How Did You Get Started? Did You Have A Teacher, Did You Self Teach? And If So, What Were The Best Resources

do u have any advice for ppl who want to study linguistics and languages but couldnt afford to study it at school?? thanks if you answer this, have a great day

yeah! you can easily download textbooks online and study from them AND I do have a dropbox full of linguistics textbooks!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qm7x5dz8fu4bdlp/AADshTfRGZG5JZALkDV6wFlwa?dl=0 

it includes phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, morphology, and etymology. 

I also have another dropbox folder full of language textbooks:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tdm26h60ccl9pe1/AABg0B3mOGaWLG9Kfyuvut6wa?dl=0

As of November 6: Includes 83 textbooks including Arabic, ASL, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh :)

The reality about spoken french

We don’t use the negation ne. We say Je sais pas (I don’t know) or On a pas à le faire (we don’t have to do it),

Speaking of which, we prefer using on rather than the pompous nous : On est arrivé-es (we’ve arrived), On y va? (shall we go)

Speaking of which, our questions are often affirmative sentences ending with a question mark (i.e. : a high-pitched tone) : Tu viens? (are you coming), T’en veux un-e? (do you want one).

Speaking of which, we chew words. When followed by words starting with a consonant, personal pronouns can lose their final letter : J’te l’dis! rather than Je te le dis (I’m telling you).

Speaking of which, we’re lazy : Je can be Che (chais pas), Il can be Y (r’garde, y’a un chat!) and grunt : many euh (uh), ah, bah (hum), ben (well), hein (tf?) and rhooo/rhaaa (ffs). We often start sentences with but : Mais tu saoules! (you’re annoying) to express displeasure.

Speaking of which, on top of dropping négations, we drop pronouns : You’re being a pain in my ass should be Tu me fais chier but can be Tu fais chier - maybe to make it universal or dramatic.

Speaking of which, we thrive on sarcasm and irony. To someone who’s babbling, we’ll answer It makes my leg look good.

Speaking of which, we repeat (personal) pronouns at the beginning or end of sentences. We’re likely to ask Qu’est-ce qu’il en dit, lui? and answer Moi, je veux bien (tonic pronouns, careful!).

Speaking of which, we like to use the conditional mode to indicate a wish or hypothesis : lots of Si j’avais su, j’aurais dit oui (had i known, i’d have said yes), J’aimerais bien pouvoir- (I wish I could-), etc.

Speaking of which, we add useless words : Bien (j’irais bien), Petit (un petit peu), Très (très vrai), Trop (je ne sais pas trop), ça (C’est quoi, ça?)…

Speaking of which, let’s stop before you all get disgusted and unfollow me. Remember this is spoken, private french and doesn’t apply to formal situations!

Routledge Masterpost

Here are all of the Routledge Grammar PDFs that I currently have. I’ll be updating whenever I find more. Let me know if there’s one in particular you want me to look for^^

Last Update: 2017/04/24

Fixed Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook link 

Added books for Czech, English, French, French Creoles, Persian, Ukranian

Added more books in Cantonese, Danish, Greek, Polish, Spanish, Swedish

Arabic

Arabic: An Essential Grammar Basic Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar

Cantonese

Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook

Czech

Czech: An Essential Grammar

Danish

Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar Danish: An Essential Grammar

Dutch

Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar Dutch: An Essential Grammar Intermediate Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook

English

English: An Essential Grammar

Finnish

Finnish: An Essential Grammar

French

Modern French Grammar Workbook

French Creoles

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar

German

Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook German: An Essential Grammar Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

Greek

Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language

Hindi

Hindi: An Essential Grammar

Hebrew

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Hungarian

Hungarian: An Essential Grammar

Indonesian

Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Irish

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

Italian

Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

Japanese

Basic Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar

Korean

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar

Latin

Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook Intensive Intermediate Latin: A Grammar and Workbook

Latvian

Latvian: An Essential Grammar

Mandarin Chinese

Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar Chinese: An Essential Grammar

Norwegian

Norwegian: An Essential Grammar

Persian

Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook

Polish

Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Polish: A Grammar and Workbook Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar Polish: An Essential Grammar

