thank you so much for 100 followers!! i’m so grateful for the community i’ve found here <3 it’s truly such an inspiration to be surrounded by all you wonderful people!!
now that i have 100 followers, i guess it’s time for me to make another more updated intro post!
about me:
- my name is Vasudha
- my pronouns are she/her
- i’m 17 years old
- i live in the US
- i’m a ravenclaw
academics:
- i’m a rising high school senior
- i love math!
- i’m planning to go into engineering in college
- i took five years of spanish
hobbies/passions:
- i love math!!
- i sing and dance (classical)
- i love to read (my favorite genre is ya)
- i love to learn new languages! currently, i’m learning french, hindi, tamil, korean, and ASL, as well as practicing my spanish
why i created a studyblr:
generally speaking, i tend to procrastinate a lot. i want to use this studyblr to motivate myself and others into being more productive! i also have a bullet journal, and i love to see what others have created on here with theirs!
what i post:
- bullet journal spreads
- notes/other things i’m studying
- challenges
- i want to try “100 days of productivity” soon
inspirations:
some of my biggest inspirations here are @myhoneststudyblr @problematicprocrastinator @lattesandlearning @study-van and so many other people!!
Hello everyone! As you may know I've created this challenge to help revive the langblr community. It's a three week challenge designed to get you back into learning languages and (hopefully) give you ideas on how to study and share your knowledge of them. It is completely optional to do, but try to reblog other people's posts if you aren't participating.
The challenge is designed to be done daily, however if you miss a day, you can go back and do it later or continue from where you left off. I do encourage you to do your best to keep up with the challenge though. Tag your posts with #langblr reactivation challenge so that others can find your posts.
If you have any questions, please send me an ask or a message and I'll do my best to answer it.
I'll put the prompts under a read more so this post isn't ridiculously long. Good luck to everyone participating! Remember the best way to promote the langblr revival is by reblogging other people's work.
Week 1
Day 1: Create an introduction post about yourself. What's your name? What languages are you studying? What languages do you hope to study? What do you hope you'll get out of this challenge? Add whatever else you’d like to your introduction post!
Day 2: Write a list of goals you have for your target languages. Make both long term and short term goals. An overall goal could be to have the ability to talk with native speakers with ease and a smaller goal would be to finally learn that difficult grammar point that's been plaguing you for ages. How will you achieve them?
Day 3: Create a list or a Mindmap of vocabulary topics. Start with a broad topic and narrow down to more specific topics. An example could be bedroom - furniture - closet - clothes or travelling - languages - study words - school supplies. Keep a hold of this because you'll use it later to create vocab to study. Some broad topics to start with: house, school, work, travelling, friends and family, nature, city. Feel free to use these or think of your own. Share your mindmap so others can get some ideas if they need it. Here are some mind map creation tools (x) (x) (x).
Day 4: Create a vocab list for one of the topics you created yesterday, if you want to make more, feel free to make as many as you like! Share your list and reblog other people's lists. And most importantly, make sure you study these words!
Day 5: Find a video in your target language and watch it as many times as you need to in order to understand it. Make a post about the video. What was it about? Did you like the video? Was it difficult to understand? Make sure you link the video. Try to write your answers in your target language, but if you can’t that’s okay!
Day 6: Look up 3 idioms in your target language and explain what they mean and how you use them in a sentence (with an example!).
Day 7: Send asks to other langblrs (bonus points if it's in a shared target language!) asking them about whatever (for example, ask how their day was, ask questions about their target languages, or share some of your thoughts with them). If you receive one, answer it! You can ask more than one person and it can be on or off anon.
Week 2
Day 1: Over the next week, create a playlist/playlists of songs in your target language(s), they can either have a specific mood or genre or they can be a collection of songs you've discovered. When you feel like you're done with your playlist, share it so others can find some new songs. If you already have a playlist, you can add songs to it and update it.
Day 2: Write an explanation on a grammar rule in your target language (such as verb tenses, exceptions, word order, etc). Include sentences to show how and when it is used.
Day 3: Either make a vocab list or find a vocab list you like and make sentences using those words. You can make them as long or as short as you like. This is a good way to contextualise vocab words and learn them in context. Share your sentences and highlight the vocab word.
Day 4: Record yourself reading an article, short story, or passage (basically anything written in your target language). Listen to it and see if you can point out any areas you can improve with your speaking and any areas that you're doing well. You can post your recording if you wish.
Day 5: Post at least 2 songs that you like in your target language. Make sure you add a link to them so people can go listen to them.
Day 6: Share a study tip you have. This can range from how you organize your notes to playlists that help you study to apps you use to review. Just something that you find makes studying easier (and more fun).
Day 7: Share with everyone some langblrs you enjoy seeing on your dash, try to put at least 5 people (and make sure you @ them!).
Week 3
Day 1: Remember that playlist you made/are making? Take a song you really like and make a vocab list of words you don't understand, learned from the song, or recognize but don't quite remember. Post so others can see and link the song. If you have extra time and/or want a bit more of a challenge, translate the song as well, either into English or another language.
Day 2: Write about a festival or holiday that is celebrated in a country that speaks your target language. This can be either something you’ve celebrated yourself, have wanted to participate in, or have never heard of before. You can write this in any language you’d like.
Day 3: Make another vocab list from the list you made at the beginning of the challenge. If you are learning two or more languages, make the vocab list in 3 languages (meaning for example: French, German, and English or Japanese, Arabic, and Ukrainian).
Day 4: Find a recipe written in your target language and translate it into your native language (or another language of your choice) or find a recipe in your native language and translate it into your target language. Bonus points if you actually make it (share pictures if you do)!
Day 5: Create a collection of resources you use to study/learn your target language. Add links to them if possible so others can also use them.
