Palestine is in the midst of a humanitarian crisis while the United States and other European Prime Ministers express their solidarity with Israel. It's crucial that you educate yourself and know the horror of this senseless bloodshed. It's crucial you support Palestine and Palestinian's struggles for justice and the end of this illegal occupation.

It's important to remember that all of Israel was built on occupied land. Israel is an apartheid state and a settler colony. The Israeli state has no right to exist. Free Palestine 🇵🇸 and boycott Israel!

The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history (not by Al Jazeera but short and very comprehensive)

Jaffa, The Orange's Clockwork (a stunning and powerful documentary about deconstructing the Jaffa oranges brand through representations, archival photos and videos. It tackles forced evictions, the bombing of Palestine and Al-Nakba. The documentary is available of vimeo for under 6$, absolutely worthy! I have bought this film in Italian so message me if you'd like to see it!)

Lost cities of Palestine: Haifa, Nazareth, and Jaffa

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 1

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 2

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 3

Al-Nakba: The Palestinian catastrophe - Episode 4

Al-Nakba: How did the Nakba happen?

Al-Nakba: 70 years of exile

el papa = the pope

el papá = the father

la papa = the potato (Lat. Am.)

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

UPDATE because apparently not everyone has seen this yet the new and improved version of this is a MEGA folder: https://mega.nz/folder/kQBXHKwA#-osWRLNCXAsd62ln8wKa8w

Palestinian Christians, like Palestinians of other faiths, were also dispossessed of their homes and lands during the Nakba and experience the brutality of the occupation just as much as any other Palestinian does. Pilgrimages to occupied Palestine frequently ignore the entire existence of Palestinian Christians - who are routinely barred from visiting their own holy and ancestral sites.

Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera reporter who was assassinated by Israel while covering an IOF raid on Jenin, was a Palestinian Christian. Edward Said, the author of Orientalism, was raised Christian from a Palestinian Christian family.

Palestine is not a Muslim cause, it’s not even an Arab cause, and it’s not a religious conflict - Free Palestine is a cause for all Palestinians against colonialism, including Palestinian Christians. Merry Christmas to Palestinian Christians.

why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

Folk costume of Bovalino and Stignano, Calabria, Italy

Drawings by English artist Edward Lear, 1847

French:

Listening: Have a look at these websites!

Reading:

Try to follow French people on tumblr (#upthebaguette, #french side of tumblr), on insta, on twitter ...

Follow French news pages: lemonde.fr/ lefigaro.fr/ libération.fr or also fun ones like: buzzfeed.fr

use wikipedia.fr to expand your vocabulary and get to know more about topics

you could also try to read some easier French books ( I have an ask about this here)

Here's another ask about where to read interesting things in French and finally a post I made about "Small ways to improve your French"

I hope this helps you and I am so sorry that this is so late!

You can also have a look at my faq to see if there are any other things that might help you!

Black Deaf Culture Through the Lens of History (BASL and ASL-centric)

Understanding Deaf Culture by Paddy Ladd (which can also be found on archive.org)

Many Ways to Be Deaf: International Variation in Deaf Communities

the British Deaf Association website

directory for Deaf Australia’s “Our Deaf Ways” video podcast (presented in Auslan with audio from an interpreter and accurate closed captioning for all episodes)

The Irish Deaf Community by Patrick A. Matthews

Breaking the Silence: The Education of the Deaf in Ireland, 1816-1996

the Canadian Deaf Culture Center website

History of Hawai'i Sign Language and Hawai'i Deaf People by Barbara Earth, with Linda Lambrecht

Some time ago I received a message from someone who was highly demotivated and was thinking about giving up on language learning, although they were still attached to it ✉️

Out of my answer, I created this post with tips that helped me a lot while I was having a hard time with Japanese. I hope you'll find it helpful too 🥰

Reflection

Ask yourself if you really care about learning this language by writing down a list of pros and cons. Of course, you have to be extremely honest with yourself!

Bonus points if you have a planner you can take a look at to visualize the progress you made with time

Change your routine

It happened so many times that I was on the verge of giving up on a language, so during these moments of burnout, I usually take my current language-learning routine and change it!

I suggest taking some time away from textbooks to focus more on passive learning through native content

Change your mindset

Do not rely on comparison with other learners of the same target language, you should only compare to your past self

🔵 Brief introduction to the history of Neapolitan: Origin and history of a minoritised language (from @/neapxita on instagram)

✂️ alt text under the cut !!

Other tips for cheaper books is checking amazon and scrolling down to the “buy used” or “other sellers” section and then checking to see if those sellers have storerfonts off of amazon.

There is also a good chance that you might have a local, indie book store that likely also has a used book section! Indiebound might help you find those book stores!

Also, check out your local library, sometimes, they have a for sale section or might have certain times of the year where they do massive used book (dvd, cd, etc) sales to fundraise!