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Damn it. Every time I start to think that things are going to change and that everything will be...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 02:33:21 -0600

Damn it. Every time I start to think that things are going to change and that everything will be fine, something stupid comes up and ruins it. I’m tired. I’m really tired. I just can’t deal with this anymore. I just want to give in. It might be easier like that, but I feel that if I give in this time, I will be sucked entirely into it and I won’t be able to come out of it. I’ve had to deal with this shit on my own for the last four years, and the burden gets overwhelming after so long. I’m tired. I’m really fucking tired.

justlingthings: fun fact: “coccodrillo” is Italian for “crocodile”. The spanish word is essentially...

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 12:08:25 -0600

justlingthings:

fun fact: “coccodrillo” is Italian for “crocodile”. The spanish word is essentially the same, but the “ll” is pronounced as a /j/ (English ‘y’ sound) instead of a /l/.

But the Spanish word for crocodile is “cocodrilo” not coccodrillo, but it is pronounced practically the same.

(xkcd)

Wed, 29 May 2013 22:16:00 -0600

(xkcd)

"You're learning so many languages at once, don't you get confused?"

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:53:31 -0600

linguisticsyall:

No motherfucker if I can’t tell the difference between written German and written Russian there’s no fucking help for me.

allthingslinguistic: science-of-noise: Damn Amerindian...

Tue, 28 May 2013 21:49:53 -0600

allthingslinguistic:

science-of-noise:

Damn Amerindian languages, you scary!

xɬp’χʷɬtɬpɬɬskʷc’ - who needs vowels?

Another excellent illustration from SpecGram.

I’m aware of two unrelated languages that allow vowelless words: Nuxálk (formerly known as Bella Coola), spoken in British Columbia, and Tashlhiyt Berber, spoken in Morocco. There’s a lot of phonological ink used in effort to make them fit with theories of syllable structure.

oranc: Brahms: Violin Sonata No.2 op.100 - II. Andante...

Sun, 26 May 2013 14:57:59 -0600

oranc:

Brahms: Violin Sonata No.2 op.100 - II. Andante tranquillo - Vivace - Andante - Vivace di piu - Andante - Vivace (05:56)

comoespinademaguey: 6 ejemplos para dar la hora en...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:11:23 -0600

comoespinademaguey:

6 ejemplos para dar la hora en náhuatl

Antes de la hora decimos ticateh ipan (literalmente ‘estamos en’), luego el número y podemos terminar con yohuatzinca (madrugada), teotlahca (tarde), yohualtica (noche), o simplemente dejarlo así y que se entienda por contexto.

Medianoche se arma con yohualli, noche y nepantla, en medio de. Mediodía se arma con tonalli, día y nepantla, en medio de.

Bibliografía
Ejemplos tomados de: Matinahuatlahtolzalocan, aprendamos el idioma náhuatl de Isidoro Meza Patiño, editado por la SEDEREC y el GDF.

linguisticsyall: The real question tho.

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:07:59 -0600

linguisticsyall:

The real question tho.

yourfriendlyscop: Powerpoint finished! You can reblog it...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:01:50 -0600

yourfriendlyscop:

Powerpoint finished! You can reblog it now.

LIST OF RESOURCES I use

www.bosworthtoller.com (use the ADVANCED search feature, the regular search feature sucks)

http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/resources/IOE/index.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_phonology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English#Orthography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_grammar

www.etymonline.com

www.wiktionary.com

estifi: languageismybooze: ferrisie: allthingslinguistic: Mor...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:12:51 -0600

estifi:

languageismybooze:

ferrisie:

allthingslinguistic:

Morphological Typology (illustrations from SpecGram)

Descriptions adapted from The Lingua File:

Analytic languages: also known as isolating languages because they’re composed of isolated, or free, morphemes. Free morphemes can be words on their own, such as cat or happy. Languages that are purely analytic in structure don’t use any prefixes or suffixes, ever. However, it’s rare to find a language that is purely analytic or synthetic since most languages have characteristics of both. Morphological typology is like a spectrum in which languages fit in somewhere from analytic to polysynthetic (a subtype of synthetic languages we’ll get to in a moment).

