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Hello! Was just curious if you could post some beginner friendly recommendations for books in Linguistics. (I do have a degree in English, so I think some things will overlap and I’ve had some basic courses, but I’d like to see things from a more linguistic focus) Sorry if you posted before.

Some recommendations.....

...for language enthusiasts:

"Ella Minnow Pea" by Mark Dunn (this is a lipogrammatic book (meaning that the author progressively uses less and less letters of the alphabet). It's a novel made entirely of letters between the inhabitants of the island of Nollop, which was named after Nevin Nollop who created the famous phrase containing all letters of the alphabet: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". As the letters fall from a statue of Nevin Nollop, the Council forbids their use in speech and writing. The protagonist Ella tries to save her friends and family and fights for her freedom of spreech)

the movie "Arrival" (it's based on a short story by Ted Chiang and focuses on a linguist who is tasked with studying and interpreting the language of aliens who have come to earth. It gives really good insights into language studies and also into the theory that the languages we speak shape the way we view and understand the world)

Babel, the language magazine (for anyone who is interested in languages and linguistics; focuses on loads of different linguistic topics)

...for advanced linguistic topics:

These are some of the books I used in my uni studies:

"Introduction to English Linguistics" by Becker/Bieswanger

"A History of the English Language" by Baugh/Cable (I used this in several courses)

Longman's "Advanced Learners' Grammar" (about English grammar)

"Advanced Grammar" by Diane Hall (about English grammar)

"Die Sprache Chaucers", by Obst/Schleburg ( ! this is a German book about Middle English)

"English morphology and word-formation" by Hans-Jörg Schmid

And here are some books that were suggested to me during my studies, but which I haven't looked at yet:

"An Introduction to English Semantics and Pragmatics", by P. Griffiths (2017)

"An Introduction to Cognitive Linguistics" by Ungerer/Schmid

"Meaning in language: an introduction to semantics and pragmatics" by Cruse

"Basic Color Terms. Their Universality and Evolution" by Berlin/Kay

"Register, Genre, and Style" by Biber/Conrad

"Cohesion in English" by Halliday/Hasan

"Internet Linguistics: A Student Guide" by David Crystal

"Cyberlines 2.0. Languages and Cultures of the Internet" by Gibbs/Krause

"Understanding Digital Literacies: A Practical Introduction" by Jones/Hafner

"An Introduction to the Pronunciation of English" by Alfred Gimson

"A manual of English phonetics and phonology" by Skandera/Burleigh

"English Lexicology: Lexical Structure, Word Semantics, and Word-Formation" by Leonhard Lipka

"The History of English: A Student's Guide" by Singh

"English Around the World: An Introduction", by Edgar Schneider

"Introducing Second Language Acquisition" by Saville-Troike

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forgot to add a description to futures channel but oh well i’ll just do that later:]

a/n: links to my favourite online resources for school and studies, all for free because we're all broke students just trying to graduate

jstor: this website offers books, articles and reviews for free

study hack blog: on this blog, you'll find a bunch of different studying techniques and strategies. older blog posts are available on this link

internet archive: this site is basically a library and offers everything from movies, books, music, software etcetera for free

big think: this site has collected articles, presentations and interviews on a broad variety of subjects, such as the relationship between science and religion.

cosmolearning: a free educational site for both teachers and students, offering courses in everything from engineering and pure science to social sciences and languages. i used this course for mandarin studies

coursera: another free educational site that offers all kinds of courses, everything from computer sciences and business to humanities and arts. i have personally taken cchinese for beginners, algae introduction and oceanography.

futures channel:

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a/n: links to my favourite online resources for school and studies, all for free because we're all broke students just trying to graduate

jstor: this website offers books, articles and reviews for free

study hack blog: on this blog, you'll find a bunch of different studying techniques and strategies. older blog posts are available on this link

internet archive: this site is basically a library and offers everything from movies, books, music, software etcetera for free

big think: this site has collected articles, presentations and interviews on a broad variety of subjects, such as the relationship between science and religion.

cosmolearning: a free educational site for both teachers and students, offering courses in everything from engineering and pure science to social sciences and languages. i used this course for mandarin studies

coursera: another free educational site that offers all kinds of courses, everything from computer sciences and business to humanities and arts. i have personally taken chinese for beginners, algae introduction and oceanography.

futures channel:

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don't mind me I'm just crying bc I can't read all the books here

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hi darlings.

