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Anna | following from mainblog xspontaneousx | studying French, Chinese, Korean
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Resources masterpost

Witnessing French:

Improving your:

Things to listen to:

Things to read:

Things to watch:

Extra:

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i haven't seen anyone talk about it before, but there's a site called 21st Century Chinese Poetry that has a massive collection of contemporary chinese poetry, including english translations thereof, for anyone who, like me, is interested in poetry but may feel a bit intimidated by the more literary nature of classical poetry. currently, they have poetry from between 2000-2021, and i, personally, have rather enjoyed poking around the site.

#chinese#poetry
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dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

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thursday, march 9th, 2023 | today was a weird brain day, but I tried my best to take care of myself. I took a walk to see my partner at work and grabbed some ice cream to keep me company while I studied. my last midterm is tomorrow and then I'll be done, woo!

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When You’re Done With Something 🇫🇷

The dramatic “I’m done” at the end of a conversation for example cause we the French love the drama hehe

C’est bon = That’s it / I’m done

J’ai compris = I get it

Allez je me casse = Okay I’m out

J’me tire = I’m out

J’en ai assez là = I’ve had enough

C’est fini = It’s over

Allez ciao = Okay bye

J’en ai ma claque = I’ve had enough

J’en peux plus de cette merde = I can’t deal with this shit anymore

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Finished one poetry book and now hopping to another. I was taken in by the review on the cover by Diane Glancy: “There is heaven and hell in these heavenly poems.”

📖 The Sky Watched: Poems of Ojibwe Lives by Linda LeGarde Grover

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Monday, 13.02.23: Only three more days until holidays! I still need to prepare lessons though.

Cuttently reading: Maja Lunde- Die letzten ihrer Art

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Journaling 101: some prompts and ideas

This last bonus chapter of the journaling 101 series is a list of some prompts and ideas to get you inspired when you find yourself wanting to journal but don't really know what to do. As I mentioned I am a big fan of journaling prompts, as I believe they can be very helpful to get you in the habit of journaling, or to just spice things up a bit. This list has no particular theme, so there might be something interesting for everyone:
  • Write about your favourite books, and how they influenced you. Try to remember what was happening in your life when you read them for the first time, and how that might contribute to your attachment to the book. (This could also work with movies and tv shows).
  • Gather ideas and organize you thoughts on some project you have, or you would like to work on. This could be about work/study, but also redecorating your room, tattoos you might want to get in the future, anything.
  • If you are in therapy, after your session, write down everything you worked on, the things you might want to keep an eye out for until your next meeting, thoughts you might have after your session is done. If your therapy session are distant from each other, you could plan check-ins, and also notes on things you might want to discuss during the next session.
  • Weekly reviews spreads, in which you write a small review of what happened and what you did, or a favourite memory. Also writing down what you are currently reading, listening and watching. At the end of the year you'll have a quick review of many things you probably wouldn't have remembered.
  • Write a letter to your future self and do not re-read that until the specific age you decided. (A fun way to remember about it could be to write yourself and email, and then schedule it to be sent in a few years time).
  • Travel journal spreads. I have a specific journal, but these would work both in a personal journal and in a bullet journal. I normally have a planning page, in which I list things I want to see, things I want to eat, and general informations on the holiday. Then I do daily entries on what I visited, I glue in tickets, and so on.
  • Rant about what you are currently reading and watching, follow the flow of your thoughts and see where they bring you.
  • Pick a random word generator, see what word comes out and then writes everything that comes to mind when you think of that word. Memories, people, feelings, images, anything. You could also do this with random songs from your playlists.
  • Write a letter to someone from your past someone who you were friends with, someone who hurt you, an old teacher, anyone.
  • If you are trying to be more fluent in a target language try to journal a bit in that language. Start by describing what you can see, and then move on your thoughts and feelings.
  • Read a poem or an article and write in your journal what if made you feel, and what it made you think of.
  • Brainstorm your aethetic by listing things, actions, images that feel like you. Imagine quick things that you'd like to use to describe yourself with, the less coherent they are with one another the more accurate it will be, and the more unique as well!

