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[may-be-not]

How to mentally  take a day off?

“I’ll take a break, today, so I can focus tomorrow” she said, as she continued to think about her work and not able to enjoy her off-time.

How do we take breaks when we have a mountain of tasks over us? How to we come back to be more productive?

If you are physically exhausted, it’s pretty easy to take a day off and sleep it out, or do whatever that recharges you.

When we take a mental break, we often are still replaying  the lists of tasks that we need to do in our brain. How do I even stop it?

Step 1: Write it out before the break

Let it out of your system.

i) Tasks: Before taking a break, jot down everything that your brain is thinking about. Make a list of to-dos. People you need to reply. Things you have to look over. Documentation you need to read before starting a task.

ii) Thoughts: Then write about everything you are feeling. “I don’t think I’ll do well in that test” or “I think that person didn’t appreciate my work”. Let out those thoughts and feeling that have built up till now. Talk it over with a friend (who listens!) or write it out.

Step 2: Schedule the next day after the break

So, you don’t have to think about what you’ll do tomorrow when the break is over. This is a super important step.

Plan your to-dos for the exact next day. You will feel 10x lighter if you know exactly what you will be doing tomorrow.

Step 3: Schedule the break

Why? So, you get to take absolutely no decisions on your break! Decisions take up a lot of brain effort, even if they are as small as deciding what to wear or eat, so plan it out like you will just be a Sim tomorrow living by the instructions of your yesterday self.

Make a list of activities that relax you, or things you want to do. Look into your hobbies. “So, tomorrow I’ll watch this movie on Netflix, hang out with these friends, and eat this”.

When you are taking a mental break, doing nothing might lead to just thinking about all the responsibilities. Plan out something. Do something, something fun.

Step 4: Book mark your thoughts about work

When you have a thought about your work task, write it on a post-it and move on.

It’s just a thought. You cannot control your thoughts from coming in, but you can control what you dwell on.

Don’t be hard on yourself. The fact that you are here to read how to do something as seemingly trivial as taking breaks means you recognize your problems and  are trying to improve yourself. That’s great work! You are doing awesome even if you feel unproductive lately. Keep trying and you will get better at this! I’m trying here, too!

I hope you have a fun day and then gain your enthusiasm and productivity for the next day!

[academiix]

How I got a 4.0 first year in college | academiix

Watch the video version on Youtube. 

View my other tips and masterposts.

[yourguyizzy]

Study 101 #studytips

[the-tired-tenor]

So uh….some dude apparently recreated Adobe Photoshop feature-for-feature, for FREE, and it runs in your browser.

Anyway, fuck Adobe, and enjoy!

[adv3nturelust]

Give credit to the 30-year-old who did this shit for free and offers this remarkable thing for free!

[adito-lang]

Falsche Freunde niederländisch-deutsch - Teil 2 Valse vrienden Nederlands-Duits - deel 2

In Teil 1 ging es um Verbpaare, die trotz einer ähnlichen Schreibweise oder Aussprache unterschiedliche Bedeutungen haben. Heute mache ich mit Adjektiven weiter! 

Wat een brutaal kind!  Ein brutales Kind? 😳  Falsch! Ein unerzogenes/freches Kind.

Ik ben klaar.  Ich bin klar? 🤔  Falsch! Fertig. 

nl Wort (Bedeutung dt) ≠ dt falscher Freund (Bedeutung nl)

brutaal (frech) ≠ brutal (bruut)

Als je kind brutaal is, blijf rustig. Wenn dein Kind frech ist, bleib ruhig. 

ingewikkeld (kompliziert) ≠ eingewickelt (ingepakt)

Mijn plan was te ingewikkeld. Mein Plan war zu kompliziert. 

pijnlijk (auch: schmerzhaft) ≠ peinlich (gênant)

Is een coronatest pijnlijk?  Is ein Coronatest schmerzhaft? 

