#like dutch and japanese

[iwanttobepersephone]

Omg you know what I just realized

In 3 languages now the first full phrase I have learned + memorized has been "I love you"

Japanese: 恋してる

Irish: tá grá agam duit

Dutch: Ik houd van jou

What a pattern like dude

#learning languages #languages #japanese #irish #dutch #I learned the japanese one from YouTube duolingo a website and pinterest #the irish one from pinterest alone #and the Dutch one from a friend #but like seriously though now that I've noticed that pattern I'm so happy #(also I know the Japanese one's not really the like. Casual one. By any means. But it's the one I memorized lol)

[solradguy]

how to "gently persuade" people to stop calling haehyun "kum" and that her surname is not pronounced "cum"

Monolingual English speakers are obsessed with semen and unfortunately this will forever be an uphill battle 😔

#asks #For anyone that genuinely doesn't know: It's pronounced with a long O sound like in 'zoom' or 'broom' #(or like how German/Dutch/Japanese/Spanish 'u' is generally pronounced) #I'm not typing it out because that's another meme in the English speaking world and I'm being serious here

[brandinotbroke]

the worst thing is that i have so many ideas for custom hoods and vacation destinations but i absolutely suck at building and decorating neighbourhoods

#and also it takes forever #but like #modern japanese town vacation destination #northern german/dutch/danish beach hood with a fishing community #quaint little mining town #there are so many possibilities #also i can never find any maps that i'm happy with

[chiara-klara-claire]

Aesthetic/cute idioms

My personal selection of idioms collected here and there. Inspired by this post by @rmscarpathia - my posts - resources masterpost | aesthetic idioms | words with cute literal meaning

Japanese 🇯🇵

木漏れ日 Komorebi - The sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees. 🌳 🌞

鏡花水月 Kyōka suigetsu  - Flower in the mirror & a moon in the water 🌸 🌙 : something which is visible and cannot be touched as well as the profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words.

花笑み Hanaemi - flowering smile/ the smile of flowers 💐: old Japanese, a  smile as beautiful as blooming flowers, calling people to feel happy.

浮世 Ukiyo - The floating world -  depicts a place of fleeting beauty and living in the moment, without worries. It described the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of the Edo-period Japan (1600–1867)

Chinese 🇨🇳

海誓山盟 Hǎi shì shān méng - The promises of mountains and vows of seas 🏔 🌊 : A proverb of eternal love.

日三 秋 yí rì sān qiū 🍁🍁🍁- One day, three autumns:  when you intensely long for and miss someone, one day feels like three years.

Swedish 🇸🇪

Mångata - moon road 🌙 🛣The glimmering,roadlile reflection of moonlight on a river. see also Hungarian 🇭🇺 Aranyhíd - The golden bridge 🌞 🌁: A term for the reflection of the sun as it shines on water and can literally be translated to.

Gökotta - Dawn picnic to hear the first birdsong 🎶 (gök=cuckoo), Swedish tradition which often takes place around Ascension Day in late May or early June.

Smultronstället - Place of wild strawberries 🍓: a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness

Mellan hägg och syrén - the time Between Bird Cherry and Lilac: corresponds to försommar (pre-summer). The expression is said to originate from a cobbler’s sign saying his shop was closed “mellan hägg och syren”.

Att vara blåögd - to be blue eyed: to be naive =🇩🇪 blauäugig

Norwegian 🇳🇴

Å leve på luft og kjærlighed - live on air and love: to be so madly in love you don’t think about anything else

gjensynsglede - see-again-happiness: feeling of joy, anticipation, love you experience when you are about to meet someone you haven’t seen in a long time.

Det er bare blåbær - It’s just blueberries 🫐: Expression, meaning something is simple, or something is only a minor issue.

