#my spanish teacher in high school used me as an example to the class for Good Pronunciation. im still kinda proud of that lol

[abracazabka]

In sophomore Spanish, there was a trans guy in our class. I want to tell a story about him.

The teacher just really seemed to target him. She always deadnamed him, always referred to him with feminine language, always, always used him as an example during lessons so as to misgender him. It was awful, but. But.

Nobody in class fell for that shit.

We all referred to him correctly in Spanish, even the kids who did not give a shit about learning the language. It was aggressive allyship in that classroom and it pissed off my transphobic teacher to no end.

If paired with him, we wrote masculine words on our work. We all did. She couldn't mark down all of us. And God knows I was a nerd, so if she marked me down, I would have made a scene.

I was willing to make a scene for him, and so was just about everyone else in the class, despite him not being great friends with anyone, or even talking very much. It didn't matter; it was the principle of the thing, it was his human rights.

We all told her to fuck off without using said words, despite the clear power she had over us. So, the moral of the story for students, especially high school students, is:

Protect your peers. There are more of you than there are of your asshole educator. Trans folks don't need to be your friends for you to stand up for them, quietly or loudly.

Teenagers/students tend to follow the leader; so be a leader, and don't take shit from adults/instructors who would use their power over you to disrespect you, and to degrade you. Don't let them do that to your peers.

You can have an army of sixteen year old allies from all walks of life if you (within reason and safely) take a stand. Don't lose hope, and don't lose agency.

#lgbt #lgbtqia #lgbtqiia+ #trans rights #transgender #protect trans kids #high school #queer #genderqueer #queer rights #allyship #transphobia #misgendering #education #queer education #gay #longish post #positivity

[fredbydawn]

Just cuz I wanna be a bitch, here’s some especially stupid things an ex-friend of mine said that continue to rattle my brain:

When we would hang out I joke about us being “just two southerners” cuz they were from Texas and I grew up in Maryland. Now do I actually consider myself southern? No, but depending on how you look at it, Maryland is sometimes considered part of the south. My friend would say that I’m absolutely not southern. When I asked what they would consider a southern state I offered the Carolinas as examples and they said they didn’t think the Carolinas were part of the south either. I asked they what states they did consider southern and they said, and I quote, “any state below the Mason-Dixon line.” Now, I don’t know what kind of geography they teach in Texas, but for those otherwise unaware, the Mason-Dixon line is the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania (and also Delaware and what is now West Virginia, but you get the idea), the Carolinas both also being south of this line.

This friend also thought I was pretentious for knowing a handful of phrases in other languages. Now maybe this is just something my family does, but we tend to just casually use phrases from other languages in conversation. My dad will use Russian cuz he has a fascination with the Russian revolution (high keys he might be autistic but that’s a story for another day), my mom will use Yiddish or Hebrew cuz her stepdad growing up was Jewish and her two youngest siblings are also Jewish, and we all know at least a handful of phrases in French and Spanish. It’s not like I would be holding whole conversations in another language, but this ex-friend, who I once again feel the need to emphasize, spent 19 and a half years of their life in Texas, would be completely baffled by “mañana” and “mi madre” which they would chalk up to me knowing cuz ‘I could afford fancy languages lessons’ even though I had mostly just learned them from like Dora and library books as a kid. I was also just friends with kids growing up who were bilingual and who spoke Spanish at home, something evidently this friend didn’t do.

One time I was reminiscing about film photography, which I had taken as an art credit in senior year of High School, and they said “I always wondered how they got the pictures off the SD card before computers were invented.” To which, of course, I said, “Huh?” “You know the SD card.” “Yes,” I said, “the SD card that holds the pictures on digital cameras.” “Well how did they get the pictures off the SD cards on film cameras?” This person was 20 years old and thought that film cameras, which we’ve had since like, the Civil War, stored photographs on Secure Digital memory cards.

This friend was, and presumably still is, in college. They are taking a World Wars class for a History credit. One day they called me up to say “Hey, did you know that Franz Ferdinand was a real person and not just a band? And that his murder started World War 1? And that everyone blamed Germany for the conflict after the war?” And I said yes, I did know that. They asked how I knew that. Again, I don’t know what they teach in Texas, but at the risk of sounding like a northern elite or intelligentsia, I told them the truth, which is that I had learned that in 7th grade.

And you may be wondering, what is this ex-friend of mine going to college for, specifically. They are going to college to become an elementary school teacher.

[clotpolesonly]

tagged by @scilessweetheart!! <3

15 questions, tag 15 people

are you named after anyone? i don't think so

when was the last time you cried? mmmm, it's been a couple of months. i'm not prone to it, naturally, BUT my mental health took a big dive last year and i cried more in that year than in the rest of my life put together lmao.

do you have kids? nope and i hopefully never will (no offense to kids, i just don't want them, and i find pregnancy to be viscerally horrifying lakdfjgh)

do you use sarcasm a lot? fuck YEAH i do

what is the first thing you notice about people? idk??? hair maybe??

