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d e v o n
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Xuebing Du
Love Begins
romaâ
sheepfilms
Three Goblin Art
Game of Thrones Daily
çĽćĽ / Permanent Vacation
AnasAbdin
noise dept.
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
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trying on a metaphor
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
Product Placement
occasionally subtle
⣠Chile in a Photography âŁ
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@audaciousgirl16
I keep asking myself if things would be different if i were a different person.Would things be different if i were different?Would they be different if the circumstances were different?Or would everything be different.I donât know who i am anymore.I guess Iâve never known who i was.I dont know what Iâm going on about anymore either.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
â Rumi
Hey guys!
Iâm so excited to share this language learning challenge that I created with you!
Itâs called Brick-By-Brick Language Learning Challenge and itâs made for anyone who already knows the basics of their target language and wants to improve their knowledge :)
If you participate in this challenge, make sure to use the hashtag #brickbybricklearning and to tag me here on tumblr (@mylinguisticadventure) and on instagram (@mylinguisticadventure).Â
Thatâs it for now. Happy language learning!
06.12.19 Manchester
âThereâs a time for daring and thereâs a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.â - Dead Poets Society
It is a wise thing to be polite; consequently, it is a stupid thing to be rude. To make enemies by unnecessary and willful incivility, is just as insane a proceeding as to set your house on fire.
â Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims
âWith the chance youâve been given, why are you not driven as hell?â
â Emmett, Legally Blonde the Musical
ANIME THINGS: Writing đ
âWhen we set children against one another in contests - from spelling bees to awards assemblies to science âfairsâ (that are really contests), from dodge ball to honour rolls to prizes for the best painting or the most books read - we teach them to confuse excellence with winning, as if the only way to do something well is to outdo others. We encourage them to measure their own value in terms of how many people theyâve beaten, which is not exactly a path to mental health. We invite them to see their peers not as potential friends or collaborators but as obstacles to their own success⌠Finally, we lead children to regard whatever theyâre doing as a means to an end: The point isnât to paint or read or design a science experiment, but to win. The act of painting, reading, or designing is thereby devalued in the childâs mind.â
â Alfie Kohn, The Myth Of The Spoiled Child
I believe in free education, one thatâs available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc⌠This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!
FREE ONLINE COURSESÂ (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)
AlisonÂ
Coursera
FutureLearn
open2study
Khan Academy
edX
P2P U
Academic Earth
iversity
Stanford Online
MIT Open Courseware
Open Yale Courses
BBC Learning
OpenLearn
Carnegie Mellon University OLI
University of Reddit
Saylor
IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)
TED
FORA
Big ThinkÂ
99u
BBC Future
Seriously Amazing
How Stuff Works
Discovery News
National Geographic
Science News
Popular Science
IFLScience
YouTube Edu
NewScientist
DIY & HOW-TOâSÂ (Donât know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)
wikiHow
Wonder How To
instructables
eHow
Howcast
MAKE
Do it yourself
FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS
OpenStax CNX
Open Textbooks
Bookboon
Textbook Revolution
E-books Directory
FullBooks
Books Should Be Free
Classic Reader
Read Print
Project Gutenberg
AudioBooks For Free
LibriVox
Poem Hunter
Bartleby
MIT Classics
Many Books
Open Textbooks BCcampus
Open Textbook Library
WikiBooks
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS
Directory of Open Access Journals
Scitable
PLOS
Wiley Open Access
Springer Open
Oxford Open
Elsevier Open Access
ArXiv
Open Access Library
LEARN:
1. LANGUAGES
Duolingo
BBC Languages
Learn A Language
101languages
Memrise
Livemocha
Foreign Services Institute
My Languages
Surface Languages
Lingualia
OmniGlot
OpenCultureâs Language links
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING
Codecademy
Programmr
GA Dash
CodeHS
w3schools
Code Avengers
Codelearn
The Code Player
Code School
Code.org
Programming Motherf*?$%#
Bento
Buckyâs room
WiBit
Learn Code the Hard Way
Mozilla Developer Network
Microsoft Virtual Academy
3. YOGA & MEDITATION
Learning Yoga
Learn Meditation
Yome
Free Meditation
Online Meditation
Do Yoga With Me
Yoga Learning Center
4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING
Exposure Guide
The Bastards Book of Photography
Cambridge in Color
Best Photo Lessons
Photography Course
Production Now
nyvs
Learn About Film
Film School Online
5. DRAWING & PAINTING
Enliighten
Ctrl+Paint
ArtGraphica
Google Cultural Institute
Drawspace
DragoArt
WetCanvas
6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY
Music Theory
Teoria
Music Theory Videos
Furmanczyk Academy of Music
Dave Conservatoire
Petrucci Music Library
Justin Guitar
Guitar Lessons
Piano Lessons
Zebra Keys
Play Bass Now
7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS
Investopedia
The Chess Website
Chesscademy
Chess.com
Spreeder
ReadSpeeder
First Aid for Free
First Aid Web
NHS Choices
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Please feel free to add more learning focused websites.Â
*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as Iâm aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.
