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Hey RAE? Listen to me. If I'm looking up a word in a dictionary it's because I don't know what the word means. That is what dictionaries are for.... So using a different form of the word in the definition DOESN'T HELP😭
Hello! I haven't updated this blog in a long while because... It finally happened!! I finally moved to Japan!! It's been an intense exhausting month so far, I'm still not entirely sure what I'm doing most of the time but I'm just winging it. I'm working as an ALT so I assist in the English teaching at 1 junior high school and 2 elementary schools so my schedule is a little all over the place and I feel like I'm never at one school long enough to actually become part of the community... But many people have complimented my language abilities and I've been travelling around different places like Nara and Osaka which is really cool. I'm scared of being lonely again like I was in Spain but I'm just trying to take it one step at a time.
That's it I have peaked
Learn Kanji by radicals instead of by strokes
Kanji is made up of parts called radicals. If you learn by strokes you will sometimes have over 15 strokes. But if you learn the radicals, kanji becomes much more simple. Radicals are like building blocks and you only need 2-4 to put together a kanji. But it is still important to know how to write kanji in proper stroke order.
Check out another radical cheat sheet by TextFugu
Hello! I don't use this blog as much anymore since I left uni and lost all structure to my life and have since been going down a depression spiral along with intense headaches and migraines and so when I look back at the past half year I'm like 'Wow damn I have done... Literally nothing productive. Ever.'
Since this blog has helped me a lot with keeping myself motivated for language learning, I would like to continue at it, and so I may start posting again to keep myself accountable for doing things? Maybe start some sort of challenge? We'll see
I've recently seen some people posting their JLPT scores and passing N1 and it's made me very jealous but in a good way that makes me think 'damn I want to do that too' - I've mostly completed my N1 kanji text book and I'm about halfway through my reading one but I'd like to at some point buy a grammar one because my grammar is awful - and then maybe take the test in June (if they do it??)?
I also did like 50 lessons of Korean with Billy on Youtube last year but then since stopped and have forgotten everything so I'd like to get to that again.
I did complete the Duolingo tree for Portuguese! And I'd like to get to properly learning verb conjugations!
And finally I'd like to read a book properly in Spanish and check the news in Spanish regularly to not forget it!
I have read 10 books just within the last month so I may post some like... book reviews at some point.
Let us see what happens! Good luck to everyone else with their language goals!
This answer... I started in Spanish fine like 'Oh yeah los buhos' then when it came to 'cooked', my brain turned into Portuguese with 'cozinhar' mixed with the Spanish past preterite... And then when it came to 'spicy', my brain could only think of the Korean '매워'....
You’ve heard of Soy Milk, now get ready for Estoy Milk
Temporary milk.
If it comes with an expiration date, it’s all temporary milk!
Want to learn something new in 2022??
Absolute beginner adult ballet series (fabulous beginning teacher)
40 piano lessons for beginners (some of the best explanations for piano I’ve ever seen)
Excellent basic crochet video series
Basic knitting (probably the best how to knit video out there)
Pre-Free Figure Skate Levels A-D guides and practice activities (each video builds up with exercises to the actual moves!)
How to draw character faces video (very funny, surprisingly instructive?)
Another drawing character faces video
Literally my favorite art pose hack
Tutorial of how to make a whole ass Stardew Valley esque farming game in Gamemaker Studios 2??
Introduction to flying small aircrafts
French/Dutch/Fishtail braiding
Playing the guitar for beginners (well paced and excellent instructor)
Playing the violin for beginners (really good practical tips mixed in)
Color theory in digital art (not of the children’s hospital variety)
Retake classes you hated but now there’s zero stakes:
Calculus 1 (full semester class)
Learn basic statistics (free textbook)
Introduction to college physics (free textbook)
Introduction to accounting (free textbook)
Learn a language:
Ancient Greek
Latin
Spanish
German
Japanese (grammar guide) (for dummies)
French
Russian (pretty good cyrillic guide!)
Hey tumblr is not the place for this kinda question BUT I want to read more nonfiction. Anyone have any good recs?