what color are your eyes? -sighs deeply- GREY, i GUESS. my parents told me as a kid that my eyes were green, but like "silver fir" green (which was a specific color of mat board because my parents were picture framers by trade lol) which was like a very very light green, but then my spanish teacher in 10th grade used me as an example of "ojos azul" aka BLUE EYES and it gave me an identity crisis that has been ongoing for 14 years now. after much debate and much raging against the metaphorical machine, i have been forced to accept that my eyes are not, by most people's estimation, actually green but i SWEAR they are not blue either, and therefor they are probably grey. whatever they are, they're light enough that i hiss at the sun like a vampire.

scary movies or happy endings? scary movies WITH happy endings, how about THAT

any special talents? i can juggle, that's fun

where were you born? unfortunately, florida

what are your hobbies? reading, writing, singing, performing, picking up a variety of hobbies that i immediately drop, sporadically bookbinding and photoshopping, currently sewing and knitting

do you have any pets? not anymore

what sports do you play/have you played? sports are the bane of my existence, i played soccer once in elementary school and kicked the ball out of bounds and a classmate yelled at me until i cried lmao, i don't do sports anymore

how tall are you? approximately 5'8"

favorite subjects in school? music, lol, i had like 3-4 periods of music-related stuff per year throughout high school, plus extracurriculars, i just wanna take a variety of chorus classes

dream job? can i be a backup singer please? or one of those studio people who records the demo tracks of glee club medleys?? i wanna do that XD

tagging: @halebaccari @adamprrishcycle @declansboobs @elveatas @dollopheadedmerlin i literally don't know 15 people send help @poetryincamelot @iamthelastdollophead @wellhalesbells that's all i got today ok bye

[p-antomime]

kiki!!!! i was rereading your about me because i know you answer asks in different languages but didn’t remember which ones you spoke and omg????? you’re 19 and you speak so many????? my first language is english, i was lucky enough to start learning spanish in kindergarten, I also took up latin while in high school, and my latin teacher started helping me learn arabic too.💀 i’m taking prereqs rn but i’m going into cultural studies soon and i have to learn a language as a fulfillment of one of my credits, and i think i’m gonna do japanese. do you have any tips for picking up a language or the best way to study it?

(also, your major seems sooooooo cool. i’m a culture fanatic. i love to learn anything i can about others and your major seems like it would be so enjoyable!!!)

baby, you have such a good and huge idiomatic background, i'm surprised because most people I know, outside of my family, are not that interested in learning languages, with the obvious exception of people who take dual courses at my college, like English + Romanian, Portuguese + German, Spanish + Russian, etc. and it's very good to know that you're thinking about doing Japanese, I took a Japanese course a few years ago, but I'm not even close to being fluent or advanced so, to avoid the risk of writing something wrong in Hiragana or Katakana/Kanji, I prefer to just use my Japanese to try to see manga spoilers faster lol

but, anyway!

I think it's important to take into consideration the core language of the idiom you want to learn when you need tips, you know? the core language is basically how the language behaves when spoken and/or written because, for example, in Japanese we have 3 writing systems (which I mentioned above: Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) and generally it is important and most recommended to start with the first one (Hiragana) if you have zero knowledge of Japanese or are a person who only knows some very basic words, like ありがとう (Thank you), こんにちは (Hello). also, for studying, it's important that you consume culture from the country/countries where the language comes from, so I recommend you try to find some podcasts (they may or may not be related to studying the language, they may just be about something that interests you too!) that help you get familiar with the tones and sounds of the words/sentences.

that being said, I think the best way to study Japanese, based on the classes I took a few years ago, is to do a basic study every week for at least 3 days (that was the number of classes a week I had). also, please don't forget to practice your writing! and also take into consideration the CORRECT directions when writing in Japanese because, yes, we have a whole system of directions when writing, especially in Kanji, however: for this part of writing there are several videos on YouTube that help a lot!

also try to consume books and/or movies/series that are subtitled in Japanese and soon after move on to works that have the option of Japanese dubbing, this helps a lot to get familiar with the language if you're obviously not in the country itself!

btw, there is this site that my teacher used some time ago to help us with the studies so i think it can help you too! <3

p.s.: i can also give you some tips taking phonetics in consideration, but i think that it's most important by now, by the start, to get to know the system(s) and picking up a good material for your studies 🥺

#(:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) — kiki's answer ​ᵎ #and nonnie you're sexy for reading my about me ! #hope your studies go well <3

[watermelonlovershigh]

im indian and we were taught thank and you not together but that dosent matter becs its not that fucking deep yes some ppl write it as “thankyou” but maybe thats because they forgot to put a space or whtever and the planets are not going to collide if a poc whose first language is not english writes it as “thankyou” please dont talk abt what poc do or write things as if ure not one of them ure a white person whose first language is not english so thats very different frm poc whose first language is not english pls just dont talk abt the things we do

I think you misunderstood me because you were too pressed about my comment. I used India as an example. I've even seen people I know to be from Germany do the same thing with the word 'thank you'. Its not that big of a deal and I wasn't complaining about that. If you'd read I was asking why people from a variety of different countries tend to spell it that way. What I was complaining about was people not using the apostrophe in contractions (like can't and don't) Which could even be native english speakers doings too because I've seen people I went to school with forget to add the apostrophe.

