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Numbers

1314: “For ever”, usually preceded by a phrase such as “I love you” or whatever. 1314 (pinyin: yīsānyīsì) represents 一生一世 “one life, one world” (pinyin: yīshēng yīshì).

233: “laughter" 233 (pinyin:èr sān sān） represents 哈哈哈 （pinyin: hā hā hā).

4242: “Yes” or “It is”, 4242 (pinyin: sìèr sì'èr) represents 是啊是啊 (pinyin: shì’a shì’a).

520: “I love you”. 520 (pinyin: wǔ'èrlíng) represents 我爱你 (pinyin: wǒ ài nǐ).

555: “(crying)”. 555 (pinyin: wǔwǔwǔ) represents 呜呜呜 (pinyin: wūwūwū) the sound of tearful crying.

666: “doing something really well” 666 (pinyin: liùliùliù) represents 溜溜溜 (pinyin:liùliùliù ).

7451 or 7456: “I’m angry”. 7451 (pinyin: qīsìwǔyī) or 7456 (pinyin: qīsìwǔliù) represents 气死我了 (pinyin: qìsǐ wǒle)

748: “Go and die!”, 748 (pinyin: qīsìbā)：represents 去死吧 (pinyin: qùsǐba), the equivalent of “Get lost!”, or “Go to hell!”

88: “Bye bye” (goodbye). 88 (pinyin: bābā) represents “bye bye" 

First one reads: “Language rights are human rights. When a State tells speakers of a language you deem unworthy that they are or sound ignorant bc their language is inherently inferior and backwards, that’s imperialistic. Minority & minoritised language speakers shouldn’t be made to feel ashamed.”

Second tweet reads: “There’s something universally widespread about being a minoritised language speaker. Linguistic discrimination & stigmatisation is a key component of linguistic subordination. Vergonha comes to mind obvs. States just looove imposing their national language & ignoring the rest.”

Third tweet reads: “But while most regional minority languages have been socially legitimised in Spain, they remain confined to the real of undesirable ‘dialects’ in Italy and France. Though Occitan speakers know theirs is a language - in Italy there are still people who ignore they’re bilingual.”

Hi everyone, I’m back with another writing challenge for you! I tried my best, but please let me know if I had any repeats from last month. 

If you don’t know about this challenge: Want to maintain or improve your writing skills in your target language this summer? Try this 30-day writing challenge for June: Every day, answer the following prompts in your target language (in a personal journal or in a tumblr post). Good luck!

Translate the first few sentences of your favorite book into your language (make sure to include the author and title!!).

If you could live in any era (i.e. the roaring ‘20s), what would it be and why?

Write a summary of your favorite TV show or movie.

List 3-5 facts about your country (or your family’s country of origin).

What are 5-8 songs that would be on your summer playlist? Translate their titles into your target language.

Look up and list 3-5 slang terms in your language.

Describe your favorite summer outfit.

Name 3 things that have made you smile this week.

Write today’s to-do list in your target language.

How will you improve as a student next year?

What is one goal you hope to achieve by the end of this month?

Name a funny childhood memory.

Where is your favorite study space? Why?

Translate a few lines from a favorite song.

Give a basic physical description of yourself (if you are posting online, protect your own privacy - don’t list anything super specific!!).

Briefly describe some of your personality traits.

What’s one nice thing that you’ve done for someone else recently?

Why do you want to learn the language you are studying?

List 3 useful phrases in your language (such as “Where is the bathroom?” or “There is an emergency.” I feel like we never learn these things in class lol)

Name some terms and phrases that are specific to the career you are pursuing.

Describe your favorite scene from a book, show, or movie.

What would you do with $100? Why?

What’s one good thing about the world in this day and age? What’s one bad thing?

What are some things on your bucket list and why?

What is one thing (food, a scent, a stuffed animal, etc.) that is nostalgic/brings back memories? Why?

What is one thing that stresses you out, and what do you do to de-stress/avoid stress when you have to deal with that thing?

Write a short letter to your past self (maybe 5 years ago?).

