#language asks

[unionize-aromantically]

You’re really cool! /gen

What languages are you learning?

Which ones do you want to become fluent in, in the future?

Where do you learn them?

What’s your favorite language?

Would you advise someone to learn Norwegian?

Do you have a language you’d never want to learn?

What’s the hardest thing for you when learning a new language?

How’s your day going?

ok first thank you for this epic ask. my answer is long so it's under the cut.

I'm currently primarily learning Russian. I am sorta learning Swahili, but I haven't come any far yet.

I'm also continuing to learn french, but I'm already pretty good at french so it's pretty much just reading stuff in french.

I'm sorta learning northern Sami or Sami languages (multiple), but I haven't gotten far.

I'm not sure which languages I want to be fluent in. I guess french, I'm definitely not on a C1 level yet but I know a lot so it's probably the easiest. But I just want to take things as they come a bit. Sami languages (probably northern Sami has most materials) are a candidate, because decolonization and stuff, plus it's a new language family to me which interests me a lot. Though I'll likely try one I know people who speak.

but for learning in general I am considering/currently learning:

- Arabic (maybe Egyptian)

- Swahili

- French

- Russian

- Chinese (probably mandarin)

- Urdu

- Sámi language (unsure which)

- Norwegian sign language

- international sign language

- Usamerican sign language (ASL)

- Thai

And of course I'm probably gonna update this list. (metaphorically speaking, not physically this list in this post)

Where I learn:

So for french I learned primarily in a classroom setting, but honestly that has left me with very weak like audio processing for french.

For Russian I've been using Duolingo which is pretty good, though as people talk about I don't understand the grammar so if I want to use it formally I'm probably gonna diversify. (not sure what I'll do yet)

For Swahili I'm using language transfer. But I struggle to motivate myself to do language transfer lessons. They're primarily audio based and I'm genuinely addicted to music so I'm not always in the mood.

I've also used Polygloss, which is an image description game type thing where you get feedback on your language skills from other users. I would probably recommend this one if it sounds at all interesting to you. This has many languages btw, even toki Pona.

I've used drops but that app fuckings sucks ass. It's difficult to remember stuff in complete isolation. It's like the opposite of reading wikipedia in the target language.

For Thai I've used "Thai drill", which seems pretty good, I haven't gotten far with thai though because I've focused on other languages.

I've used lingodeer the short time I learned japanese, I've heard it's supposed to be really good for that.

I also like using texts, for Russian I've used a lot of wikipedia, trying to just read articles in Russian and see what I understand. For french I've used magazines and lemonde. For Sami I've used just the regular news.

I've tried chatting apps for language learning but I haven't really stuck to them too much so idk if that's for me. I think people like those though.

I've tried YouTube for Norwegian sign language and I find myself less likely to use youtube for language learning, but it definitely helps with getting access to resources when there's little.

Also miscellaneous websites. For Norwegian sign language, Russian and French I've used websites and it's helped at least a bit.

Translation services are essential! Like yeah don't just put everything through translation, but if you need a specific word or want to check your grammar it can be very helpful. I use it a lot in french.

On whether to learn Norwegian that depends what you value.

Some options are: novelty (different language family? unfamiliar writing system?), easiness (similar? are there apps? are there complex conjugations?), practical use (can you watch tv in the language? do you know anyone who speaks it?), different culture (will it give you access to a world radically different to your own?), decolonization (is it a colonized language?)

