#back to german though
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🙃 and 😱 for the langblr emoji asks!
🙃 - Is your target language hard for you?
Each language has its challenges, but I wouldn't really say any of them are particularly difficult for me, say, to the point of frustration. I have struggled with genders and cases in German, but changing the way I think about them has helped!
😱 - What other languages do you know?
I was raised monolingual, so English is the only language other than my target languages that I'm highly proficient in, but I guess I could say Spanish! I've mentioned this a few times here, but I took Spanish all throughout high school and had around B2 level proficiency by the time I graduated. I didn't keep up with it after I graduated, though, so although I have a working knowledge of it, I'm extremely rusty (and I was never super great to begin with). I always say that Japanese is the language that taught me how to learn languages, so if I could redo those years after I graduated (and even while I was studying!) I definitely would've kept up with it and wouldn't have let it deteriorate to this point. One of these days I'd like to work my Spanish back up to a usable point, but it's not something that's in the cards right at this moment.
Thank you for asking! ♥
#ask game#benkyou posting#langblr#studyblr#i think a lot of the ''this language is hard'' mentality comes from test taking#and i dont care to take any language learning slash proficiency tests right now#im not even in classes rn#although i would be if i could#language learning#polyglot#back to german though#i was struggling to remember noun genders#and then i was like wait a minute. how is this any different from remembering tones in mandarin#and then i stopped having troubles lmao#i guess just looking at it differently helped me#because i wasnt thinking about how hard X is but rather comparing it to something that i know i can do
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''There sits Sigurd stained with blood; Fafnir's heart he roasts in the fire. I would call the prince wise and prudent if he himself ate that gleaming heart."
-Poems of the Elder Edda - tl: Patricia Ann Terry
#photopost#my stuff#guilty gear#sol badguy#order sol#finished stuff#If this looks familiar it's because I did the sketch digitally back in October for Soltober#I printed it out then lightboxed it onto a piece of bristol board where I inked it with dip pens#Then scanned it in and did the colors digitally#This has been sitting half-finished for months now. Made myself sit down and put a fork in it today#I like Jackson Crawford's translation of the Poetic Edda a bit more but Terry's is good#If you didn't know: Sigurd eats the heart of a dragon (Fafnir) and gets some cool powers from it#Sigurd is the same guy as Siegfried in the German stories (which don't seem to focus on the dragon stuff as much..?)#I haven't read as many of the German stories though. The Norse stuff's more my domain
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Sorry ab the shitty English translations/localizations, it's bc they think that Americans won't get it otherwise (bc when we act stupid, we act REALLY stupid), our bad 💀
#ganondoodles answers#ganondoodles talks#for the record- this is mostly a joke#i have .. alot of gripes with alot of it#but i know localization isnt easy this isnt supposed to hate on the people doing it#.............. i can still dislike it though#the most annoying part is that the largest .. or most accessible part of the fandom is english only and i have to deal with all the english#-versions which are always so darn different .. and sometimes stupid .. im sorry ....#one of the wildest things was watching a non english stream and the guy puzzling over a riddle in a shrine quest#and people posting him the english text of the quest that just ... spells out the solution#AND then complaining about how bad the german one is bc he and others seemed to assume english is the center language of everything#ITS A RIDDLE#ITS NOT A RIDDLE OF YOU DONT HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT#not plainly telling you the solution to a (not even that hard) puzzle isnt a sign of bad translation !!!!!!!!!! TOT#im not beyond being dumb btw#a few shrines in totk i left bc i freakign forgot the stupid abilities#but thats ok!!!! i went back at some point and thought man was i stupid#and thats not a bad thing!! maybe thats why all the shrines where so piss easy in general#so as few people as possible can get stuck on some .. whichs is so ... pls .. i want to think#let me get mad for a minute even if im not in a good mood and then return and see my own stupidity#....but also the shrines in totk just werent fun (to me to meeeee to meeeeee)#nigh all of it was just fiddling around with ultrahand ... and not even building anything fun- glue wheel to platform- shrine done yippiiie#make bridge- yippiiii- ...nevermind how you can pretty much skip everything all the time so easily (which i didnt do .. still wasnt that fu
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hi! meet your writer/artist :)
i posted this on insta but decided that tumblr deserved to see it as well, so here you go hehe
#art#meet the artist#back to the future#bttf#tagging this bttf because yeah. i am bttf actually#cant believe im an adult now tbh#omw to set up a fuckin po box so i can get packages from my online friends#also i tried beer today. at the oktoberfest. peak german 18th bday#the beer sucked though#im sticking to lemonade
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AHHHHH YESSS F*CKING FINALLY!!!!!!!!!
