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┃ᴋᴀᴡᴏʀᴜ ɴᴀɢɪꜱᴀ ✧ ᴇᴠᴀɴɢᴇʟɪᴏɴ: 3.0 ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ (ɴᴏᴛ) ʀᴇᴅᴏ ♥

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Hey tumblr! I decided I wasn’t doing enough for the BLM movement so I’ve been using my old Wattpad to speak out about my experience with racism and current events. It also explores the messages of the movement. I may share some more in depth essays here too. I feel like reblogging, and posting to my Instagram story wasn’t enough. Here’s the link:

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Late night studying for my learners. I've also got Crayator and chat keeping me company. I’ve started up again with my languages after finding a big master post of free learning links. Memrise has been really good for my Greek, the browser version is better than the mobile app.

#learners #studying #crayator #late night studying

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If you mourn the death of ancient languages but do not mourn the death of innocent black people, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

If the burning of the library of Alexandria or of Notre Dame brings you to tears but do not care about the fires started by desperate and grieving protesters demanding justice, you need to reevaluate your priorities.

It is okay to love and be passionate about things from the past, but we must also care about our present. 2020 will someday be history too. Don’t let yourself be on the wrong side of history. Don’t ignore the racial injustice that is all around us.

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Maybe coming back

I finished all of my schoolwork and I was in such a mood to start making notes, but then I checked the news. All of the protests and killing and unrest have made it really difficult to be creative. I want to pick up my pen, my paintbrush, and my pencil, but I also want to pick up my walls. It’s all so much, I’m worried about my family, my friends, and my brothers and sisters. I’ll see how I feel tomorrow. 

Stay safe y’all, please.

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The Open University has over 1,000 free courses available. Of particular interest to my langblr followers (no Russian unfortunately :( ), they have a range of language courses available including courses on English as a secondary language, linguistics, translation as a career, and how to learn a language.

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finally finished this painting i sketched out months ago… please click for better quality i know tumblr is gonna kill it (reference used)

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I love how you used the Caravaggio painting. It has such a good expression, I love it.

10.05.2020 recent bujo pages ~

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5/11/20

idk if i’ve posted these notes yet but here they are :) 

xo- gg

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Some Greek notes on food vocab. I’m gonna try cook some Greek cuisine soon. Perhaps spanakopita.

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#studyblr #studygram #greek notes #language notes #language learning #langblr #notes

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I’m low key all of them.

Choose your academia! 

p/s: I do not own the information and photos, all the credits belong to the owners

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Quarantine Check In

Hi, I haven’t posted in a while. I wanted to check in and provide an opportunity for others to do the same. So how have you been doing?

I’ve been feeling somewhat productive but at the same time not. I’ve been trying to keep a morning routine but I only do it some days. I fear I won’t get my school work done on time and that kind of spooks me. I should come up  with a plan. In a similar respect, my relationships have been distant. I did face time my best friend today but that was after not talking for a few days. I kept looking at my messages and feeling sad because they were so empty. 

#quarantine #check in #studyblr

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042420

As most people are working and studying from home right now, I wanted to share some concrete, implementable ways you can help yourself feel better. Though I believe productivity and quantity of work done (or lack thereof) doesn’t/shouldn’t translate into your self-worth and how you view yourself, when you get work done, you actually do feel better in your own body. 

By the way, it’s the first time I’m formatting a tips/guide post like this, so I apologize that I couldn’t be more concise.

I’ve spoken to a licensed professional counsellor as well as to some professionals who have been working from home for a long time, and some of the advice above is from them. I’m also sharing from my own experience as someone who used to be very productive and an (ex-)overachiever, and still attach a lot of my self-worth to grades and other tangible accomplishments. I hope these slides can help you. In case it’s hard to read, I’ve included it (reworded) in text form if you’d like to read more. 

Keep reading

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How to learn a language when you don’t know where to start:

General Plan:

Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:

Learn the fundamentals sentence construction

Learn how to spell and count

Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings

The Alphabet

Numbers 1 - 100

Subject Pronouns

Common Greetings

Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have

Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles

Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:

Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day

Start conjugating regular verbs

Days of the Week and Months of the Year

How to tell the time

How to talk about the weather

Family Vocabulary

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:

Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary

Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar

Colours

House vocabulary

How to ask questions

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Forming negatives

Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:

Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country

Finish memorising regular conjugation rules

Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants

Money and Shopping Phrases

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:

Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences

Adjectives

Reflective verbs

Places vocabulary

Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:

Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs

Wrap up vocabulary essentials

Adverbs

Parts of the body and medical vocabulary

Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:

Learning Vocabulary:

What vocabulary should I be learning?

