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Allll the French grammar notes! I found French Grammar for Dummies at my local library so that’s what I’m teaching myself from for now. Yesterday I started going through it in a Starbucks and finished the first chapter today at home.
QOTD: what’s your go to Starbucks drink?
AOTD: I go for either a matcha latte or a chai latte, occasionally a iced caramel macchiato!
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Tips to learn a new language
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
- ‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
- Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
- Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
- Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
- Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
NOUNS (about 120 words)
- Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.
- People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.
- Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
- Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
- Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.
- Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
- General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
- Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
- Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
- Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
- Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
- Demonstrative: this, that.
- Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
- Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
- Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
- Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
- Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
- General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
- Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
- arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
- Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
- Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
- Demonstrative: this, that.
- Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
- Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
- Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
- Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
- Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
- Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
- Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
- Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
- Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
- Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.
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JULY 9, 2018 FRENCH NOTES ON ADJECTIVES AND PRONOUNS • ENGLISH NOTES ON FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE SHAKESPEARIAN ERA
is this my grand comeback? after a many weeks of mental illness crushing me i finally got back on track and started working on my summer assignments (summer break hasn’t even started but whatever.) i am determined to make my senior wonderful and am starting over with a lot of happiness. stay safe, drink water and have fun!
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La Forêt is a french TV show that I’ve recently started watching, so I thought it would be useful to share the vocab lists that I make for each episode as I watch them. Épisode 1
débile idiotic fiscal tax con stupid, dumb le con idiot, moron s’enterrer to isolate yourself choper to catch, to pinch tutoyer to call someone tu/by their first name le CAP professional qualification l’écluse lock (on a waterway) le pâturage pasture la ballerine ballet pump chiant really annoying, irritating la permanence on call localiser pinpoint, locate la puce electronic chip éplucher to dissect, go through résiliée cancelled, terminated le parquet public prosecutor’s department faire chier to be a pain, to piss someone off le casier locker avoir un casier have a criminal record crever to die la salope bitch, slut la roue wheel fouiller to conduct a search la gueule mouth le gars lad, boy la connerie screw-up mythonner to fib, tell tales la maternelle nursery school les ragots gossip le ruisseau stream le procureur prosecutor atterri landed, ended up se débarrasser to get rid of le sanglier wild boar la bagnole car déchiré torn, ripped écrasé flattened, crushed la lisière border, edge dégonfler to deflate, decrease
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this is a blessed image reblog for good luck
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weird study tip:
if u don’t feel motivated, pretend ur in a movie or tv show. you know the scenes where they’re on their bed with their feet tucked up and crossed at the ankle, and they’re cracking open highlighters with their teeth and poring over a textbook with smooth rock music playing? that. bonus points for a perfect messy bun and spencer hastings outfit.
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You’ve kept me from the room where it happens For the last time
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PSA: Stop saying shit like “results don’t matter”, “life has a different path for you”, “it’s not worth getting upset over” etc. PEOPLE HAVE SPENT 2 YEARS OF THEIR LIVES WORKING TOWARDS THESE RESULTS AND HAVE PLANNED THEIR ENTIRE FUTURES AROUND THEM. THEY HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO WORRY/BE UPSET IF IT DOESN’T GO TO PLAN!!
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if you’re so nervous for results day you feel like you’re going to be sick
clap your hands
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me: self care is important! im all abt positivity and good vibes!
also me: *attaches all self worth to my streak on duolingo*
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i hope you all have successful careers. whether your field is low paying or high paying, whether you are pursuing a passion or doing what you can to get by, whether you have known your future since fifth grade or are still trying to figure out what you want to be, whether you become an engineer or an artist or a stripper or a technician or a business owner or a nurse or a designer or a construction worker; i hope your career thrives and brings you some type of joy. you deserve it.
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you ever have 8,045 bad mental health days in a row
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you ever have 8,046 bad mental health days in a row
thats 22 years of bad mental health are you okay
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you ever have 8,050 bad mental health days in a row
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They’re deactivated now and I really hope they are okay, but my nihilism is telling me something else. :(
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nah i just changed urls a few times. i came out and transitioned, graduated college, and got an amazing girlfriend who lights up my life. i had to delete the queued update to this post that said 8400 days for my 23rd birthday because i’m in a really good place right now.
to everyone struggling: it really does get better.
Reblog to break your bad mental health streak
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what do you wish for?
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This is the magical Results Day/Clearing organisation document. Like or reblog for ease on results day, no matter if you go through clearing or not.
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me walking into class late, 2 over due essays, didn’t do the extra reading, no pen, no notes, and didn’t bring the textbook
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what the “do not disturb” status probably means: i just dont like the bleeping noise. i will respond when i see your message though how i interpret the ominousness of the little red dot: talk to me and i will rip your fucking nuts off