There is still hope. Say it out loud. Palestine will be free. The Palestinian people will celebrate their culture and heritage with each other. We will love and be loved. Do not fall into the trap of despair.

I'm not saying this just for morale. I'm saying this as a reminder that the colonialist regime relies on your despair, uses it to further their propaganda. Once you lose hope, and tell everyone you lose hope, you are aiding the Zionist Entity.

Make it a point that you BELIEVE that Palestine will be free even in the face of genocide. Hope can halt genocide. Do not aid our oppressors.

Do not lose interest. Do not get bored. Do not give in to despair and hopelessness. Do not look away. Keep posting, keep protesting, keep hounding your reps, keep having the conversations. Do. Not. Give. Up.

israel is massacring gaza!

God they cut off all the internet and cellular networks in Gaza

We are isolated now’: Communications lost with many parts of Gaza (from Al Jazeera's live update, by reporter Tareq Abu Azzoum, 16:25 GMT)

you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

Couldn’t risk it.

didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.

THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT

PLEASE DO NOT THINK FOR EVEN A SECOND THAT YOUR VOICE WILL NOT HAVE AN IMPACT THIS IS LITERALLY THE BARE MINIMUM

I'm sorry for putting this in the BLM and stop Asian hate tag but in the last few days posts tagged with "Palestine" have not been showing up.

Please help.

Hi guys, Olivia here. I know I haven't been on here much in the last two weeks and for good reason considering my financial and personal/professional life continue to be in turmoil. But it hasn't been all doom and gloom and I recently received my admission letter to one of my two dream universities. Unfortunately in order to be able to even be able to enroll in, let alone start my classes for the fall 2019 semester, I have to pay $425 as apart of my enrollment intention within the next two weeks in order to reserve my space at the university. As much as I hate to make another donation post, I'm literally at the end of my rope. It was a miracle I even got admitted to the school and with the instability of my job in regards to actually getting my pay correct over the course of the summer and various other bills staring at me in the coming weeks, I know I won't have any extra money to spare and this is pretty much my last chance saloon when it comes to college at least for the next months. My pride is completely out the window right now and literally anything would help. I don't have many options left and I know an opportunity like this won't come along again for me so any reblogs or donations are appreciated.

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Cash.me

Hey guys I'm over halfway there I legit only need $161 to go!

everyone who reads this post will get some big spicy joy within 24 large minutes (hours)

Ok y'all but like I’m not even kidding about this I read this post yesterday and today I got an email from the peeps at hamilton and I won the lotto gor $10 tickets and I would like to give all my thanks to the internet’s favorite fish, Goldie Gurston, for making this possible because I totally believe they did this with their amazing gay powers

So I know this is likely a coincidence…but I reblogged this and just now discovered I’ve been given a $150 amazon gift card as a bonus at work. So thank you, fish!

If it worked for them I hope it works for everyone else

Some big spicy joy pls

SOME BIG SPICY JOY PLEASE

i request the big spicy joy

After the morning I’ve had - yes please

oh yes ..please

please

Topics to write about in your target language(s)

These are for a range of different levels so do what you can!

Week 1 of the Korean Challenge for Beginners

Welcome to the first week of the Korean Challenge! The goal of this challenge is to help you start learning Korean and provide a foundation to the language.

Day One: Today’s goal is to learn Hangul, the Korean alphabet. During today’s lesson you will memorize, learn stroke order, and learn the pronunciation of Hangul.

Here are the resources for today’s lesson:

Day Two: Today you can continue learning Hangul with the resources from yesterday, or you can review what you have learned.

Here are the resources for today’s lesson: 

Day Three: Starting today, you will be given 5 words per day to learn. Another goal for today is to learn the basic Korean sentence structure.

Here are the resources for today’s lesson:

Day Four: Today’s lesson will be an introduction to the number systems. In addition to the lesson, you will learn 5 more vocabulary words.

Here are the resources for today’s lesson:

Day Five: Today’s goal is to learn the days of the week along with the 5 daily vocabulary words.

