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Vocab dump from first 20 pages of “Al Resguardo del Tilo Rojo” (definitions en español)

I recently did my DELE C1 exam for Spanish, and this is the first books by a native Spanish speaking author I’ve read after my convocatoria. 20 pages in, and I’m having a really good time 📚, publicaré más vocabulario según vaya pasando las páginas 💜

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halftruthsandhyperbole

Today I learned

ouijubell

Free Audiobooks and Ebooks on OVERDRIVE.

Free Graphic Novels (DC, Marvel, Image, etc), Music, TV shows, and music on HOOPLA.

Free music that you can KEEP on FREEGAL

You are PAYING for all this with your tax money - USE THEM. Most likely systems will have all 3 or 2 out of 3, so if you aren’t sure call your local library’s reference/information desk and how you can get set-up or started.

horrorinthegraveyard

Hey, highkey from a library worker:

Overdrive has a new mobile app called LIBBY I find it easier to use. It’s the same content as Overdrive just better for mobile. Overdrive and Libby both let you send items to your kindle as well.

tusks-and-tonics-deactivated202

Can confirm Overdrive is amazing.

I work in the largest library system in my state (17 branches in total).

I use it not only for ebooks, but movies as well.

Other FREE resources to check with your library for are:

Freegal Music (download and keep music, including current music)

Hoopla Digital (borrow ebooks, e-audiobooks, e-graphic novels, stream movies)

Kanopy (stream movies; also available on Roku!)

Axis360 (usually hot or just released ebooks)

If you don’t have a library card…

GET ONE!

If someone says libraries are a thing of the past…

BOOP THEM IN THE NOSE WITH YOUR KINDLE!

Don’t discount libraries as “quiet” places.

THEY ARE ALIVE!!!

THEY ARE LOUD!!!

THEY ARE YOUR DOORWAYS TO KNOWLEDGE!!

i-will-not-be-caged

Also if you can’t find something particular at your library and want to support local book stores, Libro.fm is basically the exact same thing as audible, but it lets you choose an indie bookstore to purchase through instead of your money going to Amazon.

Wait for the master.

The amount of confidence oozing from this dude

mysharona1987

sleepybitchcity-deactivated2022

Hospitals are struggling for nurses right now because people are leaving the profession entirely or leaving for temporary travel contract positions that pay well. They have been treated poorly, underpaid for the work they do, and inadequately protected this year, and they’re done.

My brother in law said they’re advertising for a position in his normal unit, offering twice his salary. But they won’t offer him extra to stay after risking his life working in the COVID unit for months, so he’s out. It’s absolutely insulting, and so many industries are going to have a major reckoning coming up.

white-throated-packrat

You know, if they advertised a liveable wage for the area with regular hours and benefits like healthcare (and the ability to throw out customers who aren’t masking/socially distancing), I bet they could find workers. But that would mean treating their workers like people with lives instead of disposable cogs.

derinthescarletpescatarian

How do the kids do online research

In my experience with my students (8-12 year olds), if given a question like, say, “list five famous Africans and what they are famous for”, they will type verbatim into google “list five famous Africans and what they are famous for”, click on the first youtube video, and if that doesn’t give them the exact answer they need, immediately give up.

notusuallyprepared

This is also my experience with my 16-18 year old students. Though they will at least look at the first three articles google gives them…and then give up if they can’t find the exact information

derinthescarletpescatarian

I just wish they knew how to use keywords. Yes, search engines have become really good at interpreting full phrases and pulling keywords from conversational requests, but you can search so much more efficiently if you don’t make them do that.

This also speaks… badly… for the future of misinformation on the internet. No matter how many classes we run about reliable sources.

48squeakylizards

We literally just had a really great discussion in my class (library of information science degree) about information literacy and who is teaching it to the newer generations and how linked data fits in with it. The answer for some of it is the english teacher does for the most part but kids retain it better and use it faster when the teacher works with the school librarian. Also it depends on what device is being used. Because of the data that search engines keep a teacher and a student can search for the same exact phrase or terminology and they will have completely different results. With the teachers being more relevant because they use their device for work rather than play.

derinthescarletpescatarian

#the keywords confuse the shit out of me#I can’t keep them straight in my head and mix them all up#half the time when I use them it tells me there are no search results.#they only told me about them my junior year of collage so I was already fucked

If you wanted to yell your request for information to your friend on the other side of a loud, crowded party in, like, 3 words, what 3 words would you pick? Those are your search terms.

