#the bilingualism in my head ::

[hinamie]

there's no furbish word for dilf :( sad :(

[corkscrewrawks]

[return2zero]

so... yes... plot bunny and drawing bunny both haunted my brain and took my one brain cell hostage

oh yes, read from Right to Left!

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Sudden mini idea caused by what happened earlier today with Xavier's lines and recalling a bit of his Heartstring Symphony moment...

Now, it's my turn to suffer from neck pains caused by drawing this up til 2am... time to mimir!

[dreamersbcll]

my personal headcanons for a spanish-speaking carpenter household:

- Sam refers to Tara as Mi Amor, or Mi Cielo (my love, my sky/heaven)

-Though Tara prefers to call her big sister Sam, or Sammy, she also loves calling her Mija (darling)

-Tara can cook all the latin dishes she wants, and Sam can help by doing dishes

-Sam picked up English faster than Tara, meaning when she fought with their mother, they did it in English so Tara couldn’t understand.

-Tara couldn’t count past 10 in English until she was older, so once she hit ten, it was all in Spanish

-Sam’s nickname for Chad is Cõno. He thinks it’s endearing, and it makes Tara cry laughing every time

-Sam can speak both fluently, but is shit at writing it . Spanish in high school was rough for her.

-Sam loves to teach Chad all the bad words and disguise them as compliments (she enjoys watching him get cussed out by other abuelas)

-When Tara gets tired, she drifts into Spanish, pretending she can’t speak English so people leave her alone

-The two mostly speak English, but when emotional or needing to speak privately, it’s in Spanish every time.

[unionizedwizard]

just heard a short clip of my voice pre-T and it's even more impressive than the other changes i've been through. i dropped like two octaves (?) (????) in the span of a year. insane

[yonch]

Hi I need you to know I love your "EVERYONE'S FAVORITE COSMIC JOKE" art. so much. It's easily one of my favorite if not My Favorite piece of isat fan art to the point where I reblog it again every once in a while. I remember seeing it for the first time on the night I first got through the game and it hit me hard because I already knew Loop was gonna be one of my favorite characters of all time. But that aside it's also just so well drawn, the perspective and composition are amazing. I just felt the need atp to tell you personally how much I love the piece. I hope you have a good day!

uwah.. thank you so much 🥹 this was so sweet thank you. i’ve been kind of blasted by this sick nasty fever for the past few days so this was such a nice highlight from general exhaustion thank you.. i read all your tags too you narrowed down basically all of the little details and motifs i was trying to incorporate you’re so nice thank you very much o will never forget this for as long as i live

[uldahstreetrat]

okay so various headcanon rambling here quick about Zana cause she's my kiddo and I love her

I've been playing with the idea of her being bilingual for a while but couldn't quite decide on like, what that second language's irl equivalent would be? like Ishgard and French, I couldn't decide what language would work well for Ala Mhigo imo but I think for the time being I'll settle on Turkish, as suggested by my husband

that being said I've been recently reminded that the Echo just -- translates language for you??? and Zana suddenly gets the Echo in post ShB so what a TRIP that has to be

I don't even know which language it would translate into for her?? both, randomly, dependent on how she's thinking that day?? kid is gonna be going through it fr lmao

[goblin-enjoyer]

I swear why are half the things i like/fandoms im in made of mostly younger people while the other half are mostly older people? what are the zoggin odds with that?

How it feels being 20 in a fandom with a bunch of 30-40 somethings.

VS how it feels being 20 in a fandom with a bunch of 14-17 somethings.

like am do i just have extremely odd luck with things i like or is this just what being 20 is like?

[moondvncer]

now, you know what would be cool? added to the "normal" asleep condition cutscene we could have gotten a super short slice of life cutscene, like, lae'zel sharpening jaheira's sword, or maybe astarion sewing the others' clothes - maybe even teaching them how to do it, or even gale trying to teach minsc some basic spells or even the main party being asleep while the others are just in the background talking, karlach talking about her many fights and ok I'll stop here but the more I play this game the more I crave for everyone to interact with each other more and more and more!!!!!!

[spicymiilk]

As an ESL, the most annoying thing about English that I just straight up cannot understand is why it's "toward" and not "towards" and "forward" instead of "forwards"

why. who made this the rule. also fuck the word salmon

[zondel]

Seeing starlings is so fun, cuz from afar the look a bit like a blackbird, until you realize that the bird moves like it drank 20 cans of monster energy

[kitsquared]

Sitting between dad and aunt (siblings) who are talking in tagalog like okay okay cuz it's a topic im a part of then suddenly they switch to ilocano and keep talking and im like ???? What what what

[braceletofteeth]

Do you ever remember the perfect idiom to explain something but its equivalent(s) in english doesn't have the same connotations. and you suffer

[the-incradible]

I HAVE MADE A GREAT DICOVERY ABOUT JOJO’S

(steel ball run spoilers I guess)

So the protagonists of parts that are in the “jojo” bloodline are “jojo”’s because thay have a first name that starts with jo and the last name jostar, right?

and araki uses a lot of western names for his characters and stands, ok?

so I noticed something about some the names that araki uses...

Jonathan

Joseph

Jonny

ARE ALL FROM HEBREW ORIGINS!

Even jesus’s original name was Joshua (son of Joseph).