Mandarin Chinese and Vietnamese are good examples of analytic languages. […] English, on the other hand, is one of the most analytic Indo-European languages, but is still usually classified as a synthetic language. […]

Types of synthetic language (i.e. languages that have prefixes/suffixes):

Agglutinating Languages:With these languages, morphemes within words are usually clearly recognizable in a way that makes it easy to tell where the morpheme boundaries are. Their affixes usually only have a single meaning. Turkish,Korean, Hungarian, Japanese, and Finnish are all in this group.

Fusional Languages: Similar to agglutinating languages, except that the morpheme boundaries are much more difficult to discern. Affixes are often fused with the stems, and can have multiple meanings. A prime example of a fusional language is Spanish, especially when it comes to verbs. In the wordhablo ”I speak”, the -o morpheme tells us that we’re dealing with a subject that is singular, first person, and in the present tense. It’s difficult to find a morpheme that means “speak”, however, since habl- is not a morpheme. Fusional languages can be tricky!

Polysynthetic Languages: These languages are undoubtedly some of the most difficult to learn. They often have verbs that can express the entirety of a typical sentence in English, which they do by incorporating nouns into verbs forms. For example, the Sora language of India has one word that means “I will catch a tiger”. Many Native American languages are polysynthetic.

This FASCINATES me.

My question: is Ubykh written in IPA here, or is that actually how it’s written, or…?

After research: Wikipedia says that it is extinct, as of 1992. The Wikipedia page only has what I consider to be IPA. Maybe they wrote in IPA. Maybe they didn’t have a script? It was spoken in very southwestern Russia, near Georgia. Maybe they wrote in Cyrillic? Maybe in the Georgian Alphabet? It’s in the Northwest Caucasian Family…I’ve never heard of any of these languages, so I don’t know anything about them:

There was never an official script, and the only people who wrote it down were linguists. Generally it’s a mix of the IPA, as linguistic researchers do, and the Latin alphabet. One guy developed Latin and Cyrillic variations to write the language.

Awesome French: michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de...

Sat, 18 May 2013 18:07:57 -0600

Awesome French: michaonthemoon: yaoibutts: I love how potato in French is pomme de...:

michaonthemoon:

yaoibutts:

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

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:22:30 -0600

10 Bizarre Languages Still Spoken Around the World - Listverse:

polylinguist:

fuckyeahmylanguage:

fuckyeahpolyglot:

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

fuckyeahmylanguage: dannyjmt: languageguru: I love this so...

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:51:01 -0600

fuckyeahmylanguage:

dannyjmt:

languageguru:

I love this so much!

I relate to this so much! :D

omg. yes.

Here, learn some finnish. (place forms)

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:57:41 -0600

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.

korraa: korraa: korraa: lets play how many more people are...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:23:14 -0600

korraa:

korraa:

korraa:

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

japanese-revision: japanese-revision: Textbooks: An Integrated...

Mon, 06 May 2013 10:54:37 -0600

japanese-revision:

japanese-revision:

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

Podcasts:

JOQR (Cultural Broadcasting)

TBS Radio’s Junk

TOKYO FM

YouTube:

Afternoon Hirusagari

Jet Daisuke

バイリンガール英会話

Analog TV Forever (collections of adverts)

Japanese sign language.

Heartful Power Hideo

Shuwa Island

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:

Yaplog

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:

Lots of threads with a variety of resources for Japanese learning

JLPT 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!

Hermosa y desconocida.

Sat, 04 May 2013 21:15:18 -0600

Hermosa y desconocida.

oncethefuture: alexbuscusboop: kamerlort: luststrade: swaggie: je swag, tu swags, il/elle/on...

Wed, 01 May 2013 06:11:36 -0600

oncethefuture:

alexbuscusboop:

kamerlort:

luststrade:

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

mosoli: i like writing kanji and i think it’s cool when they get complicated but this has no...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:26:57 -0600

mosoli:

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...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 04:05:29 -0600

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