hi welcome to my swamp!

Il faut se méfier de l’eau qui dort (beware of sleeping waters) : means that the quiet ones can turn out to be the worst and that you shouldn’t assume what they’re really like (it’s pretty negative)

Tout vient à point à qui sait attendre : All things come to those who wait (à point means at just the right time)

Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras (a ‘here you go’ is better than two ‘you’ll have it’) : A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush (tbvh I prefer the French way of saying it, it’s just a bit clearer lol)

Mieux vaut prévenir que guérir (preventing is better than healing) : better safe than sorry

[Il ne faut pas] mettre tous ses oeufs dans le même panier : you shouldn’t put all your eggs in one basket

[Il ne faut pas] mettre la charrue avant les boeufs (one shouldn’t put the plow before the steers) : you shouldn’t put the cart before the horse

Mieux vaut être seul que mal accompagné : it’s better to be alone than in bad company

Les bons comptes font les bons amis (good reckonings make good friends) : a debt paid is a friend kept; short reckonings make long friends (you should have a healthy financial relationship with your friends if you want to stay on good terms)

Paris ne s’est pas fait en un jour (Paris wasn’t built in one day) : French version of ‘Rome wasn’t built in a day’ (we still use the Rome version from time to time)

Tel père, tel fils/telle mère, telle fille : like father, like son/like mother, like daughter, etc. (obv ‘tel père telle fille’ and ‘telle mère, tel fils’ work too)

C’est la goutte d’eau qui fait déborder le vase (it’s the water drop that makes the vase overflow) : it’s the final straw

C’est la cerise sur le gâteau (it’s the cherry on the cake) : it’s the icing on the cake

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Amharic. 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

amharic - a semitic language of ethiopia [video]

encyclopaedia britannica

glottolog

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

omniglot

playlist of samples

wikipedia

world atlas of language structures

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Estonian. 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

estonian language [pdf]

estonica

fun facts

“in estonian, we don’t say…”

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

introduction to estonian by @uralangs

playlist of samples

wikipedia

Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat (Dictionary of Standard Estonian)

Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (Explanatory Dictionary of the Estonian Language)

Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik (Basic Estonian Dictionary (A2/B1 level)

If you’re learning Turkish and want to listen some music as well, here’s my suggestions for you. I don’t listen to Turkish music at all, but these are my exceptions! :-) 

mor ve ötesi - my favourite group, also they were in Eurovision in 2008

melekler ölmez

cambaz

deli (eurovision, 2008) 

bir derdim var

sevda çiçeği 

barış manço - very famous and very respected in Turkey and all over the world, loved chrildren a lot, rest in peace

ayı

can bedenden çıkmayınca

arkadaşım eşşek

müsaadenizle çocuklar

kara sevda - from a concert in Japan

cem karaca, one of my favourites as well!

ıslak ıslak

bindik bir alamete gidiyoz kıyamete 

ceviz ağacı, by very important poet of Turkey, Nazım Hikmet, you should check him as well! 

çok yorgunum, again, a poem by Nazım Hikmet

sen de başını alıp gitme

Srpski jezik

Funky Serbian

Learn Serbian

Serbian Lessons

Slovce

Learn Serbian Blog

FSI Language Course

DLI Language Course

Serbian resources (by lovelybluepanda)

Step by Step Serbian (PDF)

Serbian - An Essential Grammar (PDF)

A Handbook of Bosnian, Serbian, and Croatian (PDF)

Serbian Survival Phrases (PDF)

Words in Serbian-Croatian-Bosnian-Montenegrin

Serbian Phrasebook

Easy Languages (youtube)

MyLateManager (youtube)

Recnik.biz

Recnik.com

Omniglot

Memrise

Mango Languages

Innovative Language

Loecsen

Goethe Verlang

Digital Dialects

BaBaDum

BABADADA

Wikipedia

Wiktionary

This post will act as a directory for native/fluent speakers, it will be updated frequently. I’ll be putting the list under a read more for easier editing. Fluent, but not necessarily native, speakers will be marked with little stars [ ** ]

If you would like to be added to this post, send me a message (please include your language and any specific dialects you speak)! You just have to be willing to talk about your language. I made a little faq if there are any other questions.

Terms for the body above the neck in Karo, a South Omotic language from southern Ethiopia.

[siːti] — hair

[meté] — head

[aːpí] — eye

[qaːmo] — ear

[núki] — nose

[apó] — mouth

[boci] — chin

Dutch: obviously the best of all languages. Very cool 15/10

German: overly complicated Dutch

English: what is this why are all these Romance words here weird

Frisian: is this even a real language? Isn’t it a hoax?

