Stud(tea) and Read

Hannah | 21 | Computer Science and Media Arts

[pr0ud0fmyroots]

How I’m learning Tagalog. Resources and more

if a link doesn’t work or if you’d like to suggest resources, message me. 

Tagalog.com dictionary - HIGHLY RECOMMEND! includes: flashcards, song lyrics, and detailed explanations. Basically everything

textbooks for grammar

HiNative - ask native speakers questions

PODCASTS

“Go Filipino: Let’s Learn Tagalog” by Kris Andres 

Campfire stories | Earl Jerico (ito yung fav ko. Maganda yung boses niya)

Balitang Pilipinas available on other major apps

YouTube

talk to me in tagalog 

The Pinoy Grammar

The IdeaFirst company -  includes lgbt shows such as Gameboys and Pearl Next Door

PaoLUL gaming

Hello stranger - BL show, sfw

ABS-CBN entertainment shows, movies etc

Re.Create - similar to Jubilee, taglish, personal favourite 

Pinoy animation youtubers are especially useful because they provide a visual demonstration, they’re entertaining, and you learn useful words for casual conversations. Here are my favs:

Arkin 

Hunyo 

Yogiart 

ReeOkun

Reading

Beginner / intermediate

Fanfiction on ao3

filo social media (specifically Twitter) accounts are helpful for learning slang

Change the language of your phone/apps to Filo

Advanced

Katitikan: Literary Journal of the Philippine South

Music

IV of spades

Zack Tabudlo

Apo hiking society

General tips since this has gotten really popular:

Make mistakes. Make a lot of mistakes and have native speakers correct you.

Aim to speak taglish first (a mix of Tagalog and English) as it’s easier and most Filipinos will still understand you

The grammar is hard if English is your mother tongue. Review the basic principles then focus on constant input i.e. reading and listening. You’ll pick up the grammar intuitively

Many Tagalog words don’t have a direct translation. So long as you get the gist of those words and you know when they’re used, don’t worry about finding an exact English equivalent.

To improve your speaking, know when to make a glottal stop. Tagalog words can have entirely different meanings depending on which syllable you emphasise e.g. mabāsa (to read) vs mabasâ (to get wet)

HAVE PATIENCE! It took me 2 years of (inconsistent) practice to even be able to have a basic conversation with relative ease. Tagalog is hard and the beginner stage is hell, but if you keep picking at it you’ll improve.

[pinnipetal]

I do really think that the use of ChatGPT and genAI by students highlights the fundamental flaw of our education system focusing almost entirely on grades and test scores rather than generating curiosity and inquiry, which produces individuals who fundamentally do not understand that the purpose of an assignment is meant to be to learn *how* to do something, not simply to produce a product you can turn in to get an A+

[falsedisciple]

moments of a masters degree

[thegaylibertarian]

[liminalweirdo]

I am once again begging you to get your hands on physical media and/or save your fave stuff OFFLINE.

[femmefitz]

@thetransfemininereview has written several articles about creating your own archive!

The Trans Literature Preservation Project: A Practical Guide to Resisting Censorship

Project 2025 wants to criminalize trans literature. Here’s a game plan for keeping our stories alive.

Here's one of them, but I would recommend checking out the rest of the website as well :)

[s-n-arly]

Skip Google for Research

As Google has worked to overtake the internet, its search algorithm has not just gotten worse.  It has been designed to prioritize advertisers and popular pages often times excluding pages and content that better matches your search terms 

As a writer in need of information for my stories, I find this unacceptable.  As a proponent of availability of information so the populace can actually educate itself, it is unforgivable.

Below is a concise list of useful research sites compiled by Edward Clark over on Facebook. I was familiar with some, but not all of these.

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Google is so powerful that it “hides” other search systems from us. We just don’t know the existence of most of them. Meanwhile, there are still a huge number of excellent searchers in the world who specialize in books, science, other smart information. Keep a list of sites you never heard of.

www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.

www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.

https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.

www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.

http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.

www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.

www.pdfdrive.com is the largest website for free download of books in PDF format. Claiming over 225 million names.

www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free

[macrolit]

Sunday shelfie, featuring vintage Modern Library and Penguin Books.

[maidenmystic]

[garcavisconde]

you are going to live and you are going to make it every single fascist's problem no matter what happens, you hear me? despair is the weapon of the enemy and it is the weapon that silences you. do not listen to it. do not shut yourself unless extremely necessary for your own safety. and above all else, poke fun at fascists, because they hate that and it's really funny

[blvkvholic]

[jenjenthevirgo]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[smokefalls]

I recognised the book at once and I was so overwhelmed that I felt almost giddy. I think that if I’d been standing, I’d have collapsed. I had in my hands the most precious of treasures, a spring from which to drink the knowledge of that world to which I would never have access.

Jacqueline Harpman, I Who Have Never Known Men (translated by Ros Schwartz)

[macrolit]

“Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.”

— Charles Van Doren (b. 12 February 1926)

[izzythedemigod]

I just found the funniest font ever

Like. What is this. Why is this. Who is the target audience of this?

[skrutskie]

The font is called "Redacted Script," it's available for free here, and I just ran to download it because I am, in fact, the target audience for this

[sosuperawesome]

The Little Book of Bees / Art Prints / Stickers

Amy Holliday on Etsy

[omishu]

Oh my God, I need this book in my personal library RIGHT NOW

[omishu]

So I ordered this immediately and … look what just arrived!! The pictures are so pretty~

[museenkuss]

So as a continuation of this post I made in frustration about how anglo-centric most “must-read” book lists are, I went and found a few lists with a focus on non-English speaking authors (sorted by number of books listed):

8 Must-Read Foreign Books Translated Into English (Babbel)

The non-western books that every student should read (The Guardian)

10 best translated fiction (Independent - has suggestions regarding editions + prices)

49 Incredible Books From 49 Different Countries (Huffpost - has amazon links to all the books, which is great to find the editions but please please please support your local bookstores!!!!)

100 Must-Read Classics in Translation (BookRead - Amazon links again. Most bookstores will offer to order books for you if they don’t have them, please utilise their services and support local shops whenever possible!)

All these lists have reviews and feature books from a wide range of countries. I haven’t read every single review but I browsed the lists to make sure they wouldn’t all just name the same books and they don’t!!

I hope you’ll find inspiring new reads on those lists! :)

[that-bookworm-guy]

16 LGBT+ Books by Transgender and Non-binary Black Authors

As with my LGBT+ List, I’m seeing a lot of the same books on my dash, so I spent a few hours researching some lesser-known books. These books fall across a variety of genres and age group.

Ways you can help

[mal-studyblr]

january 27th, 2025 || corporate law + salted honey iced latte i’ve been having on repeat lately 🍯

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.