[allthelovelylanguages-blog]

Adverbs in french - part 1 ✨

vraiment - truly

abominablement - abominably

absolument - absolutely

actuellement - currently

admirablement - admirably

attentivement - carefully

aucunement - not at all

autrement - otherwise, differently

assurément - certainly

carrément - totally

certainement - certainly

complètement - completely

crûment - crudely

diversement - variously

doucement - gently

entièrement - entirely

éperdument - desperately

exactement - exactly

excessivement - excessively

frugalement - frugally

gaiement - happily

gentiment - kindly

indûment - wrongly

lentement - slowly

longuement - extensively

malheureusement - unfortunately

médiocrement - poorly

naïvement - naively

naturellement - naturally

parfaitement - perfectly

péniblement - painfully

poliment - politely

précisément - precisely

prétendument - allegedly

progressivement - gradually

quasiment - almost

rapidement - quickly

réellement - actually

résolument - resolutely

sensiblement - substantially

solennellement - solemnly

tellement - so much

tranquillement - peacefully

uniformément - uniformly

vainement - vainly

[revesdepluie]

the france countdown: 18 days | 16.07.2019

Bonsoir, les amis!

It’s been 4 days since I panicked and promised myself that I would start doing things for the IB. Graphic calculator? Ordered! Raw data for biology IA? Gathered! It is 10:30 pm right now so I could, in theory, systematize it. Hello, Excel, my old friend... However, an EE in English and a written task? Still unheard of. Let me update my little to do list:

Stuff I really should somehow get around to doing:

- type 1 written task for English LAL;

- the EE in English LAL is still lurking;

- revise Economics syllabus and brainstorm for IA;

- brainstorm for mathematics IA;

- revise Biology syllabus and start a very measly draft of an IA;

- read Paradise Lost, The English Patient and Master And Margarita. Then again, I will have lots of time to do it while driving to France;

- Stop. Watching. Lucifer. Oh, dang.

Anyhow... Imagine this:

Spotify is open on your laptop. Lo-fi music is playing and you light a few candles. Your room fills with a homey scent, slowly. The clacking of your keyboard is not rushed, not dreaded, but comforting. You, in comfy clothes, a chilled, dimly-lit ambiance, are getting things done. At your own pace.

Now, guys, let’s get this done.

(...oh, btw, any fellow Lucifans out there?)

[revesdepluie]

i’m going to france in 22 days | 12.07.2019

Hello, friends!

Long time, no talk... I realize that this isn’t the best comeback post, but I don’t think it’s a comeback post at all. I’m just writing down some things I wanted to say, for myself.

Almost a week ago, IB results were released. I took the French B SL exam this year instead of May 2020 session (which is my actual exam session), because I wanted to get it out of the way as soon as possible.

*makes happy noise* and I got a 7! I was genuinely happy. Now, I’m certain that there will be at least one 7 on my diploma (that is, if I even get it at all, because the very thought of writing an Extended Essay just scares me. Honestly, ToK seems less scary at this point...)

Anyhow... In April, I also passed the DELF B2 with 99/100! Ain’t that cool! I’m very excited to go to France for the second time in my life and get some authentic French practice in. I feel as though my lack of practice this summer has made me forget a lot.

22 days... Here are some IB things that I want to do:

- write a type 1 written task for English LAL;

- gather data for my Biology IA;

- start working on that dreaded Extended Essay (which I’m doing in English LAL);

- at least start looking for articles for my Economics IA;

- scramble up some ideas for Mathematics SL IA;

- and order a graphic calculator off somewhere!

Ahh. So much to do... (so much to see, so what’s wrong with taking the backstreet? Sorry, I just had to.) Are there any M2020 IB kids out there who want to bond over our workload? I’m open to chatting and making friends. :)

[doinglanguagestuff-deactivated2]

