Dante Trys To Study

Dante • 16 • INTJ • GCSE Choices: Biology | Chemistry | Computing | Geography | Graphics | Italian | Physics • Languages: Current: Italiano | ਪੰਜਾਬੀ | Română | Polski Want to Learn: ‎اُردُو | ᐃᓄᒃᑎᑐᑦ | lietuvių kalba | українська

[toastbutteregg]

REBLOG TO MIRACULOUSLY PASS YOUR EXAMS!!

[spraakhexe2]

How do I know if I am fluent?

you don’t

However, I would like to offer some advice to you about exercises you can do to make yourself feel more fluent. Grab some paper or open your laptop’s note application and practice with me ♡

Can you lay down some sick rhymes in your target language? I don’t mean writing your own rap song or a poem (unless you like doing that ofc), but a good way to get your brain flowing and using your target language is to think of some sentences that rhyme! I am trying to do this with my TLs and it is actually grueling but also fun!

Journal it up If you keep a journal, try describing your day or thoughts in your TL. Don’t be afraid to use a dictionary! I find it helpful to learn words I use everyday. It really helps you think without depending on your native language as a crutch.

Counting My career involves a lot of numbers, but I am sure that isn’t so for everyone. However, if you get the chance to count something, try doing it in your TL. If you can’t think of a reason to count, try finding something around you that you see multiple of, and go count it. It may seem ridiculous, but remember that when speaking to a native of your TL, they may throw out some numbers in a situation, and you want to know what they mean!

People-watching or Sightseeing Go sit somewhere and try to describe everything you see using your TL. Write down what you don’t know and look it up when you get home!

Talking to your pet It isn’t always ideal to practice speaking with the people around you, so if you have a pet or live on a farm or something, practice talking out loud in your language with your animals. They won’t laugh at your accent or even understand what you are saying, but there isn’t much anxiety in that situation, and it will help you feel more comfortable speaking around another living being. Plus if you want to work on your accent, it is great.

Translate your work or school related vocabulary into your target language (s) This exercise is actually pretty fun and useful. School and work is v. Important in our lives, so when you are doing light reading, homework, or are slow at work (or are bored at home), look up some words that you use in your everyday situations. This may help if you ever plan on working or going to school in a place where your target language is spoken! For example, if you were suddenly a cashier in France, would you know how to properly greet customers, tell them how much change they are getting back, and understand their responses? You may have to seek out native speakers through a language exchange website (if that is possible for you) for this exercise for the most natural translations.

If you do any of these, post them here on Tumblr to help out the community! I love seeing posts where people share vocabulary, tips, notes, etc.

I am not claiming true fluency for you if you follow my advice, but these will really help. Plus, I took this advice from someone who is bilingual from birth, and who is learning her third language as an adult, so she has lots of experience in this!

[demilypyro]

It’s 2018 and I still have no clue how CDs work. It’s a shiny disc, how do they get data on that, let alone that much?? Magic

[topographicocean]

Like a vinyl disc, where a physical groove is marked into the vinyl, a laser marks the ink of a CD in a similar manner. A laser (your disc drive) can then look at the pattern in the ink and understand it.

[demilypyro]

There’s no grooves on a CD tho???

[rave-lord-nito]

They’re just really tiny, hence the laser. The smaller grooves means that more info can fit on a disc of the same size.

[demilypyro]

Man how the fuck did they figure out how to make that

[shinelikeastarlight]

me @ myself

[comaremena]

School vocabulary - ITALIAN

School: la scuola

Primary school: la scuola elementare, le elementari, la scuola primaria

Junior high school/middle school: la scuola media, le medie

High school: la scuola superiore, le superiori

Lyceum: il liceo

University/college: l’università

Keep reading

[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.

