As you may have noticed there are a lot of new people coming to tumblr and some old friends are coming back. (I actually saw 2 people who hadn’t been here in 6 years post yesterday! Amazing!)
So if you are new maybe you don’t know why you aren’t getting followers or engagement. Let’s talk about tags!
For language learning blogs you want to use the following tags on your posts:
Langblr
(Xyz language) langblr ex. Japanese langblr
Polygot
Learn xyz language ex. Learn Japanese
Xyz language grammar/vocabulary/etc.
Don’t tag things with your blog name.
Be patient. Sometimes people put posts in their queue and it can be a few weeks before it posts on their blog.
Look at the tags on blogs you like. You can use those tags.
Yes tumblr has a method of talking in the tags. Only do that on reblogs unless you don’t care about who sees it.
this is the offical ‘i care’ symbol this is how it works: basically you reblog this and your followers know that you care and that they can message you about anything anon or not and you will reply back or at least look at there message. if you care about your followers please reblog
Hola a todas! @languagemadness me ha etiquetado en unas preguntas del mi viaje de estudiando los idiomas. He hecho el mismo mensaje en ingles en mi langblr principal, @yosuisnathan. Gracias!
1. What languages are you/have you studied?
He estudiado español, árabe, húngaro, francés, noruego, hebreo, portuguesa, rumano, y alemán. Los primeros tres son los que estudio en serio.
2. How long have you been studying?
Empecé a estudiar español mi primero año del secundario, hace seis años. He estudiado árabe por un año, y húngaro por dos meses.
3. Did you learn through class, self-study, or both?
Para español y árabe, tomé clases a la escuela y solo. Todos los otros idiomas estudio solo.
4. Why did you decide to learn this language?
Español- Necesité tomar un idioma a la secundaria y todos mis profesores y mi hermana me dijeron que español fue el mejor. Me enamoré con el idioma y todavía lo estudio.
Árabe- Fue una beca que quería ganar y por la beca, necesité un año de estudio del idioma. Tomé los clases y, como español, me enamoré con el. Para mi, árabe es un idioma muy hermoso y místico y tiene una calidad antigua.
Húngaro- La familia de mi abuelo fue húngaro, pero él fue adoptado y no sé esa parte de mi familia. Por eso, quería empezar con húngaro para conectar a mi pasado.
5. What was a major highlight/milestone in studying this language?
Con español, un ‘hito’ fue que tomé el segunda nivel de español en mi primer año de universidad. Para árabe, el hito mejor fue que en mi clase, la mayoría de los estudiantes ya hablaron árabe y tomaron el clase para estudiar el idioma estándar. Mi profesora me dijo que aprendí mucho por no saberlo antes.
6. What was the hardest thing about studying this language?
Para español, los pronombres de objetos pero en total, el idioma es muy fácil para mi y lo aprendí fácilmente. Necesito practicarlo más, pero es fácil a comunicar en español. Con Árabe, la gramática es lo más difícil. Mi profesora nunca nos enseñó gramática jaja.
7. What resources did you find most useful for studying this language?
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ los clases? No sé jaja
8. Any top tips for studying this language?
Nunca piensa que un idioma es difícil. Todos los idiomas son similares de una forma u otra. Cuando piensa que algo es difícil, será difícil.
9. What’s your next major language goal?
Quiero aumentar mucho mi español y quiero aprender la gramática de árabe. Para húngaro, quiero estudiarlo más y más y quiero empezar a creer frases básicos y aprender lo más que puedo.
10. Anything we can do in the Tumblr community to get you there?
No puedo pensar en algo, pero quiero decir que necesitamos recordar que todos de nosotros somos aquí para aprender y debemos ser amable. No seas malo el uno con el otro.
I’ve bought some more glitter felt so I can make more tiny squishy fun things to use in my kids’ classes (I already have a gold and a rose gold star, so I’m gonna make a silver star, a smiley face, a pink heart, a red heart and maybe a bunny if I’m feeling ambitious). Planning to do this while listening to Norwegian/Japanese podcasts/radio, which will be nice because normally I listen to podcasts/the radio while I’m driving/cooking/washing up/gardening and I can’t stop to write things down. Hopefully doing something creative and working with my hands that is actually productive will be good for me!
