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Hey, a random piece of advice from your fellow interpreter with ADHD: if you really struggle with prioritizing information when taking notes in class, I recommend looking into the method of note-taking for simultaneous/consecutive interpreting. Here’s a book on it by Andrew Gilles that we were offered in university. There are more manuals online and more videos about the method.

If someone isn’t familiar with it, the purpose of SI note-taking is to break large blocks of information into easily memorized sentences that get attached to further informative pieces through personalized association. The method is to use the least space/symbols possible under least time spent to retain as much information as you can.

For example, instead of writing down that “it was raining yesterday but today the sun is shining”, an interpreter can put down something like “⏪☔(b)🔽🌞” and they will know what it means in given context.

Symbol language in interpretation is entirely personal and depends on the professional in question. Some concepts are given “recommended symbols” in different manuals, for example, arrows tend to imply direction within time continuum.

If you’d like to use it, you can start by trying to take notes of a certain lecture, book paragraph, or any piece of information through symbolic note-taking. From my experience, it does help to prioritize the “important” information aka “who-where-how-what-when-why” with the details being added on as necessary.

Hope someone finds it useful!

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Is there a way of writing sign language? Or is it only for communication like in person or over video or something?

I think? I think that might be glossing? But I think that’s also kind of frowned upon? I’m not really sure so I’m going to let somebody else take care of this ask.

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Masterlist Langblr challenges

Following from my previous posts, if you do feel like working on your languages, but don't know where to start; here are some langblr challenge you might like!

Language Blog Challenge: 20 weeks of challenges | by @lily-learns-finnish

Langblr Reactivation challenge | by @prepolyglot

14 Day langblr challenge | by @lass-uns-studieren

Langblr News challenge | by @tealingual

90-day vocab challenge | by @jibunstudies

100 Happy Days Langblr Challenge | by @nordic-language-love

Mini speaking challenge | by @nordic-language-love

16 words challenge | by @neblina-a-blin

30 day langblr challenge | @moltre-s

Brick-by-brick language learning challenge | @linguistness

Langblr word of the day challenge | @nordic-language-love

P.S. Please let me know if you know some more fun langblr challenges!

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Flower nicknames

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Links to Free Italian Grammar Books

(from www.archive.org)

Italian Grammar by Charles Hall Grandgent

Italian Grammar For English Students by Luigi Ricci

Elementary Italian Grammar by Pietro Motti

A Brief Italian Grammar – with Exercises by August Hjalmar Edgren

Practical Italian Grammar by Joseph Louis Russo

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google drive of free korean language learning resources

hi everyone! because i put tutoring on hold while i am working full time but still want to provide help to those who want to start learning/want to practice their korean, i am continuously compiling material for free learning :)

resources are totally free!

most are typically aimed at children (which is great for beginners!!)

hangul practice

vocabulary building

printable/downloadable

example of scans:

example of grammar breakdowns:

i will be adding material over the coming weeks and continuously as i come across material! updates may be frequent or slow down at times.

note: resources are free, and they’re totally free to share and use! but please do not repost without credit, and because i buy these from my workplace with my own money and spend time scanning them and cleaning them up and organizing them, please consider tipping me as much as you’d like ♥️

here is the link to the drive! (sorry, can’t hyperlink on mobile currently)

enjoy, and thank you in advance! have fun and feel free to ask me any questions—i am a korean studies grad and was a tutor for the beginning korean classes at my university. i am happy to help however i can!

♥️ joey

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TIL you can just greet someone in the morning by just saying the word 早 zǎo, by itself. This can be both a noun meaning "morning" and an adjective meaning "early."

There is just something so hilarious to me about the idea of greeting someone in the morning by just groaning the word "Early!" at them.

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Non french speaker : French is such a beautiful language 🥰🌸 it has pretty words such as "amour", "douceur", or even "délice"!

Every french speaker, at the slightest inconvenience : putain de merde c'est vraiment de la merde!Photocopieuse à la con! Faut pas me casser les couilles de bon matin!

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i know hearing people on this website love to pass around those posts with links to free sign language lessons but you know you need to actually put effort into learning about Deaf culture, too, right?

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A love letter to linguistics —

Linguistics is the science and study of languages. How we speak. How language evolves. How culture affects our language. How it doesn't affect our language.

Linguistics is the curiosity of why you do that thing with words, rather than correcting you based on "rules" that don't really exist anyway. Linguistics is the crooked questioning eyebrow when you said something in a way I've never heard before! Where did you grow up, who did you learn that word from, where did they grow up, did you watch any international television shows by chance?

Linguistics is a love letter to languages. It's a science, don't get me wrong. It's a study, careful and precise, and wildly whimsical all at the same time. Because much like any science dedicated to the living, it is curious for what is actually happening, not in controlling the reactions or measured responses. No, please tell me how you really feel! Please talk to me in the way you really speak! Does that change in writing? Does that affect your studies?