[languagetrash]

German music recommendations #3

Casper - Keine Angst Grossstadtgeflüster - Konfetti und Yeah LOT - Lass es brennen Mark Forster - Au revoir Heisskalt - Nicht anders gewollt Casper x Kraftklub x Der König Tanzt x Dendemann - Alles Dreht Sich LOIFIOR - Nordlicht Jennifer Rostock - Ein Schmerz und eine Kehle Kraftklub - Mein Leben  LOT - Warum soll sich das ändern

[polskieserce]

Because I have a love of forest things  ❤

Las (m.) - Forest Drzewo (n.) - Tree Liść (m.) - Leaf Kłoda (f.) - Log Nasiono (n.) - Seed Mech (m.) - Moss Krzew (m.) - Bush Kwiat (m.) - Flower Orzech (m.) - Nut Skała (f.) - Rock Jezioro (n.) - Lake Rzeka (f.) - River Gleba (f.) - Soil Natura (f.) - Nature

Jesień (f.) - Autumn

Wilk (m.) - Wolf Lis (m.) - Fox Jeleń (m.) - Deer Wiewiórka (f.) - Squirrel Sarna (f.) - Roe deer Mysz (f.) - Mouse Sowa (f.) - Owl Kret (m.) - Mole Żubr (m.) - Bison Dzik (m.) - Boar Pająk (m.) - Spider Niedźwiedź (m.) - Bear Królik (m.) - Rabbit Ptak (m.) - Bird Wąż (m.) - Snake Jeż (m.) - Hedgehog

Wędrować/Powędrować - To hike

[polishyourpolish]

@overcaffeinatedwhitegirl skała and kamień are synonyms and both mean stone, rock. Kamień is more likely to be used as a small one like laying on the street or something while skała is more of a bigger rock or the earth’s outer layer, but they can pretty much be used interchangeably.

Also note that in this case ł is very important because:

Skała (f)- rock

Skala (f)- scale

[school-vs-internet]

me: if I study three different languages a day seven days a week I could study 21 languages at once

also me: I just forgot how to build sentences in my native language and then I took a 4 hour nap

[sayitaliano]

Al mare - Vocabs

al mare - to the sea la spiaggia - on the beach la sabbia - the sand il bagnasciuga / la battigia - foreshore le cabine - changing room il sole - th sun l’ombra - the shadow il bagnino - lifeguard i bagnanti - bathers, swimmers l’ombrellone - beach umbrella la sedia - chair la sdraio (sedia a sdraio) - lounger, beach chair il mare - the sea il pattino / il moscone - small, rowing catamaran il pedalò - pedalo la nave - the ship la crociera - cruise il gommone - rubber boat la motonave - motor vessel il traghetto / (il ferry boat) - ferry boat

divieto di balneazione - no bathing la mareggiata - storm surge, coastal storm il mare agitato / mosso - rough sea il mare calmo / piatto (bonaccia) - calm sea

le conchiglie - shells le meduse - jellyfishes il cavalluccio marino / l’ippocampo - sea horse i granchi - crabs i pesci - fishes le vongole - clams lo squalo - shark la balena - whale i delfini - dolphins le tartarughe marine - sea/water turtles  i gabbiani - seagulls le anemoni di mare - sea anemone

il costume (da bagno) intero - swimwear il costume a slip (da uomo) = speedo il (costume da bagno) due pezzi - two pieces swimwear la crema solare - sunscreen gli occhiali da sole - sunglasses alta protezione - high protection bassa protezione - low protection la paletta e il secchiello (paletta e secchiello) - bucket and spade le formine - shape models il castello di sabbia - sand castle le onde - waves gli spruzzi - sprays i racchettoni - beach paddleball il beach volley - beach volley il ping pong - ping pong

fare il bagno - to bathe entrare in acqua / in mare - to bathe, to enter the water/sea tuffarsi = to dip fare il bagno nudi - to skinny dip nuotare - to swim prendere il sole - to sunbathe abbronzarsi - to tan scottarsi - to burn yourself fare le immersioni (subacquee) - to go scuba diving il sub - scuba diver la bombola da sub - scuba tank maschera da sub - diver’s mask