That’s a question I asked myself many times. So I spent a lot of time on blogs and websites telling me that you can’t name an exactly number. Of course you can’t but I was just searching for an “around this” number. Everyone knows that there is no magical number like 1000 and then you’ll speak your target language but with 999 you wouldn’t. I just wanted “around this” numbers to be motivated, to have a goal, to have a direction I can keep in mind.  It was a pain in the ass to get an answer to this. And I want to share it with you guys, so you don’t have to waste your time on several blogs and giant textwalls to get just a little bit closer to this answer. Don’t forget these are just “around this” numbers and it’s very(!) important that you also use them and SPEAK your target language. _______________________________________ 100 most common words make up 50% of conversations. 300 most common words make up 65% of conversations. 2.000 most common words make up 90% of conversations. _______________________________________ What are the different levels of a language? A1: 500 words A2: 1.000 words B1: 2.000 words B2: 4.000 words C1: 8.000 words C2: 16.000 words _______________________________________ And here a little bit detailed: 250 words - without these words, you can’t make a sentence. 750 words - is needed for everyday conversations. 2.500 words - will allow you to say most things you want, but sometimes in an awkward way. 5.000 words - is an active vocabulary of a (not high educated) native speaker. 10.000 words - is an active vocabulary of a (high educated) native speaker. 20.000 words - is needed in your passive vocabulary to fully understand work of literature by a notable author.

[revesdepluie]

reblogging again, because I like numbers. 

[theselfcarelifestyle]

Say it with me:

I’m not gonna let anybody stand in the way of my growth this year, especially not myself.

[horanforirwin]

I get emotionally attached to lyrics, like not necessarily a whole song just that one line that hits you in the gut and pulls out every emotion you can possibly feel and every time you hear that one line its like the whole world is okay for a few seconds.

[languill]

It’s sad how much of what is taught in school is useless to over 99% of the population.

There are literally math concepts taught in high school and middle school that are only used in extremely specialized fields or that are even so outdated they aren’t used anymore!

[flavoracle]

I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.

He asked somebody to raise their hand and ask him when we would use calculus in our everyday life. So one student rose their hand and asked, “When are we going to use this in our everyday life?”

“NEVER!!” the teacher exclaimed. “You will never use calculus in your normal, everyday life. In fact, very few of you will use it in your professional careers either.” Then he paused. “So would you like to know why should care?”

Several us nodded.

He picked out one of the varsity football players in the class. “You practice football a lot during the week, right Tim?” asked the teacher.

“Yeah,” replied Tim. “Almost every day.”

“Do you and your teammates ever lift weights during practice?”

“Yeah. Tuesdays and Thursdays we spend a lot of practice in the weight room.”

“But why?” asked the teacher. “Is there ever going to be a play your coach tells you use during a game that requires you to bench press the other team?”

“No, of course not.”

“Then why lift weights?”

“Because it makes us stronger,” said Tim.

“Bingo!!” said the teacher. “It’s the same thing with calculus. You’re not here because you’re going to use calculus in your everyday life. You’re here because calculus is weightlifting for your brain.”

And I’ve never forgotten that.

[c-is-for-circinate]

THIS.

When it’s taught right, learning math teaches you logic and how to organize your brain, how to take a problem one step at a time and make sure every step can bear weight before you move to the next one.  Most adults don’t need to know integrals, but goddamn if I don’t wish everyone making arguments on the internet understood geometric proofs.

Scientific concepts broaden our understanding of how the world is put together, which does not mean that most adults ever really understand how light is refracted through a lens or why spinning copper wire creates electricity–and they don’t need to.  But science classes in general are meant to teach the scientific method: how to make observations and use them to draw conclusions, how to test those conclusions, how to be wrong and grow stronger from it.

History isn’t about dates and names of battles, it’s about people, patterns, things we’ve tried before and ought to learn from.  It’s about how everything is linked, how changing one circumstance can lead to changes in fifty others, cascading infinitely.  Literature is about critical thinking, pattern recognition, learning to listen to what somebody is saying and decide what it means to you, how you feel about it, and what you want to do with it.

Some facts matter: every adult should know how to read a graph, how global warming works, some of the basic themes and symbols that crop up in every piece of fiction.  But ultimately, content is less important later in life than context.

The good thing is, students who learn the content are likely to pick up at least some of the context, some of the patterns of thinking, even if they don’t realize it.  (The unfortunate thing is how the current educational system prioritizes content so much that a lot of students, and a lot of adults, don’t see the point in learning either, and teachers are overworked and held to standardize test grading scales such that it’s hard for them to emphasize patterns of thinking over rote memorization, etc etc etc, but that is a whole different discussion.)