I think the could become a series of posts with time, and if you have prompts and ideas of your own you'd like me to include in the next one let me know! This is a quite random list, but in the future I might make themed ones.

#journaling#ideas
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‘Even if’ in Mandarin

In this post I’ll discuss the 在。。。也 structure in Mandarin which means even if.

You can employ this structure when you want to express “even if X were more A (add adjective/adverb/verb phrase) the result will still be the same. Note that this structure carries the implication that you are already at level A.

Example: 这次考试太难，我在努力也没成功。

So, the example says ‘this time the test was so hard that even if I’d worked hard, I still won’t be successful.’ The implication is I did some work, may be even close to hard work.

Contrast 在。。。也 with 即使。。。也. Both of them mean ‘even if’ or ‘still.’ The difference is (I think-correct me I’m wrong) 即使。。。也 is used for hypotheticals. So in the first example, if I replaced 在。。。也 with 即使。。。也, it would mean that I didn’t actually work hard for the test.

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mandarin phrases with 「风」feng1

GIF by lukasz-buda
风「風」feng1 wind

风土人情「風土人情」feng1 tu3 ren2 qing2 local conditions and customs

风和日丽「風和日麗」feng1 he2 ri4 li4 moderate wind and beautiful sun, fine sunny weather (especially in spring)

风尘仆仆「風塵僕僕」feng1 chen2 pu2 pu2 lit. covered in dust, fig. travel-worn and weary

风吹雨打「風吹雨打」feng1 chui1 yu3 da3 lit. windswept and battered by rain, fig. to undergo hardship

风平浪静「風平浪靜」feng1 ping2 lang4 jing4 lit. breeze is still waves are quiet, fig. tranquil environment, all is quiet

风中之烛「風中之燭」feng1 zhong1 zhi1 zhu2 lit. candle in the wind, fig. (of someone’s life) feeble, hanging on a thread

风口浪尖「風口浪尖」feng1 kou3 lang4 jian1 where the wind and waves are the fiercest, at the heart of the struggle

风声鹤唳「風聲鶴唳」feng1 sheng1 he4 li4 lit. wind sighing and crane calling, fig. to panic at the slightest move, to be jittery

风水轮流转「風水輪流轉」feng1 shui3 lun2 liu2 zhuan4 fortunes rise and fall, times change

风烛残年「風燭殘年」feng1 zhu2 can2 nian2 to have one foot in the grave, one’s late days

一路顺风「一路順風」yi1 lu4 shun4 feng1 to have a pleasant journey

两袖清风「兩袖清風」liang3 xiu4 qing1 feng1 lit. both sleeves flowing in the breeze, fig. uncorrupted, to be incorruptible 

只欠东风「只欠東風」zhi3 qian4 dong1 feng1 lit. all we need is an east wind, fig. lacking only one tiny crucial item

往事如风「往事如風」wang3 shi4 ru2 feng1 the past is vanished like the wind, gone beyond recall

撒网捕风「撒網捕風」sa1 wang3 bu3 feng1 lit. the wind cannot be caught in a net, fig. to waste one’s effort

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Some Organ Trafficking Vocab

금품을 수수하다, to receive money (in exchange for smth else)

취직을 알선하다, help sm1 get a job

비밀리에, secretly

공공연히, overtly

밀거래하다, to traffic/smuggle smth

은어, slang/jargon

공갈, extortion/intimidation

사형수, a convict on death row

절취하다, steal/take out

헌혈/매혈: donating blood/selling blood

콩팥: kidney (pure Korean)

신용불량자, a person with bad credit history

추궁하다, to interrogate sm1

급전이 필요하다, to need a large sum of money quickly

쓸개, gall bladder

위조되다, to be false/forged

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Japanese Vocabulary for School you probably weren’t taught

Here’s some vocabulary for schools which I didn’t even LEARN until recently. (Not so) Coincidentally, it also all falls into required Vocab for the N2 test.

