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vaguely academic things to do to keep yourself entertained

go down a wikipedia research hole by clicking the first term you don’t understand

binge a crashcourse series end to end (personal recs: world history, history of science, big history, philosophy)

find free books on project gutenberg

download some western classics for free

borrow books and audiobooks from the libby app or borrowbox

start a commonplace book

take a khan academy course

browse MIT’s free online course materials

teach yourself to code

go on a google scholar essay dive

try the open access button to avoid some paywalls for academic media, or install unpaywall that does a similar thing

research the history of the place you where you live

tempt the wrath of the duolingo owl and learn a language

search for online streams of the local tv in your target language’s country and use as background noise for immersion points

print and scrapbook favourite poetry and literature quotes

improve your handwriting by doing handwriting exercises

learn philosophy with the philosophize this! podcast. actually just check out all the educational spotify podcasts there are many good ones

start a weekly club with friends to share new and interesting things you’ve learnt that week

clean and reorganise your study space, physical or digital

check out online museums

fave educational youtube channels that I adore: vsauce, crashcourse, smarter every day, kurzgesagt, school of life, tom scott, r. c. waldun, vsauce3, primer, mark rober, veritasium, asapSCIENCE, scishow, TED-ed

hopefully you’ll find something to enjoy! happy learning x

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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

Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change

Arabic

Arabic Without Walls

Madinah Arabic

Moroccan Arabic

Armenian

Depi Hayk

Bengali

Learn Bangla (Register to see course)

Catalan

Parla.Cat

Speak Cat

Chinese (Mandarin)

Beginner

Chinese for Beginners

Chinese Characters for Beginners

Chinese for HSK 1

Chinese for HSK 2

Chinese for HSK 3 I & II

Chinese for HSK 4

Chinese for HSK 5

Mandarin Chinese Level I

Mandarin Chinese Essentials

Mandarin Chinese for Business

More Chinese for Beginners

Start Talking Mandarin Chinese

UT Gateway to Chinese

Intermediate

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Mandarin for Intermediate Learners I

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

English

Online Courses here

Resources Here

Faroese

Faroese Course

Finnish

A Taste of Finnish

French

Beginner

AP French Language and Culture

Elementary French I & II

Français Interactif

Vivre en France - A1

Vivre en France- A2

Intermediate & Advanced

French Intermediate course B1-B2

Passe-Partout

Travailler en France A2-B1                    

Vivre en France - B1  

German

Beginner

Deutsch im Blick

German Project

German at Work

Goethe Institute

Gwich’in

Introduction to Gwich’in Language

Hebrew

Biblical Hebrew

UT Austin

Hindi

A Door into Hindi

Virtual Hindi

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Indonesian

Learn Indonesian

Irish

Irish 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107

Italian

Beginner

Beginner’s Italian I

Introduction to Italian

Intermediate & Advanced

AP Italian Language and Culture

Intermediate Italian I

Advanced Italian I

Japanese

Genki

Japanese JOSHU

Japanese Pronunciation

Marugoto Courses

Tufs JpLang

Korean

Beginner

First Step Korean

How to Study Korean

Introduction to Korean

Learn to Speak Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Intermediate

Intermediate Korean

Norwegian

Introduction to Norwegian I, Norwegian II

Norwegian on the Web

Persian

Easy Persian

PersianDee

Polish

Online Course

Portuguese

Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro

Russian

Beginner

A1 Course

I speak Russian

Intermediate

B1 Course

B1+ Course

B2.1 Course

B2.2 Course

Spanish

Beginner

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Basic Spanish I, Spanish II

Spanish for beginners  

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

Spanish Vocabulary

Advanced

Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones 

Leer a Macondo

Swahili

Online Course

Turkish

Online Course

Ukrainian

Read Ukrainian

Speak Ukrainian

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

Discovering Wales

Yoruba

Yorùbá Yé Mi

Multiple Languages

Ancient Languages

More Language Learning Resources & Websites!

Last updated: May 2019

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follow-spree!

hey, everyone! studypetals here.

it’s been forever since i’ve visited tumblr, but i kinda want to get back in the swing of things!

i would love to follow some of you guys, so just like/reblog with tags on what you post/reblog if you’d like me to check out your profile :D

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for the new semester :) by studycation

(i owned thetipvilla on ig a few years ago if you’re wondering where the watermarks are from)

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language resources

hi guys since i just hit 1k (1.2k now) i decided to make this :) i don’t have a lot for other languages besides Spanish or French, but this is mainly what i have :) THERES LITERALLY NO ORDER TO THIS SORRY

General

website 1 (verbal planet)

worksheets

vocab lists

grammar explanations 

free downloads

website 2 (the language gym)

you can choose what tenses you want to be studied on

tests vocab

play games

website 3 (word brewery)

great for vocab and practicing understanding

Spanish

English

Chinese

Arabic

Portuguese

Russian

Japanese

German

French

Italian

Polish

Ukrainian

Korean

Serbian (Latin)

Serbian (Cryillic)

Hungarian

Greek

Swedish

Norwegian

improving vocabulary

how to learn a new language 1+ language masterpost

how to learn languages 2

speed of a language (what is the fastest lang?)

apps for many languages

printable

losing interest in a language class

BaDum!

starting a language journal

language tips

studying tips

free online courses

topics to talk about in ur target lang.