la sabbia scotta! - the sand burns! per oggi starò all’ombra - I’ll stay in the shadow today giocare con la sabbia - to play with the sand ho il segno dell’abbronzatura / del costume! - My skin has the swimwear/tan sign fare le sabbiature - to sand bath spruzzarsi l’acqua addosso = to wash/spalsh each other with water vorrei affittare una cabina - I’d like to rent a changing room una sdraio e due sedie, quanto costa? - How much for a beach chair and two chairs? vado in spiaggia - I’m going on the beach ho la pelle chiara / sono pallida - I am pale ho la pelle scura - I have a dark skin mi sono abbronzato - I got tanned vorrei un gelato - I’d like to have an ice-cream

[language-princess]

[glumshoe]

“Octopuses are my favorite ani–” “Octopuses? Don’t you mean octopi? Grammar!” “It’s a Greek word, not Latin, so its plural ought to be ‘octopodes’, but people understand the English plural ‘octopuses’ more easily because–”

fuck it all you guys, the plural of “Octopus” is now “Octopunks”

[lthmath]

I was asked to share these images. I have been using them as posters in my classroom for a while. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the actual author of these, so if there is anyone that knows who created them be sure to let us all know. 

Enjoy them ;) 

[cheesenau-blog]

Великий русский мат

Ok, so the russian language has A LOT of swear words, but if you want to communicate with the russians while playing CS:GO and be able to say more than just “сука блять”, I’m gonna try to help you. Here goes:

 бля/блять - an exclamation which expresses frustration/ word that you can basically stick anywhere, much like “fuck” in english. Apparently, it comes from the word блядь. It can, and very often is replaced with the word “блин” when the person doesn’t want to swear (the word “блин” meaning pancake, btw).  

*тварь - the actual word just means creature, but you would use it insult someone you dislike. To me, it gives sort of the same vibe as “cunt”.                  *мразь - a person you despise.                                                                           *сука - bitch.                                                                                                                                                                                                                 *ублюдок - bastard.                                                                                  *идиот - idiot.                                                                                            *дебил - moron.                                                                                    *имбецил - imbecile.                                                                                  *даун - person who suffers from Down’s syndrome. Yeaaah, you’re probably going to find this one really offensive…                                                    

*шлюха - whore.                                                                                  *шалава - whore.                                                                                      *блядь - slut.                                                                              

*хуй - probably the most vulgar way to say dick.                                          член - a more casual, less rude way to say dick. The word itself means member.                                                                                                        *хер, хрен - other ways to say dick. Хрен literally means horseradish.   хуйня - some weird shit you don’t understand/something you think is bullshit/ something that is meaningless. You can also say херня, or, if you don’t really want to swear, фигня.                                                                                *хуйло - just some dipshit.                                                                     хуёво - awful, very bad.                                                                        хуесос - dick sucker.                                                                              

*пизда - pussy. (Not like you’re calling someone a pussy, just, you know, a vagina.)                                                                                                    пиздец - a motherfucking disaster. You can also just say this word when you’re frustrated, agry, scared, surprised or just impressed, depends on the intonation.                                                                                            *пиздатый (пиздатая, пиздатое, пиздатые) - awesome, very fucking cool.  пиздёж - bullshit.                                                                                *пиздобол - liar.                                                                                  *пиздюк - a small kid, someone who is younger than you.                  спиздить - to steal.                                                                               

 дрочить - rude way to say “to masturbate”.                                          трахать/трахаться - to fuck. If you use the verb “трахать” it has to be followed by an object (Я трахаю баб). Otherwise, if you don’t want to say specifically who (or what???) you are fucking, use трахаться. Also, if you are a girl/a woman it would be quite weird for you to say я трахаю since it implies you are the one doing the fucking.                                                           

 ебать/ебаться  - another way to say “to fuck”. Same thing I tried to explain with трахать/трахаться applies here. Also people will say “ебать” whenever they feel like it. Just like in the case with “пиздец”, this word can express surprise, happiness, anger, pleasure and a multitude of other emotions.  ебало - a very rude way to reffer to someone’s face.                        *ебанутый - someone who’s sick in the head                                      наебать - to deceive/to lie to someone.                                    выёбываться - to show off.                                                                      заебать - to piss someone off to the point where they’re sick of you      заебись! - just an exclamation that means “fucking awesome!”. It can also be said sarcastically to express displeasure.                                         подъебать - to make fun of someone.    

