer as an introduction.

A lot of the pamplet is true. However, there are parts of the pamphlet that are misinformative, requiring critical thinking and familiarity to recognize. And am disagree with the methods and priorities.

(e.g. like synonymizing indigeneity with "who was there first" and using a conspiracy theory to prove it. In actuality, indigeneity is a relation to colonialism as colonized vs colonizer. decolonize palestine addressed Israeli claims of indigeneity here much much better than the pamphlet did - identifying the claims as unnecessary *excuses* for genocide instead).

The primer also focuses on the idea of arguing against zionists as an important part of activism and as a way of "going against misinformation".

But as it stands right now: it is much more important to educate oneself, yet shut off engagement with zionists and their propaganda. To then instead focus on the affected. Palestinians. Meaning, not prioritizing your time on zionists.

Every information requires critical thinking sure, but of this primer's levels of flaws and different priority - isn't it better to just check the other resources in our pinned post instead? or better yet, the information of any major trustworthy Palestinian source and blogger even.

[m0tel6mxzzy]

i think it would be such a flex if i became fluent in spanish (i’ve studied it in school for like 6 years but it’s kinda plopped from my brain at this point) and applied myself better in french and learned more swahili so i can say i know four languages

[sinkableruby]

if you could learn 2 languages, but 1 of them was not 1 that you planned to use much for communication with other people, what would you choose?

for my language that i would use for communication, i'd say japanese (which i'm learning right now! :D)

for my non communicative language there are a few options. i might choose russian bc theres a lot of russian novels and media i'd like to read/consume and be able to experience in the original language. alternatively i might choose german because it'd be interesting to compare its similarities with english as another west germanic language. alternatively alternatively i might choose chinese to learn a language with no tenses (although learning all those kanji and their slight differences with japanese kanji might kill me tbh). but this is probably the hardest one so maybe not.