#vocabulary lessons

[catwif3]

it's time to move "vocabulary mixup lessons with sao" from twitter to tumblr!

today's common fanfic fuckup that slays the man:

flout: to disobey or avoid

flaunt: to loudly/ostentatiously display

these two are very disconcerting to see mixed up!! you don't USUALLY "flaunt" the rules, and you certainly don't "flout" your new outfit!

[haxyr3]

Больной vs Болезненный

Боль in Russian means "pain".

There are two different adjectives that are related to боль - one is for somebody or something that is experiencing pain, and the other is for something that causes pain.

Больной (adjective) - 1) sick, ill; 2) aching, bad (about a tooth, for example) 3) weak 4) sensitive == someone or something that is in pain

Болезненный - painful, traumatic, painstaking == something that causes pain

Examples:

Больной ребёнок не должен ходить в школу. A sick child should not go to school.

2. Моя больная нога не дала мне уснуть. My bad leg didn't let me sleep.

3. У тебя больной вид - иди домой! You look sick, go home!

4. Это больной вопрос для нас, не будем говорить об этом. It is a sensitive topic for us, let's not talk about it.

5. Школа - это болезненный опыт для многих подростков. High school is a painful experience for many teens.

6. Это болезненная процедура, нужна анастезия. It's a painful procedure, you need anaesthesia.

It was your random Russian word formation/ vocabulary lesson.

[sirkassandra]

bit of homework (plural bits of homework). (Britain, slang) meaning an attractive woman.

Synonym: piece of homework

Tbh, I’ve always had a thing for Jakes, too.

[itslostfocus]

vocab list: 미술

그림: painting, picture, drawing, sketch, illustration

페인팅: painting (영어)

페인트칠: painting (한국어)

그리다: to paint, draw, sketch a picture

끌다: to pull, draw/attract (someone's attention)

긋다: draw a line

만들다: to make (a movie, book, song), produce, direct (a movie), compose (a song)

사진: picture, photo

영화: picture, video, movie, film

영상: picture, video, image (shown on a screen)

화면: picture, image (space filled by a photo)

그림자: shadow, silhouette, reflection (on a mirror/water)

그늘: shade, dark part

미행: shadowing (secretly following someone to keep an eye on them or get evidence)

느끼다: to feel (experience an emotion in one's mind), realize, being aware of

기분: mood, feeling, atmosphere (the situation surrounding)

감정: emotion, feeling (towards a certain incident or person)

도자기: pottery, ceramics, chinaware (도기 is a bowl made of clay, and 자기 is baked at a higher temperature-1200°C-)

도예: abbreviation of '도자기 공예' -ceramic arts-

도기: pottery, earthenware

회: raw fish, round (ONLY when it's added to a number, aka a counter)

둥근: round, spheroid

차례: order, turn

계속: continuosly, consecutively

형태: shape, form, figure, appearance (of an object)

모양: shape (outer appearance/aspect) -mostly used-

형성하다: to form, build, develop a certain character or form

생기다: to be formed, come into being (something that didn't exist to come into existence)

예술: art (very broad sense, including music, painting, sculpture, architecture)

미술품: art work, fine art, work of art

미술: art (painting and sculpture)

기술: technology, skill, technique

닦다: to clean, scrub, wipe

양치: brushing teeth

붓: writing/painting brush

빗다: to brush/comb one's hair

비디오: video

텔레비전: TV

녹화: video, record, tape, videotape

무비: movie

원: circle; ￦

돌다: to turn, rotate, spin; to go around, circle

그룹: group, a circle (of people)

사회: society, circle

잉크: ink

서명하다: to sign

서명: signature, autograph

먹물: black ink (ink + water), squid ink

광장: square, plaza

사각형: square, quadrangle, tetragon, quadrilateral

평방: square (ej metros cuadrados)

제곱: square (of -maths-)

