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It’s okay to romanticise the small things about your day-to-day life. It’s okay to romanticise sleeping in, waking up to the sun tickling your skin. It’s okay to romanticise the texture of fingers against a page. Sometimes to save your day you need to romanticise sitting at a desk and working, or romanticise studying hyped up on coffee. It’s okay to picture yourself as if you were the mc in a movie. Watch yourself go through shit and know that it’s just the climax of your own story, and that while you sit in your room sobbing to sad songs, good things are just around the corner.
Sometimes to be okay or get through the day you need to romanticise the simple things.
Boost your Spanish with more complex synonyms for words you already know
Here you have some words/expressions (in bold) that you can use to show off while speaking Spanish. A native will know them, but if you use these you will impress them. Also, in your writings these words will look quite good. NOTE: Some of them are quite formal and not used in conversations.
similar - semejante, afín, cercano, aproximado, símil, parecido (adj.) (similar)
parecerse - asemejarse, semejar, darse un aire, recordar a (to resemble)
divertido - ameno, entretenido (adj.) (fun)
difícil - peliagudo, arduo, espinoso (adj.) (difficult)
fácil - sencillo, factible (adj.) (easy)
empezar - emprender (to begin)
terminar - concluir, ultimar, finiquitar (to finish)
la misión - la empresa, el cometido, la tarea, la labor, el quehacer (mission, duty)
caro - costoso, prohibitivo (adj.) (expensive)
barato - asequible, económico (adj.) (cheap)
distraer, desentender, simular - hacerse el sueco (expression, lit.
to do the Swedish. To avoid doing something that you must do)
enfermo - aquejado, indispuesto, alicaído (adj.) (sick, ill)
la historia - el cuento, la leyenda, la fábula (story, tale)
el cotilleo - chisme, chismorreo, enredo (gossip)
aprender - cultivarse, formarse, educarse, empollar (to learn)
gustar - cautivar, embelesar (to like)
saber - estar al corriente, estar al tanto (to know about something)
siempre - perpetuamente, constantemente, continuamente (always)
malo - diabólico, maléfico, maldito, ruin, infame, sinvergüenza, insolente, maligno, malicioso, depravado, inmoral, pérfido (adj.) (bad, as in “a bad person”)
malo - nocivo, dañino, perjudicial, nefasto (adj.) (bad)
comprar - adquirir, obtener (to buy)
la tienda -el comercio, el establecimiento, el negocio, la botica (shop)
continuar -prorrogar, prolongar, preservar, aguantar, proseguir (to continue)
buscar - indagar, rebuscar, escudriñar, revolver (to search)
contestar - objetar, contradecir, rebatir, refutar, rechazar, disputar, discutir, argüir (to reply, as in refute)
abandonar - marcharse, desaparecer, largarse, ausentarse (to abandon, as in “to leave a place”)
feliz - radiante, contento, risueño, campante (adj.) (happy)
triste - afligido, apenado, desconsolado, abatido, entristecido, apesumbrado, desolado, deshecho, desamparado, mustio, taciturno, tristón (adj.) - sad
antipático - desagradable, enojoso, aguafiestas, pesado (adj.) (obnoxious)
la ciudad - la urbe, la localidad, el municipio, la población
(city)
el país - la nación, la patria, el pueblo, el estado (country)
la familia - la estirpe, el linaje (family)
los padres - los progenitores, los ascendientes, los antecesores (parents)
la casa - el domicilio, la vivienda, la residencia, la morada, el inmueble, la edificación (house)
Phrasal verbs › alphabetical list : C.
Call for › demander/réclamer.
Call in › faire appel à quelqu’un/obliger quelqu’un à rembourser sa dette.
Call off › annuler.
Call on someone › rendre visite à/faire appel à quelqu’un.
Call out › crier/appeler.
Call up (a file) › appeler/ouvrir (un fichier).
Care for › s’occuper de.
Carry on › continuer.
Carry out › réaliser.
Get carried away by › s’emballer pour quelque chose.
Carry forward › reporter.
Carry off (an award) › remporter (un prix).
Carry through › mener à bonne fin/aider à réussir.