But personally I'm inclined to say yeah please learn my language. I can recommend resources and help teach you if you chose it, so the easiness is high (plus it's on Duolingo). the practical use, though lowered by the fact that most Norwegians speak english, is decent because it's easy to access free books online in Norwegian, plus news (that may be different like with Palestine - the free national news report does not have to be approved by isnotreal). And in general Norway values freedom of speech. The easiness is raised by you speaking English, and Norwegian also doesn't gender anything depending on subject's gender (unlike french), only grammatical gender, and you can choose between 2 & 3 genders. For novelty it's probably not that interesting though. For decolonization it's a colonizer language, Norway colonized a part of Sápmi and forced them to speak like us, no one colonized Norway. wait actually there might be more than Sápmi? idk I found this about Denmark-Norway, it might be wrong to pin it on just the Danes even though they had the upper hand historically, idk (there was centralized royal rule based in Copenhagen in Denmark). But yeah that last part idk if it really matters, it's not immoral to learn a "evil" language (of any kind), it's more that I consider it extra moral to learn a colonized language. (I wouldn't necessarily consider Norwegian evil but you get what I'm getting at).

For languages I wouldn't learn, honestly there's not many. I'm skeptical towards learning more languages like french because it's hyper gendered & usually non-binary excluding, but I think Spanish for example is one of them and it's so widely spoken it's kinda worth it.

The most difficult thing for me when learning a language, I guess staying consistent. I only have like one perfect month on Duolingo, and for other languages like Norwegian sign language I've not been consistent at all, not even reaching a rate of one lesson a month.

My day is going pretty well, especially after answering this ask :)

#ink.post #asks #anon asks #language asks #language learning #question asks #ink.asks

[desi-yearning]

☾ : favourite word from your language

✌ : favourite proverb/saying from your language

✓ : funniest word in your language

Heyaaaaa @bundle-of-glitter! Thank you so much for the ask! I'm so sorry, know I'm terribly late for this but here they are!

☾ : I've come across this one when I was looking for interesting Telugu words. It is ఉభయకుశలోపరి (ubhayakushalopari). It means "We're doing fine here and I hope you all there are doing fine too." An entire sentence in a single word. (That reminds me, I might make a separate post for this)

✌ : I have one specific proverb I'm well known for using but because of its vulgarity, I'm going for a different and a one that makes sense even with direct translation. (more like the one I can think of immediately because proverbs come very randomly and only in the situation to me) ఇల్లు కాలి ఒకడు ఏడుస్తుంటే..చుట్టకి నిప్పు కావలన్నాడట ఇంకొకడు (illu kaali okadu edusthunte.. chuttaki nippu kaavalannadata inkokadu) Meaning: While one was crying because he lost is house, the other asked for a lighter to his cigarette. It is used in the context of one person already occupied with his own problems and another just trying to take advantage of it or troubling him even further with his own issues.

✓ : "Chimpeshnav" Literal meaning: you tore it but it is used as a slang word for saying that you've done an amazing job! It is quite funny to me.

#abhi answers asks #telugublr #telugu #language asks

[lizzybeth1986]

Hi there! I hope you're doing fine 😊

Can you answer ☾☯❀ from speak your language day asks?

Have a great week 😘

Thanks so much for the questions, @lorircreates!! 🤗🤗🤗

☾ - Favourite word from your language

The word for angel is maalaakha (bears similarities to the Arabic word for angel which is ملاك/malakh - idk if I'm spelling it right - but in certain parts of Kerala, a lot of our verbiage has a few similarities with Arabic and Hebrew I believe)

☯ - What do you love about your language?

I think it's a very flowy, lyrical language.

❀ - Which language(s) would you like to speak fluently?

Idk I've never actually thought about that for a long time. Learning languages or even trying to pick them up via constant exposure is an overwhelming experience honestly so my hope is usually to understand enough to get by. I'm notoriously poor at familiarising myself with languages.

Language Asks

#ask me #ask lizzy #language asks #lorircreates #thanks for the ask!!

[sayitaliano]

4, 29, 30 for the language ask game :)

Ciao!