[moi-ennepe-deactivated20251213]

thank u <3

[purrkatorium]

“I Don’t Care” in French

Ça m'est égal: This is the safest way to say “I don’t care in French. It literally means “It’s equal to me”.

Je m’en fiche: This is the phrase that most people use. It is not vulgar, but it carries more power than the first phrase.

Je m’en fous: This phrase is vulgar, equivalent to saying, “I don’t give a shit.”

Je m’en bats les couilles: This is vulgar, and stronger than the previous. However, this is a bit long and unnecessary, and most people use “Je m’en fous” instead.

J’en ai rien à foutre: This is vulgar, and the same rules apply as the last.

[a-r-reicovery]

As a french I approve every thing that’s written. I’d add that in the South we use more “je m'en bats les couilles” and that’s generally said with a strong accent so better not use it if you don’t how to:)

[epicene-street-light-deactivate]

a very slurry guide to why french is Like That, Actually

SO

yall remember that post that went like…… “why is french… Like That”?

well, time for An Education from ur local french literature student

SO, BASICALLY, WHAT HAPPENED

first of all, well, it’s like the 9th century and the king is like…… hey what if….. and bear with me on this one but….. what if…….. we wrote………. the things about our country………… in the language……. actual people living in this country….. speak?

and people were like “holy shit youre the king so okay” and then the king was like “i want YOU to write this laws and THINGS in FRENCH!” and the monks were like “aw okay” so they started doing that

EXCEPT

that they had a big fucking problem. what was that problem, you may ask? well, the problem was thaT THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE AN ALPHABET TO WRITE THIS FUCKING EXCUSE OF A LANGUAGE

lemme explain. all they knew was latin and the latin alphabet. bc like knowing latin was the whole thing when u were a monk. also latin was like… the Serious Language. but french doesnt sound like latin like at all. french sounded like some bitch ass demon had bitten their tongue and was trying to order a latte in the middle of an exorcism incantation. and i say “sounded” on purpose bc their pronunciation was wild, man. like ultra wild. like even WORSE than what we have to deal with now. and it had NOTHING to do with motherfucking latin.

so what did the monks do? well, they were like “aw this is a mcfucking embarrassment of a situation, ay” and had a choice. basically, they could invent a whole new mode of transcription for french weird ass sounds… OR they could do their best to try and adapt the latin alphabet to its demonic sprouting.

which is, pretty sadly if you ask me, what they went for.

so they started planning strategies that were complex at shit bc like how tf are you gonna write “cheval” with a fucking LATIN ALPHABET??? so basically they all went with whatever felt best to write in the moment and there were no rules and it was a weird fucking mess of a situation lemme tell you, ive seen the manuscripts, those men went APE SHITT

and like…. some of them never used the same spelling twice. also there were like no accent and punctuation and things that allow you to write like a fucking normal human being so jot that down

so, that was a big fucking mess and they started adding letters e v e r y w h e r e like……….. ok some of them were actually smart like they did their best to add letters that no one pronounced but it made it look like some latin thing. like basically they put up a pink hairband on a fucking DEMON CHILD and went “aaaawww look how CUTE it is, looks like its mommy so much!!!!” and prayed to god it would end up well (spoiler: no. no it didnt. bitch)

so you got things like “veult” for “veut” bc the “l” made it look a bit like the latin “vult” or something. but then as i said some of them went APE SHITT and were like, WOOHOO FREE LETTERS and started adding weird letters to words that had literally no etymological link to that letter. so they were writing “peut” like “peult” just because….. idk they felt like to??

