#langblr reactivation challenge

[prepolyglot]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge

Hello everyone! As you may know I've created this challenge to help revive the langblr community. It's a three week challenge designed to get you back into learning languages and (hopefully) give you ideas on how to study and share your knowledge of them. It is completely optional to do, but try to reblog other people's posts if you aren't participating.

The challenge is designed to be done daily, however if you miss a day, you can go back and do it later or continue from where you left off. I do encourage you to do your best to keep up with the challenge though. Tag your posts with #langblr reactivation challenge so that others can find your posts.

If you have any questions, please send me an ask or a message and I'll do my best to answer it.

I'll put the prompts under a read more so this post isn't ridiculously long. Good luck to everyone participating! Remember the best way to promote the langblr revival is by reblogging other people's work.

Week 1

Day 1: Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge? Add whatever else you’d like to your introduction post!

Day 2: Write a list of goals you have for your target languages. Make both long term and short term goals. An overall goal could be to have the ability to talk with native speakers with ease and a smaller goal would be to finally learn that difficult grammar point that's been plaguing you for ages. How will you achieve them?

Day 3: Create a list or a Mindmap of vocabulary topics. Start with a broad topic and narrow down to more specific topics. An example could be bedroom - furniture - closet - clothes or travelling - languages - study words - school supplies. Keep a hold of this because you'll use it later to create vocab to study. Some broad topics to start with: house, school, work, travelling, friends and family, nature, city. Feel free to use these or think of your own. Share your mindmap so others can get some ideas if they need it. Here are some mind map creation tools (x) (x) (x).

Day 4: Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people's lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!

Day 5: Find a video in your target language and watch it as many times as you need to in order to understand it. Make a post about the video. What was it about? Did you like the video? Was it difficult to understand? Make sure you link the video. Try to write your answers in your target language, but if you can’t that’s okay!

Day 6: Look up 3 idioms in your target language and explain what they mean and how you use them in a sentence (with an example!).

Day 7: Send asks to other langblrs (bonus points if it's in a shared target language!) asking them about whatever (for example, ask how their day was, ask questions about their target languages, or share some of your thoughts with them). If you receive one, answer it! You can ask more than one person and it can be on or off anon.

Week 2

Day 1: Over the next week, create a playlist/playlists of songs in your target language(s), they can either have a specific mood or genre or they can be a collection of songs you've discovered. When you feel like you're done with your playlist, share it so others can find some new songs. If you already have a playlist, you can add songs to it and update it.

Day 2: Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.

Day 3: Either make a vocab list or find a vocab list you like and make sentences using those words. You can make them as long or as short as you like. This is a good way to contextualise vocab words and learn them in context. Share your sentences and highlight the vocab word.

Day 4: Record yourself reading an article, short story, or passage (basically anything written in your target language). Listen to it and see if you can point out any areas you can improve with your speaking and any areas that you're doing well. You can post your recording if you wish.

Day 5: Post at least 2 songs that you like in your target language. Make sure you add a link to them so people can go listen to them.

Day 6: Share a study tip you have. This can range from how you organize your notes to playlists that help you study to apps you use to review. Just something that you find makes studying easier (and more fun).

Day 7: Share with everyone some langblrs you enjoy seeing on your dash, try to put at least 5 people (and make sure you @ them!).

Week 3

Day 1: Remember that playlist you made/are making? Take a song you really like and make a vocab list of words you don't understand, learned from the song, or recognize but don't quite remember. Post so others can see and link the song. If you have extra time and/or want a bit more of a challenge, translate the song as well, either into English or another language.

Day 2: Write about a festival or holiday that is celebrated in a country that speaks your target language. This can be either something you’ve celebrated yourself, have wanted to participate in, or have never heard of before. You can write this in any language you’d like.

Day 3: Make another vocab list from the list you made at the beginning of the challenge. If you are learning two or more languages, make the vocab list in 3 languages (meaning for example: French, German, and English or Japanese, Arabic, and Ukrainian).

Day 4: Find a recipe written in your target language and translate it into your native language (or another language of your choice) or find a recipe in your native language and translate it into your target language. Bonus points if you actually make it (share pictures if you do)!

Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.

Day 6: Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.

Day 7: How do you feel at the end of this challenge? Did you meet any goals while doing this? Do you feel more confident in your language abilities? Where do you think you'll go from here? Answer these questions either in your native language or your target language.

