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#LearningMandarinChinese #sstellestudiess 1

Like with any language, there are several resources and tools for those looking to learn Mandarin Chinese. I know because I’ve been there. And in this guide, I’ll set out some of the main things to know when starting your language learning journey and key resources to master Chinese grammar and vocabulary

The amazing Jaenelle, who did her thesis in Mandarin Chinese and studied in China, wrote up this post for beginners.

The world is a little happier with you in it.

#LearningSwedish #sstellestudiess 1

Swedish Introductory courses

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!

#LearningGerman #sstellestudiess 1

Top 3 Free German Resources

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

Links to PDFs of French Language Books

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)

#LearningFrench #sstellestudiess

Resources masterpost

Being exposed to French:

Websites, social media

Online courses in French

French subreddits

Fanfictions

Buzzfeed

Improving your:

Pronunciation

Speaking

Things to listen to:

Music

Podcasts

Radio stations

TED talks

Things to read:

Graphic novels/comics

News

Ebooks + quizzes (by me)

Short stories

Vikidia - kids Wikipedia

Things to watch:

Cartoons

Kids shows

Imago TV - free activist Netflix

The Simpsons the movie

True crime

TV programs - sci-fi shows, travelling, etc.

Youtubers

Extra:

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)

#love #justlove

girl help i’m starting over again for the 1000th time & i’m beginning to think that life is a never-ending cycle of starting over & i actually have to make peace with that in order to move forward

elderly women are so undervalued in society but they are some of the most amazing people in the world I think. we have a lot to learn from them

#reminders #that i needed to hear

Spoiler: it absolutely does workout for you, and even better than you anticipated.

#reminder: its gonna be alright ❤

what’s crazy is that everything is literally going to be okay 

i supposedly created this tumblr acc to not be stressed but now I AM stressed bc i didn't thought about my layout lmao

#LearningCzech #sstellestudiess

Learning Czech

Here are some tumblr posts i collected for learning Czech:

Resources:

Online Resources for learning Čeština (Czech)

Czech Resources

Masterlist by @multilingualpotato

Some vocab lists & grammar:

Czech month names

Czech prepositions of place

Czech nouns, their genders and declensions

Czech culture:

Children's books (look in the comments & tags)

Czech Christmas traditions

Czech Christmas carols

Czech Easter traditions

Some Czech langblrs:

@czechnotebook

@multilingualpotato

@ffaari

@mediocrelanguagelearner

what “feeling better” can look like after using a coping technique:

beng able to get up and walk around safely

thinking/talking more clearly and lessening of brain fog

a willingness to re-engage with a situation/emotion (even with some reluctance)

ability to do a task you did not want to/could not do before

being able to plan and problem solve (even if you still don’t know what to do)

improved concentration/focus

more understanding of a situation

calmer and slower thoughts (rather than scattered thoughts/rumination)

slower heartbeat and breathing

faster heartbeat, if doing exercise, and momentum that gives you a chance to do a task before you sit down again

being able to sleep easier

an ability to look at the big picture and not get lost in the details

feeling that you can “manage”

ability to control outbursts/destructive behaviour or pause before acting

managing to stop crying

I think people tend to assume their mood is what will improve after trying coping techniques, however, your mood is not the full extent of your mental health, and it doesn’t totally define whether or not a technique has helped you. When disorders cause symptoms like chronic emptiness and low mood, it’s worthwhile to pay attention to your body and your abilities to look for signs of improvement, which can then have an affect on your mood in the long term.

6 tips for learning languages

These are all things i do when learning languages based on my personal experience of learning languages at school & by myself at home (but they might not work for everyone!)

avoid languages of the same language family that are too similar! I know it’s tempting to learn Norwegian AND Swedish AND Danish cause they’re so similar, but at the end of the day, you WILL always confuse them, constantly. So choose one of them and you’ll likely be able to understand a lot of the other languages anyway (at the very least written stuff)

only start learning a new language once you’re advanced and comfortable enough in the other languages you speak (i’d say at least level B1). Cause then you can concentrate on practising using & applying one language you already know quite well, while learning new basic vocab and grammar exercises in a new language (if you start another language while you’re still in the middle of bulking vocab & grammar exercises, you might confuse the two or get overwhelmed)

always reflect on what you’re struggling with! If there’s a certain grammar aspect you always get wrong, take some extra time to read up on it, do exercises and practise, practise, practise! The same goes for vocab: if there’s certain words or phrases you just can’t seem to get in your head, make a special vocab folder/file with those and then set some extra time aside each time you practise that language to go over those words and phrases.

learn to understand AND use a language. You can be able to understand your target language like native speaker and still struggle with forming complete sentences. So always focus both on understanding AND actively using languages!

when using vocab cards, look at the word in your native language first! It’s much more effective if you have to think of the word in your target language (instead of just recognizing it)

if you learn a language that has letters with accents (e.g. é, à, ç, š, ö, ü) ALWAYS make sure you memorise them and get them right! These accents are there for a reason! They can change the whole pronunciation & meaning of a word and you don’t want to learn it the wrong way!