4. How long have you been learning the languages you’re currently learning? I consider myself a constant learner so: English- I started in 4th-5th year of the elementary school but I almost forgot everything (it wasn't really well planned back then tbh). I studied it more accurately in high school, and kinda kept using it since (with a short on and off period), also thanks to some foreign online friends I made here and there and through another tumblr blog and then on this blog (it makes too many years to count basically lol). French- studied for 3 years in secondary school (scuola media), kinda stopped learning it right after but since it has been planned better (and my area's dialect is pretty close to it) I can still remember most of it (also thanks to some music, interviews and tourists). Spanish- it's been like since 2009/2010? I started around those years I think. Bulgarian- studied for a while between 2012-2014 I think (I'm so bad at remembering dates/years: I start on a whim generally, so I have no clue unless there's an event related as for this specific language). Russian- I think it was on and off (A LOT on and off, like months and months pauses probably) 2014/5-2019, right after I paused from Bulgarian Portuguese- It's somewhere around the same years as Russian Korean- It's been around a year and a half (with pauses again lol), I've become a little more serious/committed in the last 4-6 months I think

29. What do you like learning the most? (vocabulary, grammar, writing skills, oral skills… Whatever you can think of!) 30. On the opposite, what do you dislike learning the most? Answering to these two together, hope it's okay. I like the most learning vocabularies and grammar so to understand what I am reading and in particular what someone is saying. That's what I love the most, understanding people when they speak their native language. (i'd like to speak that language as well, but this comes right after). What I dislike the most.... ofc some grammar passages that are boring. E.g. back to the Spanish verbs LOL sorry Idk why I had this "repulsion", I always wrote/spoke by ear and kinda got lucky 98% of times so I never really checked them out properly but I know I lack in there. Similarly, Russian cases. I haven't really got to study them (tbh I kinda stopped practicing/studying right before getting there)

Grazie^^

#ask thing #ask stuff #language asks #ask game

[oobbbear]

I want to post this here too because I’ve seen it happen a few times

Please understand that there are cultural differences and language differences, if you see this happening let the person clarify what they meant, that person might just not be familiar with words the western side of the internet use

#bearz rambling tag #no it’s not really possible to let everyone who uses this term to change #because as far as I know this is the most common word with use on Chinese websites #I didn’t know that pairing are called ‘ship’ here #like why would I even know that #‘ship’ makes zero sense to me #it took me a while to learn the fandom language people speak here #it’s hard #give people time #shipping culture is very different too #Like on Chinese site you HAVE to clarify the Top and the Bottom of this ship in the ship name #it is very very important to them #people who like the same ship but with different Top Bottom preference will fight till no end #imagine how confused I was when I first got here #where there’s no top bottom differences #it’s not really a smut thing #it’s more a dynamic thing #AxB and BxA is very different #oh I can talk so much about the differences on fandom cultures #if ya are interested in more please feel free to ask #it’s very interesting to me #I wanna talk about it

[the-phantom-peach]

“for her”

-🍃

the burden of failure and fear of disappointment. sometimes ya just gotta keep it to yourself

#tfw you have lovely dreams about your girlfriend liek if you agree <3 #sorry I just like being miserable about my comfort characters #you all asked for more signing link n koroks so I hope this counts #the legend of zelda #legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #breath of the wild #tloz #loz #totk #botw #totk korok #totk link #totk Zelda #korok #link #Zelda #totk zelink #zelink #sign language #asl #signing link #mute link #loz art #tloz art #nintendo #art #my art #HEEEEELLLLLLL YEAHH I GOT THIS BICTH OUT OF MY DRAFTS WOOOO #onto bigger and better things (staring at the wall for an hour)

[nerdpoe]

Danny has an Ice Core.

He isn't aware of it, but this does, in fact, greatly influence how his ghost form looks as he grows up.

His appearance starts getting more rugged, eyes a paler, more piercing green, hair a bit more uncontrollable and wild.

He packs muscle easily, even in human form.

When in ghost form, he has an aura of something patient and dangerous, and that sense only grows the older he gets.

Basically, our boy starts to look like a viking.

No matter how goofy and bumbling he really is, his first impression is always a horrifying moment for whoever is meeting him.

