#gwendolynlerman

[lemonadeandlanguages]

15 and 18 for the bookish asks? :)

Hi! :)

15: What book changed your life?

Not sure it changed my life, but Enid Blyton's Famous Five series was probably my first exposure to a female character that was aggressively not feminine and that didn't want to be? Made me realize that just because I was a girl, I didn't have to conform to people's expectations of what I should look like or behave

18: Which character from a book is the most like you?

George Kirrin from the Famous Five, I think? We both have short hair and wear boys' clothing and have short tempers lol the biggest difference is that I'm not much of a dog person 😅

Thanks for the questions! :)

Bookish asks

#not sure i explained that properly #but as problematic as Blyton's books are #george kirrin remains very dear to me #answered #gwendolynlerman

[quatregats]

Nine people I'd like to know better, tagged by @sulfurousmirrorscapes <333

Last song: currently listening to "El meu cos" by Els Amics de les Arts

Favourite colour: red/blue/green or anything bright

Currently watching: technically I did start watching Hornblower the other day.....

Spicy/Savoury/Sweet: savory or sweet

Relationship Status: single ✌️

Current Obsession: oh you know (Hornblower and Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books)

I'll tag @minglana, @gwendolynlerman, @salvadorbonaparte, @kutyozh, @res--publica, @no-passaran, @cherrybucket, @hey-scully-itsme, @mycological-mariner and anyone else who wants to do it! (Sorry I completely forget who I normally tag 😅 and no pressure ofc)

#thank you for tagging me <33 #posting this here instead of my main hope that's okay! #i cannot let them know about my horrifically out-of-control obsession with books set in the 19th c royal navy :')) (jkjk) #perce rambles

[guillemelgat]

Got tagged by @minglana to post the music we have in common, we got bingo! :D

I'll tag @no-passaran, @chatwiththeclouds, @kutyozh, @gwendolynlerman, @girlmaturin, and anyone who sees this list of artists and is excited about it lol

#did not mean to repeat mika whoops #i feel like half of yours are artists who i really want to start actually listening to so i will consider it a to do list #i'm literally doing a presentation on catalan rap/urban music on monday and i think i'm going to use a mushkaa song :') #but yeah definitely need to listen to tribade au d'astí la ronda de boltaña etc #thank you for the tag! #parlem de tonteries #general:music

[zhuzhudushu]

hey i hope you're doing well! i've just come across your blog and think it's such a useful resource, and i just wanted to ask if you could recognise any other chinese langblr blogs on tumblr? sorry if you've already answered this somewhere! have a great day

Lol I'm going to assume you mean recommend here.

Yes I have a lot of mutuals and others I follow! Some are fellow langblrs, some are just blogs with Chinese language/culture content :P Some are super active and some are not but these are a bunch that I follow.

@liu-anhuaming, @rongzhi, @potentiallypolyglot, @lairuidexiaowu, @mandarinmoon, @marilearnsmandarin, @chinese-word-a-day, @bngrc, @tingtingzaixuexi, @linghxr, @xiangqiankua, @langbangpop, @gusustudies, @mikutongzhi, @gwendolynlerman, @woaihanyu, @ruhua-langblr, @betweenthetimeandsound, @5-cz, @mandarinlangblr, @putonghualing, @changan-moon, @meichenxi, @lustforlanguages, @rigelmejo, @ksgsworld, @richang-chinese, @bchinese, @zaobitouguang, @fyeahcindie, @ying-study, @polyglot-thought

This is not an exhaustive list! I went through my most frequent reblogs and wrote the ones that jumped out at me but I'm sure there are some I forgot.

Please anyone feel free to add on! I want to find more langblrs too :D

#mandarin langblr #language learning #langblr #chinese langblr #mandarin #zhuzhu rambles #answered #anon

[mediocrelanguagelearner]

I was tagged by @linguistness, @gwendolynlerman and @eraandlanguages and that's a lot of people, so I finally got to doing it. Thanks for thinking of me <3

Three ships: I'm not really a shipper but I have to mention Petriáš.

First ship: don't remember

Last song: lacy by Olivia Rodrigo

Last movie: The Dig

Currently reading: Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa and I en förvandlad stad by Per Anders Fögelström

Currently watching: Gran Hotel (the spanish series)

Currently consuming: physically? the last thing I consumed was porridge for breakfast. mentally? can't stop consuming the news from Gaza.

Currently craving: kanelbulle. rest. peace.

#tagged

[pawprintedpages]

I was tagged by @fluencylevelfrench to share my top 5 songs atm. Thanks for tagging me!

