#langblr spanish

[eelingo]

Saturday, Spanish, 25/02/23

(Burnout tried to take me out but a gymbro once told me if you don't keep pushing through then you won't keep the habit, so here we are (AKA I know I won't be up for two posts tomorrow 🙃))

And, is 'y'

Nice to meet you, is 'Mucho gusto'

Pardon, is 'Disculpe'

I have, is 'Yo tengo'

She has, is 'Ella tiene'

A brother, is 'Un hermano'

A sister, is 'Una hermana'

A child, is 'Un hijo'

My family, is 'Mi familia'

Your grandmother, is 'Tu abuela'

Do you speak spanish, is 'Tú hablas español'

Pretty, is 'Bonito'

Some of these might be the same as what's in previous notes, but I noted them again anyway because I won't learn if I just shrug off mistakes I keep making without noting them. I think what might help is going back before each lesson (now I have notes to look back on) to refresh my memory? That sounds like a good idea 😁

#the notes are a little bit all over the place but that's okay because at least they're there :) #studyspo #langblr #langblr spanish #learning spanish #also they marked me as incorrect for not knowing how to spell the name Ana on a *listening* question

[goblinrabies]

music recs

anyone got spanish +japanese metal recs? I listen to a lot of reggaeton + indie spanish/japanese music but I'd love some heavy recs so I can do some fun listening practice <3

#langblr spanish

[extraterrestrialenby]

#langblr spanish #langblr #duolingo #me #mine

[refalthefairest]

hello! languages side of tumblr

i want to practice and improve my spanish speaking skills and i think it would be really helpful if i found someone (preferably female) to talk regularly with

if you think you’d like that hit me up

i’m an 18 years old girl and i can speak english and arabic and, as you can already tell, learning spanish

see you <3

#languages #language learning #langbr #spanish #learning spanish #linguistics #speaking #langblr spanish #spanish langblr

[bookwyrminspiration]

no sé cómo decir nadaaa

#language learning #langblr #i know what you say mostly #and What I WANT to say #but Can i say it? #NUNCA #la vida duele #had a guest teacher today and I was participating more #and SO many times I was like #i know what I want to say I understand the question and what the answer is #but HOW do I say it in Spanish

[niatheworst]

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

#i think its really funny actually #and it makes sense in a way #dont get me wrong #i still don't like the new design of the app #but this little detail made me appreciate it more #duolingo #language #langblr #language learning #langblog #studyblr #spanish #spanish langblr

[spanishskulduggery]

Baldur's Gate 3 - Non-binary Translation in Spanish

A while back I had mentioned that when I learned how to change language settings for Baldur's Gate 3, I was curious to learn how they would adapt the non-binary [no binario] option into Spanish since Spanish (like many Romance Languages) is very gendered

What I saw actually surprised me a bit

Usually in game translations with different genders, English tends to treat you as a "they" even though it's usually male or female; and in Spanish most of the lines are gendered, or phrased in a very ambiguous way in translation like speaking of your character as una persona "a person" rather than "he" or "she", or "they"

This is one of the first times I've seen the gender neutral -e endings used in an official setting

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For the purposes of this, and any future posts on this, I decided I would try to play as a non-binary gnome cleric. I should also mention that when you start up the game in Spanish and you do the character customization, everything starts you with the base word (i.e. masculine by default, or possibly agender but looks masculine)... as in you can choose to be elfo "elf", semielfo "half-elf", humano "human", semiorco "half-orc"... choose between bárbaro "barbarian", mago "wizard", brujo "warlock" and so on

My default character creation screen read gnomo, clérigo for "gnome cleric"

But the way your character is addressed by others is what changes

The first NPC you interact with is "Us" a little brain thing you can choose to help. If you do it calls you "friend":

Nosotros: Somos libres. Tenemos nuestra libertad. amigue Us: We are free. We have our freedom. Friend [nb].

The word used is amigue

For the sake of understanding Spanish grammar, you probably know amigo/a "friend". The G here is a hard G. The gender neutral ending is E... but the combination of GE is pronounced like an H sound in Spanish [la gelatina "gelatin" for example is like "hel-a-ti-na"]. To preserve that hard G sound, you have to add a UE to it... so amigo/a becomes amigue for non-binary

[if you study Spanish this is the exact same grammar you'll see in turning -gar verbs into subjunctive forms; why pagar would turn to pague]

The next person you come across is Lae'zel:

Lae'zel: Tsk'va. No eres une sierve. ¡Vlaakith me bendijo en el día de hoy! Juntes, tal vez podamos sobrevivir. Lae'zel: Tsk'va. You are no thrall [nb]. Vlaakith blessed me today ["on this day of today"; emphatic]. Together [nb plural], we may (yet) survive.

