- take an ebook in your target language that you wanna read
- convert epub to txt
- copy txt into unique wordlist maker (http://caerphoto.com/uwc/)
- remove words in the list you already know
- maybe focus on keeping the high frequency new words
- make this list into flashcard deck
badda bing badda boom
I did this with my Turkish copy of Animal Farm and pulled 212 new words for my Quizlet deck
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i made a 2-part uquiz called Which Shakespeare character are you? and it has 50 possible results. The first quiz puts you into one of 5 groups and links you to the group quiz that has 10 different characters each. Tag your results. :)
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“I’m not telling you a story so much as a shipwreck—the places floating, finally legible.”
— Ocean Vuong, from On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
(via luthienne)
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Leila Chatti, Confession
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Simone Weil, Waiting for God, trans. Emma Craufurd
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cool russian resource!
I’m getting into learning Russian again and have been reviewing first year university material, and I just remembered that the book I used for an intensive summer course at a university a couple years ago is free (legally!) online. I’m obviously neither fluent nor a native speaker, so I’m not an expert on Russian learning, but I personally thought the material was very useful! It’s designed to be used online, so it’s easier to navigate than a PDF and there are listening exercises as well. It’s called Mezhdu Nami and you can use this link!
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Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”
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mom come pick me up i'm scared the usamericans think their experiences are universal
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Frank Bidart, excerpt from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky,” from his collection The Sacrifice
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Frank Bidart, excerpt from “The War of Vaslav Nijinsky,” from his collection The Sacrifice
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Franz Wright, God’s Silence
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Books Read in July 2021
Margaret Atwood- The Blind Assassin (novel, 5/5)
Qiu Miaojin- Last Words from Montmartre (novel, 4/5)
Louise Erdrich- The Round House (novel, 3/5)
Toni Morrison- Beloved (novel, 5/5)
Fumiko Enchi- Masks (novel, 4.5/5)
Anne Carson- Glass, Irony and God (poetry, 4/5)
Kenzaburo Oe- Nip the Buds, Shoot the Kids (novel, 3/5)
Sadaat Hasan Manto- The Dog of Tithwal (short stories, 3/5)
Junichiro Tanizaki- Longing and Other Stories (short stories, 4/5)
With the exception of the last two (Manto and Tanizaki), you can find ebooks by clicking on this link! The last two are missing because I received advance copies of them and they haven’t officially been released yet.
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“he owns all things,"
"doesn’t he?” “He’s invented” “all the shapes” “I’m afraid he’s”
“invented mine,” “my very own” “body’ ” (“she was hysterical”)
“‘Did he invent me?”
— Alice Notley, from The Descent of Alette
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History has the cruel reality of a nightmare, and the grandeur of man consists in his making beautiful and lasting works out of the real substance of that nightmare. Or, to put it another way, it consists in transforming the nightmare into vision; in freeing ourselves from the shapeless horror of reality - if only for an instant - by means of creation.
Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950)
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hi im returning to the studyblr community after a long gap so reblog this post if you're running a studyblr and/or post bookblr related content and i'll check your blog out!
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