On t'emènne - Trois Cafés Gourmands

Les filles d'aujourd'hui - Joyce Jonathan

Girasoles - Luis Fonsi

Presiento - Morat & Aitana

Con la miel en los labios - Aitana

I'm tagging (feel free to ignore!): @gwendolynlerman, @dutch-polyglot, and anyone else who wants to do it!

#tag games #see this makes it looks like i've been practicing my tl's a lot but in reality i just listen to the same two playlists on repeat #i haven't been listening to the actual radio as much lately

[giuliaisstudying]

seventeen people, seventeen questions

thank you @michelle-languages for tagging me 💞

nickname // Shulia, Shu, Giù, Lia, Giuly (basic 🥲)

sign // Cancer

last thing I googled // “exercices sur les chiffres en français“ (looking for an exercise my student can do 👀)

song stuck in my head // MOTIVEISHON - Lali

no. of followers // I can't see them from my phone 💔

amount of sleep // 9h?

lucky number // 23, 11, 1

dream job // a paid polyglot 😂

wearing // white t-shirt with different women figured and a “sisterhood: international women's Day“ text, a hoodie with a painting by Van Gogh, black trousers and socks and... underwear with the UK flag hahah.

movies / books that summarize you // girl, interrupted (movie), re loca (movie), the Holy Qur'an (book), a beautiful mind (movie), volevo essere una farfalla (book), briciole (book)

favorite song // the funeral - Yungblud

aesthetic // everything beige

favorite authors // Paulo Coelho, Lev Tolstoj

favorite animal noise // my dog trying to sing

random // I tested positive for COVID 😭

🏷️ tag: @wordsnnblues @yayaoflanguage @useless-catalanfacts @prepolyglot @polyglot-linguist @aidashakur @finnishfun @gwendolynlerman @kindofapolyglot @learnallthelanguages @langblrwhy @langpedia

#langblr #language #language learning #languages #student #studyblr #studyblr tag #tag game #hindi language #study motivation #polyglot #studying #study inspiration

[skiddo-xy]

I posted 237 times in 2022

That's 192 more posts than 2021!

62 posts created (26%)

175 posts reblogged (74%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

@rongzhi

@taylornation

@skiddo-xy

@gwendolynlerman

I tagged 197 of my posts in 2022

Only 17% of my posts had no tags

#pokemon - 27 posts

#langblr - 19 posts

#loz - 19 posts

#derry girls - 18 posts

#taylor swift - 17 posts

#culture - 15 posts

#language - 14 posts

#ace attorney - 12 posts

#languages - 8 posts

#china - 7 posts

Longest Tag: 137 characters

#please note that that's what i think the date is as of when i scheduled this post (july 4)...i got lots of different answers but this had

My Top Posts in 2022:

#5

Guangxi （广西）- Things about a Province in Southern China

Official Title

Guangxi is officially known as the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (abbreviated as "GZAR") (Chinese: 广西壮族自治区, pinyin guǎngxī zhuàngzú zìzhìqū). The name "Guangxi" originated from the ancient "Guangnan Xilu" meaning "Wide South, West Route" while the “Zhuang" refers to the Zhuang people, the largest ethnic group of southern China who primarily live in Guangxi among other provinces, below:

The Zhuang People

As described before, the Zhuang people are the largest ethnic group of southern China. Along with Guangxi, they are also dispersed in the Wenshan and Yunnan provinces of China. Cultural descendants of the Zhuang culture can be found in regions of Sichuan and in the valleys of the of the lower area of the Yangtze River.

Language

Guangxi is an remarkably diverse region language-wise - various languages in the Zhuang family are spoken (as suggested by the name) while Yue Chinese languages (most notably Cantonese) are prevalent. Southwestern Mandarin and Pinghua (平话, umbrella term for Northern Ping and Southern Ping, a pair of trade languages) also make up a part of the linguistic composition of Guangxi.

Location

As I'm sure you've been able to figure out, Guangxi is in the south of China. Here is Guangxi on a map:

UGuangxi borders with the provinces of Guizhong, Hunnan, Guangdong, the Country of Laos and the Province of Yunnan. Guangdong, to the east of Guangxi has a name meaning "East expanse" which contrasts to Guangxi's meaning, which is "West Expanse". Guangxi and Guangdong can be referred to together as 两广 (pinyin: liǎngguǎng) meaning "two expanses"

Physical Characteristics

Guangxi has high levels of elevation in different elevation in different areas - its' highest areas are in the north and northwest which lowers into the south and southeast - almost like a ramp. At its' highest Guangxi is about 1.8 kilometres above sea level. The result of all the limestone in the area has led to coining to moniker Shilin (石林, meaning "stone forest") to describe the karst of the area, filled with pinnacles, caves, underground streams and many other wonders.

