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Animals + Safari

inja 🐶

inkomo 🐄

encane - small

emhlophe - white

emnyama - black

imvu 🐏 sheep

ekhuluphele - fat

ensundu - brown

inkunzi 🐂 bull

ingulube 🐷

inyoka 🐍

enhle - beautiful

○ USarah uthanda inkomo emnyama - Sarah likes the black cow

○ inja encane

○ Uthanda imvu ensundu - She likes the brown sheep

○ ngithanda enhle inja - He likes the beautiful dog

indlovu 🐘

inyoni 🐦

inyathi 🐃 buffalo

enkulu - big

laphaya - over there

ingwenya 🐊

enejubane- fast

sibona- we see

enamandla- strong

indlulamithi 🦒

ilala - it sleeps

idla - it eats

utsheni - grass

inkawu 🐒

endala - old

impisi - hyena

unogwaja 🐇

intshe - ostrich

babona - they see

imbuzi 🐐

○ iyoni emnyama

○ sibona ensundu inyathi laphaya

○ babona unogwaja laphaya

#isizulu

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Resource List for Learning Ukrainian

Hi Language Enthusiasts,

Do you want to learn Ukrainian but don’t know where to start? Then I’ve got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its links below. Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. I hope everyone can enjoy it and if anyone notices any mistakes or has any questions you are free to PM me.

Here is what the resource list contains;

Handmade resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning pronunciation.

Websites to practice reading.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial Language.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DTgAwXrk_PLS7Or8T8vnzgAZIutwQZIDVN35hDW1F54/edit?usp=sharing

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Resources masterpost

Witnessing French:

Websites, social media

Online courses in French

French subreddits

Fanfictions

Buzzfeed

Improving your:

Pronunciation

Speaking

Things to listen to:

Music

Podcasts

Radio stations

TED talks

Things to read:

Graphic novels/comics

News

Ebooks + quizzes (by me)

Short stories

Vikidia - kids’ Wikipedia

Things to watch:

Cartoons

Kids shows

Imago TV - free activist Netflix

The Simpsons the movie

True crime

TV programs - sci-fi shows, travelling, etc.

Youtubers

Extra:

Antidote 10 + BonPatron - Grammarly equivalents

Conjugation by le Nouvel Obs

Deepl - very good at translating sentences/expressions

Forbo - natives pronouncing things

Lexicity - about Ancien/Moyen Français

Lingolden - Chrome extension that teaches vocabulary

Linguo.tv (french videos + subtitles)

Reverso - very good alternative to Google translation (single words)

Wordreference - very complete translation website (expressions)

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Peppa Pig in Different Languages

I’m pretty sure everyone knows who or what Peppa Pig is. If you do, you probably have watched it one time or another when you were little. I used to like it because of the simple vocabulary it has and it gave me great joy when I understood a whole episode in English.

If you’re a language learner you know how difficult it is to listen to shows or movies in your target language because they’re so fast. Peppa Pig is obviously a children’s show, but it has been translated into a lot of different languages that may help out any beginner in a language or anyone who wants to give a watch and see if they understand it! Peppa Pig - being a children’s show - uses slow speech and simple vocabulary that small children can understand, here’s a list of Peppa Pig in different languages you can watch on YouTube:

Albanian - Derkucja Pepa

Arabic - Peppa Pig

Belarusian - Свінка Пэпа

Bulgarian - Прасето Пепа

Cantonese - Peppa zhū (粉红猪小妹) 

