Taru Luojola @Stoori@polyglot.city

After studying kanji for years, finally I know all the characters to write JLPT in Japanese:

日 = sun, day
本 = origin, book
日 + 本 = Japan

語 = language, word
日 + 本 + 語 = Japanese language

能 = talent, skill
力 = power, strength
能 + 力 = ability, proficiency

試 = try, attempt
験 = testing
試 + 験 = examination

Combining everything together:

日本語能力試験 = Japanese Language Proficiency Test

@Stoori @maloki also HOW do you reach out / build relationships safely when your own anxieties and insecurities lead to you opting into harmful relationships that actually make things worse?

:arevblobfoxdundundunowo: :arevblobfoxhyperowo: :arevblobfoxhyperthinking: :arevblobfoxhypercofe: :ablobfoxhypercofe: :arevblobfoxdundundun: :ablobfoxhyperowo: :ablobfoxhyperthinking: :ablobfoxdundundun: :ablobfoxdundundunowo:

#Casteism101, or 001: People everywhere use the word* 'pariah', when you do, you understand what casteism mean. At other times, you don't? That it is no longer practised or not practised in x country is a LIE by colonisers. And no you cannot use that slur.

*'Pariah' is a slur, a violent slur that no one is even reclaiming, so why are people using it casually? Yes, English language is full of colonisation & the worship of other colonisations so it turned an insult towards a group to a 'word'.

After a few conversations, here's my conclusion:
1. There's no AI/ algo here controlling the flow of what people view.
2. Birdsite's AI/ algo (perhaps intentionally?) favors content with high emotion/ confrontation/ anger because it elicits reality-TV reactions
3. My content (like me) is very non-edgy, non-confrontational. I'm happy to be sweet, analytical, funny and soothing.
4. Therefore, I'm invisible on birdsite, and the absence of an algo actually favors #chill #pleasant content here.

Wow! This piece by @Memeghnad hits home so hard. https://medium.com/@meghnad.saha/mastodon-to-move-or-not-to-move-that-is-the-question-65444cc3007b

To #India and other #newbies: How to find people and be found.

ENGAGE. Toot, respond, boost.

The best way to see, be seen, and engage, is, well, to get out, look for things, and be visible.

DON'T over-share. 1-10x daily? Pretty good. 10-100x daily? Excessive. Less than a few times a month? Where'd you go?

Hashtags. Use them AND search them. Search tags you used for others with like interests.

Be human. Self-promotion, rudeness, single-topic obsession, goes badly.

#mastoTips

For the new folks on Mastodon, here are the various ways you can discover new people on here to talk to!

https://bnolet.me/posts/2019/11/discovery-on-mastodon/

Please boost :)

BBC English My Way
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/emw
>> Iniziate qui / start here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/emw/unit-1/session-1/activity-2

VoA Let's Learn English, Level 1
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/p/5644.html

VoA Let's Learn English, Level 2
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/p/6765.html

VoA News Words
https://learningenglish.voanews.com/z/3620

ABC Learn English
https://www.abc.net.au/education/learn-english/

English at My Languages
http://mylanguages.org/learn_english.php

Simple English Wkipedia
http://simple.wikipedia.org

Word Reference
http://www.wordreference.com

Reverso
http://www.reverso.net/text_translation.aspx?lang=IT

Parole A1
https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/800352/pages/beginner-a1-vocabulary

Abc-apprendre : #Hebrew #עברית
https://www.abc-apprendre.com/langues/hebreu.php

Easy Languages Channel
https://www.youtube.com/user/magauchsein/featured

Easy Hebrew
https://tinyurl.com/vew3dcd

http://www.hebreu.org/

Fluent in three monts: learn Hebrew for free
https://www.fluentin3months.com/learn-hebrew-free/

ar #brezhoneg (2)

The Breton language at Omniglot
https://www.omniglot.com/writing/breton.htm

Arbres : Le site de grammaire du breton
http://arbres.iker.cnrs.fr/index.php?title=Accueil

Département : Breton (Wikiversity / Wikiversité)
https://fr.wikiversity.org/wiki/D%C3%A9partement:Breton

FB Group : "Lire la bretagne"
https://www.facebook.com/Lire-la-Bretagne-1394825117404666/

Lenn
http://www.lenn.electre.com/FR

ar #brezhoneg
Breton language online resources (list in the making)

Ofis publik ar brezhoneg
http://www.fr.brezhoneg.bzh/

Outils linguistiques
http://www.fr.brezhoneg.bzh/35-outils-linguistiques.htm

Grammaire celto-bretonne, by Jean François Marie Maurice Agathe Le Gonidec (an old outline of Breton from Google Books)
https://books.google.fr/books?id=EPwFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=titlepage#v=onepage&q&f=false

Cours de breton audio : 400 expressions...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrrJI1spY3Q
and
https://www.loecsen.com/fr/cours-breton

ABC-apprendre
https://www.abc-apprendre.com/langues/breton.php

Du breton au français
http://guythomas.free.fr/breton_francais.htm

If you are new to the fediverse, this message is for you

Inditoot.com are the fashist of India on the fediverse.

Mastodon.social are the twitter of the fediverse.

Maybe find a new, weirder home on the fediverse.
Ask around if you need

best thing i've ever heard about labels: "as any cat will tell you, putting yourself in a box is completely different from someone else putting you in a box"

I wonder if the people joining Mastodon from India also have an appetite for ditching more of the capitalist internet, because there are replacements for many more things than just twitter.

For example, no need to use google maps when you can add detail of even things like footpaths in your town to OpenStreetMap :

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=5/20.859/78.420
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/13.11990/80.15142

The Switching Software website contains an ever-growing list of ethical alternatives for many things:

https://switching.software/

It's November 10th

From "Duizend soldaten" by Willem Vermandere

als ge van ze leven in de westhoek passeert
deur regen en noorderwinden
keert omme den tied als g' alhier passeert
den oorlog ga j' hier were vinden

ja 't is den oorlog da 'j hier were vindt
en 't graf van duizend soldoaten
altied iemands voader altied iemands kind
nu doodstille en godverlaten

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kV3QyK64e0

local enby femmeing up the place