And that's all. Thank you for reading this far! Sources are below:

Guangxi Map, Guangxi Wikipedia page (ZH), Guangxi Wikipedia Page (ENG), Pinghua Wikipedia Page, Zhuang People (Brittanica), Karst (National Geographical Society definition), Guangdong Wikipedia Page.

10 notes - Posted January 17, 2022

#4

The Punjab People

Where do the Punjab people live?

The Punjab people are historically spread among the north of India and Pakistan. Here are maps of the Punjab state in India (left) and the Punjab province in Pakistan (right.)

See the full post

16 notes - Posted February 6, 2022

#3

Variations in Pakistani Cuisine by Province

This post will talk about the differences between the unique traits of the provincial cuisines of Pakistan, meaning that it will talk about Pashtun cuisine vs Punjab cuisine vs Balochi cuisine vs Sindhi cuisine, starting below:

Punjab Cuisine

The main aspect of Punjab cuisine that differentiates it from other south asian cuisines is that much of the food is cooked tandoori style, meaning that it is cooked in a clay oven (usually either looks like an oven or a hole in the ground.)

See the full post

21 notes - Posted March 18, 2022

#2

The Estonian Language

History (and more information about the language)

The Estonian language was first written in the 13th century. The Estonian language is a part of the Finnic-Ugric language branch of the Ugric language family, meaning that it is distantly related to the Hungarian language and more closely related to Finnish. In fact, Estonian and Finnish are mutually intelligible (meaning that an Estonian speaker will be able to understand Finnish and vice versa).

The Alphabet

The Estonian alphabet has 3 categories.

Category 1: the standard Estonian alphabet

Aa, Bb, Dd, Ee, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Õõ, Ää, Öö, Üü

(Note: Õ Ä Ö and Ü are considered separate letters and not variations of O A and U respectively.)

Category 2: letters only used in loanwords and foreign names

Ff, Šš, Zz, Žž

Category 3: letters only used in foreign names

Cc, Qq, Ww, Xx, Yy.

Grammar

Estonian is an SVO language, meaning that the word order is Subject, Verb, Object. English is also a SVO language. Example: in English a simple phrase is "I am Daniel." You can translate this sentence word for word into Estonian because it shares the same sentence structure - "Ma Olen Daniel." In Estonian there are 14 grammatical cases - in English we only have 3, being Subjective (the subject), Objective (grammatical objects, of verbs and prepositions) and Possessive (to show possesion). In Estonian, gender is not present, even in pronouns with the pronouns "ta" (informal) and "tema" (formal) being used. In Estonian the stress (emphasis on a specific syllable, usually demonstrated by length pitch or volume in a world) always falls on the first syllable. In English however, there is no specific rule, leading to stressing words as "exactly" and "perfect" while with Estonian stressing we would pronounce those words as "exactly" and "perfect",

37 notes - Posted February 5, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Tanabata - Today's Japanese Festival (たなばた/七夕) 🎋

What is Tanabata?

Tanabata is a Japanese festival based on a Chinese folklore story, based on the Chinese Qixi festival. The legend states that every year on the 7th day of the 7th month, Orihime and Okoboshi (Chinese mythical figures who are lovers) will meet. The 7th month is July. Therefore, Tanabata is today! (July 7).

Tanabata customs

Tanabata is celebrated by the celebrators writing their wishes for the future on a piece of coloured paper and then proceeding to hang it on bamboo. This process is called "tanzaku" (短冊)Sometimes, these wishes are written in the form of poetry, which is reminiscent of Tanabata Customs from the era in which Tanabata was a new celebration when Japanese aristocrats held poetry contests. Please note that some customs vary from region to region.

Tanabata in popular culture

Instance 1: Animal Crossing

The Animal Crossing video game franchise is created by Japanese video game giant Nintendo. Nintendo, being Japanese, decided to incorporate Japanese culture into the games to promote it to the western world. In earlier games of the franchise (the Japanese version of the first game along with Animal Crossing: New Leaf) players can obtain in-game bamboo. In the latest game (Animal Crossing: New Horizons), Tanabata is "celebrated" by "selling" limited-editions bamboo plants with tanzaku, and traditional yukata of Orihime and Hikoboshi.

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351 notes - Posted July 6, 2022

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[beautiful-basque-country]

¡Hola! Siempre he tenido la duda sobre si es incorrecto/ofensivo decir "vasco" para referirse al idioma cuando hablas castellano (¿español?). Conozco a mucha gente que dice "euskera", pero yo creo que es como si hablando castellano dices "English" en vez de "inglés". No sé si me he explicado bien 😅 ¿Qué opináis? Que tengáis un buen día 🤗

Kaixo!