And as his ghost form grows with his human form, he outgrows his hazmat outfit. Frostbite and the Far Frozen fashion him some new clothes-which only compliment and play off of the viking aesthetic he's got going on.

And with the height he inherited from his father?

Our man is a very, very intimidating figure to look at. More so than Dan; because while Dan was dangerous and scary, he was all energy and lightning and rage.

Adult Danny comes across as lethal and terrifying, all ice and persistence and that final, terrible silence before you realize you've already died.

Dan felt like the warrior in front of you. Danny feels like the wilderness in winter, vast and unforgiving.

Anyways, when a summoning for Klarion goes horribly wrong and Danny gets called instead, the Justice League has a moment where they're convinced they've summoned something much, much worse than Klarion.

And Danny, standing there completely confused, is not helping by remaining silent and still while staring John Constantine in the eye.

Good news, the bad guys are also very concerned about the weird ghost viking and are actually moving to stand side by side with the Justice League on this.

Bad news, who the fuck is this guy?

"...Fuck," is all Constantine whispers, backing away slowly.

@simplestoryteller

#dcxdp #dpxdc #dc x dp #dp x dc #and yes i love this idea #that a core helps shape how a ghost looks like as they mature #Dan's was lightning and vengeance #so he grew up to embody that #Ellie's is freedom #so she starts looking more and more like a pirate #Danny's is ice #so he does this #it gets to the point where no one believes he and Ellie are related #like yeah y'all look alike sort of but also #there's no way in hell #anyways immediately after this Danny ruins his image by sheepishly asking where he is #almost exact same body language as a flustered Clark #and Bruce is just like #“ah. this is a Clark situation-looks intimidating but tries desperately not to be rude” #story prompt #basically if every time Danny went ghost #the witcher soundtrack was going off in the background #and its freaking people out #and he's just like “hey wanna see me make a skateboard out of solid ice”

[nerdragons-hoard]

☯️☪️

☯️ (what do you love about your language)

Hebrew had a very long period of time where the number of native speakers was aspiring to zero, and basically nobody spoke it outside of a religious context

it was revived in the late 19th to early 20th centuries, and part of that revival process involved making a lot of new words, so modern Hebrew words are basically made with a system

this is fun because it means you can make up an entirely new word on the spot and its meaning could carry over pretty well!

☪️ (what do you hate about your language)

it's gendered. nouns, verbs, adjectives, everything is either masculine, or feminine, or it has a variation for each. technically the masc variation of words is meant to also cover unknown or neutral genders, but I'm not a huge fan of that

#blaster's inbox #souplover13 #language asks

[writingwithcolor]

Naming International POC Characters: Do Your Research.

This post is part of a double feature for the same ask. First check out Mod Colette's answer to OP's original question at: A Careful Balance: Portraying a Black Character's Relationship with their Hair. Below are notes on character naming from Mod Rina.

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@writingraccoon said:

My character is black in a dungeons and dragons-like fantasy world. His name is Kazuki Haile (pronounced hay-lee), and his mother is this world's equivalent of Japanese, which is where his first name is from, while his father is this world's equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from. He looks much more like his father, and has hair type 4a. [...]

Hold on a sec.

Haile (pronounced hay-lee), [...] [H]is father is this world’s equivalent of Ethiopian, which is where his last name is from. 

OP, where did you get this name? Behindthename.com, perhaps?

Note how it says, “Submitted names are contributed by users of this website. Check marks indicate the level to which a name has been verified.” Do you see any check marks, OP? 

What language is this, by the way? If we only count official languages, Ethiopia has 5: Afar, Amharic, Oromo, Somali, & Tigrinya. If we count everything native to that region? Over 90 languages. And I haven't even mentioned the dormant/extinct ones. Do you know which language this name comes from? Have you determined Kazuki’s father’s ethnic group, religion, and language(s)? Do you know just how ethnically diverse Ethiopia is? 

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To All Looking for Character Names on the Internet:

Skip the name aggregators and baby name lists. They often do not cite their sources, even if they’re pulling from credible ones, and often copy each other. 