*пидор - faggot.                                                                                         *петух - the word itself means rooster, but when calling someone that it also means faggot.                                                                                          

кончить - to cum.                                                                          *конченный - dumb and useless.                                                            

 яйца - literally means “eggs”. Used to reffer to testicles, like the word “balls” in english.                                                                                                     сиськи - tits.                                                                                                       жопа - ass.                                                                                                    *говно, дерьмо - both mean shit.                                                         срать - to shit.                                                                                          ссать- to piss. Also, when someone says “Я ссу.”, if they’re not actually pissing it means “I’m scared” .

* - The words marked with an asterisk are things you can call someone.

This post turned out way longer than expected so I’ll probably have to make a separate one about expressions. 

I’ve provided wikitionary links for all of the words.

So there you go, now when someone asks you to say something in russian you can say “Заебал уже блять!”, “Ты - идиот.”, “Я люблю сиськи.” or any other similar sentence. Всё, идите на хуй и учите русский. 

[langsandlit]

Italian Expressions with “Fiore”

essere in fiore - to be abloom; to go through a period of prosperity or the most eccentric phase of a development

essere tutto rose e fiori - to be all sunshine and roses

la città del Fiore - Florence [the symbol of Florence is an iris and its Latin name is Florentia]

essere un fiore - to excel in beauty, virtue or quality

essere il fiore all’occhiello - to be somebody’s flagship or feather in one’s cap, to be someone’s reason of being proud

il fiore della vita - in one’s prime

il fiore degli anni - the flush of youth

a fior di conio - [said of coins] to be in a pristine state

a fior d’acqua - above the surface of the water

a fior di pelle - above the surface of one’s skin

a fior di labbra - barely visible on somebody’s lips, imperceptible on somebody’s lips

il fior fiore - the best part of something

il fiore della verginità - virginity

il fiore verginale - [same as above]

il primo fiore - incipient beard of young men

il fiore in fronte - irregular spots made of white hair on a horse’s forehead

[boomeyer]

Do yourself a favor. Learn to code. Here's how.

I’ve said this to my non-techie friends countless times. It’s no secret that being able to code makes you a better job applicant, and a better entrepreneur. Hell, one techie taught a homeless man to code and now that man is making his first mobile application.

Learning to code elevates your professional life, and makes you more knowledgeable about the massive changes taking place in the technology sector that are poised to have an immense influence on human life.

(note: yes I realize that 3/5 of those links were Google projects)

But most folks are intimidated by coding. And it does seem intimidating at first. But peel away the obscurity and the difficulty, and you start to learn that coding, at least at its basic level, is a very manageable, learnable skill.

There are a lot of resources out there to teach you. I’ve found a couple to be particularly successful. Here’s my list of resources for learning to code, sorted by difficulty:

Novice

Never written a line of code before? No worries. Just visit one of these fine resources and follow their high-level tutorials. You won’t get into the nitty-gritty, but don’t worry about it for now:

Dash - by General Assembly

CodeAcademy

w3 Tutorials (start at HTML on the left sidebar and work your way down)

Intermediate

Now that you’ve gone through a handful of basic tutorials, it’s time to learn the fundamentals of actual, real-life coding problems. I’ve found these resources to be solid:

Khan Academy

CodeAcademy - Ruby, Python, PHP

Difficult

If you’re here, you’re capable of building things. You know the primitives. You know the logic control statements. You’re ready to start making real stuff take shape. Here are some different types of resources to turn you from someone who knows how to code, into a full-fledged programmer.

