favorite kreyòl phrases the past 3 days

m' pral aboli jandam

m' te travay

lete ap vini

Welsh Numbers 1-12

quizlet link

un - one

dau - two

tri - three

pedwar - four

pump - five

chwech - six

saith - seven

wyth - eight

naw - nine

deg - ten

un ar deg - eleven

deuddeg - twelve

wednesday, april 14th, 2021

psych: did a vocab worksheet

health: did a cpr worksheet

codebusters: took a test with my partners and finished the practice they wrote me

fossils: reformatted our principles/dating notes to make it more concise and finished combing our plant notes. also worked on combining our vertebrate notes again but didn’t get much done

depop: listed the earrings i made yesterday and did some general shop/inventory organization

japanese: did two duolingo lessons

🌻 grateful for my boyfriend, i always look forward to talking to him at the end of the day and since the side effects of the vaccine have been hitting me hard i was especially happy to watch some netflix together after a long day

📖 you are here by thich nhat hanh, page 19

🎵 leisure gardening ~ lullatone

Learning (Day 8)

Mathematics

On April 14th, I improved my 4th-grade math from 95% to 97%, my 5th- grade math from 84% to 86%, and my trigonometry improved from 89% to 91%. It's interesting how the more proficient I become, the harder it is to improve my score.

Russian

On April 14th, I began reading Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin in Russian. I read alongside an audiobook that is. The book Fluent Forever by Gabriel Wyner recommends this method to become familiar with cadence and pronunciation. I still find that I am still nervous to speak in general, but this method makes it less intimidating, I just have to stop getting excited when I recognize a word so I don't miss the next 8! Lol. I think a good idea would be to reread the book after I finish this first reading.

French

On April 14th, I did my second lesson in French. This lesson was mainly on adjectives, gender, and some more pronunciation practice. I did learn the verbs for to look for (chercher), to call (appeler), and two others I can't remember! D: I plan to review them by listening to the lesson at least twice on my commute home today. However, I did well conjugating them and matching the adjective to the appropriate gender and number.

tuesday, april 13th, 2021

psych: did an assignment and read an article on implicit bias

health: watched a video on the importance of cpr

chinese: did an ap mc practice

lit: did an ap mcq practice

apes: did an activity on greenhouse gases

embroidery: worked on the mushroom girl tote for a little while when i woke up. also, taught my mom the lazy daisy stitch and french knot so she could embroider some overalls :))

depop: listed the overalls my mom embroidered and made some earrings to list later

fossils: took two tests with my partner

codebusters: wrote my partner a practice test and worked on a 10 question practice she wrote me in return

japanese: did a duolingo lesson

errands: got my second covid vaccine and picked up my new glasses

🌻 grateful for the privilege to get vaccinated! and for the really kind healthcare workers i met today and the beautiful countryside we drove past to get to our assigned hospital :))

📖 you are here by thich nhat hanh, page 16

🎵こころ ~ yujiro kodu

Hot Take: Learning Languages purely out of Spite is 100% acceptable, good for you.

3 important (study) reminders

Your best varies from day to day. Don't overwork yourself. "Your best" doesn't mean exhaustion.

You can't go back to your best habits after a long break. Baby steps, otherwise you'll hate everything including yourself. It's just not alright to jump to 10hours of studying after weeks of doing nothing.

Consistency is built with habits. Habits can mean either do sth for 5min regarding your studies or have a full study session. (Or anything in between) Consistency doesn't equal doing the same thing, the same complexity or the same amount of hours daily. It means doing something so strive for the minimum activity when you're tired, demotivated etc.

Most memorable and awkward language exchange

Polish guy: Okay, so I'll go through this word list, and you help me with pronunciation and meaning. Also I live in a small appt with my wife and young children.

Me: Kay.

Guy: "to get off"

Me: It's a legal term!

(Abbreviated & paraphrased)

Quitting Duolingo’s Japanese Course

So after giving it a go for at least three months, I’ve decided to drop Duolingo’s Japanese course. The main reason is there were too many sentences cropping up that were somewhat incorrect or even fairly archaic.

This would basically contradict my main sources of learning the language so it seemed counterproductive to my overall studies to continue using it. It was especially frustrating when it wants you to only construct sentences one way when you know you could actually word a sentence in another way and it would actually also be correct.