Catalan - Pepa la Porqueta

Croatian - Pepa Prase

Czech - Prasátko Peppa

Danish - Gurli Gris

Dutch - Peppa Big

Estonian - Põrsas Peppa

Finnish - Pipsa Possu

French - Peppa Pig

Georgian - Peppa Pig

German - Peppa Wutz

Greek - Πέππα το Γουρουνάκι

Hindi - Peppa Pig

Hungarian - Peppa Malac

Italian - Peppa Pig

Korean - Peppa Pig

Latvian - Cūciņa Pepa

Lithuanian - Kiaulyte Pepa

Macedonian - Прасенцето Пепа

Mandarin - 粉红猪小妹

Norwegian - Peppa Gris

Polish - Świnka Peppa

Portuguese - A Porquinha Peppa

(Brazilian) Portuguese - Peppa Pig

Swedish - Greta Gris

Romanian - Purcelusa Peppa

Russian - Свинка Пеппа

Scottish Gaelic - Peppa

Serbian - Pepa Prase

Spanish - Peppa Pig

(Latin American) Spanish - Peppa Pig

Ukrainian - Свинка Пеппа

Vietnamese - Heo Peppa

These are the ones that can be found on YouTube. Unfortunately, there are some languages missing but if anyone knows where one can watch them please feel free to add!

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🍲food/market

i-pizza

i-yogurt

itiye 

ikhofi ☕

isinkwa - bread🍞

ushukela - sugar

ujusi - juice

umdokwe - porrigde

ushokoledi 🍫

ummbila - corn🌽

ipapa - pap (millet)

ngithanda - i like

uthanda - she/he likes

uphuza - she/he drinks

ngidla - i eat

udla - she eats

uthenga - she buys

irayisi - rice 🍚

impuphu - maize meal

ngoLwesibili - tues.

ngoLwesithathu - wed.

lapha - here

usawoti - salt 🧂

ubisi - milk 

ushizi - cheese 🧀

amanzi - water

○ uthenga impuphu ngoLwesibili

○ ngidle i-pizza lapha

○ USarah uthanda irayisi

○ UEmma uthanda ihkofi

#isizulu #vocab

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Greeting + Intro in Zulu

isiZulu(Zulu) is a Bantu language spoken mainly in South Africa & is the most spoken language followed by Xhosa and Afrikaans. Zulu is unique because of its clicking sounds ( c k q ). Zulu is also related to Xhosa and other Bantu languages.

sawubona - hello

ujani - how are you

yebo - hello too/yes

bhuti- brther

sisi - sister

baba

mama

ngiyaphila - I am well

nkosazana - miss

sala kahle - stay well

hamba kahle - go well

mkhulu - grandpa 👴🏾

igama lami - my name

igama lakhe - her/his name

neh - right

eLondon

eNew York

eSandton

igama lakho - your name

ngihlala - i live

ngifunda - i study

ngijabulela ukukwazi - nice to meet you

sizobuye siboname - see you later

ngikhuluma - i speak

isiNgisi

isiSwahili

isiZulu

○ igama lami ngu (my name is)

○ igama lakhe ngitu (his/her is name)

○ igama lakho ngu (your name is)

#isizulu

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Masterlist of my posts

Because I tend not to reblog old posts of mine and they have a tendency to get lost into the nether on here, I thought I’d make a list of all the more langblr-y posts I’ve done. Just an FYI, some of these are ancient and truly wild, but I’m still putting them because some people might find them helpful. Also I may pin this and keep updating it as I make more stuff, just because it’s easier than wading through my blog.

Keep reading

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Who decided that butter boards were a good idea? We have better things, like cake boards, cheese boards, french fries boards, etc. But no, tiktok has apparently see this as some sort of trend. I’m sorry, but if someone came to my house with a butter board... that’s going to the trash. What made you think that butter on a board is something worth bringing? No way in hell, who eats butter like that? That’s not even hygienic, I’d rather have hummus instead. If you really want to eat, then a meal of jollof, fried plantains, black eyed beans, boflot, meat pie, & malt would be better than that “butter board”! 🙄

#mini rant #why

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Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   

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Okay, here are some langblrs that I follow and love… ^^ (The list is a mix of langblrs I’ve stumbled upon recently and those I’ve been reading since I started this blog itself. Also, I’m only mentioning the languages which these langblrs mostly post about.)

@banglanotebook - Bangla

@quaelearns - Bangla, Sylheti, Spanish, Hindustani

@survivetoread - Marathi

@currylangs - South Asian languages

@languagessi - Japanese, Finnish, Swedish, Arabic, German

@learn-lang-love - Vietnamese, Turkish, Indian languages

@urdulanguageclub​ - Urdu

@mastery-japanese​ - Japanese

@linguisticsizfun - Bangla, Hindustani, Spanish

@balloons-and-shadows - Swedish

@guillemelgat - A lotta languages (especially minoritised ones)

@romanian-atease​ - Romanian

@spanishboone - Spanish

Langblr Activation Challenge: Week 2

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Fuck this one hits home.

