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art blog(derogatory)
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Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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@polyglotic
a lil folk tune i wrote abt almost-loves & cemeteries.
clínicas is a subway station in são paulo, brazil, by the way, but the rest of the song is in english. the lyrics are in the link’s description.
hi this is my friend clara and she’s sooo good and i’m so proud
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me: combining german and english with each other is actually a great way to expand our vocabulary and establishing those new sentence structures and words actually develops the language in a new and interesting way
friend:
me: nevermind
You were sent to heal the contrite of heart, Sir, take it easy
German Stereotypes
In Italian we don’t say “pineapple pizza”, we say “Vade retro, Satana” and I think that’s beautiful
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Has anyone here ever taken/is planning on taking the DELF French proficiency exam? I want to take the B2 level in June but I’m not really sure how to prepare.
Yes! I took the Delf B2 about three years ago and I used internet resources to prepare (mostly for the listening part because I found it really hard at first to understand since there are always noises in the background to make it more complicated). If you feel comfortable with you French at this level there isn’t much to worry though, and I’m sure you’ll do fine without stressing too much about studying :) If I were to do anything differently I’d probably prepare a bit better for the speaking session though, because I tend to get nervous in this kind of situation and it was my lowest score haha
What is Silesian?
As you know I’m from Poland, more specifically from Silesia. Here we speak a dialect/language (it’s not considered a language officially) that differs a bit from Polish, called Silesian. Is there anything interesting about it?
Silesian belongs to the Lechitic group of West Slavic languages. It’s highly influenced by German, a bit by Czech (because of the fact that Silesia belonged to all three of those countries during the years). It’s based on Polish, the grammar system is very similar (so there are cases, the same number of tenses etc) but the vocabulary has its roots in Old Polish rather than the Modern one.
On this picture you can see the area where it’s spoken in Poland. Look at the brown coloured “dialekt śląski” source: x
Silesian wasn’t really a language that was meant to be written, therefore there’s no one official alphabet. The newest one and the one I personally like the most is: A Ã B C Ć D E F G H I J K L Ł M N Ń O Ŏ Ō Ô Õ P R S Ś T U W Y Z Ź Ż Notice that there are no Ą or Ę like in Polish, they’re marked as “on” and “en" instead (that difference is noticeable in pronunciation)
There’s a Silesian Wikipedia, radio stations, a TV channel, all those things help to keep it alive. Nowadays either older people speak it fluently, or young people like me whose whole family comes from Silesia and they learned it at home. Hopefully the government agrees for the status of a regional language soon so it could be prevented from becoming endangered better. In the 2011 census 529 000 people admitted they use Silesian at home.
Please give me some feedback whether you’d like to read more posts about it, there are a lot of possibilities like the alphabet, differences from Polish or even vocabulary lists! I’d love to share some stuff about it as there is not much of it on Tumblr :D
me, overly trying to convince people that English is actually my native language:
Someone: polish is the hardest language in the world!!
Me, learning irish and japanese, where i can't string a sentence together without stupid amounts of grammar and thinking about it for ten years: hahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHSHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
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James Rhodes - Is that not worth exploring?
This is beautiful
i literally wear the same three outfits every week i’m only a tier or two above a cartoon character it makes me sad
Words and Phrases used more often in Islay Gaelic
Found this this here on the Ionad Chaluim Chile Ile website (The Columba Centre of Islay). Do any Irish Gaelic speakers recognise these words too?
Here is a small selection of words, collected for Seanchas Ìle, that are more commonly heard in Islay Gaelic than in other Gaelic dialects. Some are unique to Islay Gaelic.
Abair - say (normal for ‘can’)baibheil - excellent (normal for ‘sgoinneil’)
Baideal/an (m) - large cloud/s (more common than ‘sgòth’/‘neul’)
Bàtan (pl) - boats (more common than ‘bàtaichean’)
Bolgam (m) - a mouthfulbolg/an-losgainn (m) - mushroom/s (nas cumanta na ‘balgan-buachair’)
Bròdail - proud (normal for ‘pròiseil’)caineab (f) - hemp (normal for ‘cainb’)
Ceathramh - quarter (normal for ‘cairteal’)
Ciabhag/an (f) - long beard/s (more common than ‘feusag’)
Cìob (f) - sponge (normal for ‘spong’)
Clis - quick, swift (normal for ‘luath’)
cneap/an (m) - button/s (normal for ‘putan’)
Coimheach - shy, timid (normal for ‘diùid’)
Colbhag/an (f)- index finger/s (normal for ‘sgealbag’)
Cosail ri - similar to (normal for ‘coltach ri’)
