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Chrome extensions I actually use as a mentally ill university student

Making websites easier to digest:

Dark Reader - Changes any webpage to dark mode.

Mercury Reader - Simplifies the layout of any webpage to eliminate distractions and irritating formatting.

Podcastle AI - Turns any article into a podcast. This is a lifesaver for being able to process what I’m reading, to be honest.

Spelling/grammar:

LanguageTool - Spelling and grammar check for those of us who regularly type in more than one language.

Grammarly - Spelling and grammar check for those of us who only type in English. Can be used with LanguageTool installed, which is what I do.

Google Dictionary - Define any word on the webpage with a double-click.

Google Translate - Translate an entire webpage or even just a short segment.

Misc:

AdGuard Adblocker - After trying quite a few adblocker options, this is the one I find the best.

The Great Suspender - Automatically suspend inactive tabs to help with performance. <- as an edit, I don’t believe this is available anymore

Honey - Try coupon codes automatically to save money on online purchases.

Built-in Chrome tab grouping - Group your tabs to keep organized and minimize distracting clutter.

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I love this woman 🥺😍❤️

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I love this woman 🥺😍❤️

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I love buying notebooks, its a the illusion of productivity

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Italian resources

PDF Grammar textbooks [all in English]

Italian for Dummies

Colloquial Italian (with audio)

Ciao!

Teach Yourself Italian (with audio)

Teach Yourself - Italian conversation (with audio)

Teach Yourself - Beginner’s Italian (with audio)

Easy Italian Step-by-step

Routledge Intensive Italian course

Online free courses

Duolingo [available for English, French and Spanish speakers]

Memrise Italian course [in English]

Corso d'italiano (with dialogues) [in Italian]

ItalianPod101 [in English]

Babadum (flashcards with audio)

Basic phrases

Basic Italian phrases, vocabulary and grammar

Italian phrases

Useful Italian phrases

Verbs conjugators

Verbi italiani [available in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, German and Russian]

Conjugate Italian verbs [available in Italian, Spanish, English and Dutch]

Online dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionary (English-Italian)

Collins (English-Italian; Italian-English)

Corriere (English-Italian; Italian-English)

Wordreference (English-Italian; Italian-English)

Hoepli (Spanish-Italian; Italian-Spanish)

Radios

RAI radio 1

RAI radio 2

RAI radio 3 [Audiobooks are here]

Kiss Kiss Italia

RTL 102.5

Radio 105

R101

Television

RAIPlay (national public broadcaster)

Mediaset Play (commercial broadcaster)

Online newspapers

Corriere della sera

Mattino

Messaggero

Repubblica

Focus

Keep reading

#italian

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Here is a list of some YouTube ASMR ambiences/soundscapes (they’re all hyperlinked, so click away!) Unlike traditional ASMR, these videos do not feature any people. Talented YouTubers have used software to create rendered environments with layered sounds, with many of these ambiences inspired from fantasy to others based in reality. I find music with lyrics to be distracting sometimes, but these are great background noises for focusing, studying, doing homework, and even for relaxing. Enjoy and good luck ♡

LIBRARY SOUNDSCAPES

1. Royal Library | Rain and Thunderstorm Sounds on Study Ambience with Crackling Fireplace 

By New Bliss 

2. LIBRARY AMBIENCE: Writing Sounds, Whispering, Pages Turning, Rain, Fireplace 

by Autumn Cozy 

3. Ambience/ASMR: Writer’s Library from the 1930s, 4 Hours

by Ambience of Yesteryear

4. Study Ambience / Library Sounds / 3 Hours #241

By Winter Whale ASMR

5. Harry Potter inspired ASMR - Hogwarts Library REMAKE - Animated ambient soundscape cinemagraph

By ASMR rooms 

CAFE SOUNDSCAPES

1. Rainy Day at Coffee Shop & Jazz Music | ASMR Ambience 4K

By Cozy Corner 

2. [ASMR/Ambience]cafe after closing on a rainy urban night

By Sound Forest 

3. Coffeehouse ASMR Ambience

By Miracle Forest 

4. 1 Hour of Tea Shop Ambience | Background Noise | Cafe Ambient Sounds

By Nocturnal House 

5. ASMR Increase Concentration Tokyo Cafe Study Ambience for Homework & School

By asmr soupe 

COZY SOUNDSCAPES

1. 🎧 Cozy Ambience Bedroom - Rain on the Windows of the Rainy Night View of the City 10 Hours | Sleep