La RAE recoge vasco como el nombre de la lengua vasca, así que gramaticalmente, por supuesto que es correcto. ¿Que a lxs vascxs nos suena fatal e incluso ofensivo? También es verdad.

En cuanto a que te parece que es como decir English en lugar de inglés al hablar castellano... Lo sentimos, pero es una excusa. NO es el mismo caso.

El término English NO existe en castellano:

¿Qué dice en cambio del término euskera?

Es una palabra de origen vasco pero integrante del léxico español / castellano. Así que cuando hablas en castellano y usas euskera para referirte a la lengua vasca, no estás empleando más que el idioma español.

Preferir vasco a euskera es, para mucha gente, una decisión política: no usar palabras vascas existiendo una española equivalente - he ahí el por qué de que a muchxs vascxs nos ofenda.

En ese caso, pueden dejar de decir muchas palabras de origen vasco, entre ellas algunas tan de uso cotidiano como izquierdo/a ^_~.

¡Buen día para ti también!

#euskadi #euskal herria #basque country #pais vasco #pays basque #euskera #euskara #basque #language #politics #spanish #gwendolynlerman

[lemonadeandlanguages]

¡Feliz cumpleaños! 🎉🥳

Gracias!! 💕

#answered #gwendolynlerman

[quatregats]

Got tagged by @cernuda to post the first 10 songs that show up when I put my "On Repeat" playlist on shuffle, here we go!

No me salves - Queralt Lahoz

Jo no canto per la veu - Maria Arnal & Marcel Bagés

Allá arribita - Rodrigo Cuevas

L'hereu Riera - Al Tall

Jo mai mai - Joan Dausà

Pa amb oli i sal - Blaumut

Disimula - Marala

Cançó de pandero de l'Urgell i tonades de pandero d'Àger - Kepa Junkera &c.

Al país de l'olivera - Obrint Pas

Sant Joan, feu-lo ben gran - Tornaveus

I'll tag @res--publica, @no-passaran, @lemonadeandlanguages, @kutyozh, @gwendolynlerman, @spraakentusiast, and @mooseofthesea, plus anyone else who'd like to!

#sorry i tagged the wrong person!!! got mixed up with the different pictures 😓 #interesting mix of things #no me salves has in fact been my obsession since like august??? idk when exactly but i've been listening to it kind of nonstop #also disimula and all of rodrigo cuevas's new album which is just *chef's kiss* #the rest of these are from having listened to my playlist that i made about stephen way back #quite happy with how it came out. hence why it's been on repeat since january sfhjdshkfj #and spotify just throws me jo mai mai and pa amb oli i sal if i let it go on shuffle too long #no pressure to do this! sorry i've been doing a lot of tag games recently

[phonaesthemes]

Pass the happy! 🌻🌈 When you receive this list 5 things that make you happy and send this to 10 of the last people in your notifications! 💖

Hmm five things that make me happy: -my kids’ laughter -being underwater -dumb word jokes -when a concept finally clicks for a student I’m tutoring -fingerpainting

#gwendolynlerman

[eevielearnsfrench]

Arton and Tjueen?

Langblr Asks!

Arton: Have you ever been inspired to learn a language from a family member or friend that spoke it?

I mentioned this in my last answer, but that’s the whole reason I speak Spaglish (Spanish-Tagalog-English). It’s kind of the only language(s) I’m in any way immersed in.

Tjueen: Do you plan on moving (short term or permanently) to a country that speaks your target language?

Absolutely! Any of them. Any time. Let’s fuckin go. I’ll race ya. I don’t get out a lot

#thanks for the questions! #ooc #gwendolynlerman #answered

[linguisten]

¡Felicidades! 🎉

¡gracias!

#gwendolynlerman #q&a

[pawprintedpages]

TEN PEOPLE YOU WANT TO GET TO KNOW BETTER

Thanks for tagging me, @gwendolynlerman !

Relationship status: married

Favorite color: purple 

Favorite food: too many to choose from 😅

Song stuck in my head: a mix of "Heads Carolina, Tails California" by Jo Dee Messina & the newer one by Cole Swindell that references it

Last thing I Googled: "paper gsm needed for markers"

Time: 8:51 am

Dream trip: Japan

I tag @dutch-polyglot , @studying-ana , and anyone else who wants to do this!

#tag games #about me

[therussianmajor]

gwendolynlerman replied to your photo “Moscow, Russian Federation | April, 2019”

These are so beautiful ����

Thank you <3

#gwendolynlerman