Le football - soccer

l'actualité du football (f) - soccer news

l'alier droit (m/f) - right wing

l'alier gauche (m/f) - left wing

l'arbitre (m/f) - referee

l'avant centre (m/f) - center forward

le ballon de foot - soccer ball

les chaussures à crampons (f) - cleats

la Coupe du Monde de Football - Soccer World Cup

le défenseur - defense

l'entraînement de foot (m) - soccer practice

l'entraîneur de football (m)/l'entraîneuse (f) - soccer coach

l'équipe de foot (f) - soccer team

le/la fan de foot - soccer fan

la Fédération Internationale de Football Association - FIFA

le foot - soccer

le footballeur/la footballeuse - soccer player

le footeux/la footeuse - soccer player (slang)

le gardien de but - goalkeeper/goalie

le joueur/la joueuse de football - soccer player

le maillot de foot - soccer jersey

le match de foot - soccer game

le milieu droit right - mid-fielder

le milieu gauche - left mid-fielder

les protège-tibias (m) - shin guards

le short de foot - soccer shorts

In honor of the international women’s day I decided to do this vocab list. Of course I can’t include every word but I tried making this list as intersectional as possible. If you see any typos please tell me!

By “not-so-popular languages” I mean languages that not many people in the langblr community are learning. Albanian Memrise Loecsen Goethe Verlang Digital Dialects BABADADA Basque  Memrise Digital Dialects BABADADA

Belarusian Memrise Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot BABADADA Bosnian Memrise Goethe Verlang Digital Dialects BABADADA Breton Memrise Loecsen Bulgarian Memrise Mondly Loecsen Innovative Language Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BABADADA Catalan Memrise Loecsen Goethe Verlang Digital Dialects BABADADA Croatian Memrise Mango Languages Mondly Loecsen Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BABADADA Easy Languages Czech Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Loecsen Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BaBaDum BABADADA Danish Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Loecsen Goethe Verlang Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BaBaDum BABADADA Estonian Memrise Loecsen Goethe Verlang Oneness City Digital Dialects BABADADA Galician Memrise BABADADA Greek Memrise Duolingo Mango Languages Mondly Innovative Language Loecsen Goethe Verlang Linguti Internet Polyglot Digital Dialects BaBaDum BABADADA Easy Languages

中国 zhōng guó - china 🇨🇳

美国 mêi guó - usa 🇺🇸

加拿大 jiā ná dà - canada 🇨🇦

澳大利亚 àodà lìyà - australia 🇦🇺

新西兰 xīn xīlán - new zealand 🇳🇿

日本 rì bên - japan 🇯🇵

印度尼西亚 yìndù ní xīyà - indonesia 🇮🇩

俄罗斯 èluó sī - russia 🇷🇺

冰岛 bīng dâo - Iceland 🇮🇸

芬兰 fēnlán - finland 🇫🇮

挪威 nuó wēi - norway 🇳🇴

瑞典 ruì diân - sweden 🇸🇪

瑞士 ruì shì - switzerland 🇨🇭

法国 fâ guó - france 🇫🇷

意大利 yì dà lì - italy 🇮🇹

希腊 xī là - greece 🇬🇷

西班牙 xībān yá - spain 🇪🇸

英国 yīngguó - united kingdom 🇬🇧

爱尔兰 ài'êr lán - ireland 🇮🇪

德国 dé guó - germany 🇩🇪

奥地利 ào dìlì - austria 🇦🇹

土耳其 tû'êr qí - turkey 🇹🇷

韩国 hán guó - south korea 🇰🇷

朝鲜 cháo xiân - north korea 🇰🇵

印度 yìn dù - india 🇮🇳

巴基斯坦 bājī sītân - pakistan 🇵🇰

泰国 tàiguó - thailand 🇹🇭

越南 yuènán - vietnam 🇻🇳

新加坡 xīn jiā pō - singapore 🇸🇬

马来西亚 mâlái xīyà - malaysia 🇲🇾

埃及 āi jí - egypt 🇪🇬

伊拉克 yī lā kè - iraq 🇮🇶

伊朗 yī lâng - iran 🇮🇷

肯尼亚 kên ní yà - kenya 🇰🇪

I had this list in Spanish and French, and I decided to translate it into English. So here it is, a trilingual vocabulary list for essays :)

