#adverbs of frequency exercises

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Adverbs of Frequency in English: Usage, Rules, and Examples

Introduction Adverbs of frequency are an essential part of English grammar, helping us express how often an action occurs. They answer the question “How often?” and provide clarity in both spoken and written communication. Whether you’re a beginner or an advanced learner, mastering these adverbs will enhance your fluency and precision in English. In this blog post, we will explore common…

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This study compares two small corpora, each comprising 300 words, taken from a linguistic journal and a transcribed interview. The texts are therefore diverse in terms of content, style, register and their proposed audience, and are compared and contrasted in terms of the linguistic properties pertaining to the number of sentences, the number and type of dependent clauses, and the use of contractions. The purpose of ascertaining the number of sentences within each corpus will provide insight as to the length of the sentences, as the higher the number of sentences found within a 300 word corpus, then the shorter the sentences would have to be. The fewer the number of sentences then, would realize longer, compound and complex sentences and thus would render more dependent clauses. 1.2 Dependent clauses A dependent clause does not convey a complete idea and therefore is unable to stand by itself; in other words a dependent clause relies on an independent clause for meaning. Tallerman (1998) refers to dependent clauses as subordinate clauses and the independent clause, which must contain a finite verb, as the matrix clause. She also tells us that subordinate clauses are often considered as embedded clauses because they are embedded within another clause and are “syntactically dependent on the matrix clause” (p.77). A dependent clause, or subordinate clause, is introduced with a subordinator (Oshima & Hogue, 1999) which can take the function of an adverb, adjective or noun; Tallerman (1998) refers to these words as ‘complementizers’ (p.81). If introduced with an adverbial subordinator, such as because, so, if, when and while, the dependent clause is called an adverbial clause because it works like an adverb and modifies the verb in the independent clause (Oshima & Hogue, 1999); for example, (1) I workout regularly at the gym so that I can be fit and healthy. In example (1) the dependent adverbial clause ‘so that I can be fit and healthy’ modifies the verb ‘workout’ in the independent clause, which in this case provides the reason why I workout. Adverbial clauses may provide reference to place, time, frequency, distance, reason, result, contrast, concession (results that are not expected), purpose and manner (Oshima & Hogue, 1999), as illustrated below: (2) Everywhere I go, I bump into somebody I know. (place) (3) After I read the instructions, I understood how to use the machine correctly. (time) (4) I go to the gym as often as I can. (frequency) (5) I like to run the treadmill as far as I can. (distance) (6) Since my friend does not go to the gym, he is not as fit as me. (reason) (7) Sometimes the gym is so busy that I have to wait a long time for each apparatus. (result) (8) My mother prefers aerobics, whereas I prefer working with exercise machines. (contrast) (9) Although she works out twice a week Read the full article

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Adverbs’ Positions - 6th Grade Grammar

Are you looking for a fun and easy way to teach your 6th graders about adverbs and their positions in sentences? Check out this awesome blog post by ELA Free Resources that explains the rules and provides some exercises for practice. You’ll learn how to use adverbs of manner, place, time, frequency, degree, and focus correctly and effectively. Don’t miss this opportunity to improve your grammar skills and impress your teachers and friends! #adverbs #grammar #6thgrade #ELA #education #learning

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Exercise of Adverb of Frequency

Adverb of frequency Introduction How often do you watch TV? What do you do every morning after you wake up? You can tell your routines by adding adverbs of frequency in your sentences. In this unit we will learn to? 1. Use present simple with adverb of frequency 2. Tell days of the week 3. Tell about TV programmes 4. Tell the time Character Have Faith, fear of God Almighty and Have Noble…

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Language Learning Log 2021 Week 12 (15.03 - 21.03)

Norwegian

45 minute lesson

Read 2x articles

Watched 5x Exit episodes

Watched 1x Mummidalen episode

Listened to the radio

Japanese

Duolingo: Hobby 1 + wrote down sentences

Listened to 6x Nihongo con Teppei podcasts

Kanji drills: seasons

Made a list of all the words I’ve learned so far

Norwegian

One 45-minute Norwegian lesson a week really isn’t enough! Every time I speak Norwegian I’m just like, damn I love this language, it makes me so happy, why can’t I speak it all the time? Well, due to me failing to read my calendar, I actually have two lessons this week (because 1. I decided I really like this other tutor but I’m def not gonna stop taking lessons with my main teacher anytime soon and 2. I didn’t have any therapy sessions for two weeks so I was like well I guess I have extra money so I may as well spend it on a thing that makes me happy). Looking forward to it!