And when did I bring poc into this? Also, besides the fact I've shared my baby pictures on here, how would you know I'm white? Just because someone is American doesn't mean they are white. They're Black Americans, Mexican Americans, Indian Americans, Asian Americans, ect. So don't assume someones race. That's very wrong to do. Just how you don't assume someones gender or sexuality.

And I think you made a mistake. You said 'you're a while person who's first language isn't english'. My first language is english. And because I don't live in a very diverse state in America we don't have proper teachings for different languages. I took a spanish class in high school but learned nothing because our spanish teacher was white and just learned spanish herself. Therefore not fluent enough to teach us how she should have. That's not my fault. I'd actually really love to learn Italian or actually lean Spanish.

[yisanged]

this was supposed to be me briefly going over context for another post i made but i had to keep explaining more and more things for it to make sense and it became this whole essay and i wasn't gonna post it since it's not really necessary but. wellll if sam insists......

so in my state foreign lang classes aren't a requirement to graduate but it's recommended bc it looks better on college apps plus some of the bigger colleges require like 2 or 3 years of it (or otherwise proof that you're fluent in something besides english) and my goal is to get into a bigger prestigious college to use that as an excuse to Leave. anyways i took french 1 last year and it wasn't bad the teacher was one of my favorites ever and it wasn't particularly hard to me it's just french itself is kind of ass. no offense beyond the basic amount. anyways i don't really want to take french again if i don't have to but then i learned about the seal of biliteracy which is like. well i'm not sure about how graduation works for other states and countries but my state has a certain amount of credits for certain areas you have to get, a certain baseline score you have to earn for these two tests, and then as of fairly recently you also have to earn two seals. and the seals are basically like if you fulfill certain requirements they'll give you this badge thing that's on your diploma and is on your high school transcript for example if i take band for all four years of high school i'll get the fine arts seal or if i get on the honor roll all 4 years i'll get the honors seal. anyways the seal of biliteracy is one of the harder ones to get they said less then 10 people from our school graduate w it every year but basically you have to take an approved test in a language that shows you can speak it fluently and they'll give it to you. and the kids who get it do it by taking 4 or 5 years of french or spanish (the only languages they have classes for at my school) and then scoring high enough on the ap exam for it. but i did my own research and obviously there isn't a lot of foreign lang ap tests but there is another approved test called the aappl which covers a lot more languages including korean. so the idea is that if i take the korean aappl i'll earn the seal of biliteracy which would look better on my transcript than if i were to take a couple years of french, plus it'll be less work for me since i already mostly know korean and i can fill up the periods that would've been used for french with electives i actually want to take. anyways i was a bit nervous about the idea of taking the test because i'm not super confident in my korean so i asked my dad to get textbooks. but we looked at the demo korean test they put out and it's like. not bad at all. i could figure out the reading and listening portions without too much trouble and the demo isn't graded but my dad said i did it right. the writing and speaking portions kinda scared me though. my dad says if i just take the time to read all the korean picture books we have around the house and watch more kdramas i'll just naturally become more comfortable with everything. i don't know if that's true... i tried to insist i would need more formal learning instruction stuff for grammar and w/e but my dad said my grammar is pretty much as good as any other native speaker's. i don't believe him. he did admit that i needed more practice with writing and talking more formally because i've only ever in the most casual level with my parents. and they're probably gonna test more formal speech bc the whole goal of fluency isn't to get to native level but just enough so that you could use the language practically in like professional settings. but he just told me to watch some kdramas and read the kids books we have and i would get better at it naturally. i'm a bit skeptical about that so i got him to order textbooks anyway. i'm having fun reading these picture books though i remember being read a lot of these as a kid.

#i'm not joking when i say this is long as hell guys. difficult to read too bc i didn't bother organizing it or anything it's just rambling #you've been warned

[nvzblgrrl]

Memorable teachers I had in school (some context for something I mentioned in the notes of a thing at the very end).

Art teacher who was really just a sports coach who didn't have any other skills but they wanted to pay him. Charged me money for allegedly losing a printout on crosshatching he never gave me.

History teacher who tailored his entire personality to cater to annoying freshmen. Also did random challenges where students would bring in small objects or do random tasks, which allowed a student (me) to rickroll the entire class (badly) because he asked someone to give him the lyrics to an 80's song. History teacher's more competent + hotter wife who was a geography teacher and then eventually co-vice principal with bad math teacher (next). Actually good at teaching and wrangling students.

Bad math teacher who's only teaching tactic was to repeat 'read the book again' whenever someone asked her for help. First class I ever failed, only failure I ever considered to be on the part of the teacher. Somehow got promoted to vice-principal (and then shifted to co-vice principal) before disappearing from the school like a year later. Good math teacher who's only sins were having a slightly droning voice and letting me do a presentation on why Disney buying out Marvel was a bad thing (none of my arguments held up to the actual problems). Spanish teacher who saw me meeting her 'you can't speak in class unless you speak in Spanish' rule by not speaking at all and matched that just sitting and watching silently when I asked her later to do something about a kid who was sexually harassing me.

