Languages

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

November 9, 1989 

The fall of the Berlin Wall

happy deutscher schicksalstag to all who celebrate, may your tagesschau eilmeldungen be silent

Trump winning

German government collapsing

an dieser anti lindner rede hat er schon lange im kopf geschrieben

Duolingo nooo!

Unfortunately, Duolingo was right☠️

Something that lowkey annoys me about English is that they don't really know what a Brezel is. Like, not everything made of lye dough is a pretzel and not every pretzel is made out of lye dough. Pretzel is a shape not a flavour.

You are the Klarsichtfolie to my ausgedrucktes Ticket 💕❤

📍Gibberyd, Sweden: The original Katthult of Emil i Lönneberg (I went there by bike, I don't recommend that, it was a horrible bike ride, I cried)

His Name is Emil in the original?!👀

((und andersrum))

Jede deutsche Diskussion im Internet jemals

Lofoten Islands, Nordland, Norway by Helene Myhre

I mean

Our slutty whores vs their useful rentals

When I was 14, I was in an exchange programme between my Dutch school and a German school. We all stayed at each other’s houses, we were each other’s host families. On day two of us Dutchies being in Germany after arriving in the city the evening before, we were on a bus. 25 German teens, 25 Dutch teens, and two teachers each from each school.

The driver starts driving us to the first excursion. The German teacher who was in charge of the whole programme takes the microphone and asks the whole bus the question:

“Seid ihr gestern gut klargekommen?”

In German, this means as much as: “Did you all get along well yesterday?”

Suddenly the 25 Dutch kids burst out into hysterical laughter.

The German teacher looks at us helplessly, no idea what he’d done wrong. My own teacher jumps up from his seat, and grabs the microphone from him, and yells in Dutch:

“HE WANTS TO KNOW WHETHER YOU’RE GETTING ALONG OKAY!”

You see, in German, “klargekommen” means “got along”.

In Dutch, “klaargekomen”, which is pronounced exactly the same way, means “had an orgasm”.

To these Dutch kids with only basic levels of German knowledge, this unknown teacher just asked them if they all had a good orgasm last night.