By The Relaxing Town 

2. Cozy Cabin Ambience - Writer’s Room with 8 Hours of Rain, Thunder and Fire Sounds

By Calmed by Nature 

3. Bed Breakfast ☕ Snowy Morning [ASMR] Cozy Cabin Ambience ❄️️ Winter Day with Little Bunny friend 🐰

By ASMR Weekly 

4. Rain sounds | cozy cabin | Sleep, Study, Meditation 10 hours

By White Noise Tranquility 

5. Cozy Winter Cottage | Snowstorm and Fireplace Sounds | blizzard | 10hours

By dreamy sound 

INSPIRED BY SOUNDSCAPES

1. ASMR Mystical and Noble Atmosphere of Slytherin Common Room●Harry Potter 3D Ambient Sound

By asmr soupe 

2. Lord of the Rings Inspired ASMR - the Green Dragon Inn - Medieval Tavern Ambience and Animations

By ASMR rooms 

3. ⛩ Spirited Away’s Dormitory - 1 Hour - Ghibli ASMR Soundscape

By Vibrating Art 

4. Twin Peaks Double R Diner Ambience - 8 Hours of Smooth Jazz Music, Rain Sounds, & Cozy Cafe Ambience

By Calmed by Nature 

5. A Moving Castle Type ASMR Ambience

By Miracle Forest 

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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books  that I try to update regularly 

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ancient greek masterpost!

I’ve been collecting resources to aid in teaching yourself ancient greek for about a year now, and here they all are!

Where to Start:

List of places to start

How to guide

Intro to the language

Info about dialects

Info on learning homeric greek

Lexicity, has tons more links and helpful guides

Pronunciation (Youtube)

Textbooks:

Google drive with TONS of textbooks, mythology/culture books, and reference guides 

Companion site to Mastronarde’s textbook

Mastronarde textbook answer key

Companion site to the Teach Yourself book series

First Greek Book textbook download link

Learn to Read Greek textbook

Companion site to Athenaze

A First Greek Course

First Greek Grammar Accidence

Greek Grammar 

Smyth’s Greek Grammar

Grammar, Guides and Practice:

Grammar info

Grammar review

Vocab and grammar drills online

Worksheets on conjugations and declensions

Pronunciation guide

Parts of The Odyssey read aloud in ancient greek

Parts of The Iliad read aloud in ancient greek + Another

The whole Iliad in ancient greek

Other:

Dictionary

Dictionary and texts

Trojan War dates

Some books of the iliad

Some books of the odyssey 

Sappho original text

General info about Sappho

Ancient greek music reconstruction and info

Specifics^: Music and theory

More music info

Accents and other help (Youtube)

*Updated as of Jan. 9, 2016

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In case some of you still have trouble with this (^~^)

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ancient greek masterpost!

I’ve been collecting resources to aid in teaching yourself ancient greek for about a year now, and here they all are!

Where to Start:

List of places to start

How to guide

Intro to the language

Info about dialects

Info on learning homeric greek

Lexicity, has tons more links and helpful guides

Pronunciation (Youtube)

Textbooks:

Google drive with TONS of textbooks, mythology/culture books, and reference guides 

Companion site to Mastronarde’s textbook

Mastronarde textbook answer key

Companion site to the Teach Yourself book series

First Greek Book textbook download link

Learn to Read Greek textbook

Companion site to Athenaze

A First Greek Course

First Greek Grammar Accidence

Greek Grammar 

Smyth’s Greek Grammar

Grammar, Guides and Practice:

Grammar info

Grammar review

Vocab and grammar drills online

Worksheets on conjugations and declensions

Pronunciation guide

Parts of The Odyssey read aloud in ancient greek

Parts of The Iliad read aloud in ancient greek + Another

The whole Iliad in ancient greek

Other:

Dictionary

Dictionary and texts

Trojan War dates

Some books of the iliad

Some books of the odyssey 

Sappho original text

General info about Sappho

Ancient greek music reconstruction and info

Specifics^: Music and theory

More music info

Accents and other help (Youtube)

*Updated as of Jan. 9, 2016

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Ancient Greek Masterpost

Dictionary :

Lexilogos

Alphabet and pronunciation :

Ancient and Modern Greek Alphabet

Pronunciation

Info :

Dialects

Art, History and More

Mythology

Grammar books :

First Greek Book

Greek Prose Composition

Greek Grammar

First Greek Grammar Syntax

Other Grammars

Udallas Classics

UChicago Handouts

Verbs :

Kalos

Memrise :

Memrise Greek Courses

Practise :

Eton College Tester

Texts :

Greek Poetry

Greek Texts

I haven’t tried all of them, but some of them are really useful sources. If any of the links isn’t working, feel free to contact me ! If you have some particular needs (for exampe, you need to translat Homer) contact me at anytime and I’ll give you some sources to help you !

