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Language Resources Masterpost

🌷 I made this for myself and will be updating it from time to time, feel free to reblog 🍀 big thanks to: @lovelybluepanda, @wonderful-language-sounds   🍀my langstagram

brilliant directory by @thelanguagecommunity​

vocab masterpost by @portiastudies​

mylanguages.org (grammar, vocab, phrases, quizzes)

loecsen.com (vocab, phrases, you can listen to it)

vocabulary 📖 

http://langoland.free.fr/ (vocab, has minority languages!!)

polymath (vocab)

Babadada (vocab)

Babadum (vocab game)

my Pinterest Language board (vocab, idioms)

tests & listening  📝 🎧

vocabulary TEST,  multiple choice tests

Goethe verlag tests

listen to a radio anywhere in the world

http://listeningpractice.org/ thanks @sweet-child-of-mine11​

listening tests

librivox (audiobooks)

lyrikline.org (listen to poems!!!)

reading📚

gutenberg.org

readlang.com

manybooks.net

childrenbooksforever | childrenslibrary

The Little Prince | Alice | Harry Potter

BILINGUIS (has Alice in Wonderland) 

Grimm fairytales

Germanic languages

Dutch-Frisian-Afrikaans-Limburgish masterpost

🇳🇱DUTCH #nl

PDFs

vocab masterpost by @hotairballoon221​

linking words by @join-the-dutch-clan​

when to use DE/HET 

irregular verbs 

file of knowledge

watch rundfunk (10-20mins yt comedy series)

🇧🇪 Belgian comic with voice over

FRISIAN

vocab

funwithfrisian FB

🇬🇧ADVANCED ENGLISH: 60 cool words

🇩🇪GERMAN #de

exercise at schubert-verlag

exercise at deutschakademie

movies by @themessyjournals​ more movies by @thegirlfromthelibrary

downloadable books to read

north Germanic  

false friends SE-DK  | false friends SE-NO

project Runeberg (classic nordic literature!!!)

masterpost

🇩🇰DANISH #dk

masterpost by @mit-danske-eventyr​ | by thelanguagecommunity

useful grammar tips (til or for etc)

PDF: colloquial Danish | Teach Yourself | essential grammar

assimil (french)

unilang

listen to poems

nordic langs discord i don’t even have discord myself but just dropping this here you never know

🇮🇸ICELANDIC #is 

PDF textbooks 

masterpost by @icelandicreverie-blog​

children tv thanks @sprachtraeume​

200 words by @islenskafyriralla​

https://islenskafyriralla.tumblr.com/laera

beautiful Icelandic words

🇫🇴FAROESE #fo 

downloadable resources

masterpost

vocab

PDFs

🇸🇪SWEDISH #se

PDFs

Astrid Lindgren etc. books 

watch Pippi

masterpost by @langsandculture​ (textbooks, websites..)

lär dig svenska - useful expressions/grammar

verb list

some less common verbs

adverbs list by @svensklangblr​less 

anki decks (C1 lvl too!!)

writers recommendations by @svensklangblr​.

freudian slip productions (comedy videos)

slang by @midvinterfrost​

vocab list masterposts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 by @languagemoose​

(movie recs wanted, i might make on myself) I also should make a vocab list including vocab lists by @polyglotswede​ who made a lot!!

🇳🇴NORWEGIAN #no

Textbooks post; PDF Textbooks

assimil (french)

grammatikk.com

85 irregular verbs by @language-princess​

norskprøven

exercises: infonorwegian ; exploringnorwegiangrammar

masterpost by @languagecollector​

masterpost by @treasuredthings​

watch moomin!!

read Norwegian folktales

i/på by @an-american-in-norway​

common mistakes by @letslearnnorwegian​

Celtic languages  #celtic  

masterpost by @travellingual​  masterpost by @a-second-soul​

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿WELSH #welsh 

masterpost

BBC grammar PDF

🇮🇪IRISH #ie

online lessons 

daltaì na Gaeilge (grammar, phrases, vocab)