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 the multilingual music list you need to enrich your ears

If you’re learning French, Spanish, Italian, etc. & are in need of artists to listen to... i’ve got you ! Here you’ll find music from different genres & most are on spotify.

French

○ indila

○ louane

○ gims

○ angèle

○ yseult 

○ nilusi

○ calogero

○ tayc

○ dadju

○ videoclub

○ olivier dion

○ lenni kim

○ céline dion

○ black m

○ vitaa 

○ amel bent

○ ya levis

○ lefa

○ tal

○ matt pokora 

○ maelle

○ louis and the yakuza

○ kyo

○ thomas dutronc

○ jérémy frerot

○ stromae

○ vianney

○ slimane

○ amir

○ zazie 

○ marc dupré

○ pierre de maere

Spanish

○ reik

○ juanes

○ pablo alborán

○ chucho rivas

○ rosalía

○ jesse y joy

○ blas cantó

○ francisca valenzuela

○ camila

○ romeo santos

○ prince royce

○ rozalén

○ vetusta morla

○ sin bandera

○ anthrés

○ mirco tdh

○ natalia lafourcade

○ rsel

○ pol granch

○ izal

○ julio iglesias

○ ana mena

○ cepeda

○ cristian castro

○ andrés suárez

○ son by 4

German

○ elif

○ wincent weiss

○ tim bendzko

○ hava

○ mike singer

○ lea

○ nakima

○ berge

○ anna blue

○ fabien wegerer

○ moritz garth

○ adel tawil 

Italian

○ arisa

○ laura pausini

○ lorenzo fragola

○ giorgia

○ francesca michielin

○ marco mengoni

○ annalisa

○ ermal meta

○ alessio bernabei

○ einar

○ the kolors

○ sonohra

○ levante

○ michele merlo 

○ matteo romano 

○ valerio mazzei

○ holden

○ diego lazzari

○ ultimo

○ albe

○ michele bravi

○ alex w

○ le vibrazioni

○ måneskin

Neapolitan

○ rosario miraggio 

○ tony colombo

○ liberato 

Swedish

○ darin

○ molly sandén

○ benjamin ingrosso

○ dotter

○ cherrie

○ veronica maggio

○ victor leksell 

Norwegian

○ tix

○ chris holsten

○ gabrielle

○ ylva

○ victoria nadine

○ ingeborg

○ ramón

○ stina talling

○ delara

○ bendik

○ kristin

Finnish

○ behm

○ ollie

○ erin

○ abreu

○ pihlaja

○ jvg

○ costee

○ anna puu

○ suvi teräsniska

Icelandic

○ gdrn

○ auður

○ aron can

○ friðrik dór

○ bríet

○ hatari 

○ daði freyr

Lithuanian

○ donny montell 

○ kaia

○ sisters on wire

○ alanas chosnau

○ jazzu

○ monique

○ monika linkyte

○ gabrielius vagelis

○ evgenya redko 

○ vilius

○ jurga

○ igle

Greek

○ marina satti

○ christos mastoras

○ eleonora zouganeli

○ nikos vertis

○ yianna terzi

○ pantelis pantelidis

○ michalis hatzigiannis

○ nikos oikonomopoulos

○ giorgos kakosaios

○ konstantinos argiros

○ stan

○ anastasios rammos

○ llias vrettos

○ giannis haroulis

○ antonis remos

○ giannis ploutarhos

Russian

○ elvira t

○ rauf & faik

○ sergey lazarev

○ dima bilan

○ zivert

○ max barskih

○ loboda

○ gafur

○ mona songz

○ misha marvin

○ serebro

○ ani lorak

○ cream soda

○ jah khalib

○ jony

○ the limba

○ xcho

○ maxim fadeev

○ asammuell

○ egor kreed

○ ooes

○ alyona shvets

○ alekseev

○ кис кис

○ emin

Romanian

○ mark stam 

○ carla’s dreams

○ andra

○ the motans

○ emilian

○ liviu teodorescu

○ irina rimes

○ mario fresh

○ andrei banuta

#language resources

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the no bullshit guide to getting your shit together: for the lazy student

