May. 18, 2013 @ 5:17 AM _
Some resources for those writing medieval-type stories:
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May. 4, 2013 @ 12:27 PM _
Handsome Solid Large Pockets Double-Zip Design Polyester Hooded Spring Sweater For Men
Omgomg I thought it was going to be like $90 but it’s like $15 and also comes in gray?!????!
Reblogging for impulse buying.
I wasn’t going to even bother clicking the link until I saw that someone mentioned it was only $15…I think i’m gonna buy this.
Mar. 1, 2013 @ 10:33 PM _
#actors who are actually their character
the greatest casting ever.
Even better when you think about how Dan got a place for himself in NY to continue his career, Emma went to a school in USA, and Rupert bought a effing ice cream truck.
Follow your dreams Rupert
I didn’t know this. So I looked it up and - HE ACTUALLY DID.
‘I keep my van well stocked. It’s got a proper machine that dispenses Mr Whippy ice cream and I buy my lollies wholesale – 50 for a tenner – so I never run short.
I’m not allowed to sell my merchandise. I’d need a licence for that. ‘I tend to avoid July and August, but the rest of the year I’ll drive around the local villages and if I see some kids looking like they’re in need of ice creams, I’ll pull over and dish them out for free. They’ll say, “Ain’t you Ron Weasley?” And I’ll say, “It’s strange, I get asked that a lot.”It makes it even better that he just GIVES the icecream away. [Source]
(Source: mygeekself, via jaspurrs-lalonde)
Mar. 1, 2013 @ 8:35 PM _
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Hydrofloors are only like the coolest thing ever invented. They are specially designed pools with movable floors. When you’re using your pool it’s just like a normal pool. But when you are done swimming or aquacising, you press a button and the pool’s floor slowly raises up while the water slips underneath the floor. Pimpin! Eventually the pool’s floor reaches the top and you are left with a large flat area you can use for recreation, dining, parties or any other dry land event you want.
Another press of the button and the floor sinks back down slowly to reveal your already water-filled pool. You can also stop the floor at any point which means you can make the pool as shallow or deep as you want. Having a kid’s party? Just set it for shallow kiddie pool depth. Be sure to throw a few extra chlorine tablets in the pool cleaning mechanism though, you know how kids are.
I could potentially drown my enemies at a sleep over…
There are two types of people in this world…
Mar. 1, 2013 @ 3:53 PM _
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i think people need to realize that hetalia focuses more on random bits of history here and there that are generally looked over by books. not to mention hetalia portrays nations in a humorous manner, like in a way that makes you realize, “hey, people in other countries are people too.” yanno what i mean? it’s not about the war itself, it’s about the things that happened during it, the relationships, the people that went through it.
how many of your history classes went over the dandelion coffee thing, for example? it’s something silly, but it was still a great achievement for the people who discovered it! hetalia focuses more on the human parts of nations rather that the governmental moves of it, i guess, is what im trying to say here.
not that it doesn’t touch upon battles, though, because it clearly does. i just don’t see how hetalia, a humorous, almost slice-of-life (or earth rather) anime/manga can handle something like the holocaust, and i don’t see why it needs to. you can respect something by choosing not to adapt it as well, and i honestly think it’s a good thing we don’t bring it up in canon.
and that whole “the axis powers did nothing” argument is such bullshit like both sides of the war did terrible things IN ANY WAR WE’VE HAD??? yet the allies are treated just like the axis and no one gripes about them.
same goes for older wars. nations are comprised of people, and that’s the part hima chooses to represent. anyone would be pissed to see their country portrayed in an evil and demeaning fashion????
/gets down on one knee
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Feb. 24, 2013 @ 6:28 PM _
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And as I watch
You start to grow up
All I can do
Is to hold you tight
Knowing clouds will rage in
Storms will race in
But you will be safe in my armsI’m seriously speechless everything is perfect
Feb. 24, 2013 @ 3:55 PM _
French
- http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!