There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.

Choose the words you want/need to learn.

Relate them to what you already know.

Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.

Record them so learning is never lost.

Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.

How should I record the vocabulary?

Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.

Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.

Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.

Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.

Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.

How should I practice using the vocabulary?

Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.

Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.

Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.

Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.

How often should I be practising vocabulary?

A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.

Ideally, words should be reviewed:

5-10 minutes later

24 hours later

One week later

1-2 months later

6 months later

Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:

Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).

Its grammatical category and other grammatical information

Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.

Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).

Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading

Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.

Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.

Tips for reading in a foreign language:

Start basic and small.  Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.

Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.

Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.

Tips for listening in a foreign language:

Watch films in your target language.

Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.

Listen to the radio in your target language.

Watch videos online in your target language.

Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:

Try drawing a picture of what was said.

Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.

Provide a summary of what was said.

Suggest what might come next in the “story.”

Translate what was said into another language.

“Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.

Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Tips for speaking in a foreign language:

If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner. 

Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.

A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.

Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.

Tips for writing in a foreign language:

Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.

Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:

Diary entries

Shopping lists

Reminders

What could I write about?

Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.

Make up a conversation between two people. 

Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.

Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.

Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.

Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).

Write a short story or poem.

Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide. 

There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:

Read a lot

Write a lot

Get your writing corrected

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épithètes homériques

Homeric Epithets // please correct me if anything is wrong + add more // 

brillant(e) - shining

argenté(e) - silver, silvery

langue argentée - silver tongued

doux parlé - sweet spoken

du discours sans fin - of the endless speech

mercuriel(le) - mercurial

fidèle - loyal

sage - wise

toujours jeune - ever-young (always young)

joues roses - rosy cheeked

aux doigts roses - rosy fingered

courageux de coeur - brave of heart

avec le coeur d'un lion - with the heart of a lion

avec le visage d'un renard - with the face of a fox

avec des yeux de rosée - with dew eyes (dew-eyed)

avec des yeux brillants - with bright eyes (bright-eyed)

aux yeux de bœuf - with eyes of an ox (ox-eyed)

avec des doigts habiles - with deft fingers

aux cheveux non tondus - with uncut hair

aux cheveux enflammés - with flaming hair

au pied léger - with a light foot (light-footed)

aux pieds rapides - with quick feet (swift-footed)

avec des pieds en argent - with feet of silver (silver-footed)

aux mille ruses - with a thousand tricks

à l'âme endurante - an enduring soul

mer de vin (noir) - sea of (dark) wine

qui aime la foudre - who loves lightning 

le maître des nuages/le cueilleur des nuages - master of clouds/gatherer of clouds

père non seulement des dieux mais aussi des hommes - father of not only gods but also men

la déesse au clair regard/la déesse aux yeux clairs - the goddess with clear eyes

amie des sourires, qui sourit par amour - friend of smiles, who smiles for love

la nymphe - the nymph

les dieux - the gods

héros - heroes

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French Classical Mythology Vocab

Correct me if anything’s wrong~

mythologie - mythology

une dryade - dryad

une nymphe - nymph

une naïade - naiad

une sirène - siren

un(e) centaure(sse) - centaur

un(e) satyre(sse) - satyre

un faune - faun

les olympiens - the Olympians

un héros - hero

un dieu - god

une déesse - goddess

un demi-dieu - demigod

un mortel - mortal

un monstre - monster

cornes - hornes

une hydre - a hydra

un griffon - griffin

un messager - messenger

une harpe - harp

une légende - legend

le labyrinthe - the labyrinth

céleste - celestial

la prophétie - prophecy

l'aventure - adventure

la mer - sea

un navire - ship

la rivière - river

les bois/forêts - woods/forests

une île - island

la guerre - war

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Langblr Activation Challenge

Introduction Post

Hello! My name is Destiny. This blog isn’t strictly a langblr, it’s a studyblr too. I’m here because I’m an aspiring polyglot.

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My native language is English, but is it my best? Debatable.

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I speak French pretty well, I’m on my 3rd year learning it. My Greek isn’t the best I’ve been learning it off and on for a year. Swedish also isn’t my best, it’s the same situation as Greek.

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I enjoy art, Japanese stab binding, and video games as hobbies. My favorite medium is water color and my favorite game is Assasins Creed Odyssey. My interests lie in ancient history, philosophy, geography, and time period aesthetics.

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