Hopefully you guys enjoy/enjoyed this challenge. After you've completed the challenge, I encourage you to continue your studies in your target languages and support others in theirs.

#langblr reactivation challenge #langblr #languages #polyglot

[in--other--words]

Fav Langblrs

Week 2, day 7 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge

linguistness - lots of cool langblr but also linguistics content (German, Swedish, French, Czech)

cumbiana - phd life with some Spanish and langblr content thrown in

spanishskulduggery - really helpful explanations about Spanish grammar and vocab

thetudes - lots of useful resources for French

3oey - cute vocab drawings for Russian :3

tealingual - tonnes of resources for tonnes of different languages, great for resource masterposts

sciogli-lingua - several languages but especially Italian

pompadourpink - the ultimate authority on the French language as far as I'm concerned forget L'Académie Française

linguenuvolose - language study and general life posts, just a nice vibe

fluencylevelfrench - French and also book recs

#langblr reactivation challenge #community #langblr #linguistness #cumbiana #spanishskulduggery #thetudes #3oey #tealingual #sciogli-lingua #pompadourpink #linguenuvolose #fluencylevelfrench

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Konjunktiv in German

This is part of the Langblr reactivation challenge! This is day 9 :)

Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.

Sooo Konjunktiv, we finally meet.

Aka this is the Konjunktiv post that nobody asked me to write and yet I did. This is the English version, but you can also find the German version here (I can't promise that it will be more understandable tho) :)

Konjunktiv I is used for indirect speech. There are also some fixed situations in which one always uses Konjunktiv I. The main verb is only conjugated in the present tense; the auxiliary verbs are conjugated for the other tenses.

The verb sein is regular in Konjunktiv I: ich sei, du seiest, er sei, wir seien, ihr seiet, sie seien.

The rest of verbs are conjugated with the following pattern:

The third person singular is the most used, because it's the most frequent form in indirect speech. In order to conjugate it, one must remove the -n from the infinitive form: haben - er habe.

The modal verbs are also regular in the 1st and 3rd person singular: ich/er/sie/es müsse.

2nd person singular and plural are different from the indicative only by an -e: du gehst - du gehest/ihr geht - ihr gehet.

The 1st person singular and 1st and 3rd persons plural are the same as the indicative, so one must use the Konjunktiv II for situations when these persons are needed.

One can build sentences in the past, present and future with Konjunktiv I :

Simultaneity. The main and subordinate clauses occur at the same time: er sagt, sie lese ein Buch.

Anteriority. The subordinate occurs before the main clause: er sagt, sie habe ein Buch gelesen.

Posteriority - Futur I and II. The subordinate occurs in the future of the main clause: er sagt, sie werde ein Buch lesen/er sagt, sie werde ein Buch gelesen haben.

To speak about things that are impossible or unlikely, we use Konjunktiv II, but also for indirect speech and other situations:

Wishes and hopes.

Unreal statements or conditional sentences.

As previously explained, indirect speech (when Konkunktiv I isn't possible)

Particularly polite or careful requests or statements

There is one pure form of Konjunktiv II, for the present, and several forms with auxiliary verbs.

For the present, only strong verbs are conjugated in Konjunktiv II, because the subjunctive form in weak verbs is the same as indicative Präteritum. In order to conjugate strong verbs in Konjunktiv II, one must add the subjunctive endings (-e, -est, -e, -en, -et, -en) to the Präteritum root. Additionally, the verbs that have an a/o/u receive an Umlaut:

ich fände, du fändest, er fände, wir fänden, ihr fändet, sie fänden.

The modal and auxiliary verbs are also conjugated in Präteritum in Konjunktiv II:

ich wäre/ich hätte/ich würde/ich könnte/ich dürfte/ich müsste/ich sollte/ich wollte...

But many people already know these forms! They are the ones used for polite requests: ich hätte gerne...

The other tenses are conjugated with auxiliary verbs:

For situations in the future, but also for those in the present, one can use würden + infinitive. This is also the only form can be used for the present in weak verbs: ich würde warten.

Plusquamperfekt is constructed with haben or sein in Konjunktiv II + the participle of the verb. It's the past tense: ich hätte gefunden/ich wäre gegangen.

There is a second future form, Futur II, which is built with würde + participle + haben/sein: ich würde geträumt haben.

