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I love how potato in French is pomme de terre, which pretty much means “earth apple.”
like what stupid frenchman saw this:
and said “zis petite légume looks like a, how you say, APPLE! hmmm… but it grows in ze earth… HON HON HON! MAIS OUI! C’EST UNE…
10 Bizarre Languages Still Spoken Around the World - Listverse
http://listverse.com/2013/04/07/10-bizarre-languages-still-spoken-around-the-world/
“One of the things that’s so incredible about the language is that for any given verb, there could be as many as 1,500,000 separate conjugations.” Wtf. How is this even possible to learn? xD
!Xóõ…a click, tone, and nasalized vowel just in the name of the language already suggests the complexity of the phonology
Here, learn some finnish. (place forms)
- Nominative:Talo = House
- Genitive:Talon = House´s
- Accusative:Talo or Talot = House or Houses
- Partitive:Taloa = (Part) of a house
- Essive:Talona = As a house
- Translative:Taloksi = To become a house
- Inessive:Talossa = In the house
- Elative:Talosta = From inside the house
- Illative:Taloon = Into the house
- Adessive:Talolla = At the House
- Ablative:Talolta = From the house
- Allative:Talolle = To the house
- Abessive:Talotta = Without a house
- Komitative:Taloineen = With his/her house
- Instruktive:Taloin = By a house, or something like that..
- It was pretty hard to try to translate some them to english.. Have fun.
lets play how many more people are going to message me for the address
PEOPLE KEEP MESSAGING ME WHERE IT IS AND I DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT SO IM JUST SAYING ‘the big house in west egg you cant miss it’
im having too much fun
(Source: ravkan)
Textbooks:
- An Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese
- A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
- A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar
- Read Real Japanese Fiction
Dictionaries:
- ALC (I use this everyday)
→Expression encyclopaedia- Goo dictionary
- Weblio
- WWWJDIC (with audio clips)
- JWPce (downloadable dictionary for Windows)
- JEDict (downloadable for Mac users)
- Idiomatic Expressions
- Idioms dictionary [Japanese only]
- Counters dictionary
- Hovering dictionaries:
→Rikaikun for Chrome
→Rikaichan for Firefox
→Floating Dictionary for Mac- Current Affairs dictionary
For kanji.
- Jisho (I use this for spelling kanji for if I can’t read it)
- Yamasa (I use this for learning to write)
- A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters
- Associative Kanji Learning (stroke orders)
Online reading:
- Hukumusume Fairytales
- 竹取(Bamboo-Cutting) (vertical writing)
- 吉田秀幸の日記(Hideyuki Yoshida’s Diary) (recipes)
- Chokochoko’s reading texts to help with JLPT
- TED Talks (with Japanese subtitles and transcripts)
- Learning through Films [Japanese subtitles/scripts]
Manga.
- Free online manga
- Vomic (free online manga with voice actors)
- Sound Effects (in manga, etc)
Improving your speaking:
- Japanese pronunciation guide
- Interactive Hiragana Pronounciation table
- Topics for Language Exchanges.
- Bubbly (a Twitter-like app where you can record yourself)
- Audioboo (similar to Bubbly, but also a website)
Listening:
- “Real World” Japanese
- 泣きたいときのクスリ 2007 - ‘08 (radio drama)
Writing practice:
- Lang-8
- www.Japan-Guide.com
- 原稿用紙の使い方 (How to write an essay with Japanese writing paper)
- Shiritori (Japanese word-chain game)
News:
- NewsWeb Easy
- NHK News (audio news with speed controls)
- Mainichi Primary School student Newspaper
YouTube:
- Afternoon Hirusagari
- Jet Daisuke
- バイリンガール英会話
- Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)
Japanese sign language.
TV:
- Japanese subtitles for anime
- KeyHole TV (to stream Japanese TV and radio)
- 風雲LIVE日本語(Feng Yun LIVE Japanese) (to stream TV)
- 映画で学ぶ実践英会話
Tumblr:
- Kanji-a-Day
- Holy crap Japanese
- Nihongo ga Suki
- Jumpstart Japanese
- Nihongolog
- Nadine Nihongo
- That Japan Addict
- ChilliMuffin
- Japanese through Fandom
- F-Yeah Native Japanese
- J-Vocab of the Day
- ぶらりめし [Japanese only]
- Peaceful Chef [Japanese only]
Those studying in Japan.
- Japanicking in Yamanashi (at Yamanashi University)
- Samxuel (at Kyushu Sangyo)
- Katy in Japan Town (at NUFS)
- Chocotastie (at Seinan Gakuin)
- Kim in Sapporo (at Hokkaido University)
Blogging:
Learning websites:
- JapaneseClass.jp
- The Japanese Page
- Tae Kim’s Guide to Learning Japanese
- Erin’s Challenge (with listening and reading practice)
- Maggie Sensei
Other resources:I’ve added more to the list since first creating it. As always, if anyone has anything they would like to add, let me know!
swaggie: je swag, tu swags, il/elle/on swag, nous swagons, vous swagez, ils/elles swagent
swagger: yo swago, tú swages, él/ella/usted swage, nosotros swagemos, ellos/ellas/ustedes swagen
swaggen: ich swagge, du swaggst, er/sie/es swaggt,
wir swaggen, ihr swaggt, Sie/sie swaggen
swaggare: io swaggo, tu swaggi, lui/lei swagga, noi swaggiamo, voi swaggate, loro swaggano
From my native speaker point of view, the spanish one is most definitely wrong.
It has to be: swaggar: yo swago, tú swagas, él/ella/usted swaga, nosotros swagamos, ellos/ellas/ustedes swagan
(Source: ghosthug)
i like writing kanji and i think it’s cool when they get complicated but this
has no excuse whatsoever to exist
But that’s certainly not Japanese, so not a kanji …
… BUT LOOK AT THAT FUCKER! IT’S AS IF IT HAD EATEN EVERY SINGLE RADICAL THAT CAME ITS WAY!
Have a peak at my beautiful essay
theres this idea that what we have seen has actually impacted it in a great way because theres is this thing thats does this other thing and together they do so many things is crazy, really


