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[die-rosastrasse]

John William Godward (British, 1861-1922)

sweet idleness moodboard 

[hyeyeonstudies]

Korean Grammar Lesson: have you ever~

Not a dumb question at all! The sentence it’s referring to is “애완동물 키워본 적이 있나요?”

This is a grammar principle meaning “have you ever.” The general concept is ~아/어본 적(이) 있다/없다.

The 아/어본 is tried to do something. Like 먹어봐 try to eat this. The past tense noun modifier conjugation is ㄴ/은, so with 보다, we use 본

적 here means something like a time/experience. The 이 is an optional subject marker. It’s usually pretty obvious what’s coming next so you could leave it out, but out of pure habit, I say 적이

있다 would mean you have had something, 없다 would mean you have not. Of course you would conjugate it to fit the formality (있어/있어요/있습니다/etc)

So the sentence I used was “Have you ever had a pet?” But directly translated it would be something like “Have you ever tried to have the experience of raising a pet?”

Should we look at some more examples?

김치를 먹어본 적이 있어요? Have you ever tried kimchi?

한국에 가본 적이 없어요. I’ve never been to Korea.

어벤져스 본 적이 있어요?* Have you ever seen The Avengers?

*since the verb “to see” (보다) is the same as “to try to do” (보다), so it’s easier to just say 본 for the whole phrase as it’s completely understood.

Hope this helps! DMs and asks are always open if you have anymore questions ❤

[changan-moon]

方向 Fang Xiang

[artfoli]

Sea Landscapes by Japanese artist Fujishima Takeji (1867-1943)

The Sea at Sunrise l Oarai l Waves l Sunrise at the Port of Kobe

[modernlanguagesandculture]

27/04/2019

Studying Chinese history and culture

[henryclervals]

Masterpost of Free Gothic Literature & Theory

Classics Vathek by William Beckford Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë The Woman in White  & The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu The Turn of the Screw by Henry James The Monk by Matthew Lewis The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Maturin The Vampyre; a Tale by John Polidori Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Dracula by Bram Stoker The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Short Stories and Poems An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Pre-Gothic Beowulf The Divine Comedy  by Dante Alighieri A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe Paradise Lost by John Milton Macbeth by William Shakespeare Oedipus, King of Thebes by Sophocles The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Gothic-Adjacent Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood Jane Eyre & Villette by Charlotte Brontë Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens The Idiot & Demons (The Possessed) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Moby-Dick by Herman Melville The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells

Historical Theory and Background The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. Bradley The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle Demonology and Devil-Lore by Moncure Daniel Conway Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism by Inman and Newton On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau Feminism in Greek Literature from Homer to Aristotle by Frederick Wright

Academic Theory Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Viewpoint: Transatlantic Scholarship on Victorian Literature and Culture by Isobel Armstrong Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Higher Spaces of the Late Nineteenth-Century Novel by Mark Blacklock The Shipwrecked salvation, metaphor of penance in the Catalan gothic by Marta Nuet Blanch Marching towards Destruction: the Crowd in Urban Gothic by Christophe Chambost Women, Power and Conflict: The Gothic heroine and “Chocolate-box Gothic” by Avril Horner Psychos’ Haunting Memories: A(n) (Un)common Literary Heritage by Maria Antónia Lima ‘Thrilled with Chilly Horror’: A Formulaic Pattern in Gothic Fiction by Aguirre Manuel The terms “Gothic” and “Neogothic” in the context of Literary History by O. V. Razumovskaja  The Female Vampires and the Uncanny Childhood by Gabriele Scalessa Curating Gothic Nightmares by Heather Tilley Elizabeth Bowen, Modernism, and the Spectre of Anglo-Ireland by James F. Wurtz Hesitation, Projection and Desire: The Fictionalizing ‘as if…’ in Dostoevskii’s Early Works by Sarah J. Young Intermediality and polymorphism of narratives in the Gothic tradition by Ihina Zoia

[changan-moon]

Traditional Chinese hanfu by 夏弃疾

[morska-trava]

I just found out that the verb 怕 (to be afraid/to fear) can also be used not only to signify that you are afraid of something but also that you can’t bear something, so you can use it in sentences like 这种花怕冷 (this species of flower/plant can’t whitstand cold), but if you were to read it as ‘scared’ it makes the sentence way more cute for some reason? “This flower fears cold. ” like how soft is that!! And you can also say 我怕热 (I can’t bare the heat/hot weather) and read it as 'I fear heat’ and it’s just super overly dramatic and completely unneccesary and I am living for it!!