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson - the story of the Great Migration, largely told through the lives of three migrants
Vanished Kingdoms by Norman Davies - biographies of European countries that no longer exist and are often barely remembered
Ace by Angela Chen - an asexual journalist talks to other aces and discusses how their orientation (and other marginalizations) affect their lives
The Unidentified by Colin Dickey - a history of pseudoscientific thinking (UFOs, cryptids, conspiracies, etc.), mostly in the US, with forays into the state of the world today
How to Be a Victorian by Ruth Goodman - a history of Victorian domestic and social life, written with a “day in the life” structure
The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan - a history of the world focusing on the Middle East and Central Asia, rather than the West
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene - a good introduction to string theory
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Stephen Brusatte - what we currently know about the evolution of dinosaurs and the world they lived in
anything by Mary Roach - she’s a funny science journalist who’s made a career of finding scientists in odd fields and asking them questions. I rec Fuzz, Stiff, and Spook especially (animal-human conflict, cadavers, paranormal, respectively).
SPQR by Mary Beard - a history of ancient Rome that focuses on the average people, rather than the elites
Zealot by Resa Aslan - a biography of Jesus Christ the man and messiah, and a look at how his preaching was shaped into Christianity after his execution
anything by James Herriot - cozy and charming stories about being a vet in 1930s Yorkshire
Because Internet by Gretchen McCulloch - an overview of Internet English, where it comes from and why it’s fascinating
Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith - cephalopod intelligence and how it may have evolved
Time Travel by James Gleick - a history of time travel in culture, from science fiction to relativity to time capsules and beyond
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty - a memoir about working in a crematory and a peek into the funeral industry
A Time of Gifts by Patrick Leigh Fermor - a young man walks across western Europe in the 1930s
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks - case studies of people with unusual memory impairments
hope you don’t mind me adding a couple more:
The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green - essays on everything from the QWERTY keyboard to Penguins of Madagascar, beautifully woven into a sort of autobiography
This Is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay - a diary of a junior doctor that offers unique insight into real-life medicine through the lens of humour (and, at times, heartbreak)
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff - the principles of Taoism, accessibly explained by Winnie the Pooh and his friends :)
What if? by Randall Munroe - actual scientific answers to really dumb life questions like Are fire tornadoes possible? and What if a Richter 15 earthquake hit NYC?
The Definitive Book of Body Language by A. & B. Pease - what it says on the tin; body language, social dynamics, cultural aspects etc.
Never Split the Difference by Chriss Voss - the role of intuition and emotional intelligence in any interaction (recced by my mentor in relation to building a good doctor-patient rapport)
In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado - a memoir about living (& surviving) an abusive relationship with beautiful writing that reads almost like non ficiton
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker - the what, how, why of sleep in the 21st century and its effects on every aspect of our lives
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty - a mortician’s humorous (but true!) answers to kids’ serious questions about death
my favorite word in spanish is actually defenestrar which means 'to throw someone through a window' and i think that's beautiful
Awesome Childhood Spelling
Uhh…where it says “looked” read “lopped”. lol This is based on the original tweet you see up there by Twitter user @Sal_Perez4 (see the original tweet here).
Another, similar thread by Jonathon Owen on the linguistics of this same excellent tweet.
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Affirmations For Students Taking Exams Right Now!
I’m going to do my best and get what I get.
I refuse to let myself feel guilt for any score I get during a pandemic
This test does not define any part of me.
This number won’t matter three years from now.
My score does not represent my intelligence.
My best does not have to be the same as anyone else.
I will make it through this.
Aaaaa so my year abroad to Japan in university in 2020 was completely cancelled due to the pandemic and I wasn't able to go....
Then I got onto the JET Programme this year and was told I was going to leave in September, so that was all good... And then I was told that was cancelled and it would be later... Then later... Then it was finally set for Saturday 4th December....
I got an email earlier today to say that due to the new strain of the virus, our flight has been cancelled and it's like...
I know it's not anyone's fault and that no one could have predicted this virus that's taking over but I've had my life on hold just sitting in my hometown for the last 6 months and I'm so sad. I'm so lonely and I have no purpose and I just. Want to follow my dreams and go to the country I've been studying so much about but I can't and I don't know what to do...
reading in your target language is like
*reads two words* *picks up dictionary* *reads two more words* *looks up two words in dictionary* *understands two sentences* *rejoices* *looks up word in dictionary* *finally understands the sentence* *looks up same word in dictionary* *despairs* *reads under breath to aid comprehension* *opens up dictionary again* *understands every single word in the sentence but doesn’t understand the sentence* *sighs* *picks up dictionary* *understands more sentences* *rereads same sentence three times* *doesn’t understand* *opens dictiona—