Fledgling Interpreter

incipit, noun: the opening words of a text, manuscript, early printed book, or chanted liturgical text. This blog constitutes the opening words of my professional life. Call me River. Linguistic anthropology. Langblr/workblr applying to bilingual / interpreting jobs.

[incipitinterpreter]

introduction + navigation

My name is River. I am the voice behind the former studyblr @rivkahstudies. This is my langblr/workblr.

intro

I am an adult with a degree in linguistic anthropology. I use they/them pronouns in English, ella/elle pronouns in Spanish, ela/ile in Portuguese, and hiya/huma (هي/ هما) in Arabic. 

This blog will focus on my languages, particularly Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and (Levantine) Arabic, the languages in which I’m trying to train/certify. It will also include my hobby languages, anthropology/archaeology content, history/culture content, and resources/content for getting a job/conducting a professional life. I’m also interested in travel, architecture, books, cute animals, life tips, and a miscellaneous assortment of related things.

audience

I’m a good tumblr for an audience who,

is also in the first few years of their career,

is interested in the cultural/anthropological/linguistic content I post,

who wants resources on language learning, interpreting, job searchs, etc,

who wants academic content that is neither anti-intellectual nor inaccessibly pretentious/classist,

wants an overall intersectional academic/professional blog to follow.

I am not a good tumblr for an audience who,

is under 16 years of age,

wants to romanticize “the grind” and girlboss culture,

wants aesthetic original content,

is bigoted against people based on their race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, culture, religion, language, etc.

I will be much more vigilant over those who follow me, which simply means that I block empty/spam-seeming blogs and those with bigoted or harmful content. 

navigation

#lang ref: general language resources. specific ones will be tagged with the language.

#work ref: professional/occupational resources.

#life ref and #advice: general tips.

#riverbed: personal posts, reblog additions, and other general conversation.

#riv answers: responses to asks.

#river habla / fala / tatakalamaan: public conversations/rambles in Spanish, Portuguese, and Arabic respectfully.

#my posts and #incipitinterpreter: any original content.

(some of my) favorite blogs

@studynlangs @myhoneststudyblr @salvadorbonaparte @anthropologist-on-the-loose @chaotic-archaeologist @farwestlinguist @grey-and-lavender @dutch-polyglot @arabic-langblr 

[incipitinterpreter]

introducing seedlings, a discord for studyblr and beyond

this is an all-ages, all-stages discord. It’s not specific to any one kind of learning journey–self-taught or classroom, public or private school, university or trade are all welcome here. just learning better habits or trying to treat yourself more kindly? we’re here for you too. come on in and let’s grow together!

this is a loving, trauma-informed space–we are pro-mental health, pro ALL letters in 2SLGBTQIAA+, welcoming to managing life with disability and chronic illness, antiracist, and intolerant of prejudice and xenophobia.

[incipitinterpreter]

the urge to post my artistic bujo spreads because they genuinely bring me joy in expressing myself versus my fear of blowing up the way i did in 2018 studyblr and becoming stressed + constantly posting + possibly making other studyblrs feel bad abt their planners FIGHT

[uni-aglaya]

done wirth exams! spent a week in berlin to barf my heart out in the metro station 🥰

[izzycodes]

Yeah, it do be like that… 😪

[izzycodes]

R Programming Resources

These are the resources I took from my bookmark folder I made like months ago when I wanted to learn R but… I didn’t 😅 Got distracted with other languages! Anyhoo here are some resources plus some new ones I found!

Websites

R-Bloggers R Tutorials - LINK

Stat Method R Tutorials - LINK

W3School - LINK

Tutorialspoint - LINK

Guru99 - LINK

R-Exercises - LINK

Code-School - LINK

R for Data Science - LINK

Dataquest - LINK

Books (PDF)

The Art Of R Programming - LINK

A First Course In Statistical Programming With R - LINK

The Book Of R - LINK

R Programming For Data Science - LINK

R For Beginners - LINK

R Programming [Tutorialspoint] - LINK

Hands-on Programming With R - LINK

YouTube Videos

R Programming Tutorial for Beginners - LINK

R Programming Basics - Data Science and Machine Learning Tutorial - LINK

Introduction to R for Data Science - Data Analysis - LINK

R Programming for Data Science - Full Course - LINK

R Programming Tutorial for Beginners (Simplilearn) - LINK

Miscs

R Cheatsheet - LINK

Hope this helps!! 💻👍🏾💗

[berniewong]

Gorgeous algae-filled chandelier also purifies the air

The Exhale Chandelier harnesses the power of photosynthesis to remove CO2 from the air and produce oxygen.

[texnessa]

This is hanging in the middle of my imaginary restaurant.

[persian-slipper]

That’s like Art Nouveau ecopunk right there.

[the-lazy-old-fox]

SOLARPUNK

[yournewfriendshouse]

[sjoongki]

take what you need and pass it on ❤️

learn from your past, but do not live in it. better days are headed your way

your value and self-worth are not determined by what others think of you

you have, and always will be enough

the sadness will not last forever. you will be happy again

your progress does not have to be seen by others in order for it to be real

you are worthy of the same time, love, and attention that you give to others

you are not alone

Voting ended onFeb 22, 2023

[bidet-of-evil]

you have to give up one of these foods forever. pretending that all these can be sourced ethically, without harming the environment, animals, or people, and that you have no allergies or adverse health effects to any of them, which one goes?

eggs

potatoes

chocolate

cheese

garlic

Voting ended onFeb 25, 2023

[bidet-of-evil]

those of you voting against eggs are dead to me

[sapphicacademic]

bujo spread theme ideas

lofi

cats <3

valentines

really any holiday

rainstorms (I used this for April last year)

vapourwave

sunset

ocean

chess / card games

garden / Ivy

fire

under the sea

plaid

typewriter

library

polaroid

strawberry (really any fruit)

pride

baked goods / sweets

[incipitinterpreter]

two down, three (thousand) to go

[interior-design-home]

My parents’ greenhouse converted into a cozy place! Love to sit here on a rainy day and watch/listen to the storm.

[incipitinterpreter]

introducing seedlings, a discord for studyblr and beyond

this is an all-ages, all-stages discord. It’s not specific to any one kind of learning journey–self-taught or classroom, public or private school, university or trade are all welcome here. just learning better habits or trying to treat yourself more kindly? we’re here for you too. come on in and let’s grow together!

this is a loving, trauma-informed space–we are pro-mental health, pro ALL letters in 2SLGBTQIAA+, welcoming to managing life with disability and chronic illness, antiracist, and intolerant of prejudice and xenophobia.

[chaotic-archaeologist]

favorite anthro subfield that's not archaeology?

Linguistic is fascinating to me. SO many patterns. You can tell so much about people by the way they speak. I could never do it though—it seems way too complicated.

-Reid

[sapphicacademic]

small dump of some (mostly) pink title ideas for february / valentines

[ex-injuria-jus-non-oritur]

02•02•23// today’s the day!! Last exam!! It’s absolutely wild to me that I’ve come this far and that I’m almost done it all.

[sapphicacademic]

reminder that no matter how productive you are on a good day, everyone has bad days and you deserve to be kind to yourself when they inevitably come.