PDF textbooks

duolingo basics by @gaeilge101​

Slavic languages

🇨🇿CZECH

assimil (in french)

🇵🇱POLISH

assimil (in french)

masterpost by @languageoclock​

polish grammar in a nutshell 

lernpolisch.de (in german, +audios)

🇷🇺RUSSIAN #ru

learn to read Russian in 15 mins

assimil (french)

misc 

🇫🇮FINNISH #fi uralic masterpost

PDF textbooks thanks @languagessi​ !

online lessons

masterpost

watch moomin

🇫🇷FRENCH #fr

100 topic specific vocab lists

vocab lists by @nerdinaomi​

verbs

movies by @themessyjournals​

downloadable books to read

read Asterix

🇬🇷GREEK

assimil (french)

🇭🇺HUNGARIAN

PDFs

assimil

🇯🇵 JAPANESE #jp thanks @udaitenma​

resources

joshu

learn-japanese-adventure  –>vocab (Japanese culture related too)

tofugu grammar lessons

grammar lessons

Japanese verb conjugation by @japanesewithanime​​

JLPT material

survival phrases

cheatsheets

100 grammar points

🇰🇷KOREAN #kr

http://www.koreanfromzero.com/

https://www.learn-korean.net/

https://www.howtostudykorean.com/

🌷  my posts 🌻 insta: art+self | languages+snailmail   🌺  my app review 🍀 planned langs to add: estonian, Lithuatian, Latvian, Hawaiian

(started 22/3, finished 6/4/2020)

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“For post-structuralist thinkers like Foucault, Derrida, and Lyotard, the death of experience is more commonly known as the death of man. And this, for them, is a demise to be celebrated rather than mourned. For tradition and experience are not just repositories of value; they are also vehicles of violence and oppression. The whole idea of the ‘full’ human subject, replete in his stored sensations, cultivating his fine feelings like a bed of exotic plants and collecting his experiences like so many lovingly fondled art-objects, belongs to an earlier form of middle-class society – one which consumerist capitalism is now in the process of superseding.”

— Terry Eagleton, How to Read a Poem

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How does this make any sense 😒

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Never Again.

A few years ago, a large group of people from the Long Beach Japanese American church I grew up in hopped on a bus and made a pilgrimage to Manzanar.  Most of the old people I grew up with had been interned during the war;  some at Manzanar, others at camps all over the west.  (My own family escaped internment only because they were in Hawaii, where entirely interning the large Japanese population would have been logistically, economically, and structurally impossible.)

It distresses me to hear the rhetoric of Japanese American internment once again raising its ugly head, this time directed against Muslim Americans.  Most recently, internment has been cited as “precedent” for a federal Muslim registry by Carl Higbie, who spoke to a horrified Megyn Kelly on Fox News.  

As a way to register my own horror and to address the kind of historical trauma this “precedent” has rooted in the Japanese American community across so many decades and generations, here are a few of the photos I took on that trip. The stories I heard demonstrate the trauma suffered by our elder generations but also their resilience and their creativity.

The photo above shows the memorial obelisk in the Manzanar cemetery, inscribed with the words “soul consoling tower.”  It is a pilgrimage site for the internees and their descendants, who leave strands of cranes and other offerings.

Here is a more distant view, which shows the desolation (and also the grandeur) of this place.  In the summer, it is amazingly hot and the strong winds frequently whip the dust into choking clouds.  Not a healthy place for old people who aren’t used to it;  many elderly internees were buried here.

Below is the site of the old “Pleasure Park.”  Japanese Americans are good gardeners (many of those who weren’t farmers worked as gardeners or nursery owners), so when they were plopped down in the middle of this arid landscape you bet they tried to transform it into a paradise using the local plants and rocks.  They even tried to bonsai sagebrush.  