I dabbled in a little Swedish on Duolingo, mostly because watching Exit made me realise how awful my Swedish comprehension is and I wanted to learn some basics to make that easier. Although really I should probably just work on my Norwegian comprehension lol. I found the whole series quite challenging without subtitles (but then, I don’t understand finance particularly well in English either lol)

Last week’s goals

Finish watching Exit season 2 [5/5] ✅

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 exercises ❌

1x written task [0/300 words] ❌

Read a chapter of Harry Potter og Føniksordenen [0/1] ❌

This week’s goals

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 exercises

1x written task

Read a chapter of Harry Potter og Føniksordenen

Watch 4x TV episodes or broadcasts

Japanese

I started doing the Hobby 1 skill on Duolingo and there were several words I recognised from that short story I read, which was really exciting! And I’m starting to see all those verbs I learned cropping up. It feels like all the pieces are starting to come together, like I’m actually learning a languages instead of bits and pieces of a language.

I also tried listening to Nihongo con Teppei more actively and wrote down some word and phrases from the podcast. Previously I’ve just been listening passively to get a feel for the rhythm/sound of the language, but now I’m listening to try and understand and actually learn things. Turns out I can pick out quite a few words in sentences and sometimes I can work out other words from context. It’s all very simple stuff, but it’s exciting!

I’ve been learning a lot of vocabulary lately, so this week I need to work on consolidating it. So that’s what I plan to do!

Last week’s goals

Learn seasons, times of day and adverbs of frequency ✅

Recap other vocabulary from story + make a vocab list ✅

Duolingo: start Hobby 1 skill ✅

Listening practice on at least 3 days [4/3] ✅

Kanji drills on at least 2 days [2/2] ✅

This week’s goals

Writing practice on at least 2 days

Kanji drills on at least 3 days

Duolingo: increase Hobby 1 skill to level 2

Listening practice on at least 3 days

Other

As predicted, I didn’t really hit any of my goals this week because I’ve been busy sorting out the spare room. There’s still a lot left to do, but we’re making progress!

This week I’m hoping to exercise more. At the moment I can’t exercise at home as we haven’t got the space (all the things that were in the spare bedroom are now spread throughout the house) BUT if the weather holds out (which it should do until Thursday) I’m gonna do more exercise outside. I live quite close to a lake and on Sunday I went out to exercise by it and it was awesome! So I want to do that more.

Last week’s goals

Stretch on at least 3 days [2/3] ❌

Train pole/hoop on at least 2 days [0/2] ❌

Train at home on at least 2 days [2/2] ✅

Practice with fans ❌

This week’s goals

Stretch on at least 3 days

Train pole/hoop on at least 2 days

Train at home/outside on at least 2 days

Practice with fans

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Test 1

Grammar Revision

Theme 1

1. Articles (a, an, the):

https://www.englishgrammar.org/articles-exercise-3

2. Present simple - Verb “Be”

Affirmative sentences

http://www.web-esl.com/tobe/tobe.htm

Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_negative_2.htm

Yes/No Questions

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_questions_01.htm

3. Present simple

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_2.htm

Affirmative Sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_affirmative_3.htm

Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_dodoesnot_2.htm

Yes/No Questions

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_questions_02.htm

4. Past simple - Verb “Be”

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/was_were_fitb_1.htm

5. Past simple

Affirmative & Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/pastsimple_1.htm

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/past_irregular_01.htm

Yes/No?

