They have excellent resources to learn many languages, too. This thread lists the other languages and some resources for Spanish.

And they include grammar, vocabulary, videos for "ear training", cultural aspects of the languages, etc. Really impressive.

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@propcazhpm.bsky.social

Why We Don't Italicize Spanish YouTube video by Daniel José Older

A decade later, I still think this is the best video on whether or not to italicize words in non-English languages when writing in English. www.youtube.com/watch?v=24gC...

One of the hardest things about being disabled is how often people judge that as laziness or you not caring

Yellow flowers by a pond and lots of green vegetation.

Yellow rattle by our tiny pond. But a much bigger pond is on its way and it's possible I'm just a bit excited. 🥳

Embroidery hoop, amongst a wedding table centrepiece arrangement, featuring a green line drawing and text of a Piedmont Anomalous Blue butterfly.

Embroidery hoop, amongst a wedding table centrepiece arrangement, featuring a green line drawing and text of a Common Kingfisher

Embroidery hoop, amongst a wedding table centrepiece arrangement, featuring a green line drawing and text of a Great Skua.

I haven't shared any #embroidery for a while, because I was busy creating some for my wedding!

Each hoop is a table name, and each is based on a holiday and an animal we saw (and photographed) on that holiday. The majority are, of course, #butterflies or #moths.

Laura, a white woman with cropped auburn hair and wearing a denim jacket and dinosaur-patterned dress stands in a garden smiling at the camera and holding a book with a grey cover, featuring a raven and the text ‘Awakened, Laura Elliott’

had to do a little photoshoot with a finished copy!!!! 🐦‍⬛

Awakened is out on June 10th and available to pre-order here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott

Querying must be inclusive too How can agents and publishers make the querying process easier for writers with a disability?

And finally, something open access which offers information and ideas intersectional with the unpaid carers' role. www.thebookseller.com/comment/quer... - this one is open access...for access!

Caring about carers A new prize aims to support an often unacknowledged group in publishing: writers who are also carers.

If you have @thebookseller.com access, two more on being a carer, here: www.thebookseller.com/comment/writ... and www.thebookseller.com/comment/cari...

A new approach and a literary prize for the writer-carer - The Society of Authors For the writer-carer. A new, more vigorous approach and a new literary prize Many who read this piece will be carers. If you are not one now, you may be later. Some of us will always be in this role. ...

Throwback to @societyofauthors.bsky.social coverage of the inaugural #Curae. We announce the 3 winners of the second prize on the 1st of June. @thebookseller.com @bookbrunch.bsky.social @carers-uk.bsky.social @carerstrust.bsky.social societyofauthors.org/2022/10/07/a...
It's been an important thing

my new favourite story

Flames dancing in a firepit

#Firewatching

Got the Barometric Blues? – EDSAwareness.com When barometric pressure fluctuates, it can impact our bodies. Learn how these effects might be amplified in individuals with connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS).

"Changes in this pressure, such as when a storm approaches or recedes, can have noticeable effects including what can feel like bone crushing fatigue and disorientation for some."
www.chronicpainpartners.com/barometric-b... #EDS

A book cover with a creepy raven with a blue eye bearing the Tower of London on its back. The book is Awakened by Laura Elliott and there are white lines leading to text around it that read: a life without sleep, Greek mythology, end of the world, what makes us human, medical abuse, isolation vs community, love and obsession, and societal and medical disability ☺️

is it too late to hijack World Goth Day and say that if you want an existential horror about humanity and monstrosity that will fill you with quiet dread - i have a book for you?!?!?!

pre-orders here: linktr.ee/lauracelliott

A wide open buttercup with punky yellow stamen emerging from a green centre

#Bloomscrolling

Sucks to be the other 2.95 million disabled people, eh?

A photo of a golden roan working cocker-spaniel on a green carpet by a fire grate.

Ollie heroically taking on the role of "dog in pub."

I just spent a truly ridiculous amount of time finding fragrance free hypoallergenic sunscreen that my ridiculous immune system will accept

So here's some brands that my body seems to tolerate for the #MCAS crowd

(With fair warning ofc that mast cell triggers vary A Lot between people)

#NEISvoid

Less than 1 week left to get your stories in for consideration. Firm deadline is end of day May 30, EST. As stated several times—this is for fiction published in 2024. Please carefully read the guidelines here:

undertowpublications.com/best-weird-f...

If you've never had the pleasure of doing a boudoir shoot... I HIGHLY recommend it! I did hair & makeup for a boudoir photographer in Tahlequah. 'Twas a highlighted moment of my life. ✨💛

If you’re struggling right now, please know you’re not alone.

Many of us are isolated due to chronic illness, disability and/or the general messiness of the world.

But we’re not alone. There’s someone somewhere struggling with the same loneliness, and I like to think we’re all separately together

Available now in ebook, audiobook, or paperback The Reanimator's Heart by Kara Jorgensen Mm romance, forced proximity, a lavender marriage, murder/magic/mysteries, food tour of 1890s NYC, unbury your gays, an autistic necromancer, everybody's queer

The Reanimator's Soul by Kara Jorgensen is out now in ebook and paperback, book 2, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, mm romance, a sinister clinic, new powers, 1890s NYC, a murdered patient, a cure for magic, a horrible ex, rich people behaving badly, the tether becomes a #problem

The Reanimator's Remains by Kara Jorgensen, out now in ebook and paperback, book 3, mm romance, autistic necromancer x undead adhd-er, the trees are watching, dealing with trauma... poorly, dont go where I can't follow, family secrets, breaking the cycle, the dead are out for revenge

THE REANIMATOR MYSTERIES series is perfect for lovers of Gothic coziness. There are 3 books with
💀Pushing Daisies x Sleepy Hollow vibes
🫀An autistic necromancer
⚰️His reanimated lover
🪦 Solving mysteries in 1890s NYC
🏳️‍🌈MM paranormal historical romance
🔗⬇️Available wide!
#romancelandia
🌈📚 #booksky

My #ShamelessPromo for #SpoonieAuthChat is made up of three books, which means 50 disabled creatives! Nothing Without Us has 22 stories, Nothing Without Us has 27 stories, and then there’s lil’ ol’ me, the author of the disability-hopepunk adventure, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space!

Swilua and I are basically the same person but like different sides of the coin

Two images, almost abstract, of the detail of water moving slowly over a large rock in a riverbed.

30th of May sees the closing of submission dates for the @dartmoorcollective.org call for submission on the subject of "Flow". The 16th of June sees the closing of the Royal Academy West of England's Open Call

I think these details of slow water in a #Dartmoor river will be my efforts
#photography

A posy of peonies in a field of pick-your-own flowers

I’ve brought elder daughter to a pick-your-own peonies field. Serious botanic dopamine…🌿

A vibrant rainbow arcs across a dark, cloudy sky above a lush green hillside. The sun illuminates part of the landscape, creating a strong contrast between the bright foreground and the stormy background. A line of rocks and a few sparse trees sit atop the hill near where the rainbow touches the ground.

Did you get rain last night? ☔ Today’s #PicOfTheDay is a moody moment in #Wharfedale 🌈

Will you be in the #YorkshireDales this weekend?

🦮 Keep dogs on leads – chicks, lambs & calves need protection
🚮 Take litter home
💚 Respect the land

#LoveTheDales #LeaveNoTrace

#theBeeAt3
Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 120

Mites use #bumblebees as taxis clinging to them to hitch a ride into the nest where they feed on pollen/wax/detritus - not the bees!
Most mite species that hang with bumblebees are generally fairly harmless to the #bees.
#nature
#pollinators
🐝🌍