Listed some more Nordic idioms with berries in this blog post too 🍓 🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🫐🇫🇮
Feel free to add more under this post!!
Preoccupied would be in other words « fore-busy », because you already are too busy dealing with or thinking about something to begin with to enjoy life or whatever
Choose your fighter:
🇩🇰 Danish “The Butt book” / 🇸🇪 Swedish “hey poop sausage!”
📚 some language plans & goals from 2022-2024… follow to see updates I guess..
🥦 💌 🍍 🥭 🍅 letters and vocab lists
Czech studies & breakfast 🇨🇿 25/5/24
Czech & Japanese. 🇨🇿🇯🇵 May 2024
When the Bookdepository website was going to close last year I started looking up things in whatever language and found this in Frisian…
French C1 assimil, japanese diary, and an experiment cooking a galette bretonne
Vienna city bins when I visited in December 2023 🇦🇹 My fav was ofc MÜLLE GRAZIE (mille grazie=thanks a lot in italian, müll=rubbish)
- Nimm ein Sackerl fürs Gackerl (take a bag for the poop)
- Mist im Kübel ist nicht übel (trash in the can ain‘t bad)
- Der tut nix! Der will nur Müll. (It doesn’t hurt you! It just wants rubbish)
Cute signs in Kristiansand, 10.6.23 🇳🇴
🌭 Se opp for måker - beware of seagulls
❤️ Sykler ELSKER å stå sammen - bikes LOVE to stay together
Wir wollen uns lieben, wir wissen nur nicht wie (Emden, 11.6.23)
We want to love each other, we just don’t know how
#Emden#German#ostfriesland#language blog#germany#I wonder if it’s me being socially anxious or some people just show they like you when it’s convenient for them#or if they are just as bad as showing feelings and what they like or want as other tell you you are#I don’t know#but I do think I give clear signals#still you feel like the world is full of people why would you even want to see me at all then#les gens je les comprends pas#tout pourrait être bcp mieux s’il n’y avait que se sentir voulue de quelqu’un#je suis fatiguée et un clown :/#German quote#liebe#polyglot#world#my life#mine
for low energy/commuting kind of learning I recommend Assimil books (short lessons, very tired-learner friendly) , & short stories. Both come in pocket formats. I also deeply ENCOURAGE machine translators
Men svärmodern överraskade Kristina en dag på logen, när hon höll på att åka i en repgunga, som hon i smyg hade satt up åt sig i bjälkarna. […] Kristina var ännu lite barnslig i sinnet och hade leklusten kvar i kroppen. Det var dock underligt att hon ännu ville hållas med att gunga i rep, när hon en gång hade fallit fran en sädan gunga och skadat sig svärt i knäet. Denna yra lek passade inte en gift kvinna, hon borde veta bättre.
- Vilhelm Moberg, Utvandrarna
But her mother-in-law surprised Kristina one day at the lodge when she was riding in a rope swing that she had secretly set up for herself in the beams. [...] Kristina was still a bit childish in her mind and still had the desire to play. It was strange, however, that she still wanted to keep swinging on a rope when she had once fallen from such a swing and badly injured her knee. This dizzying game was not suitable for a married woman; she should know better.
Google suggested a Czech word without the proper diacritics would be Slovenian, with a quite bizarre outcome.