Cash in › se faire rembourser.
Cash up › faire la caisse.
Catch up › rattraper.
Catch on › devenir populaire/prendre.
Catch out › prendre en défaut/démasquer.
Cave in › s’effondrer/céder.
Change over (to) › passer à.
Check up on/check out › vérifier.
Check in (airport) › se présenter à l’enregistrement.
Check out (hotel) › payer sa note et partir.
Clean up › nettoyer/faire fortune/faire son beurre.
Clean (someone) out › nettoyer à fond/mettre quelqu’un à sec/dévaliser.
Close down › fermer définitivement.
Close in on › cerner.
Too many phrasal verbs with To come, find it special post here.
Conjure up › évoquer.
Cut across › toucher (pas au sens physique).
Cut back › réduire/diminuer.
Cut down (on) › réduire.
Cut off › couper/déshériter.
(feel) cut off › se sentir isoler.
(be) cut out for › avoir des dispositions pour quelque chose.
To (be) cut up › être très affecté.
it doesn’t matter how long it takes, just keep going, you’re doing great
drugs are cool and all but have you ever listened to inspiration by king jonghyun on headphones while holed up in your room at that time of the day that seems to be both 3am and 6pm at once? yeah try that
I have a really cool Spanish edition of “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets!”
Would y’all like some vocab and example sentences?
How I prepped for the academic job market
I am by no means an expert on academic jobs just because I now (miraculously?) have one. But I have been told that I am organized, and, yes, that is because being an anxious person sometimes means having a system for everything. So before I totally bury all memories of the academic job market, I thought I would put together a timeline of some of the things I did to get ready to search for academic jobs…
My to-do list started very informally in the first year of my PhD program. I know that sounds over-the-top-early but the job market takes a lot of work. Checking things off one at a time helped me to feel in control. Here’s how I prepared for the academic job market as a PhD student:
Year 1
Do research that excites you: Enthusiasm for my research ended up being my momentum through a lot of the hard stuff that came later. Try to set yourself up to do the research that you want to do right away. This might include some trial-and-error and trying out different topics until you find the one.
Read The Professor is In: My MA advisor insisted I read this the summer before I started the PhD and, as always, she was totally right. When I told other grad students I had read a book about how tough the job market is they either said “I don’t need to read that yet” or “I don’t want to know how bad it is.” Ummmm…denial is not a good strategy. Knowing what you’re getting into is a good strategy. Even though the information about prepping job market materials was not yet relevant, having a framework for what would be evaluated helped me to define my grad school goals.
Year 2
Write papers that help you figure out your research area: I was pretty bad at this in my MA (I wrote papers about everythingggg). It’s ok to spend some time exploring topics, but once I had a topic area, I tried to use grad seminar papers to narrow in on that topic. This involved writing some papers that ended up being duds, and some that ended up being important parts of my dissertation. This leads to…
Ask about publishing: In seminars, I tried to have meetings with professors where I told them I wanted an academic job and needed experience publishing. They were usually willing to help develop seminar papers that had (somewhat?) original arguments in them, which is necessary for publishing. I was also not afraid to ask for lots of publishing help–how does it work? where should I submit this? can I use a cover letter you have written as a template? Publishing is confusing and took me a while to get used to.
Network smarter, not harder: This was the year I realized that going to giant conferences and hoping to meet people who did similar things was just not working. I reassessed and submitted to several smaller conferences that had the explicit goal of having senior faculty mentor grad students. It was amazing! First, these conferences were genuinely helpful, second, they were genuinely…genuine. I didn’t feel that I had to do any super fake networking anymore because I was really there to have conversations that developed my research.
Year 3
Read job postings: If your discipline has a listserv, subscribe, if not, check out the InsideHigherEd job postings. Note any trends in hiring. I don’t think you can totally pivot toward every job (duh) but you can think about how to make your application more friendly to what everyone seems to want. In my case, people who teach organizational communication were often also being asked to teach several other classes, so I made sure to ask to teach one of those so it would be on my record before the job market.