❗️ pijn doen = wehtun 

Mijn knie doet pijn. = Mein Knie tut weh.

schattig (niedlich) ≠ schattig (schaduwrijk)

Jij bent zo schattig! 😘 Du bist so süß! 

klaar (fertig) ≠ klar (duidelijk)

Ik ben bijna klaar met werken. Ich bin mit der Arbeit fast fertig. 

❗️ klaarkomen (auch: eigen Orgasmus haben) ≠ klarkommen (overweg komen met iemand)

Jij moet zin hebben in seks om klaar te komen. Man muss Lust auf Sex haben, um zu kommen. 

zeldzaam (selten) ≠ seltsam (merkwaardig, raar)

AB is de zeldzaamste bloedgroep. AB is die seltenste Blutgruppe. 

onmachtig (machtlos) ≠ ohnmächtig (bewusteloos)

Ik voel me onmachtig om iets aan deze situatie te veranderen. Ich fühle mich machtlos, etwas an dieser Situation zu ändern. 

♥️ Adito

[unofficial-vatican]

@useless-germanyfacts

[useless-germanyfacts]

the vibes

[navigatrixloves]

in case anyone’s curious:

warum- why (general/all purpose)

wieso- because of what (asking for the cause of something) 

weshalb- to/for what purpose 

weswegen- for what reason

darum- that’s why* 

deshalb- that’s why/therefore

deswegen- it was because of that (”(explanation). That’s why/it’s because of that that I’m late.”)

*(”darum” can be used in a lot of contexts to mean different things, it’s a really common word- “deshalb” and “deswegen” are a little more specific. these last three are all used in answers specifically, not in questions.)

(also: I’m not a native speaker, I lived in Germany for a while but my German’s far from perfect. If I’m wrong about any of this feel free to correct me!)

[draculasdaughter]

This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Listen, this is serious.

Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!

It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.

Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.

So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?

[whateverthebeeswant]

Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.

[three-blogs-in-a-trenchcoat]

Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.

[trzpiotka]

nooo don’t use sites that make academic papers accessible to everyone, why would you do such a terrible thing

[kyidyl]

If you really want to avoid knowledge, don’t use researchgate. It allows the dangerous practice of allowing you to ask the writer directly for a paper behind a paywall, if perchance the communist author hasn’t already posted it themselves. Definitely stay away from academia.edu, they are of a similar ilk.

[saccharinescorpion]

so this is an extremely cool resource

the JSTOR article by Catherine Halley

a list of series at Reveal Digital

[lagom-languages-deactivated2022]

growing up means realising that most of those “polyglot speaks 10+ languages” videos are actually just people who speak 1-3 languages and can say basic memorised phrases in 7 others

[lavenderlanguage]

I haven’t seen many people talk about this, so I wanted to mention that the fluent forever youtube channel is great if you want to improve your pronunciation. He has pronunciation guides for Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hebrew, French, Dutch, Spanish (European and Latin American), Cantonese, English, Russian, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, and Japanese. I find it really helpful as he breaks down each individual sound in the language, what your tongue position should be, and gets a native speaker to give an example. Just thought it would be helpful to some people :)

[talen-en-regendagen]

Resources for 125+ languages

I found this list with resources for over 125 languages on pastebin. I reposted it under the cut in case it gets lost at some point but it includes the following languages:

Afrikaans, Ainu, Akkadian, Albanian, Ancient Sanskrit, Arabic (MSA as well as six dialects), Aramaic, Armenian, Assyrian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Berber, Breton, Cajun, French, Cantonese, Catalan, Cherokee, Classical Armenian, Classical Greek, Classical Latin, Coptic, Cornish, Crimean Gothic, Croatian, Czech, Dari, Dutch, Egyptian, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faeroese, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, Furlan, Genovese, Georgian, German, Gothic, Greek (Modern), Greenlandic, Guarani, Hakka, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hittite, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Inuktitut, Irish , Italian, Japanese, Jèrriais, Koine Greek, Khmer, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maltese, Manchu, Mandarin Chinese, Manx, Maori, Mari, Mayan (Classical), Mayan (Tzotzil), Mayan (Yucatec), Mixtec, Nahuatl, Norwegian, Okinawan, Old Church Slavonic, Old English, Old Iranian, Old Irish, Old Norse, Old Prussian, Old Tupi, Persian, Middle Polish, Portuguese, Proto-Indo-European, Quechua, Romanian, Rromani, Russian, Sami, Sanskrit, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Shanghainese, Sicilian, Slovene, Sm'algyax, Spanish, Sumerian, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tengwar, Thai, Tocharian, Tok Pisin, Toki Pona, Tongan, Turkish, Vietnamese, Volapük, Welsh, Wu, Xibe, Yoruba, Yup'ik and Zulu

