Many of you may know that I keep youtube playlists of language samples, and I thought it was about time to compile them all into one post. They contain pretty much anything where you can hear the language clearly – music, dialogues, tutorials, movie trailers, readings, etc. I’ll probably add more in the future. Hope someone finds them useful!
afrikaans
ainu
akkadian
albanian
american sign language (ASL)
amharic
angolan portuguese
arabic
aramaic
aranese
armenian
aromanian
assamese
asturian
aymara
azerbaijani
bashkir
basque
bavarian
belarusian
belizean creole
bengali
berbice creole dutch
biblical (classical) hebrew
bosnian
brazilian portuguese
breton
british sign language
bulgarian
canadian french
cantonese
cape verdean creole
catalan
chechen
cherokee
chickasaw
coptic
cornish
corsican
cree
crimean tatar
croatian
crow
czech
danish
dogri
dutch
early modern english
egyptian
emilian-romagnol
esperanto
estonian
etruscan
faroese
fijian
finnish
flemish
french
french sign language (LSF)
frisian
fula (fulani, fulah, peul)
galician
gallo
garifuna
georgian
gottscheerish
greek
greenlandic
griko
gujarati
gullah
guyanese creole
haitian creole
hawaiian
hawaiian pidgin
hebrew
hiberno-english (irish english)
hindi
hindko
hittite
hungarian
icelandic
indonesian
irish
italian
jamaican patois
japanese
javanese
kannada
karelian
kashmiri
kazakh
khmer
kinyarwanda
konkani
korean
kristang
kurdish
kyrgyz
ladino
lakota
latin
latin american spanish
lebanese arabic
lemko
lithuanian
livonian
lombard
louisiana french
luganda
luo
luxembourgish
macedonian
malagasy
malay
malayalam
maltese
mandarin
maori
mariupol greek
martinique creole
mayan (general)
meitei (manipuri)
mirandese
mongolian
mossi
nahuatl
neapolitan
nheengatu (língua geral amazônica)
norwegian
nuosu (yi)
odia
ojibwe
okinawan
old english
old french
old norse
old welsh
pashto
pennsylvania german
persian
piedmontese
polari
polish
punjabi
rajasthani
rioplatense spanish
romani (general)
romanian
romansh
russian
ryukyuan
saint lucian creole
salish
sami (general)
samoan
santali
saraiki
scots
scottish gaelic
serbian
shanghainese (hu dialect, wu chinese)
shona
sicilian
silesian
sindhi
slovak
slovene
soga
somali
sumerian
swabian
swahili
swedish
swiss german
tagalog
tahitian
taíno
tajik
tamazight (general)
tamil
tatar
telugu
texas german
thai
tibetan
tlingit
tocharian
tokelauan
tongan
totonac
trinidadian french creole
tuareg
turkish
turkmen
ukrainian
urdu
uzbek
venetian
vietnamese
vurës
welsh
wolof
yiddish
zaza (zazaki)
zulu
When your best friend tells you all she had for breakfast Was a packet of Splenda and a Diet Coke, And she tells you that she’ll stop after she loses five more pounds, Do not believe her. Tell her mother. It does not matter how angry your friend gets. The pain of that will always be preferable to the pain Of seeing your best friend in four years Weighing as much as she does now Half-dead in the hospital.
When your father sneaks into your bed in the dead of the night, And he tells you that this is how fathers love their daughters, Do not believe him. Tell your English teacher. She will have read millions of stories of girls like you. There is a one in six chance that she will be a girl like you. There is a five in six chance that she will know what to say to you. There is a six in six chance that she will help you.
When your veins whisper to you in the moonlight And say that there are so many nightmares inside you That could be free If you would just open your arms, Do not believe them. Tell your school’s guidance counselor, No matter how scared you are Because whispers are liars, And opening your arms will only open the passage For more nightmares to climb in.