We always knew where Mae was because of her red hat.

In the early 20th century, Manzanar had been a small orchard town (hence the name).  A few old pear trees–like the one below–are all that are left.  By the time it was an internment camp, there were still pear trees around.  Tomi said that they didn’t realize people had been there before them, so they called these “wild pears.”  They used to take the fruit, wrap them in newspaper, and put them under their beds so the fruit would ripen.

Below is a reconstruction of one of the barracks, each housing several families.

For the first few years, internees slept on cots they made themselves from straw.  Aiko couldn’t get any sleep on these cots (especially with seven people in her family), and Kaz was allergic to the wool army blankets they were given. With so many people crowded together in one structure, there was very little privacy.  Fran said that eventually families hung wool blankets up as partitions for greater privacy.  (Joyce remembers no privacy in the public bathrooms as well, although internees were eventually able to get the administration to put partitions between the toilets.)  

Aiko remembers putting “little things” on the wooden ledges to make herself feel more at home.  

At the little museum in nearby Independence:  these geta were made from scrap wood.  Fran (who had been interned at Heart Mountain in Wyoming) remembered wearing scrap-wood geta to go to the showers and walk through the snow.  She remembers the winters being unbearable for a Southern California girl.  Here, past and present overlap in the ghostly reflection of my sister’s zori-clad feet.

Scrap wood was used to make all sorts of things, from furniture to tiny decorative painted birds.

I didn’t remember having met the woman on the right in the picture below;  she didn’t go to our church, or at least not regularly.  I think she was someone’s aunt.  Mary (on the left) and So-And-So’s Auntie were asked to point themselves out on the board of old pictures.  It was amazing when they pointed out their younger selves in the *same* picture. “Wait–YOU’RE Mariko [Mary]??  I remember you!!”  They were in the same class and hadn’t seen each other since 1944.

Hearing our elders’ stories and memories was like meeting them for the first time.  As many younger Japanese Americans can attest, our elders don’t often open up about their experiences because of the trauma, humiliation, and shame they felt and continue to feel.  This trauma still runs through our communities and shows itself in ways we can’t predict.  Shortly after our trip, the church went through an event that can only be described as a betrayal by a larger, more powerful white group that clearly didn’t respect our community or its Japanese identity (I won’t go into details, but this was a group we deeply trusted).  The pain we all felt and the way we dealt with that pain was–I think–accurately described for me by a Korean American member of our community:  Japanese Americans often have, rooted deep in our communities, the expectation of betrayal.  Betrayed by our own government, we have learned to expect and to suffer through similar acts of aggression (“we should have known this would happen…” “shigata ga nai…”).  As I said above, historical traumas run deep and they run intergenerationally.  It may take Japanese Americans many more generations to finally get over internment.

We have to protect our Muslim cousins from a similar fate.  It is possible that the damage would last much longer than the span of this next presidency.

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Scopes of Feminsim

As Defined by the book “Feminist Theories and Social Work: Approaches and Applications” by Christine Flynn Saulnier ©1996

Liberal Feminism- Argues that, based on gender, women are unfairly denied equal access to society’s resources.

Radical Feminism- argues that society is psychologically structured on male needs, that to maintain that order women’s needs are subjugated, and that the fabric of society must be fundamentally altered.

Lesbian Feminism- challenges the organization of society around both heterosexual and male dominance and the ongoing enforcement of that arrangement.

Cultural Feminism- holds that women are more peaceful, cooperative, and nurturing than men, probably because women reproduce and nurture species.

Ecofeminism- is the application of women’s culture to efforts toward peace and ecology.

Socialist Feminism- blames the economics of capitalism in combination with patriarchy for women’s subordinate position in society.

Womanism (African American Feminism) - defines sexism as one of multiple interlocking systems of oppression functioning simultaneously and interdependently, inextricable from each other theoretically or experientially.

