#here's your time to shine

[pompadourpink]

salut maman!! how long does it take to learn french? i guess it depends but wanted to ask

Hello child,

As I'm sure you can imagine, there is no unique answer to this. Not only because how quickly you'll become fluent will depend on your personality, learning style, tolerance to frustration, and the amount of free time you have and are willing to spend working on it, but also because fluency is a blurry concept, especially for romance languages since they're so dynamic and different from what you find in textbooks.

Starting from scratch, if you work half an hour a day, use the right tools, know how to alternate between activities, and learn things in the right order, I think you can get to about B1 in a year and B2 in two - which doesn't seem like much of a difference, but it's actually the biggest one when learning a language in my opinion.

What do I mean:

Half an hour a day: you need things to stick, so ten minutes wouldn't cut it, but I doubt more would be, first, realistic, because you'll have other things to worry about, sometimes you'll be sick, busy or on vacation, and second, sustainable: if you turn the experience into a burden, you'll be consistent for a few days, weeks, months, take one day off, and avoid your notes for the next eight months because you've stressed yourself out too much.

Use the right tools: my favourite resources are le Wiktionnaire (etymology is a good friend), Wordreference, Lenouvelobs and Deepl.

Alternate between activities: getting a grammar book and reading one page a day will make you miserable and steal your motivation. On day one, you can learn articles and practice, on day two, read a Petit ours brun book with the help of Deepl, on day three learn how to pronounce numbers on Youtube... One tip: start the day by reviewing what you did the day before.

Learn things in the right order: my method with beginners is typically to focus on reading and overlook writing and pronunciation for a while so that they can get a good understanding of our syntax, memorise prepositions, tell tenses apart, etc. If on day one, you decide to watch a dubbed version of Friends or Harry Potter, it will be the equivalent of getting a firearm, shooting yourself in the foot and wondering why it's not helping you run a marathon.

I've been tutoring for almost three years so I'll add this: your worst enemy will be your ego. I've heard many times people six months into their journey complain that they speak like a six-year-old without realising that it took the six-year-old six years.

It will be difficult, particularly if your first language is not romance: sometimes you'll have strokes (I have nearly fluent students who sometimes forget that adjectives can need to be pluralized or casually write il mangé convinced it's imperfect), sometimes you'll try to translate English even though it's generally not an available option, sometimes you'll blank over a basic word and rage.

It's fine. It's all fine. Trust the process.

Hope this helps! x

#ask #reminder that I answer qs on mondays #here's your time to shine

[sherlockggrian]

bros before cleos

#she is a knight in shining armour your honour #i just enjoyed drawing her too much last time! so here is my design for her for now #secret life #slsmp #trafficblr #last life #zombiecleo #mcyt #idk cleos tumblr actually #secret life smp #spark draws #if cleo is the sun. then bdubs is the moon. and etho is the stars #goodnight

[room-of-lies]

served cunt and died, poor bastard

#wanted to try out some painting and mishima became my victim here... srry man #kazumi mishima #yttd #your turn to die #kimi ga shine #vivi art time #ask 2 tag #cw decapitation

[majoregan]

NATE MANN as ROBERT "ROSIE" ROSENTHAL in Masters of the Air

#come on dark academia girlies #this is your time to shine #the original clip was sooo dark im sorry for the visible noise #nate mann #he's so domestic here #rosie rosenthal #masters of the air #robert rosenthal #robert rosie rosenthal #nate mann gifs #rosie rosenthal gifs #mastersoftheair #mota #mota rosie #masters of the air rosie #the coombe house #dark academia #mota nate mann #mota rosenthal

[yogurtea]

in my second chance/no death game AU i like to imagine mai's bread shop (it's more of a bakery/patisserie here but whatever) becomes a common hang out spot for everybody :)

#i left out all the dummies in my big park scene so i wanted to make sure to include them all this time #but that meant i had to leave out a lot of the original cast cause 20 characters is just. too many #so assume everyone who isn't here is playing mini golf together or something #your turn to die #yttd #kimi ga shine #i did fucking interior perspective and lighting for this fanart i’m insane #and i WILL do it again >:3 #keiji shinogi #hinako mishuku #anzu kinashi #ranmaru kageyama #sara chidouin #shunsuke hayasaka #naomichi kurumada #gin ibushi #mai tsurugi #kugie kizuchi #kanna kizuchi #shin tsukimi #my art #yogurt's yttd au