Submit, submit, submit: This is the year I got the most journal submissions under review. Some got accepted, some got (mega) rejected. Most needed several rounds of hardcore revisions that took 12-14 months. Submitting in year 3 gave me time to do those revisions so that I could use the articles as writing samples on applications.
Year 4
Prep materials: I drew on as many resources as possible to prep my job market materials–career services helped with my CV, our graduate teaching program on campus helped me writing my teaching and diversity statements, I asked recent graduates for example cover letters, my advisor read and edited cover letters, my DAD read and edited cover letters (what can I say he loves helping with grammar). It takes a village. Use the village. Oh, now is also a good time to reread TPII book for tips on writing decent materials.
Get organized: I had a spreadsheet where I put all of the relevant job information, especially deadlines, keywords, and information about each department.
Ask your letter writers: I did this in August. I also made them all a “job application digest”–just a word document with all of the jobs I submitted to and some notes about what I had said in my cover letter, so they could tailor rec letters.
Throw yourself at your dissertation: Every interview asked how I was planning to finish the dissertation. Making real progress made this question much easier. I definitely lost myself to the job market for a solid month in November. Then, I realized that my dissertation was the only thing I had control over. So I got back to work.
And here are some other resources that I also enjoyed reading:
Thoughts on diversity statements: What the heck even are they?, plus thoughts on the hidden curriculum of college and designing inclusive teaching on campus (Ps don’t just use these to write a diversity statement use them to actually do work in your classroom and campus environment so that what you write on your diversity statement is genuine).
A breakdown on cover letters
Another great post on the job hunt
Campus visit small talk
This post originally appeared on my WordPress
Masterpost of Free Romantic Literature & Theory (European) (Gothic Literature)
British Romanticism
Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience by William Blake Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Don Juan & Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Baron George Gordon Byron Collected Poetry of Lord Byron The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth Collected Poetry by John Keats Ivanhoe; Waverly & The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott The Complete Poetical Works by Percy Bysshe Shelley
French Romanticism
The Count of Monte Cristo; The Three Musketeers & The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas One of Cleopatra’s Nights and Other Fantastic Romances by Théophile Gautier Notre Dame de Paris & Les Misérables by Victor Hugo Collected Prose and Essays of Victor Hugo Poems by Victor Hugo Carmen by Prosper Mérimée The Red and the Black by Stendhal Cinq Mars by Alfred de Vigny
German Romanticism
Were I a Little Bird; The Mountaineer; As Many as Sand-grains in the Sea; The Swiss Deserter; The Tailor in Hell & The Reaper by Ludwig Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano The Broken Ring by Joseph von Eichendorff Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Collected Poetry by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Fairytales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heinrich Heine Hegel’s Philosophy of Mind by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel The Golden Pot; The Sandman & The Devil’s Elixir by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann Undine (Selections) by Friedrich Baron de la Motte-Fouqué Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance by Novalis The Iron Idol by Jakob Schaffner The Robbers & Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller Tales from the “Phantasus,” etc. by Ludwig Tieck
Polish Romanticism
Moja Beatrice by Zygmunt Krasiński Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz Anhelli by Juliusz Słowacki
Russian Romanticism
A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov Poems by Alexander Pushkin Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin Collected Works of Alexander Pushkin Collected Poetry by Fyodor Tyutchev Poems by Vasily Zhukovsky
Spanish Romanticism
Cantares gallegos by Rosalía de Castro El Estudiante de Salamanca and Other Selections by José de Espronceda The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba
Historical Theory and Background
Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian The French Revolution of 1789 by John S. C. Abbott Rousseau and Romanticism by Irving Babbitt A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. Beers Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism by T. S. Eliot The Destiny of Man by Johann Gottlieb Fichte The Faust Legend from Marlowe to Goethe by Kuno Francke The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature by W. F. Kirby Romantic Ireland by M. F. Mansfield and Blanche McManus The Diary of Dr. John William Polidori, 1816, Relating to Byron, Shelley, etc. Romance: Two Lectures by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays by Percy Bysshe Shelley On Liberty by John Stuart Mill The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac by Jessie L. Weston
Academic Theory
Introduction: Replicating Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Science and Culture by Will Abberley Walter Scott’s works perception by his russian contemporaries by O. G. Anossova Theories of Space and the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Isobel Armstrong The Romantic subject as an absolutely autonomous individual by Miljana Cunta Russian-German Connections in the Editing Practice in the Mid-19th Century: Vasiliy Zhukovsky and Justinus Kerner by Natalia Egorovna Nikonova and Maria Vladimirovna Dubenko Fichte as a Post-Kantian Philosopher and His Political Theory: A Return to Romanticism by Özgür Olgun Erden Negotiating boundaries: Encyclopédie, romanticism, and the construction of science by Marcelo Fetz Wandering Motive and Its Appeal on Reluctantly Wandering Franz Schubert by Dragana Jeremić-Molnar The Caucasian Motif in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘House of the Dead’ in the Light of the Polemic with Lermontov by Xuyang Mi The Core of Romanticism by Monika Milosavljević Romantic worldview as a narcissistic construct’by Branko Mitrović Topographic Transmissions and How To Talk About Them: The Case of the Southern Spa in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction by Benjamin Morgan Lermontov’s Romanticism and Jena School by Liudmila G. Shakirova The Self in a Crystal Sphere: Juliusz Słowacki’s Concept of the Subject (in his works from the 1830) by Marek Stanisz The Many Faces of Nature: An Ecocritical Reading of the Concepts of Wilderness and the Sublime in John Keats’ Selected Poems by Morteza Emamgholi Tabar Malakshah & Behzad Pourqarib
You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it - try starting again.
Alguien quiere ser mi compañera de lengua? No tengo oportunidades tan cerca de mi de practicar afuera de leer.
-Lisa
Writing a CV:
The perfect resume for someone with no experience (by businessinsider)
Guide to writing a CV
Common grammar mistakes to avoid on your CV
How to explain a gap in your CV
How to overcome common CV issues
What not to do on your CV
Should I include hobbies and interests in my CV?
CV layout: dos and don'ts
Free CV template
School leaver CV template
CV templates and tips
More free CV templates
Example CVs
How to tailor your CV to different industry sectors
Writing a Cover Letter:
How to write a cover letter
How to overcome common cover letter problems
Graduate cover letter template
Career break cover letter template
School leaver cover letter template
Free cover letter template
Referencing:
How to get a reference
References: workers’ rights
How to deal with employment references
How to include references on a resume
Interviews:
How to answer common interview questions
How to prepare for an interview
The interview itself
Advice to help you ace the interview
Answer curveball interview questions
101 Interview Questions You’ll Never Fear Again
Second interview questions and answers
Telephone interview questions and answers
Questions you should not be asked
What to wear to an interview: bloggers’ top tips
Group interview tips: do’s and don'ts
Interview questions for employers: What you should be asking
What not to do at interview
What job can I do?
How to decide what job to look for
How to find a new job
How to search for jobs online
Jobs in the retail industry
Jobs in the engineering industry
Jobs in the fashion industry
Jobs in the IT industry
Jobs in the motoring industry
Jobs in sport
Jobs in the education industry
Jobs in the energy industry
Careers with animals
Jobs in the media industry
Jobs in the leisure & tourism industry
Jobs in the catering industry
Jobs for history lovers
Jobs for geography lovers
Jobs for English lovers
Jobs for maths lovers
Volunteering:
7 Simple ways to make the best of volunteering
Benefits of volunteering
Benefits of mentoring
Volunteer Abroad
Resignation:
Resignation letters: What you need to know
Resignation letter templates
How to resign
How To Resign & Hand In Your Resignation Letter
Redundancy /Job Loss:
Deal with redundancy
Things to do if you lose your job
Claim Jobseeker’s Allowance
Jobseekers allowance (UK) overview
15 tips to survive a job loss
How to Cope With Job Loss and Move On
At work:
How to start a new job
How to have a good first day
How to hold onto your job
How to handle bullying in the workplace
Commuting: how far is too far?
