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cup-noodle · 2 months ago

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the cruelest thing about the world is that there's so many languages and a girl can't learn all of them

#legit have like 5 things open at once and i'm losing my mind #slovenian and english are locked down #german is far enough to function in so that's fine #but then i have a 50 day streak of swedish (cause it's my fav country to visit)#and i've done like three monthly spurts of russian (cause it sounds so pretty and also slavic so it's not that hard)#and i've done asl for years and love it more than anything #and i fully plan to start in-person classes for slovenian sign (so it'll actually be useful here and great if i come across deaf patients)#anyways. having a good one #my brain is screaming to stop and do one at a time but i don't have the discipline for that #noodle rambles #language stuff #langblr

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etchif · 4 months ago

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I'm always looking for an opportunity to say 'let's have a child together and ask it what it thinks' so far no good opportunity to use this phrase has been presented to me but I'm always on the lookout

#someone rbd the 'what language class did you take in school' poll where I states in the tags that I took english and french #*stated #and that I was great at english but sucked at french #from me and said they took english and german were good at english but sucked at german #and I WANTED to say 'I'm german and sucked at french you're french and sucked at german let's have a child together and ask it what it t #thinks' but I couldn't FIND any concrete evidence on that person's blog to confirm that they really ARE french #it would have been perfect. and potentially only funny to me. but funny nontheless

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cosmogyros · 3 months ago

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It's fucking weird how rude people are about immigration sometimes. And I don't just mean bigots being biased and stuff. I mean that, on a REGULAR basis, people ask me if I'm thinking about "going back to the US". And I'm just like... no? What do you mean "back to the US"? I live in Germany. I LIVE IN GERMANY.

I literally fucking started learning German and obsessing on German culture in high school, then I went to college in the US and majored in German Studies, including two study-abroad programs in Germany, then I moved to Germany for grad school and lived there for three years and worked in various German-speaking jobs while studying, then I had to temporarily return to the US but found a German-translation-based job at the US branch of a German company, and made a bunch of German or at least German-speaking friends in my new US city, and then a few years later I was able to move back to Germany, where I got a work visa sponsored by my employer and a full-time salaried job, and after a few more years I acquired my permanent residency, and soon I'll be applying for citizenship.

And people still sometimes ask me whether I'm considering "going back to the US". Like... dude? Would you ask a Mexican living in the US about their plans for "going back to Mexico"? That is rude as fuck.

Immigration is fucking hard. Why on earth would I have gone through all this shit just to throw it up in the air like "Oh well, never mind!"

#i'm sorry but this honestly makes me rage #why do so many people take my commitment to this country and culture so unseriously?#i have learned the language #i have worked here in the same full-time job for six years now #ffs my number-one most played musical artist on last.fm of ALL TIME is a german-language band #(four of my top ten most-played artists are german-language musicians for that matter)#is it because i'm white and upper-middle-class #so i come across as one of those irritating globe-hopping laptop-working culturally oblivious 'expat' types?#I AM NOT A FUCKING EXPAT #I AM AN IMMIGRANT #i have moved to a different country and i am not very financially well off and i am humbly grateful to live here #and i have learned the damn language (yes that's worth repeating) and am not interested in jumping from brazil to thailand to spain to etc.#cosmo gyres #tag rant #grump grump #god this shit drives me up the wall

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martiestudies · 3 months ago

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besties should i learn italian or french

and why

#martie talks #as a spanish native speaker if it helps #im trying to decide bc i dont think i can commit to both #and also i wanna keep learning korean so i need to set a limit #LANGUAGE HELP #langblr #i think i can take academic classes of both BUT WHICH ONE #german was also on the list but i think my priorities lie with these two

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hurdy-girly · 7 months ago

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Drew this for five extra credit points in my German class. It took an hour :’)

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athetos · 2 months ago

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Also yes I’m reading Babel by R F Kuang and I’m hooked I did not expect to get this invested as I’m not typically a fan of alt history or any period pieces but i feel like ive been to 19th century Oxford like I’m a dark academia blogger who ships lord Byron with Percy bysse Shelley. I’ve heard so many conflicting opinions on this book I know it’s very divisive but regardless of how I much I enjoy it once I finish at least I can impress my friends by reciting the etymologies of random words.

#I am learning so much my brain is swollen. I love linguistics but I don’t have the mind for it #I’ve tried many times via classes or on my own to learn other languages #from French to Japanese to Korean to German #and at this point I’ve just accepted I’m only going to be fluent in English #I took like 5 years of French between high school and college and I can understand most of what I read #but you want me to speak it or understand a native speaker?#it’s beyond me #I’m actually kind of sad now thinking about this. time to make dinner and cope.#babel an arcane history

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skitskatdacat63 · 9 months ago

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I have to write a relatively long German paper, and man its just so difficult for me. The pro side is that I can pick any topic I want, so of course I picked Charles VI. But I've literally not written any German in months, and I'm almost 100% sure our prof doesn't actually read them. I should just write and submit boy king fic....

