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Clear your desk. Tie up your hair. Get your coffee. Sit down, and start. Just start.

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Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   

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15/06/2017 There are still two more weeks until my sociology exam, but because there are a lot of theories I need to know it seemed like a good plan to start studying early. Have a great day everyone!

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school mindset

essays - make each essay you write better than the last


 small assignments - aim for 100s, expect 100s, get 100s


 homework - pretend they’re assignments


 homework that’s not graded - pretend! they’re! assignments!


 tests - study for 100s, expect less


 long term projects - act like it’s due in four days -even when it’s not- until you’re done with it


 group projects - do not get angry


 presentations - pretend you’re obama

disclaimer - this works for me, it may not work for everybody, do not push yourself too hard!!

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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.” - John W. Gardner

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Why do you elude me, my love?

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A new circle of hell

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There’s nothing like a new planner for the next academic year ✨

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I was inspired by another post from a while back to make formula flashcards to tape up behind my desk!

Also: I only have 3 ½ weeks of summer vacation left and I’m gonna try to make the most of it!

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he can break your heart but not your aesthetic™

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15.06.2017

Someday we will find what we are searching for

or maybe not

maybe we’ll find something much greater than that

Soooo i finally finished my bujo which lasted 1.5 years!!! I’m so excited to start anew with this one and I’m just looking forward to using it for the next year~ The excitement is real guys

ig: moonshinestudiess

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Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via theliteraryjournals)

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BOOK OF THE DAY:

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Despite Disney’s attempt to make Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland into a whimsical children’s story, Carroll must be recognized for introducing a challenge in children’s literature. He engages us in double entendres and life’s biggest questions. Alice, the protagonist of the novel, is a young girl living in English Victorian society, where repression reigns. One day she unexpectedly notices a white rabbit and follows it down into the magical world of Wonderland. Caroll’s sentence structure and delivery are its most effective tool to describe the sensation of Alice’s journey. He writes:

“Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul..”

Alice encounters a world where logic is obsolete and finds herself stuck in outrageous predicaments. There is no story-line, but rather a surreal dream of colors, characters, wordplay and necessary nonsense. This is a rare children’s novels, which proves literature for children should not be sanitized or simplified; instead, it feeds off dark figures. Some of the prime examples are the Queen’s obsession with beheading and the drug use of the caterpillar.

We know the story well, but most of us have not opened the book. We urge you to read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. It holds captive the adult mind more than a child’s mind. Sometimes it may be frustrating to read the novel due to the complexity of the language, but you will find humor at every turn.

There is no plot or life lessons to be learned here. Carroll has unleashed Alice’s chains of the Victorian, pompous cell, where children are seen but not heard.

Don’t expect to find character development or meaning behind Carroll’s surreal depictions. Alice’s dream is an experience, it is a moment of art to be appreciated. There is no glue other than the beauty found in the mathematics of language. This is one of the most difficult classics to review due to its absurd nature. Carroll is the sole writer to achieve great status in literature by forcing surrealism on its reader. Giving an image a surreal quality is far easier, but words demand logic. This is why Carroll is a wizard.

It is an intriguing read for children and a reward for adults. Revisit this classic. We praise Carroll for its darkness and ability to ignite fears in adults. You will stumble upon satire and philosophy. Carroll asks the deepest philosophical questions in a children’s book. The biggest questions of identity are posed multiple times. Alice often asks: who am I? Alice cries:

“I shall only look up and say, Who am I, then? Tell me that first, and then if I like being that person I’ll come up: if not, I’ll stay down here till I’m somebody else—but, oh dear! I’m so very tired of being all alone here!”

“But it’s no use now, to pretend to be two people! Why there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

The argument between reality and fantasy turn into an answer of perception. Alice’s perception of the self and her body are altered for Wonderland. She is a stubborn little girl from a rigid, Victorian world. She is being demanded to conform to a fantastical paradigm. We learn that reality has multiple meanings. Its strength is found in perspective rather than rigidity. Wonderland must be a form of reality, since Alice’s actions have an effect.

It is completely insane.  

Get lost

d

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the rabbit hole,

with us

but don’t bruise your brain

reading Carroll’s prose.

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Read excerpts from the novel here!

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I may be living for today, but I’m dreaming of tomorrows and sleeping off my yesterdays.

KJS // Excerpt from the book I’ll never write #85 (via wyattwesleywriting)

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a studyblr: *posts a bujo with all white space filled and colors everywhere*

me: I want mine to be like that

a studyblr: *posts a bujo that is very minimalist and neat*

me: I want mine to be like that

a studyblr: *posts a bujo with a set color scheme and theme*

me: I want mine to be like that

a studyblr: *posts a bujo with one large illustration with tons of detail*

me: I want mine to be like that

a studyblr: *posts a bujo that has cute little lists and spreads*

me: you know what, why settle on one style? let's do em all

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I would like to see ur top 3 ice cream flavors pls reblog them in the tags

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Be with someone who can make you laugh, when the whole world tried to make you sad.

ma.c.a // A friendly reminder from a stranger (via vomitingwords)