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hey! i’m learning hebrew and french too. let me know if u need any help!

will do!

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hey! id love to know how you’re learning hebrew, because i’d love to reconnect w my jewish heritage and it seems a struggle bc it’s a non-roman alphabet (i’ve learnt spanish and am learning french rn)! thanks bb!

Hey! Like I mentioned in my last response, sorry for not answering this sooner, I haven't checked tumblr in awhile. It's awesome that you're reconnecting with your heritage! For me, I was raised going to synagogue on a regular basis and reading Hebrew, so when I decided to start seriously learning the language, it wasn't all that difficult to pick up the alphabet. I don't really know how to describe it except that I pretty much already knew the alphabet, so even though I often get the names of some of the letters mixed up, I still what sound each makes. The site I use the most for Hebrew is duolingo, and their first (give or take) three lessons are all about the alphabet. The thing that i absolutely love about duolingo is that on the website, they have notes to go along with some of the lessons. Since I'm going to Israel next month, I've been using mango languages more often bc while duolingo is great, mango languages focuses a lot more on the conversational part of the language.

For more specific details on how I go about learning a language outside of school, you can check out my last ask response by clicking the link right down there. ⬇️ Other than that, I wish you all the best in learning languages, and I hope this helped!

Foreign Languages!

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how do you teach yourself a language without school? like what exactly do you use?

Hiya! Sorry, I haven't actually been on tumblr in months. Outside of school, I mostly use duolingo, that's been the biggest help for me. Occasionally, I'll use mango languages (which is free with a library card, that's how I found out about it). The last thing I do is watch YouTube videos of people speaking the languages. I mostly do this with French, bc I'm not at that level yet in Hebrew. My favourite channels are wikitongues (I usually slow the video down a bit and turn on French subtitles), and easylanguages, which has their own subtitles with the translation right underneath. So yeah, all these things combined have been the biggest help in the world when trying to learn a language outside of school.

(btw, duolingo has an awesome website feature where you can see notes on some of the lessons. This is especially helpful with Hebrew, bc that's really how I've learned grammar, which is my biggest issue)

Hope this helps!

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GUIDE TO:

FIX YOUR SLEEPING SCHEDULE (1-2 months)

Try to wake up earlier every day. Like 5 - 10 min earlier than the day before. Until you wake up any time before 8am or so…

If you struggle with waking up & snooze button is you bff:

Put your alarm clock as far away from the bed as possible.

Drink a glass of water right after you wake up.

Pour another glass of water on yourself right after you wake up.

Prepare some coffee the night before, leave it by your bedside, drink it after you wake up.

Have your blinds/curtains open, so that it’s bright after you wake up.

Try to go to bed 5-10 min earlier than the night before.

Track how many hours of sleep you’re getting. Aim to get at least 7h per day or 49h per week.

Increase your sleeping hours incrementally. Aim to get at least 1h of sleep more than the previous week. For example, if this week you slept for 41hrs, aim to get an extra hour of sleep next week, so it’s 42h.Once you get enough hours of sleep and wake up early-ish.

Try to keep your sleeping schedule consistent. It is really important to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day. Even if it’s weekend. Or even if that means, you getting less than 7hrs of sleep that day. I’d say waking up at the same time everyday is the most important step, which will help you the most with fixing your sleeping schedule.

START EATING HEALTHY (1-2 months)

This step really depends from person to person, but firstly I suggest you take some blood tests to see if you have any deficiencies, etc. Especially, if you struggle with cravings.

Try intermittent fasting, if you struggle with binge eating or overeating. As it will help you to learn to listen to your body better: when it’s hungry, when it’s full, etc. It’s really simple, there are many methods of Intermittent fasting, but I’d suggest 16/8 for the beginners. (Google it for more info)

DRINK ALL THE WATER. Again, if you’re not drinking enough water, try to level up your water game incrementally. Download some water tracking app on your phone to help you. Drinking water will make you more energetic, increase your metabolism, and decrease you appetite (among many more benefits).

Track what you eating. I would really suggest tracking your meals for around a month. Because, most of the time people have no idea that what they’re eating is unhealthy. Again, download an app to your phone for that.

Make your own meals once in a while. Not only this will save you money, but it’ll help you to see what’s really going into your body.

Eat less meat and more veggies/fruits. Go to your local market and buy some veggies/fruits, you have never tried before. I’m sure you’ll find your new favs. Eat/buy less meat. Not only it’s good for the environment, but it is good for you, too. Get a veggie burger instead of the beef one, etc.