Some of the links are broken and there are more resources for some languages than for others but I still think it’s really worth checking out, especially for those of you interested in lesser known languages.

Keep reading

[ladinolearner]

Learn Ladino

Ladino, otherwise known as Judeo-Spanish or Judeo-Espanyol is a minority language spoken almost exclusively by Sephardic Jews. It’s main influence is Old Castillian Spansih, and anyone who speaks Spanish won’t have too much difficulty in understanding it, but it is also influenced by Hebrew, Turkish, and Arabic. Because it is only spoken by between 60,000 and 400,000 people, resources for learning Ladino are scarce, so I wanted to share the online (free!) resources I’ve found for those who would like to learn

Online Courses

Endangered Languages Online Course - a series of videos that take you through conversational Ladino

A Beginner’s Course to Ladino - I cannot recommend this course enough, the lady who does the videos is so sweet and helpful. There is homework and resources. If you want to learn Ladino, you should definitely check this out

Ladino Language and Song - this course is being run at the moment so if you’re quick you can be a part of the live sessions!

Social Media Accounts

@ladino_hoy on Instagram is a Spanish account aimed at teaching common Ladino phrases

@SephardicBrothe on Twitter often posts resources in Ladino and is definitely worth following to stay updated on new resources coming out

@SarahAroeste on Twitter makes music in Ladino and often posts resources as well

Basics

Getting started - an introduction to grammar and phrases in Ladino

Diksionario de Djudeo-Espanyol a Inglez - an essential resource, this is a PDF Ladino and English dictionary

Ladino Phrasebook - A very basic introduction into greetings in Ladino, helpful for beginners

Kan Ladino - A regular radio programme in Ladino, complete with music and conversation, very helpful

I aim to be posting more about Ladino because it is such a beautiful language, and definitely deserves more recognition, but I hope this can help people get started! Shalom!

[everyones-cuppa]

Beginner Level ASL Resource List

Above is a link to a resource list we have created with different websites, apps, YouTube channels/videos, and books on American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture. There is a perceived barrier of a lack of resources for people who want to learn ASL but don’t know where to start, so we have created this tool to help start beginning signers, and those curious about the Deaf community, with confidence on their journey to greater communication and allyship with the Deaf community.

**Please Share!!!**

Hello, friends of the internet! My name is Rose, and I’m a sophomore American Sign Language Interpreting student. I, along with my project partner Bre @quintin-thefinn , have been working on a Social Justice Action Plan for our ASL 2010: Deaf Culture class, and now it is time to put our plan into action!

To help us with our project and expand the knowledge of ASL and Deaf culture, please share this list so we can reach as many people as possible! Thank you so much for your time and we hope this list benefits you and many others!

[loveletter2you]

do u have any advice for ppl who want to study linguistics and languages but couldnt afford to study it at school?? thanks if you answer this, have a great day

yeah! you can easily download textbooks online and study from them AND I do have a dropbox full of linguistics textbooks!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qm7x5dz8fu4bdlp/AADshTfRGZG5JZALkDV6wFlwa?dl=0 

it includes phonetics/phonology, sociolinguistics, language acquisition, psycholinguistics, morphology, and etymology. 

