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12/100 - 14/03/17 - Plant Biotech Revision
Long day at uni today, just got home to do some revising and list making.
Listening to âThe Less I Know The Better - Tame Impalaâ, drinking tea, and freezing my butt off!Â
Books Iâll be using a lot this semester.
Itâs been a week so far and there are some things that I found interesting:
A graph of countriesâ average income listed âHollandâ as a country, forcefully reminding me that Iâd finished international relations and had moved to economics
My (Turkish) econometrics lecturer introduced the online product MyMathLab by utterly refusing to say âMyMathLabâ out loud, in case he pronounced it just wrong enough
My Torts lecturer has a crush on Owen Woodhouse, the guy who wrote a 1967 report that lead to the Accident Compensation Act. I can tell that he has a crush because he began the first lecture with a fifteen minute explanation of why heâs great.
Also in torts: our first subject is ACC, something which is a governmental organisation and therefore not, in fact, a tort
My contract lecturer. Just... so many things about him...
He plays baroque music through the whole lecture. It sounds like the background music in a video game when nothing is happening.
He has the same manner of speech as Ben Carson.
On that note, his manner of speech makes it so hard to focus that he stops the lecture halfway through to read a story from the news. Todayâs story involved a guy who was sent home from a KKK rally because heâd put a red shirt in the wash with his robes and turned them pink.
The university has changed the online system again. The lecturers hate it. Again.
The lifts in the library building are still not in use due to earthquake damage. In the stairwell, motivational signs have appeared.
Someone in the science block set the fire alarms off already. Normally it takes several weeks at least
My new media studies lecturer spent the first half of a two hour lecture holding an improvised âclass discussionâ because he couldnât get the projector to work
The IT guy took a long time to show up because this room is pretty much impossible to find if you donât already know where it is.
When he did show up, he pointed out the button that the lecturer was supposed to press, and then left.
Twenty minutes into a torts lecture, two guys walked in late and sheepishly headed all the way to the back of the theatre while the lecturer, who had stopped talking, watched them
The lecturer only made it halfway through the sentence before it transpired that they were in the wrong room, and had to go all the way out again, saying âsorry mate, wrong lectureâ
This event was followed by the class being taught exactly why we should refrain from calling our lecturer âmateâ
Are you a âthe way languages form is so interesting I love all the quirksâ langblr or a âI want to set fire to all irregular verbsâ langblr
I always find it strange when Iâm learning a language and things that I thought were just weird things in English also exist in the other language
I mean, like, âbeforehandâ. This means âbefore a given event has occurredâ, and hands have absolutely nothing to do with it. But Spanish has the word âantemanoâ. Ante; before. Mano; hand.
The word ârightâ is another one. In English it means both the direction, and human rights. It seems like another of those weird English things that the words happen to be spelt and pronounced the same, but in Spanish both meanings still translate to âderechoâ
learning vocabulary from reading
hey guys! I just commented on someoneâs post about this, and I realized I havenât shared my method with yâall yet. I started doing this recently, with Jane Eyre in spanish! thereâs a lot of words I donât know, so this is really helping me! hopefully it comes in handy for you guys, too!
step 1: read the passage.
obviously, to learn vocabulary, you need to read the vocabulary youâre learning. but hereâs the thing: donât stop to learn the vocabulary. i want you to read the entire passage and try to understand it as best you can. you need that reading practice, too!
something my spanish teacher taught me is that when you immerse yourself in something thatâs challenging and âmonotonousâ, you get overwhelmed very easily and do worse than you would if you slowed down at worked at your own pace. (monotonous meaning without change, i donât mean to say itâs boring. the idea is if you stare at the same page for too long, you zone out.) she said that listening is the hardest, because students can only pay attention for ~30 seconds before getting stuck and being unable to focus on the rest of the listening. (because of this, she pauses the listening every once in a while to ask questions). Â
because of this, itâs best to section off your reading in chunks. if itâs a short article, you can read the whole thing through. but if youâre reading a challenging book, where the chapters are more than a few pages, youâll want to break it up - or else youâll forget what youâre doing!
step 2: underline unknown words.
you can do this during or after reading. for me, i havenât figured out which works best yet. go through the section and underline any words you donât know - even if you could guess their meaning from context. basically, anything you havenât studied. if you canât think of the word in your target language while speaking in conversation, you should probably underline it.Â
if done during reading: make sure you donât focus on the unknown words! underline them in passing while trying to understand the reading as a whole.
step 3: make a list of those words!
you can do this in the margins or on a separate piece of paper. youâll want to make the list so that thereâs the unknown word, then room for two more words, then however much space you want between your list items. (for instance, using 4 lines on a page: unknown word / space to write / space to write / space between vocab words
step 4: guess the meaning!!
this is what that extra space is for! go back through the passage and try to understand the unknown words. write what you think the words mean, either by literal translation to your native language, or describing the meaning in a phrase. this is super important because it forces you to practice using context to understand unknown words, and your basic knowledge of the language to understand things like whether itâs a noun or verb, singular, plural, etc. when using the language in real-time situations, you canât just pull out a dictionary!
step 5: look up the words
plain and simple, use that final space to write the literal definitions. you might want to rearrange the order of your list, like putting the definition and the word side-by-side or something so you can study more easily. in the end, your guess doesnât really matter; it was the act of guessing that made you improve.
(optional) step 6: check your answers
now, you can go through the list and see what you guessed right! you can be loose with how you measure yourself - for instance, if you didnât know the word for âbushâ but you guessed âsome kind of plant,â by my standards that would be correct. youâre not going for the exact perfect meaning; thatâs nearly impossible. but you got the basic idea of what it was describing, and thatâs what matters.Â
totally optional, but one (arbitrary, probably meaningless) way i measure progress is by making a score for myself for each passage. correct guesses out of unknown words (in a percentage). hopefully by the end of the book, my average will go up!
step 6 œ: study!
finallyyyy, study the words! use your own methods. if you like quizlet or memrise, make yourself a deck using your list. personally, I use Anki, and I have a separate deck from my vocab list deck, meant for miscellaneous vocab that i learn from reading and speaking. on the other hand, if you like playing memory games to learn vocab, or writing the word over and over - more power to you! iâm not here to tell you how to study vocab, just to help you get a better grasp on it when you first come across it.
i hope this helps! happy studying!! <3
You: Lana del Rey
Me, a bilingual: The kingâs wool
the sun came back!!
Spent the morning watching Netflix but now itâs time to be productive. Iâve got two presentations, a transcript, and a paper due Monday. đ«đ
Throwback to that time I wrote a Media Studies essay during the primaries and a the model that I came up with predicted a Trump victory and I went âwait that canât be rightâ and tried to work out how to fix my model
At this point having too much faith in humanity is a bigger problem to my studies than ADHD is
At this point Iâm literally rewarding myself with Spanish learning if I write a certain amount of words in the story I have to get done. Itâs like all the motivation I didnât have in my teenaged years has shown up at once and now I have to worry about burning myself out.
So this is a brand new side blog and I donât usually do this but Iâm looking for more people to follow related to this blog so like/reblog this if you are a studyblr or langblr and Iâll probably follow you