Cut dairy. Find your new favourite milk substitute. Advice: Oat milk is really good with the tea and oatmeal/porridge; hazelnut milk is amazing on it’s own; cashew milk goes well with cereals.

Learn more about nutrition in general. It will help you to make better food choices and it will make eating healthy much easier in general, because once you understand all the chemistry behind the food and what it does to your body, you kinda don’t want to make yourself feel worse. Here are some free resources: - Human nutrition course from Alison.com - Crash course Metabolism&Nutrition: Part 1 and Part 2 - The Health Nerd’s YouTube Playlist about nutrition - What I’ve Learnt YouTube Playlist - Human nutrition course from Alison.com - Crash course Metabolism&Nutrition: Part 1 and Part 2 - The Health Nerd’s YouTube Playlist about nutrition - What I’ve Learnt YouTube Playlist

GET PHYSICALLY FIT (2-6 months)

Define your goals. Do you want to lose weight, do you want to get stronger, gain weight, be able to climb stairs without losing breath, run 5k?

Remember - you’re half-way through. Being physically fit has a lot to do with what you put into your body. So, if you fulfilled the previous step of eating healthy - you are half way through!

Make a plan. A Reasonable plan. Be honest with yourself.

Start small. Like, 5 min exercise in the morning. Or doing 10 sit ups per day. Don’t do anything overwhelming, like running 5k everyday if you haven’t run for the past 5 years.

Make sure that you kinda like what you’re doing. If you absolutely hate running - don’t do it. Hate doing sit ups in the morning? Try some yoga instead.

Explore until you find what you like. You don’t have to go to gym to get fit, especially if you hate it. Find a type of exercise, which you actually like. Maybe it’s dancing or hiking, taking your dog for a walk. Sign up for several trial lessons of various sport clubs. Ditch ‘em if you have them until you find something that you love. Stick with that.

Do the small changes in your everyday life. Stairs>Escalator, Walk>Drive, Do some squats while brushing your teeth, switch from regular desk to standing desk, etc… Find ways to incorporate being active into your everyday life

Track your effort instead of your progress. You cannot really control your progress that much (especially if your goal was to lose weight). However, you can always control your effort. So track it instead. This will leave you more motivated. As you will be able to see that you can do more and more everyday. Whereas, if you tracked your progress, you may not always get the result you hoped for, which might demotivate you and make you upset, wanting to quit.

BEAT DEPRESSION

Do the previous 3 steps and you’re half way through.

See a therapist/doctor. Depression is an illness, requiring medical treatment. So, get it. Remember: there is absolutely no fucking shame in having a mental illness.

Get some extra support. Talk to your friends or family. Or maybe someone on the internet.

Write it out. If you don’t want to talk - write down your thoughts. It can be just as helpful. It’ll help you to understand yourself better, see problems in your thinking, etc.

Distract yourself from yourself. Get someone/something to take care of, so that you can, for a moment, stop thinking about yourself and focus on something else. E.g, get a plant, or a dog, or a fish.

Self-care day. Dedicate at least one day per week for self-care. Take yourself out, either to a museum or some fancy cafe, do some stuff you like, whatever your hobbies are, do some physical self care: bath, face mask, manicure, etc., listen to some nice music, watch a film…..

STOP PROCRASTINATION

Celebrate your victories instead of mourning over your loses.So the only thing you’ve done today was write one sentence for your 20 page essay? Amazing! Buy yourself a candy for that!! I mean, you could’ve done nothing, but you didn’t - you wrote that one sentence and that’s worth celebrating.

Do it for only 2 minutes. If there’s an important thing you’ve been putting off for a while, tell yourself that you will only spend 2 minutes on doing it. If after 2 minutes you don’t want to do it anymore, great, stop it. However, after 2min. you actually might want to do more. No pressure either way.

Track your productivity. Track how much time you’ve been productive that day. Try to increase that time by a little bit every day.

Always forgive yourself. So, it’s been a week and you’ve done nothing? Don’t sweat it. Let it go. Blaming yourself will bring you absolutely nothing. Nothing good will come out of your negativity on yourself. So stop it. Forgive yourself and start again. And again, if you need to. Never stop trying. Always pick yourself after you fall. Beating procrastination and increasing your discipline is a skill. And all skills can be build on. There is nothing in you stopping you from changing. Remember that.