I also have another dropbox folder full of language textbooks:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/tdm26h60ccl9pe1/AABg0B3mOGaWLG9Kfyuvut6wa?dl=0

As of November 6: Includes 83 textbooks including Arabic, ASL, Chinese (Mandarin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Welsh :)

[loveletter2you]

Hello! i really want to learn french but have no idea where to start if you have may you give resources on this

yesss ok so i learned french in school so im like advanced now, so some of these i actively use and some of them i just found from searching:

textbooks

i’m just going to link you to my whole dropbox, i have 6 french textbooks on there (personally i would probably start with french living language)

youtube channels

Inner French - i think this guy is great for any level! he speaks super slow and teaches you how to speak french naturally

Piece of French - her channel is also great bc she’ll speak in french then point out specific vocab that she’s using

FrenchPod101 - great for listening practice especially!

Comme une Française TV - I think she’s great and super helpful and clear!

other resources

wordreference - my favorite french dictionary!

linguee - literally amazing for finding example sentences & learning words in context

memrise - i said this before but i think the app is way better than the desktop website bc it’s less stressful lmao anyway it’s great for vocab 

Coffe Break French - a podcast! i use coffee break swedish and i think it’s a great series for listening & it’s available in a variety of levels

Lingua - for reading practice at a variety of levels (A1-B2)

The French Experiment - French children’s stories

Paralleltext.io - not for when you’re an absolute beginner but it has dual language stories for reading practice

1000 most common french words - tbh don’t start here but it’s nice for some core vocab!

Lingolia - for learning grammar

Verbix - for verb conjugations!

music recs

modern artists: cœur de pirate, stromae, pomme, angèle, vendredi sur mer, videoclub, clara luciani, christine & the queens

older artists: françoise hardy, dalida, jacques brel, barbara, jeanne moreau, édith piaf

[loveletter2you]

are you doing lists? any resources you might have for Russian would really help me!! thank u ❣️❣️

of course!

first of all i want to say don’t use duolingo bc duolingo kind of sucks for languages that use a different writing system, in order to learn the cyrillic alphabet i used omniglot and this russian alphabet song on youtube

textbooks

Living Language Russian

New Penguin Russian

Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian Book 1

Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian Book 2

other resources

memrise - great for vocab but i prefer the app to the desktop website

RussianPod101 youtube channel & website

Café Russian - a youtube channel

Russian with Dasha - a youtube channel

RussianLessons.net - kind of outdated looking website but they have lots of lessons

Russian for Free has a list of dual-language texts at a variety of levels

Learning Russian also has Anna Karenina (dual language) although only chapters 1-5

Alice in Wonderland (dual language)

Pons - an online dictionary

WordReference - an online dictionary

Linguee for learning words in context

Russian for Everyone

Russian language games

Everyday Russian stories - for reading practice when you’re a little more advanced bc they’re not dual language

:)

[loveletter2you]

general language learning resources

dictionaries:

wordreference - has spanish, french, italian, portuguese, catalan, german, swedish, dutch, russian, polish, romanian, czech, greek, turkish, chinese, japanese, korean, & arabic

reverso translation - has arabic, chinese, dutch, french, german, hebrew, italian, japanese, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish & turkish

bab.la - has spanish, arabic, chinese, czech, danish, dutch, finnish, french, german, greek, hindi, hungarian, indonesian, italian, japanese, korean, norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, swedish, swahili, thai, turkish, vietnamese, & esperanto

digital dictionaries of south asia - has dictionaries for assamese, baluchi, bengali, divehi, hindi, kashmiri, khowar, lushai, malayalam, marathi, nepali, oriya, pali, panjabi, pashto, persian, prakrit, rajasthani, sanskrit, sindhi, sinhala, tamil, telugu & urdu

resources for learning words in context:

reverso context  - has arabic, chinese (in beta), dutch, french, german, hebrew, italian, japanese, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish & turkish (in beta)

linguee - has german, spanish, portuguese, french, italian, russian, japanese, chinese, polish, dutch, swedish, danish, finnish, greek, czech, romanian, hungarian, slovak, bulgarian, slovene, lithuanian, latvian, maltese, & estonian

for learning different writing systems

omniglot - an encyclopedia with literally any language you could think of including ancient languages

scripts - an app for learning other writing systems with a limited amount for free (you can do 5 minutes a day for free) - has the ASL alphabet, Russian cyrillic, devanagari, Japanese kana, Chinese hanzi, & Korean hangul