60-day Language Challenge
I decided to make this challenge to keep up with the not-so-hard work of learning Norwegian. Along with the daily tasks, Iâll be practicing the vocabulary I learn with physical cards and the spaced-learning method. The tasks I listed focus on specific skills (writing, listening, speaking, etc.) and they are distributed in different days.Feel free to use, share or adapt this challenge according to your needs.
Happy learning!
Day 1: Learn 5 words.
Day 2: Describe whatâs around you in 3-5 lines.
Day 3: Read a childrenâs short story aloud.
Day 4: Watch a video in/about your target language.
Day 5: Learn 2 idioms.
Day 6: Talk to yourself for 5 minutes in TG.
Day 7: Learn a grammatical rule/concept and explain it.
Day 8: Learn 10 words.
Day 9: Translate a paragraph from English/native tongue to TG.
Day 10: Write (in TG) why you decided to take up that language.
Day 11: Read an article aloud and explain the main idea.
Day 12: Try 2 tongue twisters.
Day 13: Learn a grammatical rule/concept and explain it.
Day 14: Watch a film/video/episode of a series in TG (Subs can be used).
Day 15: Have a small chat with a native.
Day 16: Learn 3 idioms.
Day 17: Describe your room in a paragraph.
Day 18: Learn 15 words.
Day 19: Write about your favourite animal.
Day 20: Listen to a podcast.
Day 21: Learn grammatical rule/concept and explain it.
Day 22: Learn 5 swear words/expressions.
Day 23: Describe someone you know.
Day 24: Learn 20 words.
Day 25: Write about your favourite sport or sport you practice.
Day 26: Watch a film or episode of a series in TG (with subs)
Day 27: Describe a place that makes you feel good.
Day 28: Learn 4 idioms.
Day 29: Chat with a native for 10-15 minutes.
Day 30: Write a short story or a memory about something important to you.
Day 31: Learn 25 words.
Day 32: Read an article and explain what it was about.
Day 33 Listen to a podcast/radio.
Day 34: Learn 5 idioms.
Day 35: Translate two paragraphs of something of your interest.
Day 36: Watch a video/episode of a series in TG (once without subs, then with them).
Day 37: Learn 30 words.
Day 38: Chat with a native about a specific topic of your interest.
Day 39: Learn a grammatical rule/concept and explain it.
Day 40: Describe a dream youâve had.
Day 41: Read an article and write your position on the topic.
Day 42: Listen to a podcast/radio.
Day 43: Learn 35 words.
Day 44: Describe an imaginary character or place.
Day 45: Read a short story (write new words).
Day 46: Learn 6 idioms.
Day 47: Translate a song from TG to native language (or English), or vice versa.
Day 48: Watch a film.
Day 49: Chat with a native for 20 minutes.
Day 50: Learn 40 words.
Day 51: Listen to a podcast/radio.
Day 52: Make your bucket list in TG.
Day 53: Learn about traditions/customs in a country where your TG is spoken.
Day 54: Learn a grammatical rule/concept and explain it.
Day 55: Write in TG about a tradition/custom in your country.
Day 56: Learn 3 proverbs/sayings.
Day 57: Write about your biggest fear.
Day 58: Make a playlist of music in your TG.
Day 59: Learn 10 words.
Day 60: Choose the task you like the most and practice what youâve learnt.
being intuitive is just like... i donât like this and no i will not elaborate
Medical School Resources! (and other human biology,physiology,biochemistry-related resources)
Hi Everyone!Â
Update: I am now officially done with my second year! I know iâve been MIA on here for a while now - but thatâs only because I was drowning in textbooks and assignments! I will be writing a whole other post on what my second year in medical school was like - so watch out for that :)
I, for one, can not just rely on one method of learning. Meaning, Iâll jump from videos, to textbooks, to flashcards. In this post Iâm going to list some of my holy grail youtube channels that have helped saved me.Â
1) Handwritten Tutorials
https://www.youtube.com/user/harpinmartin
Every video in this channel is short, but not so much that you feel like youâre missing out on information. Definitely one to save as a favourite!
2) Armando Hasudungan
https://www.youtube.com/user/armandohasudungan
The best thing about this channel is the fact that there are over 300 videos, covering a wide range of core topics in endocrinology, neurology, physiology and pharmacology. Another pro is the presentation of topics (otherwise considered snooze-worthy) in an artistic manner!
3) Speed Pharmacology
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-i2EBYXH6-GAglvuDIaufQ
Raise your hand if youâve ever fallen asleep trying to read about the mechanism of action of opioids, their side effects and contraindications. I know I have. Fret not, for this youtube channel will introduce you to a world where pharmacology is actually interesting.
4) Wendy RiggsÂ
https://www.youtube.com/user/wendogg1
Wendy Riggs is a very down-to-earth professor in Northern California, and she covers a wide range of  topics in Anatomy, Physiology and General Biology.Â
5) Anatomy Zone
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAnatomyZone
A better way to learn anatomy is to supplement your textbook information with videos from this channel. The explanations and visuals provided are absolute gold.
