daily:
♡ vocabulary and grammar practice
♡ lessons (i have four lessons per week at school. if you don't already take lessons, look into free language courses on alison, coursera or 101 languages)
once per week:
♡ translate a short text (i like to translate my journal entries)
one per fortnight/month:
♡ watch a movie in your target language, preferably animated movies as the language used is easier. you can watch with subtitles
additionally:
♡ talk to yourself; your friends; your pets in your target language
♡ text with someone in your target language
♡ repeat what you hear (in a podcast, lesson or movie)
This guy's been developing a (tonal, whistle) bird language for a while but it just hit me that this is straight up a Bats that sing like Birds vibe. (Also if you get lost you can also be found is another good Batfam use birdsong to communicate fic)
This video is clearly not meant for Basque people, but for Spaniardas that don't know Euskara. It's just an example of how Spanish fascists spread Basquephobia.
The members of Bildu celebrated their elections results with the expression "Jo ta ke". But do you know what it really means? Jotakes are grenades designed and developed by terrorist band ETA in the years 1987-88. They were used in attacks like the one against the headquarter houses of Zarautz on Aug 7th 1987. They were also used in the attack against the headquarter houses of Mungia on March 23rd 1991. In fact, ETA former leader Txapote used this same expression during a trial at the National Audience. This expression was popularized by ETA-supporting band Su Ta Gar and that's why now it's used in different contexts meaning "hit it hard until victory". What do you think about Bildu now using this saying?
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Jo ta ke means, literally, hit and smoke. It's believed it comes from what was said at the iron factories: hit (the iron) and then burn, hit (the iron) and the burn, all the time until the work was done. With time, it became a synonym of tirelessly. So the super usual saying in political or sport contexts Jo ta ke irabazi arte! just means Tirelessly or non-stop until victory.
It existed long before Su Ta Gar's song ffs.
The grenades were called jotakes because of this same meaning: we keep going towards victory non-stop, as the weapons were means for ETA to achieve their goals.
Jo ta ke - and Basque language in general - isn't something that was born for ETA or ETA-supporting environments as these fascists like to make people believe, once and again. They're indeed jo ta ke until more and more people hate Basques. Luckily, many know better but still this is plain misinformation and blatant Basquephobia.
They're just bitter EH Bildu had an incredible result at the Basque elections and because ~70% of Basque votes were for Basque nationalist parties.
The University of Grenoble (France) wants is planning to remove Catalan classes from its curriculum next year. The students are organising this campaign to ask the university to keep it. Help them by signing this petition!
TIL AFTER THE US JOINED WWI THERE WAS A TREND TO RENAME SAUERKRAUT LIBERTY CABBAGE GUYS THE FREEDOM FRIES ARE NOT THE ORIGINAL THIS SHOULDN'T BE FUNNY WHY IS IT FUNNY.
It's always so disappointing when sci fi and fantasy books call their languages "Basic" or "Common". No language is apolitical or universal: if they're all calling one language Basic, who made it that way? Why is THIS dialect "Common" and all the others are Special/Magical/Incomprehensible??? Show me even a hint of the politics, or give your language a real name