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The German language has quite a few animalistic verbs:

fuchsen ("to fox") = to annoy

hechten ("to pike") = to dive

reihern ("to heron") = to puke

dackeln ("to dachshund") = to walk slowly

aalen ("to eel") = to bask

vögeln ("to bird") = to have sex

einigeln ("to hedgehog in") = to curl up

hamstern ("to hamster") = to hoard

schlängeln ("to snake") = to wriggle

stieren ("to bull") = to goggle

unken ("to toad") = to gripe, augur doom

tigern ("to tiger") - to walk tigerishly

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Saw a video about how Duolingo works and apparently the weird sentences are made by actual people on purpose, because 1- it's fun, 2- something unusual is easier to remember and 3- even if you're not gonna use "the bear talks with a lawyer" in real life you're probably gonna remember the grammar structure when using actual sentences. So whenever you see a Duolingo phrase that maker you go "WTF?!" Know that someone probably had a lot o fun adding it to the app

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When I learned German, listening to German music regularly really helped me get used to the sounds and patterns of the language. I'm trying to learn Spanish and Chinese now and need band/artist recs!

In English my top artists are (in order): Florence + the Machine, Bastille, Autoheart, Young the Giant, AJR, Hozier, Lorde, OneRepublic, Wrabel, Dodie, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Watsky, Sigrid.

In German my top artists are (in order): AnnenMayKantereit, Alligatoah, Casper, Tonbandgerät, Von Wegen Lisbeth, Gisbert zu Knyphausen, Marteria.

What do you think I would like in Spanish and Chinese? (More German recs could also be useful for practice.) (And if there's something in English you think I should be listening to I guess you can tell me that too lol)

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Wow Duolingo supports sharing to Tumblr lol

#leemursays #mine #posting this because it's green #and they'll give me gems #duolingo

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German word of the day

Der Brand

Meaning: a fire

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one of the best things about having learnt irish (even if im not good at it) is how much its helped me in other languages

for example, chinese and its lack of "yes" and "no" has never been an issue, since the way it works is exactly like irish does ! (also in the irish dialect of english we dont use "yes/no" much anyway - we also just repeat the verb as in the native language)

idk i think its amazing how despite my struggles learning irish, it has helped me in ways i never would've thought