Let’s be honest: time management and organization? They’re really hard. Sure, at first you might feel like you’ve gotten the hang of them, that you’re in control of your life. But how often have you fallen off the wagon? Procrastinated on one thing and the next moment, you’re behind in all your classes? I know that sometimes laziness feels like a part of who you are, but honestly, fuck that. Do you really want to give up your success for the disinterest of a moment?

If your answer is no (it better be no, or you really need to get your priorities straight), let’s get to it. 

STEP ONE: BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF

“This class doesn’t even matter.” “I don’t care about my grades.” “I can finish this the day before.” Sound familiar? You might feel great now, but when you’re staring down at your report card later, it’ll feel like you just got punched. 

This is a cliche, but the greatest obstacle to your success is yourself - especially the lies you tell yourself! Sit yourself down and be honest about what you need to improve on. Be as blunt as you can, but for god’s sake, don’t throw yourself a pity party! There’s no use agonizing over what you can’t change. Instead, set realistic, achievable goals, and make a game plan. Struggling with math? Go to extra help. Behind in all your classes? Stay in for a couple nights and actually work. 

STEP TWO: STOP WITH THE FANCY SHIT

Now you know what your goals are, but maybe you want some inspiration, so you log on to tumblr and are instantly bombarded by all these beautiful, well lit shots of the most gorgeous bullet journals, planners, and notes. Impressive, right? Well, I’m gonna let you in on a little secret: they’re all useless! A simple phone planner works just as well, if not better, than a fancy agenda, because you’ll always have it on you, it’s not a hassle to carry around, and you don’t feel obligated to make it look pretty. 

Riddle me this, where are you going to find all this extra motivation to keep prettying up your bullet journal? To write all your notes in perfect, colour coded printing? There aren’t many times in life where taking the easy was out will actually benefit you, so take advantage! Stop wasting your time; get a phone planner and write your notes in your natural goddamn handwriting. 

STEP THREE: CLEAN YOUR ROOM

Yep, your entire room - not just your study space! This one can be put on the back burner for a bit if you’re on a really pressing deadline, but I wouldn’t recommend it. I’m notoriously messy, and if I don’t watch myself, I’d find myself in dirty-laundry-and-old-notes hell. A little bit of organized chaos is fine, I even encourage it! But try working when your desk is covered in mounds of paper and you have nowhere to put your laptop – it’s just not conducive to success. 

Keeping your entire room clean is a way to stave off stress, frustration, and even embarrassment, because nobody wants to show potential roommates how much of a mess they are. 

STEP FOUR: ACTUALLY WORK

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking: “actually work? Who does this girl think she is?” I’d probably think the same thing, except I’ve learned the valuable lesson of sucking it the hell up, and you will too. When you get home from work, grab a snack and work. When you have a free period, figure out what’s due and work. Stop reasoning yourself out of work: you’re not going to finish this later, and that will be on the test. There’s really not much to say about this one, because it’s the step that requires the most raw effort, and you’re really only going to find that within yourself. Tell yourself what’s at stake, and realize that, by setting the standard for your mediocrity now, you’re potentially trapping yourself in a cycle that will last for years. 

STEP FIVE: CUT YOURSELF SOME SLACK

Maybe you’ve been on top of your shit for a day, a week, or even a month, and that’s really great. But then… you fail. You miss a deadline or you bomb a test. So what do you do now? Do you allow yourself to fall back into your old habits? Fuck no! Everyone fails, even that studyblr with those perfect bullet journal photos and a perpetually clean study space. I’m going to tell you something that’ll sound really strange: you should value your failures, especially if you worked hard to avoid them. What?! Be HAPPY about failing when I actually TRIED? Yeah, you heard me right. If you don’t know how to handle failure, then when you inevitably experience it, your reaction will be much worse. 