네모: square

조각: piece (of), slice; sculpture, statue

작품: piece (of music), work (of art); product, production

부분: piece, part, section, portion

하나: one, piece

하나씩: one by one, one at a time, piece by piece

일부: some/any part, portion, section, partially, partly

즐기다: to enjoy (oneself), have fun

하세요: do it, allowing someone to do something

누리다: authority to enjoy what you have in life; to enjoy someone's rights or benefits

즐겁게: delightfully

재미있다: funny, interesting, amusing, entertaining

점토: clay

진흙: mud

춤: dance (dynamic, b-boing, -방탄소년단-)

무용: dance (soft movement -ballet-)

추다: to dance

페인트: paint (pintura)

칠하다: to paint, coat, varnish

물감: paint, dye (to draw a picture or dye cloth)

색칠하다: to paint, color (something)

크레용: crayon

~을 크레용으로 그리다: to draw with crayons

~을 사생하다: to draw exactly as it is (not used in conversational korean)

주변 경치를 사생하다: draw exactly how it is viewed

사생대회: drawing/painting contest

납작한: flat (to be)

평면: plane/flat surface

아파트: flat, apartment

시시한: flat, petty, small minded; insignificant, trivial

한 푼 없는: have no money

포스터: poster

영화계: the film world (-hollywood-)

박막: a thin film (anatomical jargon)

촬영: shooting, filiming

필름: film (영화 필름, 카메라 필름, 휴대폰 액정보호 필름, etc)

행동하다: to act, behave

법률: law, act, legislation

연기하다: to act, perform (personality, behavior, etc of a role); to delay, postpone

행위: act, action (with intention, will)

대행하다: to do something for someone

source: 영단어는 관리다 app

[jiora]

Korean Weather Vocabulary

Watch my lesson on weather in Korean: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0V_FJsVzkI

[evafhernee]

I love love love that the ccs will be forced to use the translator in order to communicate with the new ccs joining qsmp because that’s what it’s there for!!!!! it’s a translator!!! use it to translate, even if both of you are able to speak the same language!

I don’t see enough people use the translator, especially when the ccs are both able to speak (usually) english, and it’s still great that they can speak easier if they speak the same language, but the language barrier is one of the causes for the creation of the qsmp! Let the language barrier be a barrier in the first place, and let the translator do the work it was meant to do!

Let people who physically can’t speak the same language interact! It’s part of what makes qsmp qsmp, and even though it has impacted hugely just from adding people who generally create content and talk in different languages, I do think it somewhat lacks in the people speaking different languages category, because while that is true, it is also somewhat untrue in that all of the ccs can speak one of the same language (usually english), even if they’re not a natural at it!

Now, that’s not a bad thing at all! But, it does blur the speaking different languages problem that was meant to occur in qsmp. They speak different languages! Let them speak whatever language they want and let the translator do the work! Again, that is what it is there for! It is a translator! (I’m looking at you twitter)

And even if it takes a million repeats of the same sentence for someone to finally get what another person is trying to say, a hundred fuck-ups of the translation or a thousand language barrier/cultural miscommunications, again, qsmp was made for this to happen! It was made so people who come from different backgrounds and are usually unable to interact because of cultural/language barriers can interact, whether it start out negative or positive!

And I trust them (the ccs and fans) to communicate if controversy/confusion happens culturally and language-wise, and (hopefully) for the fans to not turn anything minor** into a huge drama, so I am extremely excited to see the ccs be forced into using the translator!

[mylinguaacademy]

Learn how to talk about remembering and memory in English

[accessibleacademia]

 allude vs. elude

Allude is a verb that means "to speak of or mention something or someone in an indirect way," as in "they alluded to difficulties at their former school." You might remember this because it starts with the letter A, and alluding to evidence in a school paper with get you an A.

Elude is a verb that most often means "to avoid or escape someone or something by being quick, skillful, or clever," as in "a criminal who has eluded capture." It is also used to mean a fact that you cannot remember, as in "His name eludes me." You can remember this because elude starts with E like escape.

Check out this article for more about these two words.

