I hc certain characters to speak certain languages based on their country/movie of origin! So here's the game we're going to play!

I'm going to put one character's voice line into a translator (because I barely speak english) and you're going to guess who the character is! Characters won't repeat, but languages will! Are you ready?

Please note some of them will be done in Google translate because my good translator doesn't have as many languages as I'd like

Round 1

for a famous example, take Fight Club (the movie, I haven’t read the book). we could watch the movie and interpret it to say, “wow, tyler durden is So Cool, that’s such a good movie about sticking it to the man, breaking free of society’s emasculating chains, and the frailty of the Snowflake Generation.” there are lots of people who Do have that interpretation. but to have that interpretation, they have to Ignore the fact that durden does the same things that he accuses consumerist culture of doing (e.g. to them you’re a faceless, nameless member of the hoard. and durden has these guys shave their heads and lose their names, literally). you have to ignore the film pitching the ending as a tragedy, or that durden is framed as the villain by the end, &c.

i’m not trying to say “listen to the author” – the author is indeed dead! (well, if we want them to be. if I like what they have to say they can live. Joanne gets the guillotine of course) but the interpretations we have of a work need to be grounded in the text to a large degree (some paratext is often necessary depending on the type of lens you're using, yeah, and works are often responding to other works or a cultural moment). once the author writes the text, they’re gone, evaporated, but the text itself is still there to be grappled with. the text is what is making you think/feel/react

I came up with a very simple idea to help me practice my target languages, so if you want to take part please hit me up !

What is the game ?

The goal is to find someone that is learning your native language and that speaks your target language.

Here are 30 questions. You should ask each other to answer a question (ex : number 18.) This gives you the opportunity to write a paragraph that allows you to search for more vocabulary and grammar than basic conversations.

Ask each other all the questions (or agree on a different number if you feel like there are too many / not enough questions) before introducing yourself to each other (name, city, studies, hobbies, family…)

Hopefully having someone writing personal things to you about themselves will trigger your curiosity enough to help you write in your target language regularly, practice, and bond with someone !

How did I come up with this game ?

I have tried to practice languages forever and I think one of the best ways to practice it is through conversation with native people of the languages I learn. However I have always found it very hard to find a pen pal and bond with someone I don't know. Most of the time, the conversations I've had with "pen pals" did not go any further than basic information about ourselves and it did not help learn the language. With this game I wish to trigger curiosity in order to practice and bond with someone so we can practice even once the game is over !

Want to play this game with me ?

I am looking to practice Spanish and Italian (also would not be against English) and I am a French native speaker. So if you are a native speaker of these languages and are learning French (or just want to play the game and are willing to write to me in your native language), that could work !

Please be somewhere between 20 and 25 yo

I am willing to use snail mail or e-mails for that game as I think it is more convenient to write "long" texts ! Also, snail mail is more personal and triggers curiosity even more

We can discuss everything in DMs ! Please hit me up !

I read the gujarati part and now I’m even more confused and scared because that didn’t make sense at all and if that makes sense with the context I will submit this post to my gujarati teacher and ask her to give me more marks

Hxhxhx i dont speak it i just used Google translate

“Philosophy football” is one of my most favorite episodes in the Monty Python Series.

  Philosophy and football, “soccer” in American English, have something in common. That makes this meaningful to us and make laugh.

Even if you are not familiar with both games, you will find that there are shared rules that looked strange at the first glance. Using hands is more efficient to make a ball into the goal, but football players do not. Taking the time to just think rather than “Just do it” seems less interesting for many sports fans, but they have kept thinking. The fact that rules are shared among players in both different kinds of activities is one of the commonalities.

This comedy makes it very clear. Monty python may be inspired by Wittgenstein’s “A language game”. Wittgenstein is a player on the German team in this comedy, and the philosopher, who was born in Austria-Hungry and made his career in England, got the idea of “Language game” from a football in his real life.

The concept is argued in “Philosophical Investigations”. It has received attention from socio-cultural anthropologists.

Wittgenstein argued that a word or even a sentence has meaning only as a result of the "rule" of the "game" being played. We can talk about the contents of our minds only once we have learned a language and that we can learn a language only by taking part in the practices of a community. The starting point for philosophical reflection, therefore, is not our own consciousness but our participation in communal activities. The participation in communal activities is the source and legitimacy of “rule”.

[ @cheolsbae ] ofc you can!! hey juli 💞 ~  Ethereal = Etérea(o)        Inspirational = Inspirador   Cozy = Aconchegante/Acolhedor

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yay I love these kind of games so this is gonna be the first course of hungarian 😂

dragon: sárkány

car: autó

knight: lovag

book: könyv

story: sztori or történet 

sword: kard