#langblrwotdchallenge

[thatstudyblrontea]

Langblr Word of the Day Challenge

Day 1: Rain

RUSSIAN: дождь 💧

Create a vocab list of at least 5 words based around the word

шторм / буря — storm ⛈️

потоп — deluge 🌧️

изморось / морось — drizzle 🌦️

град — hail 🌨️

снег — snow ❄️

облако — cloud ☁️

гром — thunder 🌩️

молния — lightning ⚡

небо — sky 🌌

- пасмурный — cloudy / overcast 🌫️

радуга — rainbow 🌈

зонт / зонтик — umbrella ☂️

Write a paragraph (or more) based around the word / one sentence containing the word

На вечер обещают дождь – возьми твой зонт!

[sayitalianolearns]

Diary entry 575

langblrwotdchallenge #5: comfort, il conforto

위안, 위로, 편안함 -

For what I am getting after a research: 위로 relieving pain/soothing sadness with words/actions; 위안 = comforting or making someone feel better or the object that gives comfort; 편안함 = comfortable (physical comfortability). Is it so? Papago tends to use 위로 much more often in its translations... Are the first two actually interchangeable? @profiterole-reads @punkinvsblogging can any of you help me on this please? Or anyone really... Would appreciate loads, thanks!

몇 문장 보자:

자연이 저를 위로해요.

이 소파는 정말 편안해요.

민 씨는 그의 말로 저를 위안했어요.

edit: -> 위로 the act of consoling; 위안 (위로를 받아) the state of being consoled SO (kind of):

난 그 책의 말을 정말 위안했어요.

제 친구가 좀 슬퍼해서 우리 같이 위로하려고 산책했어요.

french/spanish

le confort (physical), le réconfort (emotional) - c'est très réconfortant de marcher dans la nature. j'aime beaucoup aller au lac et à la montagne. c'est seulement un dommage que au lac aujourd'hui il y'a beaucoup de gens mais c'est bon aussi. à la montagne il y'a des gens aussi mais il y'a des bon lieux pour marcher seules aussi.

la comodidad (physical), el consuelo (emotional) - pero me gusta mucho ir al campo también. yo vivo muy cerca de arrozales y siempre me gustó visitarlos porque no hay mucha gente y es muy tranquilo. en el peor de los casos hay muchos bichos o unos ancianos que juegan a las cartas así que es muy lindo todavía jajaj.

(in italian we often use the english word "*il* comfort" for physical comfort, but we use "il conforto" for the emotional one - there are also synonyms tho).

song of the day

[etuusdominaattori]

Langblr word of the day challenge, day 1

дождь / rain

Masculine noun.

If I was to say, "It's raining", I would say "Дождь идёт".

"Cloudy" is "облачно".

"Thunderstorm" is "гроза", which is a feminine noun.

"Umbrella" is "зонтик", and I'm sure the Finnish colloquial term for an umbrella, "sontikka", comes from the Russian word "зонтик", which is a masculine noun. (The official word for an umbrella in Finnish is "sateenvarjo".)

And if it rains too much, the result may be a flood. The verb being "наводнить", and the noun being "наводнение". It is a neuter noun.

[kartoffelnundschmetterlingen]

Langblr Word of the Day Challenge - Day 3

English: Memory. Deutsch: Der Speicher. Synonym: Reserve. Antonym: Vergessen.

Ich habe ein Speicher seit ich zwei war. Ich bin in der Kuche, auf einer Art Fussschemel sitzen. Ich esse ein Platzchen!

[nuelangblr]

Feelings as Gaeilge

Saying how you feel in Irish can be a little tricky since you have to use a different sentece structure that you would do in English (or most of the European langs). The phrase “I’m happy” translated literally to English would be “the happiness is on me“, so you have to use the sentece structure as follows:

Tá athás orm - I’m happy ('ar mé’ is merged into one word ‘orm’)

Keep in mind that the verb always comes first in Irish sentence! Then, for other persons, the senteces go like this:

Tá athás ort - you are happy Tá brón air - he is sad Tá fearg uirthi - she is angry Tá imní orainn - we are worried Tá díomá oraibh - you are disappointed Tá ionadh orthu - they are suprised

sceitimíní - excited náire - embareassed éad - jealous tuirseach - tired cumhach - homesick

Some more advanced phrases (that doesn’t follow the same rule tho):

Tá féileacáin i mo bholg - I have butterflies in my stomach Tá sé in ísle brí - he is feeling blue Tá me spíonta amach - I am exhausted Tá siad ar mhuin na muice - they’re on the pig’s back (meaning that they are extremely lucky)

[chenopodiumlang]

[nordic-language-love]

Introducing a new langblr challenge... Langblr Word of the Day Challenge!

