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@queenpolyglot
destroy the “german is a scary language” stereotype 2k15
it’s actually a really cute language and kinda funny sometimes like guinea pig in german literally means “little sea pig” and turtle means “armor toad” and then instead of saying what’s your name they ask you “how are you called”
And “How much clock is it?”
Gloves in german translates literally to “Hand shoes”
FINALLY
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boy: *is literally 1 year younger than me* boy: *hits on me* me: thanks…… but…. no thanks…. i’m old enough to be your mother……..
can somebody please help me find 3 books for free
u know what really fucks me up. what do we see when we close our eyes..is it just the colour black or is it literally nothing
I’m really not comfortable when people say that U.S media shows European languages as sophisticated and romantic because U.S media shows Western Romance languages as sophisticated and romantic. Not even the total Romance package. Hello?? Romanian?? But, anyway, my native language, Russian was never considered as romantic. My language is the “dirty commie language” We can talk about a serious pressure Eurocentrism issue but you can’t tell me that all European languages are considered the same level of power. Compare how many people learn Japanese to Serbian? Or Arabic to Hungarian? (A non-Indo-European language.) I live in NE Philly. A huge Russian/Eastern European population. There is also a growing Tajik and Uzbek population…Yet, there are very few language classes for Russian, Ukrainian, or anything other than the big: Italian, Spanish, French, Arabic, and Chinese. So please take into account that not all European languages (or languages that are in Europe but not I.E) hold the same position of power. Not when languages with Cyrillic letters also have to latinize their alphabet and names.
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Me: is choosy and picky when it comes to songs and music in my native language Me: listens and likes all trashy songs in my target languages
A question: what do you call “the talk” (where parents explain sex and puberty to a child) in your language, if there’s a term for it?
I WANNA KNOW THIS TOO in German especially but ye.
Aufklärung
what’s trending right now kids?
“Daddy, are you going to fly us?”
i really love our generation’s joke trend of like, very calm but incredibly inflated hyperbole. like nobody says “oh she’s pretty” anymore we say “i would willingly let her murder me” and everyone is just like “lol same”
i think “same” is also great and “me,” i love when somebody reblogs a picture of like, a lizard, and just says “me” and we all know exactly what they mean. the current online Humor Discourse is remarkable because we trade exclusively in metaphors and implications and nobody ever, ever says anything outright and yet EVERYBODY understands each other perfectly
#ppl are gonna write their dissertations on this shit (x)
// @antlered-kitten
This reminds me of the time when I was on vacation with my family and we were hiking, and after using a rest stop, the conversation turned to the grossness of outhouses and port-a-potties, and I said that if I ever got splashback from a port-a-potty, “my soul would depart my body.” My parents found that hilarious, and my dad commented that my generation can be so clever with words bc he would only think to say something like “It would be disgusting” which doesn’t convey the sentiment nearly as well as “my soul would depart my body.”
Adjacent but relevant is Tia Baheri’s “Your Ability to Can Even: A Defense of Internet Linguistics”
I find this so intriguing because it opens up so many possibilities for future writers to connect with their readers.
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Да да да...
You have no idea how much Russians love the stereotype about the stereotypes the rest of the world has about Russia and Russians. The most typical Russian stereotype is that the Russian language is impossible to learn, because a foreigner will never understand such dialog:
- Хочешь чай? - Да нет, наверное
Literal translation is: A: Do you want tea? B: Yes no probably. The second person answed that he doesn’t. he’s pretty uncertain, because he added “наверное”, but he refused, so no, he doesn’t. Then what is “да” here?
Да means yes, but not always. It is also an interjection, very rarely a conjunction with a meaning of “and” or “but”. You know, it’s like the word “like” can be a verb and a conjunction. Or “bear” can be both noun and verb. The same thing is with да, context always tells you the meaning.
As an interjection, it is untranslatable, or can be translated as “well”. (like in the dialog above) It usually intensifies the exclamation (Да не хочу я твой чай! - *But* I don’t want your tea! “Да” shows us here, that the speaker has already refused not even once and starts getting irritated by the question). There are two phrases (I wanted to write more, but nothing else came to mind) that are not used without “да”, but it just adds this exclamatory sense.
Да здравствует *something or someone*! - Viva *something or someone*! Да ладно! - Are you kidding me?
Very-very close interjection is “ну”. I say “ну” all the time and mean nothing by it. it’s my filler, my vermin word. I also use “типа” all the time, it is something like “like” or “kind of”.
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i once asked my father who was his favourite. me or my brothers ‘baba, who do you love more?’ i remember, baba smiled and told me ‘i love my kids all the same’ so i smiled back, right into his tired brown eyes but baba carried on ‘i know you will never leave me alone’ baba said. he read on my face that his words confused me. so baba kept going ‘i know when i am old, it is my daughter who will put the food into my mouth. i know it is my daughter who will bring me a glass of water on hot days. i know it is my daughter who will take my hand and listen to me rambling like old people often do. i know my daughter will have a husband and kids. but i know she’ll never forget her old father’ baba said. ‘because daughters are grateful, daughters are soft and caring, daughters remember and daughters give back.’
mother of Nur / baba’s little girl (via motherofnur)
Me: *two seconds after chatting with a native* man I feel so great, got some practice, messed up a little but it's all good. can't wait to do that again!
Me: *five minutes later, having flashbacks to all the mistakes i made in painstaking detail* wow..... wOW..... WOW I AM NEVER DOING THAT AGAIN
some idiot: “learning languages is cultural appropriation and no one should be learning them unless-“
me:
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Reblog if you’re lost in life rn but still trying make shit happen
tbh I wish I had more multicultural friends like I have friends from the country which language I speak fluently but the rest of my friends are Americans and don't know any other languages besides like ones they take in school bc it's mandatory ... I mean I wish I had friends from all over the world OR I lived in a community where I was completely exposed to another language :((( I'm so jealous of those ppl who learn 3 or 4 languages fluently just because of their friends
