Jean

Are we feeling more the blue or the green?

*googles light pearly green highlighters bc that is def something I didn’t know I needed*

*sid voice* it came! It finally came!

Had to take off the library protective cover but it’s in solid shape! Now I just have to decide what highlighter color I wanna use. @michaelerard.bsky.social suggestions for color?

#langsky

😩😩😩 bummer!! But what a kind thought tho! 💕 maybe one day the stars will align. I’m looking forward to your new book too!

Hell yeah dude! ✊🏻 I’m actually returning it to the library and getting my own copy instead bc I wanna highlight and bookmark stuff! 🤓 can’t wait to finish it!

The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

Imma be so for real: going viral on YouTube has ~wrecked my Spanish habits and the adjustment period to establish new habits is taking longer than I’d prefer

-confessions of a perfectionist productivity nerd

(No I am not complaining about going viral 😆)

#languagelearning

Wait - I'm learning Spanish and swear like a sailor too! Drop the podcast episode! 😀 I've seen a few TikToks teaching swear words but I want variety!

Also, no, I'm never surprised at other languages swearing more than in typical American English lol idk why tho 🤔

I suppose the devs wanting to switch the fun > efficacy formula doesn't take priority over the business view of "the more people stay, the more money we make." But hasn't anyone equalized the formula yet?

Little Talk in Slow French is my favorite 💕

French,
Brazilian Portuguese,
Japanese

Assuming the general purpose of gamifying it is to teach you in a fun but effective way, I have yet to find a language app that does both. Not sure why that is. It’s not as if it’s impossible to make learning fun and effective at the same time 🧐 but all these gamified language apps suck at it

I am SO enjoying it so far. Great writing. Interesting stuff 👀

Oh gotcha! Bc where my mind first went was the trend of “polyglots” shouting from the rooftops that they learned x language in 72 hours, in a style that sounds like a headline from the Onion and it warps our perceptions of how long it takes to ACTUALLY learn a language

I wonder if that’s the non-US title? 🤔

I switched to @thestorygraph.com a year or two ago and never. looked. back. IMHO it is infinitely better than Goodreads. Cleaner. Less buggy. Cool data tracking. Not owned by Amazon. Never regretted changing over and also StoryGraph makes it easy to migrate from Goodreads so you don’t lose anything

I’m not 100% sure I know what you mean. Could you elaborate? 🧐

It’s, dare I say, soup-a cute? 🤭

SMALL 👏🏻 STEPS 👏🏻

Love the power of small steps! Personally, I drink probably 2 cups flavored with a packet, 1-2 regular water, and maybe another 1.5 in the form of soda. So like… probably 5ish on average.

I don’t think that “8 cups of water a day” should be taken as gospel anyway 🤷‍♀️

I am geeking out HARD over this book about hyperpolyglots

Babel No More by Michael Erard

#langsky #multilingualism #currentlyreading

Unsuccessfully.

With a like-minded neighbourhood.

Can a linguist help with this: what is going on with the grammar?

1) "One of the things I do best is sing."
2) "All I want for Christmas is you."

WHY can a verb come after "is" in 1 but not 2? Is it because of the "do" in 1? One of my students pointed this out and I'm bamboozled.

#langsky

Love that goal 👏

Linguistic structure covering phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics

Linguistics 101

#langsky #linguistics #syntactics #semantics #discourse #universality #∀

Thank you so much! And same to you! ❤️🎆

#2024review:
- started a language learning channel
- started a decentish consistent Spanish habit
- did some amazing work with my English teaching content creation
- made healthy choices

I’m actually psyched for 2025. I’ve got goals and I’m ready to tackle them 💪🏻

I got about halfway through Khan’s book before my library loan ran out. Very interesting! I’ve put another hold on it so I can finish it but it’s pretty popular (understandably so) so it’ll be a minute before I get it back to finish it 😆 it’s fascinating what he’s done with Khanmigo

Way to slay 👌🏻

Language learning

Remember:
If you can learn 1-10, you can learn 20-100. If you can learn 100 words, you can learn 300. If you can learn 1 grammar rule, you can learn 3. If you can make a simple sentence, you can learn to make complex ones.

Love what you do and keep going

#langsky

Came across my feed at exactly the right time! Thanks for sharing 💕