If you still wish to use a name website, find a second source that isn’t a name website. 

Find at least one real life individual, living or dead, who has this given name or surname. Try Wikipedia’s lists of notable individuals under "List of [ethnicity] people." You can even try searching Facebook! Pay attention to when these people were born for chronological accuracy/believability. 

Make sure you know the language the name comes from, and the ethnicity/culture/religion it’s associated with. 

Make sure you understand the naming practices of that culture—how many names, where they come from, name order, and other conventions. 

Make sure you have the correct pronunciation of the name. Don’t always trust Wikipedia or American pronunciation guides on Youtube. Try to find a native speaker or language lesson source, or review the phonology & orthography and parse out the string one phoneme at a time. 

Suggestions for web sources:

Wikipedia! Look for: “List of [language] [masculine/feminine] given names,” “List of most common [language] family names,” “List of most common surnames in [continent],” and "List of [ethnicity] people."  

Census data! Harder to find due to language barriers & what governments make public, but these can really nail period accuracy. This may sound obvious, but look at the year of the character's birth, not the year your story takes place. 

Forums and Reddit. No really. Multicultural couples and expats will often ask around for what to name their children. There’s also r/namenerds, where so many folks have shared names in their language that they now have “International Name Threads.” These are all great first-hand sources for name connotations—what’s trendy vs. old-fashioned, preppy vs. nerdy, or classic vs. overused vs. obscure. 

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Luckily for OP, I got very curious and did some research. More on Ethiopian & Eritrean naming, plus mixed/intercultural naming and my recommendations for this character, under the cut. It's really interesting, I promise!

Ethiopian and Eritrean Naming Practices

Haile (IPA: /həjlə/ roughly “hy-luh.” Both a & e are /ə/, a central “uh” sound) is a phrase meaning “power of” in Ge’ez, sometimes known as Classical Ethiopic, which is an extinct/dormant Semitic language that is now used as a liturgical language in Ethiopian churches (think of how Latin & Sanskrit are used today). So it's a religious name, and was likely popularized by the regnal name of the last emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie (“Power of the Trinity”). Ironically, for these reasons it is about as nationalistically “Ethiopian” as a name can get.

Haile is one of the most common “surnames” ever in Ethiopia and Eritrea. Why was that in quotes? Because Ethiopians and Eritreans don’t have surnames. Historically, when they needed to distinguish themselves from others with the same given name, they affixed their father’s given name, and then sometimes their grandfather’s. In modern Ethiopia and Eritrea, their given name is followed by a parent’s (usually father’s) name. First-generation diaspora abroad may solidify this name into a legal “surname” which is then consistently passed down to subsequent generations.

Intercultural Marriages and Naming

This means that Kazuki’s parents will have to figure out if there will be a “surname” going forward, and who it applies to. Your easiest and most likely option is that Kazuki’s dad would have chosen to make his second name (Kazuki’s grandpa’s name) the legal “surname.” The mom would have taken this name upon marriage, and Kazuki would inherit it also. Either moving abroad or the circumstances of the intercultural marriage would have motivated this. Thus “Haile” would be grandpa’s name, and Kazuki wouldn’t be taking his “surname” from his dad. This prevents the mom & Kazuki from having different “surnames.” But you will have to understand and explain where the names came from and the decisions dad made to get there. Otherwise, this will ring culturally hollow and indicate a lack of research.

Typically intercultural parents try to

come up with a first name that is pronounceable in both languages,

go with a name that is the dominant language of where they live, or

compromise and pick one parent’s language, depending on the circumstances.

Option 1 and possibly 3 requires figuring out which language is the father’s first language. Unfortunately, because of the aforementioned national ubiquity of Haile, you will have to start from scratch here and figure out his ethnic group, religion (most are Ethiopian Orthodox and some Sunni Muslim), and language(s). 

But then again, writing these characters knowledgeably and respectfully also requires figuring out that information anyway.

