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autodidactylous

@autodidactylous / autodidactylous.tumblr.com

One girl's mission to learn everything.
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needthisbook

Ten Major Artists:

Wong Wong & Lulu

Pepper examining himself before commencing a self-portrait

Pepper’s self-portrait

Tiger the spontaneous reductionist

Misty goes off the wall

Minnie, the abstract expressionist

Minnie’s Reindeer in Provence, 1992.

Smokey painting after an hour in the catnip patch

Smokey at work

Ginger’s Stripped Bare Birds, 1992.

Princess, the elemental fragmentist

Charlie, the peripheral realist

this literally makes me so happy

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studycamille

4-14-18 Finally up with a new spread (not finished yet) I’m currently reading on prosthodontics and i have 3 books on my TBR for that subject. My progress is too slow but at least i’m up to something. What are you up to these days? Break a leg!

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luciegracestudies

22/100 days of productivity | Is anyone else feeling really unmotivated and tired like I am? This is the first piece of work I’ve done this half term and I only have about a day to do all the work I need to do because I have shifts on Saturday and Sunday - wish me luck!!! | These are notes from Psychology on Statistical Infrequency. They were made with a TomBow Dual Brush Pen and a Pentel EnerGel 0.5 tip pen 😍

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paper-chase

37/100 Day

I live for poké and matcha soy milk. A+++ simply divine. 10/10 would recommend ✨

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mildlinerrs

spent my last day of vacation studying for my big exam, because i’m trying to be as prepared as i can.

song of the day: barcelona by george ezra

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coiteoirstudies

when i tell you all that you will eventually improve, im really not kidding

the first photo was from May 2017 and the second was from March 2018

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archystudy

180410 - had a really productive morning today - I went for an early morning run, meditated and had a healthy breakfast to kick start my productive weekend. Now I’m studying for my assignment with my study playlist and feeling fresh! 

I hope your morning was productive! 

🌟archystudy

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unclepolyglot

The Secret to Perfect Pronunication in Any Language

You heard me. Perfect. Pronunciation.

Drumroll….

Boom.

[Retrieved from wikipedia]

I present the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). ( IPA website)

Basically this here is the cheat code for all pronunciation of every language

E v e r y.  L a n g u a g e.

How?? Well, each symbol corresponds to one sound.

The table shows you where the sound is located and what your tongue has to do to pronounce that sound.

Example:

  • æ is said at the back of your throat while your throat is around halfway closed (indicated by its location relative to the words “open” and “front). This sound is found in “back“ (in the Standard/General American dialect).
  • ŋ is said by touching the base of your tongue to where the roof of your mouth gets soft (the velum) and exhaling through your noise while making noise (indicated by “velar” and “nasal”). This sound is found “song”.

As you can see, “ng” in “song” is made up of two letters that have different sounds while separate, but together they make a different sound. And English has some letters that correspond to several sounds all on their own! This is the case on many other languages, and trips up a lot of foreign language learners.

IPA ELIMINATES THIS DIFFICULTY BECAUSE EACH SYMBOL = 1 SOUND

lol sorry for all caps but im excited and this is important so

But how will this actually help you? Because dictionaries are amazing.

See that? That’s the entry for “language” in Merriam-Webster.

It shows two ways of pronouncing the word: ‘laŋ-gwij\, and \’laŋ-wij\, and indicates which syllable is stressed by putting a ‘ in front of the stressed syllable.

Pretty cool, right?

Here are some examples of IPA in action in different languages:

  • French: deux -> /dø/
  • Korean: 내가 -> /nɛ-ɡa/ or /ne-ga/
  • Afrikaans: seun -> /sɪøn/
  • Standard Arabic:  عَيْن‎ -> /ʕajn/

Ready to try this out for your own?

If you just want to only know how to pronounce your target language’s sounds:

Optional (or if you don’t have a dictionary):

  • Get the IPA charts for your target language (usually on its wikipedia page at “_target language_ Phonology”. If it’s not there then look up “_target language_ IPA transcription”) 

Example of an IPA chart (Afrikaans):

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[Retrieved from Wikipedia]

It’s a lot less intimidating when it’s the sounds for only one language, right?

REMEMBER: you don’t need to be able to pronounce every sound in IPA to make use of this chart, just know

how

to make them and what these symbols sound like (more or less) and your life of learning pronunciation will be so much easier

So there you have it:

The Secret to Perfect Pronunication in Any Language

Go, be free my language-learning friends, go pronounce things like natives!

and get rid of that nasty romanization for all my fellow korean learners

(oh and if anyone has any questions about this, send em my way! i know there are a couple linguistics blogs that follow me so if any of yall wanna add smth, plz do!)

yall better reblog the heck outta this bc my hard work CANNOT go wasted ok?? i’ve been researching/writing/revising this for idk how long and my head hurts really bad asjdfsdg help

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learninglinguist

Using the IPA to learn languages helped me learn the Korean alphabet easily on my own and it streamlined the way I learned the Arabic alphabet, impressing my teacher. To the langblr blogs following me, I recommend searching for IPA resources to help you learn.

Here’s a podcast episode about the IPA

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unclepolyglot

Thanks for the link @learninglinguist!!

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