Interestingly, there's first siervo/a meaning "servant" or "serf" or "thrall"

What I found very interesting was that you have une... un and una being "a" are used for indefinite articles; the non-binary form seems to be une

What threw me off though was seeing juntes... now junto/a is "together" [lit. "joined"] but juntes implies a non-binary plural.

I don't know if this is because in Spanish grammar it would imply that non-binary trumps feminine [the way amigos "friends" could be male+female or multiple male, as opposed to amigas "friends" being all female]... or if it's maybe an error or something else; the game treats Lae'zel as a woman in every other regard so I think it's the first one which is a situation I somehow hadn't considered. I had just assumed it would be juntos ...or juntas if you played female

Next I decided to rescue Gale first because he uses a lot of adjectives/professions and I wanted to see what they looked like:

Gale: No serás clérigue por casualidad, ¿verdad? ¿Médique? ¿Cirujane? ¿Increíblemente hábil con una aguja de tejer? Gale: You wouldn't happen to be a cleric, right? A doctor/medic? Surgeon? Unbelievably skilled with a knitting needle?

First is clérigo/a "cleric" being used in non-binary as clérigue. Similarly we have médique which is the non-binary médico/a for "medical doctor"

[just like above C turned to QUE to preserve a hard C/K sound; you'll see this with subjunctive and even preterites of -car verbs... why atacar "to attack" will turn to ataqué "I attacked" and ataque in subjunctive... because CE has a soft S sound in Latin America, and can be lisped in Spain]

And next is cirujane... the word cirujano/a is "surgeon"

Finally important note - hábil being "able" or "skilled" is a unisex adjective, so there is no change in any gender - masculine, feminine, or non-binary

*Note: I did miss it but at some point someone used the article le to describe my character. The el and la "the" are the masculine and feminine definite articles; le is non-binary "the" which still catches me by surprise because it looks French to me

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I've been told since I made the original post that people have seen the non-binary E ending used in other things, but this was special for me to see. I'm curious how the other gendered languages available treated non-binary options

It was a fun surprise for me, especially for some modern day Spanish linguistics in a VERY big modern game, with non-binary word choices being heavily prominent. It's a bit of a learning experience for me

If I find any more fun examples of NB language being used I'll let y'all know as I go

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #spanish #language #langblr #translation #long post #non binary #linguistica #fun with translation

[drlinguo]

Source

#linguistics #linguisthumor #lingblr #langblr #spanish

[eelingo]

I'm Eli, also Eel or El, and im currently learning seven languages because its part of my special interest in flags and maps :)

In order of how well it's going, I'm learning French, Spanish, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), and Arabic. I'm gonna use this blog to log my progress and use duolingo's advice on writing down what I remember after each lesson 🤓

Each day correlates to a different language, so each post will start with the day of the week, the language, and the date, (so eg Monday, arabic, 13/02/23) and then just what i remember from each lesson and any thoughts i have on it!

Its gonna be super fun for me at least, and anyone is welcome to follow even if you're just nosy about how duo teaches a language or, even better, if you want to add your own input on anything i might have wrong because I'm going into these with no input other than the green bird and maybe netflix subtitles/dubbing

#langblr #langblr arabic #langblr norsk #langblr french #langblr portuguese #langblr dutch #langblr spanish #langblr polish #this is also to keep me accountable because i *will* forget otherwise #lets see how long i can go before i lose my streak hehe #currently at a six(?) day streak? seven? #six! this will be very fun indeed hehehe

[ros3ybabe]

My Morning Routine 🎀

I have adopted a new morning routine because I didn't have one for honestly the last....4 months? Eeeeessshh, absolutely not good for me. I've had to tweak the routine this week, but I think I've got it down! I wake up between 5am and 6am, typically closer to 6am, but it depends on the days because Fridays, Saturdays, and some Sundays I have to leave my house by 7/7:30am. I typically have 2 hours for this routine which is perfect for me!

Current Morning Routine 💗

Wake up between 5am and 6am

Drink water, use the bathroom

Make my bed

Do a quick Yoga with Adriene morning yoga workout, then put yoga mat away

Write in my guided journal

Complete a morning journal prompt of choice in my other journal

Make an Iced Coffee (medium roast Coffee k cup , one sweet n low packet, splash of French vanilla creamer)

Read 1 Chapter OR 15/20 minutes (typically self help book but honestly any book is fine for me!)

