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This cool little website, called readlang, allows you to upload your book, in your target language, from epub form into their website, right? And you just read your book from there. When you don’t know a word, what do you do? Do you go to google dot com and type in that word? Nope. You fucking click it. And it tells you the word. 

Wondering what vocab to learn? Are you curious whether your vocabulary is varied enough?

Here are some of the topics you might want to expand in your target language:

life and death (eg. stages of life, vocabulary for funeral)

family (members of family, family tree)

appearance (parts of the body, clothes, verbs of movement, fashion, diets, hairdressing)

character (eg. adjectives describing character, personality types, temperaments, emotions, feelings of love, hate, interest etc.)

health & sport (eg. parts of the body, diseases, going to the doctor, going to pharmacy, types of accidents, maintaining healthy lifestyle, fitness, gym, cosmetics, going shopping, mental health, sports, olimpics)

hobby and holidays (eg. activities of free time, night life, types of holidays in your country or in your target language’s country, active and passive way of spending free time, friends, games)

art (painting, drawing, films, literature)

house (eg. types of houses, living in a city, on a countryside, different types of rooms at home, neighbors, garden, chemicals for cleaning, activities like cleaning floors, washing the dishes, moving out, renovation)

food (eg. types of food, preparing dishes, traditional meals, writing a recipe, healthy foods, eating out) 

media (eg. TV, press, internet, news, types of presenters, types of programs, social media, ads)

technology (eg. types of jobs in IT industry, computer, phone, internet)

travel (eg. types of vacations, days off, business trips, places to go, travel agency, types of tourism, monuments, summertime, nature, names of countries, weather, plants and animals, foreign languages)

work & school (eg. professions, looking for a job, job interview, office work, dream jobs, balancing professional life with private, jobs in politics, being a celebrity, summer jobs, business, time management, subjects at school, stages of education)

society (eg. culture, social rules, savoir-vivre, law, government, idols, crimes, terrorism, wars, politics, religions, casework, classes in society, race discrimination)

You can add your own suggestions by sending them to me so that I expanded that list or by reblogging.

vraiment - truly

abominablement - abominably

absolument - absolutely

actuellement - currently

admirablement - admirably

attentivement - carefully

aucunement - not at all

autrement - otherwise, differently

assurément - certainly

carrément - totally

certainement - certainly

complètement - completely

crûment - crudely

diversement - variously

doucement - gently

entièrement - entirely

éperdument - desperately

exactement - exactly

excessivement - excessively

frugalement - frugally

gaiement - happily

gentiment - kindly

indûment - wrongly

lentement - slowly

longuement - extensively

malheureusement - unfortunately

médiocrement - poorly

naïvement - naively

naturellement - naturally

parfaitement - perfectly

péniblement - painfully

poliment - politely

précisément - precisely

prétendument - allegedly

progressivement - gradually

quasiment - almost

rapidement - quickly

réellement - actually

résolument - resolutely

sensiblement - substantially

solennellement - solemnly

tellement - so much

tranquillement - peacefully

uniformément - uniformly

Saluton ĉiuj!

Well, it’s that time of the year again and to celebrate I thought I’d make a list of some spooky Halloween-themed words for all your spooky needs!

Halloween - Halovino

Pumpkin - Kukurbo

Candle - Kandelo

Lantern - Lanterno

October - Oktobro

Midnight - Noktomezo

Darkness - Mallumo

Shadow - Ombro

Horror - Hororo

(To) Fear - Timi

(To) Haunt - Hanti

Scary - Timiga

Ghost - Fantomo

Spirit - Spirito

Witch - Sorĉistino

Monster - Monstro

Goblin - Koboldo

Mummy -  Mumio

Skeleton - Skeleto

Vampire - Vampiro

Zombie -  Sorĉkadavro

Demon - Demono

Grave/Tomb - Tombo

Cemetary -  Tombejo

Dead - Morta

Corpse - Kadavro

Scream/To Scream - Kriego/Krii

Spider - Araneo

Trick - Truko 

Spell -  Ensorĉo

Estas ĉio por nun. Mi esperas, ke vi ĉiuj havas bonan Halovinon!

inspired by the Duolingo “Conditional Verb” Skill

Interreto: Internet Retumilo: a web browser Retpaĝo: a webpage Retejo: a website Retpoŝtadreso: an e-mail address Retmesaĝo: an e-mail message Ligilo: a link Tujmesaĝilo: an instant messenger Dosiero: a file Dosierujo: a folder, a directory Babilejo: a chat room

Retumi: to surf internet Ensaluti: to log in Elsaluti: to log out Babili: to chat Tajpi: to type Erari: to make a mistake, to be wrong Meti: to put Alŝuti: to upload Elŝuti: to download Povus: could Devus: should -us: [conditional verbs]

Kaŝnomo: a nickname Uzantnomo: a username Pasvorto: a password

Ludanto: a player [occasionally] Trompanto: a cheater [occasionally cheats people] Trompisto: a cheater [someone who lives by cheating] Trompulo: a cheater [characterised by an inclination to cheat]

If you’re hip and cool on the Internet in English, now you can be the same, but in Esperanto wowow