LEARN HOW TO DO TAXES (1h - 1 day)

Go to google.com.

Type in: “How to do taxes *the name of the country you’re living in*”

Read the results.

GET MENTALLY STRONG ENOUGH TO MAKE PHONE CALLS

Remember that just as with beating procrastination, making phone calls is a skill. And, again, skills can be learnt.

Get a new SIM card.

Top it up.

Dial some random numbers and pretend to be a salesman, selling whatever you like.. E.g., trying to sell broadband, cable tv, trying to get people to donate for some charity… Or whatever really… Me and some friends used to pretend we’re selling kittens or wood logs. Alternatively, you can pretend that you dialed a wrong person and talk about whatever, e.g. “Hey, Jess!! You wont believe what I saw today!! *start telling a made-up story*…”

If you get uncomfortable - just drop the call. No consequences whatsoever.

Repeat until you build up your game and your phone-call anxiety starts to diminish.

SLAY THOSE BITCHES Congratulations, now you’re ready to take over the world! Got get ‘em!!

#motivation #great advice #like i fixed my sleep schedule this way #from barely waking up at 8.30 to now 6/6.30 #in 1-2 months #and it's so much better #you get so much more done #and you don't even want to procrastinate #because you got up so early #also with working out #i wrote it in my schedule to work out every tuesday and thursday #and i feel a lot better #you can also do this #phone calls are still tricky #but i'm getting there i hope #!!!

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Not foreign languages related but still suuuper helpful! I'm going to college in the fall so little tips like this are lifesavers!

things I wish i would have known my first year of University

1) Make an outline for your papers. it doesn’t have to be detailed but having one will help you keep on track when writing. it will only take you a few minutes to brainstorm one.

2) always carry a spare charger and a backup battery for your phone. honestly, our phones are an extension of us now, so nothing is scarier than when it dies halfway through your class. a backup battery and a charger are always handy.

3) set smaller deadlines and stick to them. you might flounder if you decide to have your 2000 word essay all done and edited for March 14. but you might have an easier time deciding to have 500 words written by March 8, 1000 words by March 10, 1500 words by March 11, 2000 words by March 13, and to edit it on the 14th. these smaller deadlines have really helped me to get my work done and to not to stress about deadlines. splitting up my assignments into smaller chunks makes it more manageable.

4) email your professors if you have questions. or go to their office when they’re in. don’t sit there in confused silence, it won’t help.

5) Do practise Self-care and take breaks. these don’t always have to be full days off with a spa day. it can be having a bubble bath after studying for hours, or watching a movie that makes you laugh after finishing an essay. or just making sure you're eating healthy and drinking water.

6) do put important dates in your calendar. weather its a psychical calendar, or one on your phone/ computer. I have all my major dates on my computer laptop, it helps when I am studying and wondering when I have an exam or need to remember when to hand in a paper.

7) always have a highlighter, a pencil, a pen, and spare paper. you never know when you’re going to have a pop quiz or an activity in class.

8) reach out to friends and spend time with them/ your family. people tend to isolate themselves during exam/paper/midterm season. while you definitely need to study, you also need to have social connections. make a study date at your library or even get a coffee with a friend.

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little study tips

set up a reward system: be that candy, lighting your favorite scented candle, watching that episode of b99, or scrolling through tumblr aimlessly for 5 minutes! ensures you stay motivated while completing tasks step by step

create a vision board: vision boards are collections of pictures that motivate you or describe a future you want to achieve. not only is it a lot of fun, you learn a lot about yourself and your goals and always have something to give you that spike of motivation. tip: pinterest has amazing boards on every. topic. out. there

break up your larger tasks into smaller ones: i’m sure you’ve heard this a thousand times but it’s so important to create a list of smaller tasks instead of one big one. everything seems much more do-able once of a sudden, and you can prioritize certain tasks much more easily.

write it down instead of looking at it: if you really want to memorize something, writing it down will help you a lot more than just repeating the words out loud or staring at them. this also goes for any structures you need to know by heart: printing out a picture and labeling it is way better than just looking at the labeled textbook!

just start for 5 minutes: even if you don’t feel like it, tell yourself you’ll only do it for 5 minutes. this makes it easier to actually get started on things, and might still trick you into continuing the work even after those 5 minutes are over.

write a letter to your future self: some websites, such as futureme, offer the free service of being able to send yourself an email in some months, a year or multiple years from now. thinking about how much can change in that amount of time and how far you can come is extremely motivating, and also a very nice surprise for your future self.

