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FLIPANTTTT QUE HAN FET UNA CANÇÓ EN CATALÀ JUNTS

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Got tagged by @minglana to post the music we have in common, we got bingo! :D

I'll tag @no-passaran, @chatwiththeclouds, @kutyozh, @gwendolynlerman, @girlmaturin, and anyone who sees this list of artists and is excited about it lol

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He fet uns mems per una classe que al final no els vaig entregar, però crec que aquesta es mereix ser publicat

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Catalan was so right about dugues and it's one of the worst crimes ever committed that it wasn't chosen as the standard form

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Hi! I just wanted to say thank you so much for your 'Canto per un amic meu' playlist and notes, I listened through it today and it was really fascinating!

Thank you so much, I'm so glad that it's being enjoyed! This message made my day <3

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Hey, apologies for disappearing from this blog for a hot minute (I may or may not have, in the span of the past couple weeks, finished finals, graduated university, attempted to move into an apartment, and also gotten covid ahaha) I should now have more time on my hands, and I’m trying to think through things I want to do language-wise, so let me know if there’s an vocabulary or grammar or whatever else posts you want to see! Also I have a couple of message that have definitely been just chilling in my inbox for way too long, so I’m going to try to clean that out 😅 Expect some goal posts at some point because I need to organize my brain after everything that’s been happening, and let me know what you guys would like to see!

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Hello I did just post a vocab list but I realized it was missing like half the words, please pardon the interruption! I have not forgotten about the challenge, life just happened a bit and so I’m trying to get back into it.

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I’m sorry to be Like This 24/7 but this is your daily reminder that here are valid ways to refer to Catalan:

català (Catalan name)

Catalan (English name)

catalán (Spanish name only)

....and here are not valid ways to refer to Catalan:

catalá

catalán (when speaking English)

Please, I’m begging you, if you want to use the accent MAKE IT IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. If you’re writing in English and can’t retain that, I promise it’s okay to use the English-language term (and if you’re writing in Catalan please learn ASAP that á does not exist, there’s only à). Thank you for your time :)

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Heyo, I’m back! Sorry for the very long break, I definitely needed it but I’m glad to be back. I have a few things to post over the next couple of days, it might take me a bit to get to everything but I will try my best.

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Hey all! So if you remember last year I made this post, and unfortunately for everyone I’m back to do it again :p

What the idea here is, is that every year for the past two years, I’ve tried to keep a running playlist of songs that I get really into over the course of the year, mostly for posteriority’s sake because otherwise I’ll forget them. But it’s also cool because I can use it to get a handle on the linguistic sonoric landscape of my life for the year, and also to see if my perceptions of my music consumption actually match what I’m listening to. So here are the results:

Catalan (40.3% or 93 songs) - This is much higher than I thought, as happened last year, but it is a fair amount less than last year, when it was more than half of the music I listened to.

English (18.2% or 42 songs) - This number went up a horrifying amount, mostly because I went through Mika, traditional folk, and Eurovision phases though. That being said, I’m still disappointed in myself for buckling to the anglophone domination of the music world 😔

Spanish (11.3% or 26 songs) - This was really low and I’m kind of surprised, I literally have no clue why. I know I always think I listen to more music in Spanish than I think I do but this is an eyebrow-raising drop.

Basque (6.5% or 15 songs) - I’m always surprised by how little Basque music I listen to in practice, all the songs are bops that are pulling above their weight and so while the actual number is small, their place in my heart is much larger <3

Galician (4.3% or 10 songs) - I discovered Ezetaerre this year and instantly became very annoying about it, last November and December all I did was listen to Pólvora e Tormenta over and over. Also I’ve been vibing with Tanxugueiras’ new songs which are all bops.

Italian (3.0% or 7 songs) - I mean, Mahmood is eternal, what else can I say. I also went through a Måneskin phase immediately post-Eurovision, as one does (thank you Italian Eurovision entries for half of my music tbh).

Welsh (2.6% or 6 songs) - This went up a bit from last year, but I was surprised it didn’t go up more. I’ve been listening to so much Welsh music, ever since Sŵnami saved us all by coming back with that EP in February. In fact, about 99% of this is just Sŵnami, ngl.

French (2.2% or 5 songs) - Listen. We all make mistakes.

