#That Vocabulary Tho

[kingofthering]

When it comes to drivers and riders (or athletes in general, to be fair), I feel like people love the extremes and when it comes to the relationship between two competitors, it always has to be either ‘they’re friends outside of the circuit’ or ‘they hate each other’.

There is a wide range of things in between, including ‘they like each other enough to hang out during race weekends’ and ‘they’re able to have fun together in front of a camera / in a polite setting’ and ‘they’re good ignoring each other, full neutral’.

And then there is respect coming into play and I feel like you could place any pairing of your choosing on a grid that goes from ‘ennemies’ to ‘besties’ on the X axis and ‘mutal disrespect’ to ‘mutual respect’ on the Y axis.

[genericpuff]

Hephaestus created social media and sold it to the other gods as something to boost security.

Hephaestus was fast to proof his claims.

Hephaestus and Aphrodite are divorced and everyone saw the falldown through the said social media.

Conclusion?: Hephaestus created social media as a trap to catch Aphrodite cheating him?

(P.s. Even though this comic has nothing to do with the videogame Hades, it is nice to see that this version of Tisiphone knows way more words than variations of "murder" 😂)

[idk-bruh-20]

rip ultron Tony Stark would've loved to call you ChatGPT

[jessiescock]

ok i got another one

i can’t seem to find a comprehensive list of dub languages online rn, these are the audio options i can select on my netflix account – not included in the poll but also available to me are hindi, indonesian, thai and a japanese audio description. idk tho if those are all that were produced or if there’s more options that are just not available in my region, lmk if there’s something else i missed here! also if you’ve listened to/watched multiple of these options do kindly tell which one(s) you like best!

[jrueships]

2 toxic mentally ill men saying exaaaaactly to each other

[clownboybebop]

I wish I could survive without living with family rn. I love my family and they love me but that only really matters as long as im doing what they want with no complaint. im less than human here and I don’t have the ability to change that without upsetting or alienating my only current means of existence

[this-should-do]

me when i meet with my colleges first out trans teacher who is like a celebrity with me after one of my teachers puts me in contact with her again (i had interviewed said trans teacher 4 years prior and hadnt met with her since) and she tells me tjat my teacher had so many positive things to say about me, about how i was one of her brightest most well spoken students and that she (within like 5 minutes of having been talking) immediately sees exactly what my professor had been talking about and so many super implied positives about me that i would never had known about and i dod everything in my power to avoid prying for more details but even what i heard was soso nicies

[fettiowi]

Learning a third language is a very interesting experience Its like... I've already been through this process before. I know what its like. even if my third language is very different from my second (and first for that matter) the general experience of learning the vocabullary and grammar and developing another "brain" for it and all is the same And i can compare my progress on my third with how it was on my second Idk... just interesting, i suppose. Very fun tbh

[feelingthedisaster]

that awkard moment in which my teacher says "your english is so good and you have a really wide vocabulary" and i have to pretend it isnt because of fanfiction

[vonlipvig]

language learning texts are always so wild, because why is this 30yo woman getting interviewed about this 4 week old baby she's holding like 'oh is this your son?' 'no this is my brother, my dad started a new family'. like HELLO? when do we learn how to ask if her father's a slut?

[qilingxiong]

hi ash, i think i may have asked this before, but from one asian diaspora to another, i was wondering how, if you're able to, you keep up with your chinese practice in a country that's dominated by english (and/or french canadian since ik you live in canada). bc i know a lot of suggestions are like turning your tech to the language you want to learn, put sticky notes on objects with the name in the language you want to learn, etc. but like. i feel like it doesn't matter how much i try and practice bc i'm not in a class, so i don't get it consistently enough, and the rest of my day is filled with english bc, well, that's my first language, and what is needed for my job and every day living. do you have any recs, strategies, or tips? i'm getting desperate; i used to be so much better than i am now. thanks!

hi! honestly, most of my chinese upkeep since i stopped taking mandarin classes (which tbh was relatively recent; this april, and then i'll be taking a cantonese class next term so i can learn to read it) has been a lot less I Need To Practice My Chinese through exercises or dedicated study time, and more just making sure i have frequent exposure to the language that i'm also engaged in. which is a long way to say that basically c-media is how i'm maintaining my proficiency.

i listen to music, i watch dramas and variety shows, look up other vids on bilibili that catch my interest, sometimes read articles, and (very slowly) read fanfic, with pleco open to note new words. just generally scrolling through chinese social media has helped too. having that environment i can immerse myself in helps me learn new vocabulary and practice using what i already know + listening skills, but it also doesn't feel like work or study, just dealing with things i like and am interested in. (this is important for me because i'm so exhausted when i get home every day lmao, if language upkeep outside of class felt like additional Student Time i might have tapped out on attempting it. this way turning on a c-drama at the end of the day just seems like relaxation first and then chinese exposure on top of it).

just by poking through c-drama or fandom things, i know my vocabulary has definitely expanded since i finished my last class, instead of shrunk. even though i watch c-dramas with english subtitles (or chinese and english depending on the platform), i've still picked up stuff from them, and when it comes to things like variety shows i don't rely on subtitles anymore/make myself not. you absorb a lot more of a language than you think just through exposure, imo. although as a caveat for reading specifically, picking up new characters, recognizing them, and reading has been one of the easier parts of learning chinese for me, when it's probably the inverse for a lot of people. i don't know how well just casually reading things will work as a method for others, ymmv.

the thing that i struggle with is getting opportunities to practice speaking, because it's english in my classes and usually with my friends, and either english or cantonese with my family (and i'm not living with them right now). however, i do have a lot of diaspora friends given that i'm in vancouver, and we occasionally dip into speaking mandarin or cantonese. this isn't perfect, but hopefully in future i'll be able to get more speaking experience somehow. what's also helped me with keeping up pronunciation despite these limits is learning to sing chinese songs. singing is one of my hobbies anyway, so i'll use pinyin or jyutping as a guide (getting better at sightreading characters for singing though!) and it's helped me work on certain sounds i had trouble with, and improved my accent. (watching c-dramas even if i don't speak as often has also aided on that front tbh; i listened to recordings of myself from last year and i sound less canto when i speak mandarin now compared to back then, or even earlier this year).

if you want a place to start that i personally think has helped me maintain chinese proficiency, i would choose a variety show you're interested in and try watching it without english subtitles, when you've got free time and want to do something fun. most will have chinese ones you can use to practice reading along with listening, and people usually speak at a conversational enough level that it shouldn't be too difficult to follow along (for ref, after a year and a half of heritage learner mandarin classes at uni i could watch 《我们的歌》/Our Song without english subtitles and understand most of it). variety shows are also really accessible lmao, so many have full seasons on youtube.

tl;dr it's been media exposure for me all the way down since i left classes, wherever i can get it.

not sure how actually helpful all this rambling might be, but this is what i do to keep up my chinese proficiency and keep learning in daily life nowadays! hopefully maybe you or someone else will be able to get something out of it :)

[porcelainvino]

me and my video essay ideas except i cannot form a coherent thought ever so they will never be made

[thelikesoffinn]

An accurate depiction of me and my Thesaurus while playing, because Baxter keeps using big words and I'm nothing but a non-native trying to survive.

[hockeylovee12]

They did not need to do this

[warriorcrown]

i log in to see what wacky hijinks are afoot on my dash today. i see anons churning out the most weirdly phrased, terminally online hate. i log back out.

[magentagalaxies]

losing my goddamn mind bruce mcculloch just started an email to me with the phrase "hello to my jess friend"