Things That Make Me Happy:

i just want to have my own cute little apartment with big windows and bake fresh banana bread every morning and have lots of plants everywhere and read a lot of books and go on adventures w/ friends and watch sunsets from my rooftop

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someone:  do you speak french

me:  I have seen a few scenes of that candlestick speaking in beauty and the beast

Guess who got shit done today

not me lmao but congrats to somebody out there

french vocab - fairy tales

Il était une fois… Once upon a time…

LES NOMS - NOUNS

le roi - the king la reine - the queen le prince - the prince la princesse - the princess la fée - the fairy la sirène - the mermaid le nain - the dwarf l’elfe - the elf le sorcier - the wizard la sorcière - the witch le dragon - the dragon le château - the castle la tour - the tower l’épée - the sword la magie - magic le sortilège / le sort- the spell

LES ADJECTIFS - ADJECTIVES

méchant - wicked / mean mauvais - bad / wicked gentil - nice bon - good enchanté - enchanted empoisonné - poisoned

LES VERBES - VERBS 

aimer - to love haïr - to hate tuer - to kill bénir - to bless maudire - to curse / to damn jeter un sort - to cast a spell

…et ils vécurent heureux pour l’éternité. …and they lived happily ever after.

Watching my toddler figure out how to language is fascinating. Yesterday we were stumped when he kept insisting there was a “Lego winner” behind his bookshelf - it turned out to be a little Lego trophy cup. Not knowing the word for “trophy”, he’d extrapolated a word for “thing you can win”. And then, just now, he held up his empty milk container and said, “Mummy? It’s not rubbish. It’s allowed to be a bottle.” - meaning, effectively, “I want this. Don’t throw it away.” But to an adult ear, there’s something quite lovely about “it’s allowed to be a bottle,” as if we’re acknowledging that the object is entitled to keep its title even in the absence of the original function.

books, blankets & cozy sweaters : a summary of my winter so far.

me: *is overwhelmed by things i absolutely have the time to do*

stop 👏 saying 👏 languages 👏 and accents 👏 are ugly 👏 or awful 👏

i understand that some languages/dialects/accents may be difficult for you personally to understand because you speak differently, or they may contain sounds that you don’t like, but please don’t use value judgements like “lazy,” “bad,” or “ugly,” even jokingly

negative attitudes towards language both originate from and contribute to marginalization

Please, don’t let anyone ever tell you learning languages is a waste of time