Urban Chicagoan
Resident of Chicago, citizen of the world
シカゴ在住、世界市民
Residente de Chicago, ciudadano del mundo
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanMerry Christmas to all who celebrate, and very best wishes to everyone for the festive season. 🎨'Cat and Christmas Tree' - Inagaki Tomoo.
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanMacquarie Dictionary has chosen AI slop as its Word of the Year. Defined as “low-quality content created by generative AI, often containing errors & not requested by the user,” it captures a linguistic & technological shift we’ve been living through. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3uf7ps4j 🧵👇 #langsky
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanAI increasing the dominance of English worldwide means greater cultural complacency for native (US) English speakers leading to "the assumption that their perspective is universal because they haven’t had to struggle to express themselves in someone else’s terms." #langsky #translation
- Friday morning along the Chicago River #Chicago #DowntownChicago #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
- "Freshly Kept Fade We Design" by Marcellous Lovelace: mural under the Metra tracks along 53rd Street in Hyde Park, Chicago. #Chicago #mural
- Vintage residential stone engraving in Lincoln Park, Chicago: "eyes on the street" #Chicago
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanWhat if Gratitude Was Built Into the Grammar? aethermug.com/posts/what-i... #langsky #polyglot #100daylang
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanI didn’t learn languages to get somewhere; I learned them to be somewhere. I’ve done it for the taxi rides, the balcony conversations, the glances of shared understanding. Not to perform, but to belong. To connect. That’s the real point. And it changes everything. albarolanguages.com/2025/06/21/w...
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanFluency is only one of the benefits of learning a language. You learn how to learn. You deepen maturity, patience, & commitment. You learn to navigate desire & despair, embarrassment & break through. You learn pacing, structure & organization. Probably humility, as well #langsky
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- "The best way to learn a language...is to live it! Study French and German abroad" The El in Chicago on a chilly April morning #Chicago #DowntownChicago #langsky #PublicTransit
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanOne of the (many, many) things I love about language is the creativity, the way a little tweak to a word can create a subtle change in meaning, or even a big one. Hopefully this won't leave you baffled or boggled, though it may cause cackling or possibly heckling! #linguistics #langsky #xl8 🌐
- Reposted by Urban Chicagoan'The Ginza on a Spring Night' - Kasamatsu Shiro, 1934. #JapaneseArt #shinhanga
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- Reposted by Urban Chicagoan【御開帳】 隨心院（京都市） 春季特別御開帳 本尊 如意輪観世音菩薩坐像（国重文） 2025年3月1日(土)～31日(月) 9:00～16:30 www.zuishinin.or.jp/2025/02/%E4%...
- At the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Seattle I chanced upon this handy little volume: "Gazu Hyakki Yakō Zengashū" (画図百鬼夜行全画集) by Toriyama Sekien (鳥山石燕)(1712-1788), published by Kadokawa, 2005. #langsky #booksky #JapaneseStudy
- Sekien was a scholar, poet, and artist whose four mass-produced works on folk monsters & creatures (all included here) were extremely formative in how these beings are imagined.
- A key advantage of this edition is that it transliterates the original text seen above from cursive into standard block style below, also converting premodern variant kana into their modern equivalents. Here's an example of the format, the page describing the tale of the bell of Dōjōji Temple (道成寺).
- Murals in unlikely places in the Japantown area of Seattle Unos murales en lugares enesperados en el barrio de Japantown de Seattle シアトル市の日本町地区の意外な場所にある壁画 #Seattle #mural #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
- Monorail tracks in Seattle Vías de monorraíl en Seattle シアトル市内のモノレール線路 #Seattle #シアトル市 #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
- An ornate gate in Seattle's Chinatown Una puerta adornada en el barrio chino de Seattle #Seattle #Chinatown #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
- "Never Again is Now" ~ an alley mural by Erin Shigaki, 2018, in Seattle, Washington #seattle #mural #AsianAmericanHistory
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[This post could not be retrieved] - Reposted by Urban ChicagoanKit-Kat Japan didn’t just sell chocolate—they created a cultural movement 🍫 In Japanese, Kit-Kat sounds like “Kitto Katsu” (きっと勝つ), which means “You will surely win.” This lucky wordplay turned Kit-Kat into a symbol of luck and encouragement. A thread 🧵
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanThis odd (and lucky!) patchwork beast was created by Utagawa Yoshitora to protect the safety of families. It's a combination of all the animals from the Chinese (and Japanese) zodiac. Can you find them all? [Rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, boar]
- Reposted by Urban Chicagoan【御開帳】 青岸渡寺（和歌山県那智勝浦町） 節分豆まき祈祷会 本尊 如意輪観世音菩薩坐像（国重文） 2025年2月2日(日) 7:00～15:00 seigantoji.or.jp/2025/01/17/%...
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanMeoto-iwa or the Wedded Rocks are found just off the coast of Ise in Mie Prefecture in Japan. They symbolise the sacred marriage of the Japanese Shinto creator kami (deities) Izanagi and Izanami. #MythologyMonday #JapaneseArt 🎨Tokuriki Tomikichiro, 1940 1/3
- The entrance to a Hawaiian restaurant in the South Loop, Chicago La entrada a un restaurante hawaiano en el South Loop, Chicago #Chicago #SouthLoop
- Reposted by Urban Chicagoan“One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.” ―Frank Smith #langsky #languagelearning
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- Listening to "Tormenta de verano" by Lucía Méndez while commuting through Chicago snow: wishful thinking #Chicago #LucíaMéndez #SpanishStudy
- Reposted by Urban ChicagoanSnowy midnight I Kyoto Japan. #photography
- City lights and the Chicago River (1/8/2025) Las luces de la ciudad y el río Chicago (8/1/2025) #Chicago #DowntownChicago #UrbanLandscape #PaisajeUrbano #都市景観
- An alley mural in downtown Chicago by Liz Flores Mural en un callejón del centro de Chicago, obra de Liz Flores #Chicago #DowntownChicago #mural #WomenArtists
- Today's reason for learning another language: Being able to quip a subversive joke in the workplace in your secondary language and making a longtime colleague laugh out loud in his primary. (Inspired by the series of reflections by @globalcitizen.bsky.social) #langsky #SpanishStudy
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