Wikipedia is also helpful for learning different writing systems honestly!

pronunciation

forvo - a pronunciation dictionary with MANY languages (literally an underrated resource i use it all the time)

a really helpful video by luca lampariello with tips on how to get better pronunciation in any language

ipachart.com - an interactive chart with almost every sound!! literally such an amazing resource for learning the IPA (however does not include tones)

another interactive IPA chart (this one does have tones) 

language tutoring

italki - there’s many websites for language tutoring but i think italki has the most languages (i have a referral link & if you use it we can both get $10 toward tutoring lol) - they say they support 130 languages!

there’s also preply and verbling which are also good but there aren’t as many options for languages - preply has 27 and verbling has 43

(obviously these are not free but if you have the money i think tutoring is a great way to learn a language!)

getting corrections/input from native speakers

hellotalk - an app for language exchanges with native speakers & they also have functions where you can put up a piece of writing and ask for corrections - honestly this app is great

tandem - language exchange app but unlike hellotalk you can choose multiple languages (although i think hellotalk is a little bit better)

LangCorrect - supports 170 languages!

HiNative - supports 113 languages!

Lang-8 - supports 90 languages!

verb conjugation

verbix - supports a ton of languages

Reverso conjugation - only has english, french, spanish, german, italian, portuguese, hebrew russian, arabic, & japanese

apps

duolingo - obviously everybody knows about duolingo but i’m still going to put it here - i will say i think duolingo is a lot more useful for languages that use the latin alphabet than languages with another writing system however they do have a lot of languages and add more all the time - currently they have 19 languages but you can see what languages they’re going to add on the incubator

memrise - great for vocab! personally i prefer the app to the desktop website

drops - you can only do 5 minutes a day for free but i still recommend it because it’s fun and has 42 languages! 

LingoDeer - specifically geared towards asian languages - includes korean, japanese, chinese & vietnamese (as well as spanish, french, german, portuguese and russian), however only a limited amount is available for free

busuu - has arabic, chinese, french, german, italian, japanese, polish, portuguese, spanish, russian, spanish, & turkish, 

Mondly - has 33 languages including spanish, french, german, italian, russian, japanese, korean, chinese, turkish, arabic, persian, hebrew, portuguese (both brazilian & european), catalan, latin, dutch, swedish, norwegian, danish, finnish, latvian, lithuanian, greek, romanian, afrikaans, croatian, polish, bulgarian, czech, slovak, hungarian, ukrainian, vietnamese, hindi, bengali, urdu, indonesian, tagalog & thai

misc

a video by the polyglot Lýdia Machová about how different polyglots learn languages - this video is great especially if you don’t know where to start in terms of self study

LangFocus - a youtube channel of this guy who talks about different languages which is always a good place to start to understand how a specific language works also his videos are fun

Polyglot: How I Learn Languages by Kató Lomb - this book is great and available online completely for free! 

Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner (on pdfdrive) - another great book about language learning

Anki - a flashcard app (free on desktop for any system & free on android mobile - not free on ios mobile) that specifically uses spaced repetition to help you learn vocabulary, it’s got a slightly ugly design but it’s beloved by many language learners & is honestly so helpful

YouTube - literally utilize youtube it is so good.

Easy Languages - a youtube channel with several languages (basically they go around asking people on the street stuff so the language in the videos is really natural) & they also have breakaway channels for german, french, spanish, polish, italian, greek, turkish, russian, catalan & english

there’s also the LanguagePod101 youtube channels (e.g. FrenchPod101, JapanesePod101, HebrewPod101) which are super great for listening practice & language lessons as well as learning writing systems!

[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!