Danish 🇩🇰

det er fest og farver 🎉🟥🟨🟦- it’s party and colors: A lively and festive mood or way of living

Finnish 🇫🇮  @suomipaskea @depressingfinland​

Kaiho - hopeless longing: an involuntary solitude in which one feels incomleteness and yearns for something unattainable or extremely difficult and tedious to attain.

luonnonlapsi - nature’s child 🌿: a genuine and sincere person who’s carefree and down to earth, a scatterbrained, someone who doesn’t care about the ways of society. Slightly negative but in an endearing way [- @evelhak]

siirtyä ajasta ikuisuuteen/iäisyyteen / potkaista tyhjää- went from time to eternity / kicked the emptiness: said about someone who has died

Olla hyvällä tuulella— To be on / To have a good wind 🌬: To have a good mood. To be mildly happy.

oma maa mansikka, muu maa mustikka 🍓🫐-our land strawberry, other land blueberry: there’s no place like home

German 🇩🇪  This post with additions of @germanenthusiast

Etwas durch die Blume sagen 🗣️🌼- to say smth thorugh the flower: used when conveying something dramatic in a gentle or roundabout way

Habseligkeiten: have-holy-things: individual possessions that might be seen as useless/of little value, but regarded as valuable treasures

Fingerspitzengefühl - fingertips-feeling: good skill in handling things/ sensitivity and empathy

Sehnsucht - longing-search: intense inner longing for somebody, something or a place

Weltschmerz - world pain: gratuitous melancholia / kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind / the feeling of anxiety caused by the ills of the world

Zeitgeist - spirit of the time: the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time

Engelsgeduld 👼- angel’s patience: a lot of patience

Schokoladenseite - chocolate side 🍫: refers to your better side (e.g. when taking a photo) sich von seiner Schokoladenseite zeigen (to show oneself from one’s chocolate side) = to show oneself at one’s best

Sich aufbrezeln - to bretzel oneself up 🥨: get all dressed up

Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen - freedom, joy and omelette 🥞:  everything’s hunky-dory

sich freuen wie ein Schneekönig 🤴❄️ /Honigkuchenpferd 🍯🍰 🐴 - to be happy like a snow king/honey cake horse: to be very very happy

Dutch 🇳🇱  @docnederlands

uitwaaien 🌬️ 🌳 - to go out in windy weather, particularly into nature or a park, as a means of refreshing oneself and clearing one's mind

over koetjes en kalfjes praten - talking about cows and calves 🐄: smalltalk

kalverliefde - calf love 🐮: A word for the temporary affection and infatuation usually experienced by two young people in love.

De bloemetjes buiten zetten, to put the flowers outside 💐: to have lots of fun

Italian 🇮🇹  this by @sectioavrea

Se son rose fioriranno, If it’s roses, they will bloom 🌹 : if something is bound to happen, it will

all’acqua di rose - blanded with rose water: used when something is very moderate

Non è tutto rose e fiori - it’s not all roses and flowers 🌹💐 : it’s not all nice and perfect (as you think it is)

il sole bacia i belli - The sun kisses the beautiful 🌞: said to someone who complains about sitting in the sun

baciato dalla fortuna - kissed by luck 🍀💋: to be very lucky

Ragazza acqua e sapone - soap&water girl 🧼 the girl next door, with a natural look

Avere l’argento vivo addosso - to have quicksilver on your body: to be energetic, active, lively. Often used for kids

Spaesato(m)/spaesata(f) -out of (one’s) country/native place “mis-country-ed”: to be bewildered, disoriented, confused

Sognare ad occhi aperti 👁️ - To dream with open eyes: to daydream

essere al settimo cielo ☁️ - to be at the seventh Heaven: to be over the moon, see 🇫🇷 below

French 🇫🇷

Être aux anges 👼👼- be where angels are

Être fleure bleue 🌼🔷- to be a blue flower: be sentimental to the point of naivety [apparently from an expression by the German author Novalis]

English

Serendipity: an unplanned fortunate discovery

Apple of my eye 🍎👁️ - 🇮🇹 Luce dei miei occhi (light of my eyes) 🇩🇪 Licht meines Lebens (light of my life)

Greek 🇬🇷

petrichor: the earthly scent produced when rain falls on dry soil 🌧️ . from πέτρος pétros (stone) + ἰχώρ īchṓr (the fluid that flows in the veins of gods in Greek mythology)

Phosphene - light-appear: a sensation of a ring, stars or spot of light caused by rubbing your eyes ⭐️ 👁️

🇻🇳 In Vietnamese, “to miss someone is the same as “to remember someone“. So to ask “do you miss me?” You’ll say Do you remember me?

