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ivaliya

Katakana strikes again! :blobfoxcrylaugh: Spent quite some time trying to figure out what English original for メルヘン is. Turns out it's from German "Märchen". Damn, I always forget that not everything in katakana is English-based. I also thought I knew that "fairy tale" in Japanese is どうわ, but apparently not only

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Lethe

Fun fact:
There is a pride flag in the official CEFR companion volume.

It describes language levels as a continuum and uses a rainbow and the pride flag as an illustration of a continuum which we simplify into discrete parts.

From now on I'll describe my language level in terms of the original meaning of each pride flag color. My German is at spirit and my Japanese is between healing and sunlight.

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The abovementioned figure from the CEFR Companion Volume (page 36). Figure 3 - CEFR Common Reference Levels The figure is an illustration of the CEFR levels as circles stacked within each other, like an illustration of subsets, with A1 being the smallest and on the inside, and C2 being the largest and containing all the other levels. All categories in the humanities and liberal arts are in any case conventional, socially constructed concepts. Like the colours of the rainbow, language proficiency is actually a continuum. Yet, as with the rainbow, despite the fuzziness of the boundaries between colours, we tend to see some colours more than others, as in Figure 4. Yet, to communicate, we simplify and focus on six main colours, as in Figure 5. Figure 4 - A rainbow The figure shows a rainbow over a landscape. As it's a real rainbow, the colors aren't discrete with clear boundaries, but flow into each other. Figure 5 - The conventional six colours The figure shows the six stripe pride flag.
The six color pride flag with the original meaning of each color written on its respective stripe. Red - Life Orange - Healing Yellow - Sunlight Green - Nature Blue - Serenity Purple - Spirit
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Noah T. Carver 👨🏼‍🦯🇺🇦

Sooooo... thinking about the possibility and feasibility of big life changes, namely studying opera seriously in Europe. Would love to connect with other #Blind language learners, especially those using #braille as a component of their learning. Currently learning #French. Am particularly interested in chatting with people who have taught themselves grade 2 French Braille as well as those who are either conversational or fluent and/or who have worked in or currently live in a #Francophone European country. If this is you or you're in any way adjacent to this world, please reach out. Would love to talk to you. Would also love to chat with people who use #MusicBraille / #BrailleMusic in Europe.

#Francophonie #ClassicalMusic #Opera #LanguageLearning #Languages #Français #LowVision #VisuallyImpaired #BlindMasto #BlindMastodon #BlindFedi @mastoblind

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