Portuguese

Portuguese: An Essential Grammar

Romanian

Romanian: An Essential Grammar

Russian

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook

Serbian

Serbian: An Essential Grammar

Spanish

Basic Spanish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Spanish: A Grammar and Workbook Spanish: An Essential Grammar

Swahili

Swahili Grammar and Workbook

Swedish

Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar Swedish: An Essential Grammar

Thai

Thai: An Essential Grammar

Turkish

Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Ukrainian

Ukrainian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Urdu

Urdu: An Essential Grammar

Welsh

Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar

Yiddish

Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Textbook

Hope this helps everyone out a bit! Happy studying^^

-koreanbreeze

french person: 80

me, an intellectual: blaze it

Tiny vocab list for each star sign

Aries / Bélier 🐏

La ferveur- fervor

Le zéle- zeal

Revenons au nos moutons- let’s get back on topic (lit. Lets come back to our sheep)

Taurus / Taureau 🐮

le bien-être- well being

terre à terre- down to earth

Y a pas le feu au lac- there’s no rush (lit. There’s no fire in the lake)

Gemini / Gémeaux 👯

convaincre- to convince

drôle- funny

tête de linotte- scatterbrained, bird brained

Cancer 🦀

La tendresse- tenderness

sombre- gloomy

Avoir une dent contre (qn)- to hold a grudge against someone (lit to have a tooth against someone)

Leo / Lion 🦁

dramatique- dramatic

la volonté- will

Mettre le main au feu- to be sure of something (lit to set one’s hand on fire)

Virgo / Vierge 👩🏻

sous-estimer- to underestimate

serviable- wiling to help

chercher la petite bête- to nitpick, to find fault (lit to look for the little beast)

Libra / Balance ⚖️

Compromettre- to compromise

la justice- justice

Tourne la langue sept fois (dans la bouche)- think before you speak (lit. Turn your tongue seven times (in your mouth))

Scorpio / Scorpion 🦂

la passion - passion

la pulsion- impulse

tenter le diable- to tempt fate

Sagittarius/Sagittaire 🏹

Au hasard- by chance, at random

la joie de vivre- joy of living

mettre la puce à l’oreille- to get someone thinking about something, to tip off, to warn (lit. To put a flea in the ear)

Capricorn/Capricorne 🐐

le but- goal

la ténacité- tenacity

mettre la main à la pâte- to buckle down, to work hard (lit. To start kneading dough)

Aquarius / Verseau 🍶

excentrique- eccentric

la coopération- cooperation

Cousu de fil blanc- unpredictable (lit. Stiched with white string)

Pisces / Poissons 🐠🐠

Idéaliste- idealistic

sensible- sensitive

comme un cheveu dans la soupe- turning up at a bad time, an awkward moment (lit like a hair in soup)

RESOURCE FOR (major) AP TESTS

Yo!! for those of you students (or not) who’re taking AP tests, there’s this channel called Crash Course that has a bunch of AP-related series. each video’s between 10-15 minutes long and a lot of students use them as review or catch-up on stuff that their class skimmed over/stuff they didn’t understand or missed. Here are the ones that I know are for sure AP courses:

AP World History (also, if you want a more in-depth look at a lot of these topics, check out World History 2 as well)

AP US History

AP Ecology

AP Biology

AP Chemistry

AP English Literature (in terms of analysis and close reading, not so much about paragraph and essay styles…sorry, if anyone’s got a good source for that, please reblog and add some sources)

AP Psychology (helped me get a 5 on the ap psych test, no joke!!)

AP United States Government and Politics

AP Micro- and Macro-economics* (I believe, feel free to contest this)

AP Physics* (not sure which specific tests these videos cover) - (MinutePhysics is also a good source for specific topic in physics)

* indicates series that are, as of May 3rd 2016, still running/incomplete

If anyone has any other AP-related testing help (in terms of subject matter, not how to take the test), please reblog and add more. I hope y’all pass your tests!!

French Quotes About Life: 2

Part 1.

1.Le luxe est une affaire d'argent. L'elégance est une question d'éducation- Luxury is a matter of money. Elegance is a matter of education.

2. À vaillant coeur rien d'impossible- For a brave heart, nothing is impossible.

3. La vie est simple, mais c'est le monde qui la complique- Life is simple, it’s the world that complicates it.

4. La vérité vaut bien qu'on passe quelques années sans la trouver-The truth is more valuable if you have spent some years without finding it.