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/pastsimple_interrogative_1.htm

6. Gerunds = Verbal Nouns

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/gerund-infinitive/gi023-gerunds.htm

7. Imperative sentences ~ Positive & Negative

https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar-exercises/imperative2.htm

https://www.english-4u.de/en/grammar-exercises/imperative-exercise.htm

8. Verbs: love/ like/ enjoy/ hate/ dislike

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=13220

9. Verbs: want/ hope

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-60531.php

Theme 2

1. Prepositions of time (in, on, at)

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-exercises-prepositions-time-test.html#.XZOdkBZRWaM

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2573

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/prepositions/time-2

2. Adverbs of Frequency (always, usually, often, etc.)

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverbs_of_frequency.htm

3. Conjunctions: “and, but, because, so”

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-29314.php

4. Modal Verbs

Must

https://first-english.org/english_learning/english_beginners/must_needn_t/01_english_must_exercises.htm

Can

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/modals/can4.htm

Should

https://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/Should1B.html

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Revision Quizzes

Themes 1 & 2

1. Articles:

https://www.englishgrammar.org/articles-exercise-3

2. Present simple - Verb “Be”

Affirmative sentences

http://www.web-esl.com/tobe/tobe.htm

Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_negative_2.htm

Yes/No Questions

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_questions_01.htm

3. Present simple

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_2.htm

Affirmative Sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_affirmative_3.htm

Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_dodoesnot_2.htm

Yes/No Questions

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_questions_02.htm

4. Past simple - Verb “Be”

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/was_were_fitb_1.htm

5. Past simple

Affirmative & Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/pastsimple_1.htm

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/past_irregular_01.htm

Yes/No?

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/pastsimple_interrogative_1.htm

6. Prepositions of time:

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-exercises-prepositions-time-test.html#.XZOdkBZRWaM

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2573

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/prepositions/time-2

7. Adverbs of Frequency

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverbs_of_frequency.htm

8. Conjunctions: “and, but, because, so”

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-29314.php

9. Modal Verbs

Can

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/modals/can4.htm

Should

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/Should1B.html

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Revision Quizzes

Themes 1 & 2

1. Articles:

https://www.englishgrammar.org/articles-exercise-3

2. Present simple - Verb “Be”

Affirmative sentences

http://www.web-esl.com/tobe/tobe.htm

Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_negative_2.htm

Yes/No Questions

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_questions_01.htm

3. Present simple

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_2.htm

Affirmative Sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_affirmative_3.htm

Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimpletense_dodoesnot_2.htm

Yes/No Questions

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/presentsimple_questions_02.htm

4. Past simple - Verb “Be”

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/was_were_fitb_1.htm

5. Past simple

Affirmative & Negative sentences

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/pastsimple_1.htm

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/past_irregular_01.htm

Yes/No?

http://www.english-room.com/grammar/pastsimple_interrogative_1.htm

6. Prepositions of time:

http://www.focus.olsztyn.pl/en-exercises-prepositions-time-test.html#.XZOdkBZRWaM

https://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2573

https://agendaweb.org/exercises/grammar/prepositions/time-2

7. Adverbs of Frequency

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adverbs_of_frequency.htm

8. Conjunctions: “and, but, because, so”

https://www.tolearnenglish.com/exercises/exercise-english-2/exercise-english-29314.php

9. Modal Verbs

Must

https://first-english.org/english_learning/english_beginners/must_needn_t/01_english_must_exercises.htm

Can

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/modals/can4.htm

Should

http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/Should1B.html

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Adverbs of Time in English Grammar

Introduction Adverbs of time are an essential part of English grammar, as they help describe when an action takes place. They provide clarity to sentences by indicating past, present, or future time and are commonly used in both spoken and written English. Understanding adverbs of time is crucial for effective communication, as they allow speakers and writers to express when an event happens,…

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Exploring D:BH fics (Part 3)

In this post I’m going to talk about how I cleaned the text data and trained the model (plain old Latent Dirichlet Allocation) shown in the interactive visualisation of topics in DBH fics mentioned here was made.

