#language studying

[organised-kitty]

Day 0 - 0/100 hours | Sun 30.07.2023

Hey everyone! I'm going to be doing a 100-hour challenge of German language learning starting from scratch at an A0 level. These are the resources and the study plan I intend to use, it might be adjusted over time to meet my goals.

💡 Resources

Goethe institut A1 online content

Nico’s Weg A1 online content

Quizlet and Anki decks

Chatgpt for quizzes

Duolingo

Netflix language learning chrome extension

YouTube and Spotify

💡 Study Plan

Inspired by Zoe.languages video

💡 Revision

Keep a Duolingo streak to keep in the loop

Spaced repetition with Anki Flashcards

Daily 10 min review through chatgpt designed quizzes about grammar, vocabulary and skill practice.

Talk with a penpal at least once a week about an specific topic.

I think this challenge will be a good way to document progress, stay accountable, and share resources. If you're interested, you're welcome to join me.

[greenhouse-studies]

does anyone have some german music recommendations? for the songs i listen to in english, i mainly listen to 2000s emo, 70s/80s music (pull up a popular “throwback” playlist and im there), indie, and some pop music if it’s catchy. i especially love hozier, fall out boy, mitski, orville peck, and my chemical romance. i want to practice listening to german outside of my family talking over zoom because i can barely understand zoom and phone calls in english, let alone in german, because of my slight auditory processing disorder.

any recommendations would be great and ESPECIALLY if they’re queer artists!

[secondwheel]

*time travels*

[language-hyperfixation]

• Japanese log #1 •

Currently working on memorizing the a, ka, and sa row of Hirigana

あ え い お う

か け き こ く

さ せ し そ す

Writing out very simple words is proving to be useful in remembering them

The ones I'm struggling to remember the most is け and then き vs さ

2023/11/14

[nivahiem]

Does anyone want to be friends on Duolingo? Looking for motivation from healthy competition ❤️

[cassandrahaswell]

It’s not here I don’t think but speaking of Duolingo download Mimo it’s like Duolingo but for coding!

I’ve been away from tumblr for ages so my html and css has degraded severely Mimo has been helpful for re forming the habit.

It also has python and JavaScript and a whole ass web development section

Mimo > https://getmimo.com/invite/ipzjma

17 free and helpful things, that everyone can take advantage of

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library They send an age appropriate book once a month if you have a child younger than 5.

Project Gutenberg Lots of free classic books.

Library Genesis A great place to look for and download college/university textbooks for free, as well as other books.

Scihub Endless Free college books. (and peer-reviewed scientific publications that are otherwise hidden behind a paywall)

Khan Academy Free knowledge that you can use to clep out of university courses, or to simply invest your time in a worthwhile topic.

Openlearn UK’s Open University - free courses for all levels of study, samples of university materials, study skills and tie-ins to BBC documentaries. Everything under Creative Commons licence so you can use it as you see fit.

Duolingo The Green Owl of Languages. There are a few hundred that it teaches and the mobile app makes it easy to do anywhere while waiting (!warning! only good for Spanish, German, French, Dutch, Esperanto, and English. with anything else it gets very low-quality and short.).

Codecademy An awesome site to learn how to use some programming languages. Doesn't get into the really advanced stuff, but it's good for a start.

Photopea Completely free Photoshop clone that has all the basic features of Photoshop, using basically the same interface.

Gimp Another free version of Photoshop.

Unsplash Stock of free photos of just about anything, provided by the photographers themselves, to do with what you like.

Futureme You can write letters to yourself (or other people) in the future! You can also make notifications and reminders of a +doctors appointments or anything else important.

Heavens Above You can look up all the satellites flying over your house tonight, including the ISS, Hubble Space Telescope, those pesky Starlink satellites, and whatever else your heart desires, complete with star maps and precise timing. And there is an Android app, but unfortunately no iOS one last I checked. (For iOS you can use “Sputnik!” which is free and tells, when ISS and Hubble passes overhead.)

Night Sky Other astronomy app for iOS. If you hold your phone to the sky the app tells you what you're looking at (or point it at the ground for a view from the other side of the planet). Zoom in with two fingers and tons of deep space stuff is revealed.

Freecycle its literally people giving away stuff they don't need/want any more that they can't/don't care enough to sell.

Nexus Mods Has thousands of video game mods (for 1,509 PC games), made by independent content creators, available to download at no cost.

Archive The Archive aka Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and so much more... For example a lot of DOS games (classics like Prince of Persia, Oregon Trail, DOOM, Monkey island, Rayman, Turtles), directly playable through the browser.

My earlier list

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[sukinapan]

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[hana-loves-bumblebees]

Every single person studying a language when they recognize the most basic word of the language in a text or a video

[baradragon]

give me the state if you're comfy and what languages were offered

[sushiisiu]

24 yo highschooler with a crush

[organised-kitty]

Day 2 - 4/100 hours | 01/08/23

⭐️ Kapitel 1.3-2.1 Goethe Institut A1 online content -> grammar, vocabulary, listening, speaking, and writing exercises.

⭐️ 50 Goethe Institut A1 flashcards

⭐️ Small conversation with a native speaker through Hellotalk

So, turns out that the Goethe Institut course includes predetermined flashcards. It was very useful and it saved me a lot of time. However I think I need to have an Anki deck eventually cause I need to get reminders for spaced repetition. Everything is going well so far, I’m in the first couple of lessons but I haven’t found it to be that difficult yet. But I’m aware that eventually more challenges are yet to come. Bis Morgen!

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100 hours of studying German from scratch

[thedeadpoets-blog]

oh september, how you have my heart.

[thelailasblog]

[fucklestat]

i know it's been said many times before but i will never get over how jacob anderson, a british man with a british accent, not only nailed a louisiana creole accent but also developed a studiously (almost eerily) generic accent that louis uses in the present AND showed the first accent bleeding into the second accent at key moments as a way of aurally externalizing his character's inner journey. what did god put in this man when she created him.

[swampthingking]

obsessed with jean’s colorful insults/descriptions so here’s a compiled list of them in order

you arrogant fool (abby)

you imbecile (kevin)

your ball-battered brain (kevin)

you feckless child (kevin)

those clowns (trojans)

pet goalkeeper (andrew)

the tiny bastard (neil) [LMFAO]

kevin’s pet monster (andrew)

the sunshine court [derogatory]

wholesome in an unsettling, unhealthy way (the trojans)

unhinged optimist (renee)

some plump shrink (bee)

that creepy little goalkeeper andrew minyard [PLEASE i was fucking DEAD he has no idea how funny he is]

you tedious malcontent (neil) [probably my favorite one]

an abominable cockroach (neil)

the wayward child (neil) [jesus christ he is not taking it easy on neil]

andrew’s twin

worthless trash bags (foxes, past tense)

a rabid little fox (neil) [hey. remember when neil described andrew as a ‘rabid goalkeeper’ ???]

annoyingly easy to look at (jeremy)

strange and misguided (the trojans)

the cruelty of these nonstop temptations (kevin, renee, jeremy)

the sunshine court [less derogatory]

“I was hoping he would bite his tongue off in the fall and save us both some grief in the long run.” (lucas)

wretched beast (gr****n)

your ignorant mouth (lucas)

“Your apologies are as useful as perfume on a frog.” (lucas)

neil, being the person he was,

you ignorant child (neil)

miserable wretch (neil) [giving his everything to neil’s insults]

ok that’s all. unless i missed some. and if i did you have to add them it’s just law