🌷grace🌷

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20 | she/her | lesbian | US | college student majoring in biological anthropology and classical language (3rd year)

☀️libra 🌙pisces ⭐️cancer

languages…

Latin: have been studying for 5+ years

Ancient Greek: 2+ years

Russian: A2

Italian: A1

Would love to learn Gaelige, German, Hebrew, and Aramaic someday <3

interests…

Academia

Classical philology and linguistics

Medieval Europe and Medieval Latin

Celtic studies

Slavic studies

History of the church + theology

Primates <33

2025 Reading Challenge: 21/26

[gratiaveneris]

Fall Semester Wrapped:

- 4 papers written

- As on all finals + final papers

- 4.0 semester GPA

Spring Semester Goals:

- ???

[gratiaveneris]

I’ve come up with the spring goals!

* go to Greece on a uni trip (scholarship already secured and plane ticket bought!!)

* produce something I can use as a writing sample for grad school applications

* get into an bioarchaeology field school for summer

[lost-rxverie]

thursday | january 8

nothing so soothing as when my physics homework takes the form of "show x = y" and i just have to play math games until i get there.

[gratiaveneris]

Fall Semester Wrapped:

- 4 papers written

- As on all finals + final papers

- 4.0 semester GPA

Spring Semester Goals:

- ???

[thewhimsicalarchives]

A little effort each day goes a long way into the future. ~ whimsical archives

[lizystudying]

studying with cats is way more better than alone🐱

[temporalteardrop]

Do you have any advice for learning Welsh, in particular Welsh grammar??

Everyone is different, and will have their own way of learning, but my advice would be:

1. Avoid Duolingo like the plague. It's not worth it. I'm pretty sure lots of the Welsh course is AI generated these days too?

2. SaySomethingInWelsh is a great resource for me personally, though it only teaches you spoken Welsh, and it's not free. I tend to do a lesson a day in the morning while I get ready

3. If you're in Wales and can access the Welsh lessons run by the Welsh government, those are really good too! (I think maybe you can access them if you're not in Wales too actually, but I'm not sure about outside the UK)

4. Talk to Welsh speakers! Most are very happy to practice with you and help you learn and will be able to answer questions about things like grammar! SaySomethingInWelsh also has a forum for this if you go down that route

5. Immerse yourself in the Welsh Language. This can be harder if you're not in Wales, but Welsh TV, books, radio, music, theatre, etc can be a great resource and I think there's even books and TV specifically aimed at helping you to learn. Tumblr blogs like @textpostscymraeg are really useful too!

6. Most of all, it's just practice. Learning a language is hard, and it takes many years to become fluent (I'm still very far from being fluent myself), but the best way of practicing is taking the plunge and trying to speak in Welsh with other Welsh speakers/learners, even if it's scary :')

Hope this is helpful :) Feel free to ask me if you have any other questions!

[gratiaveneris]

I can confirm the online modules from the Welsh government [https://learnwelsh.cymru/ ] can be accessed outside the UK! I’m in the US and they worked just fine for me.

[gratiaveneris]

Turned 20 yesterday… feels weird and exciting all at once.

[gratiaveneris]

I’m doing an independent study next semester with my favorite professor, I’m so excited!

[liones-s]

today’s recipe for a day of rest: fresh stationery, hot tea, and a walk under an overcast sky

[somerabbitholes]

spent one of the season's rainiest days sipping coffee, catching up reading and making sense of old notes

[fallbabylon]

Memento Mori- St Nicholas Church, Berlin.

[une-poire-confite]

went out dressed in all white and a guy passing by me said “hello, bride! may god bring you happiness.” verbatim.

[coffeemlk]

i love my little life (and tiramisu)

[academicfever]

29/100

Good morning loves! Let’s start this day my practicing gratitude! Excited to get back to the lab after this short break…

[how-to-get-away-with-study]

Studying in nature before summer goes away 🌳

[gliagirlphd]

Hi guys! As some of you may know, I’ve been trying to switch over to Notion to stream-line all my research progress and notes in one space. Unfortunately, all the examples I found here on Tumblr and on Youtube were more geared towards a bullet journal adaptation of Notion or more undergraduate-focused use of the app, which wasn’t what I wanted to model mine after. Therefore, I decided to play around with Notion myself and ended up making it work for my purposes. Because I am using this with the intention of being more focused and having my priorities straight, I kept the theme pretty basic and efficient. I am still working on learning how to use this app for my purposes but I decided to make this post to show you guys how I set up my Notion. Feel free to message me if you ever have any questions about my set-up or would like to see more of how I set a particular page up. Some toggles and texts are blurred out for research privacy purposes since it is unpublished data. [click on individual images for full res.]