die Welt = world

die Umwelt = environment

ver = prefix to indicate something difficult or negative, a change that leads to deterioration or even destruction that is difficult to reverse or to undo, or a strong negative change of the mental state of a person

der Müll = garbage, trash, rubbish, litter

-ung = -ing

die Vermüllung = littering

ver- = see before

zweifeln = to doubt

-ung = see before

die Verzweiflung = despair, exasperation, desperation

das Monster = monster

das Wort = word

der Groll = grudge, anger, malice, rancor

die Imitation = imitation

un- = un-, in-

fähig = able

-keit = -ility

die Unfähigkeit = inability

‘Monsterwortbildungsimitationsunfähigkeitsverzweiflungsgroll’

der Schatz = treasure, hoard

der Wortschatz = vocabulary

die Erfindung = invention

die Herausforderung = challenge

das Spiel (pl. die Spiele) = game

For those of you learning Russian or just curious about it :)

spelling is a mess 

punctuation is even worse: you have to know 76487658 rules and conduct a 10-step linguistic analysis to put proper punctuation marks in a more or less complex sentence

we constantly mix up similar-looking letters in English and Russian on the keyboard

everyone’s New Year resolution is to brush up their English

no one actually says ‘zdrav-stvuj-teh’ (здравствуйте, hello). It’s usually ‘zdras-tu-te’, ‘zdras-te’ (the most common variant), or even ‘dras-te’ (there is a russian meme ‘дратути’ (dra-tu-tee) mocking a way of shortening the word)

in fast speech it’s normal to drop like 10-20% of sounds 

there are quite a few widely used words an expressions originated from criminal argot, presumably left over after mass imprisonment under Stalin 

the common way to address a stranger is мужчина, женщина or девушка (literally ‘man, woman, [young] girl’). Everyone finds it weird and inconvenient, but can’t come up with smth else

Russian swear words sound way ruder than English ones (still almost everyone swears)

quite a lot of English words don’t have well-sounding alternatives in Russian (words like self-consciousness, counterintuitive, rule of thumb will sound strange translated literally)

…but good luck translating 50 shades of meaning of Russian diminutives (кошка, кошечка, киса, кисонька, кисуля, котик, кошак vs cat or kitty)

don’t ask me how Russian works without articles and link verbs, it’s probably just black magic

Завтра я приступаю к новой системе планирования - Agile.

Вся суть системы в том, что ежедневник делится на спринты (девятинедельные отрывки)

В один спринт ты вносишь все свои списки задач, утренние и вечерние ритуалы, а так же планируешь идеальное расписание дня, каждый день ты пишешь распорядок, приближённый к общему расписанию, вечером заполняешь журнал благодарности. В конце недели ты пишешь итоги: благодарности, то, что не успел сделать, заполняешь хронометраж привычек.

Мне такая система более близка, потому что я давно пришла к выводу, что вдохновение теряется в процессе разрисовывания и расчерчивания новых трекеров.

Готовлюсь к перезагрузке и надеюсь, что ты тоже подчерпнёшь от меня вдохновение на действия😉

Всем хорошего выходного и полной готовности к новому забегу продуктивности😌🏆

Surprise

Ого!

Ух ты! (pronounced as one word, either syllable can be stressed)

Надо же!

Ничего себе! (can be pronounced carelessly, “ничё себе”/“ничёси”)

Господи!/Боже (мой)! — ‘Oh my God!’