Crannag/an (f) - pulpit/s (nomal for ‘cùbaid’)
Creic, a’ creic - to sell (normal for ‘reic’)
Cuisdeag/an (f) - pinkie/s (normal for ‘lùdag’)
Daonnan - always (normal for ‘an-còmhnaidh’)
Deifir (f) - hurry (normal for ‘cabhag’)
Dhèan - did (normal for ‘rinn’)
Drùin - close (normal for ‘dùin’)
èibhinn - strange (normal for ‘neònach’)
èidheannach/èidheantach (f) - ice (normal for ‘deigh’)
Fànus (m) - skyline
Fairge/annan (f) - sea/s (more common than ‘muir’)
Fan, a’ fantail - to stay, to wait (normal for ‘fuireach’)
Fìdeag/an (f) - pinkie/s (normal for ‘lùdag’)
Figheadair/ean (m) - spider/s (normal for ‘damhan-allaidh’)
Fìneagan (f) - woodworm (normal for ‘raodan’)
Fionna fada - middle fingerflat/an (f) - saucer/s (normal for ‘sàsar’)
Flinne (m) - sleet (normal for ‘flin’)
fuathasach - wonderful
Gaodhachail - doing odd jobs
Gealbhan/an (m) - fire/s (in the fire place)
geannaire/an (m) - hammer/s (normal for ‘òrd’)
Glè - quite (rather than very)
Gort/oirt (m) - field/s (more common than ‘achadh’)
Gun stuth - free of charge (normal for ‘saor an asgaidh’)
Gun robh math agad - thank you (normal for ‘tapadh leat’)
Imir/ean (m) - lazybed/s (more common than ‘feannag’)
Ladhar/dhran (m) - toe/s (normal for ‘òrdag’)
Liathnach (m) - hoar-frost (normal for ‘liath-reothadh’)
Manadh/aidhean (m) - ghost/s (normal for ‘taibhse’)
Mand, a’ mandadh - can (i.e cha mhand mi seo a dhèanadh: I can’t do this)
Maorach/aich (m) - limpet/s / shellfish (normal for ‘bàirneach’)
Mothaich, a’ mothachainn - to feel (normal for ‘faireachdainn’)
Muineal/an (f) - neck/s (normal for ‘amhaich’)
Patach/aich (m) - child/ren (more common than ‘clann’)
Peitear/an (f/b)- pictures (more common than ‘dealbh’)
Piocach/aich (m) - saithe (normal for ‘saoidhean’)
Pollag/an (f) - nostril/s (more common than ‘cuinnean’)
Prois (f) - prude (àbhaisteach airson ‘neach-nàrach’)
Rèidh - ready/finished (normal for ‘deiseil’)
Sè - six (normal for ‘sia’)
Sgrog (m) - a bite (to eat)
Siop/aichean (m) - shop (more common than ‘bùth’)
Sìthmhearach/aich (f/b) - fairy/ies (more common than ‘sìth’)
Siubhail, a’ siubhail - to die (humans only, ‘bàsaich’ / ‘caochail’ for animals)
Siùdaich, a’ siùdach - to begin
Sparraich (pl) - household furnituresreann-chor (f) - whirlwind
Suc!suc! - call to sheep
Sùgan/an (m) - horse’s collar/
Ssulasach - over-joyed
An teanntachd (f) - asthma (normal for ‘a’ chuing’)
Thalla! - come! (normal for ‘trobhad’)
Tioram/tiomailt air - about (more common than ‘timcheall air’)
Tòrradh/aidhean (m) - funeral (normal for ‘tiodhlacadh’)
Trasda - across (more common than ‘thairis air’)
Trusgan/an (m) - suit/s of clothes (normal for ‘deise’)
non-native english speakers are so intelligent and beautiful pass it on
Ofc most of the worlds population is intelligent and beautiful what is this self-centered english speaking bs
learning a language related to a language you already speak
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Italian Grammar Book: Some nouns are masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural
Me: Literally what
I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)
Alison
Coursera
FutureLearn
open2study
Khan Academy
edX
P2P U
Academic Earth
iversity
Stanford Online
MIT Open Courseware
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
University of Reddit
Saylor
IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)
TED
FORA
Big Think
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist
DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)
wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself
FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS
OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
Textbook Revolution
E-books Directory
FullBooks
Books Should Be Free
Classic Reader
Read Print
Project Gutenberg
AudioBooks For Free
LibriVox
Poem Hunter
Bartleby
MIT Classics
Many Books
Open Textbooks BCcampus
Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
Oxford Open
Elsevier Open Access
ArXiv
Open Access Library
LEARN:
1. LANGUAGES
Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
Livemocha
Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
Lingualia
OmniGlot
OpenCulture’s Language links
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING
Codecademy
Programmr
GA Dash
CodeHS
w3schools
Code Avengers
Codelearn
The Code Player
Code School
Code.org
Programming Motherf*?$%#
Bento
Bucky’s room
WiBit
Learn Code the Hard Way
Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft Virtual Academy
3. YOGA & MEDITATION
Learning Yoga
Learn Meditation
Yome
Free Meditation
Online Meditation
Do Yoga With Me
Yoga Learning Center
4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING
Exposure Guide
The Bastards Book of Photography
Cambridge in Color
Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
Production Now
nyvs
Learn About Film
Film School Online
5. DRAWING & PAINTING
Enliighten
Ctrl+Paint
ArtGraphica
Google Cultural Institute
Drawspace
DragoArt
WetCanvas
6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY
Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
Piano Lessons
Zebra Keys
Play Bass Now
7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS
Investopedia
The Chess Website
Chesscademy
Chess.com
Spreeder
ReadSpeeder
First Aid for Free
First Aid Web
NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.
IF THERE’S A WILL THERE’S A WAY!!