How to get a promotion
Summer workwear advice
Office Style Trends 2015
What You Can (and Can’t) Wear to Work
Dealing with stress at work
How to deal with a brutal boss
Grammar
Lesson Twenty: Telling Time
Masterlist
Previous Lesson
안녕하세요 여러분! Today we are going to learn how to tell time in Korean! ⏰
시작합시다!
Hours
When telling time, you are going to be using both Native Korean numbers and Sino-Korean numbers. In the case of saying the HOUR, you would you Native Korean.
When you say the hour, four numbers are going to change their form a little bit and those numbers are 1, 2, 3, and 4.
하나 ~ 한
둘 ~ 두
셋 ~ 세
넷 ~ 네
To say the hour, you are going to be using this conjugation (시 = Hour):
Number + 시
Examples:
다섯 시 (5시) = 5 o’clock
여섯 시 (6시) = 6 o’clock
일곱 시 (7시) = 7 o’clock
여덜 시 (8시) = 8 o’clock
Minutes
In the case of saying MINUTES, you would use Sino-Korean numbers.
To say minutes, you are going to be using this conjugation (분 = Minute):
Number + 분
Examples:
구 분 (9분) = 9 minutes
십 분 (10분) = 10 minutes
십일 분 (11분) = 11 minutes
십이 분 (12분) = 12 minutes
Then, you just put the hours and minutes together! (Ex: 아홉 시 십삼 분 = 9시 13분 = 9:13)
Sample Sentences
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“공원은 오전 열시 반분*부터 오후 다섯시까지 개방된다.”
The Gardens are open from 10:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.
열 (10) + 시 = 10 o’clock
반 (half) + 분 = 30 minutes
오전 = Morning, a.m.
오후 = Night, p.m.
다섯 (5) + 시 = 5 o’clock
*Instead of saying 삼십 분 for 30 minutes you can say 반 which means ‘half’.
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“그 열차는 두시 사십오분에 부산에 도착할 예정이다.”
The train is timed to reach Busan at 2:45.
두 (2) + 시 = 2 o’clock
사십오 (45) + 분 = 45 minutes
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“나는 보통 늦어도 일곱시까지는 기상하는 것을 규칙으로 하고 있어요.”
I generally make it a rule to be up by 7.
일곱 (7) + 시 = 7 o’clock
Post: “In the Middle Ages-”
Me: When??? WHERE?? WHICH CENTURY??? 500 AD? 1450 AD? WHICH COUNTRY? WAS THERE A COUNTRY? WHO? WHY? IN WHICH CONTEXT-
The Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews master list
This is the fourth year I’ve been running the Linguist Jobs Interview series. There are now over 40 interviews to date, with people who studied linguistics - be it a single undergraduate subject or a full PhD - and then gone on to careers outside of academia.
Although I ask the same questions each time, I get very different answers. For some people, linguistics is directly applicable to their daily work, while others find that the general skills they learnt can transfer to other careers.
I update this list at least once a year. For newer interviews, you can browse the Linguistics Jobs tag on the blog!
The full list of Linguistics Job Interviews (to April 2019):
Interview with a Lexicographer
Interview with a School Linguist
Interview with a Journalist
Interview with a PR Consultant
Interview with an Agency Owner & Executive Editor
Interview with a Freelance Editor, Writer and Trainer
Interview with a Language Creator
Interview with a Translator and Business Owner
Interview with a Standards Engineer
Interview with a Conductor
Interview with an Accent Coach
Interview with two Communications Professionals
Interview with a University Course Coordinator
Interview with a Think Tank Researcher
Interview with a Museum Curator
Interview with a Communications Consultant
Interview with a Linguistic Project Manager at a Language Tech Company
Interview with a Data Scientist
Interview with a Librarian
Interview with a Text Analyst
Interview with a User Experience (UX) Researcher
Interview with a Study Abroad Facilitator
Interview with The Career Linguist
Interview with a local radio Digital Managing Editor
Interview with a Senior Content Project Manager at Transparent Language
Interview with a Freelance Translator and Editor
Interview with an Apprentice Mechanic
Interview with an Educational Development Lecturer (and Linguistic Consultant)
Interview with a Client Services Manager
Interview with an English Foreign Language Teacher
Interview with a Speech Pathologist
Interview with a Computational Linguist
Interview with a Tour Company Director
Interview with a Copywriter and Brand Strategist (and Fiction Author)
Interview with a Language Revitalisation Program Director
Interview with a Media Language Researcher
Interview with an Editor and Copywriter
Interview with a Humanitarian Aid Worker
Interview with a High School Teacher
Interview with an Interpreter
Interview with a Journalist
Interview with a Data Analyst
At a crossroads
So here I am, sitting on the couch in my parents’ living room wondering how the hell I got here. Now that I’m out of college, I feel like that one shot in The Matrix where Neo tries to follow his mentor by jumping across the roof: moving forward but in slow motion. I just jumped from a ledge desperately trying to figure out whether or not I gave myself enough momentum to reach the other end.
