Luftmensch @lapis@polyglot.city

¡Hola!
Soy nerd, que me interesa a aprender idiomas.

@elekk.xyz se puede escuchar cuando despotrico sobre los #Videogames y #BuJo.

@booktoot despotrico sobre los libros. y #LanguageLearning va a ir aquí. 😀

Me defiendo bastante bien en #español. Estudio #français.

My native language is English, but I'm going to try to avoid using that. 😉

Has #Pimsleur had some magic rehaul since their old days? Some of these (eg: Hungarian, Icelandic, Finnish) only have 1 CD, but others have 3-5. Have they not made the rest yet, or are they just calling it good?

If I wanted to learn, say, Swahili, I wanted to go all the way!

Czech looks interesting, but I'm a bit detached from that side of the family (they suck). So while I sort of want to know more about Czech (because as white settlers, we ditched our heritage of course! Also that side of the family doesn't know Czech because my grandparents deliberately didn't teach it so they could talk privately so the kids couldn't understand. )

I don't really want anything that would get me closer to that side of the family, you know?

Partially apropos, I go back and forth on studying Czech.
I'm Czech/German. I definitely want to know German (that part isn't about my culture though. That's because I like the language.

I mean technically there's a bunch but...

they're on Hoopla. My library doesn't pay for a lot of Hoopla checkouts, and I'd have to stream them. I have a generous data plan (for the time being), but not _that_ generous.

Plus Pimsleur (at least the 2000 version) outright encourages you to take it out of the library (and rip it? it didn't say that part, but it had to know.)

No YOU'RE looking at #Pimsleur CDs and seeing if you can get your library to buy them!

It's not that I'm not enjoying #French (though I'm frustrated sometimes) and #Spanish is still good, but I'm feeling wanderlust again. Thoughts like "How about #Portuguese " or "God, I'd really love to take up #Korean / #Japanese / #Hungarian " Oh no~! 😱

No tengo ni idea que debo hacer con mi porvenir.

¿Qué haré después de me gradue?
Este es que lleno el tiempo me preocupo.

Sé que suena sumamente egoísta, pero, no quiero usar mi título en antropología.

Porque soy gringa. Antropología es todavía la historia de colonialismo, sexismo, etcétera.

Es la razón elegí no seguir la arqueología.

Antropologia debe dejar su colonialismo pero los gringos no quieren.

Puf. ¿Tal vez puedo escribir?

Esta semana eran vacaciones de primavera. Hace tres días hacía tarea, pero juegaba #StardewValley. Siempre había jugado los videojuegos similares.
¡Es muy satisfecho! Se cultiva los cultivos y hace tareas varias, y se siente un poco bien.

Además juego en español, entonces estoy aprendida, muchas palabras, no simplemente cultivos. 🙂

Tal vez escribiré más sobre SV en la enseguido diario.

Listening to a different #Español #podcast than usual made me realize I probably should learn the special characters (and @) that consist of a url. Well, tbh I'll probably learn them by hearing them 5 million times. I mean we all learned "colon backslash backslash" eventually. #90sKid

** I will mention the tense thing may not be my school's fault. My mom didn't want me to take spanish even though it was a requirement to get into any goddamn college, so I had to forge her signature on my course signup list when I was a junior.

So if I had taken more Spanish it's quite possible we would have gotten into tenses.

Kids want to learn if you're doing it right (if there's something impeding their learning, that's a little different).

So feeding them 30 words of Spanish and hoping that cuts it, does not. it just makes them dread the Spanish period when they get in trouble because OH BOY THEY'RE REVIEWING COLORES AGAIN.

While the US has no official language last I checked, I think at this point it's English if only because we suck at teaching other languages.

It doesn't have to be Spanish, but Foreign language education is so damn helpful (I am not talking about the critical period here do not @ me about that) I'm talking about brain benefits of learning a foreign language when you're a child. spoiler: 30 words of Spanish doesn't count.

* This might be the state of South Dakota education (I could get into it in another thread if someone is interested) but it's ass. Basically they sent unpaid high schoolers (maybe they got credit idk) to teach elementary schoolers spanish, except you learn the same ~20-30 words for YEARS. IT'S HALF-ASSED.

Basically you turn out children who at best can skip the first semester or year of Spanish in Uni. You still can't say Jack shit.

my LB got me thinking about this. I don't know about Britain, (origin of article) but here it's ass. I learned nothing but Spanish until I went to college, let me give you an example of what I learned.

K-5: uno, dos, tres, rojo (no trill)*, azul, etc

Middle School: We add ser, maybe estar.

2 years of High school: I believe my teacher actually knew Spanish! I learned verbs that weren't the "to be" verb. I don't think I ever learned any tenses**

Mi sentía mala la pasada semana. Habitualmente me recibe las TECs. Porque la universidad, retraso la terapía (tenía los examens), que no me ayuda mi salud.

Tenía que pelearme las clases la semana pasada. Me lo arrepentido, pero, ¿qué me pudiera?

"roi" is really hard to say! 😅 #français

pointed out if I remove Mew (sorry for the spoiler of a game from 95) that I get 75 both ways.