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For the Polylinguists

@polysprachig / polysprachig.tumblr.com

Whether you're a prospective bilingual or a full out polyglot, seid ihr herzlich willkommen zu diesem kleinen Teil der Langblr-Gemeinschaft (: -polysprachig
✨Langblr & Studyblr Re-Introduction✨

Hello everyone! I looked at my blog the other day and realised that all my basic info is well out-of-date, seeing as I was last active in the langblr in 2014-2018. Anyways...

about me

  • Maria, 32, all pronouns welcome
  • I've lived/studied or worked in: 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇷🇧🇾🇮🇪
  • my background is in Germanistik & Creative Writing; CELTA-certified; & I work as an independent foreign language consultant/teacher in English and German
  • right now I'm working towards getting into literary translation & audio recording (literary reading/performance)

languages

Mains/Everyday English (native), German, French, Irish, Greek (passive bilingual->active since 2018/19)

Others/Select Usage Italian, Old English, Middle English, Dutch, Norwegian, Russian, some Latin (esp. Medieval)

Conlang Ätchgö

There are other others but let's just leave it at that for now.

blog goals

  • share my polyglot journal notes and studies from the last 5 years, both to review/follow-up on them and because I think it could be interesting to other learners
  • interact with people on the language learning process itself & share study tips
  • meet people to discuss shared interests in our shared languages (art, music, philosophy, literature, theatre, culture—kind of dark/light academia-coded, I know, and I live for it)
  • treat posting as a hobby, not an obligation (i.e. I tend to take hobbies and mentally turn them into chores)

things I may post about here

language and linguistics stuff, esp. mutual intelligibility/historical linguistics/poetics, literature, my translation studies et. al., IWTV meta/memes/aesthetic and my blorbos (because I can't not), writing tips/memes, Chaucer, Byron and the rest

apart from language/cultures/literature I like

good coffee/espresso, cooking, stargazing, travelling, journal writing & fanfiction

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heckboymoved-deactivated2016033

behold the most moving voice acting of all time

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brozilek

IT BELONGS ON A GREAT BIG FIYAAH;yi

what ah you so excaitedabaaht MAYQUAY

eeeh eeh eeeh

mmmmh i think i’ll adopt it and takeit withmeeeeehhh

i always watch this like five times whenever it comes back around

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

Reblogging so you know which sites to totally avoid

i took 3 years of film classes and i still don't fucking understand how the camera obscura works. thats magic to me idc

this? sorcery. they should arrest this guy

people explaining this to me are missing the point. yes i know its a physics thing. i know our eyes work the same way. however. i simply believe light shouldn't work like that

oh hey it's my favorite thing that light does: turns the inside haunted by the outside!

Im sorry but it is so funny how people outside of tumblr view us. Like why are the tiktokers treating tumblr like some professional ass website you need to do extensive prep before you begin posting on. And the follower farming advice is so fucking funny to me when this is the website where people actively hate getting new followers

Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That's how you get followers

Look I love unconditional devotion love stories as much as the next person, but there's really something so deliciously raw about conditional devotion.

I have served you and I have loved you for decades, but I will not give up my principles for you. You cut out part of my heart and took it with you down that path that you insist on walking, but you walk it alone. Even when the bleeding, gaping hole you left in my chest kills me, I will not follow you.

me everytime one of my seemingly non-specific homoerotic text posts breaks containment

highly recommend keeping a small portrait of a historical figure who met a grisly end on your work desk. for perspective.

me: oh thomas cromwell, we're really in it now. every day i get emails.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: i was on committees with the duke of norfolk. and they beheaded me.

me: yep. good point.

me: cromwell. cromwell this post has got too big and famous and people are starting to misunderstand me on it.

the postcard of thomas cromwell i keep on my desk: oh no! you achieved too much fame and status? and now people are misrepresenting you? should we strip your lands and title? have you been beheaded?

me: YES ALRIGHT FINE

What to do when you don’t like a fic: a step by step guide

Step 1:

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porco-is-my-biting-daddy

Amazing tutorial I recommend to everyone!

Works flawlessly every time. Highly recommended.

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