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Names and naming practices are so, so diverse. Do research into the culture and language before picking a name, and never go with only one source.

~ Mod Rina

#asks #language #languages #linguistics #east africa #african #immigration #ethiopian #names #naming #research #resources #writeblr #character names #character name ideas #rina says read under the cut. read it

[unionize-aromantically]

☾, ✌, and ☆!

thanks for the ask!

favorite word

I'll say "ransel", but almost just cause I can't think of anything particularly spectacular that isn't the same in English. ransel means backpack (usually) for school, there's another word for it too "skolesekk" (school - backpack/sack). And yeah obviously it's also called "sekk" (backpack/sack). there's also another pretty cool word "veske" which as a general rule means "purse", but can also mean backpack or anything like that, that general category.

edit: there's also a word that's really close to "backpack" that's "ryggsekk" (back-sack).

favorite saying/proverb

That may be "den lengste mila er dørstokkmila" (the longest mile is the mile to the doorstep). which basically means it can be really hard to start (walking) and that after you've started it's much easier.

the first lines of a song originally in your language

"Det står en sparkesykkel i garasjen min

Den står i ro, den står i ro

For sist eg sparkesykla va eg alt for gammal, alle lo

De bare lo av meg (de bare ler av meg)"

English:

"There is a scooter (🛴, kickbike) in my garage

It stands still, it stands still. (still/left alone)

Because the last time I scootered I was way too old, everyone laughed

They just laughed at me (they just laugh at me)"

#musicblogging #language #asks #music asks #language asks #norwegianblogging #asks: snowychicken

[unboundprompts]

diferent ways to describe the fear of something?

Different Ways to Describe Fear

Symptoms of Fear:

accelerated breathing

accelerated heart rate

goosebumps

sweating

sleep disturbance

butterflies in stomach

dizziness

Body Language Responses to Fear:

hunching shoulders

shrinking away

wide eyes

shaking / trembling

freezing

wrapping arms around themselves

shaking hands

Writing Prompts:

-> feel free to edit and adjust pronouns as you see fit.

She pressed a trembling hand to her chest as if that would do anything to slow her racing heart.

His eyes were crazed, darting around to look at the shadows of the room.

Their limbs felt like jelly, afraid that they would collapse at any moment.

She was utterly frozen. Her body cut all communication with her mind, and no matter how much her brain screamed for her to run she was immobilized in terror.

He had a tight knot forming in his stomach.

They couldn't breathe. They were totally suffocated by fear and it felt like a heavy weight was pressing down on their chest.

Dread clouded her thinking. She walked around like she was in a daze, relying solely on muscle memory to get her down the hallway.

His hands were trembling so badly that he couldn't do anything and his terror made it impossible to focus.

Their throat was dry. No matter how many times they swallowed it did nothing to relieve the uncomfortable feeling.

The salty taste of fear lingered on her lips.

His muscles screamed at him to leave, but he couldn't bring himself to move. He stared forwards hauntingly.

They ran. They ran faster than their legs had ever carried them, adrenaline taking over all of their senses. It felt like they were being chased, but there was no way for them to know for certain. They were too afraid to turn around.

It felt like her heart was about to burst from her ribcage.

#writing prompts #writeblr #ask box prompts #show dont tell #fear prompts #horror prompts #thriller prompts #body language

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 169

Danny is from a world where everyone has wings, even if most have long since lost the ability to fly. Something about loading and aspect ratio, wings being too small, body too heavy, now mostly used as display, whatever. 

It doesn’t matter even if he had blueprints from when he was like six of a jetpack to help fly. It won’t work anyway and hey, he has his ghost form! Which uh, might be perhaps, affecting his wings which were maybe sort of scorched black and practically down to the bone thanks to the accident. 