[r-oruroru]

my magnum opus

#yttd #kimi ga shine #your turn to die #sara chidouin #shin tsukimi #kai satou #joe tazuna #reposting art here till i get the time to draw

[onecoolbee]

my Dark Urge and the Rabies Babies team finally made it to act 3, and let me just say the vibes they all bring are wild. Imagine trying to intimidate a group of 2 female drow warriors, a one-eyed githyanki, and a woman clad head to toe in sharran armor that exudes magical darkness around it. and then there's karlach who is just stoked to go to the carnival, never change

#i resisted the urge and spared isobel at last light....however #shadowheart was like well what should i do about the nightsong #and durge was like its just 1 murder shadowheart #how much could it cost. we came all this way its your time to shine #and certain events ensued and the little buttler guy was like wow im impressed you actually did it after all that. heres your jammies #now that minthara is in act 3 she has so much to say and im in love #minthara and dark justiciar shadowheart would peel an orange for u but only so they could slightly poison it to build ur immunity to toxins #baldur's gate 3 #bg3

[dent-de-leon]

once again remembering that the widomauk forehead kiss was the first kiss of the campaign. And then Caleb kisses Molly back at the end. The unconditional love and tenderness of it all--

#the pairing of all time honestly #PLEASE tell me we get animated nein soon i need to see the widomauk forehead kisses animated and also all their soft and #silly little moments #'the only magical here friend is you' 'oh that's cute' #'mr mollymauk--' 'mR CALEB--' #'i am satisfied mollymauk tealeaf. for now.' 'this is not how i expected this to go...thank you...' #'caleb? time for that later remember? come on. let's go get you some sunlight--' #'shine bright circus man' #'im going to hell anyway--' #'this can be a conversation or it can be a reunion.' #'what else did we come here for? why did we go so far and fight so hard--' #'empty no longer mr tealeaf' #'oh youre cute magic man' #'CALEB. SOFTNESS AND LIGHT--' #you #you get the idea-- #'

[daily-beanie-man-sou]

Day 34: quick doodle. tired

#I wasn't going to draw today #but I finished my math homework #so I had time #shin tsukimi #sou hiyori #yttd shin #yttd sou #kimi ga shine #your turn to die #yttd #daily sou #daily shin #shin out here with heavier eyebags than keiji tonight

[theydoctor]

Thank you for the tag @tickle-me-dalek <33

Favourite colour: Purple :)

Currently reading: too much at the same time. Guards! Guards!, Good Omens for the nth time, about three books about wwi and of course Good Omens fanfiction

Last song: Identity by SHINee, I love their new album so much!

Last series: Good Omens. I am doing perfectly well. ;-;

Last movie: Asteroid City! Wes Anderson movies my beloved

Currently working on: hm, nothing specific really. Enjoying my free time. But I am planning on doing fanart of one of my fav streamers later, so that probably haha

No pressure tagging: @revenge-raven364 @x-ladydisdain-x @walkingcontradiction42 @swallow-wind @ninetimesbluedemo <3

#sunny i still want to type your old username every time akshjsgs #also hhhh go listen to the new shinee album guys it's so good #well if you like kpop that is i guess #but it's good ok really good! #alternatively listen to the beatles or smth they're always amazing <3 #wish i could give good music recs atm but i'm too deep in kpop world rn akhssjgs #and thanks again for the tag tickle-me-dalek i've missed seeing you on here ^^ #charlie rambles

[marvosa-yroz]

And the best part...

And they tell me their ship isn't CANON.

