Bilinguando

My shorthand is me using the syntax of my mother tongue but substituting most of the words with their translations in which ever language has the same word but with less letters

I do this with notetaking for consecutive interpreting! ‘Il y a’ (‘there is’ FR) becomes ‘hay’ or ‘ay’ (ES), and ‘parce que’ (’because’, FR) becomes ‘xq’ (ES). It never seems to work the other way around...

This is a bigger deal than this post lets on. The British came into Ireland and did everything they could to erase the Irish culture. They renamed everything on maps to get rid of the colloquial names of landmarks and roads and things that had been used for centuries. They also prevented the Irish language’s usage in education and government which has reduced its usage to under 80,000 people who use it outside of the educational system today (after a cultural revival).

Had this convo with my dad the other day. I think we should always protect our culture at all cost.

This doesn’t even cover it, though… The British also tore down Irish structures and replaced them all with British ones… Even now, all those Irish towns and Irish pubs that we think of as iconic are what the British built.  They also outlawed Irish music and dance, and ordered that all the Irish harps be destroyed. 

Stop moaning about it on fucking Tumblr and learn/teach Irish then! Whining about it on this website isn’t going to change what my ancestors did.

nobodys whining about it we’re discussing the importance of not letting our culture become entirely erased because of what your poxy ancestors did so shut the fuck up and eat your crumpets and tea m8

All very important points, especially the crumpets and tea.

Maybe the confusion is because in the UK we don't really use the term 'studying', which is seen as an Americanism. We use 'revising' to mean basically the same as studying in general, whereas I think in the US it does mean more like re-reading, etc (which does make a lot more sense, linguistically!). So maybe if bqllamy reads a mixture of British and American studyblrs, that might be where the confusion stems from :)

reblog with your favorite non-english music?

French: Stromae, Yelle, Edith Piaf, Jacque Brel (also used to be obsessed with Kyo) Arabic: Mashrou’ Leila, Nancy Ajram Persian: Pallett, Radio Tehran, Heydah, Spanish: Reik, Maná, Camila Armenian: Tigran Hamasyan (though he’s more instrumental and jazz) Icelandic: Sigur Rós, Heiða

Also for french: Natasha St-Pier, Mickaël Miro, Joyce Jonathan Russian: Sunsay, Сергей Бабкин

Portuguese (EU): Tiago Bettencourt, Os Azeitonas, Cuca Roseta, The Gift and Amor Eletro

Italian: Il Volo German: Cro, Rammstein, Helene Fischer, Alligatoah Norwegian: Robin og Bugge, Ylvis, Kollektivet, Kaizers Orchestra, Ingebjørg Bratland, Moddi, TrollfesT Finnish: Antti Tuisku, Korpiklaani, Happoradio Icelandic: Sigur Rós, Árstíðir French: Stromae, Indila Portuguese: Michel Teló Korean: aoa Swedish: Veronica Maggio (Northern) Sami: Sofia Jannok, Jon Henrik Fjällgren (not sure which type of Sami he sings in actually)

Music in different languages

German: Seeed Peter Fox

Scottish Gaelic:Julie Fowlis

French: Coeur de Pirate! Spanish: Chayanne forever :D

The other day my colleague asked me if I had a bolí and I just looked at her awkwardly for like 10 seconds until someone else handed her a pen. In my head, I was like 'OHHHHHHH, a lapicero!' IRL I just silently went back to work and said nothing.

I absolutely love this! I used pretty much the same technique to learn the Korean alphabet, and it was an awesome way to get my head around it :)

A loanword is a word taken from another language, such as ‘angst’ or ‘tsunami’ or ‘calque’. A calque is a literal translation of a word from another language, such as rhinestone (from French caillou du Rhine) or blueblood (from Spanish sangre azul) or loanword (from German lehnwort). #linguistics #calque #loanword is a calque #calque is a loanword #what

wait wait so youre telling me in america you need 59% on a test to even PASS it and you’re all expected to get A’s which is like 96% then??? how do you survive guys how

we dont

wait where is 59% passing??? can i move there

Seriously it’s more like 65%. It makes sense to me though, like if you don’t know more than a third of material tested, maybe you need to try again and not move on to the next harder class.

grading systems are variable on a regional and national basis.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you-  the Bielefeld Conspiracy

You shouldn’t spread this kind of nonsense. Non-German followers may believe that Bielefeld actually exists.

the oldest yet biggest german meme

Wait, so does it exist or not? 😂