5'6" Science teacher, ex-Navy, who collected (recreation) fossils around his desk, also had a bowling ball for threats (disallowed from actually carrying out after accidental hand crushing), and Always wore fancy but blisteringly bright colored leather shoes to school out of spite for a past employer that insisted that formal wear was mandatory for teachers. Probably the most competent teacher in the building by keeping the classroom well organized and under control + being the only person to actually give the kids any idea how to take notes properly. Also would put on movies related to a given subject (geology got Dante's Peak for example) and give funny commentary on why they're wrong (but nobody else was allowed to talk) + share funny backstory things (like how a Marine friend of his took off a Navy tattoo he got while drunk with a belt sander). Did theater on the side of all this and was capable of a three and a half foot vertical leap from floor to desk despite being middle aged.

Different science teacher who decided he loved moles at some point in his life and would give people extra credit if they made mole plushes for him. Retired halfway thru my high school career. Different different science teacher who was the coach for cross country, sort of a hippy in practice. Used 'transmorgified' in regular conversation and liked doing creative writing prompts for the class. Was moved up from teaching at the middle school to the high school after the Moleman retired. Watched my dad drive me to tears over the subject of 'maintaining hard eye-contact' during a Parent Teacher conference and did fuck all with that information.

#do not reblog #unless you're one of my alt blogs which was the idea

[the-mind-of-a-teacher-to-be]

Martes 17 de Octubre, 2023

Day 9

I can’t believe it has passed 9 days of school observation already. Everything has happened so fast! and I’m still processing what I have been able to experience in the school.

about my day…

This Tuesday our head teacher came back from her medical leave, feeling better than ever.

In comparison to her previous lesson, this time she seemed very reluctant and energized to direct her class.

Before starting, she made sure to ask every student <one by one>, how they were feeling, to test the waters…

And well, as you can expect… inside the classroom we can find different type of students. Some can be very interest in the lesson, some others are not very focused, and some don’t even bother to show a bit of interest on the class; and I been able to observe each kind.

Although it’s still difficult for me to find a way to approach those so called “difficult students”, I’m interested in getting to know what’s behind their attitude. Perhaps, they just need someone to talk to or a space in which they can feel some peace - who knows? - I wish I could get to know more about their backgrounds, but that seems not possible since I’m not legally working for the school.

Agh! Sometimes I wish I could do more than what I’m able to. The most I’m allowed to do is to ask if they’re okay, and from that, see if they’re comfortable sharing their thoughts. If they’re not, I’ll just go, but if they are willing to express their concerns I’ll be very happy to listen. However, I know that that’s not an usual situation inside the classroom. From what I have seen, students often have an attitude whenever they don’t feel okay. They have a tendency to not be very expressive with their emotions and prefer to be quiet at the back of the classroom.

Sometimes I wonder what’s on their minds.

Maybe there’s a need of socio emotional learning.

Not only because of those situations, but because it could be a useful tool to cope with demanding situations that students might go through in their lives.

— (i just noticed I wondered too much that I lost my first idea, I’m sorry, reader) —

… after doing that, she started the lesson by asking her students if they remember what they saw on their last class (which was weeks ago though) and they clearly said no, so she started to recall the content seen in order to refresh their minds.

Then she showed a ppt and started to explain it.

What caught my attention the most was the selection of the vocabulary. She putted 20 new words for students’ to learn on it, that were connected with a video.

Then, the students had to do a vocabulary activity with the words they learned and, in here, we (our group) have to intervene in order to help the students who were a little bit confused by the amount and difficulty or the words selected.

Regarding this point, what I was able to evidence was that students get usually confused by non-cognates. However, I’m not stating that cognates are easy for them because that’s not true, but students were able to suppose what they meant in Spanish by guessing.

Now, in regards of the vocabulary selected I was very concerned, too because of the selection of words because there was no connection.

For example: there was the word

Hater - Work of art - Make feel - Own

(These were taken from a video of Lana Del Rey, but in my perspective, they were very difficult for students to understand because her level of English is obviously very high in comparison to the proficiency level of students)

I’m NOT saying they are not capable of learning them. What I’m trying to say it’s that the material selected might not be the most appropriate thing to apply in relation to the actual level of English of the students.

Learners feel unmotivated when they notice they don’t understand, and we don’t want that.

However, the class went by and we help the students finish their work.

Then we had our break and here, we asked the Math teacher if we could go to his classes and he said that he was going to make students work in a worksheet and he didn’t need help (I was a little bit upset about this), but at least we had some time to eat peacefully.

Then we went to the last class of the day, and then we went home.

That’s it for that day

#journal #práctica educativa #education #english #i wanted to have more classes #i reflected a lot out of nowhere #i hope i get socio emotional learning preparation too

[analytically]

on language learning

I studied Swedish for a couple years a while ago, and I've got a fairly good grasp of the grammar to the point where I talk to myself in Swedish sometimes (very useful for not being understood!), but my vocabulary sucks. I can read news articles and books but I find myself having to look up lots of words. I haven't been motivated to continue studying Swedish lately. My interest in the culture has faded a fair bit, and moreover it's just really hard to find anyone to speak Swedish with. There are very few speakers and even fewer learners.

In high school, I took two years of required Spanish classes and an optional third year to look better on college applications. I never really liked Spanish but I have basic knowledge of it (not good enough to overhear conversations in Spanish, sadly). For example when I was writing this post, the title "sobre aprender las lenguas" popped into my head, though I then had to check how to properly spell and conjugate "las lenguas."