From Merriam-Webster's List of Most Commonly Confused Words

[learnukrainian]

Ukrainian 101, Lesson 39 : Back to School

Школа - shkola - school

Університет - ooneeversytet - university

Семестр - semestr - semester

Навчальний рік - navchalnyi reek - academic year

Урок - oorok - lesson (at school)

Пара - para - lesson (at university or college)

Перерва - pererva - break

Іспит, екзамен - eespyt, examen - exam

Есе - esse - essay

Підручник - peedroochnyk - textbook

Викладач - vykladach - university or college 'teacher', professor

Вчитель - vchytel - school teacher

Професор - professor - professor

Спеціальність - spetsialneest - major

Олімпіада - olimpiada - olympiad

[taekookibb]

Dreamy: dream•y (drē-mē) - adjective. Meaning - 1. Kim Taehyung. 2. magical; having an unreal quality.

Similar: dreamlike, romantic, alluring, gorgeous, otherworldly, will never be yours because he’s Jungkook’s boyfriend.

Example of dreamy in a sentence: “Kim Taehyung is dreamy as fuck.”

[polyglot-thought]

Language Learning Recommendation: Wikipedia

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This is something I only realized I could use more recently and I haven't seen someone mention it so I thought I should; Wikipedia can be a great resource to learn specific vocabulary and can be really helpful if you are pursuing a translation specialty like medicine or politics as Wikipedia has endless amounts of articles about those topics. (Sometimes Wikitionary will also have definitions for things you are looking for as well)

We all know that Wikipedia is full of information in English but has thousands of articles in other languages as well. On English articles all you have to do to change the language is select the language button at the top right of the screen and select another language. However, not every wikipedia article is translated from English, and some articles exist without an English translation. Also, even though there are many translated articles, many will not be an exact 1:1 translation and can be missing a lot of information but it is a very good tool when wanting to learn the meaning of words that might not be in an online dictionary.

For example: Here is the article "First Secretary of State" in English:

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In the top right corner you can see a tab that says "15 languages", this clearly means that there are 15 different languages to choose from that the article is translated into. (On another article the number will change depending on how many languages it has been translated into, of course)

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Now, if you click this button and select Chinese, the page will look like the picture below. This clear as day has shown me now that the correct word for "First Secretary of State" in Mandarin would be "首席大臣" and it also states the English version of the word in the translated article although some articles may be missing this function. ALSO, if you find an article in Chinese or another language first, the language tab is on the bottom left corner instead of the top right.

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To find how to pronounce the Mandarin words you find (that aren't already in online dictionaries) in Mandarin you can use websites like MDBG or Chinese Converter that will show you individual pronunciations for characters. Even Google Translate is quite reliable for pinyin but in Chinese Converter and Google Translate sometimes they do not pick up characters with multiple pronunciations correctly or ignore tone change rules.

For Japanese you can use websites like Nihongo Dera's Kana Converter or Jisho to figure out pronunciations.

I could make a whole post in itself for how to figure out pronunciations for words in languages you don't natively speak so I'll stop here.

I hope this post helps someone :)

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[petitfrench]

Mon journal français

"L'affirmation et la négation" class

aAfirmative and negative sentences (excercises)

Translated one book Page "Le Petit Prince"

[saltyoaktree]

the way i can see ted following in his father's footsteps after that finale

Edit: ok I've had some sleep and took some time and I don't actually think that. I still agree with the tags though

[scrollonso]

erm.

[itslostfocus]

vocab list: 신체

눈: eye, eyeball, eyesight; snow; gradation, marking, graduation

시선: one's eyes, graze, eye-catching

안구: eyeball

쳐다보다: to look up, look/stare (at), gaze (at)

눈길: to watch something/someone; street made of snow stick

귀: ear

청각: sense of hearing

청력: hearing (hearing capability that can get lost with the years)

이삭: ear, head of the rice, barley, etc where a flower opens and the fruit comes from