Recap: Data was scraped from AO3 in mid-October. I removed any fics that were non-English, were crossovers and had less than 10 words. A small number of fics were missed out during the scrape - overall 13933 D:BH fics remain for analysis.

Again, stuff is always WIP!

Part 1: Publishing frequency for D:BH with ratings breakdown Part 2: Building a network visualisation of D:BH ships Part 3: Topic modeling D:BH fics (retrieving common themes) Part 4: Average hits/kudos/comment counts/bookmarks received (split by publication month & rating) One-shots only. Part 5: Differences in word use between D:BH fics of different ratings Part 6: Word2Vec on D:BH fics (finding similar words based on word usage patterns) Part 7: Differences in topic usage between D:BH fics of different ratings Part 8: Understanding fanon representations of characters from story tags Part 9: D:BH character prominence in the actual game vs AO3 fics

Basically, what I did here was apply the Latent Dirichlet Allocation algorithm (topic modeling). I’m not going to go into the details behind it (not going to add to the big collection of layman LDA posts hanging out on the Internet) - all you need to know in this context is that it’s an unsupervised algorithm (i.e., I don’t tell the algorithm what topics to form, beyond the number of topics to look out for) that is trained on large amounts of text to pick out ‘topics’. Topics are like collections of co-occurring words - that they happen to usually be human-interpretable is a nice quality of LDA.

There are quite a few variants of LDA. This one is the basic vanilla one.

1. Identifying names for removal. Based on past experience with LDA, if I don’t remove names, they end up intruding in topics/forming a topic(s) on their own. That’s not really informative. I don’t really need a topic of D:BH character/OC names.

I ran the Stanford Named Entity Recognizer on all of the text. This tagger automatically picks out people’s names for me. I already had a base collection of names from my earlier run with RK1700, so I added on to that collection. Of course, the tagger won’t be 100% accurate, so I still had to check its output.

Let’s just say that was a lot of manual work. I had a collection of 13439 names in the end.

2. Keeping only nouns and verbs. Since I wanted themes, I thought perhaps nouns and verbs may be the most important words to capture those (this is up for debate. Definitely an assumption on my end, and something to keep in mind when looking at the results). I ran the Stanford part-of-speech tagger on all the text, which automatically labels the part-of-speech of each word (e.g. adjective, adverb), retaining only nouns and verbs.

3. Final clean of the text. (Note: I’ve already done some cleaning for steps 1 and 2 to prepare the text for the taggers). At this final clean, I removed words that were only 1 character long, had any non-English characters, were stop-words (i.e. really common words like I’m), or that were in my collection of names.

So now, each story is basically a list of nouns and verbs that aren’t very common/redundant words and that aren’t names.

4. Chunking the stories. My research work is with shorter social media text, so I’ve never had this issue before. But training a model to look for patterns in something as long as a fic (that can be more than 10k words, even for one-shots!) - we’re not going to get nice topics. So - I made the decision to chunk the stories.

I started by splitting them by chapters. One-shots stay as one-shots (one document), but a three-chapter story gets split into three separate documents. This bumped the number of documents from 13933 (the original number of fics) up to 41597.

Still, some chapters and one-shots may be really, really long. Here are my chunking conditions:

If a chapter/one-shot is below 2000 words, Leave it as one document. If I divide a chapter’s/one-shot’s length by 1000, a) and I get a quotient larger than 2 and a remainder of 0.5 or less (let’s say, quotient = 3, remainder =0.4): The chapter/one-shot is chunked into a chunk of 1000, a second chunk of 1000, and a third chunk of 1400. b) and I get a quotient larger than 2 and a remainder of greater than 0.5 (let’s say, quotient = 3, remainder = 0.9): The chapter/one-shot is chunked into a chunk of 1000, a second chunk of 1000, a third chunk of 1000, and a fourth chunk of 900.

The logic really is that I didn’t want random chunks of 2 words or something floating around. The algorithm can’t learn patterns from such short text.

