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Maja Wrońska

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Epitaph

When I die
Give what’s left of me away
To children
And old men that wait to die.
And if you need to cry,
Cry for your brother
Walking the street beside you.
And when you need me,
Put your arms
Around anyone
And give them
What you need to give to me.

I want to leave you something,
Something better
Than words
Or sounds.

Look for me
In the people I’ve known
Or loved,
And if you cannot give me away,
At least let me live on your eyes
And not on your mind.

You can love me most
By letting
Hands touch hands,
By letting
Bodies touch bodies,
And by letting go
Of children
That need to be free.

Love doesn’t die,
People do.
So, when all that’s left of me
Is love,
Give me away.

- Merritt Malloy

(via nprfreshair and elysemarshall)

Source: nprfreshair

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portentouscatastrophe:

lastglimpsetheatre:

dolphinhats:

alicexz:

toothyhalcyon:

Welcome to Tumblr.

Holy shit this is the most accurate post I have ever seen in my life

wait…this is a completely different gif set on my blog…

Reblog this and then check it on your Tumblr. Go on, do it.

Yes.

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Helpful Websites To Learn Languages

les-langues-sont-ma-vie:

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&sectHdr=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

www.aslpro.com

www.aslresource.com

http://www.asl.ms/

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

http://www.tasteofrussian.com/

http://speakrussian.blogspot.com/

http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm#russian

http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/technology/podcasts/

http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zru1.htm

http://russophilia.wordpress.com/

http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/

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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thegoddamnemily:

caninatural:

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Dean figures out something cool about Wolfpala!

Original scene from Lilo and stitch, It fit way too perfectly lol

ugly laughter

Source: caninatural

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Ten Relationship Words That Aren't Translatable Into English

Mamihlapinatapei (Yagan, an indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego):
The wordless yet meaningful look shared by two people who desire to initiate something, but are both reluctant to start.
Yuanfen (Chinese):
A relationship by fate or destiny. This is a complex concept. It draws on principles of predetermination in Chinese culture, which dictate relationships, encounters and affinities, mostly among lovers and friends.
Cafuné (Brazilian Portuguese):
The act of tenderly running your fingers through someone's hair.
Retrouvailles (French):
The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
Ilunga (Bantu):
A person who is willing to forgive abuse the first time; tolerate it the second time, but never a third time.
La Douleur Exquise (French):
The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have.
Koi No Yokan (Japanese):
The sense upon first meeting a person that the two of you are going to fall into love.
Ya’aburnee (Arabic):
“You bury me.” It’s a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person, because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
Forelsket (Norwegian):
The euphoria you experience when you’re first falling in love.
Saudade (Portuguese):
The feeling of longing for someone that you love and is lost. Another linguist describes it as a "vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist."

Source: hermionesboobs

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my last words will be, ‘yeah I had that coming.’

my last words will be, ‘yeah I had that coming.’

Source: asofterhome2

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angryasiangirlsunited:

theartofanimation:

Victo Ngai

From her website:

Victo Ngai is a NY based illustrator from Hong Kong. “Victo” is not a typo or a boy, but a nickname derived from “Victoria” - a leftover from British colonization.

Her clients include The New Yorker, The New York Times, Leo Burnett, McDonald’s, WIRED, Plansponsor, IHT,The progressive, Tor books and many more. Her work has been in shows in NY, LA, London, Germany, Australia, China and can be purchased from galleries/stores including the Victoria and Albert Museum Store.

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