Swedish: it’s okay just a bit weird

Norwegian: it’s okay just a bit weird part 2

Danish: how do they do that with their mouth

Afrikaans: weird Dutch

Yiddish: is this even a real language part 2

Icelandic: like Swedish and Norwegian but even weirder

Just wanted to put all my Polish food vocab sheets together!

hey babes i made a playlist with all kinds of icelandic music. I included pretty much every genre I could find from folk to rap to disco trash to ??? and I only included one or two songs by each artist so definitely check out the whole playlist, maybe youll find some new artists you love. I also made the playlist collaborative so you can all add some songs that you think should definitely be on this (but please dont add 2308 songs by the same artist) anyway, Njótið tónlistarinnar!

about knowledge :

au coeur de l’histoire (history)

les chasseurs de nazis (nazi hunters)

france musique 

on ne parle pas la bouche pleine (food + literature)

les chemins de la philosophie

le collège de france (advanced)

il était une fois (fairy tales)

la main verte (gardening)

la méthode scientifique

regardez voir (photography)

sur les épaules de darwin

very good trip (rock n roll)

chroniques du ciel (aviation)

la tête au carré (popularization)

les p’tits bateaux (pros answering children’s qs)

les grands musiciens (interview with a pro musician)

littérature moderne et contemporaine

about society :

arte radio (politics, health, history, tech…)

slate (similarish to ted talks)

hashtag (debating very current problems)

quoi de meuf (women talking about pop culture)

affaires sensibles (trials)

les gentilshommes (relationships men/women)

bouddhisme et méditation

kiffe ta race (about racial problematics)

le flow (well being)

sois gentille dis merci fais un bisou (portraits of women)

les couilles sur la table (men talking to women)

miroir miroir (destroy social norms)

du grain à moudre (debating sensible questions)

coucou le q (casual sex ed)

change ma vie (about personal growth)

la poudre (powerful women’s interviews)

nice to hear you (talks with creators, ceos, artists and nice humans)

mortel (to reconcile you with death and mortality)

la menstruelle (periods)

about movies and tech :

la cartouche (gaming)

la chronique ciné

studio 404 (tech)

geek inc (nerd chatter)

nouveau monde (innovations)

2h de perdues (shitty movies)

silence on joue (gaming)

radio rôliste (role playing, mmorpg)

nociné (pop culture/movies)

season one (to discover new shows)

▪Belarusian – ў

Belarusian is the only language which uses the letter ў.  It sounds similar to an English ‘w’, and the Latin transcription is ‘ŭ’

▪Ukrainian – ї and є

If you see an ï amidst Cyrillic letters, you’re most likely reading Ukrainian.  This letter is pronounced /ji/. Ukrainian is also the only language with the letter є - in Russian the corresponding ‘э’ character faces the other way…

▪Bulgarian – ъ

Ъ is a solid hint that you’re looking at Bulgarian ‒ it even pops up in the name of the country: България.  Though this letter (called ‘yer golyam’/‘ер голям’) also appears in Russian and other Slavic languages, it is not used frequently, whereas it appears regularly in Bulgarian.

Additional hint: ата is a frequent grammatical ending in Bulgarian.

▪Serbian – ђ and ћ

The similar ђ (dzhe) and ћ (tshe) are evidence you’re dealing with Serbian. Serbian Cyrillic doesn’t have many of the letters used in Russian Cyrillic; forget about ‘ё’, ‘й’, ‘щ’, ‘ъ’, ‘ы’, ‘ь’, ‘э’, ‘ю’, and ‘я’.  If you want to tell Serbian apart from Russian, you can also look for љ (ly’) њ (ny’) and џ (dʒ), but these are also present in Macedonian.  

▪Macedonian – Ѓ and Ќ  

Macedonian is the only language with the letters Ѓ and Ќ.

Additionally, Macedonian features the letter ‘s’ [d͡z], which otherwise does not occur in the Cyrillic alphabet.

▪Russian

Russian is quite easy to confuse it with Ukrainian, Bulgarian or Serbian, so if you have a full sentence on your hands, it’s best to proceed by elimination using all the tips mentioned above.

 ZNAKI ZODIAKU (zodiac signs): 

Jaki masz znak zodiaku? - What’s your zodiac sign?

baran - aries

byk - taurus

bliźnięta - gemini

rak - cancer

lew - leo

panna - virgo

waga - libra

skorpion - scorpio 

strzelec - sagittarius

koziorożec - capricorn

wodnik - aquarius

ryby - pisces

PLANETY (planets):

słońce - sun

księżyc - moon

merkury - mercury

wenus - venus

mars - mars

jowisz - jupiter

saturn - saturn

uran - uranus

neptun - neptune

pluton - pluto