- http://french.speak7.com/
- http://www.elanguageschool.net/
- http://www.learnalanguage.com/
- French word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/french
- https://conjuguemos.com/index.php
- http://learn101.org/french.php
- http://www.memrise.com/topic/french/wordlists/
- http://lightandmatter.com/french/
- http://go.hrw.com/gopages/wl-fr.html
- Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/fr/
- http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html#
- http://oli.cmu.edu/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/
- http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/statiques/accueil.asp
- Podcast: http://www.coffeebreakfrench.com/
- http://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?gclid=CMPphb2SrKgCFQI8gwodRnvuHQ
- French in Mali: http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm#french
- http://www.miscositas.com/french.html
- http://www.transparent.com/learn-french/
- http://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm
- Phonetics: http://phonetique.free.fr/index.htm
- http://www.verb2verbe.com/
- Listening activities: http://frenchlingq.com/
- http://ielanguages.com/french.html
- http://www.realfrench.net/grammar/games.php
- http://www.languageguide.org/french/
- http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/EF/EF.HTM
- http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/frlesson.html
- http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=fra
- http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/french1.html
German
- http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0„9572,00.html -You have to register, but it’s a great way to learn German
- http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/index.html
- http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/
- http://www.fln.vcu.edu//menu.html
- http://www.canoo.net/index_en.html
- http://files.flageorgia.org/german/grammar/grammar.htm
- http://www.ielanguages.com/German.html
- http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=deu
- http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/grammatik/index.html
- http://learn-german-easily.com/index-basic-german
- http://learn-to-speak-german.de/learn-with-songs
- http://www.vorleser.net/
- http://www.tagesschau.de/
- http://german.speak7.com/
- http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=en&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=&search=
Italian
- http://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-italian/
- http://www.elanguageschool.net/
- http://easy-italian.tumblr.com/
- http://nativeitalian.tumblr.com/
- Linguistic Map of Italy: http://les-langues-sont-ma-vie.tumblr.com/image/20541832214
- Italian word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/italian
- http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/10-extraordinarily-useful-italian-phrases/
- Audio, grammar, idioms, etc: http://www.oneworlditaliano.com/english/home.htm
- Children’s books: http://www.ilnarrastorie.it/favole.famose/
- http://www.zapitalian.com/
- http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html
- http://www.poliglo.com/English/english.html
- Newspaper: http://www.repubblica.it/
- http://italian.about.com/od/lessons/tp/italian-language-lessons.htm
- Children’s songs and rhymes: http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=824&t=ec&c=120
- http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/
- Culture: http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/italy-country-profile.html
- http://twitter.com/italianlanguage
- http://www.iluss.it/schede_gram_free.html
- http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/italian/italian.htm
- https://conjuguemos.com/index.php
- http://learn101.org/italian.php
- http://www.memrise.com/topic/italian/wordlists/
- Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/it/
- Podcast: http://radiolingua.com/shows/italian/one-minute-italian/
- Podcast: http://radiolingua.com/shows/italian/my-daily-phrase-italian/
- http://www.transparent.com/learn-italian/
- http://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian.htm
- http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html
- http://www.italianizeyourself.com/
- http://www.languageguide.org/italian/vocabulary/
- http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/EI/EI.HTM
Spanish
- http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
- http://www.123teachme.com/ - Has games, verb conjugations, text translator, grammar, quizzes, and more!