so its Like That in the middle ages and then people started thinking about french as a language and they went like….. MAAAAW THERES A WEIRD FUCKING STRAY WRITING OUTSIDE!!! MAAAAAAAW!!!! IS THAT EVEN A FUCKING LANGUAGE???? BLINK MOTHERFUCKER!! AAAAAAAAAAAA and everyone was losing their shit alright

so like english students started going to college in france and they were like “bitch you live like this??” and the french were like :/// whelp

and like they did their best to like help non-native writing french but it had no rules so it didnt work out well and like….. in the 1500’s some guys were like “okay guys this makes no sense from now on well use a RATIONALIZED WRITING i built MYSELF” and their idea was basically to write french as they spoke it which i know SOUNDS like a good idea but actually AINT

bc first of all there are a shitton of words that have the same pronunciation in french and you need those weird spellings to actually know what the word is there for like….. they wrote like “me” for “mai” and “mais” and “mes” and “met” and basically that was wild

and some of those guys who knew a lot about grammar went like “ooookayyyyy so were removing those letters we dont pronounce buuuuuuuuuut its not alwayyyyyys like thiiiiiiiiis” and like…. right-wing people like the 1550 equivalent of republicans or some shit went like, foaming at the mouth like rabid fucking dogs when they saw “pe” instead of “peult” “oooooohhhhhh but you DIDNT and its not EVEN REALLY RATIONAL” and like they had a ton or arguments and it actually became a kinda linguistic war and all

plus they didnt pronounce the same things everywhere in france so in paris they wrote “otr” for “autre” and in lyon they wrote “aotr” and they were like……… “we got a problem here” bc the whole thing was to get a language that was the same everywhere in the country basically

so u got those reformist guys on the one side and the reactionaries on the other side and honestly, reactionaries’ arguments are so fucking funny they were like…

“okay so some of the letters are useful bc it helps understanding that the word comes from latin” this ones rational alright

“also some mute letters are used to link the words from an identical background together and create semantic links like “sang” (blood) does have a mute “g” bc it links it to “sanguin” (sanguine) and other words like this” alright cool

but THEN you got some weird fucking ideas like

“but actually writing IS the standard bc written things Are More Noble, Actually” which is like……. weird flex but ok

“yes, it makes it harder to learn, but so it repels women and non-educated people who would soil The Language if they could write it” like DUDE are you FUCKING SERIOUS

and finally – their main idea –

“bUt iT loOkS FaNcY” aka #aesthetics and thats basically it

also. the printing press workers were like……… guys are you SURE you want to get us to COMPLETELY CHANGE AND UNLEARN OUR WHOLE JOB LIKE C’MON so it kinda weighed in favor of the reactionaries

also the reactionaries won in the long term

tl;dr so french is Like That because 1. its a demonic language that monks desperately tried to tie back to latin and 2. old white men with bizarre aesthetic tastes hated women and The Poor

thanks for coming to my ted talk my language makes no sense and neither does its history

[yhbgk-blog]

How to Study Like a Harvard Student

Taken from Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld, daughter of the Tiger Mother