The German Voice Cast of Dragon Age: The Veilguard
Rook - Jesse Grimm/Samina König Varric - Tilo Schmitz Solas - Ozan Ünal Harding- Sarah Tkotsch Davrin - Daniel Welbat Bellara - Leonie Landa Neve - Cornelia Waibel Taash - Anni Sultany Emmrich - Robin Brosch Lucanis - Rasmus Borowski
#FINALLY TWO DAYS BEFORE RELEASE#so they went with Toneworx in Hamburg again?? Like Origins??#omg NICE#Emmrich is voiced by Nathaniel Howe lmaooo#and Davrin's actor is also a singer?? He sounds so good??? AHHHHHH#they're all great!! they match perfectly from what I've heard!!#my only gripe is that they got poor Sarah Tkotsch again for Harding nooooo#she got so much criticism back then that they actually recast her for the DLCs#her performance was...... special :I#like she had no range 😭#but she's cute lol#maybe her acting has gotten better in the last ten years? 😅#everyone else though sounds amazing!! I'm so happyyyy#Ozan and Tilo are back I'm SO relieved!!#what about the other two Rooks though? are there only two options in German? 🤨#<3333333333#datv#dragon age the veilguard#VA stuff
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Me, watching Helga hold Kida captive: "Haha, Toxic Yuri."
Me, seeing Helga slowly relinquish her grip on Kida throughout the scene as Things Get Worse, until she's looking almost worriedly at Crystal Kida: "Oh no."
#atlantis: the lost empire#look just saying helga was raised a protestant with german roots until she lost her faith around the early parts of the century#turned to mercenary work#it got more and more unpleasant but she figured ''hey this is one last job''#and then she's less and less comfortable holding kida hostage and watching her father get tortured#and then she sees kida bowing and praying and it's calling back to her praying days#and she's mystified and in awe#and you can do something with that#helga sinclair#princess kida#atlantis the lost empire#I don't think there's anything that you can really do with it though#their characters don't really mesh#and helga blows up#and there's no ''Oh Kida can bring her back with Atlantean magic" path either#she fell and died#then a balloon fell on her and she died#then a volcano erupted on her and she died#and then an ocean crashed on her and she died#helga is like...everywhere right now#she's in the stones she's in the currents she's ending up on coastlines all around the world that is a dead woman
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Yuki and Daniel make a football team out of F1 drivers
from Red Bull Ring
#yuki tsunoda#daniel ricciardo#f1#scuderia alphatauri#love how they put Carlos in his best position not bcos of his actual skills but bcos ‘he’s Spanish’ lmao have they seen his goals#Yuki calling fullback/wing back ‘side back’ ummm#Daniel wanting to be fullback just so he can run and tackle ppl#who told them Charles was good at football lmao. have fun face planting#of course George is the coach lmao#but also them saying they prefer German coaching to an English one is probably fair#sticking George in goal though lmao
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#idk what's going on but I'm amused#so ludwig's name is a mash up of a german silent film and an italian film maker#and maybe a german architect#the two mountain ranges make it seem like austria though?#fallen london#flmp#mp#fallen london spoilers#estival spoilers#oh it would have been austria-hungary back then
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This album came up on the train today ^.^
#BAAL japan#music#electro-industrial#Territory Of “B.A.A.L”#i remember the moment cevin key got hooked on them back when i followed him on facebook asdflkjh he was singing their praises every day#thought they had to be more well known through him? but i can't even find a >128k rip#found a german fansite from almost 20 years ago ... webmaster seems to be alive though. should i send him a message
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Something I love about Yiddish is being able to pick out some word or phrase that's intelligible to me, which is cool considering I haven't touched german in over three years
#yiddish#funnily enough i am studying hebrew first and foremost but i've been listening to a lot of music in yiddish#i do still want to learn yiddish though because i'm under the impression that many american jews speak yiddish#apparently yiddish is a vulnerable language on the endangerment scale??? :/#also considering english is a germanic language it does make understanding yiddish a bit easier in some ways#but my brain kind of translates it from yiddish > german bits i understand/pick up on > english#maybe i should pick german back up because parts of my family are from germany (i'm like third or fourth gen?? i think???)#i said german because again my brain is weird about how it understands and self-translates languages i understand to any capacity