I love you linguistics. I love you linguists. You are beautiful and magical and make everything so very real.

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11.29.22

redid my notion homepage and back to it with my korean studies! i’m excited to read more in this korean stories book i just bought, especially since my favorite method of learning languages is by reading.

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in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

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Language-learning can be a hobby. If striving for perfect fluency is sucking the fun out of it, then fluency doesn’t need to be the goal

#OMG THIS #YES ABSOLUTELY

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In French we don’t say “I’ll die on this hill” we say “Je n’en démordrai pas” which means “I won’t unbite this” and I think it’s beautiful

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Best language learning tips & masterlists from other bloggers I’ve come across

(these posts are not my own!)

THE HOLY GRAIL of language learning (-> seriously tho, this is the BEST thing I’ve ever come across)

Tips:

Some language learning exercises and tips

20 Favorite Language Learning Tips

what should you be reading to maximize your language learning?

tips for learning a language (things i wish i knew before i started)

language learning and langblr tips

Tips on how to read in your target language for longer periods of time

Tips and inspiration from Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis

Tips for learning a sign language

Tips for relearning your second first language

How to:

how to self teach a new language

learning a language: how to

learning languages and how to make it fun

how to study languages

how to practice speaking in a foreign language

how to learn a language when you don’t know where to start

how to make a schedule for language learning

How to keep track of learning more than one language at the same time

Masterposts:

Language Study Master Post

Swedish Resources Masterpost

French Resouces Masterpost

Italian Resources Masterpost

Resource List for Learning German

Challenges:

Language-Sanctuary Langblr Challenge

language learning checkerboard challenge

Word lists:

2+ months of language learning prompts

list of words you need to know in your target language, in 3 levels

Other stuff:

bullet journal dedicated to language learning

over 400 language related youtube channels in 50+ languages

TED talks about language (learning)

Learning the Alien Languages of Star Trek

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Feel free to reblog and add your own lists / masterlists!

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Learning a language = learning a culture

To truly understand a language and the people speaking that language, you also have to make a conscious effort to learn about the culture and history of these people. I know that the cultures of the countries where a language is spoken can be very different (e.g. Mexico vs. Spain, France vs. all African states where French is spoken, and even England vs. Ireland vs. Australia), so these suggestions work best if you have a specific target country in mind.

Here are some ideas on where to start: 

look at the political system of your target country/culture: how does it work? Who are the most important people right now? Is there a monarchy? 

look at the (broad) history of your target country/culture: since when is it an official country? Has it been in any wars? If so, with who and why? Was this country ever colonised or a coloniser? 

research the most popular TV shows from the last 20 - 30 years and watch some of them

find out the most popular sport of this target country/culture and the culture surrounding it 

research the holidays and how they are celebrated and whether there are any special holidays & what they mean to your target country/culture

watch some movies and TV shows that were made in your target country/culture, so you can get insights into the everyday lives of these people and how they interact

watch/read some news of your target country to find out what’s happening there right now & what the most important topics are for them

research how the school & education system works

research how the healthcare system works

research the typical cuisine of your target country/culture

find out whether there is some kind of traditional wear, its history, and what it means to the people

find out whether there are any indigenous people living in your target country, what their history is, and how they are perceived/treated in the country’s society nowadays

are there any stereotypes about this country/culture? Research whether or not they are true and why they exist in the first place

find out whether there is some kind of traditional folk music. Listen to it and find out its history and what it means to your target country/culture

what are the main religions of your target country/culture and how incorporated are their practices in society?

are there any social divides in your target country/culture? If so, what are they based on?

how is your target country’s relationship to its neighbouring countries?

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If you have any other ideas or suggestions, feel free to comment or reblog!

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hey quick language learning tip! i watch a lot of asmr videos and if youre into those they can be a great way to practice listening if youre not that great at it bc they usually talk slower!

i usually watch “latte asmr” for korean (she also does english and japanese and shes actually my favorite! she puts time stamps in the description of what she does when and most of her stuff is gender neutral once u get past the titles bc she usually says “you” instead of pronouns! i love her videos so much!!!)

for spanish i usually watch “murmullo latina asmr”! she does some nice stuff in english as well on the channel “whisper latina asmr”

and if youre learning mandarin chinese “tingting asmr” has asmr videos that help you learn chinese while you sleep! she also has a few on chinese culture!

i personally prefer korean asmr videos over english ones bc the ppl i watch hit the consonants (especially ㅋ/ㄲ, ㄷ/ㄸ, and ㅌ) a little bit harder (i especially love words like 축축하다 and 딱딱하다 because of the repeated sounds!). some other korean asmr youtubers i watch are “babzi asmr” and “asmr thomwhat”! babzi has subs in lots of languages and thomwhat has eng subs on most vids!