soft reminder: don’t be so hard on yourself if you fall back into an old pattern!! habits are so hard to change especially when you’re not doing great. when we need the most comfort, old patterns seem like the quick comfort or relief. blaming yourself can make you feel worse and you don’t deserve it especially when you’re already suffering. as long as you pick yourself off the floor and try again, you’re doing good! keep trying until you feel at home in your new routines or habits (yes, it will happen). changing will take more time than expected, but that’s okay. you’re stronger than you feel and you can always try again tomorrow ✨
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#LearningGerman #sstellestudiess 1
Week 3, day 5 of prepolyglot’s langblr reactivation challenge
(Probably goes without saying but just my personal top 3! You'll notice it is quite listening focused because that is what's most important to me.)
Nicos Weg (A1, A2, B1, Complete Youtube Playlist) - the story of a Spanish guy called Nico who moves to Germany. Really nice and well produced. Each level is made up of 80ish videos of a couple of minutes each, with exercises to review and test your comprehension. This adds up to a movie of almost 2 hrs for each level.
Easy German (x) - street interviews in German. Great for learning how Germans actually speak, outside of the artificial context that you find in a lot of learning resources.
The German Project (x) - online lessons with audio snippets and easy to understand explanations, plus animated short stories with audio. Wish there were some exercises to go with it! Also available for Spanish, French and Italian.
#LearningFrench #sstellestudiess 2
The Great Gatsby (Gatsby le magnifique)
The Fault in Our Stars (Nos étoiles contraires)
Twilight (Fascination)
New Moon (Tentation)
Eclipse (Hésitation)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter à l'École des Sorciers)
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets)
The Book Thief (La voleuse de livres)
The Notebook (Les pages de notre amour)
Sense and Sensibility (Le cœur et la raison)
The Little Prince (Le petit prince)
The Girl on the Train (La Fille du train)
Animal Farm (La Ferme des Animaux)
1984 (1984)
Romeo and Juliet (Roméo et Juliette)
Me Before You (Avant toi)
The Secret Garden (Le Jardin mystérieux)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Les hommes qui n'aimaient pas les femmes)
Hunger Games (Hunger Games)
Divergent (Divergent)
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (À tous les garçons que j'ai aimés)
Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season I thought I’d share this reminder that streaming services are killing the music industry. Musicians can’t make a living like this. If you love an artist, find them on Bandcamp and actually buy their albums.
This is a post about masterposts about resources and books for studying many languages. I made this since many people do not know about all the resources that have been posted.
Resources for Many Languages: thelanguagecommunity
General
Language Pile
Free Online Language Courses
Huge Language-Learning Collection
Language and Linguistics Resources
Language Families/Groups
Resources for West African Languages
South Asian Languages Resources
Classics Resource Masterpost
Online Latin & Greek Resources
Celtic Languages Resource List
Celtic Family Language Resources
Germanic Languages Resource List
Dutch, Afrikaans, West Frisian, Limburgish
Scandinavian Language Masterpost
North Germanic Language Resources
Resources for Finno-Ugric languages
Finnish, Estonian, Saami, Voro
Alien Languages of Star Trek
Afrikaans
Learn Afrikaans Masterpost
Afrikaans Masterpost
Ainu
Ainu Resources
Albanian
Albanian Language Masterpost
Amharic
Amharic Resources
Amharic Movies & Shows
Arabic
Arabic Learning Resources
Arabic Language Masterpost
Arabic Language Apps
Moroccan Masterpost
Free Arabic Resources
Armenian
Armenian Language Masterpost
ASL
American Sign Language Masterlist
ASL Masterpost
Azerbaijani
Azerbaijani Resources
Belarusian
Belarusian Resources
Belarusian Resources
Basque
Ultimate Basque Resource List
Euskera Free Resources
Learn Basque
Bengali
Bengali Language Resources
Bulgarian
Bulgarian Resources
Catalan
Catalan Resources
Recursos per aprendre català
Resources to Learn Catalan
Cantonese
Cantonese Language Resources
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese Resource Masterpost
Chinese Learning Resources I
Chinese Language Resources II
Chinese Pinyin Masterpost
Intermediate Chinese Resources
Ultimate Mandarin Resource List
Cornish
Cornish Language Masterpost
Crimean Tatar
Crimean Tatar Resources
Croatian
Croatian Resources
Czech
Czech Resources for Beginners
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Danish
Ultimate Danish Resource List
Dutch
Great Resources for Dutch
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Dutch Resources Masterpost
English
English Online Courses
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Estonian
Intermediate Estonian Resources
Faroese
Faroese Resources
Finnish
Masterlist of Finnish Resources
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French
Ultimate French Resource List
French Resources Masterpost
French Masterpost
French Review
Galician
Galician Resources
Free Galician Masterpost
Georgian
Georgian Language Masterpost
German
German Learning Tools
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German Resources
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German Masterpost
Gothic
Gothic Language Masterpost
Greek
Greek Masterpost
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Greenlandic Resources