Here are the resources for today’s lesson:

Day Six: Today’s lesson is on the months of the year. In addition to that, you will learn today’s 5 vocabulary words.

Here are the resources for today’s lesson:

Day Seven: Today is a rest day. You can either take a break from studying, or review what you have learned this week.

Korean Resources Masterpost

Merry Christmas @tollpehely ! This is my present to you! I hope you have an amazing Christmas and New Year. Korean is a language I have enjoyed learning so I really do hope these resources are of good use to you.

A difficult aspect in learning a language is finding resources. Thankfully with Korean there are plenty. More than plenty actually. Personally, I use various resources just because some explain a certain grammar point better or sometimes I need to complement with other ones. I decided to make a list of my favorite resources and where to find them.

Note: The star is for something I highly recommend.

Grammar

★ How to study Korean - This website is great for really understanding the grammar. For some it’s too much but I like how detailed it is.

★ Go! Billy Korean - I like how simple his explanations are in contrast to How to study Korean. You can find his pdfs and lessons here or click here to download most of them up till lesson 91.

★ Korean Grammar in Use - One of my favorites just because it helps a lot when learning HOW to use the grammar. How to study Korean is great for understanding the grammar, but Korean Grammar in Use goes into detail. For example the conjugation charts are really helpful. I have the pdfs from Beginner to Advanced with the audio and answer keys.

Vocabulary

★ Memrise: TTMIK: The Korean Verbs Vol. 1 - A course with practice sentences for the most common verbs. You can also just use this as a guide for which verbs you should learn first.

★  Memrise: TTMIK: The Korean Verbs Vol. 2 - More useful verbs.

TTMIK: Word Showdown - This small pdf explains the differences between commonly used words. I recommend it.

TTMIK: Korean Slang Expressions Volume 1 - Like the name states, Talk to me in Korean shows useful slang expressions through a brief explanation, examples and sample Dialogue.

TTMIK: Korean Slang Expressions Volume 2  

TTMIK: Everyday Korean Idiomatic Expressions   

Listening Practice

Some popular Korean shows to practice.

The Unit -   Ex-idols who never got to shine, and current idols who want to make a name for themselves perform on stage to prove their worth. They will perform in front of Rain, Hwang Chi Yeul, Hyun A, Tae Min, San E, and Jo Hyun Ah. Will the young artists be able to impress the judges?

MasterKey -  Korea’s hottest celebrities come together for an exciting game show where they must use their sixth sense to find the one who’s lying and hiding the ‘master key’! Can they find the liar?

★ Exo Showtime -  A South Korean documentary starring the boy group Exo that allows the fans to see behind-the-scenes of Exo’s daily lives and how they act offstage. It’s one of my favorites and always will be. 

The Return of Superman -  Fathers may not be perfect.. but that’s alright if they aren’t perfect! There’s nothing like a father’s love to boost our spirits. The dads who used to spend all their time working have returned home on ‘The Return of Superman’.

Fast Drama - I won’t recommend a specific drama since there are too many and everybody has their own taste. I did recommend variety shows because those are aimed towards a wider audience. Instead, I recommend this website where you can watch dramas. Note: You can use other websites for watching kdramas. Not this just one.

Reading Practice 

Learning Korean with Humans of Seoul - They break down the phrases, grammar points and words from the Facebook page ‘Humans of Seoul’. Really useful.

Humans of Seoul - Here you can find interesting Korean stories in Korean and English. 

Conjugation

Dongsa - I can’t even express how useful this website is. You can look up a verb to see its conjugations or look up a conjugated verb to see its “dictionary” form.

★ Tengugo - I learned hangul mainly from here and really recommend it. They have mini lessons, audios of how to pronounce each character and quizzes. It works without wifi so you can practice anywhere.

Apps

Lingodeer - I recommend this over Duolingo all the way. You can find  Studiousbees’s review on it here. I love this app and it’s a good way to get used to the basics, like Korean sentence structure which is different from a lot of languages.

