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linguistgoneforeign

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PhD linguist, serial migrant and curious mind ✨ Docked in Bärlin 🐻

I doodle big-headed cartoons in my spare time and toot mostly in EN, ES and DE about languages, cross-cultural mishaps, life abroad and whatever keeps me awake at night. 💭

This is an inclusive space.
Make yourself at home! ☕️

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edraac, to random Spanish
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En el trabajo me dieron acceso a Rosetta Stone, hice el examen de ubicación de Francés y me pusieron en B1… LOL. Con costos puedo saludar, digamos. Supongo ser hablante nativo de una lengua romance ayuda más de lo esperado en ese tipo de exámenes en línea.

linguistgoneforeign,
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@edraac Me ocurre lo mismo. Entiendo casi todo y cuando hago esos tests me sale un B1/B2 de gramática y vovabulario, pero a la hora de hablar ya las clases de A2 me cuestan. 😅 Me voy a tener que ponerme con ello porque es un despropósito el desnivel de destrezas pasivas y activas.

linguistgoneforeign, to spanish
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Where are you on your #Spanish learning journey? 🤪

✨ See full article and high-res map here:

https://linguistgoneforeign.wordpress.com/2022/12/11/the-adventurers-map-for-spanish-learners/

#Languages
#Comics
#ThrowbackThursday

linguistgoneforeign, to Germany
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Ich rufe beim Finanzamt an und frage, ob ich die richtige E-Mail-Adresse habe, da sie meine E-Mail vom letzten Monat nicht beantwortet haben.

"Sie liegt wahrscheinlich ganz unten auf dem Stapel", sagt sie.

"Welcher Stapel?" frage ich.

"Wir drucken alle E-Mails aus und legen sie auf einen Stapel, um sie zu bearbeiten", sagt sie.

Go to Germany, they said.
It's all about efficiency, they said.



linguistgoneforeign, to drawing
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Which profile picture do you like the most?

I redesign it every couple of years and, for the first time, I'm gave her a new shirt! Are we ready for the chromatic change? Leave a comment to let me know. :owi:

#Drawing
#Cartoon
#Comics

Illustration of a happy big-headed character with black hair, a magnifying glass, deep purple shirt and brown boots.

linguistgoneforeign, to random
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linguistgoneforeign, to queer
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What you say vs. How you sound 🧐



linguistgoneforeign, to Korean
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This week in ✨

If you are into languages, you are probably familiar with those conversations with your multilingual friends: you take arbitrary elements from the languages you both speak, and randomly squeeze them together into sentences.

That is any regular Monday for the Swiss. Schwyzdüütsch, a.k.a. German is a colorful amalgamation of German, French and Italian.



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linguistgoneforeign, to berlin
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hunting yesterday night north of .

My commonplace camera could catch some pink and green hues that were barely noticeable with the naked eye.

Which makes me wonder if all the breathtaking aurora images we see are just a highly edited product.

It makes me wonder what the photographers were actually seeing, and what auroras really look like.



linguistgoneforeign, to Israel
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Seeing as is going to the grand finale, I guess we don't need to watch this year because we all know who the winner is: hypocrisy.

Shame on the EBU, organizers and supporters for not taking a stand against a genocidal state.

MFDOOMALLCAPS, to Eurovision
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I'm bowing to peer pressure and I'm going to watch Eurovision this year. How are you lot feeling about ?

linguistgoneforeign,
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@MFDOOMALLCAPS

No, for the first time ever I won't be watching Eurovision this year. There's not enough music, rainbows and makeup to disguise the frivolity towards a genocide happening in the backyard.

linguistgoneforeign, to Europe
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I drew Schrödinger's Immigrant 8 years ago, yet the struggle seems timeless.

Read full article:
https://bit.ly/LGFschroedinger ✨



linguistgoneforeign, to random
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People who write IBANs without spaces and the tiniest typeface should have a special place in hell.


evacide, to random
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Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series: https://sherwood.news/tech/how-to-opt-out-of-the-privacy-nightmare-that-comes-factory-installed-in-new/

linguistgoneforeign,
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@evacide

Easy solution: ride a bicycle.

linguistgoneforeign, to Korean
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Some Indo-European have been quite mischievous. 🤪

Languages and translations:

: les hiboux (the owls)

: Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften (legal protection insurance companies)

: você lê (you read)

Do you know more instances of language mischief? Let me know!

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