Failing hurts, and boy, I know how embarrassing it can be. But learning how to deal with failure, and especially how to keep trying after it happens, is an invaluable lesson. 

STEP SIX: TREAT. YO. SELF.

Disclaimer: I’m not suggesting you treat yourself after the most basic of tasks, because please. Treat yourself when you know you goddamn well deserve it. Remember that “all work and no play makes jack a dull boy.” If all you do is study and do your homework, then, pardon my french, your life sucks. If you don’t have friends, play a video game! Eat an entire jumbo chocolate bar! Indulge in whatever the fuck you want, you deserve it. I’m someone that has trouble prioritizing future benefits over immediate gratification, so by allowing myself little pleasures, I save myself from crashing and burning. 

Hope these tips helped, but remember to take them with a grain of salt - you’re you and I’m me, and different things work for different people. Good luck!

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I think that I have inattentive adhd + habits , but I’m not sure edition

○ you were regarded as “weird”

○ there was a sense of unbelonging (isolated from classmates or people in general)

○ impulsive decisions that you were to regret later on

○ it’s either all or nothing when it comes to school and everything in between

○ “my mind can’t shut up”

○ ed - you either have trouble starting on tasks, finishing them, or you can’t go back to it once you stop

○ the frustration that comes from school - from the deadlines to parents expectations for grades 

○ something’s off but what ?

○ OVERTHINKING or mulling over certain events more than needed

○ procrastination - need I say more

○ looking aloof or dreamy on the outside, but imagination is on 24/7, 365 days a year 

○ trouble focusing on tasks

○ forgetting to eat, drink water, or go to the bathroom

○ “I need a quiet place to with minimal background noise” or “My room is the place where I can think”

○ music + headphones must come everywhere or risk being overstimulated 

○ hyperfixation - you can focus on special hobbies for hours on end or become engaged on a certain thing only to stop after some time. you can’t get into to it (half done interests)

○ eating habits /diet is difficult is maintain - for example, in my case I’ll reach for carbs/junk food rather than vegetables or healthy things 

○ anxiety/depressions/dissociative bouts 

○ “a pleasure to have in class”

○ spinning around until dizzy and almost falling over

○ withholding emotions/feelings

○ impulsive thoughts

○ you can’t relax 

#adhdawareness #undiagnosed adhd

[thelinguaphilelady]

How To Study Vocabulary

Since I ALWAYS struggled with learning vocabulary, I went to the library and borrowed every book about language learning that I could find! I will list different methods down below. I hope they‘re as helpful for you as they are for me! Also, this will be kind of a long post, so I apologize.

Firstly, it‘s important to acknowledge that there are different learning-types, and we all learn differently, so there‘s no guarantee that these will work for you!

Repetition of Vocabulary

1. after a couple of hours

2. after a day

3. after a week

4. after one month

5. after 3-4 months

It‘s also important to remember that you should only study a word/phrase until you know it. Everything else will be a waste of time. You should still repeat the words like I said above.

Different methods:

-Mind mapping

-Arrange the words into groups

-Structure things (e.g. vegetables: beans, carrots, tomatoes)

-Order things after similarities/differences

-Gradations (e.g. temperatures, months, time etc)

-Learn with pictures

-Step by step (e.g. ordering food in a restaurant)

It is important that you change things up and not study everything the same way every time! Your brain needs changes to understand things or you won’t be able to use the words in an actual conversation.

Other things you can do:

-Watch Videos in your target language

-Listen to music

-Record yourself saying the vocabulary and listen to it while you study

-Read read read, honestly just try to read as much in your target language as possible

-Try to think in your target language. Describe your surroundings to yourself, count things

-learn about the things you‘re interested in. If you’re interested in fantasy, learn those fantasy words fam

- never learn more than 30-40 words a day. Recommend would be 8-10 so you actually remember them -> Quality not Quantity!

-consistency is key

-some days it just won’t work and that‘s okay. Just try again tomorrow

-put random words/sheets with words on places where you will see them, e.g the bathroom mirror or the fridge or the inside of the door. You will read them all the time and will probably remember them way easier because of this.

