Student Trying To Survive

I’ve made a discord server for practicing languages.

The idea is there’s a channel for each language, and people can practice whichever language they want to, providing there’s another person to practice with.

At the moment it’s far from complete, and I’m open to suggestions for more channels to add.

Please join and share to anyone who loves languages!

Irish is NOT hard.  It is NOT hard to learn. It is NOT impossible to learn.  Irish is actually quite an easy language. The keyword here is that it’s different. It’s a different kind of language. Not your Standard European Average language like German or French. There is a lot of influence from Semitic languages, which is attributed to either substratum, language contact and…coincidence?  Here’s a list of reasons why Irish is not hard to learn. 1. It’s phonetic.  Once you learn the rules of reading it, you can read almost any word, no matter how confusing and long it is. It’s phonetic. So each letter or group of letters correspond to one sound. There may be slight alterations in the various dialects, but you can’t go horribly wrong like you can in English.

2. It’s regular.  There are only 11 irregular verbs and out of those, only 6 are pretty crazy and have to be looked out for, other than that, there are very few exceptions. 

I’m just recently coming back from a bit of a hiatus, and my dash is kind of dead, so I’d like to liven it up by following some more blogs!

Like or reblog this if you are or post about any of the following:

• studyblr

• langblr (especially french, spanish, and mandarin!)

• literature/ quotes

• writeblr

•writing tips

• positivity

• travel

• study abroad

Fragrantica: perfume enthusiast site that has a long list of scents. v helpful when you’re writing your guilty pleasure abo fics

Just One Cookbook: recipe site that centers on Japanese cuisine. Lots of different recipes to browse, plenty of inspiration so you’re not just “ramen and sushi” 

This comparing heights page: gives you a visual on height differences between characters

A page on the colors of bruises+healing stages: well just that. there you go. describe your bruises properly

McCormick Science Institute: yes this is a real thing. the site shows off research on spices and gives the history on them. be historically accurate or just indulge in mindless fascination. boost your restaurant au with it

Canine Body Language

Cocktail Flow: a site with a variety of cocktails that’s pretty easy to navigate and offers photos of the drinks. You can sort by themes, strengths, type and base. My only real annoyance with this site is that the drinks are sometimes sorted into ~masculine~ and ~feminine~ but ehhhh. It’s great otherwise.

Types of High Heels: A page describing twenty five different types of high heels. It gives a description and pictures. Shake it up from just “stilettos and kitten heels”

Random Job Generator: Exactly as it says. The site offer more generators like characters, plots, or town names.

Glossary of Hosiery Terms: Figure out what is what on a pair of stockings.

Men’s Dress Shoe Guide: A quick guide describing the eight most common types of men’s dress shoes. Pics included.

Akkadian

Arabic

Aramaic

Church Slavonic

Egyptian (hieroglyphics and Demotic)

Elamite

Ethiopic (Ge’ez)

Etruscan

Gaulish

Georgian

Gothic

Greek

Hebrew

Hittite

Latin

Mayan (various related languages/dialects)

Old Chinese

Old English

Old French

Old Frisian

Old High German

Old Irish

Old Norse

Old Persian

Old Turkic

Sanskrit

Sumerian

Syriac

Ugaritic

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Finnish. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

info

about world languages

fun facts

glottolog

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

language breakdown by @linguisticsbunker

learning profile

playlist of samples

the finnish language [video]

“this user is learning finnish” userbox

wikipedia

world atlas of language structures

Hej! Of course! I tried to put them in some sort of order of genre, I mostly listen to indie but I tried to find something in some other genres too 

Indie (We have so much indie omg)

“Svensk indiepop” by ryffe96

“Spela shoreline” by Spotify (both in Swedish and English)

Laleh  (Aldrig bli som förr, Bara få va mig själv)

Veronica Maggio (Vi mot världen, Play och sen repeat, Jag kommer, Hela huset)

Håkan Hellström (Valborg, Det kommer aldrig va över för mig, Ramlar)

Melissa Horn (Hanna, Vår sista dans, Med ena foten utanför)

Thomas Stenström (Slå mig hårt i ansiktet)

Ulrik Munther (Jag vet inte hur man gör)

Kent (Utan dina andetag)

Timo Räisänen (Lyckliga gatan)

Pop

“Made in Sweden” by Spotify (both in Swedish and English

“Svensk pop” by Filtr Sweden

Oskar Linnros (Genom eld, 25)

Darin (Astrologen, En apa som liknar dig) (Both of these are covers)

Norlie & KKV (Tröjan du hatar, Ingen annan rör mig som du)