#ancient greek

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So you want to learn modern Greek: Greek language learning master post

If you’re trying to learn Greek and find materials for learning online you’ve probably run into some frustration because it seems like most of the information is geared toward learners of Koine Greek to read the Bible. That’s all well and good, but for those of us who are looking to learn modern Greek it’s not terribly helpful.

With that in mind I’ve compiled a list of the materials that I found in my quest to self-study Greek that began in earnest about 1.5 years ago. Now keep in mind I had an excellent teacher (my girlfriend) who also served as my motivation, but even if you don’t have a close relationship with a Greek speaker you will at some point need to interact with proficient speakers to help move you to the next level of fluency. However, the materials I outlined here should be enough to give you a very good start.

Learning Greek podcasts from the Hellenic American Union: The go-to audio-visual resource.  80 lessons (all FREE) with accompanying PDF transcripts.  Be warned it’s ALL Greek, not a lick of English (or anything else) in it, so you’ll need a dictionary/textbook to go with it.

Teach Yourself Greek: The Greek edition of the venerable textbook series.  Definitely worth a look.

Memrise: There are a surprising number of really good Modern Greek-English flashcard sets on Memrise (which uses a spaced repetition algorithm that I found very effective).

Wordreference: King of the online dictionaries, at least in terms of variety

Neurolingo Lexiscope: See a word in Greek but can’t work out its uninflected form?  This is the tool for you (only 10 free searches a day, though, last I checked)

Modern Greek Verbs: Everything you ever wanted to know about Modern Greek verbs.  Seriously, everything.

Greek Grammar: Excellent overviews of the main grammatical points of the Greek parts of speech

Harry Foundalis’ Greek Language: Harry’s a bit of a renaissance man, which is awesome.  His way of explaining verbal aspect in Modern Greek I found less awesome until I warmed to it, but that’s just me: I like the technical, linguistics jargon filled explanations coupled with charts of patterns and examples. Once I got past the presentation I could see what he was doing and it has a certain brilliance.  The rest of his grammar (and phonetics) stuff is top notch.

Cooljugator: Conjugates most common Greek verbs.

These resources, watching lots of Greek TV (thank you, YouTube) and listening to lots of Greek music (thank you YouTube again), and practicing constantly (thank you to my girlfriend) took me from zero to fairly fluent in about 1.5 years.  Now, I already spoke a lot of languages and I had help, so your results may vary, but this should be a good start on your Greek learning journey.

Καλή επιτυχία!

#modern greek

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Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

ASL University

Arabic

Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop down menu)

Arabic Without Walls

Intro to Arabic

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Catalan Sign Language

Intro to Catalan Sign Language

Chinese

Beginner

Basic Chinese

Basic Chinese I. II, III, IV , V

Basic Mandarin Chinese I & II

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters

Chinese for HSK 1

First Year Chinese I &  II

HSK Level 1

Mandarin Chinese I

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Chino Básico (Taught in Spanish)

Intermediate

Chinese Stories

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

Basic Finnish

Finnish for Immigrants

Finnish for Medical Professionals

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Basic French Skills

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Diploma in French

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

French in Action

French for Beginners

French Language Studies I, II, III

French:Ouverture

Intermediate & Advanced

French: Le Quatorze Juillet

Passe Partout 

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in English)

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)

German

Beginner

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

Conversational German I, II, III, IV

Deutsch im Blick

Diploma in German

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Advanced

German:Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte

Landschaftliche Vielfalt

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

Know the Hebrew Alphabet

Teach Me Hebrew

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Business Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Italian for Beginners 1 , 2, 3 , 4 , 5, 6 

Intermediate & Advaned

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

La Commedia di Dante

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Sing and Learn Japanese

Tufs JpLang

Kazakh

A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Nepali

Beginner’s Conversation and Grammar

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian

Norwegian on the Web

Portuguese

Curso de Português para Estrangeiros 

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Advanced

Reading Master and Margarita

Russian as an Instrument of Communication

Siberia: Russian for Foreigners

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Beginner’s Spanish:Food & Drink