#benson's technically a princess at this point #regular show #regular show benson #regular show mordecai #benson dunwoody #mordecai #mordeson #the amount of times he's been a damsel in distress surprised me #here comes your knight in shining blue armor benson hehehe #ahhh why can't they be canon!? #meme made by me

[septembersghost]

remembering Elvis' last performance; June 26th, 1977 💛💛💛

(via, x ✨)

#elvis presley #i think i've said this before but to my girlies here if you want a place to start on IG #walking_in_memphis is such a lovely account #it's the way he gave everything he had and that he could to the music and for his audiences #how he just wanted to give the same safe place he found on stage back to them and let people know they belonged #and that inspiration and safe place was so embracing and resonant that we still find it today #“he was bursting with love and on stage he had a safe place of expressing it through his music” #my heart #yet again apologies for reposting things from accounts elsewhere but i just always feel like it should be here too #sail on silver girl; sail on by #your time has come to shine #i was a dreamer #so i keep singing a song

[oatbugs]

she says my heart is yours, from the caspian shores.

#in astana there is haunting symmetry. in the summer there are flowers breathing fresh air and fumes. in the winter ice covers the park #sole-deep so you let the LCD screen advertisements warm your heart. the serpent offers her a gold apple from a brass tree. #she bites the serpent. in london a biochemistry graduate becomes obsessed and beautiful. she designs gene sequencing devices. #she says the rubber components smell like cinnamon. #in tashkent the trees shine under the sun and the sky is vast. by the blue pond and the tall marble spires you see the fractal patterns #on the ceiling in her eyes. she feels like a strobe light firing onto your eyelids. she takes revenge. you can hear the water droplets fall #from into the fountain. she tells you about cre-lox knockout and how you should head into the city cafe and you cant #stop staring into her eyes and you can't listen very well. when she laughs all your hearts almost become an ocean. #in bishkek you suffer death by a thousand sunsets. your world is white and lilac and mountainous. you learn about the joy of #taking without giving. backstage of the opera theatre you kiss him again and again and again until briefly you are the apex. #in tehran the sun is almost as fervent as their full-up lungs (it takes up the span of your window. crisp edges through a particulate storm #they spend an hour making a 10-minute ride to chamran and the wheels are melting. the two girls in the car spend that time wisely. #the air is filled with smog so she breathes her instead. you like how she looks at you like she'll rip you apart. #here they sold the mountaintops. the girls take a brother'a army-issued rifle to the forest with them. #she says she could start a war. she says my heart is yours، from the caspian shores.

[room-of-lies]

One must imagine Sara Chidouin happy

#ignore the quality here eek #sara chidouin #yttd #your turn to die #kimi ga shine #vivi art time #described

[ducktracy]

!!!NEW REVIEW!!!

another short prone to terminal Ben Hardaway-itis, Porky’s Baseball Broadcast is best seen as a bridge between two other Freleng directed shorts based on baseball—1936’s Boulevardier from the Bronx and 1946’s Baseball Bugs, the latter of which derives inspiration from this one. a spot gag cartoon under the duplicitous disguise of a Porky short, Porky serves as a commentary to guide the audience through a variety of baseball themed hijinks.

#now. this is very important. i need you to listen to me. this review comes with some prerequisites #you are NOT going to search up Baseball Bugs and you are NOT going to find it free on b98.tv. you are also NOT going to find it on HBO Max #if you have it. which you do NOT if you follow directions. and you are NOT going to watch this much funnier more iconic and all around #better cartoon. you are NOT going to waste your time doing that. it would be such a tragedy. now. remember again! absolutely do NOT follow #my advice here! do NOT search Baseball Bugs directed by Friz Freleng. #because as you can tell i am the number one fan of the shining masterpiece that is Porky’s Baseball Broadcast #lt #porky’s baseball broadcast #freleng #reviews #i’m legitimately more distraught about how dirty they did Porky here over any of the cornpone excuses for jokes

[cosmojjong]

170511 Jonghyun on Kangta's Starry Night [ENG SUB]

may contain minor inaccuracies. hope you enjoy!

Part 1 - introduction to jonghyun, the release of op. 2, lonely & more

Part 2 - short talk about the life of djs

Part 3 - 60 second game, jonghyun's passion for writing, his new hobbies, the agit: the letter & more

#jonghyun #kangta #starry night #shinee #i really didn't want to post this here too because - and i must've said this a hundred times - i hate being perceived #so pretend i didn't do this and enjoy it to your heart's content #if you feel happy with such things then my goal is reached