It doesn’t matter, he swears. Though he’s admittedly relieved to see the new feathers growing in are different from Dan’s angry sunset. Even if they’re not even supposed to be able to grow back. Alright, this is fine, no one is going to notice! It’s not like everyone knows about the poor Fenton kid whose wings were absolutely destroyed thanks to an accident! It’s fine. 

He’s not flying in a half-panic towards the Far Frozen while crying because his wings are coming back and he’s so scared. He didn’t panic and instantly fled the moment Jazz pointed them out while changing the bandages. 

He definitely didn’t trip over something while wiping away said tears and blacking out from all the stress and all of his problems that he definitely mentioned to someone and isn’t keeping a secret. Definitely. 

Hawkwoman and Hawkman would like everyone to know that neither of them were expecting a very small child to be spat out of the villain of that week’s machine that should definitely not be a portal. A very small child, maybe nine or ten, with a multitude of concerning wounds both old and fresh. Which isn’t even beginning to touch on the wings. 

Feathered, like baby down despite the gnarled scars, unlike their own metallic, with the beginning of tiny specklings like stars amidst the darker fuzz peeking from the wounded flesh. 

Who?! Who dared?! It’s (at least to the forever reincarnating duo) a literal baby! They still have down! Tiny baby fuzz! Was it the portal?! Oh this villain is going to taste their maces for causing this if that’s the case! 

The rest of the Justice League would honestly like to know what just happened and are honestly unsure on if they should stop the two…

#dcxdp #dpxdc #prompts #wing au #Shayera & Carter: THAT IS A BABY #Danny who is still very distressed when he wakes up: I don’t know what’s going on & might start crying at any moment #He got brought to the Watchtower #Y’know what make it where his world is similar to a Flashpoint timeline & that’s why JL never came #He has no idea why he’s tiny and just wanted to go to one of his caretakers #The League is trying to figure out how to get this kid home but also subtly asking how his home life is #Danny: Oh I guess my bio-parent’s house is dangerous but my caretaker’s homes are really cool and safe! #The JL now think this child is in foster care of some sort in his world #Danny does nothing to dissuade this assumption #Honestly it’s really freaky for him to see people without wings & maybe clings to Hawkwoman & Hawkman #Look their wings might be metallic but at least they have them & he can actually recognize their body language #How can anyone deal with not being able to express with wings?! #Even if his were completely scorched from the Accident he could still move them and such!

[sayitaliano]

34,35,36 🥰

Ciao!

34.What do you think is the best for learning? Websites and apps or books and notebooks and stuff?

I think each one of us should find their own way to learn, as we're all kinda different and have different approaches to studying in general (same when it comes to languages). The most important thing is to never force ourselves (days off are okay, as days in which we do a little less), but it's good to keep ourselves engaged into a little bit of practice at least few times per week. Have fun while at it, keep oursleves interested and curious, and try to never rush or feel obliged in doing something (despite some learning passages may be annoying, they're useful -says the girl who never really studied verbs' grammar in Spanish :D). Start slowly, from the translitteration (where necessary); keep a notebook for grammar, for vocabulary and for your exercises (single words' translations and then sentences/paragraphs). Writing personally helps me a lot in remembering and understanding (and keeping track of what I do), but again, it depends on how you work better. And start from easy words, like colors, family, animals, numbers to move onto easy (weather, e.g.) sentences and grow from there: like a kid in school. I personally find Memrise (it has audios from natives, and better grammar than Duolingo imo) and youtube, but also tumblr, to be a great source of infos and resources. Memrise gave me an idea of subjects/what type of road to follow (Duolingo does that too ofc but I found some errors here and there, IDK I might be biased tho). I have studied/am studying Russian and Korean like this and tbh it works. It's a matter of putting together different stuff from different sources, so I understand it may not be the best for everyone as it's kinda messy (but it is also vary, so it works for me as it keeps me kinda interested).

[For more infos about studying Italian, the resources masterpost has lots of websites and apps suggestions + other resources as books, movies, yt channels... + on @sayitalianohome there's a masterpost with a bunch of studying tips, many of which I have written too]

35.Any ultimate goals?