I’m taking a year between undergrad and grad, but now I’m starting to wish I had just sucked it up and applied during the fall semester of my senior year. I’ve got a good support system (thank goodness) and a job lined up for the summer but I am just so nervous.
I feel like Evee, so many ways to evolve. Am I scared? probably. Am I gonna study for the GRE’s and take them anyway? hell yeah! Will I listen to a lot of kpop while I do it? Undoubtedly.
I am so grateful to be where I am right now, but I don’t know how to leap into the unknown. And I don’t think anyone really does. I think that’s why I’m here, in slo-mo between two rooftops, one too far behind, and one almost too far ahead.
Sorry for the rant, y’all! I love you, keep working hard, and rest when you can.
And don’t worry, I’ll be okay
Peace,
Lisa
(ps. this is an accurate depiction of Kim Namjoon pulling me out of my own fear)
so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god
If this inspires you pass it on!🤔♻️📲
Another reason I really like Marie Kondo is that in other cleaning shows the host will looked shocked at the mess and the camera will flash to different piles with dramatic music stings. When Marie sees a draw filled with clutter she smiles from ear to ear and goes “I love mess, I love tidying”. Its just so wholesome and you can see the clients are relieved that she didn’t have a bad reaction.
Vocab: La Casa de Bernarda Alba - S
We’re getting close pals
Sábana - sheet
Sabor - taste, flavour
Salirse con la suya - to get one’s own way
Sandía - watermelon
Santiguarse - to cross oneself
Segador - reaper
Segar - to reap
Sentar - to seat, suit
Sentar mal - to disagree
Sentar la mano - to let someone’s feel (the weigh of) one’s hand
Sentir - to hear, mourn, feel, be upset over, be sorry
Señalado - appointed
Señalar - to point to
Siempre - always, still
Sien - temple
Siervo - servant
Sigilo - secrecy, stealth
Silbido - whistle
Sino - fate
Sinsabor - trouble, worry
Siquiera - at least
Ni siquiera - not even
Sobrar - to be more than enough
Sobras - leftovers
Sobrecogido - startled, taken aback
Solería - floor
Soltera - single, unmarried, spinster
Sollozar - to sob
Mala sombra - bad luck
Con sorna - sarcastically, mockingly
Suave - soft, gentle, sweet
Suceso - incident, action
Sudor - sweat
Sueldo - wage
Suelto - loose
Sujetar - to restrain, hold back
Sumiso - submissive
Suplicante - pleading, imploring
KOREAN LEARNING MASTERLIST:
originally a quick bookmark that became a comprehensive, work-in-progress, reblog-able masterlist of all korean posts i’ve made and come across on tumblr, ordered by topic/theme. last updated: 07/05/2019
VOCABULARY:
Time + Space:
eojetbam-studies: five a day #21 — time related vocab
eojetbam-studies: position in korean 어디에 있어요?
eojetbam-studies: countries in korean — 어느 나라 사람이에요?