Programming problems

Sometimes, the challenges in programming aren’t how to make a language do a task, but just how to do the task in general. Like how to find an item in a very large, sorted list, without checking each element. Here are some resources for those types of problems

Talentbuddy

TopCoder

Web Applications

If you learned Python, Django is an amazing platform for creating quick-and-easy web applications. I’d highly suggest the tutorial - it’s one of the best I’ve ever used, and you have a web app up and running in less than an hour.

Django Tutorial

I’ve never used Rails, but it’s a very popular and powerful framework for creating web applications using Ruby. I’d suggest going through their guide to start getting down-and-dirty with Rails development.

Rails Guide

If you know PHP, there’s an ocean of good stuff out there for you to learn how to make a full-fledged web application. Frameworks do a lot of work for you, and provide quick and easy guides to get up and running. I’d suggest the following:

Cake PHP Book

Symfony 2 - Get Started

Yii PHP - The Comprehensive Guide

Conclusion

If there’s one point I wanted to get across, it’s that it is easier than ever to learn to code. There are resources on every corner of the internet for potential programmers, and the benefits of learning even just the basics are monumental.

If you know of any additional, great resources that aren’t listed here, please feel free to tweet them to me @boomeyer.

Best of luck!

[mementoluceat-blog]

I’d also like to add some more specialized resources!

Video games:

Easy game engines (virtually no coding): 

Game Maker Studio (2D; free and paid versions)

GameSalad (2D)

RPG Maker (2D; numerous versions ranging from free to $69.99)

Stencyl (2D; free and paid subscription versions)

Scratch (good for kids and is more general; 2D; free)

More difficult game engines: 

Unity (lots and lots of platforms; C# and JavaScript script; 2D, 3D, VR; free and paid versions)

Unreal (specializes in graphics; C++ and visual script; 2D, 3D, VR; free with a royalty on successful products)

CryEngine (Lua script; 3D; paid subscription and full license versions)

Mobile game development: 

Corona (free and paid subscription versions)

SpriteKit (2D) and SceneKit (3D) which are built into the official compiler to create iOS apps (see iOS apps for more resources)

also all of the above game engines (cross-platform)

Game console development: 

Game Maker Studio (with a paid subscription)

Unity

Unreal

CryEngine

Note that games can also be created on more general platforms like iOS and Android apps, but the resources listed above are specialized for game development.

iOS apps:

In order to develop iOS apps, you’ll need to purchase an iOS developer program membership for $99 a year, which requires an Apple account. Here are some general resources:

Xcode (the official IDE for iOS apps; can be installed on OS X)

Start Developing iOS Apps Today (Objective-C)

Ray Wenderlich iOS tutorials (Objective-C and Swift)

Code School: Try iOS (Objective-C)

Developing iOS 8 Apps (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; Swift)

TutorialsPoint: iOS Tutorial (Objective-C)

How to Make iPhone Apps With No Programming Experience (Swift)

Swift Tutorial: Building an iOS Application (2, 3)

iOS apps are developed in the 2 official languages of Apple: Objective-C and Swift, the latter of which is newer and generally much easier to learn.

Objective-C resources:

the official documentation

TutorialsPoint: Objective-C Tutorial

Ry’s Objective-C Tutorial

Swift resources:

the official documentation

The Swift Programming Language (free official e-book)

Swift: A Quick Reference Guide

Xcode also has SpriteKit, SceneKit, and Metal built in, all of which are incredibly useful for creating apps that require elaborate graphics, particularly games.

