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Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook

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Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar Dutch: An Essential Grammar Intermediate Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook

English: An Essential Grammar

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Modern French Grammar Workbook

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar

Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook German: An Essential Grammar Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language

Hindi: An Essential Grammar

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Hungarian: An Essential Grammar

Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

Basic Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar

Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook Intensive Intermediate Latin: A Grammar and Workbook

Latvian: An Essential Grammar

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Norwegian: An Essential Grammar

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Portuguese: An Essential Grammar

Romanian: An Essential Grammar

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook

Serbian: An Essential Grammar

Basic Spanish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Spanish: A Grammar and Workbook Spanish: An Essential Grammar

Swahili Grammar and Workbook

Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar Swedish: An Essential Grammar

Thai: An Essential Grammar

Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Ukrainian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Urdu: An Essential Grammar

Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar

Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Textbook

• Create realistic goals: get ___ grade on next ____
• Manageable let down; get back on track
• Keep track of grades: focused, know where stand, no surprises
• Start small
• Low risk confidence builders
• Take time to relax/give self rewards
• Days off, breaks, rewards
• All work & no play =/= living
• Little organization goes a long way
• Reward achievements!
• Keep balance with exercise, clubs, friends
• 2h/d: friends and exercise
• Remember that hard work pays off
• Isn’t a breeze to try to get a 4.0 GPA; but it’s possible
• You’re smart enough and can achieve it
• 90% there with these tips, 10% is just pure hard work
• Only chill on weekends
• Monday-Friday: school mode
• Have time for some fun
• If work as hard as should during week, will need weekends to blow off steam
• Be self-motivated
• Grades can matter, not everything, but follow through on what needs to be done
• Not most important part of college but underperform? You will regret it
• GPA cutoffs exist and matter to employers
• College is full of distractions and opportunities
• Nobody will hold hand and the work will suck but all the prouder of yourself to be
• Suck it up, buckle down, get it done
• If think need break, probably don’t
• Turn off the little voice
• Realize not alone in questioning ability
• Avoid people who tend to burst bubbles no matter what 
• Physical triggers to stop
• Incentive to get something done when know have something else during the day
• Don’t have a gaping abyss of study time
• Work has to get done, in the end
• Books, examiners, and especially your future self isn’t going to care about your excuses for not doing the work
• Take the first step
• It will almost be fictional how hard you thought the task was going to be
• Just keep going because you simply can’t afford NOT to do anything today, nonzero days
• Leeway, don’t give your perfectionism control over your life

• Sleep! Think and function, mind & body
• CAN sleep if keep up with coursework instead of procrastinating
• Will miss out on some fun stuff
• Need to stay awake in class
• Figure out what need for full speed
• Stay relaxed
• Stay physically healthy
• Diet and exercise
• 1 hour exercise during week
• Weekends off
• Traditional breakfast not necessary if value extra sleep
• Systematic habits: neat, prepared
• Master material
• Look for real world applications
• Learning is a process: be patient, don’t expect to master off the bat
• Designate study area and study times
• Do trial runs
• Practice tests
• Ask a TA to listen to your oral performance
• Study groups
• Don’t copy other people’s psets and solutions

• Spiral bound notebook, can color code with folders/etc if need be
• Lecture notes: front to back
• Reading notes: back to front (if fall behind on)
• Seminar notes: mixed in with lecture notes, different pen color/labeled
• Outline format
• Bullet points for everything
• Same NB for one set of class notes, separate notebooks for all classes
• 5-subject notebook
• Midterm and exam material in it
• Mesh sources, study guide
• All study material from week/month in one place
• Pick the right major
• Indulge in favorite hobby feeling
• Pick professors & classes wisely
• Take a small class
• Pick classes that interest you so studying doesn’t feel torturous
• Want to learn

• Prioritize class by how can affect GPA
• More credits: more weight
• Work enough to get an A in your easy classes: take something good at
• Don’t settle, don’t slack off, don’t put in minimal effort to get that B/C. Just put in a tiny bit more effort to ensure A
• Will have harder classes and need to counteract
• Take electives can ace
• Anything but an A in an elective is kinda mean and an unnecessary hit for your GPA

• Get to know teaching style: focus most on, lecture/notes
• Pick and follow a specific note taking format
• Outline
• Date each entry
• Capture everything on board
• Decide productivity system
• Google Cal
• Todoist
• Agenda: remind meetings, class schedule, important dates/midterms/quizzes/tests, no homework 
• Always wanted to be prepared
• Rarely last minute
• Have plan, stay focused
• Homework notebook
• Good redundancy
• Study syllabus
• Know it thoroughly
• Plot all due dates after class
• Penalize if fail to abide by
• Study the hardest for the first exam
• Seems counterintuitive
• Hardest/most important test
• Pay attention to content and formatLess pressure: just need ___ on final to keep my A 
• Easy to start high and keep high
• Go into crunch mode at the beginning
• End softly
• Get plenty of sleep, exercise, and good food in the finals days before the exam