Thank you very very much to @dreamofghosts for the corrections and help in making sense of this....... interesting topic lol!!

#langblr reactivation challenge #prepolyglot #konjunktiv #langblr #german #corrections are welcome! #la galaxie langblr #brightstudyblr #fluencylevelfrench #myhoneststudyblr #benniscup #heyzainab #noctis-studies #akastudies #mine

[francaiserin]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge / week 1 / day 4

French university vocabulary

l’université (f) – university

la faculté, la fac – university

études (f) universitaires – university studies

faire des études – to study

l’inscription (f) – enrolment

une carte d’étudiant – student card

un(e) étudiant(e) de première année / a first year student

campus (m) – campus

une salle de conférence – lecture hall

un colocataire – a roommate

les notes (f) – grades, notes

une interrogation – a test

passer un examen – to take a test

rater – to fail

réussir – to succeed

une licence – a bachelor’s degree

une maitrise – a master’s degree

une mémoire – a thesis

#langblr reactivation challenge #languages #langblr #french vocabulary #french

[xuexishijian]

Week 2 Day 2 of the Langblr Reactivation Challenge: Grammar Topic

(Totally forgot about doing this, but I’ve kinda been studying still in the meantime)

I’m reviewing grammar in the HSK3 standard textbook and doing a lot with 把 bǎ, so let’s talk about it!

This particle, placed before the result or object of a verb, allows us to focus attention on this result in what may be a much longer sentence. Mandarin normally is an SVO language, but when we use 把, the object is fronted and placed before the verb: S + 把O + V.

It is essential to use this structure when we have other modifiers after the verb (such as location). For example,

我把书放在桌子上。(I put the book on the table.)

We may also use it when an additional prepositional phrase follows the verb:

我把礼物送给他了。(I gave him a gift.)

Verbal complements are also frequently seen with 把:

我把这本书写完了。(I finished writing this book.)

老师把我的名字读错了。(The teacher read my name wrong.)

Note: 把 cannot be used with verbs dealing with feelings or perceptions, since they don’t describe and action that happens to the object. (E.g.: 看，爱，喜欢，想，等等）

Also note that 把 is also the measure word for handled objects (椅子，伞，刀).

#中文 #汉语 #mandarin #mandarin studyblr #langblr #mandarin langblr #studyblr #langblr reactivation challenge #grammar

[wo-bu-hui-shuo-zhongwen]

langblr reactivation challenge week 3

Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.

Resource Master List

Francais French:

Listening Content:

https://www.epfl.ch/education/continuing-education/catalog/

Reading:

https://www.bibliothequedesameriques.com/

한국어 Korean:

grammar/spacing/spell checker

sejong institute online courses ( i used these before entering grad school and they are really useful if you need structure)

advanced resources list

Chinese 中文:

(in process - i learned at school only and haven't got back into the swing of things)

Egyptian Arabic:

Lisaan Masry dictionary and grammar directory for Egyptian dialect

LIve Lingua courses

Colloquial Arabic of Egypt textbook

masterpost of arabic resources

Russian:

RT free russian lessons

russianlessons.net

Polish:

university of pittsburgh online lessons

#langblr reactivation challenge #language learning #foreign languages #studyblr #langblr challenge #resources #resource #resource list #french #korean #arabic #chinese #polish #russian

[k0rvy]

112322 | Week 1 Day 4 of Langblr Reactivation Challenge by @prepolyglot

Day 4: Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people’s lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!