[liu-anhuaming]

“我不知道世间有什么是确定不变的，我只知道，看到星空，我就会开始做梦。”

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文森特·梵高

“i don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream” 

-vincent van gogh

[studyingch]

早上好！我今天五点半起床了，现在我在工作，我想去回家 :/

今天晚上我要学习汉语还看一个电视剧叫”put your head on my shoulder”。

你们今天要做什么？

[studyquill]

Notetaking

Sound Note - take notes while you record audio

Evernote - notetaking that syncs across platforms

Paper 53 - minimal notetaking that syncs

Microsoft OneNote - collaboration and syncing, best for Office users

Google Keep - jot things down, best for Google suite users

Notability - take notes and annotate PDFs

Mindly - create mind maps

Day One - a digital journal

Flash Cards

Quizlet - the quintessential flash card app

StudyBlue - another commonly used app

Cram - best for its “cram mode”

Eidetic - uses spaced repetition for effective memorization

Planner 

My Study Life - schedules, tasks, reminders, and more

StudyCal - keeps track of tasks, exams, and grades

24me - automated reminders and event planning

iStudiez - schedule and prioritized task list

Google Calendar - a calendar, best for Google users

Glass Planner - a calendar and to do list with incredible functionality

To Do List

Clear - organized to-do and reminders

MinimaList - simple to-do and focus timer

Trello - collaborative project organizer

Todoist - clean and functional task manager

Default notes app on your phone

Time Management

Forest - plant trees by staying focused

Pomotodo - pomodoro timer with to-do list

Timeglass - custom timers

Tide - pomodoro with white noise

Alarmy - forces you out of bed 

Pillow - smart alarm that tracks sleep cycles

Productivity

Workflow - automate tasks

Habitica - turn your habits into an RPG

Continuo - simple, colorful activity tracking

Freedom - block distracting apps

Free Learning

Coursera - free MOOCs

TED - listen to Ted Talks

Duolingo - language learning

Memrise - spaced repetition language vocabulary

Khan Academy - free video lessons

Ambient Noise

8tracks - curated playlists

Spotify - online music streaming

Coffitivity - cafe ambience

Noisli - background sound generator

Rain Rain - rain sounds

Binaural - binaural beats

Health

Rockin Ramen - recipes based on ramen

MealBoard - meal planning

Lifesum - healthy eating

Stop Breath And Think - mindfulness meditation

Pacifica - mental health management

Sworkit - personalized video workouts

Waterlogged - hydration tracker

Reference

WolframAlpha - Google on steroids

Oxford Dictionary - all of English at your fingertips

RefMe - citation generator

PhotoMath - solve math problems by taking a photo

Mathway - step by step math help

Desmos - free graphing calculator

Wikipedia - not the best source, but it’s handy

Miscellaneous 

Companion - stay safe when walking alone

Mint - money management

Toshl - finance manager

Tiny Scanner - scan documents

[ingenuevibes]

25/04/2019 My summarised notes for art! It’s my last exam and I’ve got quite a bit of time before it so hopefully I should be alright :)

[i-will-always-purple-you]

Chinese Internet Speak/Slang: HelloTalk (phrases by natives)

In my last post about hello talk HERE

I discussed my experience with the app, all the useful phrases I had collected. From native speakers of the Chinese language. So I thought i’d compile another list, this time focusing on vocabulary around what the young people these days are using to text online, or say to each other!

[medusastears]

Writing a paper on the dynamic between Medieval outlaws (like Robin Hood) and the wilderness

Books:

Robin Hood by James Clarke Holt

The Outlaws Of Medieval Legend by Maurice Keen

Listening to: This is Johnny Cash

[nocturnalinseoul]

Another post which is identical to the previous ones I posted. An anon asked me how I do my notes in Chinese…uhmm I did one today and it’s written in pinyin and they’re all over the place.

http://instagram.com/nocturnalinseoul/

[acadiemics]

Chinese for when you’re sad

伤心 shāng xīn - sad

悲伤 bēi shāng - sad, but worse

难过 nán guò - sad but not that sad

抑郁 yì yù - depressed

孤独 gū dú - lonely

低落 dī luò - feeling low

绝望 jué wàng - desolate

不知所措 bù zhī sûo cuò - helpless

心碎 xīn suì - heartbroken

郁闷 yù mèn - glum

[i-will-always-purple-you]

Colours: RADICAL Vocab Flashcards

Thought i’d try a slightly different approach, particularly for the nouns to remember them. By breaking down individual meanings of the radicals within each character + pairing with a context driving trigger sentence. With Chinese, the radicals tell a story of how the word came to be, so perhaps looking at Chinese characters through that approach will encourage another level of    long-term memory.

**Radical meanings are in bold + the vocabulary is CAPITALISED