5. Rester, c'est exister. Mais voyager, c'est vivre-To stay where you are is to exist. To travel is to live.

6. Vous êtes votre seule limite- You are your only limit.

7. Nous sommes nos choix- We are our choices.

8. Avoir une autre langue, c'est posséder une deuxième âme- To speak another language is to have a second soul.

9. Au milieu de l'hiver, j'ai découvert en moi un invincible été- In the midst of winter, I discovered within me, an invincible summer.

10.Exister, c'est oser se jeter dans le monde- To live is to throw yourself into the world.

Part 3.

Quotes about Love.

Possessive Adjectives

16/3/2019

In English, possessive adjectives function differently than they do in French. In French, the adjective has to agree in gender and number with the noun it modifies. For example, the word “maison” is feminine so the possessive adjective is going to use the feminine version of the adjective. First, we take the version of “my” and translate it: “mon” (m.), “ma” (f.), or “mes” (m.&f.pl.). Now you have to choose which one to modify the noun with since the noun is feminine. The correct choice is “ma maison.” Here is a list of the possessive adjectives.

My:

Mon (m.)

Ma (f.)

Mes (m.&f.pl.)

Your (informal):

Ton (m.)

Ta (f.)

Tes (m.&f.pl.)

His/Her:

Son (m.)

Sa (f.)

Ses (m.&f.pl.)

Our:

Notre (m.&f.)

Nos (m.&f.pl.)

Your (formal):

Votre (m.&f.)

Vos (m.&f.pl.)

Their:

Leur (m.&f.)

Leurs (m.&f.pl.)

In my opinion, the trickiest one to remember is “leur/leurs” because you have to make sure the possessive adjective agrees with the noun it modifies and not the people involved. 

Example: Ils ont leur propre maison. > They have their own house. 

Example: Ils ont leurs propres maisons. > They have their own houses. 

Bien à vous !

french winter vocabulary

l’hiver - the winter

décembre - december

janvier - january

février - februray

la neige - the snow

la boule de neige - the snowball

le flocon de neige - the snowflake

la glace - the ice

le froid - the cold

la manteau d’hiver - the winterjacket

les gants - the gloves 

l’écharpe - the scarf

le chandail - sweater

le manteau - the coat

la luge - the sled

faire de la luge - to go sledding

faire du ski - to go skiing

faire du patin - to go iceskating

renifler - to sniffle

le rhume - the cold (sickness)

le chocolat chaud - the hot chocolate 

le thé - the tea

le café - the coffee

la tasse - the cup

la cheminée - the fireplace

les fêtes - the winterbreak

la couette - the duvet

les oreillers - the pillows

un matin sombre - a dark morning

phrases

il neige ! - it’s snowing!

j’ai froid - i’m cold

j’ai un rhume - i have a cold

tu veux (voulez-vous) [faire de la luge]? - do you want [to go sledding]?

je voudrais [une tasse de chocolat chaud], s’il vous plaît - i would like [a cup of hot chocolate], please

[changeable] (formal) ! please correct me if i’m wrong !

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A Trip to the Supermarket French Vocabulary

Rayon (nm.) - aisle, department

Tête de gondole (nf.) - aisle-end display

Étagère (nf.) - shelf

Caddie (nm.) - cart

Panier (nm.) - basket

Faire les courses (fixed exp.) - to do the groceries

Frigo vitrine (nm.) -  Refrigerated display case

Épicerie (nf.) - grocery store

Commerce (nm.) - store, trade

Supermarché, hypermarché (nm.) - supermarket

Ticket de caisse (nm.) - receipt

Code-barres (nm.) - bar code

Lecteur optique (nm.) - scanner

Caissier, caissière (nm./f.) - cash register

Rendre la monnaie (fixed exp.) - to give change

Tapis roulant (nm.) - conveyor belt

Caisse (nf.) - cashier

Espèces (nfp.) - cash

Produits alimentaires (nmp.) - food products

Produits d’entretien (fixed exp.) - household/cleaning products

Crémerie (nf.) - dairy section

Électroménager (nm.) - electrical goods

Produits surgelés (fixed exp.) - frozen products

Conserves (nfp.) - canned/tinned food

Plat préparé (nm.) - ready-made dishes