#i wish it was in English #bcs i would be very happy about it #but i have lost so much capacity for any German writing #bcs he sucks so much as a prof and has dropped the ball on actual language learning imo #how am i supposed to suddenly write a 7-8 pg paper after youve spent all our class time just lecturing at us #and giving us no real opportunity to really learn or test our skills #i shall.. probably just cheat.#LIKE i want to learn german so badly #but what the fuck is the point of even trying when i know im not going to get actual feedback on my writing #why should i even try at that point. put that much effort in and know that he doesnt really care at all #it just sucks so much bcs i genuinely love and am so fascinated w the topic #but the idea that id put so much work into translating it only for him not to read it really kills me #again. just submit boy king fic and see if he notices sjfkgllblb #but do you know what i mean? like im sure ill write a good version in english that i think is actual good content #but translating it is such a lost cause bcs all the effort is reallt for nothing #like atp im jusy interested in the history more than making an effort w the language #ugh i wish i wasnt this way but yknow lack of stimulation anf feedback really kills my enjoyment and interest #like see i can convince myself that thr eng version of teh paper is my typical personal research #<- i mean im making a fucking family tree for funsies so this isnt that far off #but the translation part is so difficult bcs my german has been eroding a bit SOB SOB #lol anyways i say this bcs i was plotting a boy king fic in my head as i was goong to bed #and was like oh i shoulf write it out tmr! and then remembered I HAVE AN ESSAY UGH #well yeah. suffering. we'll see how i feel abt i write the original copy and if i have the capacity to germanify it #i just feel so guilty about it. cheating. I dont want to and it feels so low effort and terrible #but why would i force myself thru all that for a guy who barely reads it #catie.rambling.txt

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delyth88 · 5 months ago

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Okay, how do you guys handle having a lot of different hobbies? Do you cycle them through, like focus on one a month? Do a tiny bit of each one all the time? Focus on one until you *have* to move to another (eg there's a deadline or something)?

It's a never ending source of frustration for me that I don't have enough time in life to do all the things I want to do.

#random #not fandom #tho fandom is one of my hobies #that is currently being neglected in favour of revising german language before my night class starts later this month

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arcanewebs · 2 years ago

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does. anyone else experience the language learning pipeline of like

yeah why not seems kinda fun -> (optional step) the writing system is crazy bro -> damn theres no WAY im gonna remember any of this shit -> genuine interest and fascination with the differences between languages and needing to Know more

and its because of the stupidest reason for starting learning it in the first place

#me personally i only started french because i didnt want to do spanish or german #and we had to take a language #now look at me. ap student gonna take the exam in less than two months #did one course for asl because i needed to fill a credit and it seemed easy enough to do online #and i was so interested by deaf culture and i was having sm fun with learning signs #but i never continued it for?? some reason??#i didnt take japanese any further than hiragana and some katakana but it was fun learning the writing system #not that i remember more than maybe 30% of it #and now im trying to learn ukrainian on duolingo and other outside sources #partially just bc i was curious #but now im like. very entranced by it #i have a google doc vocab list and everything #its very fun for me :) even if i dont use it in everyday life and if i drop it after a week #its also so fun to speak #I NEED TO. SHUTUP omfg #tldr languages are sk cool.. to Me.. i should take a linguistics class sometime…

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mariocki · 1 day ago

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Shadows of Fear: Sour Grapes (1.9, Thames, 1971)

"Sprechen Sie Deutsch?"

"What? Uh, eh - eh, no. Nein."

"Habla... usted español?"

"Uh, no hablo. Inglés. English."

"Ich spreche kein Englisch."

"Oh, wonderful. Here we go."

"What d'you think he wants?"

"Feel free to ask."