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Hey there! So I haven't been on Tumblr in what feels like ages, but 1000 followers? That's awesome!

Salut! Donc, je n'est pas été sur Tumblr dans ce qui semble être des âges, mais 1000 followers? C'est super!

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January Language Goals

French:

Read and write every day

Finish three chapters in AP French book

Get all Duolingo levels to two

Speak French five days a week

Hebrew:

Read and write a little each week

Get ten topics to level one

Speak Hebrew each week

Teach someone a new word every week

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happy holidays everyone! for this year’s langblr secret santa i got @lost-specimen who said they would be interested in medicine vocab. hope this is helpful!

also thanks @langblrsecretsanta for organizing this! it’s been fun :)

la santé health

en bonne santé in good health

en mauvaise santé in poor health

se sentir bien to feel well

se sentir mal to feel sick

une infection an infection

un rhume a cold

une angine a throat infection

une sinusite anguë a sinus infection

touser to cough

éternuer to sneeze

avoir mal à la tête to have a headache

avoir de la fièvre to have a fever

le nez qui coule runny nose

le médecin doctor

le malade patient

ausculter to listen with a stethoscope

le diagonstic diagnosis

la ordonnance prescription

le comprimé pill

l’antibiotique (m.) antibiotic

le sirop syrup

de l’asprinie aspirin

la pharmacie pharmacy

À tes souhait! Bless you! / Gesundheit

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4 exercises to improve speaking skills in your target language:

Tell a story. It’s a great exercise to improve not only your speaking, but also your grammar and vocabulary. Think about what happened to you or anyone else, that you would talk about to your friends or family. Then tell a story out loud using only your target language. Telling stories is a huge part of our everyday talks, so it’s really important to practice that.

Talk about a book, a movie or whatever you want. Imagine you’re convincing someone to check out (or not to check out) a book you have already read. Review every movie or TV series you want, and don’t worry about spoiling anything or offending someone. If it’s a piece of shit, learn how to say that when talking to Queen Elizabeth II, and how to say that when chatting with someone you’d meet at the bar.

Discuss an important topic that is interesting to you. You can choose from anything: society issues, politics, economics, science, environment, culture… First try to explain it and then tell your own opinion on the subject. It’s different than the second exercise since it develops the specific vocabulary.

Read an article and summarise it. Find an article in your target language that interests you and talk about it. You can do it like you would when asked about it in school, or you can do it in more of a “sharing knowledge with my friends” manner.

Et c’est tout! You can call it “act like a youtuber” exercises. If you want, record yourself while speaking. Remember that work is the key to success.

#studyblr #studyspo #langblr #french

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le 28 décembre ⋮ enneigé ⋮ snowy

#french #français #dailyfrench #french vocab #frenchblr #langblr #languages

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200? I know it may not seem like much, but seriously, this means a lot to me

200? Je sais que ce n'est pas un beaucoup, mais je suis si heureuse

*not an exact translation by any means, still learning*

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a few useful expressions #2

i wouldn’t know : je ne saurais (or pourrais) pas dire

it doesn’t ring a bell : ça ne me dit rien (du tout)

i believe so : je crois/il me semble (bien) que oui

clockwise : dans le sens des aiguilles d’une montre

don’t pull out that on me : arrête tes conneries (rude)

when i think about it : quand j’y pense

you shouldn’t have done that : tu n’aurais pas dû faire ça

i don’t want to : je n’ai pas envie

i don’t mind : ça ne me dérange pas/ce n’est pas grave

i have to go : je dois y aller

next week : la semaine prochaine

the following week : la semaine suivante

last week : la semaine dernière

the week before : la semaine précédente

i can’t remember : je ne me rappelle pas

i’m happy i did : je suis content-e de l’avoir fait

i’m going to bed : je vais me coucher

it doesn’t matter to me : je m’en fiche/m’en fous (rude)

i’m not interested : ça ne m’intéresse pas

i’m not mad : je ne suis pas fâché-e/en colère après toi

you’re so extra : tu en fais trop

if we’re lucky : avec un peu de chance

how did that happen : comment est-ce que c’est arrivé ?

what do you mean ? : qu’est-ce que tu veux dire ?

what are you doing ? : qu’est-ce que tu fais ?

what did you do ? : qu’est-ce que tu as fait ?

why did you do that : pourquoi as-tu fait ça ?

a few useful expressions #1

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STOP SCROLLING PLEASE!!!!