Postmodern Feminism- argues that since woman is socially defined and inherently distorting term, which cannot be defended on empirical or theoretical grounds, we have no reason to think females have an inherent nature or role. Thus, social organization rooted i gender is based on an invented concept.

Global Feminism- seeks to explain the interconnectedness of disparate feminist struggles by examining how world-wide economic factors combine with national histories of colonialism, religion and culture to oppress women

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Made my first advice piece about studying for exams and tests!

This is my personal go to process for studying with minimal effort and minimal time!

Made by me: @wannabesurgicalgod

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My Updated College Master List! 

Getting Ready for College

- The Ultimate Guide to Packing for College (x)

- How to Prepare for College Over the Summer (x)

- My Favorite School Supplies for College (x)

Wellness in College

- Why Balance Matters (x)

- How (and Why) to Become a Morning Person in College (x)

- Why College Is Not “One Size Fits All” (x)

- How to Practice Self-Care in College (x)

Organization and Time Management

- How to Budget Time in College (x)

- The Ultimate Guide to College Organization (x)

- 14 Productivity Hacks for College Students (x)

- Diagnosing Your Time Management in College (x)

- 45 Tips for Staying Organized in College (x)

- My 5 Favorite Apps for College Students (x)

Studying and Resources

- The Ultimate Guide to College Motivation (x)

- How to Get Your Best Grades in College (x) 

- The Ultimate College Resource Library (x)

- The Ultimate Guide to Writing a College Paper (x)

- How to Use and Assignment Planner with Free Printable (x)

- How to Prep for the Semester with Free Printables (x)

Finals

- How to Make a Study Plan for Finals (x)

- The Ultimate Guide to Final Exams (x)

- How to Reduce Stress During Finals (x)

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27 July 2015: i was messing around with watercolor last night and I wanted to use some of the random things I painted on paper. I’ll release more wallpapers within the week for studyspo, but in the meantime, you can download these two wallpapers for FREE by clicking the following links:

Click to download The Watercolor Series: Patterns 1/? Wallpaper Click to download The Watercolor Series: Patterns 2/? Wallpaper

If you have any requests for designs, you can always let me know! I’d love to hear from you!

This is for personal use only and not available for any commercial purposes. Please do not repost or claim this design as yours. Thank you. -Ariadne

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20 July 2015: Feel motivated as you begin the school week with these new desktop wallpapers! You can download them for FREE by clicking the following links:

Click to download The Brush Type Series: This Too Shall Pass Wallpaper Click to download The Brush Type Series: Progress > Perfection Wallpaper Click to download The Calligraphy Series: Make Today Count Wallpaper

This is for personal use only and not available for any commercial purposes. Please do not repost or claim this design as yours. Thank you. -Ariadne

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Studying for an exam (or it is called revising in some parts of the studyblr community) can be stressful. When is studying for an exam fun anyways. Everyone tests and studies differently but here are some tips that have helped me with studying for exams and passing the exams.

Before the Exam Date (~2-3 weeks out from the exam):

I tend to study at least two weeks out the material that will be on the exam. If the exam covers chapter X-Z, I break up the chapters and review everyday.

I DO NOT cram all my material in a day or pull all nighters. This has never worked for me and plus, I value my sanity and sleep too much.

I review and do my homework problems as soon lecture get out.

Any questions I have about the material, I go to my professor’s office hours during these couple of weeks before the exams because MOST students wait the day of the exam and I don’t have time to deal with people who waited last minute to ask questions.

I do not study ALL day. Nope. I hate looking at the material all day and I spend about 2-4 hours on the material per day.

1 Week Before the Exam Date:

All homework should be completed by this time and the only problem solving I will do is for practice exams/quizzes.

I begin reviewing my material by either teaching it to other people, writing it all out, or rewriting important concepts over and over again.

I begin winding down on material. I do not let up on studying, but I also don’t spend hours reviewing/studying

Night Before the Exam Date:

I review a little bit that day and I try to relax that day. I have lots of test anxiety and I have to make sure I am stress-free on exam day.