ASL (american sign language)

tips

alphabet

Spanish

conversation vocab

animals

essay vocab 1

essay vocab 2

essay vocab 3

saying hello

saying goodbye

spanish tenses masterpost

nature vocab

mental health vocab

resources 1

resources 2

resources 3

some really random vocab

cual vs que

spanish comics

quick “today i have to” exercise

quick “tomorrow i have to” exercise

reaction phrases

time vocab

que fue explained

alli vs alla

summer vocab

cinema vocab

future indicative examples

para vs por

weather

extra handy vocab for conversations 

linking time with actions

more basics 

French

resources 1

resources 2

resources 3

resources 4

resources 5

resources 6

Le Passé Composé masterpost

langage-et-linguistique

basics cheat sheet

saying theres no point in french

beautiful vocab

verbs

adverbs

adjectives

be mean in french

animals vocab

weather vocab

slang

small talk

example of studying a song

my study playlist (hon hon)

trees and flowers vocab

im grateful in french

guessing french genders

dog vocab ;)

harry potter in french PDFs

level 3 stuff ( @dehgastudies )

questions + answers vocab

how to learn french

feelings

nighttime vocab

handy vocab for reading articles

travel vocab

essay vocab

places vocab

Italian

guessing italian genders

masterpost 

resources

geography/astrology vocab

German

mission berlin game story

slow german

kids game !! easy vocab

language guide

Greek

great resources to begin learning

the basics

modern greek

greek resources

definitive article

key phrases 

more basics

greek 101 site

Czech

vocab

Hungarian

vocab

Chinese

stroke order

mandarin verbs

basic words

Romanian

school vocab

appearance vocab

emotions

Polish

astrology vocab

Korean

travel vocab

how to read

korean grammar

how to study korean!

Portuguese

animals

ta falado

oneness

Hebrew

back to school resources

Japanese

learning 

basics

household items vocab

clothing items vocab

Norwegian

textbooks based on CEFR levels

head vocab

resources

Vietnamese

resources

resources 2

alphabet

lessons

survival phrases

Welsh

resources !!

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Okay this might seem like a weird question, but i'm having a gap year.. (due personal reasons let's say) And I want to study a bit from home.. but I don't know where to start. How do I study something when I won't be tested, without a teacher or anything like that.. It's not lack of discipline I struggle with. It's lack of structure and goals? Do you have advice?

Hi! I get what you’re feeling when I started taking online courses I had those doubts. Here’s what I did:

Make a list of things you’re interested about and then pick the one you’re most interested about.

This is a great way to organize and see on paper what’s going on in your head and starting to set some goals. Eg.: I started by picking Nutrition, once I finish that I moved on to French.I made a goal: to finish the course I liked the most, so then I could start the other one.

Once you pick, take some time to look for the right resources, whether you prefer textbooks, websites, online courses. 

Online courses, I think are a good way to start, because the information is real, given to your by professionals and most importantly it’s free! Sites like Alison,  edX, Coursea they give you a wide range of courses for free (the trick is that 95% of them will ask you to pay for the certificate, but personally I don’t really mind).

Things I like about online courses:

- They have more than one course about the same subject, so you can look at the topics they’ll talk and get to see which one will be the best for you. 

- They also give you what level the course corresponds to and how many hours you should study the topic!

- You can asks questions and they’ll answer.

- In the description of they tell you what you can do (job-related) with the course, where you can work, doing what…

Of course, if you want you can always go to a bookstore and ask for textbooks for the subject you want to learn about, some people prefer to have an actual physical copy of what they’re learning and I totally get it.

That being set, you now have to start! But how?

Make a schedule.

Simple as that, a schedule. Like the ones they give you at school, make your own schedule. And this can be as flexible as you want. You can study only or Mondays, or Tuesdays and Thursdays. It’s up to you. All you have to do is stick with it.My experience: with nutrition, it was something I loved so much, I studied every day! With French, I���m learning 4 topics every two days.

Once you have that figured out, you can start studying. Study for yourself, that’s why you should pick something you love. The goal here is for you to learn something, to gain more knowledge! Without the pressure of school or teachers. 

And one thing you mentioned about not being tested, with online courses after every main topic they do test you! It’s simple, usually multiple choices and you can repeat it if you didn’t like the result. They do this mainly for the certificates like in school you get a grade in your diploma, they need a grade too, and that’s the reason for the testing.

I don’t know if this answers exactly your question, but I hope it helps you! And please if you want me to be more specific about it, just ask I’m here to help!

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Saudade

Noun

[soh-dah-duh] 

1. (in Portuguese folk culture) a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent:     the theme of saudade in literature and music.

