#Blogging Learner

[winningismyjob]

Don't wish for it,

Work for it.

[magicicephoenix]

(the nickname Squeaky did, in fact, stick)

Toony and ASHTE!Bendy being a duo because they’re my AUs and i said so. Bendy has a… prickly personality but Toony can soften just about anyone’s heart :)

bonus:

[learnukrainian]

Free online courses about Ukraine

Basics of the Ukrainian Language and Culture - https://www.open.edu/openlearn/languages/introduction-ukrainian-language-and-culture/

Ukraine: History, Culture, and Identities; this course is available in English, French, Italian, and Norwegian on Coursera: https://ui.org.ua/en/sectors-en/the-first-online-course-about-ukraine-in-english/

The Making of Modern Ukraine with Timothy Snyder: https://www.coursera.org/learn/the-making-of-modern-ukraine

Crimea: History and People on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/course/crimea-history-and-people/

[arcadiargh]

I feel into Leijiverse as a teenager and was really into your content. I've recently discovered it again and I'm happy to see you still making artwork for it!

your remark compelled me to check how old this blog is and i

anyway thank u for the good wishes, i wish u well too o7

[can-vas-ron-ald]

Hello.

I am Ronald Evanoff, I am 17 years old and my home country is Russia. I am queer and ace. He/him. Maybe she/they also, I don't know. Favorite color is blue, favorite food is raspberries.

English is second language, do not be rude.

My askbox is open, use it.

People from my universe: @canvasdavidgobrrr @devious-devious @kenasachick @canvasbrendamillerbabe @pamcookingspray

People from other universe: @jacksonsmithforreal @real-pamela-lopez @x-ercampbelll @definitelydaymiller @brenda-miller-forreal @200percent-timothy-jd @itsmejolie @yourstrulyelijah @ken-okamoto-official @normanfuckingrockwell11 @lovemariahb @ricky-fr-fr @martyforreal @coffeeandcats4life @dylan-mylastnamehasntbeensaid @baileyserveslattes @jdcharl @ownerofcup-o-cat @harrycampbell4132 @hardyharharuokamato @lucyfurr-jd @williammillerjd @wowlookatmeimsohandsom @mama-miller-jd

Things: @atvstatic @defsnotdeathnote @scribbler-scribbler

Me, but more nice: @the-official-rocking-russian-man

Rules: No inappropriate asks/replies/comments, I am still a minor no matter how I look. You can ask things about fast-pass. You cannot spam ask me things. You can talk to me in DM if you want. You cannot be homophobic and/or transphobic. I do not own this character, or any of the ones mentioned above, they belong to Paola Batalla.

Have a good day.

[cheddertm]

Silly guys, I love em <3

[typicalsimswhore]

For anyone looking to learn Vietnamese, here is what I personally use:

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Apps

* Duolingo (yes, I said it. It's a good foundation.) Free -includes premium

* Drops (use topics that correlate with what you are already learning, good for retaining memory. Like flashcards but fun.) Free -includes premium

* Learn Vietnamese Speak, Listen (yes, that is the name of the app 😭. Really good for speaking/listening especially if you don't have anyone to practice with. Learn content that correlates with your Duo/Drops lessons.) Free -includes premium

Books

* Lonely Planet Vietnamese Dictionary (self explanatory, good for reference. Any dictionary works.) $$$ pricey / may be found in public library ✅

* Reading and Writing Vietnamese: A Workbook for Self-Study (found on Amazon here, covers basically everything needed for beginners) $$$ pricey

YouTube

* Tieng Viet Oi- Vietnamese Lessons (here)

* What the Pho (here)

* Vietglish Fun (here)

* Learn Vietnamese with Annie (here)

* Learn Vietnamese With SVFF (Southern Vietnamese. here)

Individual Video Recs:

*The Vietnamese Alphabet

*Vowel Pronunciation

* Vietnamese Tones

* Counting 1-10

* Travel Basics

* Accent Discrimination

Hope this helps. Vietnamese is hard, but I believe in you!!! 🇻🇳💖

Q: What helps you learn? Let me know!!