Hi all! I feel like I've not been making enough original langblr content lately, so I decided to make a langblr challenge! This challenge is quite simple and quite flexible: it starts on the first of February, and every day for the month has a different word (the word of the day). Your challenge is to use the word in your language learning that day, in whatever capacity you feel like! Here are a couple of ideas:

Translate the word into your target language

Find a synonym and/or an antonym for the word

Write a paragraph (or more) based around the word

Write one sentence containing the word

Learn 5 words related to the word

Create a vocab list based around the word

Search the word on unsplash, find a picture you like and describe it

Read and share an article related to the word/with the word in the title

Listen to a podcast about the word/with the word in the title

Watch an episode of a TV show about the word/with the word in the title

Have a conversation with a native or another learner about the topic

Feel free to interpret the word as literally or as creatively as you like.

Here's the word list - feel free to brainstorm some ideas ahead of time:

rain

love

memory

time

comfort

desire

flight

fun

song

puzzle

peace

sunshine

truth

curious

freedom

gift

rest

trust

letter

library

forest

create

night

play

high

ghost

ocean

magic

Use the hashtag #langblrwotdchallenge so we can find each other and check out each other’s posts. If you want to tag me too, I would absolutely love that!

[adito-lang]

Langblr Word of the Day 04 - Emergency

日本語：緊急（きんきゅう）

Here’s a video with first aid (応急手当て - おうきゅうてあ）tips for when you encounter someone suffering from heat stroke. For listening practice, I wrote a transcript of the tips (in italics) and highlighted and translated some vocabulary (nouns, verbs, adjectives/adverbs). I always learn vocabulary best when I see how it's used in the context of a sentence.

1）声をかけて意識の有無を確認する Raise your voice and check for consciousness

熱中症になりやすい環境でぐったりしている人を見かけたら、まずは声をかけて意識の有無を確認しましょう。

熱中症（ねっちゅうしょう）heat stroke

ぐったりする to faint / collapse

意識の有無を確認する（いしき・あるない・かくにん）to check for consciousness

（A）意識がある場合 When the person is conscious

A1）涼しい場所へ移動させる Move them to a cool location

涼しい場所へ移動させます。屋外は木陰などに連れて行きましょう。室内でエアコンがあれば、冷房を最強にし、うちわや扇風機も使って直接風をあてます。

移動させる （いどう）to transfer (a person or thing) to a different place

屋外・室内（おくがい・しつない）outdoors / indoors

扇風機（せんぷうき）electrical fan

A2）衣服をゆるめ、体を冷やす Loosen their clothes and cool their body

水で絞ったタオルで体を覆い、風を送って体を冷やします。ベルトやバタンがあれば、ゆるめて楽な姿勢にします。冷やすポイントです。冷たいペットボトルなどがあれば、首、脇の下、太ももの付け根などを集中的に冷やすと効果的です。

衣服をゆるめる（いふく）to loosen clothing 

体を冷やす（からだ・ひ）to cool the body

楽な姿勢にする（らく・しせい）to put in a comfortable position

A3）水分・塩分を摂取させる Have the person ingest water and salt

水分を取らせましょう。あれば、スポーツドリンクや薄い食塩水など飲ませます。ただし、吐いてしまう場合は飲ませないでください。点滴による水分補給が必要かもしれないので、医療機関を受診させましょう。

吐く（は）to vomit

医療機関を受診させる （いりょうきかん・じゅしん）to seek medical attention

A4）状態がよくなった確認 Verify that the person’s condition has improved

状態がよくなった確認します。安静にして十分に休息をとっても、症状が改善しない場合は医療機関を受診させましょう。

十分に休息をとる （じゅうぶん・きゅうそく）to get a good rest

症状が改善する（しょうじょう・かいぜん）symptoms improve

（B）意識がない場合 When the person is unconscious

B1）すぐに救急車を呼ぶ Immediately call an ambulance

呼び掛けに反応せず、意識がない場合は、何よりも先に救急車を呼んでください。迷わず１１９番することが命を救うことにつながります！

救急車を呼ぶ（きゅうきゅうしゃ・よ）to call an ambulance

迷わず（まよ）without hesitating

命を救う（いのち・すくう）to save a life

B2）涼しい場所へ移動させ、衣服をゆるめ、体を冷やす Move the person to a cool location, loosen clothing, and cool the body

救急車を待っている間に涼しい場所へ運び、衣服をゆるめ、体を冷やします。重傷者の救命は、一刻に早く体温を下げられるにかかっています。救急車が来るまで、首、脇の下、太ももの付け根を集中的に冷やし続けます。水で絞ったタオルで体を覆い、風を送って体を冷やします。意識がない時に水を飲ませると窒息する危険があるので水を絶対に飲まさないでください。

窒息する危険（ちっそく・きけん）danger of suffocating

[sparkles-studying-spanish]

things this covid-semester teached me: I pefer the french press over the stove top espresso maker (far too complicated to use when tired) and lunch break cycling tours can save the day.