Origin: Portuguese saudade ultimately derives from Latin sōlitāt-, the stem of sōlitās “loneliness, solitude.” (Latin -l- between vowels is lost in Portuguese; Latin -t- between vowels becomes -d- in Portuguese and Spanish.) The original Old Portuguese form soidade was altered to saudade under the influence of the verb saudar “to salute, greet” (from Latin salūtāre “to keep safe, pay one’s respects”). Saudade entered English in the 20th century.

“… “The Girl From Ipanema” was a potent distillation of the concept of saudade, a feeling of melancholic nostalgia that characterizes so much Brazilian music. … Longing for the unattainable, and an acute sense of the moment’s slipping away: That’s saudade.” - Stephen Holden, “Brazilian Yearning and Imminent Loss,” New York Times, March 21, 2014

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Polish - croatian false friends:

obraz - painting, image / obraz - cheek

trudno - difficult / trudna, f. - pregnant

zatrudnić - to employ / zatrudnijeti - to become pregnant

zawodnik - contestant / zavodnik - seducer

droga - road / droga - drug

brak - lack of sth. / brak - marriage

dworzec - station / dvorac - castle

puszka - a can / puška - rifle

biżuteria - jewelery / bižuterija - imitation jewelery

suknia - dress / suknja - skirt

karawan - hearse / karavan - caravan

przystojny - handsome / pristojan - polite

biegać - to run / bježati - to run away, to flee

bawić się - to have fun / baviti se - to deal with, to engage in

jagoda - berry / jagoda - strawberry

dywan - carpet / divan - wonderful

smak - taste / smak (svijeta) - the end (of the world)

frajer - (person) mug / frajer - a badass, dude

godzina - hour / godina - year

dres - sweatsuit / dres - jersey

gruby - fat / grub - rough, harsh

czuć - to feel / čuti - to hear

Burek - common dog name / burek - type of pastry

przeklinać - to swear / preklinjati - to beg

używać - to use / uživati - to enjoy

list - letter / list - leaf

chodnik - sidewalk / hodnik - hallway

awantura - fight, fuss / avantura - adventure

pałac - palace / palac - thumb

skup - buying up / skup, m. - expensive

sporo - much, a lot of sth. / sporo - slowly

luka - gap / luka - port

kraj - country / kraj - ending, land

piwnica - basement / pivnica - tavern, beerhouse

ponoć - apparently, supposedly / ponoć - midnight

udana, f. - successful, well-done / udana, f. - married

róż - blusher, pink / ruž - lipstick

grzebać - to dig / grebati - to scratch

jak - like, how / jak, m. - strong

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The first day back to uni as things my professor managed to say in less than 30 minutes

Consider this class as an enlightened dictatorship

You can miss 4 classes. If you miss 5 and then say “it’s just one more than 4” I know basic maths, thanks. It’s still no.

Don’t talk in class, you only make my life miserable. And if you make my life miserable I make you miserable

You have to study everything. Is it hard? Yes. I don’t care.

On the 4th of October the university is closed because of the patron saint or whatever. This pisses me off so I decided to skip also the class on the 2nd. Jk I have a conference.

This might look authoritarian to you but I’m not. I’m not sure that’s a good thing.

Don’t be afraid to ask even if you think it’s a stupid thing. If you knew everything already I’d be jobless, so it’s your ignorance that pays my salary

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comfy study

take off your makeup, throw on your sweats, wrap yourself in a blanket, grab a hot tea and get to work

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Knossos (pronounced Kuh-nuh-SOS) is the ancient Minoan palace and surrounding city on the island of Crete, sung of by Homer in his Odyssey: “Among their cities is the great city of Cnosus, where Minos reigned when nine years old, he that held converse with great Zeus.” King Minos, famous for his wisdom and, later, one of the three judges of the dead in the underworld, would give his name to the people of Knossos and, by extension, the ancient civilization of Crete: Minoan. The settlement was established well before 2000 BCE and was destroyed, most likely by fire (though some claim a tsunami) c. 1700 BCE. Knossos has been identified with Plato’s mythical Atlantis from his dialogues of the Timaeus and Critiasand is also known in myth most famously through the story of Theseus and the Minotaur. It should be noted that King Minos’ character in the story, as the king who demands human sacrifice from Athens, is at odds with other accounts of him as a king of wisdom and justice who, further, built the first navy and rid the Aegean sea of pirates. (insp)

@mythonetwork: event 3: favorite location - knossos, crete

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im in the library working on some final papers and the dude across from me at this study staton just did the sign of the cross before he started typing something so that’s where he’s at rn

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french person: *speaks french*

me, crying: how do you do that with your mouth

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My reaction to the latest Duolingo update.

Stop me.

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I made a lame meme.

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GUARDIANS OF THE SALT

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first day of college in media: “Please open up your textbooks to chapter three because I expect you to have already read the first two chapters in preparation for starting this class”

first day of college in reality: “We’re going to spend the next hour slowly and thoroughly going over every page of the syllabus because I strongly suspect at least half of you assholes don’t actually know how to read”