languagelearning

I’m working on collecting and organizing Mandarin language learning books. My focus is graded readers, and I’m putting the least effort into textbooks (although just about anything is welcome).

Comment here or DM me if you have any specific requests and I’ll see what I can do. Mega only allows 20GB in free accounts so non-book content is harder to share, I’m open to suggestions there. Either way I’ll be adding to this folder with a lot of stuff I’m still downloading and I’ll be updating the file names as well.

https://mangolanguages.com/

I started learning Chinese through this largely because it's free with my library membership. Does anyone have any experience with it? I think I've learned while using it, I can string together some sentences.

It doesn't seem to focus much on characters, but has reading sections that I can't do because I don't know them. I can read some pinyin and it lets me mouse over characters to see that though.

I tried some weird Baidu translate apk from a sus website, but it only had Chinese to English.

One of my students is Chinese and their English is very minimal.

Yes, I'm being deeply unserious here...

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2728383

Is there an interest in this comm for Japanese sound symbolism?

• If you're studying Japanese - I'm surely not going to share something you can't easily find yourself.

• If you're not studying Japanese - are you still interested?

I might post more of these Japanese "vibe words" sometimes. I'm going to make wholesome posts far more often. I need breaks from Hellworld and its ever breaking horrible news.

Japanese sound symbolism

The Japanese language has a large inventory of sound symbolic or mimetic words, known in linguistics as ideophones. Such words are found in written as well as spoken Japanese. Known popularly as onomatopoeia, these words do not just imitate sounds but also cover a much wider range of meanings; indeed, many sound-symbolic words in Japanese are for things that make no noise originally, most clearly demonstrated by 'silently' (しーんと, shīnto), not to be confused with the religion Shintō.

Bluesky is buggy and it keeps resetting my languages to "English, Japanese". I finally got tired of fixing it every time and I decided to roll with it. For some reason Bluesky has a surprising number of posts in Japanese.

Question 1: Should I cross post them? I could put it in c/food. Or is that more spammy than useful?

Question 2: Is there a better place to put them than c/anime? Should I use c/LanguageLearning instead?

You could use it for pinyin annotations too, or really any combination of scripts.

{睾丸 |こ がん}に{豚|ぶた}の{糞|くそ}

{猪蛋蛋上的粪便 | Zhū dàn dàn shàng de fèn biàn}

{фекалии|fekalii} {на|na} {свиных|svinykh} {яйцах | yaytsakh}

People were just talking about this in a thread earlier but I can't find it anymore. Figured this would be a good place for it.

Check out the source code of this post. It actually looks for space characters after the pipe symbol and uses that to group the furigana. It's actually easiest to use for Chinese, Japanese is a bit more work, and alphabetical scripts are pretty time consuming, because you have to mark up each word with brackets and pipes, spaces don't cut it.

I was watching a really boring video with just text and there's no point to linking it, but the content is interesting and as a way of helping everyone in a searchable way here is a list of Mandarin body parts.