Trying to be able to call myself fluent in at least 3 of the languages I have learnt/am learning (Spanish, French, Korean) and work on my English.

36. Is there a language you would not like to learn? What one(s) why?

No, I don't think there's such a language. But I am making choices according on my likes ofc... time is what it is! I realized I have a passion for different alphabets so yeah, for now I might stick with such languages tbh

Grazie^^

#ask thing #ask stuff #ask game #language asks

[xtaleunderverse]

What languages does the gang speak?

#UVSstudios #xtale ask #note from jakei: I adore this fandom headcanon that AUs can speak the native languages of their creators

[nelkcats]

Dead Language Expert

Danny never thought that he could "major" in languages, and get a job as a translator. But apparently knowing all the dead languages ​​by default and being able to time travel with the help of your ghost tutor was pretty useful outside of Amity.

It happened purely by chance, he was walking through a museum and started laughing because of a mistake in one of the sentences that completely changed the meaning of the text. The museum manager, of course, did not believe him, since many people had said that the piece was "impossible to translate". But he study it anyway.

Days later they were looking for him to translate all the things from that time. And he just carried on with it, in many more civilizations. In some cases he even asked for a few trips to the past to Clockwork to verify.

It got to a point where the wizards, heroes and villains over the world knew him as "the translator of dead languages" and some of them even tried to kidnap him to perform a summoning ritual. Danny rolled his eyes and easily freed himself, but the League assigned him an "escort" anyway.

Exasperated, the halfa escaped from his escorts and continued his work as normal. Superman almost fell out of his chair at the Watchtower meeting when he was informed that the boy had translated the language of Krypton and other missing planets. Besides having managed to lose both the Flash and Green Latern, what the fuck?

#dpxdc #Danny know all dead languages by default #is part of being a ghost #or part of being him #he's not sure #The museum manager asked him to translate and he accepted #he didn't expect the payment but it was good #so he ended working in translating #it was easy and he could time travel if he had any doubt #dp x dc #dc x dp #Justice League is worried about his knowledge #but he didn't do anything wrong #Danny is considering teaching at a university for fun #People think Danny is human and he didn't correct them #He also asked Clockwork for help so no one would notice his status as a halfa #Danny doesn't like being kidnapped but at this point in his life it's nothing more than a nuisance #while he could fight the summoning he really doesn't want to

[andsewingishalfthebattle]

Novice sewing pattern: Cut out shapes. Line up the little triangles on the edges. Stitch edges together. We've also included step-by-step assembly instructions with illustrations.

Novice knitting pattern: yOU MUSt uNDerstANd thE SECret cOdE CO67 (73, 87, 93) BO44 (63, 76, 90) 28 (32, 34) slip first pw repeat 7x K to end *kl (pl) 42 * until 13" (13, 13, 15) join new at 30 pl for 17 rows ssk 27 k2tog mattress lengthwise BO and sacrifice a goat to the knitting gods. WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU WANT "INSTRUCTIONS," I JUST GAVE THEM TO YOU

#knitting #no it's not a real pattern but I can't write one that makes sense because I have no freaking clue what any of that means #How do you make things that aren't basic rectangles #Why has every knitter I've asked for help just said 'patterns are easy; you just have to know how to read them' & then refused to teach me #Where do I even find a goat to sacrifice #How do I join the pattern cult #I am so confused #I've been knitting for almost a decade but I can only make scarves and potholders #I learned one (1) stitch by watching a YouTube video and none of my friends or family knit so I have no IRL resources #And nobody I meet seems to want to take the time to explain the rest to me #I taught myself to sew through trial and error but that doesn't really work with knitting because error is pretty much just... Unraveling? #Anyway sorry for the tag rant I'm just frustrated that I see pretty things I want to make but the instructions are in an alien language #And the gap between 'absolute novice' and 'intermediate' seems to be about 20 years of experience and formal instruction