@andyfec - Tumblr Blog

i'm back by popular demand!!

Hey guys!! Guess who's back?!?!

I'm now trying to get back in the game, so I hope I can post more about my journey with languages and writing.

This year I'm focusing on improving my (british) english. I want to reach C1, almost C2 by the end of the year (I need all the luck, motivation and time I can get). I'm a solid B2 (at least it's my score in every test I take). I have the usual problems: lack of grammar (prepositions??? Is that something to eat?) I would die if my life depends on using in/at/on correctly. And I need more vocab, nothing fancy, but I need to improve it. My goal is to write 50k in september (I'm not gonna name the challenge, but if you know, you know). If you're going to do a similar challenge, just DM me!!

Next year I'm going to prioritize my (chilean) spanish. yeah, you read that right. I'm gonna try to learn chilean english on my own. Wish me luck!! I know some spanish, but chilean spanish?? That's a whole different level of spanish. And if you are chilean and want to chat next year with someone borderline funny and chaotic, just let me know! And I'm trying to decide on learning italian, german or norwegian next year. I know a thing or two in those languages, but I really want to focus on one of them next year. Any suggestion or study buddies are appreciated.

On top of that, I'm writing my master's dissertation and have to finish it by March AND write my PhD project until November, so I can apply by the beginning of December.

I don't know how alive is the langblr and studyblr community (I left for an insane amount of time), but if you are learning a language or studying for something and need some accountability, just hit me up! I can help with portuguese too!

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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!)

ducksarebloodthirstylittlebeasts

I mean that about sums it up

macgyvermedical

Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

joytri

learnelle

Bookish places in France 🇫🇷

wedarkacademia

- Evelyn Waugh, from Brideshead Revisited (1945)

birbizbirdeornitorenkler

titsay

thoughtkick

You deserve a relationship that enables you to sleep peacefully at night.

R.H. Sin (via thoughtkick)

animentality

kaelio

No-fault divorce is actually very recent. That is, a divorce just because you wanted to get divorced and not because they were guilty of some provable transgression. California’s no-fault divorce law was 1966; the latest US state, it was 2010. When I was in Catholic school, we were taught to believe in and promote anti-no-fault-divorce positions. This is very recent history, and you cannot take even this for granted. Stop being “edgy” about feminism and its flaws. Every movement will have some flaws. But do you not think that this, and the risk it represents, is significant to women as a class of all backgrounds?