Arabic, (Scottish) Gaelic, Malayalam, and Ukrainian (1.3% or 3 songs) - “Ha’oud” slapped but besides that I’ve calmed down on the Mashrou’ Leila front. I listened to a lot of Julie Fowlis in the winter for absolutely no reason?? hence the Gaelic. For Malayalam I actually found music I like!! I’m very excited about that development. And Ukrainian was all Go_A, the pretty forest cult lady got hold of me I guess.

Romani, Irish, Georgian, Russian, and Portuguese (0.9% or 2 songs) - Romani should probably have been more, idk why I didn’t add the Šaban Bajramović. Irish was from the recs I got on here for the songs game, Portuguese was also from a recommendation, Georgian was songs from the And Then We Danced soundtrack because I’m gay, and Russian was Zemfira my beloved <3 and “Russian Woman” which is a bop.

Tamasheq, Asturian, Breton, Greenlandic, and Hungarian (1 song) - Asturian was from “Veleno” which I am trying to indoctrinate every uQuiz maker into listening to because I feel like if Tumblr as a whole discovered that song it would go feral for it. Breton and Greenlandic were from the ask games, shout out to the people who recommended those songs <3 Tamasheq and Hungarian were me back on my usual BS.

It also stands to add that I went with the language the majority of the song was in, but there were songs with pretty significant portions in (Northern?) Sámi, Albanian, Zulu that I ultimately decided not to count for those languages and instead counted for English. In addition, several of the songs I counted for one language on here also contain significant portions in others of the languages I put on here, so some of these numbers could be shuffled a bit.

If you’re a music listener and have your music in any sort of library, I’m curious to see what the composition of other people’s listening habits are, so please post and @ me if you do it!

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This Welsh course just called a rotary a “roundabout” and I legitimately would have thought it was the adjective if it wasn’t marked as a noun, how dare they not cater to my New England dialectical needs 😤

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I had an idea for a somewhat convoluted ask game, I’m kind of unsure if it’ll work but I want to give it a go so here it is:

Send me a language and I’ll reply with a song I know/like in that language! If I can’t name any songs in the language then you have to give me a recommendation to listen to (it’s kind of a game but everyone wins so the stakes are very low).

Anyways, if you feel so inspired, feel free to send me in a language and I’ll do my best to reply!

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Hi folks, gonna make some posts here I think?? so let me know if there’s anything you want to see. This is currently the list of things I am Thinking Of Making:

CATALAN (because I finally found my notebook 🎉):

clauses/pronoms febles (probably gonna be a 3 part post)

negative particles/adverbs

pronunciation of the final r

possessive pronouns

train vocab/Tintin vocab/other self-indulgent vocab lists

colors vocab/clothes vocab/farm vocab/music vocab (Very Long but I have started compiling them so)

Judaism vocab??? this one is somewhat tough for me but I did take a ton of notes at the Jewish museum in Girona and I could potentially do it, especially if people let me know what they want to see

vocab from Mirall Trencat

honestly anything people want, especially content for beginners because I could make that pretty easily

BASQUE:

house vocab

animal vocab

describing people vocab (I have notes for like...basic descriptors but also body vocab, clothes vocab, and jobs vocab that I might just throw into one post)

comparatives/superlatives

possibly just going through all the verbs because I forget all my synthetic conjugations and pretty much everything besides the present tense for auxiliaries

cases??? especially with demonstratives

shops/shopping vocab

WELSH:

SSiW Level 2 vocab/grammar if people want it

ABENAKI:

highkey considering remaking the resources post but idk

colors vocab??

garden vocab????

still undecided for most of this

possibly like....a language overview post

MALAYALAM:

think I wanted to do colors at some point??

saying yes and no

This is really just to give you guys an idea of what I *could* post if you’re interested. That being said, it’ll probably take some time to make most of these, so just let me know what you want to see and I’ll try to get it done soonish!

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If anyone has songs they want to see translated from Catalan, I did just make a LyricsTranslate profile so feel free to spam me with requests! I’m trying to make Catalan music more accessible to an English-speaking audience and I figured that would be a better way to do it than just posting things here, and I would love to add any songs that you guys want added.

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An installation at Quebec City Hall, it says Ayonhwentsa’ yawenda’ yäatsih, which means “My land is called language” in Wendat. Quebec City is on Wendat land.

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So update, I am now taking an Abenaki class in August because of uhhh someone telling me about it and so that’s going to be an interesting plot twist. I’m super excited though, it’s going to be amazing <3