Plan out some things for the day (planner, Google Calendar, brain dump list, review todo lists for day)

Shower/Wash face (depends on if I showered night before)

Do my morning skincare! (vitamin c serum, moisturizer, sunscreen, lip balm)

Get dressed for the day (either work clothes or normal outfit depending on what i have to do)

Pack my bag(s) for the day (again, depends on the class, and if I have work then I may take a 2nd bag)

Head out (if necessary, which it typically is, except for most Sundays!)

And that's my morning routine! I love it so much, it's been so nice waking up at a set time every day and has been forcing me to be more mindful of when I go to sleep and how much caffiene I am consuming. It's so nice to have a morning routine, and I am currently working on implementing a night routinebecause I thrive with routines!

til next time lovelies 🩷

#pink pilates girl #pink pilates princess #self care #self development #self love #wonyoungism #it girl #health & fitness #mental health #physical health #girly stuff #studyblr #study blog #langblr #spanish langblr #japanese langblr #that girl energy #becoming that girl #that girl #it girl self care #it girl energy #pink blog #pink academia #pilates aesthetic #pink aesthetic #college student #uni student aesthetic #university student #student life #green juice girl

[extraterrestrialenby]

no quiero tener cerca el resto de la semana...

#writeblr #writing #langblr spanish #langblr #writeblr things #me #journal #mine

[neurasthnia]

spanish resource lists for learners

a list of lists!! levels are estimated.

refold has a crowdsourced resource list for spanish, curated & with notes | A1 to C2

dreamingspanish on reddit has a crowdsourced spreadsheet with over 90 channels geared towards learners | A1 to C2

learn natively has a huge deck of spanish books sorted by difficulty by learners | A1 to C2

prensa escrita has a list of news websites sorted by country & sometimes city | B1 to C1 probably

the CI wiki has an editable list of CI resources and a couple of native content links | A1 to like B2?

comprehensible hub has tons of spanish podcasts for learners | A1 to B2

letterboxd has a ton of very fun #español lists, e.g. movies mentioned in the wild project podcast, latin american female directors, made in puerto rico | ~B2 to C2

there are also a ton of moocs in spanish for intermediate to advanced learners (moocs are online courses, usually free) | B1 to C2

#spanish langblr #spanish notes #* #langblr #language learning #spanish language #perhaps this is unsurprising after my last post #we're compiling babeyyyyy

[guayaba-podrida]

Hola langblr. Estoy estudiando portugués y espero ser nivel intermedio este verano. El español es mi segunda lengua por hace 16 años este otoño. Y mi lengua materna es el inglés estadounidense. (También mi familia habla el patois jamaicano que entiendo muy bien pero mi habilidad para hablar es básico.) Soy artista y amante del arte, entonces, creé una lista de vocabulario de arte en portugués para el nivel intermedio y estoy trabajando en uno en español con nivel más avanzado. En el futuro quiero crear una lista con dibujos a línea y con un poco más detalle. Por ahora, podéis encontrar el documento en portugués aquí y les diré más tarde cuando lo en español está publicado. Buenas noches, buenas tardes, buenos días!

#langblr spanish #spanish langblr #spanish language #language study #languageblr #language learning #language blog #language blr #portuguese language #langblr portuguese #romance languages #brazilian portuguese #artist on kofi #buy me a kofi #ko fi shop #ko fi link #learn spanish

[moomin279]

*gripping bathroom sink* every foreign accent is a sign of bravery, every foreign accent is a sign of bravery-

#langblr #german langblr #spanish langblr #spanish language #germany #languages #linguistics

[lostfeb]

one thing about learning languages is that yes, learning in itself is fun but what’s even greater is the fact that all your other interests and hobbies can be looked at with another shade of light. I personally love philosophy and to be able to read another language’s nuances and concepts and understand it more than you ever could with a translation? incredible.

#language learning #languages #langblr #learn chinese #learn french #learn german #learn korean #learn spanish #study korean #language #polyglot #philosophy

[useless-catalanfacts]

Comparison of a few verbs in three Romance languages: Italian, Catalan, and Spanish.

Video by paoloymar.

#llengua catalana #catalan #spanish #italian #italiano #español #castellano #langblr #languages #language #language learning #polyglot