Fastbreak Spanish

Introduction to Spanish

Restaurants and Dining Out

Spanish for Beginners

Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Spanish Vocabulary

Intermediate

Spanish:Ciudades con Historia

Spanish:Espacios Públicos

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

Swedish

Intro to Swedish

Swedish Made Easy 1, 2, & 3

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Ukrainian Language for Beginners

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: March 1, 2017

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How to Create a Self-Study Schedule

If you’re studying any foreign language on your own (or without a course) you’re going to need to be extra organized. Your language study is in your own hands and so is how much you learn. There is no one holding you accountable or motivated either. So it’s entirely up to you to make sure you’re organized and planning enough material that your learning at a comfortable pace. There are roughly two ways to learn languages on your own. There are roughly two ways to go about planning your language study: intensively or casually. Here are my tips for intensive studying and I’ll post about casual studying soon:

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Hello.. I just started learning Italian. And I sometimes don’t know where to start. Do I start with more grammar or vocabularies? Which should I focus more on? Any tips? Especially for beginner Italian learners. Thank you xx

Ciao! Here’s a list of posts that might help you!

I don’t know where to start

300 basic words

Resources to learn Italian if your first language is not English

Italian resources masterpost

Italian movies/TV series: x - x - x 

Italian books

Italian TV programs for kids (easier to understand)

I hope this is enough for the moment. To answer your question, you should focus on both grammar and words: start with the simple present of the main verbs and then learn basic vocabulary (greetings, family, food…). Then, with time, you can enlarge your objectives, learning more verb forms and tenses and more complex vocabulary. Proceed step by step, read and listen. If you ever needed anything, you can ask me, @sciogli-lingua, @langsandlit or @sayitaliano (they have a long list of resources on their blog)! Buona fortuna!

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Heya! I've decided to come up with one of these since challenges really help me get on my track again and I've been procrastinating too much

How it works

Choose a target language (if you want to do it with more than one then by all means go ahead)

Look up five (5) new words each day

Make flashcards about the words (this will work as your study material)

Write a sentence with each word (this is optional)

If you want you can post your word list on Tumblr using the tag #fivewordsaday

That's it! Nice and easy!

When do we begin?

October 15th

I have no idea what words to look for!

You can try different topics each day:

School

The beach

Animals

Nature

Seasons

Body parts

Colours

Clothes

Adjectives

Verbs

Halloween themed

I'll be posting my word list for you guys and if you'd like a link to my Quizlet flashcards just tell me and I'll post that too.

Good luck to anyone trying this out!

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italian resources masterlist

 Music/Listening

This Duolingo thread has some great recommendations

Mama Lisa lists some common nursery rhymes

Shazam Top 40 Italia

This matches songs to your Duolingo vocab 

LyricsTraining a game where you listen to music and write the lyrics

Lyrics Translate translate songs or read translations

Warner Music Italy current Italian pop songs

Warner Music Youtube

Italian Pod Podcast teaching italian

Coffee Break Italian Podcast

Al Dente Podcast 

CyberItalian beginners podcast

Film/Video

Rai Italia probably for more advanced learners as they don’t often have subtitles on the videos. you will need a vpn provider like hola better internet to access the videos.

Italia-Film has movies and TV shows, some subtitled, others dubbed

Learn Italian With Lucrezia has lots of videos about the language and culture. She also has vlogs where she speaks exclusively in italian.

DotSub has videos in or subtitled in Italian

Learn Italian With Ricky Gervais if you haven’t watched this, are you really studying italian?

Repetita Didattica

Books/Reading

Duolingo thread about webcomics // 2

Vikidia (essentially wikipedia in other languages)

EFPFanfic has both fanfiction and original stories in Italian

Vocab/Word Lists

ie languages

95 Italian Core Concepts

Italian Text Message Expressions

Memrise - Power Up Your Italian

400 Essential Intermediate Expressions

Duolinguisto on Wordpress

My Languages Italian

Other

A Modern Italian Grammar

Common Italian Verbs and Expressions

Difference Between mbeh, boh, uffa etc

Library Thing - ctrl+f “italian” on the page for books to download

Duolingo Resources Thread

@languageramblings​‘ /tagged/italian page

my /tagged/italian page

Italian Idioms 

ItalianPod 101

Iceberg Project (definitely subscribe to cher’s weekly newsletter)

Forvo for pronunciation (super helpful)

#italian