And when the therapists say that you are better, Totally better, And you don’t need to worry about the sadness again, Do not believe them. Always be cautious, because sadness has a way Of sneaking up on you When you’re not looking. Be careful. Be careful.
i cant believe its daylight savings time and i havent seen the “hello its me your cousin oskaar from iceland” video on my dash yet you are all slackers
Genuinely can’t put into words how fucking fuming I am that people are not going to see Captain Marvel because they think it’s a film about “putting down men”. She is a powerful superhero who is going to be more powerful than other male characters in the MCU, this doesn’t mean she’s putting them down. Thor is clearly a more powerful character than Valkyrie in Ragnarok but none of us have come online and said the film is sexist/puts down women, it’s just the character’s qualities. Why can’t we just enjoy this new super hero for her amazing qualities and either celebrate the fact she’s a woman, or just not let it effect you’re judgement at all until you’ve seen it. The comments I’ve seen online are honestly delirious. Genuinely people worrying that she will be, and I quote, “an unlikeble character who will use her powers to show up other men in the MCU”, so basically if she does anything powerful or cool in endgame these losers are gonna write it off as what I will assume they define as “feminist propaganda”. Honestly if anyone is thinking like this PLEASE just get a life, take the film for what it is: a superhero movie about an extremely powerful and awesome individual who, yes, will most likely be one of the most powerful additions to the MCU, shut up and enjoy it, or don’t, but don’t use gender as your reason for claiming it’s a bad film.
My stepfather thinks it’s okay to sexualize girls my sister’s age and I’m trying to prove a point because he doesn’t seem to think that’s wrong
My school has decided we can’t bring backpacks to HIGH SCHOOL CLASSES. WHERE YOU NEED TEXTBOOKS AND LARGE PROJECTS. we only get 5 minutes in between classes and most students classes are across campus. The school is scared that someone will have a weapon in their backpack but during most school shootings backpacks with heavy books and other items have saved lives. My friend emailed our principle a very strongly worded letter and he has his heart set on it. Reblog if you disagree and me and my friend will write down everyone who does, and give it to him. Thank you!
Listening to your religious co-workers murmur about angels and miracles, is always a little awkward for you. They had asked you before, if you believed in angels. You had hesitantly agreed, and to your relief they had asked nothing else on the subject, though they seemed surprised that someone like you, believed in angels.
The mental image of their reactions if you told them the truth though, are enough to have you giggling a bit. You had gotten a few odd looks for that, not that such a thing would be anything new, but luckily they had shuffled off a few moments later.
The idea of telling them that you had once smashed a vase over an angels head when they had appeared in your bedroom, or even the fact that they stuck around and have taken to calling you “Little Miracle”, is more than a little amusing. You’re pretty sure they wouldn’t take such “blasphemy” well.
the suffering never ends
Sounds like a cool system
This needs to be a nationwide initiative!
As you opened the door, the sight greeting you was not, as your friend put it, "a teeeny mistake with a summoning spell". In a hasty attempt at a barrier on one side of the room was a couch, your friend staring fearfully at the scene in front if them. Two entities, one whose face was constantly changed from different animals to humans, with a cloak of billowing blue smoke surrounding them, the other a attractive figure that glowed gold and grand, gravity defying jewelry and an extra set of arms the most prominent features. They seemed completely different, the only thing in common the rage on their faces and tendency to hurl insults in odd languages at eachother. God's who had been ejected from there plane lost their powers, and it seemed these ones we're not taking it will. With a swift gesture with your arm, a nearby vase shatters in the middle of the angry gods, all tension in the room halting as three sets of eyes land on your figure. You couldn't tell if they were surprised by you being there or your bored expression. Maybe it was the words that came out your mouth next. "If the both of you would stop throwing a hissy fit, we can actually address the current slightly more civilized than primal apes. "
At the insult, the multi-faced god's, well, multi-facing, became erratic and quicker, speaking in an odd dialect.
"]ou $are ßpeak ïn ßuch æ \ay [o ?e. $o ]ou ñot (now \ho \e ære? "
After deciphering that the first letters consisted of the appropriate human symbols, you had run out of mental energy from the journey here, lack of sleep, and promised vacation bullshit.
"Yeah, a couple of powerless gods who think they can overcompensate for their usefulness with their ego. "
Whilst the first gods face recedes into a display of anger and shock, face shifting, hw other breaks out into high pitched tinkling laughter, teasing the other god with a child's naitivity and mentality.
As you sighed, a dark premonition crept up, assured by the human in the feeble position still behind the couch and reconstructed vase flying at your head.
If humanity truly is in the hands of gods, we're all fucked.
When your friend had called you up to nervously tell you that they’d had a small accident with a spell and needed your help, you had expected something simple and mundane. What you had NOT been expecting, was to walk in and find your best friend very nervously waving at you from besides two deeply pissed off, and completely powerless, gods.
And to think you had been hoping for a quiet week.
Hello and welcome to my main blog, which is mostly my odd, or what I deem funny experiences. I have a writing blog where I post things for no real reason(includes prompts)
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