1-2 hours before bed, I put my books and material down and do something fun before bed such as reading a book for fun.

The Exam Date:

By this point, I hate looking at my material for the exam and I am so sick of looking at it so a lot of times I don’t bring it with me.

I listen to music before the exam, something calming.

I do not like to be near people before the exam. My chemistry friends were so negative and mean, I just didn’t bother with them during exam day. So I would isolate myself.

I do a lot of deep breathing exercises to calm my nerves and think positive thoughts. It works so much for me especially with my test anxiety.

After the Exam:

I go home or do something constructive like exercise after the exam. I do not like to think about the exam at all and I vacate the testing area as soon as possible because I do not want to hear about how people did.

I do other assignments for other classes if I have homework, but I won’t do anything for that class I took a test in. Again, I don’t like to look at the material after an exam.

Things to Think About:

Exams are hard and sometimes you won’t always get perfect grades. And that’s perfectly ok! I didn’t and I failed quite a few exams, I still passed the courses. But I didn’t let failing exams derail me completely. I had moments of doubt, but then I realized it is not worth stressing about an exam that only tests your ability to regurgitate a textbook or lecture notes back onto paper. Always have positive thoughts and NEVER second guess yourself. Good luck my peeps with exams and I hope this has helped!

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I don't know what to do! Exams are starting soon and I'm an emotional wreck! I'm crying before and after studying for exams bc I am really overwhelmed and stressed ! Please, help me.

it’s okay anon! don’t worry, you’re going to do fine, okay? here’s some info to help you out:

a complete exam study guide

tips for during the exam

the ultimate guide to (final) exams

how to cram for a big test

preparing for exams

when studying for the test

study mistakes to avoid

five day study plan

everything you need for finals week

when you have a test really soon

i hope this helps you out! also see these important reminders + stress / reliefs. remember that tests are not a measure of your intelligence and that everything is part of the learning process, alright? keep shining like the star you are and don’t forget to be awesome!!

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The Basics of Efficient Studying

If you’re studying extremely hard, then you’ve done something wrong. I know how counterintuitive this sounds, but it’s true. If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Most students study very hard to try and get results, but only a minority of students are straight-A students. Get the picture? Just because practically everyone does it doesn’t mean that’s how you should do it. That couldn’t be any truer when it comes to studying. Have you ever wondered how all these superstar students have the time to go to social events, head clubs, and still manage to fit in time to study to get those As? That’s because studying doesn’t have to consume your life if you do it efficiently.

  Let’s start by defining the challenge ahead. Let’s say you have an exam coming up. First ask yourself these questions:

Which lectures and reading assignments (or problem sets) are fair game?

What type of questions will be on the exam and how many of each? (IDs, dates, broad syntheses of text’s major arguments…)

Is the exam open (note)book?

Will formulas be provided or should they be memorized?

How much time will be available? (Does the professor expect it to be easy to finish in the time allotted or a challenge to complete?)

  Now that you’ve answered these questions, it’s time to build a study guide. Below you will learn how to build a study guide for both non-technical courses and technical courses.

  Build a Basic Study Guide (Non-technical)

Creating a study guide is very simple, but here are some tips to make it run more smoothly. It helps to have a plan. First, print out the corresponding notes for a given test. Then cluster the notes into relevant piles by topic fastened by paper clip. You should have “chapters” for each general topic covered. It’s as simple as that. Now that you have “chapters” split up, carry around one or two chapters a day and review the material any free moment you get.

  Construct a Mega-Problem Set (Technical)

Problem set assignments are key, so make sure you keep all the ones you accumulate during the course for studying later.