- http://www.studyspanish.com/
- http://spanish.speak7.com/
- http://www.elanguageschool.net/
- http://www.learnalanguage.com/
- Spanish word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/spanish
- http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/
- http://www.poliglo.com/English/english.html
- https://conjuguemos.com/index.php
- http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm
- Games: http://www.quia.com/shared/spanish/
- Newspapers: http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247903
- http://www.spanishdict.com/
- http://learn101.org/spanish.php
- http://www.memrise.com/home/
- http://www.memrise.com/topic/spanish/wordlists/
- Phonetics: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#
- Phonetics/Dialects in Spanish: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/dialects//#
- Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/es/
- http://learner.org/series/destinos/
- http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php
- http://www.miscositas.com/spanish.html
- http://www.codyscuentos.com/
- http://radiolingua.com/shows/spanish/coffee-break-spanish/
- http://www.transparent.com/learn-spanish/
- http://www.digitaldialects.com/Spanish.htm
- http://www.ielanguages.com/spanish.html
- http://www.learn-spanish.co.il/
- http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/index.html
- http://www.todo-claro.com/
- http://www.spanicity.com/
- http://www.languageguide.org/spanish/vocabulary/
- http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/ES/ES.HTM
- http://learner.org/series/destinos/
- http://www.spanishprograms.com/learning_module/tutorial_index.htm
- http://www.expanish.com/free-spanish-study-guides.php
- http://www.lingolex.com/accents.htm
- http://www.codyscuentos.com/
- http://www.spanishunlimited.com/
- http://www.onlinefreespanish.com/
Chinese
- http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese - What I love about this site is the pinyin to character tool
- http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/
- http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm
- http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese
- http://chinese.rutgers.edu/class_content_simplified_chinese/level1/class1-to-9/class1/short_en.htm
- http://www.zapchinese.com/
- http://www.yeschinese.org/learn-chinese/lesson-1-introduction-to-hanyu-pinyin/
Thai
- http://www.thai-language.com/lessons
- http://www.thai2english.com/
- http://www.linguanaut.com/english_thai.htm
- http://learn-thai-podcast.com/thai-language/
- http://www.into-asia.com/thai_language/
- http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL/VPA/Thai/pages/home.htm
- http://learningthai.com/
- http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/Beginning_Thai_I_review/index.html
- http://www.thai-lessons.com/trivial_game.php
- Music: http://www.ethaimusic.com/index.php
Korean
- http://www.voakorea.com/
- http://www.learn-korean.net/
- http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=kor
- http://wiki.galbijim.com/Hanja
- http://animara.com/hanghoul/ - shoot zombies by translating hangul!!
- http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ko.htm
- http://langintro.com/kintro/toc.htm
- http://www.genkienglish.net/speakkorean/
- http://www.infocobuild.com/language/korean/korean.html-
- http://linguanaut.com/english_korean.htm
- http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm?Subject=writing
- http://www.learn-korean.net/learn-korean-classes-listarticles-4.html
- http://www.transparent.com/wotd/today/korean.html
- http://rki.kbs.co.kr/learn_korean/lessons/e_index.htm
- http://www.youtube.com/user/koreanclass101?feature=results_main
- http://tunein.com/radio/Korean-g152/
- Newspaper: http://chosun.com/
- http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html
- http://www.koreandictionary.net/
- http://parksguide.blogspot.com.br/
- http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/
- http://ezcorean.com/korean_grammar/index.php?cfile=bb_index.php&subaction=vforum&home=grammar_forum
Japanese
- http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/
- http://www.learn-japanese.info/
- http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/
- http://www.learnjapanese.com/ - Has slang expressions, grammar, common phrases, vocabulary and more
- http://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp/
- http://www.manythings.org/japanese/
- http://jisho.org/
- http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html
- http://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-lessons.html
- http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247899
- http://www.jgram.org
- http://www.iknow.co.jp
- http://www.guidetojapanese.org
- http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SearchKanji3?OpenForm
Greek
- http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon - Greek to English, English to Greek Dictionary (Modern and Ancient Greek)
