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Linguistics undergraduate || 19 || UK || Target languages: Russian & German (icon by @nerdastically) Main: @bass-playing-avenger

[unbotheredmuse]

[indecisive-studies]

2021 has been all over the place so far but I am Ready to smash my final year as an undergrad

drop me some asks if you have any questions about studying linguistics!

[linguistic-soup]

fellow linguistics undergrad :D hope your final year’s going well so far!! 

what’s your dissertation about, how are you finding the process? ^^ 

[indecisive-studies]

heyo!!

my dissertation is on aggressive news interviews & it's going well because I have such a brilliant supervisor omg

[damienhaaas]

FAMOUS AUTHORS

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

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The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

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MATH AND SCIENCE

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

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FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

byGosh: Find free illustrated children’s books and stories here.

Munseys: Munseys has nearly 2,000 children’s titles, plus books about religion, biographies and more.

International Children’s Digital Library: Find award-winning books and search by categories like age group, make believe books, true books or picture books.

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PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

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PLAYS

ReadBookOnline.net: Here you can read plays by Chekhov, Thomas Hardy, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe and others.

Plays: Read Pygmalion, Uncle Vanya or The Playboy of the Western World here.

The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: MIT has made available all of Shakespeare’s comedies, tragedies, and histories.

Plays Online: This site catalogs “all the plays [they] know about that are available in full text versions online for free.”

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Public Bookshelf: Find romance novels, mysteries and more.

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John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

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Free Novels Online and Free Online Cyber-Books: This list contains mostly fantasy books.

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Bibliolteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes: Look up authors to find a catalog of their available works on this Spanish site.

KEIMENA: This page is entirely in Greek, but if you’re looking for modern Greek literature, this is the place to access books online.

Proyecto Cervantes: Texas A&M’s Proyecto Cervantes has cataloged Cervantes’ work online.

Corpus Scriptorum Latinorum: Access many Latin texts here.

Project Runeberg: Find Scandinavian literature online here.

Italian Women Writers: This site provides information about Italian women authors and features full-text titles too.

Biblioteca Valenciana: Register to use this database of Catalan and Valencian books.

Ketab Farsi: Access literature and publications in Farsi from this site.

Afghanistan Digital Library: Powered by NYU, the Afghanistan Digital Library has works published between 1870 and 1930.

CELT: CELT stands for “the Corpus of Electronic Texts” features important historical literature and documents.

Projekt Gutenberg-DE: This easy-to-use database of German language texts lets you search by genres and author.

HISTORY AND CULTURE

LibriVox: LibriVox has a good selection of historical fiction.

The Perseus Project: Tufts’ Perseus Digital Library features titles from Ancient Rome and Greece, published in English and original languages.

Access Genealogy: Find literature about Native American history, the Scotch-Irish immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries, and more.

Free History Books: This collection features U.S. history books, including works by Paul Jennings, Sarah Morgan Dawson, Josiah Quincy and others.

Most Popular History Books: Free titles include Seven Days and Seven Nights by Alexander Szegedy and Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha G. Browne.

RARE BOOKS

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Books-On-Line: This large collection includes movie scripts, newer works, cookbooks and more.

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MysteryNet: Read free short mystery stories on this site.

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POETRY

The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

Poetry: This list includes “The Raven,” “O Captain! My Captain!” and “The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.”

Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

CompleteClassics.com: Rudyard Kipling, Allen Ginsberg and Alfred Lord Tennyson are all featured here.

PinkPoem.com: On this site, you can download free poetry ebooks.

MISC

Banned Books: Here you can follow links of banned books to their full text online.

World eBook Library: This monstrous collection includes classics, encyclopedias, children’s books and a lot more.

DailyLit: DailyLit has everything from Moby Dick to the recent phenomenon, Skinny Bitch.

A Celebration of Women Writers: The University of Pennsylvania’s page for women writers includes Newbery winners.

Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

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Authorama: Books here are pulled from Google Books and more. You’ll find history books, novels and more.

Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

[science-junkie]

… and here is a gift for all of us.

[indecisive-studies]

2021 has been all over the place so far but I am Ready to smash my final year as an undergrad

drop me some asks if you have any questions about studying linguistics!

[indecisive-studies]

It's happening!! I'm so happy to announce that I will start a BA Linguistics degree this September 😄😄😄

I've been working towards this for a long time and while the road to uni has definitely not been a straightforward one (I might make a post about this another day) I am so ready to get started ~

I'll be using the tag #indecisive goes to uni for all of my degree related posts

[indecisive-studies]

2019 -> 2021

From accepting my undergrad place to starting my dissertation! I can't believe I'm in my final year ☺️

[indecisive-studies]

Studying aesthetic expectation: taking beautiful handwritten notes in the library, maybe with some green tea or a healthy smoothie ✨

My studying reality: slamming monster energy while I type obnoxiously on a red gamer laptop. rob zombie at max volume in my headphones. straight VIBING

[alvallah]

Kinda crazy that at least half of langblr is learning their languages through their second and third languages instead of their native ones. The skills and talent you have to have to be able to self-study a foreign language in yet another foreign language is remarkable (especially if you need to learn specialized C1/C2 level shit) and I am honestly very jealous. I know it’s “normal” to a lot of you, but as someone who has never ever had to detour by using another language outside of my home one, I still think that’s very sexy of you guys that you can just do that.