Anyway, I've had a weird impulse to learn Chinese lately. I've never felt this way before, even when some of my close friends were learning it and we would chat about how annoying pinyin was or how one of their Mandarin teachers was racist. I probably shouldn't indulge the impulse, but here I am.

Pros:

lots of people speak it

the writing looks cool

it's different enough to be intellectually interesting to study

I believe there's quite a lot of literature?

I like learning languages

Cons:

it might not be very useful since I probably don't want to live or work in Mainland China (maybe I should rethink this?)

there's a weird racial aspect to it in my mind that might make me feel uncomfortable speaking Mandarin in public or telling people I'm learning it

I shouldn't start learning a fourth (third if you don't count Spanish) language without being fluent in my second language yet

it seems like it would be really hard to write by hand

Mostly I'm just writing to put my thoughts down, but if anyone here has any advice or feelings or remarks, I'd love to hear it!

#language #chinese

[estherxp]

Reflection Blog post #1

After reading the two articles this week, I learned a lot. First, for the first point, I think that social media can meet the social needs of many teenagers as well as adults in modern society. For example, for teenagers, they are now doing more than just listening to teachers and professors in the classroom, they can also use social media to learn outside of school and be able to find and interact with their classmates. These interactions can be academic as well as recreational activities after school. In this way, not only is the time and financial cost of learning and education reduced, but the relationships between classmates and between students and teachers or professors are greatly enhanced. For adults, since they are already in the workforce and do not have "professors" or "classmates", they use social media, such as Twitter or news apps, more to find out what is happening in the world at the moment. So that they do not lose track of the world that is constantly moving. In this way, by browsing social media, they understand what the current trends are and create a wonderful connection with society as a whole. In my opinion, this is a great way for both teens and adults to use social media to learn, even if the learning is different. Social media can be described as the electronic version of a newspaper and an email inbox.

For the second point, I would like to say that the biggest benefit of social media is that it facilitates many people to communicate and learn from each other, both for teenagers and adults. For example, I met a guy from South America in my French class last semester whose native language is Spanish. Coincidentally, I was very interested in Spanish, so he and I followed each other on Instagram. Not only do we talk about what we learned in French class, but we also talk about Spanish-related stuff after class. He taught me some everyday phrases in Spanish, and I taught him some Chinese. We can connect with anyone through social media and as long as they have an account, we can follow them and send them messages, no matter what their culture or where they are. Not only that, but social media also makes it easier and simpler for everyone to check news and hot trends. As I said in the previous paragraph, people can simply tap on Twitter to find out what the hot trends are and what big events are happening in the world right now. The accessibility of educational content and social news is one of the biggest benefits of social media.

However, as demonstrated in the reading, social media also has disadvantages that cannot be ignored. One of these drawbacks is the anonymity of social networks. I learned from the reading that both low social-emotioal well-being and high social-emotioal well-being teens have experienced "cyberbullying". The difference between them is that they are not at the same rate; however, both types of people have experienced cyber violence. The reason for this is most likely the anonymity of social media; people do not need to use their real names to create accounts, they can just give themselves a name and then recklessly abuse others on social media, which is very scary. Not only that, but the addictive nature of social media is also a big problem for teenagers. According to reading, there are some teenagers who use social media and then communicate a lot less with others face to face, while communicating less with their close family and friends. In their opinion, face-to-face interactions seem to become less valuable because they have been replaced by social media.

What I found noteworthy and interesting was that in Julie's research article, she mentioned that she had been affected by racism and had become low in self-esteem. Her response was very warm and touching and gave me a very clear path to follow. Her response was that social media can be a very powerful support network as long as you can use it to connect with people who have the same issues as you. For me, I'm an Asian, and I'm at risk for racial discrimination or other issues. In my opinion, connecting with people who have the same issues helps me because we can give each other a sense of empathy and also be more empathetic with each other. Just like I follow a lot of my fellow international students on social media, I feel like we are the same people, so it's easier to build an emotional bond between us.

#ci3342

[orcelito]

Really tho, the main reasons I want to learn Japanese are: to be able to read untranslated manga & to maybe play unported jrpgs (if I got my hands onto a Japanese system)

Cultural knowledge is great & all but like. Learning a language is Hard Work. I'm not gonna learn a whole language if I don't have smth in mind to USE it for. & for this? My reasons are . Hobbies

