International education and travel related links, photos, quotes and pieces of interest.
Theme by nostrich.
Post reblogged from Blazers and Pins with 75 notes
When you forget how to speak your native language:
I learned all kinds of vocabulary in French and then had to learn the English translation when I got back! Has this happened to you?
Video with 2 notes
Family Guy - Speaking Italian (by huluDotCom)
Important information for anyone planning to go to Italy: You can’t speak Italian just because you have a moustache.
Source: youtube.com
Photo reblogged from Not all those who wander are lost with 12 notes
What are your favorite words in foreign languages?
Post reblogged from Blazers and Pins with 73 notes
When you can think of good things to say, but don’t know how to say them in the new language:
Post reblogged from Blazers and Pins with 240 notes
When you rely on Google Translate, and are questioned about your word choice:
Source: whatshouldwecallme
Link reblogged from TIEMPO DE AVENTURA with 7 notes
TIEMPO DE AVENTURA: This I Need to Remember →
- Don’t be afraid to speak. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes. That is what you are here for!
- Speak without trepidation. Speak confidently.
- Don’t judge people too quickly. Assume that you heard them wrong or that it’s not rude in their culture or in their minds…
These are good reminders for anyone learning a foreign language. The one I had to remember was “Think less about pronunciation and just speak. Let it flow.” Early in my study abroad, I got so caught up in speaking correctly that I would avoid speaking at all. Sometimes you have to make mistakes and sometimes you have to make a fool of yourself. It’s OKAY to be foolish!
Post reblogged from Blazers and Pins with 30 notes
When you first stepped off the plane and were bombarded with your new language:
Post reblogged from Blazers and Pins with 24 notes
When it’s been a month and you’re still not fluent:
Ah, Tracy.
Quote with 5 notes
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous.
Photoset reblogged from The Bird and The Bat with 54,273 notes
Pants vs. suspenders (US/UK) as modeled by Captain Jack Harkness
Americans often assume there won’t be a cultural/language barrier if they study abroad in the UK!
Source: brigwife
Photo with 10 notes
Learning the pleasantries “hello”, “please”, “thank you”, “excuse me” and “goodbye” in the languages of the places you travel to can make a big difference in the way you’re treated (and apparently the way you’re charged). Here’s a website that tells how to say “please” in many different languages.
Link with 2 notes
How Going Abroad Transforms You into a Child →
Going abroad is an experience that most people walk away from feeling grown up and independent. But have you ever thought about how you felt when you first arrived in that new country? Before you did all of this maturing abroad, you were likely stripped of your adulthood and left to feel like a helpless child.
Sometimes I would say the same words over and over to figure them out, or repeat what other people were saying in order to get the sounds right. It’s a good way to learn, although it makes more sense coming out of a 2 year old than a 20 year old!
Quote reblogged from Hollywood Polyglot with 30 notes
French is the language that turns dirt into romance.
Quote reblogged from Hollywood Polyglot with 297 notes
It is necessary, especially for Americans, to see other lands and experience other cultures. The American, living in this vast country and able to traverse three thousand miles east to west using the same language, needs to hear languages as they collide in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
A tourist, browsing in a Paris shop, eating in an Italian ristorante, or idling along a Hong Kong street, will encounter three or four languages as she negotiates the buying of a blouse, the paying of a check, or the choosing of a trinket. I do not mean to suggest that simply overhearing a foreign tongue adds to one’s understanding of that language. I do know, however, that being exposed to the existence of other languages increases the perception that the world is populated by people who not only speak differently from oneself but whose cultures and philosophies are other than one’s own.
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.
Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now
According to her Wiki page, Angelou speaks Spanish, French, Italian, Arabic, and West African Fante. Amazing.
(via hollywoodpolyglot)Quote reblogged from Hollywood Polyglot with 6 notes
…by all means, have your kids dive into the glamorous world of Mandarin. But don’t forget the language that will likely be far more important in their lives: el idioma mas importante es Espanol!
Nicholas Kristof (on the importance of learning languages)
Source: Primero Hay Que Aprender Español. Ranhou Zai Xue Zhongwen.
(via hollywoodpolyglot)Page 1 of 5
