#another language

[mon-nid]

Märden Lange • Another language (serie) • 2012

[frogaroundandfindout]

A group of villains go after Lian while she’s out with Toni and Chanda. Toni calls the titans for help and fends her opponents off as Lian and Chanda run into the woods. Upon arrival, Roy goes after his daughter and Garth + Arget team up. Dick arrives just in time to save Garth then Donna steps in to block the bullets aimed at dick. The villains are quickly taken down and the group goes to catch up with Roy (titans #21)

[ruhua-langblr]

Duolingo Sucks, Now What?: A Guide

Now that the quality of Duolingo has fallen (even more) due to AI and people are more willing to make the jump here are just some alternative apps and what languages they have:

"I just want an identical experience to DL"

Busuu (Languages: Spanish, Japanese, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Polish, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Korean)

"I want a good audio-based app"

Language Transfer (Languages: French, Swahili, Italian, Greek, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish, English for Spanish Speakers)

"I want a good audio-based app and money's no object"

Pimsleur (Literally so many languages)

Glossika (Also a lot of languages, but minority languages are free)

*anecdote: I borrowed my brother's Japanese Pimsleur CD as a kid and I still remember how to say the weather is nice over a decade later. You can find the CDs at libraries and "other" places I'm sure.

"I have a pretty neat library card"

Mango (Languages: So many and the endangered/Indigenous courses are free even if you don't have a library that has a partnership with Mango)

Transparent Language: (Languages: THE MOST! Also the one that has the widest variety of African languages! Perhaps the most diverse in ESL and learning a foreign language not in English)

"I want SRS flashcards and have an android"

AnkiDroid: (Theoretically all languages, pre-made decks can be found easily)

"I want SRS flashcards and I have an iphone"

AnkiApp: It's almost as good as AnkiDroid and free compared to the official Anki app for iphone

"I don't mind ads and just want to learn Korean"

lingory

"I want an app made for Mandarin that's BETTER than DL and has multiple languages to learn Mandarin in"

ChineseSkill (You can use their older version of the course for free)

"I don't like any of these apps you mentioned already, give me one more"

Bunpo: (Languages: Japanese, Spanish, French, German, Korean, and Mandarin)

[nightbynightfly]

An Album a Day 2024: Day 336

Dec. 1, 2024

This Will Destroy You - Another Language (2014)

Post-rock, Ambient, Instrumental

[fairydrowning]

– Noor Unnahar, Instagram account "noor_unnahar"

[TEXT ID: / [Lemons] / My father's mother loved lemons. Years after her passing, / we run out of everything, but never / lemons. / Nothing else shelters grief / better than memory. / It's my father way of saying, / even in your absence, you will be / cared by me. / END ID]

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: The difference of the nine tones in cantonese ....Can you actually tell 

[choccy-milky]

seb about to learn every language there is 📚📚

[trashy-raccoonz]

kimharry getting groceries tgt but instead they melt because of the heat, send post

also i might have gotten carried away and did a lil follow up comic....

[butchhamlet]

maybe i actually just hate so many critical takes on taming of the shrew. i’m not denying that this play can be performed AND read as containing a genuine romance—petruchio and katherine have the stichomythic banter that tends to signal chemistry in other plays, and of course one can decide how much katherine is playing along with him out of delight—but i feel about this play the way dara horn feels about the merchant of venice, that being “why does it feel like the entire world is trying to convince me that calling a bigoted play a bigoted play is the resort of the un-academic idiot?” “Staring into my phone, I sank into my own insecurity, which took the form of a belief that centuries of Shakespearean scholars, and Shakespeare himself, must surely know more than I do.”

and i do think that “this is bigoted” can be used to shoo away discussion. calling taming misogynistic (or merchant antisemitic) strikes me as a better start than end—that assertion opens up a new conversation about how bigotries form and solidify over time, how shakespeare might (might!) have tried (and failed?) to subvert them, where these plays echo our modern day and where they don’t, what we can learn from them, and perhaps most importantly how we handle the idea of one of the Greatest Writers Of All Time™️ creating something that contradicts our values? but some of the abstracts i’ve read about this play seem to bend backward to avoid coming within ten feet of the word or concept of “abuse.” if you are going to argue that petruchio is “inviting katherine into a private world” between the two of them, that he is “playing language games,” that he is helping her “develop her imagination” and “navigate chaos” when he deprives her of food and sleep while constantly contradicting her perception of basic reality—well, god help you, go ahead and write it and cite your line references! but you might just want to acknowledge that you have heard of spousal abuse and gaslighting, just, like, discreetly the once, even if you’re arguing that that isn’t what this is, because if you can’t recognize that conversation about this play should Say Those Terms, then you might as well try to write about hamlet without using the words madness, mental illness, or suicide! and what have i got to take you seriously for!

[celtrist]

Alastor doesn't actually know that much French canonically! In addition, it'd be French-creole rather than normal French if he did speak it fluently!

While I like the idea of him speaking a different language fluently, the thought of him having a hard time learning another language and having to read children's books and sound out the words is a very sweet idea. Particularly if he does so because his mother is able to speak the language just fine. Rise up for Alastor not knowing and having difficulties learning another language but he tries his best! Seriously this could be a fun and relatable aspect of his character that too many people are missing out on in favor of him speaking normal French fluently.

[technically-human]

About a pet name

[nakialli]

Read the oathbreaker by @lesbianherald y'all. At this point if you see medieval jayvik by me just assume bee is responsible for it

[salarymanwaka]

[canisalbus]

✦ Dies Veneris ✦

[14dayswithyou]

Olivia fell asleep in one of the aisles again...

how do you feel about ren being used in an ai chatbot advertisement?

⌞♥⌝ Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I genuinely despise everything about this so much, and if anyone comes across this ad on TikTok (or anywhere else), I'd really appreciate it if you could report the video and not give it any further engagement.

I'm vehemently against the use of AI that negatively impacts artists, writers/authors, developers, creators, etc., and I don't condone the use of my art and IP without my knowledge and explicit consent — especially when it's being used in a paid ad/sponsorship. It's extremely disrespectful and I have no respect for those who do it.