- http://www.101languages.net/greek/basics.html
- http://www.biblicalgreek.org/grammar/
- http://users.forthnet.gr/agn/drennolds1/
- http://gr.voanews.com/
- http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zgk1.htm
- http://www.textkit.com/
- http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/
- http://mylanguages.org/learn_greek.php
- http://www.e-radio.gr/
- http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html
- http://greek-language.com/Alphabet.html
ESL (English as a Second Language)
- http://www.englishpage.com/
- http://www.english-online.org.uk/course.htm
- http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Writing_English_ESL/Writing_English_ESL.htm
- https://sites.google.com/site/marysenglishcourse/home
- http://englishlearner.com/index.shtml
- http://www.brainpopjr.com/
- http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/index.html
- http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/
- http://www.ESLDesk.com/
- http://www.zozanga.com/
- http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm
Sign Language
Esperanto
- http://en.lernu.net/
- Newspapers: http://eo.mondediplo.com/, http://www.liberafolio.org/
- http://www.kurso.com.br/index.php?en
- http://en.lernu.net/lernado/index.php
- http://esperantofre.com/edu/kino01a.htm
- http://www.esperanto-panorama.net/vortaro/eoen.htm
- http://esperantofre.com/eeo/EoDktA/GerdaA/GerdaVoA.htm
- http://esperanto-usa.org/
- http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/
Russian
Arabic
- http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm
- http://www.alrashidmall.com/learn-arabic.htm
- http://www.searchtruth.com/arabic/lessons/unit1_writing.php
- http://arabic.speak7.com/
- http://mylanguages.org/learn_arabic.php
- http://arabic.tripod.com/
- http://www.daadlanguage.com/
- http://www.madinaharabic.com/start_learning.html
- http://omanpocketguide.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=81
- http://tunein.com/radio/Arabic-g135/
- http://www.al-bab.com/arab/newspapers.htm
- http://www.arabicgenie.com/arabicletters.html
- http://www.arabic-alphabet.org/arabic-lessons/
- http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-en-ar
- http://www.firdaous.com/en/0023.htm
Norwegian
- http://NorwegianLanguage.info/
- http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/norwegian/grammar/grammar.html
- http://www.apronus.com/norskaudio/samfunnslaere.htm
- http://mylanguages.org/norwegian_alphabet.php-
- http://www.freedict.com/onldict/nor.html
- http://www.nrk.no/
- Newspaper: http://www.aftenposten.no/
- http://www.101languages.net/norwegian/vocabulary.html
- http://iteslj.org/v/no/
- http://norwegianlanguage.eu/2009/01/01/what-form-of-norwegian-to-learn-bokmal-or-nynorsk/
Swedish
- http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/chap2.htm
- http://www.onlineswedish.com/main.php
- http://swedishalphabet.tripod.com/index.swf
- http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/chap9.htm
- http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish.html
- Newspaper: http://www.dn.se/
- http://www.svtplay.se/
- http://sverigesradio.se/
- http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Swedish-Dictionary/
Finnish
- http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/finnishforforeigners/parts-index.htm
- http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/supisuomea/sanasto/01.shtml
- http://www.hs.fi/
- http://watch.squidtv.net/europe/finland.html
- http://www.fincd.com/
- http://www.hei-finland.com/
- http://www.hs.fi/english/extras/speakup
- http://www.101languages.net/finnish/
- http://www.oneness.vu.lt/
- http://www.uuno.tamk.fi/
- http://www.digitaldialects.com/Finnish.htm
- http://mylanguages.org/finnish_alphabet.php
- http://www.infopankki.fi/en-gb/finnish_on_the_internet/
Polish
- http://www.transparent.com/word-of-the-day/today/polish.html
- http://www.transparent.com/learn-polish/proficiency-test.html
- http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishwords.pdf
- http://www.i-polish.com/
- http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishshortstories.pdf
- http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishgrammar.pdf
- http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/kurs/
- http://onestoppolish.com/useful_polish_phrases.htm
- http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/
- http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/tlumacz.html?qs=bread&tr=ang-auto&x=0&y=0
- http://www.listenlive.eu/poland.html
- http://www.tvp.pl/strony/przegapiles-w-tv-zobacz-w-internecie
Latin
- http://www.cambridgescp.com/Lpage.php?p=clc%5Etop%5Ehome
- https://conjuguemos.com/index.php
- http://learn101.org/latin.php
- Newspaper: http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/index_en.htm
- http://www.memrise.com/language/eng/lat/
- Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/la/