I go back to uni on valentines day <3 to start my first year of postgrad. I was fortunate to get into all the programs I applied to and was able to go with my first choice. I'm somewhat anxious bc postgrad is so different compared to undergrad but I'm also extremely excited bc I feel like I'm getting to where I want to be.

I've been reading and watching silly tv and doing yoga and its been great. I've also been painting lately which has been lovely. I hope I'll be able to keep up these healthy and wholesome habits once class starts.

Hopefully I'll be a bit more active on here too <3

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tips for studying new vocab

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I’m back with another post relating to studying, but keep in mind that these tips are not one-size-fit-all, so please feel free to implement if you think it will be helpful for you! I personally don’t like forcing myself chunks of words, so I think that learning through music and any activities you like such as watching movies actively would also be really fun! 

Please share below if you have any helpful tips too! 💚🎉🤩

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daily affirmations i have so many girl mutuals they think im awesome we have so much in common they prev tags me all they time

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after i got such a positive response last time, i bring you more playlists for studying! hopefully these will tide you through a very busy exam season and i hope you enjoy some of these playlists!

instrumental

winter classical music

chopin nocturnes

chopin waltzes

chopin mazurkas

mendelssohn songs without words 

that’s why mozart is the king of classical music

the best of maurice ravel

quiet music without lyrics

a staff at the national palace museum waiting for the spring rain, music without lyrics

dreamy movie osts

you’re a princess dreaming in the palace garden

flowers left by the gardener, concentration and healing music without lyrics

a string quartet, but each player wants to have a standout moment

a villain’s tribulations

for the tragedians in the back 

a playlist of underrated female composers

a playlist for involuntary self-judgment as a nineteenth century villain

a playlist for mournful minds

kpop

korean winter osts

listen to this when you are sad | kdrama osts

heize playlist

younha playlist

soft twice playlist for chilling

chill girl group songs/kpop playlist

dreamcatcher chill & slow playlist

taeyeon ost playlist

korean coffee shop playlist

krnb/khiphop chill n study playlist

k indie picks for our second date at the park

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Here are some of my unusual ways of studying German! I hope this helps some of you out✨

Mentioned Blogs : @learngermanblog / @mutant-german / @ich-bin-der-baer / @myhoneststudyblr / @crazy-languages / @weltreise / @langsworldmemes01 / @productive-tips / @studyblr-support

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MOTIVATION VS SELF-DISCIPLINE

When studying, most people try to find motivation thinking that this will get them through their study session, or they will see their failure as a result of a lack of motivation. But motivation isn’t always what we need - what do you do on the days you have no motivation? This is why we need self-discipline.

MOTIVATION VS SELF DISCIPLINE

Motivation - a willingness to do something. It is the set of psychological forces that compel you to take action. A goal or reward that you look forward to that will encourage you to study - while this is useful, what happens on a day when you just don’t feel like studying?

Self-Discipline - making yourself do things you know you should do when you don’t want to. Being trained to routinely study regardless of how unmotivated you are - this is what will get you out of bed on a day you don’t feel like studying.

So if motivation is ‘why we should do something’ - self-discipline is more ‘what to do next’.

HOW TO BE SELF-DISCIPLINED

Make a commitment with yourself that you will make studying as your habit. This is super important. Commit yourself to make this as your new habit. Don’t half-ass any of these suggestions or any other suggestions that other people give. Don’t give yourself silly, illegitimate excuses in the process. For this, you can do it by remind yourself on what your long-term goals in life are. Or if they don’t sound rewarding enough, remind yourself what failure feels like/ could feel like.

Set yourself a routine and stick to it

Never have a zero day - 10 minutes is better than nothing!! Do flashcards from your bed or watch youtube ted talks if you can’t physically study. This will help help develop a routine and make it easier for you to cope. Also, by studying everyday your brain will know that the content you are learning should be stored as long-term information so this will benefit you in the long run! However I do want to stress not to force yourself if you don’t have the capacity / energy for it. Take care of yourself too.

Avoid long breaks. Unless you know that taking an hour long break means only an hour, then you can ignore this. But fo the majority of us, once we’ve taken a while out of studying it can be hard to get back into it again. One minute you’re taking a 20 minute break for a snack and some phone time and the next thing you know you’re on Youtube and four hours have passed! To avoid this, try stick to shorter breaks - five or ten minutes for a snack break, toilet break and to check any phone messages. A good method to try for this is the Pomodoro Method!

