You can now learn languages with LangGuessr! Pick your level from 1 to 20, from the most common to the most obscure words, translate the words you know and memorise the ones you don't.
This is a learning method I developed to work best for myself, if it works for any of you then all the better!
List of languages currently available (more coming soon!):
- Bosnian
- Bulgarian
- Catalan
- Croatian
- Czech
- Dutch
- Esperanto
- Finnish
- French
- Galician
- Georgian
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hungarian
- Italian
- Kabyle (Berber)
- Latin
- Lithuanian
- Mandarin
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Yiddish
In today’s update, we’ve added pages for Croatian, Lakota, Luiseño and Vilela resources, and have added resources to the Acholi, Afrikaans, Arabic, Ainu, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, and Catalan pages! Go here to start learning!
hey everyone! i'm new to langblr and I tend to be introverted but I decided to make this account to help me branch out. i speak English and Spanish fluently, and am currently learning French and German. i am also interested in learning Catalan and Portuguese sometime in the future. if anyone wants to be mutuals/friends feel free to dm!
hey im new to language learning on tumblr but can anyone rec me the best way out of romance languages? like what non-romance lang to start learning if ik or am already working on like spanish french portuguese?
europe is so interesting. they treat me like a cute kid, backpacking across europe at age 21. the next second they ask me why i'm responsible for gun violence in the united states.
one thing I wish was better known is that if you want to learn a minoritized or “endangered” language as an outsider, the most important thing by far is to center the speaker community and find out what community activities are going on for language revitalization and IF the community is open to outsiders learning the language and on what terms! You may even get a variety of answers! The job is to listen! The important thing is that questions around this are SO specific and communty-contingent that no single post or tiktok will cover all situations! There are a lot of cases in which a speech community considers their language closed to outsiders! There are a lot of cases in which the community would like outsiders to learn their language - including cases where there is no assumed divide between insiders and outsiders in those who learn the language - to contribute to revitalization and reclamation efforts. There are a lot of cases where the answer is in the middle, or when different community members will feel differently.
Don’t assume you have right to learn a language from a community you are not a part of.
However, additionally, do not automatically assume that a speech community considers their language closed to those willing to learn respectfully and in cultural context
honestly I know I go on about this but being a suppressed language speaker makes you so protective over any other minority languages that have historically been discriminated against, no matter how far-flung you just feel a connection. i'm lucky to live in a culture that is extremely proud of and protective over its language that fortunately is now thriving, but the reality is not all communities have had the same opportunities and ability to preserve their languages as we've had. it's so important. every speaker counts. a language isn't only worthy of being studied and spoken if its "useful" on a global scale
hello everyone! i came from langtwt so i’m new on langblr!! i guess i’ll also introduce myself on here 🐸 i’ve noticed posts are way longer here so i’ll sum everything up in the first paragraph but elaborate a little bit after that ☀️
— my name’s eva (she/her), i’m 22
— i’m from spain
— uni student
— i speak spanish, english and catalan 🇪🇸🇬🇧
— i’m learning french, mandarin, thai, korean and italian 🇫🇷🇨🇳🇹🇭🇰🇷🇮🇹
about me
as i said, my name’s eva and i’m a 22-year-old college student from spain :) i’m majoring in translation and interpreting so i study languages both as my degree/career and my hobby! i’ve started and stopped learning a lot of languages just for fun but i’m gonna stick with these five for a while!! that doesn’t mean i won’t put on pause/retake some of these languages depending on my situation, it just means i won’t take up new languages in the near future 🫡
languages
note before starting: both my life and my career goals have been changing drastically lately, which means my language journey is about to change a lot too. however as i have yet to figure it out, i’m just gonna talk about how i’ve been studying languages for the last few months and update when i finally figure out my new language plan :)
having said that:
🌳 spanish— native language
🌳 english— advanced
🌳 catalan (valencià to be specific)— i used to be advanced but i stopped using it and now it’s pretty rusty 😭
🌿 chinese (mandarin)— my golden child. probably around hsk3/4 (i’d say upper beginner though) but i can’t tell exactly. working on that
🌱 thai— beginner
🌱 korean— very beginner
🌱 italian— beginner
there’s a lot of languages i’d love to learn in the future (japanese, tagalog, swahili, vietnamese among others) but i’ve decided to focus and play around with these five languages until i reach my goals in all of them before starting any others
other socials
— twitter
— instagram
i love chatting!! i’m always happy to meet new people but it does take me a while to see messages sometimes! corrections are welcome, my dms are open, if you need help with spanish let me know! and i think that’s all 🫂🤍
hey followers/mutuals hispanohablantes: any spanish-language music recs? pueden ser artistas o canciones específicas, me da igual el género, lo único que importa es que canten en español (porque quiero añadirlas a una lista que reproduzco en clase para mis estudiantes, busco recomendaciones porque no quiero que llegue a ser repetitiva)
should I start learning another language? yes. am I already learning 7? yes. will I be able to learn them with upcoming exams and no free time? no. will I try anyway? yes.
The University of Grenoble (France) 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!
yesterday i was thinking that if i don't get into any phd program by the end of the year and i switch to focusing on studying oposiciones to work at a museum i will try and learn some catalan to get the c1.
i would say this on the other hellsite (twitter) but i dont feel like getting hate from randos so ill just say it here. but the fact that im not a native aragonese speaker BUT ive inherited a lot of aragonese words (maybe a few more than the average zaragozano would) along with catalanisms has still made me experience a discrimination of sorts. nothing like the stories of kids getting beat up at school for speaking aragonese or getting scolded by teachers for "not speaking correctly" but i have experienced shame from saying words that a few decades ago were much more common. classmates have laughed at me for "speaking weird" when it was just words in aragonese. i have also been ridiculed bc of my (aragonese) name... you literally dont have to be an aragonese speaker to know or understand the shame that aragonese speakers have gone through