What is your Myers-Briggs personality type? Describe it? Is it accurate?

What is one worry/problem you have right now, and what are you doing/going to do to fix it?

What is the nicest thing someone has said to you/about you?

Favorite memory from this month?

Therapist: Linear Mandarin is not real, it cannot hurt you.

Linear Mandarin:

So I guess I'll do a deep dive on this.

All 15 of these characters exist, although most of them are pretty obscure. The mix of Traditional and Simplified versions of the metal radical is because some of these are so obscure not to have a Simplified version.

Cross-referencing several dictionaries to find information on these characters:

鍂 (metal/metal) piān – an incredibly obscure word for an ancient musical instrument no one knows anything about because it existed too long ago

鈢 (metal/wood) niē – as far as I can tell an archaic form of 璽 xǐ, an archaic type of royal seal

淦 (water/metal) gàn – a word used only for names (most famously a river in Jiangxi), and an archiac word for water leaking into a boat

鈥 (metal/fire) huǒ – the somewhat common word for the element holmium

釷 (metal/earth) tǔ – the somewhat common word for the element thorium

林 (wood/wood) lín – a very common word meaning "forest" or "grove"

沐 (water/wood) mù – a somewhat common word for "bath"

炑 (fire/wood) mù – an incredibly obscure word meaning "fire"

杜 (wood/earth) dù – a somewhat common word for "restrict" as well as "birchleaf pear tree"

沝 (water/water) zhuǐ – an incredibly obscure archaic character meaning "two rivers" or "river intersection"

淡 (water/fire) dàn – a common word meaning "bland" or "watery"

汢 (water/earth) – no pronunciation because it was invented by Japan (kokugo) and never imported into China; an extremely obscure abbreviation of 浄土 jōdo, the "Pure Land" in Buddhism; also used in place names in Japan (pronounced nuta)

炎 (fire/fire) yán – a somewhat common word meaning "flame"

灶 (fire/earth) zào – a common word meaning "stove"

I’m currently faced with the task of forming my own study plan for the summer and beyond. Here is a gathering of templates and links that I’ve found. These are all just suggestions; I’ll be using them to inform my studying plan, but there’s no need to limit strictly to one format or another. 

I hope someone else will find these helpful!

Templates

A language-learning template that varies based on the study time you can commit per day

A simple language-learning template for planning different types of daily language-learning activities

Weekly Language study planner example

General study plan template

General hourly study planner

General weekly study plan template

Articles About Making a Language Lesson Plan

Self Study Guide: How to Make a Customized Language Study Schedule

How to Create a Language Learning Study Schedule

General articles about studying languages on your own under the cut:

hi! so i dont know a ton of articles on this subject but if people know more they should definitely add on because im also interested in reading more about this!

"Imposer sa langue, c'est imposer sa pensée" by Claude Hagège [original french] [english translation]

The Fall of Language in the Age of English by Minae Mizumura — this is a book not an article but it partially touches on this topic!

"Globalization Is a Leading Factor in the Death of Minority Languages" by Jordan Pearson

"Globalization and the Myth of Killer Languages: What’s Really Going on?" by Salikoko S. Mufwene (im actually still in the middle of reading this one so i havent finished it yet)

音読み　ザイ

訓読み　つみ

部首　罒

意味　法にふれるおこない・道徳に反すること

英語　guilt, sin, crime, fault, blame, offense

罪悪　ざいあく　crime, sin, vice

罪状　ざいじょう　charges, nature of offense

功罪　こうざい　merits and demerits, strengths and weaknesses

謝罪　しゃざい　apology

重罪　じゅうざい　felony, serious crime

犯罪　はんざい　crime, offense

My advocacy for the preservation of minority languages has nothing to do with the fact that they are interesting/fascinating/any other adjective of that nature

Minority languages deserve protection because they are important, and they are valuable

The worth of a minority language is not determined by the entertainment it can provide to outsiders

While I believe that all languages are beautiful and unique, it shouldn't matter that a language is ugly, or boring or "useless"