This increased the document count from 41597 to 50126.

5. Bigrams and creating the dictionary. I used Gensim for this this task and LDA.

So, bigrams. Single words like ‘guns’ and ‘shots’ are great, but bigrams (basically two words that appear together, like gun_shot) give a bit more context. I looked for bigrams that appeared at least 100 times (no rare ones, they’re not useful for learning patterns) and appended them to the respective document that they appeared in. 

Then I created a dictionary of words for the model to sort into topics. I put some filters here too (also important to note, results may change depending on choices here). I only wanted words that appeared in no less than 140 chunks and no more than 40% of the chunks (20050 chunks); so terms that weren’t too rare or too common.

6. Training the LDA model. Important part of LDA: picking how many topics you want the model to learn. I relied on a measure called coherence to help with this. It’s basically just a quantitative automated measure of topic interpretability. The gold standard really is to get human judges around, maybe agree on saying, ‘Hm, this topic model looks fancy but makes no sense’ and you go back to the drawing board. But I don’t have that and coherence has been shown to correlate pretty well with human judgments, so it’ll do.

I ran LDA to model for 2 topics all the way to 60 topics in steps of 2. So: try 2 topics, 4 topics, 6 topics.... to 60 topics. I calculated coherence at each topic number. Once the algorithm was done, I plotted out the coherence graph and manually checked the higher-coherence-scoring models.

44 was one of them (other suggested topic numbers were 30 and 38, but they were still a bit too general for my liking. Again, note the bias introduced here from my choices).

7. Labeling topics. With the final model decided, I plotted the visualisation using pyLDAvis. Using the top 10 keywords of each topic, with lambda (λ) set to 0.6 following [1]’s recommendation, I manually labelled each topic. I’m definitely not the final word on the D:BH fandom or topic models, so perhaps you may disagree with the labels I came up with.

And that wraps up this little exercise on LDA with long(er) texts! It’s admittedly not as exciting as the network of ships, but it was a good introductory exercise to working with texts outside of my research area.

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What is Adverbial Modifier of a Sentence

What is Adverbial Modifier of a Sentence?

  An adverbial modifier is a word or phrase that functions as an adverb to modify or describe a verb, an adjective, or another adverb in a sentence. Adverbial modifiers provide additional information about the manner, time, place, frequency, degree, or other circumstances related to the action or state expressed in the sentence. Adverbial modifiers can take various forms, including single adverbs, adverbial phrases, or adverbial clauses. They add detail and specificity to the information conveyed in a sentence.     Types of Adverbial Modifiers: The questions that adverbial modifiers answer depend on their specific type (manner, time, place, frequency, etc.). Here are sentences and corresponding questions as examples for different types of adverbial modifiers:       Time: We will meet for lunch at noon. Questions: When will we meet? At what time will we meet?       Place: They searched for the missing keys in the living room. Questions: Where did they search? In what location did they search?         Frequency: He exercises three times a week. Questions: How often does he exercise? How many times a week does he exercise?         Degree: The storm grew increasingly intense. Questions: To what extent did the storm grow? How intense did it become?         Cause: The match was canceled due to heavy rain. Questions: Why was the match canceled? For what reason was it canceled?         Purpose: She studied hard to pass the exam. Questions: What is the reason for studying hard? What is the intended goal of studying?         Manner: She completed the painting skillfully. Questions: How did she complete the painting? In what way did she complete it?     Adverbial modifiers of manner can indeed modify and enhance both adjectives and adverbs. Here are examples for each case:   Modifying Adjectives: The dress was incredibly beautiful. The room was surprisingly clean.     Modifying Adverbs: She sang the song very beautifully. He runs on the treadmill quite slowly.   In both cases, the adverbial modifiers of manner provide additional information about the intensity or degree of the adjective or adverb they modify.          