🇮🇷 in Farsi, to answer to a compliment you say “it’s your eyes that are beautiful”

Idioms found among others through: @mylanguagesblogger, @wonderful-language-sounds @thenoaidi 

🌼 started: spring ‘20, posted: march ‘23, last updated: 20.4.2023

#idioms #foreign languages #langblr #language blog #swedish #finnish #italian #dutch #norwegian #japanese #chinese #french #cant believe I am posting this #I feel like there’s still a lot to be added but it was high time for it to be posted #mine #my lists

[stirringwinds]

absolutely love the feeling when u get completely deranged about a new hetalia ship bc history that you really overlooked and are now retconning your entire past timeline, detailed headcanons about their rships with other characters, old art and fics. love wins! 

#its nedpan #bye im obsessed #hetalia #like i knew it was a thing ofc but #conned by not taking off anglophone goggles on history #i read all about the black ships and anglo japanese alliance and not enough on what came before lol #me 2 weeks ago: HAHA love windmill teehee nedcan jealousy but its a platonic windmill #dutch govt site and japanese wikipedia like: dont speak too soon (:

[kakusu-shipping]

Ted B. Grizz himself

#Mr. Grizz #Splatoon 3 story spoilers #Me? Redoing the Grizz boss fight just to grab better screen shots of him than anywhere else on the internet has? #It's more likely thank you think #Why are high quality Grizz screenshots so hard to find did NO ONE want to photograph his BEANS??? #When he gets his claws out and you can see him paw pads I want to scream #Behold him. Perfect shaped sir #Also I'm rereading his wikis and I'm very obsessed with the way he's written in Japanese #black company boss Grizz.... #Also he calls the player 'Little One' in Dutch which probably comes with the same conotation as 'Kid' in English #But I am OBSESSED with it even still #where are the Grizz X Readers I need them I need them everyone stop being cowards and write Grizz X Readers please #I can't write them myself they'll be too self indulgent they won't be X Readers at that point honestly kdjgkfjgk #I apologize if this ended up in a tag it isn't supposed to be in because I am rambling it happens #him........ big bear......

[weedle-testaburger]

one of my favourite linguistic discoveries is finding out that because of how in dutch 'g' is pronounced with a kind of h sound, when you say oh my god in it it sounds like 'oh my hod'

#personal crap #tbh in general i love how dutch is like if english and german fucked and had a really extra kid #i kinda want to learn more of it but i'm more focused on french and to a degree japanese atm

[aroacehanzawa]

I was wondering, what languages *do* you speak? (and for academic curiosity's sake - do you have any advice on holding more than two languages in your head at the same time without mixing them up?)

*cracks knucles* OK SO i speak swedish (native language 1), vietnamese (native language 2), finnish (born and raised in finland), english (went to international school), and french (studied for 10+ years)

Also sidestory i lowkey count german too because i understand german through english/swedish osmosis + living in germany for half a year as a kid + studying it in high school for a year despite it literally overlapping classes with my french classes but they were like damn this kid already known one million languages just let her do whatever 👍 so i went to the german lessons instead of french but still turned in the french homework etc for an entire year. also they mistook me for a native speaker in austria once. but i still don't speak german tho not really

For me since most of my languages i learned early in childhood, they're pretty much ingrained and separated enough to not mix up in every life.

I did sometimes mix up the languages in my head when i was simultaneously learning french and german (+ italian over that summer. and briefly russian also. i'm so normal i promise) and i basically just had to spend more time on one than the other so that they would be less even. Something like studying the main language every day and the side one only on weekends etc.