Chinese/Japanese/German/English

蔬菜 - shū cài / 野菜 - やさい / Gemüse / Vegetables

西红柿 - Xīhóngshì / トマト / Tomate / Tomato

洋葱- Yángcōng / タマネギ /Zwiebel / Onion

姜 - Jiāng / ショウガ / Ingwer / Ginger

土豆 - Tǔdòu / じゃがいも / Kartoffel / Potato

蘑菇 - Mógu /キノコ / Pilz / Mushroom

黄瓜 - Huángguā /キュウリ / Gurke / Cucumber

蒜 - Suàn /ニンニク / Knoblauch / Garlic

肉 - Ròu / 肉 - にく/ Fleisch / Meats

猪肉 - Zhū ròu / 豚肉 - ぶたにく/ Schweinefleisch / Pork

牛肉 -Niú ròu / 牛肉- ぎゅうにく / Rindfleisch / Beef

鱼 -Yú /魚- さかな / Fische / Fish

鸡肉 - Jī ròu /鶏肉 - ときにく/ Huhn / Chicken

香肠 - Xiāngcháng /ソーセージ / Würstchen / Sausage

虾 - Xiā / エビ / Garnele / Shrimp

蟹 - Xiè / カニ / Krabbe /

水果 - Shuǐguǒ /果物 - くだもの / Obst / Fruits

苹果 - Píngguǒ / リンゴ / Apfel / Apple

橙 - Chéng / オレンジ/ die Orange / Orange

梨 - Lí / 梨 - なし / die Birne / Pear

西瓜 - Xīguā / スイカ / die Wassermelone / Watermelon

柠檬 - Níngméng / レモン / die Zitrone /Lemon

葡萄 - Pútáo / 葡萄 - ぶどう/ die Trauben Grapes

日用品 - rì yònɡ pǐn / 日用品 にちようひん / Die täglichen Erfordernisse / Daily Necessities

香皂 - xiānɡ zào / 石鹸 - せっけん / die Seife / Soap

毛巾 - máo jīn / タオル / das Handtuch * Towel

洗洁精 - / 食器用洗剤 しょっきようせんざい / Geschirrspülmittel / Dish washing liquid

卫生纸 - wèi shēnɡ zhǐ /トイレットペーパー / Toilettenpapier / Toilet paper

牙刷 - Yáshuā / 歯ブラシ / Thootbrush

#german #german vocabulary #langblr reactivation challenge #langblr challenge #langblr #japanese langblr #日本語の勉強 #language learning #日本語勉強 #日本語 #polyglot #language #studyblr

[sivstudier]

langblr reactivation | 2022-11-18

week 1, day 2: some goals

for reference, my target language is danish

write essays

speak about art and architecture with more ease

continue to read poetry

explore niche literature

dare to speak to random people when in denmark

stop expecting to remember every mistake i make

keep a diary in my target language

the image above is a film still from éric rohmer's film the aviator's wife (1981).

#langblr #languages #studyblr community #studies #language learning #langblr reactivation challenge #100 days of productivity #student #polyglot #studyblr #emmastudies

[salvadorbonaparte]

Langblr Reactivation Challenge

Week 1 - Day 1 - Introduction

Hello! I'm trying to pressure motivate myself into studying with this :)

My name is Mack and you might know me from my folder of language learning resources but I'm also a translation student and really good at procrastinating my language studies.

I'm hoping to focus on Spanish, Romanian, Yiddish, Croatian and Korean for the rest of the year but I'm interested in more languages than I can realistically learn in a lifetime.

I technically have a degree in Spanish but I'm a bit rusty and I want to get my Spanish to a level where I can use it as a source language. I'm technically a beginner in Romanian but I understand more than I can use because of my experience with Romance languages and I have no idea what my Yiddish level is. I'm a complete beginner in Croatian and Korean.

I've been interested in Spanish for ages and studied it at uni. I got interested in Yiddish in high school because I thought the history was fascinating and I ended up writing my undergrad dissertation about Yiddish. Romanian I originally started learning for a job but now I want to stick with it and also eventually add it as a source language.

I'm starting Croatian because it might help me as a translator but I'm also interested in Croatian culture because I've travelled there once as a child. I'm starting Korean because I low-key thought about learning it for like seven years because I wanted to learn more about Korean history.

#langblr #langblr reactivation challenge

[derflauschigstefuchs]

Deutscher Kaffeewortschatz

English   -   German with definite article

Coffee - der Kaffee

A cup of coffee - eine Tasse Kaffee

Cup  - die Tasse

Sugar - der Zucker

Milk - die Milch

Coffee maker - die Kaffeemaschine

Coffee pot - die Kaffeekanne

Coffee grounds - der Kaffeesatz

Coffee bean - die Kaffeebohne

Ground coffee - der gemahlener Kaffee

Vanilla - die Vanille

Vanilla sugar - der Vanillezucker

Caramel - der Karamell

Cinnamon - der Zimt

Cinnamon bun - die Zimtschnecke

Whipped cream -  die (Schlag)Sahne

Coffee to go - Kaffee to-go | Kaffee zum mitnehmen

Note: Eiskaffee is not what Americans think of as iced coffee, meaning coffee with ice cubes! See below:

Coffee with icecream - Der Eiskaffee

Iced coffee - Kaffee mit Eiswürfeln

This vocabulary list was made for the langblr reactivation challenge week one day four! I could have added a ton more words but I didn’t know how much vocabulary people would be interested in on the topic. That said if you want a longer / more specific / different themed / more complex list in German, let me know and I would be happy to make one or point you towards other resources!