Varieties of Adverbial Modifiers:

Adverbial modifiers can be expressed by various parts of speech. Here are examples for each:   By Adverb: Example: He ran swiftly to catch the bus. The adverbial modifier swiftly provides information about the manner in which he ran.       By Noun with Preposition: Example: She went to the party with enthusiasm. The adverbial modifier with enthusiasm consists of the noun enthusiasm and the preposition with, providing information about the manner in which she attended the party.       By Participle: Example: Excited, the children opened their presents. The adverbial modifier Excited is a participle modifying the subject children, providing information about their state as they opened the presents.       By Infinitive: Example: He worked hard to finish the project on time. The adverbial modifier to finish the project on time is an infinitive phrase providing information about the purpose or goal of his hard work.       By Gerund with Preposition: Example: She succeeded by working with dedication. The adverbial modifier by working with dedication consists of the gerund working, the preposition by, and the object dedication, providing information about the means by which she succeeded.   These examples illustrate how adverbial modifiers can take various forms, including single adverbs, noun phrases with prepositions, participles, infinitive phrases, and gerund phrases with prepositions. Each form serves to modify the verb, adjective, or adverb in the sentence, providing additional information about different aspects such as manner, means, or purpose.          

Adverbial Modifiers placement:

The placement of adverbial modifiers in a sentence can vary, and it often depends on the specific modifier and its role in the sentence.:   After the Object: In many cases, adverbial modifiers are placed after the object they modify. Example: She played the piano(object) passionately(manner).     Arrangement of Two Adverbial Modifiers: When there are two adverbial modifiers in a sentence, their arrangement can vary. However, there are some general principles to consider:     Time and Place: These adverbial modifiers typically follow the object in that order. Example: He went to the store(object) yesterday (time) for groceries (place).       Manner and Degree: These adverbial modifiers can often be interchanged, but one may precede the other for emphasis. Example: She sang the song beautifully (manner) and with great emotion(degree).   Additionally, some adverbial modifiers, such as those expressing frequency or purpose, may have different preferred positions in a sentence.                             What is Adverbial Modifier of a Sentence What is the Attribute of a Sentence? What is The Object of a Sentence? What is a predicate? Predicate Types Read the full article

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Unrelated to tumblr news: It’s been a while since I brought in any music as a listening exercise for my ESL students, and I’d love to do something again.  We’ve just started talking about the future tense--some people (who don’t come from a French or Spanish background, since those languages do something similar) found the whole going + infinitive form pretty confusing.  I’m thinking I’d like to play a song for them, maybe something that also refreshes everyone’s memory of adverbs of frequency.  Maybe something like I’m never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you, never gonna make you cry, never gonna say goodbye, never gonna tell a lie and hurt you

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this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Catalan. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

info

about world languages

fun facts

getting to know catalonia: an introduction to the catalan language, culture and society [mooc]

glottolog

how to sign up for free catalan courses in catalunya

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

omniglot

orbis latinus

overview of the history of catalan

playlist of samples

the catalan language [video]

wikipedia

world atlas of language structures

alphabet

accents

overview of catalan orthography

apps

flewent [chrome]

courses

bliubliu

book2

curs de catala

parla.cat [mooc]

routledge - colloquial catalan: the complete course for beginners [pdf]

teach yourself (1993) [pdf]

wikibook [in catalan]

cultural & historical info

acultura’s culture tag

/r/catalonia

/r/catalunya

dictionaries

cambridge

catalandictionary [meta search]

diccionari.cat

diccionari invers de la llengua catalana

diccionarios.com

diec2

enciclopèdia.cat

freelang

institvt d’estvdis catalans

lexicool

lexilogos

majstro

openthesaurus-ca

termcat [thematic dictionary]

wiktionary

wordreference

flashcards

cram

forums

quora

/r/catalan

unilang

grammar books & guides

descriptive grammar of the catalan language

overview of catalan grammar

grammar points

adjective number

anar vs. anar-se’n

articles

demonstrative adjectives

indefinite pronouns & adjectives

interrogative pronouns

nouns / overview of nouns

personal pronouns / overview of personal pronouns

plurals

possessive pronouns

quantitative adjectives & adverbs

weak personal pronouns

listening practice

librivox [audiobook library]

lyrikline [poetry library]

literature

children’s songs and rhymes

la illustracio poetica [poetry library]

list of poets

list of writers

logoslibrary [virtual library]

overview of catalan literature

overview of la decadència

overview of modernisme

overview of noucentisime

overview of renaixença

project gutenberg [virtual library]

