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unclefather
can’t risk it
bente36
THIS PIECE OF PICTURE WORKS.
Gotta take all the chances…..
Never risk it
i had to
cletusthurstonbeauregard
sure, why not
Fuck it, may as well.
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How to learn a language when you don’t know where to start:
General Plan:
Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:
- Learn the fundamentals sentence construction
- Learn how to spell and count
- Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings
- The Alphabet
- Numbers 1 - 100
- Subject Pronouns
- Common Greetings
- Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have
- Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles
Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:
- Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day
- Start conjugating regular verbs
- Days of the Week and Months of the Year
- How to tell the time
- How to talk about the weather
- Family Vocabulary
- Present Tense Conjugations Verbs
Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:
- Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary
- Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar
- Colours
- House vocabulary
- How to ask questions
- Present Tense Conjugations Verbs
- Forming negatives
Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:
- Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country
- Finish memorising regular conjugation rules
- Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants
- Money and Shopping Phrases
- Present Tense Conjugations Verbs
Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:
- Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences
- Adjectives
- Reflective verbs
- Places vocabulary
Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:
- Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs
- Wrap up vocabulary essentials
- Adverbs
- Parts of the body and medical vocabulary
Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:
Learning Vocabulary:
What vocabulary should I be learning?
- There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.
- Choose the words you want/need to learn.
- Relate them to what you already know.
- Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.
- Record them so learning is never lost.
- Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.
How should I record the vocabulary?
- Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.
- Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.
- Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.
- Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.
- Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.
How should I practice using the vocabulary?
- Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.
- Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.
- Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.
- Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.
How often should I be practising vocabulary?
- A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.
- Ideally, words should be reviewed:
- 5-10 minutes later
- 24 hours later
- One week later
- 1-2 months later
- 6 months later
Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:
- Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).
- Its grammatical category and other grammatical information
- Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.
- Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).
Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading
- Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.
- Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.
Tips for reading in a foreign language:
- Start basic and small. Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.
- Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.
- Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.
Tips for listening in a foreign language:
- Watch films in your target language.
- Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.
- Listen to the radio in your target language.
- Watch videos online in your target language.
Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:
- Try drawing a picture of what was said.
- Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.
- Provide a summary of what was said.
- Suggest what might come next in the “story.”
- Translate what was said into another language.
- “Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.
Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing
Tips for speaking in a foreign language:
- If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner.
- Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.
- A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.
- Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.
Tips for writing in a foreign language:
- Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.
- Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:
- Diary entries
- Shopping lists
- Reminders
What could I write about?
- Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.
- Make up a conversation between two people.
- Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.
- Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.
- Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.
- Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).
- Write a short story or poem.
Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide.
There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:
- Read a lot
- Write a lot
- Get your writing corrected
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on all levels but physical i am these banana cats
things i am not ready for: next semester starting.
i’m taking easier classes this semester (at least, i hear they’re easier) so i shouldnt be the ball of stress and tears i was last semester, but i am scared of that happening again
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Trying dark academia hairstyles on my kinky hair
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one of the least helpful things ive been told as a neurodivergent person is “don’t half ass things”
if you can quarter ass something, do it! if all you can do is clean a corner of your room, or only read one of the two assigned chapters, or write the heading for your resume, or put all the papers for taxes in a pile, do it! if today isn’t a whole ass day, take pride in the portion of ass that you were capable of
don’t let neurotypicals work ethic define how you did today
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Study Tips Based on Your Hogwarts House
Just finished rewatching all 8 of the Harry Potter films last week… and I thought why not make my first graphic related to it? So, here’s study tips for each of the Hogwarts houses! I know some of these doesn’t apply to everyone, but I had really fun time making this :) Hope this helps!
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Original Source: NASA. Source: Dr. William P Blair, John Hopkins University.
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A reminder that turning in assignments for partial credit is better than not turning them in at all. It is. Even if you think you’ve done a bad job and are ashamed of your work, or it’s way overdue, you take whatever you can get. Partial credit dramatically improves your grade over a zero, and I’m always astounded by how often even the smartest kids don’t really comprehend that. 60% is worlds better than 0%. Even 10% is going to help you. Letter grades are misleading and are not created equal. “F"s are mathematically valuable. Turn that late assignment in.
In high school I started doing grade math obsessively (I know I know), and I realized that sometimes a 40% on an assignment would push me to the next letter grade. It’s okay. It’s okay if everything isn’t perfect. You have other things to worry about. Just swallow your pride and hand in the half-finished homework. Anything is better than nothing.
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To my fellow students whatever level in the educational system you are at:
This year/past two semesters has been super hard, and likely very chaotic and stressful. Exam seasons are already stressful on their own, now you have the added pressure. On top of that it’s super dark (depending on where you live) and all this have lasted for a long time. Please remember that when you aren’t feeling well. Please remember that when you study. Please remember that during exams. Please remember that if everything seems worse than normally. 🌸
Be kind to yourself. Meet yourself with compassion and understanding. You are human, allow yourself to be. 🌸
Your worth is not measures by or affected by your productivity or your grades. 🌸
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college is catered towards the able bodied and able minded. school applauds people who can stay up all night, skip meals, and work endlessly. that kind of extreme contribution is expected. why are disabled people being squeezed out of academic institutions? why should I feel inferior because of some arbitrary and ridiculous standard?
The undying truth.
petalsinthewater
Not to mention, every college campus Ive ever been on is MADE of stairs and hills.
captainamerica-ontheenterprise
I tried to talk to one of my college professors about my ADHD once and he literally stopped me and said if I couldn’t handle it I shouldn’t be there
Read the book Academic Ableism on this subject. It’s an excellent read and I genuinely think about it all the time still even though I read it a couple years ago.
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The problem with academia is the idea of perfection. The idea that our grades and intelligence define our worth. That if we aren’t perfect we don’t know who we are. I see this culture at my school all the time. The competition for the best grades, for the most work. Kids burn out all the time because we are so invested in what school thinks we need to know rather than what we want to learn. Take a break from your school work and care about something you want to care about, not what they tell you to care about. School doesnt create individuals, so we have to become individuals all by ourselves
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the crushing guilt of being unproductive vs the exhaustion of being burned out. fight.
Plot twist: if you are tired and burned out, resting is literally the most productive thing you can do. You ain’t gonna get shit done when you’re burned out. If you do, it’ll take three times as long, take even more energy out of you, and will also suck because you were too tired to do it well. When you’re too tired to do the things you want/need to do, resting is the first step.
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every minute spent on planning saves you ten minutes spent on execution. short essays probably don't require that much preparation beforehand, but if you're writing something longer you should probably spend some time planning first. this is the process i go through when planning my essays, and i find it works really well!
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I wish everyone would admit that classic literature is inherently difficult to read, and that you shouldn’t feel stupid if you don’t “get it”. Especially the dark academia/ classic lit fandoms and stuff. Like unless you have the vocabulary and pop culture knowledge of an 18th century nobleman, it’s going to be a tough read. It’ll take you longer to read; you’re not stupid if you’ve spent several months on a single book! And you don’t have to enjoy everything. It’s okay if you got bored after one chapter of Wuthering Heights, and couldn’t be bothered to read the rest. It’s okay if you want to read your favourite kids book for the 10th time instead. You’re not stupid. No piece of literature is inherently better, more “important”, more “meaningful”, or more “intellectual” than another. First and foremost, read what brings you joy.