Now, you might be asking yourself, “why does it matter?”, well you better get ready for this.

In the transilation between hebrew and english (with some other languages) there was an odd decision that was made. I won’t go into detail because even I have no fucking idea why it was decided to do this (other then to pronounce it beter) but the short version is:

these names don’t originaly start with a J sound in Hebrew.

in fact, all of the name start the exact same way in Hebrew.

Yōnatan

Yosef

Yochanan

Yehoshua

ALL OF THESE START WITH A “Y”!

AND BECAUSE JONATHAN, JOSEPH AND FUCKING JESUS STARTED THE ENTIRE SHOW

IM AFRAID “JOJO’S” SHOULD HAVE A DIFFERENT NAME

IT SHOULD BE CALLED

[jfkisonthemoon]

one of the weird things about recently becoming somewhat fluent in a different language is that ill spend days and days trying to remember the german word for table and then my dad asks me something and my gut response is "Warum?"

[inthewaytoamultilinguallife]

Hi there! Thanks for your blog, I love it ^_^ I was wondering if you have any advice for learning very similar languages at the same time? I have to return to my studies of Spanish soon, but I'm also learning Italian (~B2). I remember when I first came to Italy and started learning Italian my rudementary knowledge of Spanish was useful in some aspects and harmful others. I'm afraid that returning to it will result in me mixing them up constantly :(( Any words of wisdom? 🙏

Thank you so much! You don’t know how much this message meant to me, especially knowing I haven’t been that active with university and projects and finals!! ❤

And thank you for waiting until I could answer this too!

I don’t know how much wisdom i can actually impart, but i can always try to help out a fellow language learner. What i will share are a few tips i discovered during my 14 years of learning languages (god that almost makes me sound old and experienced lmao), and in my 10 years of learning more than one language at a time. They are not rules and are very much shaped by my experience, so feel free to spice them up at will:

First of all, when possible: Avoid languages of the same family that are way too similar!: The more similar they are, the more difficult to keep them separated, as you might have noticed. But we all know how tempting it is to learn them all, and at the same time, even if we know that if we learn that one language we will be able to understand the others as well because of their similarities. I know you will ignore this one. That’s ok, I did too. There’s some fun to it. Also sometimes we just can’t choose the languages we learn, so let’s go to the “real” advice

Only start a new language once you’re advanced and comfortable enough in the other language you speak: For this I would say around a B1 level is ok, even tho I always started mines when I was at a A2 level, but I must say it was without me realizing it. From my own experience, I would say a B1 level is better. This is so you can concentrate on practicing using and improving one language you already know quite well, while learning new basic vocab and grammar exercises in a new language. if you start another language while you are still in the middle of bulking vocab and grammar exercises and memorizing rules and words, you might confuse the two or get overwhelmed

Consider using different methods for each language: With this I mean, for example, improving your Italian via immersion (watching tv, reading, talking to friends, etc), and studying Spanish the “traditional” way, with exercises and vocab cards, etc 

Consider learning one skill at a time: That is, concentrating on studying only writing in Spanish, and only speaking in Italian. This makes learning a language seem longer, and maybe a little boring for some, but it’s a good way to keep the languages separated in your mind, since you will be focusing on different aspects of the languages at a time 

Designate days and times for each language: Learning each language whenever you feel like it will create more trouble for you than needed, and make you feel overwhelmed and frustrated. A way to counter this is via a good structural learning routine. You can designate specific days to languages even if you don’t take language classes and even if you use all the languages each day.

What designating a day to a language means is just basically that, in that day, you will focus more on that language. Mondays and Sundays are for studying French, and Tuesdays and Thursdays are for learning English, etc, for example. You can even adapt this given your routine: for example, in my case, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday are Uruguayan Sign Language days, because my sign language classes are Mondays and Wed, and most Deaf events are on Saturdays. I find it is easier to include them in a routine you already have, and not making a new one around the languages you want to learn

Assign times to them: An alternative, or addition to assigning days. It works the same, but might be more helpful if you have problems keeping or following a routine, too. Instead of assigning whole days, you make it a time of the day. So, instead of learning or using a language during the entire day, you do it only in the morning, and in the afternoon you can switch to another language. All you have to do is keep that order as much as you can without switching them up. This, as well as the day one, will help keep the languages more separated in your mind and help you not mix their grammar and rules and pronunciation, etc

On a similar note, use different notebooks and colors for each language (in ink, highlighters, notebooks, etc). You can also designate different parts of your house to study, or different places around town if you use the language in a certain place (classroom, work, friend’s house, etc). Make the distinction physical, palpable as much as you can

If you forget your routine… well, then now is the best time to start again: If for some reason you forget yo go to a class or sit down and study on your own when you were supposed to do it, PLEASE don’t give yourself shit for it. Do the studying right there when you remembered. Or the next time you are supposed to, if you have/want to keep the routine, 

Concentrate on one more than the other: I know I know, no one of us wants this! But it will help I promise! It doesn’t mean you have to forget one or leave it aside. Just put more time, effort, or a more conscious studying in one of them (I normally do it with the language I'm just picking up, since I already know of the other, and so I can do a more “passive learning” on the one I know the most, and center in the other one)

Learning more than one language at a time is possible, even if they are very similar! You just gotta be more organized than usual, I've found out