If you’re currently using Duolingo as a source to learn Japanese, I guess just keep that in mind if you start taking classes, using textbooks, and other learning materials so you’re not completely thrown off. But I definitely would recommend using other sources to learn Japanese and not solely using Duolingo.

What will I be using in place of Duolingo?

First, I’m going to go back to using Memrise more often, specifically JLPT Bootcamp’s JLPT courses. I don’t think they’ve been updated in awhile but since they’re actually geared towards the JLPT, they’re going to be that much more useful in helping me with the vocabulary and kanji side of studying.

The other sources to keep up at least with vocabulary and kanji is going back to using Anki shared decks and the Japanese Class website.

I do need to spend some more time going back and going over grammar as well, but keeping up with vocabulary is the easiest thing I can squeeze into even while I’m at work on a 15 minute break.

Anyway, just wanted to give my thoughts on it and give a little update where I’m at.

wrap up a2 level notes

Präteritum

-It is mostly used in newspapers or articler or in story telling. Not in a spoken language.

-It is used in some action that has no effect the time it is written or told.

-The regular verbs usually take -t

-The non regular verbs differs.

Beispiel: geben -> gab

bringen -> brachte

wissen -> wusste

haben -> hatte

glauben -> glaubte

trinken -> trank

fahren -> fuhr

essen -> ass

gehen -> ging

kommen -> kam

sein -> war

It is important for us to not to use this in daily spoken language because it is weird.

Beispiel: Gestern lernte ich für die Prüfung.

-Wann genau fuhrt ihr nach Italien?

-Jeder glaubte, dass die Wetterhexe das Wetter machte.

-War en die Hägelkörner gestern nacht gefährlich?

-Im Winter 2011 schien es kaum.

-Die Familie fand grosse Pilze.

As always, thank you to @nordic-language-love for hosting this langblr challenge!

APRIL: DAY 7 - FAVOURITE

Spanish translations of today’s word

‘FAVORITO / FAVORITA’ (noun or verb depending on use and context)

5 Sentences using today’s word

Pruebas estos platos, porque los mi favoritos - try these dishes, because they are my favourites

Cerveza no es mi bebida favorita - beer is not my favourite drink

Dónde está su ciudad favorita? - where is her favourite city?

Yo voy a mi restaurante favorito manaña con mi marido- I am going to my favourite restaurant tomorrow with my husband

Que es tu favorito? - what is your favourite

5 Synonyms for today’s word

Mejor - the best

Preferido/ preferida - preferred

Màs - most

Maximo - most

La mayoría - the most

Antonyms for today’s word

Peor - the worst

Menor - least

Mínimo - least

no deseado / deseada - unwanted

desfavorecido / desfavorecida - ill-favoured

10 phrases to add to a sentence about your favourites

Es Muy bello / muy bella - is very beautiful

Me siente feliz - I feel happy

Siempre soleado / soleada - always sunny

A mí me encanta - I love it

Es sabroso / sabrosa - is tasty

Es sano / sana - is healthy

Es divertido / divertida - is fun

Es relajante - is relaxing

Es cómodo / cómoda - is comfortable

Es guapo / guapa - is good-looking

안녕하세요! 오늘 내 방 꾸몄어요! 방탄소년단을 사랑해요 💜 이번주는 너무 스트레스 받고 힘들었어요 ㅠ 활동 안해서 미안해요!!!

I was looking for language practice partners but I only found LOTS of boys flirting. Disappointed.

April 13 | My mandarin HSK1 study session

This is low-key kinda hard 😀

I think I'm done for right now lmao

Boutta finally use the Japanese workbook that my sister got me ☺️

sure, being married is nice, but have you ever watched a show in your target language with subtitles in that target language?

If you think your language is weird, our has different letters for literally the same sounds and we have to learn which one do we use for different words because sometimes there’s rules and sometimes guess what? Exceptions

日本語で日記を書きましょう〜！

Day 3 of writing a 日本語の日記！

今日は私は弁当とおにぎりを食べました。🍱🍙 美味しかったです！(๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

今日は妹と一緒に犬の散歩に行きました。

今晩私はテレビを見ます。

Kanji-

弁当- べんとう- bento (Japanese lunch box)

美味しい- おいしい- delicious/ yummy

妹- いもうと- younger sister

一緒- いっしょ- together

犬- いぬ- dog

散歩- さんぽ- walk

行く- いく- to go

見る- to watch