Guarani
Guarani Masterpost
Hawaiian
Learn Hawaiian
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Hebrew Language Masterpost
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Hungarian
Hungarian Masterpost
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Icelandic for Everyone
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How to Learn Italian
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Irish
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Japanese
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Kannada
Kannada Resources
Kazakh
Kazakh Masterpost
Khmer
Khmer Language Masterpost
Kikongo
Free Kikongo Resources
Korean
Korean Textbook Masterpost
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Kyrgyz
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Latin
Learning Latin
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Lithuanian
Lithuanian Resource List
Malay
Malay Resources
Maltese
Maltese Resources
Mongolian
Mongolian Resources
Nahuatl
Nahuatl Language Masterpost
Nepali
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Norwegian
Norwegian Masterpost
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Occitan
Occitan Resources
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Pashto Masterpost
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Persian Language Masterpost
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Polish
Polish Self-Study Masterpost
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Portuguese
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Portuguese Starter Pack
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Punjabi
Punjabi Masterpost
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Romanian
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Romanian Masterpost
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Russian
Russian Learning Tools
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Some More Resources
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Northern Sami Masterpost
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Learn Scottish Gaelic Masterpost
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Somali Language Masterpost
Spanish
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Swahili
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Tagalog
Tagalog Masterpost
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Tamil
Tamil Masterpost
Tatar
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Thai
Thai resources + books
Tibetan
Tibetan Resources
Turkish
Turkish Resources
Turkish Masterpost
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Ukrainian
Ukrainian Language Masterpost
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Urdu
Urdu Masterpost
Uzbek
Uzbek Resources
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Vietnamese
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Xhosa
Xhosa Resources
Yiddish
Yiddish Language Masterpost
Yoruba
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Zulu
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**Last Updated: June 2019**
A follower of mine asked me what are some realistic goals when you’re learning languages but before giving you 100 examples, i want to mention that you can have daily, weekly, monthly or/and yearly goals. If you get easily distracted and need motivation, set goals for each category; however, if you can focus and be motivated for a longer period of time, you might not need daily or/and weekly goals.
Also, the numbers/minutes/hours are an example, you can change them according to your time, resources, motivation etc.
Read 1 article in your target language.
Learn 10 words.
Learn 1 poem in your target language.
Learn a song in your target language.
Watch a movie.
Read 1 page from a book in your target language.
Sing 1 song in your target language.
Talk with a native for 10 minutes.
Learn 2 idioms.
Translate 1 song.
Translate 1 poem.
Write 1 short text about anything.
Watch 1 episode from your favourite show dubbed/subbed.
Get 50points on duolingo.
Make a vocab list.
Learn 1 new grammatical concept.
Think in your target language for 10 minutes
Read to a podcast for 15 minutes.
Learn 1 tongue twister.
Spend 15 minutes on WordBrewery.
Play on Babadum for 15 minutes.
Use Clozemaster for 15 minutes.
Listen to an audio book for 10 minutes.
Revise your notes for 20 minutes.
Learn 1 vocab list.
Read 10 articles in your target language.
Read 2 books for children.
Learn 5 poems.
Learn 3 songs.
Watch 3 movies.
Learn 10 grammatical concepts.
Talk for 2 hours in your target language.
Learn 5 vocab lists.
Learn 100 new words.
Finish 8 lessons on duolingo. (i mean the entire bullet/dot/set of mini-lessons)
Watch 10 episodes from your favourite show in your target language subbed/dubbed.
Learn 30 idioms.
Write 3 A4 pages about anything.
Translate 5 songs.
Learn 3 vocab lists.
Revise with the help of some tests online for 2 hours.
Change your phone settings to be in your target language.
Make a summary for the books you’ve read.
Read 10 pages from a complex book in your target language.
Make 5 vocab lists.
Write a motivation text of 10 lines for your in your target language about why you enjoy learning languages.
Think for 2 hours in your target language.
Translate 3 pages from a book in your native language.
Translate 3 pages from a book in your target language.
Discover 10 new songs in your target language.
Learn 350 new words.
Read 1 advanced book in your target language.
Finish a grammar book.
Finish 10 stories for kids.
Learn 80 idioms.
Learn 20 vocab lists.
Finish 35 lessons on duolingo. (the bullets/dots/set of mini lessons)
Make 20 vocab lists.
