—Little Women (2019), Screenplay By Greta Gerwig

I'm at a N5 level and I'm wanting to find youtubers the speak natural Japanese. The only Japanese youtubers I know are mimei and The Japanese Man Yuta. Do you know any channels that are Reaction/Interview/A laid back video? A lot of my english ytbers don't scream/swear(constantly)/etc. If you can help, thank you.

バイリンガール英会話 – lifestlye & travel

Chiaki – makeup, fashion & lifestyle (lives in the uk)

こんどうようぢ – makeup, lifestyle & lgbt+

Ami Morita – makeup, lifestyle & fashion

LIFE OF MIYU – lifestyle & fashion

和田さん。チャンネル – makeup & fashion

藤子さき – makeup & lifestyle

たかねんわーるど – lifestyle

日本語の森 – Japanese language information

三本塾 – Japanese language & culture information

禁断ボーイズ – fun & games

すしらーめん – fun & games

はじめしゃちょー – fun & games

東海オンエア – fun & games

さんこいち – fun & games

hatomugi ASMR – ASMR

華凛 – ASMR

Latte ASMR – ASMR (Japanese, English & Korean)

Sorry this took so long! I have quite a long YouTube subscription list and I wanted to make sure I organized it a little bit too. A few of these YouTubers are from Kansai (like 禁断ボーイズ) so their Japanese may be more difficult or not sound as refined as the other YouTubers, but I recommend all of them 😊

i've never related to a meme so much in my life

The Three Graces, 1831

They are named Aglaea, Euphrosyne, and Thalia or more commonly “The Three Graces” in Greek mythology. Daughters of Zeus and Eurynome, they symbolize respectively beauty, joy, and fertility.

Minor goddesses, they were considered by Homer handmaidens of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. They were represented in Art by numerous sculptors and painters throughout history, among them Raphael, Botticelli and Rubens.

This marble sculpture by Jean-Jacques Pradier, known as James Pradier is found in the Louvre museum.

We need to talk about LingoHut

I’m supposed to be studying some Italian, but instead, I was googling in my computer how to learn a new language (no, googling how to learn will not teach you shit, you have to sit down and learn your target language not how to do it, I know but I’m lazy.) and I came across LingoHut, and I have to share it.

I don’t know if someone ever talked about this page, but if they did is worth mentioning again.

So basically you go to the website and in the Home Page you have to choose what is your first language and what language are you trying to learn.

Once you choose it’ll take you to another page in which you have tons of lessons, for ex. In Italian, there are 109 lessons.

I haven’t checked every lesson yet but for example, the first one is greetings and such. You click that lesson and you have 16 flashcards that will show you the word in your target language and the translation, at the same time that someone pronounces the words.

Below the flashcards, you have this  ⬇️

And basically is a bunch of game, an easy matching words kind of game, some kind of tic tac toe with words, a memory game do you know the one that kids play in which they have to find the matching pictures? Same but with words and lastly a listening and matching game.

Below the bar of the games, we have the vocabulary list of the words we are taught in that lesson, and you can click the word and listen the pronunciation.

In the end, you have a bunch of the next lessons.

The lessons vary from the content it can be greetings, numbers, health stuff, office words, computer terminology, etc.

The website doesn’t have every language in the world, but it has a lot of them. choose your target language, in my case Italian, and enjoy, is fun and simple if you want to practice or do something related to your target language but you don’t have the willingness that day to study something more consistent like structure.

And the best part is that as far as I went looking around in this page it’s fucking free. Sure, you won’t end the one hundred and something lessons speaking like a native from whatever target language you’re learning, but it can be useful to expand your vocabulary.

Modern Gothic? Yes, Please.

Ok, I am a sucker for gothic literature and an even bigger sucker for MODERN gothic lit. All these books are on my TBR. 

“I run blindly through the madhouse … And I cannot even pray … For I have no God.” ― Grant Morrison, Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth

Verstärkungswörter / Strengthening words

absolut - absolute/absolutely

total - total/totally

völlig - complete/completely

vollkommen - complete/completely

äußerst - extreme/extremely

überaus - extreme/extremely

brutal - brutally

irre - insane/crazy

entsetzlich - horrible/horribly

grässlich - awful/awfully

widerlich - disgusting

riesig - huge

furchtbar - frightful/frightfully

fürchterlich - dreadful/dreadfully

leidenschaftlich - passionately

großartig - awesome

unheimlich - uncanny

sehr, sehr - very, very

hoch- - high

ausgesprochen - decidedly

wahnsinnig - crazy

immer alles ganz - always the same

schrecklich - terribly

phantastisch - fantastic

ehrlich - honestly

bestimmt - great

sicher - certain/certaintly

sicherlich -certain/certaintly

echt - real

toll - great

prima - super

klasse - great

Spitze - top

bestimmt - certainly

wirklich - really

super - super

extrem - extreme/extremely

arg - very

verdammt - damn

ziemlich - somewhat

unverschämt - outrageous/outrageously

The phrase "руки не доходят"

The straight translation: Hands do not reach (hands do not come to)

The meaning: I need to do something, but it’s not interesting and I don’t want to do it. So, I’ll blame my hands, that they are very busy and they have no time for this thing.

A kind of procrastination. It’s usually connected with house work like “Make out (clean) the balcony”, “Knock out (clean) carpets”, “fix something”, “look at something to fix it” and etc.

German Vocab: Expressing your opinion

1. Basic Vocab:

die Meinung - opinion meine Meinung - my opinion zustimmen - to agree widersprechen - to disagree überzeugen - to convince richtig - right falsch - wrong

2. Expressing your opinion:

Meiner Meinung nach… - In my opinion…

Meiner Meinung nach ist Game of Thrones keine gute Serie. ~ In my opinion Game of Thrones is not a good show.

Ich meine/Ich finde, dass… - I think that …

Ich finde, dass du weniger Alkohol trinken solltest. I think that you should drink less alcohol.

Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass... - I’m convinced that…

Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass Katzen sehr sozial sind. I’m convinced that cats are very social.

3. Asking for Someone’s Opinion:

Was hältst du von …? – What do you think of …?

Was hältst du von Britney Spears? Magst du sie? ~ What do you think of Britney Spears? Do you like her?

Was denkst du über ….? – What do you think about …?

Was denkst du über das Rauchverbot? Bist du damit einverstanden? ~ What do you think about the smoking ban? Do you agree with it?

Was ist deine Meinung über …? – What is your opinion on …?

Was ist deine Meinung über vegane Ernährung?  ~ What is your opinion on vegan diet?

4. Agreeing with someone:

Ich stimme dir zu. - I agree with you. 

Du hast (völlig) recht. - You’re (completely) right.

Das finde ich auch. - I think so, too.

Ich teile deine Meinung. - I share your opinion. 

Genau/Eben. - Exactly.

5. Disagreeing with someone:

Das kann sein, aber… - That might be so, but… 

Das stimmt nicht. - That’s not true.

Da muss ich widersprechen. - I have to disagree with that. 

Da liegst du völlig falsch. – You’re completely wrong with that.

Auf keinen Fall. - Absolutely not.

+ the not so polite way to disagree:

So ein Quatsch/Was für ein Blödsinn! – What nonsense/rubbish!

Du spinnst ja! - You’re crazy!

Du hast keine Ahnung! - You have no idea!

6. Expressing Indifference

Das ist mir egal. - I don’t care.

Es ist mir vollkommen egal. – I don’t care at all.

Keine Ahnung. - No idea.

Ocean Vuong, from Someday I’ll Love Ocean Vuong