a tip for when your eyes are tired from looking at a screen or a textbook: rest your eyes and listen to an educational podcast or a podcast in your target language!
i’d also like to thank you all for 1k followers 💗💗 i never thought this many people would be interested in my little study blog but it’s been so nice to meet you all! i hope you’ll stick with me in the future as well!
does anyone else ever really miss school over the summer? like i’m off until september now and i really just want to pick my schedule, go to my classes, get back to learning, and see my profs again :/
I thought my fellow coffee lovers might like to know some useful vocabulary! For me, I learned it in order to work as a barista, but it’s still important to know as a customer too. All vocabulary includes necessary usage notes/gender. Native speakers please feel free to correct/add on to this.
– vocabulario
para describir el café (to describe coffee)
el café… (coffee…)
amargo: bitter
americano: American/Americano (referring to coffee that is half coffee concentrate and half water for a milder taste/caffeination–not really in reference to coffee that comes from America)
caliente: hot
con crema: with cream
con espuma: with foam
con hielo: with ice
con leche: with milk
con miel: with honey
dulce: sweet
frío: cold (referring to cold brew in the case of my job–iced coffee is not necessarily cold brew in English)
los sabores (flavors)
la avellana: hazelnut
la canela: cinnamon
el caramelo: caramel
la cereza negra: black cherry
el chocolate: chocolate
la vainilla: vanilla
para describir la leche (to describe milk)
la leche… (milk…)
de almendra: almond
de coco: coconut
de soya: soy
desnatada: skim
entera: whole
semidesnatada: reduced fat
los tamaños (sizes)
pequeño/a: small
mediano/a: medium
grande: large
otras cosas (other things)
el aroma: smell
la cafeína: caffeine
el capuchino: cappuccino
la crema batida: whipped cream
el expreso, el café exprés: espresso
para pagar (in order to pay)
el dolar: dollar
el cambio: change
el centavo: cent
costar (o to ue stem change): to cost
la moneda: coin
pagar: to pay
– frases
** Note that, depending on situation and country, it varies as to whether you’d speak informally or formally in a coffee shop to a barista or customer. I tend to speak formally with adults and informally with children/young adults my age.
¿Cuánto/a cuesta?
How much does it cost?
¿Cuántos/as cuestan?
How much do they cost?
Cuesta(n) … dólares y … centavos.
It costs / They cost … dollars and … cents.
Cuestan treinta y nueve dólares y noventa y nueve centavos.
They cost $39.99 / thirty dollars and ninety nine cents.
Me gustaría un café caliente con crema.
I would like a hot coffee with cream.
¿Puedo ayudar(te/le/les)?
Can I help you?
¿(Tienes/Tiene) leche de soya?
Do you have soy milk?
Tu/Su cambio es … dólares y … centavos.
Your change is … dollars and … cents.
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I hope this is helpful! Once again, if you notice any errors, please contact me. If you’re a native speaker have any regional/dialectual notes to add, please feel free to do so!
My 2018 bullet journal has been coming along pretty nicely. I had a lot of different ideas this year and I’m excited to be experimenting and having fun with it!
2017 was a crazy year. It was the year i graduated high school, the year i became nineteen, the year i started college! But it was also the year in which i lost a lot of friends, luckily, some stayed with me and i made a few new ones as well. It was the year of great travels! It was the year i started college, finally being a student and doing what i love. It was the year i started by bujo vs. planner project! It was the year i accepted i wasn’t a usual or perfect studyblr and that that’s okay. It was the year i accepted my own body and mind.
In short, 2017 was an important year and you all supporting me made it even better! Thank you darlings! Have a good 2018! May it be greater and gayer than ever.
Research for my paper + kitty 🐱 I’m kinda bummed about the fact that I haven’t found any translations of the plays I have to read into either Dutch or English 😞. I think my one year and one semester of German may not be enough to understand Bertolt Brecht 😅😂
1/100 intentional things : i went to see my therapist for the 2nd time (it was quite stressful but it went fine) and i planned this week on OneNote! i’m really happy about how spooky it turned out hehe 👻🎃
26.06.17 | family tree & notes from my first summer reading book, homegoing by yaa gyasi! it was incredibly interesting and i am so excited to read the next two and discuss them once the year starts!
You are in the last few hundred feet of the marathon. You've lost sleep, forgotten showers, and missed meals at times. Not every night was pretty notes and ordered flashcards. Some were the closing shift at work and a morning bedtime. Not all tests were 100s, even when you studied. But you've given all your strength, all of your fighting spirit, even when some days you gave much more than others. Some days you rejoiced with friends, other days you linked hands with them and hoped for relief. You've gotten your acceptances, your rejections, your waitlists. You've been questioned by family, friends, teachers, peers, and strangers as to why you chose the major, college, technical school, or career path you did. You've struggled over the choices and delighted in the decisions.
But you're in the last few hundred feet of that marathon, so finish strong. Don't stumble across that finish line, surge across it in a last burst of speed. Put pride into your studying. Block your social media for an hour at a time, even half an hour. Turn down social invitations from your friends and arrange study sessions instead. Get a good night's sleep. Eat a good breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Start studying now instead of cramming. Shower, bathe, trim your nails, brush your hair. Indulge in self-care, whether that means your favorite ice cream or music; buying a new lipstick, video game, or notebook; or taking 30 minutes to sit in silence and simply breathe. Replace self-loathing thoughts with reminders of your strengths and successes. Hype yourself up. Take your exams well-rested, prepared, and encouraged. Pass them, whether just barely for your weak subjects or with flying colors for your strong ones. Walk out of that room with your head high. Accept that diploma with pride. Receive those scores with pride.