That's the only advice i can think of tbh. I think being exposed to so many languages since a young age my brain is just naturally able to juggle a bunch of them without too much confusion lol

#sorry i can't give language learning advice like a normal person dhsjfhsjdjs #for reference. i am currently staying in the netherlands for the summer. and i just Understand things. #before i even came here i was looking at housing adverts and i didn’t even realise when i was reading one in dutch instead of english #i have not taken a single lesson of dutch in my entire life #what else is there. oh yeah i understand spoken + written norwegian too. it comes free with the swedish subscription #russian also. took sporadic lessons of it in high school and last week i downloaded duolingo and the placement test made me skip 12 units #but now i'm learning it for real this time #sorry i don't mean to flex fhsjdjks languages are like. idk. my brain just absorbs them #let's not go into the amount of japanese and korean and chinese i understand just from watching dramas

[itwoodbeprefect]

just had the experience of succesfully sounding out แว่นกันแดด in my head, recognizing those sounds ("waen kan daet") as something i'd seen in transliterated script, confidently going "zonnebril!", and then seeing it translated as sunglasses and going wait?? that was wrong?? for a whole two seconds before remembering that no, those words actually do all fit into the same mold, i was just pouring a different language into it by accident

#i made a pancakes-for-dinner sort of sunglasses when they should have been pancakes-for-breakfast sunglasses #is there a paper somewhere on third or fourth language acquisition through a second language? i bet there is. there should be #anyway. there is this (anecdotal? but i assume widely shared) phenomenon i've been thinking about a lot #in which a person hears (or says or thinks) some words. two seconds pass. they can't remember what language the words were in #you remember the content just fine! but the way it got to your brain? who knows #happened to my mother recently when we watched a dutch movie and afterwards she recalled it as 90 minutes of english #because there was a gun in it. which felt american to her #happened to ME recently too in fact. when i had to think hard after being told the boy and the heron had english subtitles in our theater #as we were walking out of the theater!! and the only way i got to a place of going hey yeah! was by remembering a moment #while watching the movie. of consciously going 'huh they chose to translate some of this japanese as 'ain't'. interesting' #and ain't ain't dutch!! definitive proof they DID show that japanese movie with english subtitles in our dutch theater!! #this wall of tags isn't (ain't) going anywhere except. i think the zonnebril confusion is a version of this happening but maybe. like. #with a faint zonnebril echo still in my brain. sunglasses sounds different but for a moment there i didn't realize that's not because #it's a different concept. but because i had pulled the wrong language string attached to this one concept. or something #* #you know what sometimes i kid myself into thinking i don't think about language much more than the average person #but then i look at myself and my half-remembered linguistics degree and every hobby i've ever had and i go hm. hmmmm

[as-warm-as-choco]

boy and the heron night 3 since miyazaki's birthday **-**

#memories #also totoro before that and a lady was like how will you cope with dutch subs ? and im like oh i love it i know all of it and ill just #adore the animation without letters distraction and shes like #AW YOU KNOW IT BY HEART.. JUST LIKE HIM... points at her child (4-7-ish max) who probably doesnt read dutch subs #but “ITS HIS FAVORITE MOVIE!!” so i guess the child watches it dutch dubbed and still wanted to go to the cinema for japanese #im crying #good parents exists out there #and then a girl at the bar when i got an oat latte told me it was so nice to see that kid and you so excitedddd #hahaha we were all front row and i couldnt but smile all the time with stars in my eyes and stop my soul and feet from waving and dancing #and

[karmaphone]

lmao rock sympathizing about dead nazis is a lot more poignant when you remember he's Japanese and doing it to a Chinese girl

#I probably need a black lagoon tag so #blagoon posting #I mean him sympathizing with nazis is gross no matter what!!! but especially fucked up that he a Japanese man is doing it to a Chinese girl #who's not only had a very rough life but it's implied that she's been sexually assaulted too. like bud. take in some of the historical #context before you start going off about the value of human life #they didn't have this conversation in front of Dutch bc Dutch would have just knocked his ass out #I'm genuinely surprised revy didn't just shoot him there #also babygirl at least one person suffocated to death why are you wasting your limited air with combustion like #why did you even take cigarettes underwater with you