Quran [scans]

/r/cificat [science fiction forum]

rosary prayers

universal declaration of human rights [pdf]

universitat oberta de catalunya [poetry library]

media

ted talks

movie & tv recommendations

letterboxd

movie recommendations by @elnas-studies

tv show recommendations by @elnas-studies

music recommendations

catalan feminist songs by @useless-catalanfacts

disney songs masterpost

folk music recommendations by @guillemelgat

música en català 2018 [spotify]

music recommendations by @useless-catalanfacts

news

ara.cat

el diari

el món

el pais [catalan version]

el periodico

el puntavui

newspaper map

vila web

phrasebooks & travel guides

at hand - basic communication in the catalan language

bbc quick fix

loecsen [audio]

omniglot

taxi language

wikivoyage

podcasts

one minute catalan

podcast recommendations by @useless-catalanfacts

pronunciation

el sons del català

forvo [pronunciation dictionary]

ipa key

overview of catalan phonology

overview of the phonological history

quizzes & exercises

clozemaster

digital dialects [vocabulary games]

iteslj [vocabulary quizzes]

tongue twisters

radio

catalunya ràdio

rac1

ràdio arrels

ràdio flaixbac

radio in andorra la vella

radio in barcelona

social media

@rodamots [twitter]

catalunya [discord]

catalan-english language exchange [discord]

wikipedia

speaking tips

proverbs

special topics

biblography for catalan studies

short overview of anti-catalanism

timeline of names used for catalan

tumblrs

@learncatalan

@mercigracies

@useless-catalanfacts

verbs

common verbs / 50 common verbs

conjugation chart [pdf]

conjugator - catalandictionary.org

conjugator - logosconjugator

conjugator - verbix

overview of catalan conjugation

overview of catalan verbs

vocabulary

adverbs

agreement

babadada [vocabulary tool]

breakfast

cognates - neapolitan

days of the week

exonyms

fairytales & legends

family

fiber arts

football

frequency lists

fruits

greetings

hanukkah

harry potter

language learning

market

medicine [dictionary]

months

numbers / counting / numbers

prepositions

rodmots [word a day tool]

school

spring

swadesh list

tea & infusions

time adverbs

telling the time

travel

winter solstice

writing tips

spelling and grammar checker - language tool

youtube

learn catalan from barcelona

llengua catalana

tel_caramel

in spanish / en español

catalán [wikibook]

duolingo

[nordic-language-love]

Language Learning Log 2021 Week 11 (08.03 - 14.03)

Norwegian

45-minute online lesson

Read 2x articles

Watched 1x Distriktsnyheter broadcast (Nordnytt)

Watched 11x Exit episodes

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 grammar (read aloud)

Chatted with Amanda

Japanese

Read 1 story from Japanese Short Stories for Beginners

Duolingo: Vacation 1 + refreshed various skills

Norwegian

My teacher recommended the show Exit to me, so I’ve been watching that this week. At first I was like wow these guys really are all cunts not sure I’m gonna get on with this but actually? I got pretty hooked on it (even if they are all cunts). And there’s a fair bit of Swedish in it too, so I get to practice my Swedish comprehension (it’s so shit I had to turn on subtitles a few times). I’m almost tempted to dabble in a little Swedish on Duolingo just to get the basics down.

What I have realised though is that I really need to practise listening to natural conversation more. There were times when the characters were talking quite fast and I could only really get the gist of the conversation or I felt like I’d missed something key and had to rewind and watch with subtitles on. Watching the news is useful but the presenters tend to speak slowly and clearly and not in a natural way, so I’m gonna make more of an effort to watch TV series. It’s not like there aren’t several I enjoy!