The aforementioned stars (nobody asked but i’m sharing anyway)
21.01.2018; colour-coding info for my thesis, trips to lush and the bookshop, and tiny croissants.
today i managed to finish a reading i wanted to do for my thesis, although i pretty much disliked all of it. now it’s time for monday; good morning habits start the night before!
Rules: answer 20 questions and tag 20 people you’d like to get to know better.
Name:Ángela
Nickname:none?
Zodiac sign: gemini
Height:158 cm
Orientation:bi
Favorite fruit: watermelon
Nationality:Spanish
Favorite season: fall
Favorite scent:vanilla
Favorite animal: horse
Favorite book: Narnia, it was the first saga I read and will forever remain as my favourite probably because of how much I loved it
Favorite flower: mmm no idea?
Favorite color: any dark read and teal blue
Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea
Average hours of sleep: around 7
Favorite fictional character: maybe Jamie Fraser?
Number of blankets you sleep with: none, I use a thick af duvet and super thick and fluffy pyjamas
Dream trip: always Japan
Dogs or cats: dogs all the way
Blog created: at some point last summer (2016)
I tag whoever wants to do this because I already had to tag people for the 30 questions and it’s just so draining for my brain haha but oh, no, hey, @livinglanguages
Thank you @aspoonfuloflanguage for tagging me :) these things make my ego flourish but I still like it haha
The RULES: answer 30 questions and then tag 20 blogs you would like to know better.
1/ nicknames? none but I wish I had one haha 2/ gender? female 3/ star sign? gemini 4/ height? 158 cm 5/ time? 16:51 6/ birthday? June 8th 7/ fave bands? I’ve never been good at this, specially with bands, but I guess looking at my playlist you could say I seem to like The Chainsmokers 8/ fave solo artists? mmmm…. I like certain songs fom Miley Cyrus, specially the new ones, and I love El Chojin, Sharif, and many other Spanish rappers 9/ song stuck in my head? No puedo vivir sin ti, cover from Bely Basarte 10/ last film watched? call me crazy but I do not remember… 11/ last show watched? House of Cards (close to finishing it) 12/ creation of this blog? at some point last year, probably in the summer 13/ what do i post? stuff about languages (mostly Spanish, English, French, and the occasional German or Japanese could appear), linguistics, translation and sometimes my life updates and pictures of my day, studyblr style 14/ last thing I googled? the closing time of my nearest bookstore ;) 15/ do you have other blogs? a sideblog for knitting that I don’t use much because I need to get to know the community and find new blogs, I’d give you the link but I doubt it’s interesting; you can ask me though 16/ do you get asks? sometimes, not often; I wish they were more because I love them, it’s more interesting than just writing my own ideas or reblogging 17/ why did you choose your url? well, I like tea, I drink at least one a day and several mugs during winter, and I thought it was cool paired with languages, which would be the main topic of this blog 18/ following? 226 19/ followers? 1518 (thanks for that y’all) 20/ favorite colours? any dark red/burgundy kind of thing and teal blue 21/ average hours of sleep? probably 7 since it takes us forever in this house to fall asleep! 22/ lucky number? nooo idea 23/ instruments? I played the guitar when I was in school for a few years but it got boring (the new teacher was too slow) and for some reason I didn’t think about finding another academy, I just stopped 24/ what am I wearing? one of those skirts with buttons in the middle (kaki) and a burgundy blouse with brown gladiator style sandals 25/ how many blankets do i sleep with? I use a thick winter duvet and very thick and fuzzy and warm pyjamas so none; but I practically live in one for the rest of the day 26/ dream job? working at home as a translator, probably running my own company that has something to do with research or software for translation studies; maybe something to do with corpus research or analysis 27/ dream trip? anything in rural Japan 28/ favorite food? Asian vegan food, specially Japanese or Thai 29/ nationality? Spanish 30/ favorite song now? I probably don’t have a favourite song at the moment, but rather a few that I constantly listen to until I get bored; one would be Eres Tú, again the cover by Bely Basarte