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As someone who went to Germany and spent like 70% of the time in churches, Von karma sibling growing up Christian head canons is so fucking personal to me
#ace attorney#von karma siblings#miles edgeworth#franziska von karma#if anyone is curious the reason was i was on a choral music tour with my schools chapel choir#a series of words that i know require so much explaining but take it#german church architecture is fucking bomb though just saying#absolutely stunning#i may dislike almost everything about Christianity in practice but they did go hard with the aesthetic#mvk would be Christian. he just would. he has that christan religious flair#i bet he like talked all the time about how laws come from religion#he like said one prayer about Gregory and thought he was fogiven and in no eay in the wrong#and Miles spent every fucking waking second there thinking he could never be forgiven for murdering his father#he probably becomes an atheist after he moves back to America because he needs that rational explanation for everything#but probably still thought he was damned because the only thing thay can over come Edgeworth's insistance on logic is his self hatred#fran probably had such a fucking complex about being a perfect Christian but it probably gets deconstructed eventually as she recovers#honestly i think its gone by 2-1 probably due to her father being a perfect christian but also a murderer#because she is really chill with channeling#it's probably something she loses when MVK dies
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My mum bought my dog a squeaky toy for Christmas and I got to wake up to my dog literally abusing the poor toy by rapidly squeezing it and I’m pretty sure I’m losing my hearing but at least my dog is having the time of her life
#good morning vee#like soon I’ll be performing surgery on that duck and taking the squeaky thing out and giving it back to Aino#there’s a reason why I don’t buy squeaky toys to my dog#and it’s because she goes way too overboard and squeaks them just rapidly until the squeaky thing dies#like a large german shepherd versus a squeaking stuffed animal#the winner is pretty clear#though I find it funny and adorable how a big working dog is just a puppy at heart#but the real question is why do the squeaky things have to be so loud#my poor ears#but Aino here is like ain’t nothing gonna break my stride#vee talks#aino the dog
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everybody look away. i'm posting nostalgia for my 14 year old self.
a random post instantly propelled me back to my fairy tail days, and i heard it's the 10 year anniversary of Gruvia week so 🥺 one day i'll do a full ft rewatch ...
#my fanart#gruvia week#gruvia#fairy tail#juvia lockser#gray fullbuster#my god. even just typing these tags is sending me back 12 years.#i remember the time me and my best friend picked up vol1 of fairy tail the manga in GERMAN! i remember reading it alongside him.#juvia has always been a fave of mine <3 even though absolutely everything about her can not have held up <3 in a feminist way <3#anyway. i'm a lesbian artist so i get to post het once a year. and this is it. look away i'll go back to revue posting soon#also top surgery scars gray because I GET TO DECIDE.
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remember when i broke up with my boyfriend in november and inevitably took the first step down a dark and twisted alternate path of my story which has had multiple negative repercussions on myself and others
#lowkey though it can be traced back to another couple who is somehow still together#not fair#it is all the fault of this white german
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Not me sobbing in front of my TV again to the credits of final fantasy VIII rolling as if I haven't played this game a bazillion times before
#goddamn I love this game. so much.#despite - or maybe even because of - all it's weaknesses#it was a whole different experience to replay it in german though and it really brought back a fundamental love I have for this game#I remember feeling oddly outlandish when I joined the english speaking fandom because of how different I interpreted the characters due to-#-the differing translation#but hands down? I prefer the german localisation and how the characters are portrayed#GAH. many thots again.
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did I hear him correctly?? bro's just saying things at this point 😭 the fucking deadpan delivery too is just killing me
#akudama drive#wasn't the original line like 'you have such dirty eyes'#which didn't really make much sense#BUT WHY IS HE SAYING CUCKOO#YOU'RE NOT A CLOCK!!!!!#it's so cute though 🥺#I wish I actually knew German I'm dying to understand more than just 20% of these line changes#Keith get over here and sub the entire German dub back into English#für mich bitte? 🥺🥺🥺#ich wolle zo sehr eine volle Verständnis haben von es
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