Blog

Blogs are super useful for when you don’t understand a grammar point. I only recommended one blog since I prefer learning from grammar books and resources that come straight from native speakers, but their blog is seriously amazing.

Studiousbees - I love their Korean grammar lessons. If you’re advanced, you can also find their Korean News posts here, to practice reading and vocabulary. @studiousbees 

How to learn (+remember!) Korean words

I’ve seen quite a few posts that claim to have tips about learning Korean vocab, and while they have some solid advice, they’re usually pretty general and could be applied to learning any language. As someone who has learned 2,000 Korean words in the past year (but is still very much a learner), I thought I would give some advice for how to learn Korean words specifically–foregoing the traditional advice that one can find anywhere. (Note: I do not live in Korea; this advice can apply to learners living anywhere.)

I hope these tips are helpful, and please let me know if you have any questions~

Korean learning tips

To begin you should learn 한글 the alphabet. Learning how to read the characters will help with your pronunciation and will allow you to progress ‘quickly’ compared to using romanisation. While romanisation is useful when you start learning, it is almost completely useless if you were to go to Korea. 

Moving on from that, you could learn basic vocabulary like numbers, manners, verbs, adjectives and nouns, we also have two posts filled with ‘useful words/phrases’ that you might like to learn (1,2). You could also learn how to introduce yourself and your job! 

Learning grammar will allow you to start forming sentences, to start you should learn present tense conjugation, past tense and future tense, there are also other basic grammar points such as ~고 싶어요 meaning ‘to want’. Particles (1,2) are something you will see all the time, while they can be quite hard to grasp to begin with, it’s useful to know what they are and try to understand their usages in the sentence. You could also learn how to make a sentence negative. 

(Here are some other posts that, while probably are not essential to 100% memorise when you start, are useful and may answer some questions about why things are the way they are😊 받침, irregular conjugation (1,2), vowel contraction) 

General tips:

1. Making a schedule/planning set time to study will encourage you to work. It doesn’t have to be everyday, it could be just a couple of hours at the weekend - be realistic as well so that it doesn’t feel like a chore.

2. Along with setting realistic amount of study time, you could also set achievable goals to help motivate you. If they are unrealistic it might make you feel like you’ll never reach them, so setting little goals will allow you to feel as though you have achieved something! 

3. Write a diary in Korean. This will allow you to practise the grammar and vocabulary you have learnt even if you don’t have any friends to talk to. It will also help/prompt you to learn new vocabulary/grammar as you may not know how to say what you want. It doesn’t have to be a long passage, just a few lines will help! It’s also something that won’t take too long so you could do it daily!

4. Learning from a text book can be boring, you could alternate learning between textbook work and something you find more fun! You could listen to Kpop or watch dramas and learn vocab/grammar that you hear repeated! (I think it is possible to see both Korean and English subs on Viki, a feature you might find useful). You could also try to find your favourite show with Korean subs (search for the Korean title then google “title 시즌(season)x x화(episode)”, I think Baydrama might be a good place to watch), this will allow you to see how things have been translated - you can look up vocab and grammar you find here as well.

Other resources: 

Sites + Youtube:

Sejong How to study korean Talk to me in korean Korean class 101 90 day korean Naver dic

Apps:

Rieul Korean Duolingo Lingodeer Memrise italki hinative Grammar haja

If you search in the App Store there are so many more apps you can find, there are games and apps specifically for learning 한글, numbers and basic words like colours and food. 

🌱A&R🍑

Korean Resources

I’ve updated the Korean Resources section of The Library and I’ve made it rebloggable for those that prefer that :)

Korean

when jjongie gets real happy and his face does the scrunch thing

reblog if u agree

This makes me happy ! That’s juice!!!!!!!

Black excellence! This makes me so proud! ❤️😊😫

I’m here for this

if you're black, reblog this

I guess i have to bc I fasho aint white

^^^^^