I hope this was at least kind of helpful. I think the most important part for me to realize was that your brain needs changes in order to learn new things. If you just read one word 10 times you won’t remember it.

Say it, write it down, listen to it and write it down in a different context again. Read the words to your Axolotl.

Context is so so so important and will help you to remember words way easier.

Also remember to drink lotsa water because water is good. Also learn the word for water in your target language!

[thelinguaphilelady]

Hi!! Could you perhaps list some blogs/resources focusing mainly on Russian? Thank you! :D

Sure thing, anon! Now I’m not super focused on Russian atm but I’ve managed to scrounge up something for you :)

Free Online Russian-Learning Websites:

http://www.study-languages-online.com/

http://masterrussian.com/

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/

http://www.yesrussian.com/

http://www.russianlessons.net/

https://www.duolingo.com/course/ru/en/Learn-Russian-Online (I’m sure you’re familiar with this one)

Cyrillic Alphabet:

http://masterrussian.com/russian_alphabet.shtml

http://www.russianforeveryone.com/RufeA/Lessons/Introduction/Alphabet/Alphabet.htm

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/russian.htm (I absolutely love Omniglot and would recommend it to anyone with a general interest in languages)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIKX9RYOX5w (For children, but good for learners as well)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhrSpf8kaqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vWY8YIijY

Russian Keyboard:

http://www.apronus.com/internet/ruskey.htm (Online Cyrillic keyboard)

http://winrus.com/kbd_e.htm (A downloadable phonetic keyboard instead of the Microsoft keyboard that is already formatted in Microsoft computers, the phonetic keyboard is easier to use because Cyrillic letters are placed with the closest roman letter equivalent on an English QWERTY keyboard)

Online Dictionaries:

http://www.rustran.com/

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/rus.html

http://www.lexilogos.com/english/russian_dictionary.htm

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-russian/ (Reverso is pretty good in my experience)

Immersion:

http://www.bbc.com/russian

http://ria.ru/radio/ 

http://all-radio.ru/

http://www.rususa.com/fun/radio/

http://ru-news.ru/

http://rusnovosti.ru/ (News)

http://www.pravda.ru/ (News)

http://rutube.ru/ (Russian youtube)

https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/33661.Best_Russian_Children_Books (For some beginner’s reading)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPYC—L3hwnJHZZGpCaPo2DxiSFwjkYd (The children’s show ‘Masha and the Bear’ in Russian)

Movies in Russian (Click on title to see the wiki page):

Leviathan (2014)

Solaris (1972) 

Stalker (1979)

The Return (2003)

Hard to be a God (2013)

The Mirror (1975)

Russian Ark (2002)

Elena (2011)

Battle for Sevastopol (2015)

Battleship Potemkim (1925) 

Ivan’s Childhood (1962)

How I Ended This Summer (2010)

12 (2007)

Burnt by the Sun (1994)

The Thief (1997)

Faust (2011) 

Mongol (2007)

The Fool (2014) 

A Driver for Vera (2004)

Russian Music:

Aria (Heavy metal)

DDT (Rock)

Kino (Post-punk)

Nyusha (Pop, R&b)

Yulia Savicheva (Pop rock)

t.A.T.u (Pop, electronic)

Nautilus Pompilius (Alternative, post-punk)

Russian Novels:

Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The Master and Margarita (Mikhail Bulgakov) (BEST)

Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)

War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy)

Dead Souls (Nikolay Gogol)

A Hero of Our Time (Mikhail Lermontov)

The Brothers Karamazov (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

Apps - Android specific (Sorry, I don’t have Apple ios so I cannot offer anything there):

Duolingo 

Memrise

Mango Languages (Offers a free trial)

Babbel

Learn & Speak Russian - Mondly

Radio Russia

Learn Russian by Babel Yak

Learn Russian 6,000 Words

Verses of Russian poets

Multitran Russian Dictionary

Tumblr Blogs:

@learn-russian-language

@russiangrammar

@rashn

@gemrussian

@lovsiberianhusky

Haha, this may be more than you were asking for but it was fun to make and I hope that this helps you and anyone else who may be studying Russian!