• Get to know professors: go to office hours, care about grades/course/them
• Easier ask for help, rec letter
• Get to know interests and what they think is important
• Figure out their research interests, 60% of their job is research
• Learning is dynamic
• Discussion helps
• Get feedback early when not sure what doing
• Take comments constructively
• Consistent class participation: ask questions, give answers, comment when appropriate
• Understand material
• Find a study buddy in each class: don’t have to study with
• Somebody can compare notes with, safety net
• Pick somebody who attends, participates, and take notes regularly
• Make some friends
• Participate as fully as can in group activities
• Be involved
• Learn – not be taught
• Be punctual
• Good impression, on human professors
• DON’T BE LATE
• Skipping class =/= option: It’s “cool” to get attendance award
• Make all the classes: it’s hard to feel confident when missing key pieces
• Get full scope of class, everything will make a lot more sense and save a lot of time in long run
• Mandatory class: higher graduating cumulative GPA
• Go to class when no one else does/want to show up, reward
• Get to know professor, what’s on test, notice, r/s build, material not in reading
• Unless optional and super confusing professor
• Sit in one of the first rows
• Don’t fall asleep
• Fake interest if you have to
• Tutors

• Take notes! Provided is bare minimum, accessed by students who aren’t attending lecture
• Based on lecture and what read –> test; it’ll be worth it
• Write it down
• By hand
• Bored? Doodle instead of going online
• Read all assigned–even if need to skim
• Seems cumbersome and maybe impossible
• Figure out what’s important
• Look at the logical progression of the argument/what’s important/what trying to prove
• Understand everything that you do read–even if don’t read everything
• PIck 2 examples from text per topic
• Complete course material on time
• DO NOT WAIT UNTIL DAY BEFORE IT IS DUE
• Begin as soon as possible
• Sometimes it’s just straight up impossible
• Have it look attractive
• Library doesn’t just mean = study
• Social media in the library is still social media
• Confusion is terrible
• Read other textbooks, review course material @ another uni/by another professor, google the shit out of it
• Review
• Do not wait, do throughout semester
• Exam prep
• Ask for model papers, look at style & structure, thesis, how cite
• Get old tests
• Look at type of questions (detail level and structure)
• Can solve old exams cold
• If give out paper exams in class: probs won’t repeat questions, focus more on concepts but still learn the questions
• Have class notes and psets down cold
• Do all the practice problems
• Read through notes a few times; rewrite into a revision notebook
• Highlight major topics and subtopics
• Different highlighter for vocab terms
• Overall picture, go from concept to detail
• Look at overall context and how specific idea fit into whole course
• Ideas, don’t memorize all your notes
• Better understand = more able to use and manipulate info and remember it. Understand = manipulation.
• Charts, diagrams, graphs
• Lists
• Practice drawing labeled structures
• Flash cards for memorization
• Every school requires some degree of grunt memorization
• Say it aloud, write it down
• Get friends to quiz you
• Self-test: severely challenge self, have a running collection of exam questions
• Explain difficult concepts to your friends; force yourself to articulate the concept
• Never pull an all-nighter
• Do not spend every hour studying up to the exam
• Eat, shower, sleep
• Don’t wait until night before exam to study
• Prep takes time even if reviewed throughout semester
• Ask about format–don’t ask the professor to change it for you
• Law of College: it will be on the exam if you don’t understand it
• Ask professor, internet, textbooks
• Night before exam
• Jot what want to remember/have fresh
• Read through in morning/before exam
• Physical prep
• Sleep, have test materials
• Day of exam
• Don’t cram every single spare minute
• Go to bathroom before exam
• Never miss an exam/lie to get more time
• You won’t be any more ready 2-3 days after when supposed to have taken it
• Slay exam. Get A. 

• Friday morning: go through each syllabus, write down in HW notebook
• All hw during weekend; study/reading assignments during week
• Save everything
• Divide big tasks into small pieces to help propel self
• Standard study schedule: block off lectures, labs, regular commitments
• Note the weeks that have assignments and tests that will require extra studying
• Don’t oscillate too heavily every day with study times (i.e. don’t study 2-3 hours for weeks and then 10-12 hour days right before an exam)
• Eat and sleep to make more extended work periods liveable and enjoyable

• Set an amount of time would like to study every day
• Try to study most days
• Avoid vague/zoned out studying –> waste of time
• Do a little bit daily but don’t let studying be your whole day
• Review notes: 30mins/day, each class from that day
• Look at important ideas/vocab
• Prioritize new vocab because language is most fundamental and important tool in any subject
• Circle abbreviations and make yourself a key somewhere so you don’t forget what the hell that abbreviations meant
• Check spelling
• Rewrite/reorganize notes if necessary
• Format of ideas is just as important as the concepts themselves, esp. when it comes time for exam review
• This helps you retain the material so you’ll be ahead next time you walk into class
• Chance to ID any knowledge gaps that you can ask about for next class
• Keep up with reading
• Skim text before lecture or at least main topic sentences
• Jot down anything don’t understand; if lecture doesn’t clarify, ask the professor
• After lecture: skim again, outline chapter, make vocab flashcards
• Highlight similar class and lecture notes
• will definitely be tested on
• Review and make study questions
• Study
• Disconnect from anything irrelevant to study material: help focus and your GPA
• Don’t limit studying to the night
• Study whenever, wherever between classes
• Variety helps focus and motivation
• Especially if tired at night and can’t transition between subjects
• Try to study for a specific subject right before/after the class