eojetbam-studies: days of the week
koreanstudytips: frequency adverbs
dailydoseofkorea: korean geographic vocab
tamag0-studies: korean nationality vocab
Relationships:
eojetbam-studies: family in korean — 우리의 가족
Nouns:
koreanstudytips: animals in korean
eojetbam-studies: five a day #3 — thanksgiving related vocab
dailydoseofkorea: study session vocab
Adjectives:
eojetbam-studies: colors in korean — 한국어에 색들이
Verbs:
jesslearnslanguages: 25 common korean verbs
19tc: to like/to dislike
patroocle: sleep related vocab
Internet:
patroocle: on the internet
Other:
hyeyeonstudies: korean slang
learn-korean-with-alli: food + drink
GRAMMAR:
Particles / Attached Endings:
learn-korean-with-alli: object particle 를/을
adventuresinkorean: contrastive ending (으)나
yasuistudies: future tense and probability (으)ㄹ 거예요
koreangrumblings: without exception/the exception N치고/는
Taking Action:
koreanstudytips: let’s in korean
Negatives:
koreanstudytips: how to say don’t in korean
Other Grammar:
h-eonno: korean sentence structure
OTHER:
Honorifics:
koreanstudytips: 존댓말 vs. 반말
huge-hangoolies-fan: things everyone should know about using 반말
CONVERSATION:
cookingwithvannaa: sophia, do you want to make a cake?
this is the money dog, repost in the next 24 hours and money will come your way!!
Hey! so i just created my very first studygram (shameless self promo @decafstudy follow me) and one of my irl friends saw my stories and posts and asked “How many hours does your day have? ´cause mine only has 24″ and that got me thinking abt how i take the most advantage of my days to make them feel (or look) 48 hours long! Here are a few of the things I incorporate on my daily student life to be more productive!
• IF YOUR FIRST CLASS STARTS LATE IN THE MORNING WAKE UP 2 HOURS EARLIER THAN NEEDED i know, am i crazy? ok so here´s the deal. If your first class starts, let´s say, at 11:00 A.M you might be tempted to wake up at 10:00 A.M, get dressed, and head to school. Not only does this create bad habits for when you get assigned a 7:00 A.M class (which will happen) but you lose MANY HOURS OF PRECIOUS TIME. Get your 8-9 hours of sleep and do not let yourself wake up later than needed. My class sometimes starts at 11:30 A.M so i wake up at 8:00 have a nice morning, relax, work out a bit, light up a candle and get ahead on reading and work for school! Your day will start and feel more productive!
• NEVER LEAVE CLASS WITH A DOUBT ON YOUR MIND I know this might create anxiety for people who are shy and do not like asking questions during class (i am one of those people) If you feel just too scared to ask during class APPROACH THE TEACHER AFTER CLASS ENDS. as soon as he dismisses class, approach him and ask the question. If you are not able to do so DO NOT STRESS, BUT WRITE THAT QUESTION DOWN ASAP ON A POST IT AND STICK IT YOUR NOTEBOOK. that way you will have the question at hand and you can seek tutoring later and ask, or even ask a friend BUT NEVER LET A QUESTION GO, NEVER think “i will ask it later” BECAUSE YOU WON´T and IT WILL DOOM YOU. This will save so much time when you study, because all your questions will be at hand and you will know what you have to focus on studying.
• WHENEVER YOU HAVE FREE TIME, USE IT TO WORK WHILE DOING SOMETHING FUN instead of just diving head first into watching a movie, ask yourself if there is something more productive that you could be doing rn (reading ahead, reviewing, doing extra math exercises) if the answer is yes, then put that movie on mute and work while taking a peek at the movie ever once in a while. This will not only help you with discipline and learning to keep yourself from distractions, but it will occupy your free time in something that your future self will thank you for later on.
• NEVER ASSUME THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO IT LATER again, think in terms of your FUTURE SELF how much would your future self love it if instead of studying 3 days before the exam, you studied a week before it? How much would your future self love it of instead of reading until 12:00 PM tomorrow, you divided the reading between today and tomorrow? never assume that you will have spare time ahead because chances are that you won´t and you will end up with A BUNCH of work that you didn´t do and that you can´t do at the moment. FUTURE SELF THINKING has saved my life.
• LEAVE TIME OPEN FOR MENTAL HEALTH/PHYSICAL/RECREATIVE CARE as much as i always put work first, I KEEP MY THERAPIST VISIT AND MY GYM ROUTINE STABLE no matter how much work i have. This helps me feel more balanced and like i am on top of everything, not just school, feeling good=more productivity.
