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[hebrewbyinbal]

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[aguineapigcouldntdothis]

this year I will learn to be NICE to myself about the INDISPUTABLE FACT that my hebrew SUCKS ASS but I can and will IMPROVE even though its KINDA SCARY

[jewish-microwave-laser]

look you’re never going to learn levantine arabic because you will never care enough to enlist the help of a native speaker (required to learn an arabic dialect)

i'm literally good friends with my old arabic professor who's offered to tutor me for free (i'm not gonna let him do it for free i gotta find a way i can send him something. he's like very adamant he teaches for the love of teaching but also holy shit this man needs some sort of compensation lmfao). anyway the local islamic center also offers classes (i still need to ask what dialect they teach, if at all). there's a pretty solid muslim population where i am, and i already have a lot of connections because of various things ive done here

i think it's a little silly how wrong this ask is. as if my whole motivation for learning other languages wasn't to form connections with that community. language learning to me isn't a fun little hobby, it's integral to my beliefs as a person. my whole life is about personal connections and conversations with those different than myself to build bridges and forge connections. i wouldn't dream of learning a language in a vacuum, just the thought makes my skin crawl

anyway, not that you care about any of that lmao. i'm sure your extent of interacting with me was seeing some post that made you mad, clicking on my blog to see if i was crazy racist or something, reading my pinned message, and getting mad that i said i want to learn arabic because that didn't fit your imagination of what a jew zionist would do. are we sure i'm the narrow minded one here?

[la-galaxie-langblr]

today on random languages my brain is going 👀 at is biblical hebrew and biblical greek

[rayatii]

Pardon my lateness, but I was only today years old when I realized that Rosh HaShanah is directly related to the Arabic term for the New Year, "رأس السّنة" ("ra's al-sana", or "ras e'sene" in Lebanese dialect), which literally translates to "the head of the year" (yes, as in the literal head).

[gay-jewish-bucky]

Jews: Judaism is about more than just the conflict or the shoah

Jewish studies departments planning their courses:

I say this with love, but i'm begging the profs to propose courses on other topics please and thank u

[manasseh]

people keep posting duolingo 'alternatives' like these apps offer more than like the 5 most popular languages lol. No shit there's plenty resources for French and Korean. The issue is the smaller lamguages because no one is doing those like duolingo!!

[hachama]

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[transfagholmes]

i told a guy i study ancient greek as a minor and he went "oh, fun fact, did you know that the original language of the bible is greek? all of it was written in greek originally." it's always these encounters that make me want to delete dating apps and never the sexual harassment

[doctorcrabby]

AAAAAHHHH MY PEOPLE ARE HERE (well one of them anyway)

Beni (B’nai) in Hebrew means “son of” or “children of” so this must be a specific subgroup of Jewish people. Jewish liturgy often refers to Jews as “B’Nai Yisrael” for example.

[grecoromanyaoi]

latin is just words i know from english in a funny way. ancient greek however, is just words i know from hebrew but in a 'OH FUCK OFF' way.

[hebrewbyinbal]

#becareful not to miss any of my #hebrew lessons❣️

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[ontologic-catgirl]

Because i just had to do finances and look at how much debt im in alleviating my suffering by sharing how kick ass my schedule is for next year block 1:

PHI 220: Philosophy of Identity: Self Gender Race

block 2:

PHI 309: Existentialism

block 3:

THE 267: Stage Make-up

block 4:

MUS 110: Music Theory I

block 5:

REL 128: Topics: Introduction to Biblical Hebrew

block 6: REL 265: Topics: Advanced Biblical Hebrew

block 7:

PHI 306: 19th Century Philosophy: Hegel to Nietzs

block 8:

PHI 215: Topics: Philosophy through Film Adjuncts: Mock trial, LSat prep, health and wellbeing

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Do you know why some converts are named bat Avraham Avinu ve Sarah Imenu instead of just bat Avraham ve Sarah? Cause I kind of like the first one better as it clearly signifies which Avraham and Sarah I am a child of. I also wanted to know if you know of any converts with multiple first names? Cause I like the idea of getting all of my three first names translated to Hebrew/finding Hebrew names similar in meaning or sound to them. But if I do that all I’ll have a pretty long name and I’m scared people might not like it/judge it. I know I should probably talk to a rabbi about it but I’m still somewhat early in my conversion and i feel embarrassed going to him about names already

From what I've found, that (imenu) is used to mean "our mother," though I am obviously not entirely familiar with this yet, honestly.