#speculation nation #theres also the maybe eventual goal of visiting japan myself but that would be a far off thing #honestly i love that spanish & japanese r my languages of choice bc they rly do share a lot of the same phonetic sounds #i cant idly ramble to myself in japanese yet like i do in spanish #(thats how i keep even slightly in practice with my spanish. i just ramble to myself) #but ive taken to rambling in spanish but inserting japanese words im learning. Just Cause i guess #& it really doesnt break up the flow! it's pretty fun. #im certain id have an accent for both these languages But it's not as much as it could be #considering i was taught spanish in elementary school. barely remembered any of it. but it had me learning how to make those sounds #since like phonetics r smth you Learn as a kid. & you cant rly learn them when youre older. #you can Replicate them but it's not quite the same. aka why you can have ppl completely fluent in another language #but still have a heavy accent. #my spanish teacher in high school used me as an example to the class for Good Pronunciation. im still kinda proud of that lol #AND since spanish & japanese share a similar set of phonetics. in the way words are spoken. it works out well for me. #not Completely the same. like h being silent in spanish but not in japanese. & j being the h sound in spanish but j in japanese #sounds like tsu and double consonants (like kippu) & stuff like that in japanese #the ü in spanish for things like pingüino. i think i spelled that right #there ARE differences. but the key part being vowels are spoken pretty similarly. #theres no 'a' being bag or ball or bar or and or ANY number of different pronunciations for the same letter #an a is an a in both spanish and japanese and i REALLY appreciate that. pronunciations just make SENSE in these languages #... except for things like 'su' in japanese. like sasuke that 'su' being like a short s. & probs some other exceptions #OK THERE R EXCEPTIONS but overall they r nice to speak ok that's it that's the post goodnight

[pompadourpink]

hi maman! even though you’re a native french speaker, what’s something that frustrates you or was/is difficult to learn about french? do you speak any other languages other that french and english?

Hello dear,

I had a hard time getting my head around the nature of words (mostly objects and pronouns) and grammar rules because I started reading when I was very young, so I instinctively knew how to spell or conjugate - but I couldn't explain my reasoning to my teachers outside of "it's just the way it is".

I have been in and witnessed arguments over the spelling or gender of certain words, until someone googled it and realised the French Academy had meddled with the rules so both versions were now fine.

Culturally, the whole Tu/Vous thing and manners (i.e. how to phrase things to sound confident and assertive but not rude, how to talk to strangers depending on gender, age, and social class...) are essential but burdening.

In university, I had a few classist professors who were against language evolution. We were scolded for using words in the context of their new definition, or newly invented words, because it wasn't proper. For example, Sympathique used to mean compassionate but turned into friendly. I heard that one medieval specialist rage and point out the etymology at least a dozen times.

Since becoming fluent in English (if I can say that), conversations have been more taxing because many concepts exist in one language but not the other, thus are untranslatable. Coming up with a translation on the spot is hard.

Things I witnessed:

Not knowing when a verb is regular or not. I have a vivid memory of unleashing hell after hearing my grandmother say "Je buverais bien quelque chose" and correcting her because no one believed me. The subjunctive mood is also not a crowd's favourite as it can be irregular and sound wrong.

Not knowing the difference between homophones. Stuff like C'est/S'est/Ces/Ses. Children will pick one and hope for the best.

Not knowing how to conjugate. Many conjugations sound exactly the same.

Your region will determine the way you pronounce things. I discovered a few years ago that when I mention the colour pink, I sound southern. My family has been living in the same town in the North since at least the 1500s.

Things like Comme même/Quand même. I attribute this type of issue to routinely hearing the word without ever seeing it written AND having a family who makes the same mistake and doesn't encourage reading.

I'm semi-fluent in English, rusty in Spanish (high school level neglected since I graduated) and A2 in Italian. È ancora un po' difficile al momento, ma sono contenta dei miei progressi! Being French makes it easier, I'm mostly lacking vocabulary but I should be fluent by the end of the year. I also know a fair amount of Latin and Ancient Greek because of my degree, a bit of Russian, a crumb of Polish, can semi-decipher Portuguese, and I'll be learning German in 2023.

Hope this helps! x

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[intjpersephone]

🧠Since memorizing everything is some hard shit, allow me... 🧠

Science has my entire back on this one...

Now, I'm gonna be talking about three techniques, two of them are gonna help if you have a test really soon the other one is in for a long run.

"The Generation Effect"

being tested is supposed to help others evaluate your progress, but it turns out that testing isn't a very good evaluation tool.

It actually functions better as a learning tool but only if used properly. This may seem Counter-Intuitive but first, you should test yourself before you even know the material. For example, start with the practice test even before you started studying it. You'll get answers wrong, But your brain is forced to generate answers, you'll be creative, panicked and end up priming your neurology to learn the correct new answers. This technique works on "The Hypercorrection Effect": when you make a mistake on some type of general information and later find out you're wrong, you're much more likely to remember the correct answer. For example, you're certain the capital city of India is Mumbai but later find out it is in fact New Delhi, you are much more likely to remember that forever compared to somebody who was just simply told the answer New Delhi.

Your brain Hypercorrects. One theory behind this states that surprise and embarrassment play a role, That's why you probably remember everything embarrassing thing that happened to you so far 😂(😥)

Now My Personal Experience: On this one, in April, I had a 20 marks test every week and so my teachers would ask us questions related to the test during classes and I used to get most of them wrong, and after the embarrassment, the test came I actually did better than my classmates.

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"Spacing"

This one is the one for the long run now...

For spacing, you're gonna wanna practice and then almost forget the material and then practice again.

One particular study had students learning Spanish, each group had eight hours to study. The first group studied intensively for eight hours in one day while the second group studied for four hours one day and then one month later studied for another four hours and an entire month later.

So both groups had the same amount of study time just distributed differently. After only getting 8 hours of practice they tested them 8 years later.