Preliminary Steps 1. Choose classes that interest you. That way studying doesn’t feel like slave labor. If you don’t want to learn, then I can’t help you. 2. Make some friends. See steps 12, 13, 23, 24. General Principles 3. Study less, but study better. 4. Avoid Autopilot Brain at all costs. 5. Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 6. Write it down. 7. Suck it up, buckle down, get it done. Plan of Attack Phase I: Class 8. Show up. Everything will make a lot more sense that way, and you will save yourself a lot of time in the long run. 9. Take notes by hand. I don’t know the science behind it, but doing anything by hand is a way of carving it into your memory. Also, if you get bored you will doodle, which is still a thousand times better than ending up on stumbleupon or something. Phase II: Study Time 10. Get out of the library. The sheer fact of being in a library doesn’t fill you with knowledge. Eight hours of Facebooking in the library is still eight hours of Facebooking. Also, people who bring food and blankets to the library and just stay there during finals week start to smell weird. Go home and bathe. You can quiz yourself while you wash your hair. 11. Do a little every day, but don’t let it be your whole day. “This afternoon, I will read a chapter of something and do half a problem set. Then, I will watch an episode of South Park and go to the gym” ALWAYS BEATS “Starting right now, I am going to read as much as I possibly can…oh wow, now it’s midnight, I’m on page five, and my room reeks of ramen and dysfunction.” 12. Give yourself incentive. There’s nothing worse than a gaping abyss of study time. If you know you’re going out in six hours, you’re more likely to get something done. 13. Allow friends to confiscate your phone when they catch you playing Angry Birds. Oh and if you think you need a break, you probably don’t. Phase III: Assignments 14. Stop highlighting. Underlining is supposed to keep you focused, but it’s actually a one-way ticket to Autopilot Brain. You zone out, look down, and suddenly you have five pages of neon green that you don’t remember reading. Write notes in the margins instead. 15. Do all your own work. You get nothing out of copying a problem set. It’s also shady. 16. Read as much as you can. No way around it. Stop trying to cheat with Sparknotes. 17. Be a smart reader, not a robot (lol). Ask yourself: What is the author trying to prove? What is the logical progression of the argument? You can usually answer these questions by reading the introduction and conclusion of every chapter. Then, pick any two examples/anecdotes and commit them to memory (write them down). They will help you reconstruct the author’s argument later on. 18. Don’t read everything, but understand everything that you read. Better to have a deep understanding of a limited amount of material, than to have a vague understanding of an entire course. Once again: Vague is bad. Vague is a waste of your time. 19. Bullet points. For essays, summarizing, everything. Phase IV: Reading Period (Review Week) 20. Once again: do not move into the library. Eat, sleep, and bathe. 21. If you don’t understand it, it will definitely be on the exam. Solution: textbooks; the internet. 22. Do all the practice problems. This one is totally tiger mom. 23. People are often contemptuous of rote learning. Newsflash: even at great intellectual bastions like Harvard, you will be required to memorize formulas, names and dates. To memorize effectively: stop reading your list over and over again. It doesn’t work. Say it out loud, write it down. Remember how you made friends? Have them quiz you, then return the favor. 24. Again with the friends: ask them to listen while you explain a difficult concept to them. This forces you to articulate your understanding. Remember, vague is bad. 25. Go for the big picture. Try to figure out where a specific concept fits into the course as a whole. This will help you tap into Big Themes – every class has Big Themes – which will streamline what you need to know. You can learn a million facts, but until you understand how they fit together, you’re missing the point. Phase V: Exam Day 26. Crush exam. Get A.

[vacuumssuck]

French person: 80 French person: lol blaze it 

[forzafxrrari]

i just 5 to my knees I laughed so hard

[neuxue]

this whole post makes me want to 7 something on fire

[tsukidaisy]

i’ve had e9 of this

[dean-hanel-deactivated20181219]

THIS POST DOESN’T MAKE SENSE I DON’T GET IT AND IT MAKES ME ANGRY

[sheenaduquette]

Sweet, sweet 17tion.

[nijuukoo]

10 is making me facepalm so hard.

[communistbakery-deactivated2017]

I feel bad for people who don’t know what this 16

[zalco]

pray for the people who have to 8ness this

[imgaynothappy-deactivated202201]

@fanfeline please explain this

[fanfeline]

I think I’ve seen this already but 11 is enough

also no i’m not explaining

[studyblr]

make this year about yourself. write a journal with your thoughts and ideas, take care of yourself and remind yourself to put your well-being first, acquire new skills, learn a language, set yourself goals to achieve, and study for your future. you will thank yourself later.

[prepolyglot-moved]

French Reading Practice

Des lacunes importantes dans la protection du caribou boréal

All words are in order of their appearance in the article

lacune(s) (f) | gap

admet [inf. admettre] | admit

conclut [inf. conclure] | conclude

soutiennent [inf. soutenir] | support

planification (f) | planning

réagi [inf. réagir] | reacted

perte (f) | loss

Please let me know if there are any mistakes or better translations

[endlessly-enamored]

2019 will be a year of self-love.

[robbstark-archive-deactivated20]

ho ho holy shit it’s almost christmas

[bonjourfrenchwords]

C'est le moment le plus merveilleux de l'année • It’s the most wonderful time of the year • /s‿ɛ lə mɔ.mɑ̃ lə ply mɛʁ.ve.jø də l‿a.ne/

[aspoonfuloflanguage-deactivated]

I was feeling kinda salty. Then this happened. I present to you:

The Process of Language Learning: A Visual Guide

[aspoonfuloflanguage-deactivated]

Hi friends I dunno why I drew a pleasantly curved line between B2 and C1 because I’m here to tell you

𝕴𝖙’𝖘 𝖓𝖔𝖙

[the-lunatic-of-your-dreams]

I read “A Few Tears Later” instead of “A Few Years Later”. Still seems accurate.

[aspoonfuloflanguage-deactivated]

That’s even better tbh