I’ve been slacking on writing practice this week, so I’m going to try and do more of that this coming week. I need to do more reading too... maybe I should start that Harry Potter book. I’ve been struggling to get back into reading in general lately, so maybe shaking it up with a Norwegian book will help.

Last week’s goals

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 grammar ✅

Watch 4x TV shows/news broadcasts [12/4] ✅

Read 3x articles [2/3] ❌

Write 150+ words fiction [0/150] ❌

This week’s goals

Finish watching Exit season 2

Mysteriet om Nils ch 38 exercises

1x written task

Read a chapter of Harry Potter og Føniksordenen

Japanese

I’ve spent most of this week reading the first short story from one of my books. I’m pretty sure these books are aimed at people who are already at least N5/N4 but I’m still learning lots! And it’s also given me ideas for vocabulary I need to look up. For example, I learned the word for always, so now I need to learn never and sometimes. I also learned summer and morning, so now I should learn autumn, winter and spring, as well as evening and night. So that’s my plan for this week!

I didn’t really get much else done, but that’s okay. I think this week’s going to be all about revising vocab. Hopefully by learning some more key vocabulary I’ll reduce the amount of time it takes me to read a single 3-page short story, which will mean I won’t have to spend an entire week on it. I also need to get some listening in, as I didn’t do much of that last week. I’ve reached the point in Final Fantasy where the story’s almost done and I’m mostly doing side quests, which means fewer cutscenes and therefore less listening practice. So maybe I’ll mute the game and put on NHK while I play instead haha.

Last week’s goals

Read 1 short story [1/1] ✅

Duolingo: start Hobby 1 skill ❌

Kanji drills on at least 3 days [0/3] ❌

Continue playing Final Fantasy ✅

Review JFZ ch 8 ❌

This week’s goals

Learn seasons, times of day and adverbs of frequency

Recap other vocabulary from story + make a vocab list

Duolingo: start Hobby 1 skill

Listening practice on at least 3 days

Kanji drills on at least 2 days

Other

Exercise has been better this week, although I would’ve liked to have done more yoga. I really need to get out of the habit of putting it off until it’s too late. I’m not sure why I do it - I really enjoy it! And I feel so good after I’ve done it and don’t regret doing it for a moment! So why do I put it off?? I’m definitely gonna talk to my therapist about my executive dysfunction when he gets back from holiday.

I’m not sure how much I’ll actually get done this week as my bf has the week off and we’re planning to use it to sort out the spare bedroom. Plus obviously I’ll want to spend time just being with him, playing Mario Party and watching Buffy. So I may not reach all my goals this week, but I don’t mind. Relationship time is important!

Last week’s goals

Do a little reading on at least 2 days [1/2] ❌

Stretch on at least 3 days [3/3] ✅

Train pole/hoop on at least 2 days [2/2] ✅

Do something creative ✅

This week’s goals

Stretch on at least 3 days

Train pole/hoop on at least 2 days

Train at home on at least 2 days

Practice with fans

[profamer]

Cambridge Interchange - Level 1 - Unit 6: How often do you exercise? - #ingles #inglesparabrasileiros #aula #gramatica #aprendaingles #video #videoaula #cambridge #Interchange

Cambridge Interchange – Level 1 – Unit 6: How often do you exercise? – #ingles #inglesparabrasileiros #aula #gramatica #aprendaingles #video #videoaula #cambridge #Interchange

Title: How often do you exercise? Topic: Sports, fitness activities, and exercise; routines Grammar: Adverbs of frequency: always, almost always, usually, often, sometimes, hardly ever, almost never, and never; questions: how often, how long, how well, and how good; short answers Thanks for visiting!

[learn-special-english]

#adverbs #adverbsoffrequency #adverbsexercise #adverbsoffrequencyexercise

https://www.learnspecialenglish.com/2022/05/adverbs-of-frequency-exercise-with.html