#sunset-study

[yongxqi]

Hi Ara! I hope your day has been wonderful, and happy! I send hugs!💕 I was wondering if you had any tips for learning multiple languages at once? I want to get back into learning French, but I also want to start learning Japanese and don’t know how to go about it

*accepts hug :>💘*

ahhhh today started off average but then it quickly got better :))

I am currently learning Chinese, German, Russian, and beginning with Korean,,,and to be honest motivation is ESSENTIAL to learning languages! Here are some easy things I do to learn languages+get motivation!

1. watch polyglot youtubers! I get so inspired by these amazing people like DAMN they are so fluent and their level of excellence is A+!!!!! my favorite polyglot youtubers are Linguatraveller (native French speaker in Lebanon!), and Abby P (great for Japanese, she lived in Japan for quite some time), and Lindie Botes (her Japanese is sO gOOD she literally sounds like a native). There are many more polyglot bloggers but I really enjoy watching these three!

and 2. watch native speakers/very fluent learners on youtube! For Japanese, I recommend なえなの (she’s a lifestyle n beauty youtuber and she is sO CUTE HH, I turn on auto translate captions since her Japanese is pretty clear and translates well ), LeSweetpea パリス (she’s a native English speaker and I found this video very helpful!) I don’t watch French youtubers so I won’t give recs because I want this to be authentic^tm,,, but the advice is still the same :) 

I hope this helped <3333

[sunset-study]

Hi :) I’ve been gone for a while and It’s been a little crazy these last few weeks but here's a little life update: Let’s see, I've done a bit of traveling out of the state, mostly into New England to see family and I've never enjoyed seeing them more, I got a really bad sunburn on a beach day and the tan is crazy af. I got my college acceptance at the beginning of August and lemme just say that it’s been a process and a half. It took me a month just to register for my classes (24 days but hey🤷🏻‍♀️) but the semester started two days ago. I’ve rearranged my room, though i’m not done YET, and I think I might need another bookcase. Oh and I saw my sister for the first time in five years and met my niece and nephew for the first time, it was incredibly awkward but also very very nice, and my oldest brother is having another baby (IT’S A GIRL!!) and I'm too excited!! 

I'm also very happy with my courses, all mostly considered Latino Studies, except that I have to retake English Comp 2 cause the credit didn’t transfer.

Anyways I hope y’all have been doing good!!

[yongxqi]

☕️ If you wouldn't mind please! though I know I'm a new blog and don't have many posts which might make it hard

I don’t mind at all! I’ll work w what I have :)) 

your blog reminds me of cute paperclips, perfectly maintained eyebrows, metallic nail polish, adorable yet effective flashcards, avocado toast first thing in the morning, robust coffee, and collecting cute souvenirs wherever you go. ~

[upside-down-uni]

@sunset-study tagged me for this! And tbh your blog is so aesthetic I can’t believe I’ve not followed you until now istg...

Relationship Status: read ‘Loveless’ by Alice Oseman

Fav Color: warm orangey yellow and blues

Lipstick or Chapstick: chapstick for my poor lips in the winter

Three Fav Foods: tortellini casserole, my mom’s potato soup, Kaiserschmarrn (pillowy pancake bits) with apple puree and powdered sugar

Song Stuck In My Head: “Please, for the love of god, use they/them singular pronouns” by Me at my linguistics lecturer. (Also listen On ira by Zaz)

Last Song I Listened To: Keep Warm by Kavv in the bg while working on Book Studies reading

Three Fave TV Shows: Avatar: The Last Airbender, Brooklyn 99, The Mentalist seasons 1-5

Current Book(s):

- Wuthering Heights which I still have 2/3 left of and I’m suffering...

- Dread Nation by Justina Ireland which I’m reading with a friend and is about kickass black women during a Civil War alternate universe with zombies!

+ ‘Because Internet’ by Gretchen McCulloch and ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman

Last Film I Watched: OMG THAT’S “The Old Guard”!!!!! Please go and watch  The Old Guard on Netflix!!! It’s a movie directed by a black woman, featuring a black female proragonist, actors who actually natively speak the language and/or are from the country their character is from! It’s action and the fight scenes are TOP! (Also. for the first time I did not mind how many people were dying during the movie because it made sense to me!) And last but not least: We have no forced main couple, only tender found family and an established queer couple for whom I will die. Perfect, 12/10, want a sequel NOW!

Number of Blankets I Sleep With: Right now, I’m sleeping with only one blanket but in Winter I’ll sleep with a duvet and two blankets!

Anything I Want: a big bed finally, a cat, human rights for trans people, they/them pronouns in German

Current Time: 12:12

Dream Trip: let me finally go to Hay-On-Wye! I’ve been going on abou this trio for years now and thought that maybe I could go this sumer but then the virus happened and now I’m just stuck here dreaming about the time when I can finally go and visit this ‘Bücherdorf’ (book village)!

well. I don’t have that many mutuals here yet so, if you want to please go ahead and do this tag game! pretend I tagged you and I’d love to see your posts!