- http://www.transparent.com/learn-latin/
- http://ielanguages.com/latin1.html
- http://www.textkit.com/latin_grammar.php
- http://www.surfacelanguages.com/language/Latin
- http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Wheelock-Latin/
- http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/
- http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/alice.html
- http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/fun/
- http://yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini/
- http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/ghlectures.php
- http://adamhoward.net/latin/latincomm.html
- http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishLatin/
- http://www.ket.org/Education/latin/index.html
- http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/chifiles.html
- http://www.textkit.com/
- http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/classics.html
- http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bender/latinex.html
- http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/game.html
- http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/vocabmain.html
- http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/
- http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/latin/wheelock/
- http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm
- http://www.learnlatin.tk/
General Language Sites
- http://www.fodors.com/language/ - Has Spanish, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese
- http://www.omniglot.com/ - Has basic phrases in almost any language along with idioms and sayings
- http://www.wordreference.com/ - Any language (French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc.) to English dictionary
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - Basic phrases and vocab in French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, and Portuguese.
- http://www.languagehelpers.com/ - Has Chinese, Czech, French, German, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish
- http://www.smartphrase.com/index.shtml -Has Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, and Portuguese. Random phrase generator
- http://www.101languages.net/vocabulary/vocabulary.html - Has Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish
- http://www.livemocha.com/ - A few people have suggested this site, and it’s incredible. If you want to learn a language on your own, you need this. And it’s free!
- http://vinurminn.tumblr.com/post/15596816573/in-linguistics-a-filler-is-a-sound-or-word-that - Fillers in other languages.
- http://memrise.com/language/
- http://www.lang-8.com/
- http://www.elanguageschool.net/ - Has Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
- http://www.forvo.com/languages/ - EVERY LANGUAGE STUDENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS SITE!! Pronounces words by native speakers in these languages: English, German, French, Russian, Tatar, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish, Persian, Hungarian, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Hindi, Wu, Danish, Cantonese, Hebrew, Bashkir, Irish, Esperanto, Galician, Norwegian (bokmål), Indonesian, Serbian, Latin, Interlingua, Lithuanian, Slovak, Icelandic, Croatian, Yiddish, Slovenian, Occitan, Belorussian, Thai, Ancient Greek, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Lombard, Kurdish, Tagalog, Asturian, Latvian, Welsh, Breton, Basque, Azerbaijani, Tamil, Sanskrit, Sicilian, Bosnian, Armenian, Estonian, Malay, Bengali, Neapolitan, Georgian, Klingon, Min Nan, Scottish Gaelic, Kabardian, Scots, Macedonian, Marathi, Faroese, Chuvash, Lakota, Swiss German, Bavarian, Zazaki, Mongolian and Swahili and many more.
- http://www.internetpolyglot.com/mainMenu.html - Has English, Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Latin, Hindi, Polish, Tagalog, Swedish, Romanian, Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Farsi, Danish, Indonesian, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Amharic, Swahili, Bulgarian, and Croatian.
- http://www.engoi.com/en/index.html - Has Greek, Czech, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish.
- http://www.babelnation.com/ - Has French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
Follow thelanguagecommunity.tumblr.com for even more websites!
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Feb. 22, 2013 @ 8:19 PM _
the year is 2066. physical contact has been outlawed. hug dealers tenderly embrace people in the dead of night and shady people hold hands in dark streets
i want to read this novel
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Feb. 19, 2013 @ 3:59 PM _
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Cloud spiral in the sky. An Iridescent (Rainbow) Cloud in Himalaya. The phenomenon was observed early am 18 Oct 2009
why doesn’t this have thousands and thousands of notes, seriously?!
Holy fuuuuuuuuu
There is more at work here