I hope you all find these channels as helpful as I did!
i mentioned this briefly in my recent vlog about how important it is to gain a better understanding of finances + i figured that it might be nice to share some resources for gaining financial literacy! hope this helps â¨
why financial literacy is important
resources on financial literacy from the national credit union administration
harvardâs take on financial literacy + additional links within that page
how credit cards work
tips for improving your credit score
how to check and improve your credit score
khan academy course on finance
cnn money 101
mymoney.gov from the financial literacy commission
gcf lessons (includes lessons on work / career / internet / microsoft / etc as well)
ally wallet wise
money as you grow
adult budgeting 101
tips for paying off student loans
common ways you waste money
strategies for paying off student loans
how insurance works
personal loans 101
guide to getting out of debt
how student loans work
How to learn a language when you donât 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 wonât be immediately relevant to you when youâre 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 theyâve 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 âthe principle of expanding rehearsalâ. 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. Childrenâs books are great practice for beginners. Donât 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 youâve 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 âear trainingâ. 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 youâve understood what youâve 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 âstory.â
Translate what was said into another language.
âTalk backâ 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.Â
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 donât 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 youâre feeling, or what youâre thinking.
Make up a conversation between two people.Â
Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You donât need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.
Translate a text youâve written in your native language into your foreign language.
Write a review or a book youâve recently read or a film youâve 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 thereâs no room to hide.Â
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
hey you! yes you! you need a little motivation? *grabs you close*  I got you.
here are 10 quotes you need to hear right now:
The question isnât who is going to let me; itâs who is going to stop me.
You create opportunities by asking for them.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it does.
If your going to be weird, be confident about it.Â
Normality is a paved road; its comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow.Â
Donât compare your chapter one to something else chapter 20.
To whom much is given, much is expected.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.
Youâre welcome.
Bullet journal quotes
hello everyone! Decided to share my collection of themed quotes to use in the bullet journal, itâs super useful for those moments when you desperately want a quote to relate to something so you can use it in your different bujo spreads, whatever they are, or sometimes just to decorate, besides being a source of wisdom and beauty. So here are a few, hope you enjoy them. âĄ
Dedication / Work / Motivation:
âMy work is a game, a very serious game.â - M. C. Escher
âNothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.â -Â Theodore Roosevelt
âPleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.â - Aristotle
âWhat we do today is what matters most.â - Buddha
âThe best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.â - Elbert Hubbard
âI will study and get ready and perhaps my chance will come.â - Abraham Lincoln
âToday I will do what others wonât so tomorrow I can accomplish what others canât.â - Jerry Rice
âThe only thing more important than your to do list is your to be list. The only thing more important than your to be list is to be.â -Â Alan Cohen
âTalent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.â - Stephen King
âThe price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.â - William Arthur Ward
Finances:
âNever spend your money before you have it.â - Thomas Jefferson
âBeware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.â - Benjamin FranklinÂ
âIf you wish to get rich, save what you get. A fool can earn money, but it takes a wise man to save and dispose of it to his own advantage.â - Brigham Young
âRemember, your ways of handling money have to work in the good AND the bad times.â - Dave Ramsey
âThe goal isnât money. The goal is living life on your terms.â - Chris Brogan
âDo not save what is left after spending, but spend what is left after saving.â - Warren Buffet
Love:
âThe course of true love never did run smooth.â - William Shakespeare
âEvery relationship is just a big honking leap of faith.â - Rory Gilmore in Gilmore Girls
âThe best thing to hold onto in life is each other.â - Audrey Hepburn
âPerhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another.â - Jane Austen in Emma
Positivity:
âFeelings come and go like clouds in the sky.â - Thich Nhat Hanh
âStones in the road? I save every single one, and one day Iâll build a castle.â - Fernando Pessoa
âNothing is permanent. Everything is subject to change.â - Buddha
âAt some point you just have to let go, move on. Because no matter how painful it is, itâs the only way we grow.â - Meredith Grey in Greyâs Anatomy
âHappiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.â - Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (movie)
âWeâve all got both light and dark inside of us. What matters is the part we choose to act on, thatâs who we really are.â - Sirius Black in Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix (movie)
âI donât believe in pessimism. If something doesnât come up the way you want, forge ahead.â - Clint Eastwood
âIt always seems impossible until itâs done.â - Nelson Mandela
âLife is a journey to be experienced, not a problem to be solved.â - Winnie the Pooh
âThere is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.â - Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol
Health:
âTo keep the body in good health is a duty otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.â - Buddha
âThe food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison.â - Ann Wigmore
âNo man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of wich his body is capable.â - Socrates
Funny:
âHow am I supposed to get through the holidays without liquor?â - Cristina Yang in Greyâs Anatomy
âI donât do drugs. I am drugs.â - Salvador Dali
âYouâre just as sane as I am.â - Luna Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
:)
Forgiveness doesnât require reconnection.