• POMODORO TECHNIQUE i know many people know about this but if you don´t, this is basically a studying technique in which you work or study for 25-30 minutes straight NO DISTRACTIONS and then have a 5-6 minute break, and then repeat the process as many hours as you need. This really helps me not get burnt out when I have a heavy load of work. Watching study with me videos on yt is a good way of keeping the pomodoro system going. Some good apps that I use for POMODORO are Forest and Tide.
• HAVE AN APP CARPET ON YOUR PHONE THAT IS CALLED “PRODUCTIVITY” ie. download a BUNCH of cute as hell apps that help you get motivated and organised when you look at them. This will make you more prone to look at your phone as an INSTRUMENT rather than a DISTRACTION. (my fave apps are Taskade, Forest, Tide, Brainscape and Pocket)
• Lastly, GET MOTIVATED i know this sounds cliché, but the reason why i love keeping my day busy is because i surround myself with a romanticised idea of studying. Doing these kinds of posts, following a bunch of accounts with pretty notes, having a clean room and desk, going to the library and appreciating the color scheme or sounds around you, listening to relaxing sounds or music while working, downloading many pretty apps to keep myself on track while having a cute aesthetic… all of these things might seem small, but they make you feel cleaner, more balanced and more prone to LIKING the work you do.
Anyways i know most of you already do these cause yall are on top of your game alllll the tiiiiime girl, but if any of these helps, ill be very happy!
Don’t worry. Start now. Get up, take a few deep breaths, stretch, count to ten with your eyes closed. Then take out your books and a notebook and a pen. Get on with it. Start reading, annotating, take down your notes. If you feel your focus faltering, sit back, take a few deep breaths, walk around a bit, get back to your books. It’s never too late.
apply for jobs you’re not qualified for! audit upper-level classes! get drunk with your TAs! see that poster advertising that lecture series? go there take notes and ask questions! thank the presenter for talking about this topic you love! if the class is full before you register, email the professor and ask if they can squeeze you in! RAISE YOUR HAND! tell the disability accomodation office to do their goddamn job! ask for help! file complaints! go to class in your pajamas and destroy the reading! you got this! you KNOW you got this! be arrogant enough to learn EVERYTHING! take your meds! punch a velociraptor in the dick! fear is useless and temporary! glory is forever! shed your skin and erupt angel wings! help out! spread your sun!
i had a really good morning! you deserve a really good morning! kill anyone who says you don’t and build a throne from their bones!
KOREAN LEARNING MASTERLIST:
originally a quick bookmark that became a comprehensive, work-in-progress, reblog-able masterlist of all korean posts i’ve made and come across on tumblr, ordered by topic/theme. last updated: 04/05/2019
VOCABULARY:
Time + Space:
eojetbam-studies: five a day #21 — time related vocab
eojetbam-studies: position in korean 어디에 있어요?
eojetbam-studies: countries in korean — 어느 나라 사람이에요?
eojetbam-studies: days of the week
koreanstudytips: frequency adverbs
dailydoseofkorea: korean geographic vocab
Relationships:
eojetbam-studies: family in korean — 우리의 가족
Nouns:
koreanstudytips: animals in korean
eojetbam-studies: five a day #3 — thanksgiving related vocab
Adjectives:
eojetbam-studies: colors in korean — 한국어에 색들이
Verbs:
jesslearnslanguages: 25 common korean verbs
19tc: to like/to dislike
patroocle: sleep related vocab
Internet:
patroocle: on the internet
GRAMMAR:
Particles / Attached Endings:
learn-korean-with-alli: object particle 를/을
adventuresinkorean: contrastive ending (으)나
yasuistudies: future tense and probability (으)ㄹ 거예요
Taking Action:
koreanstudytips: let’s in korean
Negatives:
koreanstudytips: how to say don’t in korean
Other Grammar:
h-eonno: korean sentence structure
OTHER:
Honorifics:
koreanstudytips: 존댓말 vs. 반말
I hope every shawol does well on their finals
she’s gonna pass her classes and she’s gonna graduate
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (via books-n-quotes)