My childhood 

“Svenska favoriter” by Spotify

Carola (Fångad av en stormvind, Främling, Tommy tycker om mig)

Gyllene tider/Per Gessle (Sommartider, När vi två blir en, Här kommer alla känslorna)

Mauro Scocco (Sarah)

Ted Gärdestad (Sol vind och vatten, Jag vill ha en egen måne, Himlen är oskyldigt blå)

ABBA (Waterloo, Ring ring) Album: På svenska

Lena PH (Dansa i neon)

Björn Skifs (Michelangelo, Härligt härligt men farligt farligt)

Galenskaparna och After Shave (Hjärtat, Macken Husvagn, Gôtt å leva)

Children’s music

“Barnfavoriter” by Spotify

“Astrid Lindgrens bästa visor” by Astrid Lindgren

“Bästa Disney-listan på svensk!” by Barnplaneten

One hit wonders

Hej Monica - Nic and the family

Ooa hela natten - Attack

Dansband

Arvingarna (Eloise)

Vikingarna (Leende guldbruna ögon)

Punk

It’s a throwback to - Ça nous ramène à

To get to the bottom of things - Aller au fond des choses

You can’t put the clock back - Ce qui est fait est fait

It looks like a dead end street - On est dans l’impasse

To take a turn for the better - Prendre une meilleure tournure

To be scared to death - Avoir une peur bleue

That drives me crazy - Ça me prend la tête

He had a narrow escape - Il l’a échappé belle

They were beaten hands down - Ils ont été battus à plate couture

To throw money down the drain - Jeter de l’argent par les fenêtres

To face facts - Se rendre à l’évidence

An ace in the hole - Un avantage secret

At a drop of a hat - Sans hesitation

To start from scratch - Commencer à partir de zero

I worked my fingers to the bone - J’ai travaillé d’arrache-pied

Once in a blue moon - Tous les trente-six du mois

To buy something for a song - Acheter quelque chose pour une bouchée de pain

To do one’s utmost - Faire de son mieux

To face facts - Voir la vérité en face

To be all the rage - Être à la mode

To deter somebody from doing something - Dissuader quelqu’un de faire quelque chose 

To come into office - Prendre le pouvoir

To have a grip on something - Avoir une emprise sur quelque chose 

To cope with - Faire face à

To be on the edge of - Être sur le point de

To turn out to be - S’avérer

To devote oneself to doing something - Se consacrer à

To get one’s life back - Reprendre sa vie en main

To be short of - Être en rade de quelque chose

To resume work - Reprendre le travail

In the name of - Au nom de

To hit rock bottom - Toucher le fond

It’s the pot calling the kettle back - C’est l’hôpital qui se moque de la charité

Money can’t buy happiness - L’argent ne fait pas le Bonheur

When there’s a will there’s a way - Quand on veut on peut

To pass out - Tomber dans les pommes

To pretend to - Faire semblant de

Don’t judge a book by his cover - L’habit ne fait pas le moine

To make ends meet - Joindre les deux bouts

To cost an arm and a leg - Coûter les yeux de la tête

To look forward to - Être impatient de 

To be skating on thin ice - Avancer sur un terrain glissant

Let alone - Sans parler de

To keep pace with - S’adapter

Out of necessity - Par nécessité

Be it as it may - Quoi qu’il en soit

The flipside of the coin - Le revers de la médaille

To be on the brink of doing something - Être à deux doigts de faire quelque chose

Valp - puppy

Unghund - young dog

Vovve - nickname for dog

Voff - woof, barking sound

Skäll/skall - bark

Tass - paw

Nos - nose (not human nose)

Tunga - tongue

Svans - tail

Öron - ears

Ståndöron - “stand ears”, pointy ears

Hängöron - “hang ears”, ears that hang

Rosenöron - rose ears

Tand/tänder - tooth/teeth

Huggtand - “stab tooth”, fang

Päls - fur

Hår - hair

Morrhår - “growl hair”, whiskers

Klo/klor - claw/claws

Sporre - dew claw

Långhårig - long haired

Korthårig/släthårig - short haired

Strävhårig - wire haired

Behäng - longer hair on certain parts of the body on a short haired dog (f.ex the saluki)