Langblr WOTD Challenge Day 19 & Day 20

carta (f.) - der Brief- letter

biblioteca (f.) - die Bücherei - library

Empiezo a ver una nueva seria en Netflix. Se llama Velvet y trata de una galeria en Madrid. Hay muchos problmas y muchao drama - con deudas, entre novios, entre madrastra y hijastro. Una carta del dueño hace juega un papel fundamental en la seria, porque su mujer - la madrastra del peotagonisto - no se la ha dado reenviarlo a su hijo.

Hace un año que estuve en la biblioteca de mi universidad. La me falta un poco. La me echo un poco de menos. Estudiar en un lugar tranquilo me parece mas mucho mejor que estudiar en casa dónde no puedo oír los vecinos estan oíble todos los días. Ni siquiera estan tranqulios por la noche, muchas veces veen películas con volumen muy alto. Claro que dormio duermo menos ahora.

[sayitaliano]

Langblr WordOfTheDay challenge | 24

(TO) PLAY = 

most common:

to play = giocare (for amusement) e.g. I bambini stanno giocando = Kids are playing e.g. Giochiamo a nascondino? = Let’s play hide-and-seek?

to play = recitare (to act a role)  e.g. Lei recita la parte di Lady Macbeth = She plays Lady Macbeth

to play = suonare, ascoltare (play an instrument, listen to a cd...)  e.g. Marco suona il piano = Marco plays the piano (both right now or in general) e.g. Sto ascoltando un nuovo cd = I’m playing a new cd

but also:

to play = pretendere, fingere  e.g. Luisa non si era fatta male davvero, stava fingendo = Luisa didn’t got hurt for real, she was playing.

to play = giocare d’azzardo (to gamble) e.g. Dario ha molti debiti di gioco = Dario has many debts from play

to play = scherzare (to joke) e.g. Scusa, stavo solo scherzando = I’m sorry it was only a play

as a noun:

a play (theater): un’opera (teatrale), uno spettacolo  e.g. Vorrei vedere un’opera teatrale = I would like to see a play e.g. Luigi ha scritto un’opera = Luigi wrote a play

a play: svago e.g. Non c’è tempo per lo svago/per giocare = There’s no time to play

my play (game): turno e.g. È il mio turno, dove sono i dadi? = it’s my play, where are the dices?

a play (sport): mossa e.g. Con un’abile mossa, il giocatore ha fatto canestro = With a clever play, the player scored

play (freedom of movement, game/joke): gioco e.g. Non è sempre un gioco = It’s not always a play (joke, easy) e.g. C’è troppo gioco tra ruota e asse = There’s too much play between the wheel and the axle

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Langblr WOTD Challenge

[hokudairies]

コンチハー！

また久しぶりだね、ごめんね！

i started playing acnh in japanese! it's great fun and i feel like it's helping to improve my reading speed and get used to sentence structure, even if some of the sentence endings are really weird...

if you're looking for a different way to practice your language skills, you should give playing in your target language a try!

about this picture, i'd like to try a new challenge i found! maybe i'll actually get to the end of this one...

but for now let's start with day one of the Langblr Word of the Day Challenge by @nordic-language-love (thank you for the challenge!!)

Today's word is Rain.

今日の言葉は雨です。

あら、俺のお気に入りの漢字だぜ！

そうだね、この写真で雨の話があるね！

俺もトキオくんの同じと思っている、虹は本当にきれいだよね！

そういえば、今日大きな雹 (ひょう、hail*) が降った！スゲーだったけど、ちょっと煩かった。

曲があるかな。前回 「雨」 を言ったので、今回 「Rainy Day」 という曲はいいと思う。

「将来について全然わかんない！」 と 「え？俺は早すぎて大人になったけど、本当にわかんない！」 という気持ちの曲だよ。「青春時代は大変！」 のテーマだね。BTS の 「花樣年華」 時代より幸せだけど…

とにかく、Spotifyのリンクだぜ！

俺、アニソンが大好きそうだね… アニソンとK-Popだけを聞く… まぁ、いいかな。

では、これで、雨の話が終わった！そして、日本語の授業のタイムだ！

*ineterestingly there are two words for hail, 雹 (ひょう) and 霰 (あられ). the distinction between the two is the diameter of the hailstones,

if the hailstone is 5mm or smaller, you use 霰 (あられ)

if the hailstone is bigger than 5mm, you use 雹 (ひょう)

not sure whose first thought upon seeing hail is to measure it but there you go.

below is a image showing the differences from this website that explains how hail is formed and how the weight affects the speed ... apparently 70mm hailstone can travel at 140km... thats kinda terrifying...