눈썹: eyebrow

눈사을 찌푸리다: to frown

심장: heart

마음: heart, mind, personality

가슴: heart, chest, breast, bust, boobs

중심: center, heart, middle; focus, nucleus, core; emphasis, importance

머리: head, hair; brain, mind, intelligence

지도자: leader, head (of)

머리카락: hair

털: hair, fur, heather, fluff

섬유: fiber, textile

목: neck, throat

몸: body (pure korean)

신체: body, physical (chinese derived, used more in formal situations)

단체: organization, association, society, group, party

시체: dead body, corpse

몸매: body figure/shape

무릎: knee

무릎치기: idiomatic expression meaning to figure sth out/to realize; knee breenches (male pants that go to the knees)

무릎으로 치다: hit with the knees

발: foot, paw, step

걷다: to walk

기슭: foot, base, border, edge (mountain, hill, river, etc)

보병: foot soldiers, infantry (play the main roles in the army, move by foot and attack enemies with rifles, etc)

발가락: toe

발끝: tiptoe

손: hand

주다: to give (an item to someone or a qualification, right, score)

도움: help, aid, assistance, support

반수: half of a number divided equally by 2

맡기다: to assign, charge (someone the responsibility for a certain role or work); entrust, leave something with

손가락: finger

지적하다: to point out, indicate, comment, criticize

손톱: (finger) nail

못: nail (clavo)

분석하다: to analyze

잡다: to hold (something in one's hand and not let it go); arrest, catch, capture (someone)

어깨: shoulder

책임을 지다: to assume/bear/shoulder/take the responsibility; hold oneself responsible for

갓길: side road for emergencies

얼굴: face

직면하다: to confront, face, come face to face with

표정: face expression

입: mouth, lips, one's taste

말: word, language, speech, talk

입구: entrance to/of, entry, way in

치아: tooth (humans and animals, hospitals use it)이tooth (expression for naming the different parts of the teeth, like molars; it's rarely used by itself)

톱니: tooth of a saw

코: nose

후각: sense of smell

팔: arm

무기: weapon, armaments

무장하다: to be armed, militarized

부문: section, field, division

팔걸이: armrest part of a chair

허벅지: thigh

source: 영단어는 관리다 app

[lennythereviewer]

Discourse over Super Smash Bros. Ultimate literally shaped a piece of internet vocabulary.

It started with "Scrimblo Bimblo" For those not in the know, fans of Smash Bros. are notorious for having a hatred for the Fire Emblem characters on the roster due to the fact that they occupy so many spots on the roster, half of them have playstyles that are derivative of Marth's moveset, and can kind of bleed together visually which earned them the "Anime Swordsman" moniker.

The arrival of characters like Shulk and Cloud only compounded the notion that too many "Anime Swordsmen" were taking up roster spots that could have been filled with more visually distinct or more nostalgic characters from other game genres, specifically platformers (and even more specifically, Crash Bandicoot, one of the biggest fan requests) One tweet however changed everything when it coined the phrase "Scrimblo Bimblo" a catch-all to describe platformer mascots as sort of a counter to "Anime Swordsman"

Scrimblo Bimblo caught on quick by frustrated JRPG fans who were tired of being talked down to and they finally had something that got under the skin of people who kept shitting on their favorites. The two sides fought back and forth until the DLC for Ultimate ended, but Scrimblo Blimbo ended up leaking into other sides of Twitter and Tumblr where it took on a whole new meaning outside of it's original origin

It somehow got twisted into "Skrunkly Scrimblo" which became sort of a term of endearment. It's meaning is flexible but seems to commonly used for "funny little guys" or something that's cute in an almost ugly or pathetic way

Eventually the Scrimblo was dropped from Skrunkly, and Skrunkly took over this specific definition And finally today, Scrimblo (without the Bimblo) has sort of made a resurgence, now has just become an overall term of endearment for not just a favorite character but for anything or anyone

Isn't that interesting? A term born out of fandom bullying to put down a persons personal taste ended up circling back around to become a term of enjoyment and affection. And it came from the funny platform fighter that lets you kick Sephiroth's ass with Minecraft Steve