So in our example in the first post, you do NOT type the full question into your search engine. Making google parse things like ‘list’, ‘5′, and ‘explain’ is going to muddy your results, and this is especially true if you care enough about your data that you’re not using google. Your search terms (WITHOUT quotation marks) would be “famous Africans”, or “famous African people” or “prominent Africans” if you want to be more discerning about what kinds of answers you get.

If you do a lot of online research (as kids in school should do), you pretty quickly get a sense of what sorts of terms are best. For instance, “famous African people” is better than “famous Africans” because the latter is likely to be keywords in a lot of fluff journal article titles, whereas “famous African people” is more likely to bring up lists. “Prominent” will bring up more wealthy businessmen and political leaders, whereas “famous” will bring up more entertainers. But any of these will work. Just pretend the search engine is someone who can’t hear you very well and wants the clearest question in the smallest number of words.

(Although this specific example is bad because anyone with internet research experience answering this question would just go straight to wikipedia, who have lists of these kinds of things, and pick 5 names they like the sound of).

Also, if you wanna get fancy, print this out and stick it on your wall:

(link to higher resolution image)

It will make your life SO MUCH easier. (And, as you can see, this is why typing some questions into google verbatim is a bad idea, especially if you don’t use quotation marks. Not using the quotes and typing in anything with ‘and’ or ‘or’ in it can confuse the search engine.)

rayomoonshine

Working on my dissertation proposal

I just finished outlining my dissertation chapters for the first draft of my proposal. I’m using this guide to drafting the proposal:

So I’ve been writing my proposal in reverse. I spent like a week making my working bibliography, and another week outlining the chapters. I hope to do my methodology section Monday and have a draft of the proposal done by the end of the week.

So far, this is what I’ve learned:

1. Use a dissertation journal to document your progress and get all your impostor syndrome angst on paper where it can be managed.

2. Use a new document for each new section of the proposal so you aren’t “ruining” your nice document with your drafting. Then you can paste it in where it belongs.

3. Don’t draft in Times New Roman. By now, I’ve associated that font with “serious academic writing” and it makes me nervous. I draft in Arial.

4. Recycle your writing! Sometimes a chunk of writing from your field statement goes very nicely in your proposal.

5. Write something every day you can, even if it’s just a complaint in the dissertation journal.

phdstudygirl

Lots of good advice here

pompadourpink

When do I not need accents?

E + CT: élection, collecte, affection

E + double consonant (except initials EM-, EN-: emmerder, ennui): celle, équerre, greffe

E + R (within one syllable): perdre, dermatologue, termite

E- + S (initial) : espoir, essayer, essaim

E- + X (initial): examen, exemple, ex-copain

E + -T (last): bonnet, coffret, Juillet

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linghxr

5 Constructions to Take Your Chinese to the Next Level

As you progress from intermediate to advance, here are 5 patterns/structures that will come up all the time in your Chinese studies! Example sentences are provided.

一无所X：

The meaning of this structure is roughly 没有什么X.

一无所知 yìwúsuŏzhī - not knowing anything at all / completely ignorant Ex: 他坚持说他对这件事一无所知。

一无所求 yìwúsuǒqiú - make no request for anything Ex: 现在我一无所求，曾经用有已经足够。 (From Gameboy by Julia Wu 吴卓源)

一无所有 yìwúsuǒyǒu - not having anything at all / nothing to one’s name / utterly lacking Ex: 他们不得不接受自己已经一无所有的事实。

以X为Y：

This pattern means “taking X as Y.” Ex: 她姐姐以她的儿子为自己的儿子。

Ex: 我们的中国之行以北京为起点。

Ex: 这部电影以孤儿的生活为题材。

It is also used in a lot of common constructions, including the ones below. 以……导向 yǐ…wéi dǎoxiàng - to take X as a guiding principle/direction Ex: 很多大学生在选择专业时以就业市场为导向。

以……为主 yǐ…wéizhǔ - to treat X as most important / to consist mainly of X Ex: 南方人的主食以米饭为主，北方人以面食为主。

以……例 yǐ…wéilì - take X as an example Ex: 以这个病人为例, 这并不是他的死因。

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gorps

Liberal idpol is literally just pseudo progressive white supremacy

firebendinglemur

don’t make me tap the sign:

mckitterick

and we all know billionaires aren’t human beings

utopians

dark macadamia

utopians

dark macadamia moodboard

bettedavisgf

online knitting communities always working harder than the devil

twinicegiantorbiters

i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

jadethest0ne

This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!