As for your names, it's probably very early to consider seriously in the sense that as you "mature" in your understanding of judaism, you may find yourself gravitated toward many other names for reasons stemming from a richer understanding of judaism and how you fit with it. I haven't heard of a person choosing multiple names, but honestly, I can imagine that somebody may choose to have more than one, even if it's uncommon. When it comes to your hebrew name, certainly think of where it will be used upon after your official conversion - to be called upon to read torah, marriage if you choose, and children if you choose, just to name a few. This isn't me trying to pressure you one way or another at all - this will be your name, after all. I hope, when the time is right for you, that you find something that suits you and your journey.

[mathmusicreading]

@yummysuika @ospreywhite I really appreciate your translation work; can you explain more about shichen timekeeping to me? Because I know a tiny bit of modern Mandarin Chinese, but I can't recognize the shichens as the zodiac animals:

Zi (I don't know "rat", so I actually can't make any argument here.)

Chou (I don't know "ox", but I reasonably could have expected "niu" for "cow".)

Yin (I know "tiger" as "hu".)

Mao (I don't know "rabbit", but to me "mao" is "cat".)

Chen (I know "dragon" as "long".)

Si (I don't know "snake", but now I find it interesting that it sounds like death, like snakes could be seen as evil in Chinese culture similar to how they are seen in the Christian world.)

Wu (I know "horse" as "ma".)

Wei (I know "sheep/goat" as "yang".)

Shen (I don't know "monkey", but I would have expected "Sun" or "Wu" or "Kong" because of "Monkey King".)

You (I know "rooster/chicken" as " ji".)

Xu (I know "dog" as "gou".)

Hai (I don't know "pig/boar" unless "pork" and "pig" are the same "siu".)

I tried asking my parents, but they just starting talking about how the Chinese zodiac is actually a 60-year cycle with the 12 animals and the 5 elements. So are these shichen names the "Pre-Han dynasty semi-descriptive terms"? Is it kind of like the difference between "midday" and "noon" in English? The former is a "descriptor", the latter is a "name", but they "mean" the same thing?

(I tried checking the etymology for "noon" on dictionary.com, so to be fair "ninth hour" is a descriptor, but in Modern English it's not really recognizable as such and so for the sake of my shichen question, I'm calling "noon" a "name".)

Or is this another language/dialect or due to the evolution of language (changing words and pronunciations)?

I was also looking up the Dragon Boat Festival being on the unluckiest day of the year, and it says, "The Chinese name of the festival is pronounced differently in different Chinese languages. Duanwu (端午) literally means 'starting horse'—i.e., the first "horse day" of the month according to the Chinese zodiac." so I was able to get the exact character for "wu". I think it's interesting that Wikipedia says "literally ... horse" but putting 午 into Google Translate yields "midday, noonday, seventh earthly branch, 11 a.m.-1 p.m." It's unfortunate that Wikipedia only says "different Chinese languages" for "Duanwu" instead of specifying them or time periods, but I appreciate it listing different romanizations by country for Cantonese.

Would you say there's any pattern to Chinese writers or English translators using the above terms vs. using "hour/time/head/body/tail of the (insert zodiac animal here)"? Like if one sounds better for a historical fantasy setting, or choosing to use the pinyin in English instead of translating to not be translating literally? ETA: I should have gotten onto a computer sooner. I asked my parents and then you guys because searching "shichen" in Wikipedia just resulted in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_units_of_measurement. But further digging took me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_timekeeping. I'll probably get answers there (Maybe I'll even be able to explain to my dad why he was thinking of ten stems and not matching mathematically with "60 is from 12 times 5, not 10 times 6" when he was trying to lecture on the 60-year cycle for the Chinese zodiac, lol.), so my apologies for bothering you. I'd still appreciate your thoughts on what was formerly the last paragraph about writing and translation choices!

[seinfeldforlife]

*actively forcing my brain to think about anything other than the fact ill be speaking 6 languages by the time i finish my degree*