Day 6: Create a post explaining a grammar rule that you had/are having difficulties learning. If you’re currently having difficulties, do your best to explain and ask others to help you understand it better. Include example sentences in your explanation.
Day 7: How do you feel at the end of this challenge? Did you meet any goals while doing this? Do you feel more confident in your language abilities? Where do you think you'll go from here? Answer these questions either in your native language or your target language.
Hopefully you guys enjoy/enjoyed this challenge. After you've completed the challenge, I encourage you to continue your studies in your target languages and support others in theirs.
here is my brand new challenge! i’m so excited for this one because i’ve never done an autumn challenge before but it is one of my favourite seasons! i hope lots of you will take part and i can’t wait to get to know you guys! <3
🍂 Info 🍂
If you do the challenge, use the tag #autumn studying challenge so i (and others) can see your posts. I will try to reblog as many posts in the tag as possible.
This challenge will run for 40 days - from the 1st October to the 9th November
There are daily prompts for every day of the challenge
But, as always, I don’t expect everyone to be able to post every day so you can always do catch-up posts!
If you have any questions, feel free to send me an ask!
🍂 Rules 🍂
If you want to do the challenge, please reblog this post
If you do it on any other social media platform (ie. Instagram), please give credit! (my instagram | my tiktok | my pinterest)
The challenge will officially start on the 1st October, but if you come across this later, you can definitely start anytime during these two months!
🍂 Prompts 🍂
1st October - What is your favourite thing about autumn?
2nd October - Do you have any autumn traditions?
3rd October - What is a good memory that you have from autumn?
4th October - Is there anything special happening for you this autumn?
5th October - Do you have any goals for this autumn?
6th October - What is the weather like where you live during autumn?
7th October - What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word ‘autumn’?
8th October - If autumn were a colour, what would it be?
9th October - What are three things that you associate with autumn?
10th October - What is your favourite autumn food?
11th October - What is your favourite autumn drink?
12th October - What is your favourite autumn scent?
13th October - What is your favourite autumn movie?
14th October - What are your favourite songs to listen to in autumn?
15th October - If you could magically get rid of anything about autumn, what would it be?
16th October - What is would your perfect autumn day be like?
17th October - Outside or inside?
18th October - Sunny autumn days or rainy autumn days?
19th October - Pumpkin spice lattes or hot chocolate?
20th October - What is your usual autumn outfit?
21st October - Falling rain or a crackling fireplace?
22nd October - Pumpkin pie or apple pie?
23rd October - Walk in the woods or read a book in front of the fire?
24th October - Fluffy socks or slippers?
25th October - Fireplace or bonfire?
26th October - Spooky mood or cozy mood?
27th October - Trick or treat?
28th October - Haunted house or Halloween party?
29th October - Buy a Halloween costume or make a Halloween costume?
30th October - If you could dress up as anything for Halloween, what would it be?
31st October - Are you doing anything for Halloween?
1st November - Fairy lights or candles?
2nd November - Vanilla or cinnamon?
3rd November - Splash in mud puddles or walk on crunchy leaves?
4th November - Bake cookies or make bread?
5th November - Sweater or cardigan?
6th November - Scarves or hats?
7th November - What do you prefer: winter or autumn?
8th November - How are you preparing for winter?
9th November - What was your favourite thing about autumn this year?
🍂 So this is the challenge! I hope that you will join in and enjoy doing it this autumn! Please message me or send me an ask if you have any questions about it or just want to have a chat <3 🍂
it was my dad’s birthday yesterday and we did karaoke last night which was super fun! i also discovered that there is definitely an art to choosing which songs you sing XD some of the ones i particularly enjoyed singing were piano man, i’m almost there, betty, jar of hearts and one day more (which honestly i can’t believe i pulled off lol) - what’s your go to karaoke song?
7.3.2021 - took the afternoon to just chill after three exhausting days
zoomester studyblr challenge, day 6 and 7:
quickly! tag urself!
midday. mom jeans. picnic dates. thrift-shopping. pinterest. low-key insecure. obssessed with photography.
three am. tired eyes. small sketchbooks. pressed flowers. stargazing from the window.
(very much a mix of these two so i decided to bold the ones that fit me best)
some of your music faves right now (let’s say up to 5)
- in the best case scenario we’d die at the same time - my name is ian
- kilby girl - the backseat lovers
- strawberry sunscreen - lostboycrow
- molitva - marija šerifović (literally the best eurovision song ever and if you disagree let me know so i can block you!!! been on repeat today, don’t question it)
First week of February is already coming to an end. It’s been a good one, even with the weekend night shifts, and it’s ending on a special day. Despite spending it mostly by myself, I’m still feeling tons of love from my friends and family who are hours away, and I’ll always be grateful for that.
Enjoying the sunshine while it’s there and taking walks along partly frozen rivers..
Day 2 of the Zoomester Studyblr Challenge
So, I’m studying organisational psychology and to me it is a way to learn about people and the workplace and different effects that certain things or behaviours have on us. I could go incredibly in-depth but the major motivation for me is to be able to help others have a better experience at work and equip them with tools that enable them to do their best!
I had a super early class this morning and was out the door by 6:30am to drive to campus. I had a couple of classes until 10am and then handed in a tutorial assignment which I completed last night for Constitutional Law 271… What an all nighter I pulled yesterday to get through studying and 2 assignments!!! Thank god for coffee! I went for a cup of hot chocolate with my mom at a local café near campus and then headed straight home to read case law for my test tomorrow for Criminal Procedure. I’m so excited to get it over & done with so that I can just focus on studying for exams. I still have to read 1 more case for my test and then I’m free to memorise: less time than I would have liked but there’s still enough time :)