Both groups were tested on their Spanish vocabulary and by now you probably guessed the group that spaced their studying over a month gap performed 250% better. Remember this is 8 years later that they're being tested.

My Personal Experience On This: So, in 4/5th grade, I used to jump from learning greek to french to Spanish and so on, so last year staying inside I picked french again, remember this is 4/5 years later, and remembered all the basics very well! I was surprised but now it makes sense!

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"Interleaving"

So, what studies have found is that instead of studying the same thing over and over again, if you mix up or vary the challenge the benefits are huge. At the moment this process might be a lot more frustrating and you may even think that you are learning more slowly but that's why it's so counterintuitive.

Let's take a look at some examples that could apply to your life. All of which have come from a wonderful book called "Range" by David Epison. if you have any interest in high performance and improving skills, this books will change your perspective so I highly recommend it.

First, we are gonna talk about motor skills like piano, so a particularly tricky thing to do is jump "A", big inter violin-piano really quickly so say starting at "C" and then jumping 20 keys really quickly, it takes a lot of coordination and muscle memories to do that quickly without thinking about it without accidentally hitting other keys along the way.

So this study had one group practised the 20 keys jump over and over and they have gone relatively good at it pretty quickly. But the second group had practised not only the 20 key jumps but also mixing a 15 key jump and 10 key jumps

So, ultimately they had to practise but the 20 key jumps but had interleaved or mixed practised by using a bunch of different intervals obviously it would have been a lot more frustrating to be learning multiple intervals at once the 20 key, the 15 key, the 10 key but when they brought the groups back what they found was that the group that practised interleaved or mixed practised was better every single interval including the 20 key jumps. Even though they technically had less practice with it the same has been shown in mathematics. Rather than practising one type of problem over and over, mixing different kinds of problems in between makes the process harder but develops stronger skills.

It's very shocking how bigger difference this type of interleaving makes.

Looked at math skills in grade 7 students. Those that used interleaving or mixed practice saw an effect size of approving someone's from the 50% of skill to the 80%, that is like being an average student to being someone who is definitely something brown parents will dig, which is an ultimate math god.

If you're using cue cards makes sure you're mixing up different themes within those cue cards.

My Personal Experience On This: Now, I have never really tried this before, so that's why I tried my best to elaborate on it as much as I could. But while researching on this, so far this one deeply impressed me, and my mom was a mathematics teacher before my brother was born (she also taught commerce but that's irrelevant) so, she was a middle and high school teacher and she ALWAYS keeps suggesting me, but hey, there's a reason I say relatable to a meme which is about being a disappointment 😐, anyway, I do really look forward to trying this one.

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All this research is incredibly significant because of evidence-based solutions especially in space like education.

And the idea for today's post was suggested by my wonderful girl, @agents-of-shield-fan

and if you want me to make my next post on something you have in my mind, tell me!

Now go ahead and ✨ S H I N E ✨ babe 🤗🌿💕

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[purplehoodiesimon]

Hi, this is not a YR question but are USA highschools really like how they are portrayed in films/tv shows? I'm watching One of Us is Lying and same with other shows- Glee for example and I was wondering if the high school experience is like how they show it. (i guess it is different depending on where you are but I am intrigued)

I think Glee is about the furthest you can get from real life high school while still making it completely accurate 😂

I've never seen One of Us is Lying so I can't say for sure on that one.

As for American high schools in general—teen media definitely tends to amp up the cheesiness (Degrassi Next Class, for instance, is like Glee. So so wrong while still somehow being accurate.) Generally the drama about cliques tends to be a lot more chill in real life, but those divisions still definitely exist. I will never forget the time I had to do a Spanish assignment in junior year (16/17 years old) with 3 of the football team boys that I'd known since 5th grade (10/11 years old) and we spoke about 10 sentences to each other overall. My group definitely had "our" space (English teacher's classroom) and it was weird when people not in our general group were in there.

The drama in general tends to be portrayed pretty accurately, but I'd say media teens definitely care more about it than real life. Like in Glee when the whole Quinn Rachel Finn cheating circle happened, it was this huge big deal and so many people were involved and cared and in real life when a similar thing happened to one of my friends, it kinda stayed within the friend group and outside of it people were like "wow that sucks. Staying out of this one."

As for fights—again somehow accurate but not? They don't usually go for as long as media depicts them and real life teachers are definitely a lot better at breaking them up than TV teachers, but they do happen. Also that whole "after school meet me by the bleachers" thing where it gets around everywhere and is this huge big duel thing doesn't happen in my experience. Fights happen off the fly and are broken up pretty quickly but people do tend to talk about them a lot for a few days. They can also happen over anything, I've seen fights happen over genuine bullying the person got fed up and started punching back kinda things and I've seen fights happen because someone tried to give a plastic spoon back to someone in the cafeteria.

STDs/pregnancy/sex all differs depending on where you are in the states. All I'll say about my high school is that we didn't even get sex education.

