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To be fluent in another language means that you can communicate with relative ease, that is, without it being a real strain on either the speaker or the listener. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, is fluent in English, despite the fact that you can hear he is not a native speaker and that he may, on occasion, use the word “delicious” when he probably meant to say “delightful”. Pretty much anyone can become fluent in pretty much any language at pretty much any age. It’s not even true that young children learn languages faster than older children or adults: if you expose different age groups to the same amount of instruction in a foreign language, the older ones invariably do better, both initially and in the long run. Learners of any age can achieve a brilliant, even nativelike, command of the vocabulary of another language, including such challenging structures as idioms or proverbs. The puzzling thing about older learners – something the authors of the new study also found – is that they seem to have more problems mastering some, but not all, grammatical phenomena. A good example for this is the fact that, in English, most verbs have to have an “s” added to them in the third person singular: so it’s I/you/we/they walk but he/she walks. Many second language learners keep getting even such comparatively simple grammar rules wrong, even though they may have an amazing command of vocabulary. However, it seems that if you learn the language at a younger age, you have an easier time mastering the kinds of structures that older learners keep struggling with, and the same is true for acquiring a native-like accent.

Monika Schmid, You’re never too old to become fluent in a foreign language in The Conversation (via allthingslinguistic)

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We will call this place our home, The dirt in which our roots may grow. Though the storms will push and pull, We will call this place our home.

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So You Decided to Play D&D...

How you think it works:

How it actually does:

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I don’t understand why america is like “RED WHITE AND BLUE ARE THE COLORS OF ‘MERICA!!!!!!!!!!111!!!!!1″ because like 

there are at least 35 other countries

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How cool is this?!

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The love is eternal. Oh my dog, this is perfect. This goes straight to Roll20!

The second place winner of my Giveaway was @thelightsofmischief​! She requested her DnD character Hayden Methyani!

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THIS.

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—Can the word “handsome” be used for Lolita girls? —Definitely! >>> https://www.lolitawardrobe.com/c/ouji-lolita_0364

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- Amigo una sonrisa para el blog

+ Asi esta bien? 

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“they” (1 word) is shorter than “he or she” (3 words)

“they” is more inclusive than “he/she”

“themself” flows more naturally than “him or herself”

“they” is less clunky than “(s)he”

it’s time to replace the awkward “she or he”

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Concept: That scene in every 90s high school movie where someone shows the new kid around the cafeteria (”that table is the nerds, those are the jocks, the goths, the cheerleeders” etc) except it’s a medieval tavern and each table has a different d&d class.

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Can we just talk about the fact that Evangeline and Ptolemus Samos are literally Sharpay and Ryan Evans?

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“It’s a tricky one. There is a common bond between me, Rupert [Grint] and Emma [Watson] that will never go away, and that’s lovely. We will always meet and be excited to see one another. But I would be lying to you if I said, ‘Yeah, we hang out all the time.’ I hate saying that; I feel like there is a want for us to be best friends, but we are all off and busy and in far-flung corners of the world… but as I said, if we see each other we would be friendly and excited to see each other, we just aren’t in each other’s orbit anymore.” - Daniel Radcliffe. (2018)

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here we are again!!!! thank you all so much for continuing to stick with me on this weird blue hell website! i love you all dearly.

the first place winner will receive:

a $25 gift card to topatoco.com !!

a $25 gift card to dicegamedepot.com !!

the second place winner will receive:

a $25 gift card to topatoco.com !!

the third place winner will receive:

a $10 gift card to topatoco.com !!

also, since i promised an anon i would do this: all of the winners can request i mail them… a signed selfie. i’m sorry. this is weird. but i keep my promises!

must be following me to win! sorry, but it is for my followers ;;;

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Look how cute this living rug is