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Winter, again ☆ また冬 (ふゆ)

厳冬　げんとう　 severe winter

大寒　だいかん　extreme cold

寒中　かんちゅう　mid-winter, cold season

冬至　とうじ　winter solstice

冷気　れいき　cold, chill, cold weather

寒雨　かんう　cold winter rain

寒雲　かんうん　clouds in midwinter, cold winter clouds

寒気　かんき　cold chill, the shivers

寒月　かんげつ　wintry moon, a winter month

    ★ The Language Accountability Project Invites You ★         ♢ To Join Us in a Mid-Summer Polyglot’s Dream ♢

Happy Summer from the Northern Hemisphere! (And Happy Winter to the Southern Hem!) My discord, designed to keep you accountable in achieving your language goals, is inviting you to participate in another challenge with us!

Studying in the summertime can be tricky. We have an illusion of having a large chunk of time, when suddenly it hits us - a couple rest weeks, some travel plans, spontaneous summer fun, and suddenly the season is over as quickly as it started.

Let's face it, it can be difficult to sit down at a desk and digest grammar when taking a walk with an iced drink is so appealing.

So we're coming at you with a portable challenge - one you can digest with your morning coffee or on a train between travels. And all it takes is three easy steps!

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Step 1 - Find a list of the 1000 most common words in your target language. Apps like Memrise, Quizlet, Tinycards, and Anki are sure to already have sets of these. You can also find a book or article online which lists them out. Step 2 - Tackle 10 words a day. You're sure to already know some of these words! Don't stress out about knowing how to use them perfectly. Focus on digesting their meanings and getting acquainted with them.

Step 3 - Check in with us! We're here to help build a community of folks who keep each other accountable for their language learning goals. Pop into our discord to jot down the words you learnt that day. Make a social media post or a video of your success and tag us with #laptop1000 so that we can see and share your efforts!

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Today was all in all just a nice day! I met up with my besties to finish our London-trip planning and I also had work! But more importantly I managed to get some studying done!

50 hours club

Korean ~ 1hr

At this point, I think I have already surpassed the 50 hours of studying, but I am not sure and I still have to calculate everything together!

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And furthermore it’s going really well with this challenge too and I’m really happy about that!

Today’s words are:

저 - that (far from speaker and listener)

못하다 - to be unable to do sth

생각하다 - to think

모르다 - to not know

속 - inside ("within the water, inside the forest")

Words in italic are words I already knew beforehand

Top 1000 Common Words ~ L.A.P Summer Challenge! [link to original post] // 5000 German Words (Top 87%)

Nur noch 100 Wörter und ich werde die Hälfte von tausend Wörter haben... ୧༼✿ ͡◕ д ◕͡ ༽୨

studied ten new words for the#laptop1000 language challenge;

went to work for 6 hours (day 3/5);

e-mailed with professors to set up an appointment;

went to my doctor + picked up perscription at the apothecary;

spent 30 minutes on learning spanish:

20 minutes on duolingo: level 1 people 2 + level 2 school 2;

10 minutes on memrise;

kept up with my summer journal!!  💕

under the cut, ive listed the ten new words i studied today! after tomorrow, i will be uploading photographs from my language-learning journal <3

Rude Ways to Refer to People☆人について失礼な言い方(ひとについてしつれいないいかた)

Today I thought I’d have some fun with rude vocabulary referring to people. A great deal of these are frequently used in anime or yakuza movies.

Disclaimer: Do not use in polite company or if you want to actually make friends! It’s a fun discussion topic, but please don’t use when referring to actual people.

きさま　rude pronoun 'you'

手前　てまえ　rude pronoun 'you' (often pronounced as てえめえ)

こいつ・あいつ　rude, overly familiar expression for a third party (”this guy”)

この野郎　このやろう　this piece of sh!t (generally used for males)

馬鹿野郎　ばかやろう　stupid piece of sh!t

くずやろう　piece of trash

最低　さいてい　the worst, disgusting (e.g. 最低な人間・さいていなにんげん)

やつ　unpleasant person (can also be used for someone you like but it’s very informal and usually used by males esp. gangsters - 良いやつ)

くそったれ　sh!thead

クソガキ　stupid brat (often used for children or someone younger)

New Year ☆ お正月(おしょうがつ)

新年　しんねん　New Year

新年あけましておめでとうございます - Happy New Year (traditional New Year’s greeting)

謹賀新年　きんがしんねん　Wishes of happiness in the New Year (四字熟語)

笑門来福　しょうもんらいふく　Good fortune and happiness will come to the home of those who smile​ (四字熟語)

門松　かどまつ　New Year’s pine decoration for the front gate

鏡餅　かがみもち　 New Year offering consisting of two mochi stacked on each other and topped by a mikan

お節料理　おせちりょうり　various traditional New Year’s foods presented in a lacquer wood box, each of which symbolizes health, long life, and fertility

年越しそば　としこしそば　year-crossing soba; buckwheat noodles eaten just before midnight to symbolize the crossing between one year and the next

初詣　はつもうで　 first New Year’s shrine visit

年賀状　ねんがじょう　New Year’s postcards, exchanged as Christmas cards might be

除夜の鐘　じょやのかね　ringing of temple bells 108 times on New Year’s eve (to dispel the 108 earthly desires of human beings - Buddhism)

皆さん、良いお年をお迎えください！

みなさん、よいおとしをおむかえください！

Everyone, I hope you will have a wonderful New Year!

Danger ☆ 危険 (きけん)

立入禁止　たちいりきんし　No Entry, No Trespassing (on a sign)

止まれ　とまれ　stop (on a sign)

危害　きがい　injury, harm

危機　きき　crisis, critical situation

危篤　きとく　critical condition

高電圧　こうでんあつ　high voltage

注意　ちゅうい　caution

有害　ゆうがい　harmful, hazardous

有毒　ゆうどく　poisonous, toxic