Make corresponding piles for each type of problem set

Supplement with sample problems from notes

Match the lecture notes to the problem set that covers the same material

Copy sample problems from notes to blank paper (don’t need to copy steps or answer, just questions)

Label the blank sheet with the lecture date (so you know where the problems are from and where to find the answers)

Put this with the problem/lecture note set you created in the previous steps

Augment mega-problem sets with technical explanation questions that ask to explain the basics of the topic (ex: “Explain the general procedure for drawing a molecular structure, why this is useful, and what special cases must be kept in mind.”). This will reveal whether you understand what you’re studying or not by forcing you to write out the basics.

If practice exams are available, copy them and store them with your mega-problem sets

  Prepare Memorization Aids

Flashcards, flashcards, flashcards. They are time tested and work. Start making them when you’re relaxing BEFORE you plan to study them. You need to schedule this out properly to avoid tiring yourself out. If you try to make and study the cards all in the same session you’ll be tired and have trouble remembering later what you spent all that time working on. So make sure you do the creating and studying separately to maximize results. Also be sure you perform checks to know you didn’t “just” memorize but actually understand.

  These tips are inspired by Cal Newport’s books as well as my own insight as a student. See my other posts on studying here and stay tuned for even more study tips to come this week!

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26 Reminders for Going to School Like a Badass

1. Your attitude dictates your experience, so start finding things to get psyched about.

2. Stock up on healthy snacks in your house!!! You’ll be glad you did when the study-munchies roll around (and they always do).

3. Invest in a good planner. Especially if you take part in multiple extra-curriculars, I can’t stress how helpful it is having a place to check back on deadlines and big events.

4. Write down all your teachers’ names and emails as soon as you get them, so you’re not searching for them when you’re absent.

5. No one is having as much fun as their snapchat story makes it seem.

6. Don’t believe what your peers tell you about tests they take before you, study how much YOU need to.

7. Be nice to your math teacher. Partial credit on math problems might save your grade.

8. Don’t throw out syllabuses/first day handouts!!!! Theres a good chance they have information on the late policy and a gazillion other helpful things.

9. In fact, try to hold on to as many papers as you can for when finals inevitably attack.

10. No one knows you wore those jeans yesterday.

11. Be conscious of how you smell. Don’t be B.O. kid, but also try not to suffocate your lab partner with the scent of artificial fruit/flowers.

12. That cookie in the cafeteria is probably not worth 95 cents. Pack snacks from home to resist overpriced school treats.

13. If you’re carrying around a travel mug of coffee, people will usually leave you alone. 

14. Don’t spend more time planning your study schedule than actually studying. Just get your books out and do it.

15. Never underestimate the amount of motivation you can get from watching Legally Blonde (movie or musical). 

16. Try to attend at least one school sporting event per season, even if thats not really your scene. Some teachers even offer extra credit for going to big games!

17. Don’t be that kid that asks the teacher when you’re getting your tests back. They have like a gazillion to grade. You’ll get them when they’re done.

18. Have a pump-up playlist for the ride to school and the walk to your first class. Nothing feels more badass than walking through crowded hallways while listening to Halsey’s “New Americana”.

19. Set up a back-up study zone for when you need a change of pace.

20. Don’t put off creative projects because you think they’ll be less time consuming. There’s nothing worse than glitter gluing a scale model of the U.S. Senate at 3 AM because you thought it would be quick and easy.

21. That extra 10 minutes of sleep is not worth the risk of oversleeping completely. Get up, splash your face with some cold water, and get this show on the road.

22. Find a school inspiration, whether it be a really hardworking friend or a studyblr you follow. Check their progress whenever you need motivation.

23. If someone only ever talks to you when they need to copy the homework, they’re using. Don’t indulge them.

24. Doing your own work is so SO important. Plagiarism can destroy careers.

25. Creative outlets can be so refreshing, like a diary, a private tumblr, a sketchbook, whatever floats your boat.

26. When all else fails, remember how lucky you are to be getting an education. School isn’t a punishment, its an opportunity for you to create a kick-ass foundation for the rest of your life.