Build on your productivity, not your failures.

If you come from a past of procrastinating and now feel motivated to change and discipline yourself, do NOT try to do everything at once. Start things slow and in steps.

Set yourself smaller deadlines for your goals like monthly and weekly deadlines - e.g. if you are doing a project, due 27th June, set personal deadlines, like have the introduction written by the 8th, have your literature review written by the 15th, have project complete by the 25th. 

Break down the things that you must do into smaller, concrete activities and put those smaller activities in that to-do list; allocate specific time periods to do each smaller activities and put it the to-do list as well; set an alarm reminder for each smaller activities. Say you have to study for English on Tuesday, because for whatever reasons you just decided to dedicate your time this Tuesday to study English. However, I’d suggest that you break down that specific activity (or “daily goal”) before putting it in your to-do list. So, instead of just putting “study for Physics”, try putting “read and highlight Chapter 9″, because putting very general/broad activity like “study English” can actually make you too confused on where and how to start doing it, and make you very prone to distractions in the process. 

Know your limits. Self-discipline isn’t doing as much as you can until you break - it’s about having control, knowing what you can realistically manage and getting that done.

Give yourself rewards! I love to have something to look forward to as I get work done! This means mixing motivation and self-discipline. I tell myself after this lecture I can have an animal crossing break or check some messages etc. 

Track your progress – don’t forget to put a checklist on your to-do list after accomplishing a task. It would relieve your stress a bit and motivate you to continue doing the remaining activities on your to-do list. 

Remove distractions from your study space! Personally, if my phone is out and I notice a notification…I’m gonna check it. It’s human nature! So to combat this, I use apps like Forest that force me to stay within the app while I study. If I know I might get hungry during a study session I’ll keep a little snack by my desk so I don’t have to get up and somehow find something else to distract me.

Just do it isn’t that easy. I find to get myself in a ‘work boss’ mood I need to feel good about myself so I put on a nice outfit and maybe some eyeliner and hype myself up so I know I can do my tasks and get stuff done! It feels so much better than lazing in my pyjamas trying to study.

Be patient. It’s going to be a rough journey, it’s going to be hard but you’ve got this! Take it one step at a time. Start off by completing one task a day, then move to two, then three, and the next thing you know, you’ll have a regular routine where you will constantly be ticking off your to-do list everyday! But remember to be kind to yourself, know when your body is not in the right state of health to study and don’t force it. Only force yourself to a limit, you’ll know when to stop and that’s okay. Just try again when you feel better! Your health is much more important!

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i’ve been loving the recent cold rainy weather, but it hasn’t exactly done wonders for my lighting.

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thought i’d share my favourite apps when it comes to studying (or anything school/organisation-related really) so here they are!

(all of these are free by the way)

language:

beelinguapp (available on ios and android)- offers texts in your target language! i used this to practice my reading comprehension and to try to teach my younger siblings french (it kind of worked a little bit)

duolingo (available on ios and android)- homicidal green owl teaches you language in a game style type of way

busuu (avaible on ios and android)- offers users language courses in a number of languages, my personal favourite, reminds me a lot about duolingo but it feels more school-ish than duolingo if that makes sense.. probably not but anyways

brain exercises:

i don't really know what to say about these apps except that they all offer brain exercises, there's definitely more freedom and more exercise if you pay for the subscription they offer, but i use the free version and it still works perfectlyly^^

neuronation (avaible on ios and android)

elevate (available on ios and android)

brilliant (avaible on ios and android)

geist (available on at least ios)

math:

photomath (available on ios and android)- this is the only app i use for math because it’s the only one that i actually like, it’s actually quite useful when studying because they show you the exact way they calculated the math problem. has saved me countless times, i love it

not sure what category to put these in:

khan academy (available on android and ios)- this was so useful last year, i started a bunch of courses and it really got me going after kind of losing my motivation. and then summer happened and i've never looked back, but i'm trying!! maybe

crash course (available on android and ios)- i just got this, but i've heard a lot of good stuff about it. i don't want to say too much in case i end up realising that i don't like it at all, but it's pretty similar to khan academy's app:)