Watch 10 movies in your target language subbed/dubbed.
Translate 10 songs.
Learn 10 poems.
Learn 5 songs.
Talk to natives for 10 hours.
Write summaries for every chapter/article you’ve read.
Watch 15 youtube videos in your target language .
Make a story of 5 minutes while looking at a random picture on google.
Understand a song (that you don’t know) without checking the lyrics too often.
Read 20 articles.
Make a dish while reading the recipe in your target language
Revise for 20 hours.
Keep a journal with your daily progress and at the end of the month, read how many things you achieved.
Read to a podcast for 24 hours.
Think in your target language for 24 hours.
Play babadum/wordbrewery/clozemaster for 10 hours.
Be mistaken for a native.
Know 50 poems.
Be able to sing most Disney songs in your target language.
Watch movies without subs.
Learn 10.000 words.
Read 10 advanced books.
Finish duolingo/whatever course you use.
Be able to think in your target language effortlessly.
Master irregular verbs.
Have at least 5 native friends that talk to you in your target language.
Be proud you didn’t give up.
Study a bit daily.
Finish 3 grammar books/workbooks/books for advanced learners.
Have a decent accent.
Be able to read without translating anything.
Watch more movies in your target language than your native one/English.
Have favourite youtubers that are native of your target language.
Keep a diary and read how your year has been.
Be able to talk about advanced stuff.
Have very detailed descriptions.
Know the most popular songs in your target language.
Read mostly in your target language.
Know several new recipes that cooked only in the country where your target language is spoken.
Being able to say that you’re bilingual/multilingual/a polyglot.
Learn your next language through the one that you mastered already.
#LearningFrench #sstellestudiess
Websites, social media
Online courses in French
French subreddits
Fanfictions
Buzzfeed
Pronunciation
Speaking
Music
Podcasts
Radio stations
TED talks
Graphic novels/comics
News
Ebooks + quizzes (by me)
Short stories
Vikidia - kids Wikipedia
Cartoons
Kids shows
Imago TV - free activist Netflix
The Simpsons the movie
True crime
TV programs - sci-fi shows, travelling, etc.
Youtubers
Antidote 10 + BonPatron - Grammarly equivalents
Conjugation by le Nouvel Obs
Deepl - very good at translating sentences/expressions
Forbo - natives pronouncing things
Lexicity - about Ancien/Moyen Français
Lingolden - Chrome extension that teaches vocabulary
Linguo.tv (french videos + subtitles)
Reverso - very good alternative to Google translation (single words)
Wordreference - very complete translation website (expressions)
#LearningSwedish #sstellestudiess 1
FSI Languages | basic swedish lessons with audio lessons and a textbook
Ikindalikelanguages.com | 45 short Swedish lessons
Ielanguages | basic phrases, vocabulary and grammar in 3 levels with 58 tutorials
Internetpolyglot | word vocabulary lists with audio pronunciations and English translations, with 44 categories
Swedish language course | 4 small lessons on the basics
OnlineSwedish | 7 lessons with a small exam at the end
Speaklanguages | basic vocab and phrases
Memrise | 1025 Basic swedish words to learn
Goethe-verlag | phrases, vocab and audio lessons
Learnalanguage | phrases, verbs, vocab, dictionary and culture
Loecsen | small lessons with quizzes
Mylanguages | literally so many different things
SayitinSwedish | 30 beginners lessons
SwedishPod101 | many, many different things
Wikiversity | 12 short lessons
Babbel | kinda like Duolingo I guess?
P.S. Many of these sites also offer beginners courses in other languages!
There this french radio station called FIP that in addition to being a great radio station has different webradios each dedicated to one musical genre. AND they've created a new one called "Sacré Français !" that only plays songs in french, and not just from France but from the whole francophone world! They are pretty eclectic in their choices and I thought it could interest some of you if you're looking for new artists to add to your language playlists :)
You can listen here or in the Radio France app.
PS: the webradios are music only, there's no talking. But I definitely recommend listening to the regular FIP station if you want small doses of listening practice, they do speak in a relaxed way!
#LearningFrench #sstellestudiess 3
Completely in French:
TV5 MONDE Apprendre le français - has a lot of good listening exercises
Le Point du FLE - redirects to a lot of good French content and comprehension exercises
RFI Savoirs - there are a few collections here that look interesting
Links I found on Quebec’s website:
Banque de dépannage linguistique (BDL)
Banque d’exercices de français (bank of French exercises)
For English speakers:
Lawless French - covers a large variety of basic subjects
Français interactif (from University of Texas at Austin) - includes a textbook
Tex’s French Grammar - grammar lessons and exercises with fun characters
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