study/career journal

23-year old | female | native Polish speaker | aspiring translator | English | Chinese | Italian | mmorpgs | book and coffee addictThe Study Club

[meat-vendor]

[somestudy]

june 2, 2016 — haha wOW korean long time no see!! spent an hour-ish reviewing because i’ve neglected reviewing for months (yikes)

[gudaispath-blog]

Warcraft movie

I will be back home in a month and only then will I be able to watch the “Warcraft” movie. It’s painful, knowing that it’s already in cinemas!

[gifsgames]

[amusewithaview]

unusual inheritance fic prompts:

1.  “you died and left me your children, even though they’re only a few years younger then me”

2.  “you died and left me a haunted house”

3.  “you died and left me an obscure magical object, I’m not sure what it does, and your instruction sheet just says ‘have fun storming the castle!’”

4.  “you died and left me a fanatically loyal warrior order”

5.  “you died and left me a bunch of money and a pile of really weird IOUs?!  why did someone owe you a free body disposal.  why did someone owe you two brides and a goat.  why did someone owe you an island.  WHY”

6.  “you died and left me to repay a bunch of really weird IOUs”

7.  “you died and left me a small country”

8.  “you died and left me six research labs that operate in international waters and I’m kind of scared to find out why keeping them out there was a stipulation of the will”

9.  “you died and left me a menagerie of animals that are supposed to be extinct?  and some that aren’t supposed to be real???  where did you get unicorns.  where did you get gryphons.  where did you get pegasi???”

10.  “you died and left me on the hook for a hereditary marriage contract”

[emmawayson]

Harry Potter actors sorted on Pottermore (x)

[studyjuice]

soooooo many readings for extension history! all to just write 2 paragraphs :O although this article by Keith Windshuttle on ‘How not to run a Museum’ is really interesting :)

[bey]

i’m the person who’s 100% down for spontaneous adventures but also 100% down to lay in bed all day. i’m on both ends of the spectrum

[d3partament0]

[blotunia]

Starrz

[this-is-my-craft]

@bibliophilicwitch‘s Tomes and Tea, although my tea is a late night glass of white wine. I’m rereading an old favorite for the 20th time, that being The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte.

[journalsoftheworld]

Trinity College Library. Dublin, Ireland. 5 May 2016

[englishlit-chic]

few days before finals are over…

[pensandmachine]

Handwriting Demo Pt. 2

I got a few requests to write down the alphabet in my “fancy writing” (and I promised another anon user that I would do this sometime this week)

I unfortunately don’t have much time (essay to write!!!), so I’ve quickly whipped up a short demo/really basic tutorial on 3 of the fonts I use the most.

LINED

CURSIVE

3-D BLOCK

(I apologise that the writing isn’t perfect; I was in a rush :(( Maybe I’ll do a more comprehensive tutorial later if people ask me to.)

Inbox me if you have any questions :)

-Gia

[ccharlesdayj]

I miss listening to you :)

[neptuna-sandwich]

@bibliophilicwitch. Did we want to do this list in chat?

[bibliophilicwitch-archive]

FUN LET’S DO THE THING @neptunasandwich

[gudaispath-blog]

Let’s do it! :).

[gudaispath-blog]

没办法 mei2ban4fa3

没 mei2 - not have; not 

办法 ban4fa3 - means; method; way (of doing sth)

This is a very interesting Chinese expression. I’ve been in China for almost 11 months now and I’ve heard it at least a hundred times. But what does it mean? Let’s take a look.

Basically,  没办法 means ‘there is nothing I can do’. It is used when you feel helpless or you need to get something done but an office worker (or whoever else) doesn’t want/doesn’t know how to help you and then they say 没办法. You can also use it in a situation when you don’t want to do something but it cannot be helped (for example your boss makes you work overtime - 没办法, you need to stay at work). 

I think it’s really important to know this expression when you plan on coming to China. Sometimes Chinese people just don’t want to help when they see a foreigner and use this expression as a kind of a shield. I’ve heard it a lot in the university office. When they say 没办法 there IS a 办法 so the only thing that can help is being patient and standing there until they get it done ;).

[pycckuu]

when a native speaker switches the words around in a phrase you've memorized in a specific order