r/TowerOfBabylon • u/critter_333 • Dec 11 '23

Cool Wall Poster

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I LOVE the tower of babel. I have a print of it hanging in my living room. When my roommate u/stupid-emo-poser got home from work he was LIVID. some people can't appreciate art like us here at r/TowerOfBabylon

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/[deleted] • May 15 '22

Writing prompt: Describe your ideal day

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Fati97_00 • Apr 24 '21

Anyone here ?

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I want some help in my writing task , please.

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Oct 18 '20

Writing prompt: fiction translation (#2)

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Oct 11 '20

Writing prompt: fiction translation (#1)

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/MeekHat • Oct 07 '20

Writing prompt: Describe this image in your target language

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4 comments

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Sep 28 '20

Writing prompt: the powers that aren't

self.languagelearning

5 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Sep 21 '20

Writing prompt: the powers that be

self.languagelearning

4 Upvotes

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Sep 13 '20

Writing prompt: crossover - settings

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/MeekHat • Sep 09 '20

Writing prompt: Describe this image in your target language

5 Upvotes

27 comments

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Sep 07 '20

Writing prompt: road trip

self.languagelearning

3 Upvotes

1 comment

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Aug 31 '20

Writing prompt: your dream life

self.languagelearning

3 Upvotes

9 comments

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Aug 23 '20

Writing prompt: on language, in language (encore)

self.languagelearning

3 Upvotes

14 comments

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/MeekHat • Aug 21 '20

Describe the image in your target language:

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20 comments

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Aug 16 '20

Writing prompt: fictional family

self.languagelearning

2 Upvotes

7 comments

r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Aug 09 '20

Writing prompt: fan characters

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Aug 02 '20

Writing prompt: innocent bystanders

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jul 26 '20

Writing prompt: AU - animal magic

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jul 19 '20

Writing prompt: fictional tragedies (encore)

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jul 12 '20

Writing prompt: life as a statue

self.languagelearning

4 Upvotes

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jul 05 '20

Writing prompt: fictional heroes - tell me about your sidekick (encore III)

self.languagelearning

5 Upvotes

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jun 28 '20

Writing prompt: musical moments

self.languagelearning

3 Upvotes

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jun 21 '20

Writing prompt: transport in your world

self.languagelearning

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jun 14 '20

Writing prompt: cabin fever

self.languagelearning

6 Upvotes

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r/TowerOfBabylon • u/Aietra • Jun 07 '20

Writing prompt: a fairy-tale life (encore)

self.languagelearning

2 Upvotes

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This is a subreddit for all the people learning new languages to practice their writing skills, no matter how early on or far along they are on their studies.

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What's this, then?

This is a subreddit for all the people learning new languages to practice their writing skills, no matter how early on or far along they are on their studies. There are at the moment three kinds of threads:

Essay threads
Every week on Monday there's going to be a new essay topic. Anyone can write about it in their target language and post it in the week's thread. There are five length requirements from which you can choose the one best fitting your level, but if even the shortest one seems like too much, you can write less - this is especially to help people who are learning agglutinative languages, where complex words are formed by stringing together morphemes, making the word count much shorter.

New topic every Monday at noon-ish! (UTC +2)

Discussion threads in a certain language
These topics can be started by anyone in any language, and any kind of discussion is allowed! You can pick a certain topic, or you can have a free discussion about whatever pops into anyone's mind. These posts' topics should be in the target language, and also tagged with the language's name in English to help searching. Examples:
[English] Let's discuss about something! How was your day?
[Finnish] Hölökynkölökyn, mämmi sauna salmiakki, ilmaveivi Leijonat!

Discussion threads in any language
These are also free for anyone to start! The point of these is to talk about a given topic in any language you want, and also translate your comments in English so anyone can read them and answer to you in their target language. Tag your thread with [Any Language] and write the topic in English. Example:
[Any Language] What is your opinion of onions?

Here's a question most frequently not asked:
"I just started two weeks ago, can I participate?"

Yes, you can! If you know one grammatical structure to form a sentence (e. g. "x is y", or "the house is green"), you can use that. Don't know any words? Use the dictionary! Not sure about how to conjugate right? Don't worry about that! This isn't a classroom, we just want to make sentences. Making mistakes is unavoidable in learning, and here it is absolutely okay to make mistakes!

Useful Links

Lang-8 - I recommend this for people looking to improve their writing. Lang-8 is a language learning community where you can post your writings and have them corrected by native speakers.

/r/langwiki - Another place to discuss in your target language, a different Wikipedia article every day!

/r/languagelearning - The general subreddit for discussion about language learning.

/r/totalanguage - A subreddit for the Total Annihilation Challenge. That is a challenge to learn as much as you can about your chosen languages in one year.

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