头发 - tóufà / tóufa - hair (on your head)
头皮 - tóupí - scalp (lit. "head skin")
皮肤 - pífū - skin
脸 - liǎn - face
耳朵 - ěrduō / ěrduo - ears
耳垂 - ěrchuí - ear lobes
额头 - étóu - forehead
脸颊 - liǎnjiá - cheeks
颧骨 - quángǔ - cheekbones
下巴 - xiàba - chin
眉毛 - méimáo - eyebrows
眼皮 - yǎnpí - eyelids
睫毛 - jiěmáo - eyelashes
眼睛 - yǎnjīng - eyes
眼球 - yǎnqíu - eyeballs
眼白 - yǎnbái - whites of the eyes
眼袋 - yǎndài - eye bags
鼻子 - bízi - nose
鼻梁 - bíliáng - nose bridge
鼻尖 - bíjiān - tip of the nose
鼻孔 - bíkǒng - nostrils
嘴唇 - zuǐchún - lips
嘴巴 - zuǐba - mouth
牙齿 - yáchǐ - teeth
舌头 - shétou - tongue
脖子 - bózi - neck
肩膀 - jiānbǎng - shoulder
胳膊 - gēbo - arm
胳膊肘 - gēbozhǒu - elbow
小臂 - xiǎobì - forearm
大鼻 - dàbì - upper arm
腋窝 - yèwō - armpit
手腕 - shǒuwàn - wrist
手掌 - shǒuzhǎng - palm
手纹 - shǒuwén - palm lines
指纹 - zhǐwén - fingerprints
手背 - shǒubèi - back of the hand
手指 - shǒuzhǐ - fingers
拇指 - mǔzhǐ - thumb
食指 - shízhǐ - pointer / index finger
中指 - zhōngzhǐ - middle finger
无名指 - wúmíngzhǐ - ring finger (lit. "no name finger")
小智 - xiǎozhǐ - little finger
指尖 - zhǐjiān - fingertips
指甲 - zhǐjia - fingernails
胸部 - xiōngbu / xiōngbù - chest
乳房 - rǔfáng - breast
乳头 - rǔtóu - nipple
腰 - yāo - waist
肚子 - dùzi - abdomen
腹肌 - fùjī - abs / abdominal muscles
肚脐 - dùqí - belly button
后背 - hòubèi - back
臀部 - túnbù - hips
生殖器 - shēngzhíqì - genitals
阴毛 - yīnmáo - pubic hair
阴道 - yīndào - vagina
阴茎 - yīnjīng - penis
屁股 - pìgu - butt
肛门 - gāngmén - anus
腿 - tuǐ - leg
大腿 - dàtuǐ - thigh
膝盖 - xīgài - knee
小腿 - xiǎotuǐ - calf
脚踝 - jiǎohuái - ankle
脚 - jiǎo -foot
脚趾 - jiǎozhǐ - toe
脚指甲 - jiǎozhǐjiǎ - toenails
脚跟 - jiǎogēn - heel
脚底 - jiǎodǐ - sole of the foot

I'm looking for a replacement for my trusty old and no longer in development Obenkyo that has seemingly gotten shafted by changes in folder permissions in newer versions of Android, being no longer able to load custom kanji lists.

Here's what Obenkyo's writing practice looked like in action:

https://streamable.com/juh3j5

Things I liked about Obenkyo's handwriting practice mode:

• The ability load custom lists
• The ability to choose the number of flash cards
• The ability to toggle off English translations and only go by on-yomi and kun-yomi
• A hint system (first hint: English translation, second hint: the kanji flashes on screen briefly)
• Half points for wrong stroke order
• The ability to replay your strokes side by side with a correct example to see where you went wrong
• No gamified elements beyond a simple scoring system
• Free, with no ads

Paired with a cheap stylus Obenkyo was an incredibly handy way to quickly brush up on writing individual kanji. I could just keep using its predetermined JLPT lists but I enjoyed using my own lists

Feeling real immersed, Duolingo

Would it kill them to better represent other cultures and countries or do they just have the one set of Corporate Memphis art assets and they're too stingy to create more

• Zapallo (pumpkin): Silly / dumb
• Nabo (napus): Dumb / silly / gullible
• Salame (salami): Dumb / clown
• Queso (cheese): Socially inept
• Perejil (parsley): Inocent / gullible / falsely acused of a crime
• Papa frita (chip): Dumb / dipshit
• Ñoqui (gnocco): Person with a useless job/position that allows for not doing any effort nor even showing up. Mostly used against public sector jobs cuz neolib brainworms, but any middle manager that does jackshit yet gets paid is basically a ñoqui
• Panqueque (pancake): Flip-flop / turncoats / unthrustworthy
• Torta (cake): [Homophobic] lesbian, but "reclaimed" by lesbians

I cannot find the answer / solutions to the french book Le Français Par La Méthode Nature.

Anyone any clue?

It's used as a goodbye, kinda dark and 2edgy4me but very popular among exchange students. Google didn't help