そろそろポストを終わろうね！

みんなさん、雨が好きですか？雨の曲知っていますかな？ぜひ教えてね！

では、またね！

ミカ

「明日が綺麗に見えてればいいや」~ Rainy Day

[thatstudyblrontea]

Langblr Word of the Day Challenge

Day Week 5: Comfort

RUSSIAN: утешение, уют

Create a vocab list of at least 5 words based around the word

мягкий — soft ☁️

тепло — warmth 🌤️

единение — solidarity 🧑🏼‍🤝‍🧑🏻

кровать — bed 🛏️

подушка — pillow 🛏️

тихий — calm, quiet, gentle 🤫

спокойствие — calmness, tranquillity 🦥

безопасный — safe 🔐

безопасность — safety 🏡

Write a paragraph (or more) based around the word / one sentence containing the word

Я люблю спать на мой кровати: моя подушка – мягкая и даёт мне утешение и спокойствие.

[sayitalianolearns]

Diary entry 573

langblrwotdchallenge #3: memory, il ricordo

기억 -

나에게 이 단어 너무 재미있당~ 한국어를 배우기 시작했을 때 '기억'라는 단어 계속 계속 잊었다 ㅋㅋㅋ 하지만 이제는 '기억'에 관한 기억한다! 어쨌든 나도 내 꿈을 기억하는 것을 매우 좋아한다! 꿈이 우리에게 너무 많은 도움이 되다.

아, 잠시만요! 어젯밤에는 마침내 아무 생각 없이 한국어로 뭐라고 했다… 진짜 멋졌닼ㅋㅋ 이것을 말하고 싶었당~

���억력/기억 = memoria, memoria, memory, mémoire 추억 = ricordo, recuerdo, memory, mémoire(s) 기억하다 = ricordare, recordar, remember, se souvenir/rappeler

(so "memory" in english and french works both for your mind's ability and what you remember; while in italian, korean and spanish you have different words -tell me if im wrong ofc).

french/spanish

la mémoire - toutes mes photos sont des mémoires mais ces trois içi un petit peu plus. dans la premiére il y'a moi-même quand j'étais petite et dans un hotel à la mer. on était en vacances en toscana. j'ai pris la duxiéme photo quand j'avais une vertèbre fracturée en 2012: tenir l'appareil photo était très difficile, je n'avais pas force.

el recuerdo - para tomar la última foto unos años atrás necesitaba ayuda pero nadie tuvo tiempo. cuando mi abuela lo supo, ella me ayudó inmediatamente. no le gustaba mucho haber foto tomadas de ella pero cuando le dije que solo había fotografiado unos dedos me dijo rápido que sí. ahora que ella se fue, esa foto es un muy lindo recuerdo por mi.

song of the day

아주 NICE in my mind today tbh and yes it is totally unrelated to the topic but whatevs... honestly if I have to think about "memory" THIS is the first song popping up in my mind:

i'm only half surprised of how well i still remember its lyrics and how much it still pains me. and this is the second

[finnishfun]

Langblr Word of the Day Challenge

Day 8: Direction

Directions have fun names in Finnish and I will probably never remember them properly! :D

pääilmansuunnat:

pohjoinen - north (pohja means the bottom of sth so that’s kind of confusing since north is at the top of the compass. Maybe Finns were thinking the other way around?) itä - east etelä - south länsi - west

väli-ilmansuunnat:

luode - northwest lounas - southwest (lounas also means lunch, and the original word means midday/south, which is also something we say in Hungarian. Except it’s NOT south but southwest :’D) kaakko - southeast (might originate from a word meaning the direction where migratory birds come from. It does sound like a bird!) koillinen - northeast

I suppose I could at least remember that the two l-ones are next to länsi, and the two k-ones are on the other side.

[kartoffelnundschmetterlingen]

Langblr Word of the Day Challenge - Day 2

English: Love. 

Deutsch: Die Liebe. 

Synonym: Passion. Antonym: Hassen.

Ich liebe meinen Freund!! Er ist sehr schon, und ich möchte ihn heiraten. 

[nuelangblr]

Cróga

- (adjective) brave

dána - bold misniúil - courageous diongbháilte - valiant cliste - intelligent misneach - courage crógacht - bravery ridireacht - chivarly ridire - knigt laoch - hero, heroine

(today’s word comes from the challenge’s April edition btw)