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Professor Bathsheda Babbling

Professor Bathsheda Babbling was a witch and professor of Study of Ancient Runes at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Professor Babbling is the only language teacher in Hogwarts.

Anciet Runes is more than only a language in the Wizardry World given its magical properties, but still…

“I mistranslated ehwaz… It means partnership, not defence; I mixed it up with eihwaz.”

—Hermione Granger after her Ancient Runes O.W.L.

The Study of Ancient Runes (commonly shortened to Ancient Runes) is an elective course at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and presumably Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, that can be taken by students third year and above.

It was taught by Professor Bathsheda Babbling during the 1990s at least and it is the study of runic scriptures, or Runology. Ancient Runes is a mostly theoretical subject that studies the ancient runic scripts of magic.

if you're a student at all, please take care of yourself. you don't need to compete with your classmates for who slept the least or who drank the most coffee. eat breakfast and go to sleep a little earlier. lay off studying for a night and do something nice for yourself. your body and brain will thank you.

You know what is hot??

A passion for knowlege and learning

it's called your voice, and you can use it to say things like "uhuh" and "eeeuuuughgh"

I want my life to revolve around dying to learn everything about science, politics, literature and music so that I can argue with people with extra intellect and extra delusion (that would be me)

On a tangential note: endnotes are the worst, and even more annoying in a PDF than they are in a printed book. Hate hate hate hate hate. Why do publishers insist on fucking endnotes over the obviously superior footnote.

I know it's been a while but I fixed Jalo's phonology and orthography.

Do we agree?

It suddenly dawned on me that the skills I’d acquired over the past few months had nothing to do with holding a conversation or navigating a foreign city. Duolingo wasn’t teaching me to communicate; it was training me to become more addicted to the app.

— Kató Lomb + the importance of pronunciation, from Polyglot: How I Learn Languages (p. 90)

“kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

Is it just me or the interface of GoodNotes 6 is really just so ugly

happiness is listening to a song in your target language and understanding more and more words over time 

A1-A2: man, there're so many words I need to know in order to say literally anything

B1-B2: wow, what I know is enough now

C1-C2: man, there're so many weirdly specific words I need to know in order to describe these weirdly specific things I've only seen once in my life. Also I forgot how to say ceiling.

we have to dream so that we can wake up the in the morning

Non-Gricean Humor: The past, the present, and the future walk into a bar. It was tense.

by salman toor, van gogh, cecilia rosslee, van gogh.

finals suck so much

Morpheme map of Heptapod B

Morpheme map of Heptapod B, the alien language in the movie Arrival (credit: @‌LanguageCrawler on Twitter)

languages will make rules and then be like. actually nah

Language Adventure

Language Adventure is a stop motion language learning game!

Check out the trailer and the Kickstarter page below!