#shadows of fear #sour grapes #classic tv #horror tv #single play #1971 #thames #roger marshall #kim mills #isabel dean #daniel massey #ray smith #simon gough #strangely enough‚ this might be the episode of this show which most strongly lodged itself in my mind from that first watch all those #years ago. the thing is‚ tho i remembered the broad outline and some images‚ i couldn't remember *why* i remembered it.. if that makes #sense. was it because it was brilliant? or because it was awful? watching it again and it's entirely neither; it's pure Roger Marshall‚#albeit on one of his less than inspired days (and showcasing a vaguely troubling sense of gender politics which only occasionally shows in #his work). a middle aged middle class couple on holiday suffer a home invasion from a German on the run‚ it seems‚ from the law. the #language barrier is really the source of tension here‚ and is milked for all it's worth (another slightly stretched out ep). i think i may #have recalled it bc of the incongruity of the German character being played by good old welsh boy Ray Smith (i was probably not long #finished with Public Eye on that occasion) but actually watching it back now he's really quite good; his German accent and attempts at the #language are certainly more convincing than Massey's vaguely defined northern lilt‚ bless him. it's not bad nor great but the very ending #didn't sit great with me‚ as I suspect it didn't the first time. a rather slight plot expanded beyond its means. impressive villa set tho!#i wonder if they found that in storage? surely it wasn't built for this one off play...

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bookishjules · 18 days ago

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making my mc interested in something i have no knowledge of was certainly a choice.

#every single one of his other classes i have taken (aside from german but like a hs language class is a hs language class)#why couldn't he have fixated on one of those T-T #writing #jules talks (and talks)

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miaoqing · 7 months ago

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we should have more pronouns in english. not necessarily neopronouns but like can we please at least invent new ones for objective and possessive cases

she (subj) stepped closer to HER (obj) and took HER (possessive) hand.

why are they the same?!?!?!! imagine how much easier it would be to write lesbians

#please do NOT actually tell me why they're the same PLEASE #i have taken classes on grammar and english language history and those were DARK times #no but seriously germanic languages are so fuckass with this #why do men get he him his ...... but wamen only she her ......#and hers i guess #but like.#grr!!!!#instead of she (s) her (o) hers (p)#let's have she (o) sher (o) her/s (p)#sher is not a word AND it looks like it belongs there #do you belieeeveeee--*gunshot*#miao

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skitskatdacat63 · 1 year ago

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Please god, can someone give me the strength to write ANOTHER 900 word essay in German, I DON'T WANNA I DONT WANNA PLEASE NO

#disliking this course more than i thought i would #oh yes german linguistics!!! okay!!! sure i love that!!!#and then my grade is dependent on literally only writing assignments #i actually want to die. this brings me soooooooo much fucking pain #i just really despise the whole idea of it #you put a bunch of people in one class with differing skill level #and then make them all write 900 word essays in a language theyre not 100% on yet #and the content is soooo much just him rambling in class IN GERMAN !#and not all of it is on the slides so fuck if i remember #and even if i did remember its so much me trying to focus on catching what hes saying than actually absorbing it #and the topic even if i was writing in english would make me struggle #and you guys know!! im great at rambling!! BUT NOT AUF DEUTSCH #and then. when you finally finish slaving over this fucking disaster of a paper #you submit it. and his only comment is just: sehr gur gemacht.#yeah why the fuck would i feel the need to burn myself like this +#only to get feedback that feels like he only looked at the word count and nothing else #like not even going to correct my grammer or???? what am i learning other than writing the same kind of bs sentences over and over #i despise word count essays btw #youre not really writing for quality youre writing for quantity #bcs if the only real outline you get is that you hit the word count then why do i give any shit about the quality of it #like i submitted a paper for my other class and she gave like 100+ edits on it #not only comments but also grammer correction #and like????? why do i not get that from the class that is teaching me a foreign fucking language #yeah sure its not bad to correct the grammar of your first language but cmon my god please help me a bit or smth #but yeah its due on Wednesday and i just think im going to fucking die before then #choking on my stress tears or smth #as i said it would be fine if it felt like he was actually checking them in depth #but i hate assignments where im only doing it for the grade. like i actually want to uhhh learn yknow???????#but yes i need someone to cheerlead me on or smth bcs itll take so much resolve to not just give up #and i wont give up bcs i want to keep my gpa but thats exactly thr issue isnt it? that i dont care about the content?

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plutonium-antea-statum · 1 month ago

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Has anyone made a Die Wand (1968) by Marlen Haushofer (aka “The Wall” in english) AU of Malevolent yet because I need it/have thought about it too much

#read it for class in one language #then watched the movie in german with english subtitles #i would like to remind you that I do not speak german at all #jermay thinks sometimes #malevolent podcast #marlen haushofer #malevolent

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daughterofhecata · 1 month ago

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#i usually don't get those posts like 'i want to hear him speak [language - usually spanish] to me!!'#but i am also having a crush on a man who speaks like 8 languages or more and like.#i wanna hear him talk in all of them for like five sentences at least #just to hear how it sounds #the occasional three words of italian in a row before he switches back to german are not enough #but at least i'll have a class in english with him in a few weeks #to delete later #my stupid little crush

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study-ela · 4 months ago

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01.08.2024

#german classes #study blog #study motivation #study study study #studyblr #language #language learning #language lessons

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