SpriteKit resources:

How to Make a Game Like Candy Crush With Swift (2)

Sprite Kit Swift Tutorial

Create Space Invaders with Swift and Sprite Kit

iOS SpriteKit Physics Tutorial in Swift

Build the Game of Life (Swift)

SceneKit resources:

Scene Kit Tutorial: Getting Started (Swift)

An Introduction to SceneKit (2; Swift)

Metal resources:

the official documentation + other resources (Obj-C)

iOS 8 Metal Tutorial with Swift (2, 3)

Getting Started With Metal (Obj-C)

An introduction to 3D graphics with Metal in Swift

Also, in order to publish iOS apps, you’ll have to juggle certificates, app ids, and provisioning profiles. This process can be convoluted at times so here are some resources:

How to Submit Your App to Apple: From No Account to App Store (2)

Beginner Tutorial: iOS Certificates & Provisioning Profiles

Android apps:

In order to develop Android apps, you’ll need to register as a developer for a one-time fee of $25. Here are some general resources:

Android Studio (the official IDE for Android app development; free; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux)

the official documentation

Getting Started

Android Tutorial For Beginners (2, 3)

Learn Android SDK From Scratch

Introduction to Android Development With Android Studio

Android apps are developed in Java and the layout is coded with XML.

Java resources:

W3schools: Java Tutorial series

TutorialsPoint: Java Tutorial

Core Java Tutorial

XML resources:

W3schools: XML Tutorial series

TutorialsPoint: XML Tutorial

For publishing (which is somewhat easier than publishing iOS apps):

How to Publish to the Android Market

3D modeling/animation:

Blender (can also be used to create games; Python script; free and open-source; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux)

Maya (specialized script; free trial, free 3-year student subscription, and paid subscription versions; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux to an extent)

3ds Max (Python script; free trial, free 3-year student subscription, and paid subscription versions; can be installed on Windows and OS X)

RenderMan (specialized script; free for non-commercial/educational use and pay-per-license for commercial use; can be installed on Windows, OS X, and Linux)

Misc. resources:

Stack Overflow is an ask-and-answer community for programmers. It’s amazing and will save your life. Sign up and don’t be afraid to ask for help.

Github offers a student pack (here) if you create an account and prove you’re a student. This gives you free access to a bunch of great programming resources for free for a certain period of time, such as Unreal Engine. Also, Github in general is a site that you can host your code on. Other users can see it, and “fork” it to make a copy of your code and modify it.

Parse is a backend service that allows you to store data in databases it hosts on its own servers. It lets you use push notifications, create users, store and retrieve data, etc. It’s compatible with iOS apps, Android apps, Windows apps, Xamarin, React, Unity, OS X, Windows, JavaScript, PHP, .net, Arduino, and Embedded C. It’s free up to a certain limit that depends on the services you use.

Cloud9, Codebox, and Squad are online IDEs that allow for real-time collaboration and support a variety of languages, so they’re useful for team projects.

And some general advice:

Your program will not work right away, 99% of the time. That’s okay. Do your best to figure out where the error is. Here is some advice on debugging (written for PHP but the methods can be generalized).

If you’re stuck, Google. Google like there’s no tomorrow.

Ask questions on a community like Stack Overflow.

For that matter, browse relevant Stack Overflow questions. You can probably find some solutions there.

Don’t be afraid to copy and paste.

Take breaks sometimes if you’re getting burned out. But don’t stay away from your projects for too long or you’ll lose track of its status.

Backup your code. On the cloud, on a USB drive, wherever. If your IDE has a backing up feature like snapshots, use it whenever you hit a milestone.

If your project is big, split it up into milestones and set goals. Don’t tackle everything at once.

Like the OP said, coding isn’t just for professionals and “geeks” anymore. Anyone can learn it if you really try, and with the rapidly expanding tech industry, learning coding can really broaden your opportunities.

If any of the links are broken, or you have a question or some information/resources to add, you can contact me through the askbox or the OP through his Twitter (as mentioned in his post).

If you’re interested, try some of these out and best of luck!

[boomeyer]

Great work expanding on my humble list to include a much fuller collection of resources for learning how to code! Cheers!

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