  • 進学（する）[Shingaku Suru] - To enter a new school (especially High School or College)
  • 転校（する）[Tenkou Suru] - To change schools; to transfer
  • 在学中 [Zaigaku Chuu] - Attending a school/Enrolled in a School
  • 国立大学＊私立大学　[Kokuritsu Daigaku * Shiritsu Daigaku] - Public College * Private College
  • 大学院 [Daigakuin] - Graduate School
  • ゼミを取る [Zemi (w)o Toru] - To take a Seminar (style class)
  • 演習を取る [Enshuu (w)o Toru] - To take a Discussion (style class)
  • 単位を取る [Tan’i (たんい）(w)o Toru] - To receive credit
  • 休講（する） [Kyuukou Suru] - To cancel (a single class, lecture)
  • 自習（する）[Jishuu Suru] - To self study; study by oneself
  • 時間割 [Jikanwari] - Schedule; Time Table
  • 国語 [Kokugo] - Japanese (for some reason, in literature and as a subject, Japanese as a language is almost always called 国語 in my experience, but it’s something I was NEVER taught in school!?)
  • 教師＝教員 [Kyoushi = Kyouin] - Primary School Teacher (this, in my experience is mostly used as a way to refer to oneself without elevating yourself; 先生 has the nuance that you’re a respected person, and if you call yourself a 先生 to someone other than your students, you might be seen as someone who brags a little)
  • 教授 [Kyouju] - Professor (Same nuance as above applies, in my experience)
  • 講師 [Koushi] - Lecturer (I honestly don’t have much experience with this word, if someone could let me know whether or not 先生 would be something to use here, let me know)
  • 中間試験＊期末試験 [Chuukanshiken * Kimatsushiken] - Midterms * Finals
  • 暗記 [Anki] - Rote memorization, Memorization by force (side note: if you know the SRS app Anki, this is the word it pulls its name from)
#japanese#vocab
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Government and Politics Vocab

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정치 | politics

정부 | government

태극기 | Korean flag

애국가 | Korean national anthem

헌법 | constitution

행정부 | the executive branch

대통령 | the president - serves one 5-yr term & elected by popular vote

청와대 | The Blue House (like The White House) - located in Seoul and where the president resides referred to because of the blue tiles on the roof

입법부 | the legislative branch 

국회 - the national assembly (like the senate and the house of representatives combined) - consists of 300 members who serve 4-yr terms & are at least 30 years old. duties consist of:

1) 정부 예산을 확인하다 | confirm the goverment budget

2) 헌법을 개정하다 | amend the constitution

3) 법을 가결하고 개정하다 | pass and amend laws

4) 조약을 비준하다 | ratify treaties

사법부 | the judicial branch - consists of:

최고 법원 | the supreme court - 1 chief justice and 13 associate justices appointed by the president

고등 법원 | high courts

지방 법원 | district courts

가정 법원 | family courts

특허법원 | patent courts

행정 법원 | administrative courts

정치안 | politician

투표하다 | to vote

선거 | election

총선 | general election

갬페인 | campaign

정당 | political party 

정치시위 | political protest

자본주의 | capitalism

사회주의 | socialism

공산주의 | communism

민주주의 | democracy

독재 | dictatorship

시장 | mayor

시청 | city hall

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 Political Parties, listed by most to least current seats in National Assembly

더불어민주당 | Democratic Party of Korea (center-center left/social liberalism)

자유한국당 | Liberty Korea Party (center right-right wing/conservatism)

바른미래당 | Bareun Future Party (center-center right/centrism)

민주평화당 | Party for Democracy and Peace (center-left/liberalism)

정의당 | Justice Party (center left-left wing/social democracy)

민중당 | Minjung Party (left wing/left wing nationalism)

대한애국당 | Korean Patriotic Party (far right/pro Park Geun-hye *side eye*)

#korean#vocab
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