[eintsein]

An Overview of Note-Taking Styles

Note-taking is one of the most essential skills a student should master. It allows you to record and review information to be used in the future. But what’s the best way to do so? Here’s an overview of note-taking styles that can help you maximize your learning!

[eintsein]

Energy Management

A human-based organization method

click on images for better resolution; images also available here (link to google drive)

Other posts that may be of interest:

Getting stuff done: How to deal with a lack of motivation

Flexible time-blocking: A more breathable way to get things done

The ABCDE Method

[indecisive-studies]

something something I am drawn to the humanities because my neurodivergent ass thinks that somewhere in sociology/anthropology I’ll find the Rules of how other people work

[loveletter2you]

dropbox containing linguistics textbooks

contains 34 textbooks including etymology, language acquisition, morphology, phonetics/phonology, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, & translation studies

dropbox containing language textbooks

contains 86 language textbooks including ASL, Arabic, (Mandarin) Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew (Modern & Ancient), Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh

dropbox containing books about language learning

includes fluent forever by gabriel wyner, how to learn any language by barry farber, polyglot by kató lomb

if there’s a problem with any of the textbooks or if you want to request materials for a specific language feel free to message me!

[indecisive-studies]

Christmas essay is DONE so now I don't have anything until semantics revision in january 🥳

Video games and art time lets gooooo

[indecisive-studies]

15.11.2020

Getting to use my anthropology background in a language acquisition essay makes my brain go wheeeeee (in the best way)

🎧: Black Sabbath - Fairies Wear Boots

[lagom-languages-deactivated2022]

Comprehensible Input: German

With all this talk about comprehensible input, I thought I’d make some suggestions for German learners, using mostly things that can be accessed for free on YouTube, or that are on Netflix. It would be cool for other people to add their suggestions, or make these sorts of posts for other languages!

The ideal input is both comprehensible and compelling. According to linguist Stephen Krashen, the ideal amount of comprehensibility is 60-70%. If you find yourself understanding less than 60-70%, try the lower category (unless you are the lowest category). If you find yourself understanding more than 60-70%, try the higher category.

A0 - A1:

It’s pretty hard to find comprehensible input for A0-A1 level. Don’t expect yourself to understand 60% of what is said - at this level you don’t really have a choice. A lot of the suggestions in this section will also benefit some A2 learners.

Nico’s Weg - A1 (movie, YouTube)

Hallo Deutschschule (simple German dialogues, YouTube)

Feuerwehrmann Sam (series, YouTube)

Mascha und der Bär (series, YouTube)

Peppa Wutz (series, YouTube)

A2:

Nico’s Weg - A2 (movie, YouTube)

Disney movies

If you are a low A2, try out some of the suggestions in the A0-A1 section.

If you are a high A2, try out some of the suggestions in the B1 section.

B1:

Nico’s Weg - B1 (movie, YouTube)

Totally Spies  - The Movie (movie, Youtube)

Totally Spies (series, YouTube)

Winx Club (series, YouTube)

Isi & Ossi (movie, Netflix)

Spongebob Squarepants (series, YouTube or Netflix)

The Simpsons (series, YouTube)

Dragons - Race to the Edge (series, Netflix)

My Little Pony (series, Netflix)

Pokemon (series, Netflix)

B2+:

Dark (series, Netflix)

Wir sind jung, wir sind stark (movie, Netflix)

Babylon Berlin (series, Netflix)

Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood (series, Netflix)

Barbarians (series, Netflix)

Downfall (movie, Netfix)

I mean basically anything aimed at adults lol, but just thought I’d put some suggestions out there.

[tiredbiostudent]

online university is just *hasn’t been outside in three days* *absolute lack of spatial and temporal awareness* *tiktok break* *opens an email and forgets to respond* *pyjamas all day every day* *paces around room* *hopes your prof just thinks you’re in a different timezone when you submit an assignment at 4am* *unlimited tea* *bathroom breaks every hour* *no clear divide between free time and school* *looks out window longingly*

[indecisive-studies]

Ok listen I SHOULD be revising German for the course that's actually part of my degree

.... or I can take the free Arabic/Urdu/Polish taster courses....

[onecunninglinguist]

Linguistics Gothic

An asterisk precedes every sentence. They are all incorrect. You can’t say why. You can’t say anything at all. My, the stars are bright tonight.

There is a “sold” sign in your syntax tree, You didn’t know there was a “for sale” sign to begin with. The V moved to the T. Your language does not have grammatical tense. Where did it go?

Semantics has become semantic. There is only one meaning.

The puns have metastasized and spread. Phonology is refusing to come to its sister’s aid. Apart from the Apple-Android debate, phonetics is infested with bloodsucking insects. In semantics they suck something equally as horrible. The Czech capital is being fumigated. Morphology’s true form is too terrible to behold. Outside the core subfields, psycholinguistics is looking unstable.

The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is true. You cannot perceive things for which your language lacks a word. Something is devouring your legs. You cannot see it.