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Change your heart, look around you Change your heart, it will astound you I need your lovin' like the sunshine

i have a lot of language posts in my tag so i thought id make a masterpost since it’s all i seem to do lol :)

Dutch:

love vocab

cute vocab

animal vocab

stationery vocab

regular verb conjugation

past tense conjugation

French:

garden vocab

beautiful french vocab

novel analysis vocab

linking words

news vocabulary

how to guess noun gender

summer vocab

night time vocab

space vocab

French music

essay phrases

Italian:

suffissi alterativi suffixes

space vocab 

food vocab

giving directions

stationery vocab

beauty vocab

double negatives

Japanese:

friendship vocab

japanese masterpost

music vocab

interjections

valentines vocab

months of the year

feeling unwell vocab

Korean:

resources for learning

advice for learning korean

nature and weather vocab

verbs list

summer vocab

adverbs

how to introduce yourself

common errors

past present and future conjugation

idiomatic expressions

Korean names for 50 countries

Maltese:

love vocab

breakfast vocab

all of @malteseboy  ‘s posts!

Norwegian:

weather vocab

rainy day vocab

summer vocab

lgbt vocab

100 most common verbs

Spanish:

learning spanish with tv

christmas vocab

verbs that take prepositions

more complex synonyms for words you already know

the subjunctive

words to use instead of decir

Turkish:

space vocab

holidays vocab

some pretty things in vocab

positive and negative infinitives

Swedish:

cafe vocab

emotions vocab

cute vocab

how to sound more natural when speaking Swedish

text slang

family vocab

European countries in Swedish 

Russian:

russian resources on youtube 

at the bookstore vocab

flower vocab

how to introduce yourself

common prepositions

Mandarin:

cafe vocab

40 important verbs

autumn vocab

common useful idioms

how to address people in China

school words

Language Tips:

tips for learning a new language

language goals

peppa pig in different languages

language learning resolutions

how to improve pronunciation

lazy town in different languages

how to learn a foreign languages

google drive full of grammar for nearly every language

learning vocab from reading

listening and speaking 

feel free to reblog with more useful resources! I hope this comes in useful to someone 

please message me if there are any links that aren’t working so I can fix them asap! xo

But sometimes fanfictions break my heart, when they're not complieted, on HIATUS or forgotten by their own authors.

When the canon breaks your hearts so you try to heal it with fanfiction

I didn’t choose the crack-shipping life.

The crack-shipping life chose me.

9 points about language learning and how I’m learning 20+ of them

I’ve had a few requests to write about how I learn my languages. To different degrees, there’s currently 20+ of them and I don’t see myself stopping yet. The thing is, learning languages comes really easily to me and I want to share, maybe it will be helpful to somebody else.

First, I’d like to have a look at first versus second language acquisition. I’m a linguist and I’m super interested in Child Language Acquisition. That however, has a critical age of 14 (or so I was always told) and is then no longer possible and any language learned after that age will never progress as quickly or can’t be learned perfectly. Well. I disagree. The simple difference is - first language acquisition is how you acquired your first language(s) as a child. By imitating, finding patterns, etc. Second language acquisition is what you know from language courses. Vocabulary, irregular verb tables, endless exercises. Now that we got some of the terminology off the table, let me see how I actually learn languages: 1) I utilise elements of the first language acquisition rather than second language I’ve only studied vocab a couple times at school, when I put them into Quizlet or when someone forced me to. I’ll get back to it in another point. I don’t learn patterns. I know there is one and I let the input do its magic of slithering into my head. Again, more on that in point 2. You always get told you’ll learn a language better when you’re thrown into the country where they speak it.  And it’s so true because of the processes behind it. Because input and immersion are the keys and that’s how children learn, too.

2) I don’t cram languages. I process them.

Around langblrs, I keep seeing all the ‘crying over verb tables’, ‘trying to learn a 1000 words this week’ and the like. That may work for you, sure. But I’ve never done that. I did learn a few irregular verb patterns for German in class, but while I could recite them, it wasn’t helpful. In Irish, I sometimes still wonder which verb ‘An ndeachaigh tú?’ comes from. The thing is, you’re able to process language. You know this word is probably irregular. If you come across it and don’t know what the irregular form is, look it up. After you’ve looked it up for the tenth time, you’ll probably remember by then. Same with anything else. Don’t try to learn things by heart when it comes to languages. 3) Vocab?? Same rule applies here. I’ve only learned vocab at school and then a handful of times when I wasn’t too lazy to put it into Quizlet (which is fun and I learn something, but it’s more of a useful pastime than anything). When you read, just skip the words you don’t know and only really look them up if you can’t tell by context. NEVER translate vocabulary. I mean, sure, look up what it means, but don’t connect it to the word itself. Connect it to the meaning. Pictures work better. As for abstract words, imagine the concept. Just try not to bridge the meaning of the word with your native language. Languages in your brain are meant to be two separate units. Unless you’re working on a translation piece, they shouldn’t be ‘touching’. 4) I use example sentences for everything.

Grammar guides are useful but rather than learning all the rules at once, take it one step at a time and remember some example sentences and let them guide you through the grammar rule you need.

5) Input is everything. Output is hard, but you’re basically imitating input and utilizing patterns you know (or think you know). Let me give you an example. Let’s say I’m writing a piece on my daily routine, for example. I make use of the example sentences and try to tailor them to my own needs. Trial and error, if I make a mistake, it’s okay, if somebody points it out, I probably won’t make it next time. As I progress, I will gradually remove the mistake. Same goes to new words and new verbs. Use the input you’ve got. Does this verb sound like some other verb you’ve heard before? It’s might have a similar conjugation pattern. You can check it, you don’t have to.

6) Learning languages should NOT be stressful! I never stressed over learning a language. Sure, I’m frustrated that after a year and a half of learning Irish, I’m not 100% fluent, but I’ve never stressed over it. I’ve never cried over it. I’ve never cried over a language (I only cried after a French oral exam which I thought I failed). Don’t be hard on yourself and try learning through a method that’s not stressful. Watch videos for children. Read books for children. Write down cool things in your target language(s). 7) You’ve learned a language before. Why wouldn’t you be able to learn it now in a very similar way? This is basically me saying that I have little belief in the efficiency of pure second language acquisition. Maybe a few individuals can reach fluency by cramming a language, the thing is, I think that if we concentrate on processing instead of remembering, just like we did when we were children, we can reach better results in a shorter amount of time. Also, if this is your third or fourth language, compare to languages you already know. 8) I don’t start with basics. I start ‘somewhere’.

Delve into the language the second you’ve started. Are you overwhelmed? That’s fine! You’ll find your way around it. Start with word meanings, finding out what kind of sentences those are and then build your way around it. Don’t start saying ‘hello’ and ‘I’m from’. Those are cool, but usually, they are used in a different way when you actually go out and speak. You’ll get them along the way.

9) Don’t rely on instructions (only). Rely on yourself.

This is just my two cents. I’ve pieced this together trying to remember how I’ve learned what I’ve learned and comparing it to how others around me learned. Please, let me know if it makes any sense. I may edit this and post this again later if I have any more ideas. Feel free to contribute or to bombard me with questions. I’m happy to answer.

It's not in the words that you told me

It's not in the way you say you're mine

It's not in the way that you came back to me

It's not in the way that your love set me free

It's not in the way you look or the things that you say that you do