A couple things I've noticed aren't usually shown/explored in media—campus police/probation officers, open campuses (where the school is spread out in little buildings instead of one giant block campus, this happens more in rural areas), and the school lunches genuinely sucking. Like media teenagers will complain about it but then we'll see them in the cafeteria with a nice healthy lunch that covers the food groups etc etc. No. You get cardboard texture pizza with plastic cheese that will genuinely keep it's shape if you mold it, and maybe a few carrot sticks. There's also usually a sorta "popular girls are always bitchy" stereotype that isn't true, and there is a lot more crossover between cliques than media tends to depict. For example, one of the guys in my usual English classroom hangout group was also on the football team and very involved and popular with them. One of our girls was super involved with the kids that went to the like, it was the campus just down the hill from us where the kids that had basically failed out of normal high school went. I was super involved with the theater kids with another person, and we had friends there that were in other respective groups. Cliques in high school are less of individual bubbles and more like a network. Still weird when people that don't normally interact do though.

So basically American teen TV is like accurate if you amped up all the drama times 10. I'd say probably That 70s Show and stuff like Pretty in Pink is the most accurate to how high school works here. Stuff like Glee, Grease, pretty much all Netflix originals, that's all kinda accurate but really exaggerated. I'd also say Sex Education is pretty close to American high schools, despite being you know not American and slightly exaggerated itself.

Oh and the whole drugs problem thing is totally accurate no matter what media you're watching. I mean like kids don't usually have access to designer drugs but vaping in the bathrooms, classrooms, etc etc, doing shrooms in Spanish, getting caught dealing in 7th grade etc etc, all that happens. It is a huge problem so media may change it up a bit depending on the area and intensity but generally, the drugs thing is accurate and usually actually played down a bit. Like media will only show it being a serious problem in bigger cities and that's just not true. I come from a rural area that's 80% white and 60% conservative and it's just like, such a huge problem.

Anyways if you have any more questions I'd be glad to answer them lol. My high school experience probably isn't universal, being from a tiny little crazy place in rural West Coast, but I'm totally down for talking about it!

#anyways uh if any of yall here are from my school and put it together from all the examples i gave uh hi lol #asks

[kleptotello]

I know I’ve discussed this on Tumblr before but I’m really wondering about the experiences of my friends here in the US AND from around the world.

Was learning a second (or third, or fourth, etc.) language prioritized in your educational system? Were you REQUIRED to learn another language from a young age or was it “optional.”

You bilingual folks are so impressive. I’m always amazed by this skill. Particularly when English is not your first language and you learned to speak it fluently- it’s freaking challenging!

I graduated from high school in the very early 2000s and, at the time, most colleges only required two years of a language for entry. Naturally, the majority of students took the bare minimum because it was never viewed as a priority in our schools and we didn’t start learning even the absolute basics of another language until sometime between middle and high school.

For example: In our middle school we had a part-time teacher who came in twice per week to teach us a language. The course was divided into three parts, so over the course of the year we learned:

Latin

French

Spanish

And we’re talking “Hello,” “My name is,” and anything you might buy at the grocery store. We repeated this EXACT same curriculum for two years with the same teacher.

Then in high school, we were given a choice: Spanish or French. I chose French due to our close proximity to Quebec and took it for all four years. At one point, a teacher tried to start an Italian class but it was only available for one semester and wouldn’t cover the college requirement. A few students tried to start a Japanese Club but it meant staying after school to study. If you had a job and any other extracurricular activities that wasn’t exactly an option.

In college I wanted to take a course as I was hell bent on learning another language and I learn best with structure and guidance. I signed up for German (I don’t remember why, I think it just fit into my schedule and Italian STILL wasn’t available to me) BUT it turned out language courses were more expensive because they were FOUR credits instead of three AND they required an additional lab, which was another credit. It cost so much to take one semester of a language elective that you could have almost paid for TWO courses within your major. Unfortunately, I had to drop the class due to financial and time constraints.

These days, I find gaps of time to study for a few weeks before life overwhelms me and I have to set it aside again for a bit.

I’m just wondering, how about you? Did your schools/universities/country value language learning? Was language education easily accessible or was it at least affordable? Did everyone have equal access?

I’d be interested to hear! Also, if you speak multiple languages, which ones? Is there a language that you LOVE or have always wanted to learn? One that you found particularly fun/difficult/or easy? Tell me some wonderful things.

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[spanishboone]

in spanish class we’re starting to learn more complex skills & they explain it to us using technical grammatical terms but how am i supposed to learn spanish grammar if i don’t know these grammatical terms in ENGLISH

Hey! I know exactly how that feels. I remember being in Spanish class in high school thinking how am I ever going to make sense of this? The best advice I can give to you is learn the definitions of the word and simply it down For example, when I was struggling with direct objects and indirect objects, they seemed like the same thing to me basically according to the textbook. I could not make sense of it. It wasn't until my German teacher started teaching us direct and indirect objects that it began to make sense. She knew the textbooks sucked at explaining it to she explained direct objects to use like this:

It's what you smoke

It's what you eat

It's what you buy

It's what you touch

It's what you kiss

It's what you see

It's what you hear

It's what ignore

It's what you do essentially. It is THE THING your action is doing. For example, If I'm drinking a beer, the beer is the direct object because it's what I'm drinking. If I am giving a beer to my dad, the beer is the direct object because it's what I am giving. There's no one best way to get the hang of it but try to get the most basic simplified and dumbed down definition of the term and focus on what the formation looks like instead of the definition.

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