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

✨ See full article and high-res map here:

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



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.

#Bureaucracy
#Germany
#Amt

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 #Israel is going to the grand finale, I guess we don't need to watch #Eurovision 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.

#BoycottEurovision

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 #eurovision?

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.

#Accesibility
#Paper

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 #languages have been quite mischievous. 🤪

Languages and translations:

#French: les hiboux (the owls)

#German: Rechtsschutzversicherungsgesellschaften (legal protection insurance companies)

#Portuguese: você lê (you read)

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

#ThrowbackThursday

linguistgoneforeign, to languagelearning
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This week in ✨

Things that happen when non-German speakers use German graphemes. 😁



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phoenix, to random
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Hot take: Finland is going to win the 🫡😎

linguistgoneforeign,
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@phoenix @timojyrinki

Finland might get the most points, but hypocrisy and frivolousness are definitely the winners of .

linguistgoneforeign, to comics
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Are prices skyrocketing? Blame the damn immigrants. The world is on fire? Let’s keep destroying it, but make it faster! There’s rampant inequality and discrimination? Balderdash! Look at these flags, proudly waiving our national colors in the wind!



linguistgoneforeign, (edited ) to comics
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Final round! When would you like new Linguist Gone Foreign to be published on Mastodon? 🐘

Here are the two winners from round 1 and 2:

linguistgoneforeign,
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Mastodonians have spoken: New Linguist Gone Foreign will be posted on Mondays! ✨

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Have an amazing weekend!

linguistgoneforeign, to linguistics
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Language learners, I have questions! 🙋🏻‍♀️

I have noticed that when I speak Japanese (currently my weakest language, A1) and try to fetch some words, at times my head turns to my second weakest language (currently Finnish, B1).

And it's not the first time! Back in the early days of Finnish, I would revert to French; and same thing happened with German when I was learning French.

Have you noticed a similar pattern when speaking your weakest language?

#Language
#Learning
#LangToot

linguistgoneforeign,
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@edraac Qué curioso esto. Me pasó algo similar con el francés cuando empecé a reactivarlo después de 15 años sin usarlo. Mi cerebro buscaba palabras e incluso sintaxis en alemán (en aquella época la segunda lengua más débil), aunque tenía ahí el español para apoyarse, pero ni caso. 😅

linguistgoneforeign,
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@maco That's a very interesting point. Maybe everything in our brains become a linguistic jungle once we go into "foreign language mode". 😅

linguistgoneforeign, to Germany
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"How much Palestinian blood must flow before your justified guilt over the Holocaust is washed away?"

--- Yanis Varoufakis



linguistgoneforeign, to random
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It's dawning on me that everyone in my circle is a scrawny, geeky kind of person. It's time to make some athletic, beefy friends for a change.

No, the fact that I'm moving next month is completely unrelated.


linguistgoneforeign, to languagelearning
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Ich sitze im Krankenhaus neben zwei Jungen (ca. 20), die sich offenbar gegenseitig die Köpfe eingeschlagen haben.

Das Gespräch:

  • Jo, Digga
  • Was, Digga
  • Was heißt HNO, Digga
  • Hals-Nasen-Ohr, Digga

I call this species "The Digga Bro".

#German
#Language

linguistgoneforeign,
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@sinjut That's interesting. I believe the German slang word "Digga" comes from "Dicker" (lit. fatter), although nowadays it doesn't have that weight connotation.

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