[bibleofficial]

adding uni of sussex to the 3 unis i will be applying to total SOLELY bc i want to fuck this man so bad

#stream #he’s so cute omg he’s italian & like 42 & he’s a sweetheart but the biggest thing is that he’s into ME #i mean if i get into wales then i mean dope but if i get into sussex or manch … MEGA DOPE #wait actually i’m just going to use the same personal statement for sus manch AND i’ll apply to leeds bc what if i DONT get in to either of #those 2 & i mean im PRETTY SURE wales will take me but im not THAT confident like i got the gpa req for them but if i get an a in this class #i can get an even gpa for manch & sussex but i dont remember the req for leeds #so actually #i’m going to apply to 4 SCHOOLS and if i don’t get into any of them then i die i guess #ALSKALSKALSKALSLAL NO IM KIDDING but then idk what i’ll do i guess i’ll start looking at japan and go learn japanese while learning dutch so #i can work for rick steve’s #ALSKALSKALSKLASKLA #future tour guide hello 😍😍

[caffeinatedopossum]

Sometimes I do or say something that isn't like blatantly autistic (to most people) but it's still something I internally take note of like "oh righttt I probably should know if this isn't normal"

#thinking about this because my roommate was checking their email #and my gf leaning over their shoulder pulled up the spam folder #and in it there was an email in a foriegn language #and my roommate went 'lol i dont even know what language that is' and so i of course #informed them 'hm that looks like polish' to which they didnt really reply to #there was just a pause in which i remembered i know more about language than average native english speakers #like its not like i can speak polish or anything but i can recognize it written #also can recognize japanese korean and russian because those all look very distinctive to me #spanish and german are pretty easy too just because german is similar to english is somewhat predictable ways #and spanish is just a language i see written a lot because translations #hm i feel like i might confuse dutch and german tho idk #anyway yeah i really love languages

[opisasodomite]

English lady at work brought in stuff for afternoon tea w/ scones clotted cream and sausage rolls and idk, I think I can be convinced about English food…

#caveat I haven’t been to the UK but with my limited exposure to the cuisine. it strikes me as like. comfort food and very hearty #and it’s biggest sin seems to be it can be bland at times #i suspect there are worse European cuisines #what are the Dutch doing I feel like the Dutch would make shit food #also all this said while earl grey is S tier and hearty black teas can be nice I strongly prefer Chinese and Indian teas to British #(also matcha but honestly I don’t like any other Japanese teas I’ve had except sort of Genmaicha)

[wind-becomes-lightning]

🐾🦨☄️⚡🦦🧡

a collection of my faves

During the years in with Japan was closed off to the general world, their only connection to the west was a little artificial island that was only allowed to be visited by the dutch! This led to a field of study called "Dutch studies". Why the Dutch, you ask? Because they were protestants and not catholics and weren't know for constantly trying to send priests to missionise (?) the japanese population. Which was one of the reasons they closed off the country in the first place

#ask things #friends and pals #random history facts #didnt help tho christianity was already IN japan #so its still there today #but either way #when i was in the british museum they displayed an art piece from the uh 17th century #that depicted a dutch man and a dutch wife #because on the island ... i cant remember the name now grr.. but only men were allowed #so japanese people didnt know how women looked like lmao #so it was like #this is my art piece how i think the women look like!

[lakuronekobaka]

ngl i have issues with duolingo

#the service is just... not so good? i mean it's decent at getting started in a language; don't get me wrong #but... you're stuck quite fast #i feel like the courses aren't that good (i am doing the japanese and dutch one mainly) #I have issues over the fact that for those two classes; i have to use my 2nd language to learn the 3rd/4th #and it's not like french isn't big language - it is #and there are less than 10 courses french to something #the english centric/exclusivity (sort of) of a language learning app is weird #ALSO the fomo w/ the streak and the league is... frustrating... #like yes going back to the app regularly and practicing makes perfect #but? using that to keep customers to come back #weird ass #also the exp boosts are *annoying* like yeah great i have to keep going otherwise itd be a waste #urf #i need to do some translation practice over stuff on the interweb and not rely on that app to learn language