[haru-dipthong]

Humans are like tape recorders.

To all language learners out there drilling grammar structures (and vocab to a lesser extent), I have some bad news. No matter how much you rote learn or memorise, you can’t say something* in a language if you haven’t already heard it said by someone else, many times.

In order for you to say something, you must have recorded it in your brain first.

The reason for this is twofold.

If you haven’t seen or heard something actually used, how are you meant to know how it’s used!? Gonna go out on a limb and say not many people here are able to speak Pirahã. How would you say “I just drank some water” in Pirahã? You don’t know, right? Because you’ve never heard it said! In this respect, a language that you can’t speak at all is no different from a language that you can speak a bit, or even a language you’re fluent in.

Memorising stuff out of a textbook or flash cards is not sufficient to count as “hearing something many times”. It’ll give you some examples, but not enough (especially if what you’re memorising is the grammar structure itself, and not example sentences). Your conscious thought processes (which includes looking things up in long term memory) are simply too slow to be effective if they need to be used more than once every few seconds during conversation. Rote memorisation works at the conscious thought level, and is therefore only useful as a supplemental tool. Hearing something actually spoken (many times) internalises it on the subconscious level, which is what is needed for fluid speech and comprehension.

*That’s not to say that it’s impossible to ever say anything original. When I say you need to hear something before being able to use it correctly yourself, I mean you need to hear sentence structures and words, not necessarily whole sentences like a script.

Our brains are very, very efficient at acquiring language, provided we give them a non-stop stream of data to record (this is how babies learn - they don’t need textbooks). Then, the brain can cut up the tapes, analyse patterns, paste separate tapes together, and allow us to speak in our target language without manually recalling from memory.

What does this mean for you, the language learner? Put down the textbook and watch as much content in your target language as possible. Use the textbook/dictionary to help you look up something you’ve heard if you can’t figure something out from context, but that’s all it should be used for. Watch youtube, kids shows, regular tv, news, podcasts, anything you can find. And never use subtitles in your native language! Your brain will turn off the tape recorder automatically if it sees an easier way it can parse the information.

In this video, Matt (from the youtube channel Matt vs Japan) says the following, which I have translated to English:

こういうアドバイスする時に一番反論として出てくるのが 「でも観てもわからない！」 だから 「できない」 っていうんだけど、わからないからこそ観るべきだよね --- When I give the advice [to go hard on consuming input], the biggest counterargument people have is “When I watch it, I can’t understand what they’re saying! So it doesn’t work.” but it's actually the opposite: you don’t understand it, therefore you need to watch it!

The reason you should watch it is you don't understand it! You can’t understand it until your brain has recorded it!

[free-learner]

１２月の覚えた単語

パート１☆

執筆　しっぴつ　writing (n.)

ズキズキ　throbbingly (of pain)

口実　こうじつ　excuse

途端　とたん　just (now, at the moment, etc.); just as; in the act of; as soon as

記事　きじ　article; news story

汚れ　よごれ　dirt; filth; stain; blot; spot

抜け道　ぬけみち　shortcut

痕跡　こんせき　trace; mark; sign; evidence

絞��　しぼる　to narrow down

妄想　もうそう　delusion

叱る　しかる　to scold; to chide

[blackbackedjackal]

Sometimes I think about how long some of you all have been following me and I'm like wow, ya'll really like watching this clown.

[tangerinequeen19]

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[winningismyjob]

Why aren't you studying right now?

[222anderson]

i just drove around the church parking lot everybody applaud me

[yxsrq1]

another day another rejected application! im gona cry why is no one hiring me💔💔

[lokh]

no fucking way.... 100% on reading comprehension while i couldn't even break 70% on grammar

[chouhatsumimi]

It only took four years and three months to add another 1,000, but I finally hit 4,000 followers on this blog! I don't have too much planned but I do want to make some resource sheets for getting into translation that hopefully I can share at the end of next week, so keep an eye out for that~