Ну и ну! — something you’d say scratching your head, when really puzzled

Вау! — from English ‘wow’, also used sometimes

Ой! — when anything you weren’t expecting happens, also for physical pain. Typically used by girls.

Happiness

Ура! = Hooray

Вот это да! — when something really impressive happens

Браво!

Sorrow

Эх! — your favourite football team didn’t win? Lost your keys? Understood how vain and useless everything you do is? This one is for any situation you feel like you can do nothing about.

Увы! = Alas!

Ай-яй-яй/Ой-ёй-ёй — *dramatically shakes their head*

Ох! — like эх, but can also express physical pain/fatigue

Да что ты будешь делать! — when something unpleasant happens over and over again

In a conversation

А? — Eh?/Huh?

A! — Oh! (when you’ve just figured something out/discovered the truth; when you’ve finally understood the thing)

Хм/Гм = Hm

Ну — Well

Э… — uhm, uh, err… (when you’ve forgotten what you’ve been meaning to say/just don’t know what to say)

Кхм/Кхм-кхм = Ahem

Угу (is always written this way, but in oral speech we just mumble ‘m-m’ with a rise of intonation) — yep, uh-huh

Ага (the г is usually pronounced as /ɦ/) — like угу, but less common

afdrif, the fate of somebody

afturganga, a ghost, “one who walks again”

álfadans, dance of the elves

átt, the direction of the wind

augabragð, the twinkling of an eye

álfatrú, belief in fairies

bíldóttur, having black spots around the eyes of animals

blámóða, blue mist

blika, a cover of clouds, often foreboding storm or rain

blær, soft, calm wind

draugagangur, the walking of ghosts, a haunting

draumaland, land of dreams

dúnalogn, calm as death

dýjamosi, bright green moss growing in quagmires

fenna, to fill with snow

fjallavættur, a mountain spirit

fjúka, carried away by the wind

flygja, a ghost who accompanies a certain person

föl, a thick film of snow covering the ground

galdraöld, the age of magic

grængolandi, deep and dark green

gullbúinn, adorned with gold

hlakka, the cry of a bird of prey

hrafnagervi, the outward form of ravens

huldurdalur, hidden valley

kaf, to plunge into deep water

kollgáta, the true answer to the riddle

kossleit, looking for kisses

leirskáld, a bad poet

lumma, a pancake, or, the palm of a small hand

mói, ground covered with heather

morgungyðja, the goddess of the morning

mosavaxinn, overgrown with moss

náttúrufegurð, the beauty of nature

norðankaldi, a light breeze from the north

rammgöldróttur, full of witchcraft and wizardry 

rósóttur, with a design of roses

selslíki, the shape of a seal

sjódraugur, the ghost of a drowned man

smáminnka, getting smaller and smaller

sólskin, sunshine

stirndur, set full of stars

sumarsól, the sun in the summer

sæbrattur, rising steeply out of the sea

sælurdalur, the valley of bliss

undirsæng, a soft feather mattress

8/2/2018

Saying “beaucoup” over and over can get tiring for you and for your audience so here are some ways to try and avoid using it too much.

Bien de(s) + nom + action (la plupart du temps) [formal]: Il y a bien des choses à faire. - There is a lot of stuff to do.

Bondé de + personnes : C’est bondé de monde ici. - There are a lot of people here.

Des/un tas de + nom : J’ai signé des tas de papiers pour mon boulot. - I signed a lot/heap of papers for my job.

Énormément [formal]: Nous aimons énormément cette ville, mais on doit déménager. - We love this city a lot/tremendously but we have to move.

Plein de + nom [informal] : On a plein de raisons de te détester. - We have a lot of reasons to hate you.

Tarpin de + nom [informal, from the south of France] : Il y a tarpin (trop) de personnes à cette putain de fête. - There are a lot (too many) people at this fucking party.

Vachement de + nom [informal] : J’ai faim et on n’a pas vachement de choix. - I’m hungry and we don’t have a lot of options/choices.