Ullhårig - woolly haired, hair that doesn’t shed

Köttätare - “meat eater”, carnivore

Rovdjur - predator

Jägare - hunter

Varg - wolf

stereotypical delightful classical music:

battalia a 10 in d major (biber)

brandenburg concerto no. 5

brandenburg concerto no. 3

symphony no. 45 - “farewell” (haydn)

if you need to chill:

rondo alla turca

fur elise

anitra’s dance

in the steppes of central asia (borodin) (added by viola-ology)

if you need to sleep:

moonlight sonata

swan lake

corral nocturne

if you need to wake up:

morning mood

summer (from the four seasons)

buckaroo holiday (if you’ve played this in orch you might end up screaming instead of waking up joyfully)

if you are feeling very proud:

pomp and circumstance

symphony no. 9 (beethoven; this is where ode to joy came from)

1812 overture

symphony no. 5, finale (tchaikovsky) (added by viola-ology)

american (dvořák)

if you feel really excited:

hoedown (copland)

bacchanale

spring (from the four seasons) (be careful, if you listen to this too much you’ll start hating it)

la gazza ladra

death and the maiden (schubert)

if you are angry and you want to take a baseball bat and start hitting a bush:

dance of the knights (from the romeo and juliet suite by prokofiev)

winter, mvt. 1 (from the four seasons)

symphony no. 10 mvt. 2 (shostakovich)

symphony no. 5 (beethoven)

totentanz (liszt)

quartet no. 8, mvt. 2 (shostakovich) (added by viola-ology)

young person’s guide to the orchestra, fugue (britten) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

if you want to cry for a really long time:

fantasia based on russian themes (rimsky-korsakov)

adagio for strings (barber)

violin concerto in e minor (mendelssohn)

aase’s death

andante festivo

if you want to feel like you’re on an adventure:

an american in paris (gershwin)

if you want chills:

danse macabre

russian easter overture

if you want to study:

eine kleine nachtmusik

bolero (ravel)

serenade for strings (elgar)

scheherazade (rimsky-korsakov) (added by viola-ology)

pines of rome, mvt. 4 (resphigi) (added by viola-ology)

if you really want to dance:

capriccio espagnol (rimsky-korsakov)

blue danube

le cid (massenet) (added by viola-ology)

radetzky march

if you want to start bouncing in your chair:

hopak (mussorgsky)

les toreadors (from carmen suite no.1)

if you’re about to pass out and you need energy:

hungarian dance no. 1

hungarian dance no. 5

if you want to hear suspense within music:

firebird

in the hall of the mountain king

ride of the valkyries

night on bald mountain (mussorgsky) (added by viola-ology)

if you want a jazzy/classical feel:

rhapsody in blue

if you want to feel emotional with no explanation:

introduction and rondo capriccioso

unfinished symphony (schubert)

symphony no. 7, allegretto (beethoven) (added by viola-ology)

canon in d (pachelbel)

if you want to sit back and have a nice cup of tea:

st. paul’s suite

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

l’arlésienne suite

pieces that don’t really have a valid explanation:

symphony no. 40 (mozart)

cello suite no. 1 (bach)

polovtsian dances

enigma variations (elgar) (added by viola-ology)

perpetuum mobile

pieces that just sound really cool:

scherzo tarantelle

dance of the goblins

caprice no. 24 (paganini)

new world symphony, allegro con fuoco (dvorak) (added by viola-ology​)

if you feel like listening to concertos all day (I do not recommend doing that):

concerto for two violins (bach)

concerto for two violins (vivaldi)

violin concerto in a minor (vivaldi)

violin concerto (tchaikovsky) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

cello concerto in c (haydn)

piano concerto, mvt. 1 (pierne) (added by iwillsavemyworld)

harp concerto in E-flat major, mvt. 1 (added by iwillsavemyworld)

and if you really just hate classical music in general:

4′33″ (cage)

a lot of these pieces apply in multiple categories, but I sorted them by which I think they match the most. have fun exploring classical music!

1. Nada hay más surreal que la realidad- Nothing is more surreal than reality.

2. Despues de los años mil, Torna el agua a su carril- In a hundred years we will be dead anyway.

3. La vida es un relámpago entre dos largas noches- Life is a flash of lightning between two long nights.

4. Nada hay nuevo debajo del sol- There is nothing new under the Sun.

(Everything that’s happened to you, has happened to other people too.)

5. De músico, poeta y loco, todos tenemos un poco- We all have a little bit of musician, poet and crazy person in us.

6. El arte es una mentira que nos acerca a la verdad- Art is a lie which brings us closer to truth.

7. Toma las cosas como vienen- Take things as they come.

8. Hay un cierto placer en la locura, que solo el loco conoce- There’s a certain pleasure in madness that only the madman knows.

9. Vale más huir, que morir- It’s better to flee than to die. (Live to fight another battle.)