#langblr reactivation challenge #studyblr #langblr #deutschlernen

[prepolyglot]

Directions in French and German

langblr reactivation challenge | week 3, day 2

english - french - german

north - nord (m) - Norden (m) east - est (m) - Osten (m) south - sud (m) - Süden (m) west - ouest (m) - Westen (m) left - gauche - links right - droite - rechts toward - vers - in Richtung away from - loin de - entfernt von, weiter weg von

Please let me know if there are any mistakes or better translations.

#langblr reactivation challenge #langblr #french #german #french vocab #german vocab

[in--other--words]

Top 3 Free German Resources

Week 3, day 5 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge

(Probably goes without saying but just my personal top 3! You'll notice it is quite listening focused because that is what's most important to me.)

Nicos Weg (A1, A2, B1, Complete Youtube Playlist) - the story of a Spanish guy called Nico who moves to Germany. Really nice and well produced. Each level is made up of 80ish videos of a couple of minutes each, with exercises to review and test your comprehension. This adds up to a movie of almost 2 hrs for each level.

Easy German (x) - street interviews in German. Great for learning how Germans actually speak, outside of the artificial context that you find in a lot of learning resources.

The German Project (x) - online lessons with audio snippets and easy to understand explanations, plus animated short stories with audio. Wish there were some exercises to go with it! Also available for Spanish, French and Italian.

#deutsch #resources #langblr #langblr reactivation challenge #listening

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Langblr Reactivation Challenge | Week 1, Day 2

Short Term Goals

Japanese: I’ll keep this simple. I want to interact with the language daily. In any way, shape, or form. All that matters is that I get back to consistently using it. I’d like a balanced mix of input and output.

German: A good short-term goal might be to finish watching the first season (or both) of Biohackers. I also hope to attend 2 more italki classes. As an additional, non-obligatory goal, I could also go back to reading a fanfic that I abandoned a while ago!

Lithuanian: In the next month, I would like to improve my ability to conjugate reflexive verbs. I also plan to have 2 more italki classes.

Long Term Goals

Japanese: Consume more media. There’s so much media I’d like to consume that I just haven’t because Brain Is Messy, but I could also use the practice.

German: Become more comfortable speaking the language by using italki.

Lithuanian: Consolodate all my current grammar knowledge. I really should hold off on learning new grammar until I master what I’ve already studied. 

I will achieve these goals by...

planning for my next lithuanian italki class to be about reflexive verbs. 

trying to consume some piece of media daily for the next month (either german or japanese)

booking my italki sessions in advance!!

making an effort to open my lithuanian textbook at least once a week

starting a new japanese journal

[Image description: A gif taken from an anime of a person writing. The paper reads 「耳をすませば」森の声を聞こう、遠い星団から吹いて来る風の記憶を、雲の語る世界の... /END ID] 

#langblr reactivation challenge #langblr #language #polyglot #language learning

[doitinanotherlanguage]

Week 3 | Day 3 | Langblr Reactivation Challenge

Here’s another Spanish - English - Finnish vocabulary list, this time about politics and history!

la política - politics - politiikka

el sistema político - political system - poliittinen järjestelmä

la democracia - democracy - demokratia

la república - republic - tasavalta

la monarquía - monarchy - monarkia

la dictadura - dictatorship - diktatuuri

las elecciones - elections - vaalit

el partido político - political party - poliittinen puolue

la izquierda - the left - vasemmisto

la derecha - the right - oikeisto

el movimiento social - social movement - yhteiskunnallinen liike, kansanliike

el movimiento de bases - grassroots movement - ruohonjuuritason liike

los derechos humanos - human rights - ihmisoikeudet

el feminismo - feminism - feminismi, naisliike

los derechos de la mujer - women’s rights - naisten oikeudet

la igualdad de género - gender equality - sukupuolten tasa-arvo

el derecho a la autodeterminación - right to self-determination - itsemääräämisoikeus

