French...probably...

It’s the imbalance that’s annoying, because like—when I mentioned having no mobile network around here I had people giving me info about Verizon to fix my problem. I post some rural pic and someone says it must be somewhere in the Midwest because the Southwest doesn’t look like this. My post about my postwoman has thousands of Americans assuming it’s about the USPS. On my post about my architect there’s someone saying “it’s because architecture is an impacted major” and other irrelevant stuff about how architecture is taught in the US. This kind of thing happens so so so often and I’m expected to be familiar with the concepts of Verizon and the Midwest and impacted majors and the USPS and meanwhile I make a post about my daily life and Americans in the notes are debating like “dunno if real. it sounds made up”

Like, first of all, the categories themselves are arbitrary for the most part. “Masculine” and “feminine” for nouns doesn’t actually mean that your chair is a woman. The word for chair in Spanish is feminine, which means that it gets described with feminine articles (la, una, las, unas), adjectives (usually ending in an -a), and objective pronouns (la). Again, none of this has anything to do with the chair actually being female. It’s just the category that the word falls under, and that category tells us how to talk about it in a sentence. The grammatical genders could literally be anything; maybe some words are purple and some are green, and you have to describe purple words differently than green ones.

Second, some words even to describe people have a specific gender that does not ever change. La persona is a feminine word regardless of the gender of the person being talked about. Soy una persona, even though I’m not a woman. Even in a gendered language, there are some words that don’t gender the person in question.

A street performer covering 囚鸟 by 张宇 (Zhang Yu)

I've seen a lot of posts for European Portuguese, but none for Brazilian, so here we are! All resources are available for free (or at least have free trials.)

The items highlighted in yellow are what I, personally, use and recommend.

The items with asterisks are closer to intermediate level.

I will continue to update with new resources as I discover them. If you have any suggestions, comment or reblog!

Otherwise yep this dad/this sister/this window (as in you refer to a certain one, you are basically pointing at it): этот отец/эта сестра/это окно (m/f/n)

I’m pretty sure everyone knows who or what Peppa Pig is. If you do, you probably have watched it one time or another when you were little. I used to like it because of the simple vocabulary it has and it gave me great joy when I understood a whole episode in English.

If you’re a language learner you know how difficult it is to listen to shows or movies in your target language because they’re so fast. Peppa Pig is obviously a children’s show, but it has been translated into a lot of different languages that may help out any beginner in a language or anyone who wants to give a watch and see if they understand it! Peppa Pig - being a children’s show - uses slow speech and simple vocabulary that small children can understand, here’s a list of Peppa Pig in different languages you can watch on YouTube:

Albanian - Derkucja Pepa

Arabic - Peppa Pig

Belarusian - Свінка Пэпа

Cantonese - Peppa zhū (粉红猪小妹) 

Catalan - Pepa la Porqueta

Croatian - Pepa Prase

Czech - Prasátko Peppa

Danish - Gurli Gris

Dutch - Peppa Big

Finnish - Pipsa Possu

French - Peppa Pig

German - Peppa Wutz

Greek - Πέππα το Γουρουνάκι

Hungarian - Peppa Malac

Italian - Peppa Pig

Korean - Peppa Pig

Latvian - Cūciņa Pepa

Lithuanian - Kiaulyte Pepa

Macedonian - Прасенцето Пепа

Mandarin - 粉红猪小妹

Norwegian -  Peppa Gris

Polish - Świnka Peppa

Portuguese - A Porquinha Peppa

(Brazilian) Portuguese  - Peppa Pig

Romanian - Purcelusa Peppa

Russian - Свинка Пеппа

Scottish Gaelic - Peppa

Serbian - Pepa Prase

Spanish - Peppa Pig

Spanish (Latin America) - Peppa Pig

Swedish - Greta Gris

Ukrainian - Свинка Пеппа

/Myehl/

(masc. "un/le" 🔹pl. miels)