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More specifically it's spaced as "kor e a" and it can also mean "where is it" when pointing to a feminine noun, or "where is that (woman or thing)" when followed by the name of the referent. In Nynorsk the equivalent would be "kor er ho?" or "kvar er ho?", interchangeably; and in Bokmål it would be "hvor er hun?" (about a woman) or "hvor er den?" (about a thing). So in writing you'll mainly see "kor e a" in wordplay, or in "Who's on first?" type routines involving the name "Korea", or in folk etymology, such as [this article](https://folkehjelp.no/nyheter/frittalende-folkehjelper-i-malm) from Norwegian People's Aid, where there's this section involving a neighborhood called Korea, in a small town called Malm in Trøndelag: ::: spoiler Norsk # Klasse mot klasse Malm har i underkant av 1300 innbyggere og er administrasjonssenter i Verran kommune, innerst i Trondheimsfjorden. Stedet ble bygd opp rundt Fosdalens bergverk etter funnet av jernmalm på begynnelsen av 1900-tallet. Gruva er Nord-Europas dypeste, og driften varte til 1997. Det var hit Walfreds svenske besteforeldre kom på slutten av tjuetallet. Etter å ha vært rallar på Nordlandsbanen fikk bestefaren arbeid i gruva. – Svenskene ble sett på som flinke gruvearbeidere. De var også syndikalister og gode på organisering, og de fant seg ikke i hva som helst. Da ble det streik, sier Walfred, som begynte i gruva i 1973. Han ble med i *removed*foreningsstyret året etter og ble hovedtillitsvalgt i 1991. Nå er han klubbleder for 320 polske sveisere og platearbeidere ved Fosdalen AS som leies ut over hele Norge men er ansatt i bedriften. Alle er selvfølgelig organisert. *removed*foreningslederen erfarte tidlig at det var klassetilhørigheten som var viktigst – ikke nasjonaliteten. – Fra gammelt var Malm-samfunnet delt, forteller Walfred, – det var arbeidere mot funksjonærer. Alle boligene var bygd av bergverket. Arbeiderne bodde i strøket som ble kalt Korea og funksjonærene bodde i Malmlia. Eller Latterlia, som det het på folkemunne, smiler han. Mens forsøket på å latterliggjøre funksjonærstrøket er en opplagt forklaring på dette kallenavnet, fins det flere teorier om Korea-navnet, ifølge Walfred. – En av dem er om mannen som kom hjem og lette etter kona si som han mistenkte for å ha seg med en annen. «Kor e a,» spurte han sint. Men jeg tror det bare er en artig historie. Det er nok mer sannsynlig at navnet har sammenheng med Koreakrigen og ‘krigen’ i arbeiderstrøket, med misunnelse, uenighet og sjalusi, sier han. ::: ::: spoiler English # Class against class Malm has just shy of 1,300 residents and is the administrative center of Verran municipality near the end of the Trondheim Fjord. The town was built up around the Fosdal Mine after the discovery of iron ore at the start of the 1900s. The mine is Northern Europe's deepest and was in operation until 1997. It was hither Walfred's Swedish grandparents came at the end of the 1920s. After spending some time as a traveling railwayman on the Nordland Line, Walfred's grandfather was employed in the mine. – "The Swedes were seen as good miners. They were also syndicalists and good at organizing, and didn't accept things blindly. So there were strikes," says Walfred, who started mining in 1973. He joined the union's board of directors the year after and became the head union representative in 1991. He is now the leader of a club for 320 Polish welders and sheet metal workers for Fosdalen AS, who are hired out across all of Norway but are employed in that company. All of them are of course organized. The union leader learned early on that it was class belonging that was most important, not nationality. – "For a very long time Malm society has been split," says Walfred, – "it was workers against functionaries. All the housing was built by the mining company. The workers lived in the neighborhood which was called Korea, and the functionaries lived in Malmlia. Or Latterlia, as it was popularly known," he smiles. *[note: "malm" means "ore", and "lia" is the definite form of "li" which means "sloping mountain- or hillside covered with grass or forest". The popular name "Latterlia" is a play on this and the word "latterlig", which means "laughable" or "ridiculous".]* While the attempt to poke fun at the functionaries' neighborhood is an unquestionable explanation of its nickname, there are multiple theories on the "Korea" name, according to Walfred. – "One of them is about a man who came home looking for his wife who he suspected of being unfaithful. 'Where is she,' he asked angrily. But I think that's just a peculiar story. It is a lot more likely that the name is connected to the Korean War and the "war" in the workers' neighborhood, with envy, disagreement, and jealousy," he says. ::: ___ *※ Verran was absorbed into Steinkjer municipality on January 1st, 2020. Also, Malm's population has declined by ~100 people since the article was published.* I have to wonder if the folk etymology of this neighborhood's name coming from a dialectal phrase, with this very vivid image of an angry abusive husband, was invented because it is considerably more cringe to be Yet Another Western Locality nicknamed after a war-torn country in Asia, in reference to a perceived high rate of crime or general discord. In the USA there's "Fayettenam" in North Carolina and more famously "Chiraq" in Illinois — the latter was interestingly originally coined by drill rappers before it was co-opted by right-wing conservatives.

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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](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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

I'll start: [AAA](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_A_(Argentina))rgentina


Might be of use to someone. Seems like they have plenty of resources in their sidebar if you don't want to talk to the commenters.

Hello! I've recently picked up learning Spanish because I work with a ton of dudes from Mexico. How much can I reasonably expect to learn from this app? I looked at their "curriculum" and it seems pretty short compared to what I think I'll need. What are some resources beyond "talk to your coworkers", that will put me on the right track?

I almost feel like English should start from scratch with spelling, There are basically no consistent rules at all. I think we should assign spelling to kindergartners who actually follow the rules of English and spell things like they should be spelled. Quinoa -> Keen-wa Ballet -> Baal-Eh Design -> De-zine etc.


If you know of any, please post them here!

Really makes me feel immersed in the Japanese language. This is a common problem with Duolingo- no matter what language you study, the material just feels American  And before you ask, no, I did not pay for the subscription, they randomly gave me three free days of Plus, or Super, or whatever it is. Imagine paying for Duolingo 

I know you can't learn a language in three weeks, but let's see *how* I fail. How much can I learn before my granny from Ethiopia visits? I'm unemployed so I have time to study and I'm pretty motivated. You can often get from 0 to A1 level in a language within 100 hours of study. I should be able to learn the writing system (it's a hard one), more than 100 words, and some amount of grammar.

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