la emancipación de la mujer - women’s emancipation - naisten emansipaatio/vapautuminen

la violencia contra la mujer - violence against women, gender-based violence - naisiin kohdistuva väkivalta

la interseccionalidad - intersectionality - intersektionaalisuus

los estudios de género - gender studies - sukupuolentutkimus

el queer - queer - queer, kvääri

LGBT/LGTB - LGBT - HLBT

las minorías sexuales y de género - sexual and gender minorities - seksuaali- ja sukupuolivähemmistöt

la heteronorma, la heteronormatividad - heteronormativity - heteronormatiivisuus

la discriminación - discrimination - syrjintä

el orgullo LGBT - LGBT pride - pride, pride-liike

el socialismo - socialism - sosialismi

la socialización de los medios de producción - social ownership - tuotantovälineiden yhteisomistus

el anticapitalismo - anti-capitalism - antikapitalismi

los derechos laborales, los derechos de los trabajadores - labour rights, workers’ rights - työntekijän oikeudet

el movimiento obrero - labour movement - työväenliike

la desigualdad económica - economic inequality - taloudellinen epätasa-arvo

la clase social - a social class - yhteiskuntaluokka

la política global - global politics, world politics - maailmanpolitiikka

la globalización - globalisation - globalisaatio

las relaciones internacionales - international relations - kansainväliset suhteet, kansainvälinen politiikka

la diplomacia - diplomacy - diplomatia

la organización internacional - international organisation - kansainvälinen järjestö

la historia - history - historia

la historia política - political history - poliittinen historia

la historia cultural - cultural history - kulttuurihistoria

la historia social - social history - sosiaalihistoria

#langblr reactivation challenge #langblr

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Langblr reactivation challenge #1

Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge?

Hallo zusammen! Ich bin Al, aus Spanien, und lerne gerne seit Jahre Deutsch: ich habe ein Jahr in der Schule Deutsch gelernt, dann habe ich vier Jahre lang nur selbstgelernt, später bin ich nach Deutschland umgezogen... aber jetzt bin ich wieder in Spanien und möchte es nicht verlieren, deshalb nehme ich sehr gerne an dieser Challenge teil :) Im Moment promoviere ich in Biochemie und studiere die letzten zwei Semester English Studies, deswegen habe ich leider keine Zeit, um mich für einen Sprachkurs anzumelden. Neben Deutsch sollte ich vielleicht auch mit Französisch anfangen, da ich die Möglichkeit hätte, für eine kurze Zeit in ein französisches Labor zu gehen...

Hi everyone! This is Al, from Spain, and I've been learning German for quite a few years now: I took one year in high school, then did some self-studying for four years, and later I moved to Germany! But now I'm back in Spain and I don't want to lose all those improvements. That's why I'm so excited to take part in this challenge :) right now I'm doing my PhD in biochemistry and I'm also studying the last year of English studies, so I sadly don't have time to sign up for a language course. Besides German, I might have to start (re)learning french, because I just got the opportunity to go to a french lab for a short time...

#langblr reactivation challenge #prepolyglot #mine #german #corrections are welcome! #la galaxie langblr #brightstudyblr #fluencylevelfrench #myhoneststudyblr #benniscup #heyzainab #noctis-studies #akastudies #tw big rat #i guess lol #also if you want me to tag you just lmk!

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Week 1 Day 6 of the Langblr Reactivation Challenge: Idioms

Chinese has these fun expressions called 成语 chéngyǔ, which are often four characters long and may reference classical literature, stories, or proverbs, which are then used as popular, well-known sayings. These aren’t the only type of idiom in Chinese but they’re pretty cool, so here are some examples!

心血来潮 xīn xuè lái cháo

lit. blood rushes to the heart

means: spur of the moment, on a whim

某日他们心血来潮，决定去欧洲旅行。

虎头蛇尾 hǔ tóu shé wěi

lit. tiger head, snake tail

means: strong start but weak finish (reminds me of that drawing of a horse that goes from super detailed to barely a sketch)

这个赛季打得有些虎头蛇尾。

倾国倾城 qīng guó qīng chéng

lit. overthrow country, overthrow city

means: so devastatingly beautiful that people would topple nations for that person (dictionary says it refers to women usually)

他有着倾国倾城的容貌，让很多男士对他着迷。（对、例句必须有同性恋。）

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