On 22/12/18 21:03 (local time) a volcanic eruption occurred, followed by a tsunami 24 minutes later. This happend in the Sunda Strait. Surrounding coasts of java and sumatra have been affected.

People who fled the affected areas or have family there are asked NOT TO COME (back) there. Please listen to the advice of local authorities at all times if you are currently in one of the affected areas.

Status as of 13:00 23/12/18

Killed: 62 (according to local authorities no foreigners have been killed so far.)

Injured: 600+

Missing: 20

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS!!!

UPDATE

Status as of 14:23 12/23/18 local time:

Killed: 168 (there is no guarantee that foreigners are not affected anymore)

Injured: 745+

Missing: 30

Once again,

UPDATE (i dont have the time)

Killed: 222

Injured: 843

Missing: 28

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS!!!

Tagging blogs so this gets spread (not necessarily mutuals, mainly big blogs I know)

@gen-zed-for-non-americans @biggest-gaudiest-patronuses @gen-z-culture-is @gen-zee @i-am-a-fish @a-happy-crusteacean @greenneerg123 @spacey-artist

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Teen French expressions

For if you want to make hip young friends.

Disclaimer: French people complain a lot. A lot. Don’t be surprised if 90% of these expressions are complaining.

Non mais oh - say this if someone does something mildly annoying and you want to express your shock and distaste.

Tu me fais chier - (alt. tu me fais chier, là.) literally ‘you make me shit’. means you’re pissing me off.

Carrément - translates to ‘squarely’. Means ‘literally’. If someone tells you something surprising or annoying, you can answer simply “ah carrément.” see: tu me fais carrément chier.

J’hallucine / je rêve - are you annoyed by something? say these.

C’est pas possible - a classic. anything bad happens - c’est pas possible. There is no cheese left? It’s not possible. I’m hallucinating. This is a burden on me that solely I can bear I cannot believe this is happening.

Ça commence à me gaver - I’m starting to get real sick of this. see: Ça commence carrément a me gaver là, putain.

T’es relou - verlan slang for ‘lourd’ meaning someone’s heavy, personality-wise. They’re tedious.

Ça me saoûle / ça me gonfle - similar to gaver, means something’s pissing you off, you’re sick of it.

Grave - totally.

C’est clair - totally/that’s clear. Like ‘claro’ in spanish. “Justine elle est trop relou” “C’est clair. Elle me fait chier.”

J’en ai marre - I’m sick of this.

J’en ai ras le bol - I’m sick of this.

J’en ai ras le cul - I’m sick of this (vulgar).

(J’en ai) Rien à battre - I don’t give a damn.

(J’en ai) Rien à foutre - I don’t give a fuck.

C’est bon, là. - That’s enough.

Perso, euh, - “Personally,” generally used at the start of a complaining sentence, to express how personal the matter is to you. Perso, euh, c’est bon là. J’en ai ras le cul.

Rôh là - general expression of distaste. Le longer the rôh, the more annoyed you are. Rôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôôh, c’est quoi ce bordel.

C’est quoi ce bordel ? - translates to “what’s this brothel”, means “what’s this shit?!”

C’est de la merde - It’s shit.

C’est une blague ? - Is this a joke?

Idem - ditto

J’ai la dalle - I’m hungry

Ça caille - It’s freezing

Ouf - two meanings 1. phew or 2. verlan for “fou”, meaning crazy (as a noun or adjective). “Kévin, c’est un ouf! Il fait du vélo sans casque!” “Ouais carrément, c’était un truc de ouf!”

Kévin - there’s a running joke that all the young delinquents seem to be called Kévin.

Crever - slang for “to die”. Va crever, connard!

Connard/Connasse - c*nt, but a lot less vulgar in french peoples eyes

And finally,

T’es con. No English translation can express the power behind the words “t’es con”. While it may sort of translate to “you’re a c*nt/idiot”, it expresses something much deeper. You really are a god damn fool.

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french: ananas

spanish: ananas

danish: ananas

german: ananas

icelandic: ananas

turkish: ananas

english: :)

english: pineapple

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2019 Language Goals

Complete Duolingo French tree

Get all Hebrew topics to level three on Duolingo

Speak French and Hebrew with a native speaker

Start learning a new language!!

Keep taking those notes, they help

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