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Oh my god i want a phd too but idk what the fuck am i suppossed to do a phd in like do they give you topics to choose from once you enroll in the course or it becomes evident to you as you complete your studies and reach that level.

it depends on the program. some will have you closely associated with a faculty mentor's research, like a traditional hard sciences "lab," but even in that structure you typically have to develop your own project rather than having it assigned wholesale. many of the milestones along the way, like course papers and qualifying or comprehensive exams, are often intended to help you explore potential topics before you reach the formal proposal.

i will not lie, my dissertation was originally inspired by a joke my advisor made in my first year, and i gradually fleshed it out into a real area of research as i got more knowledgeable in the field. it turned out pretty damn good for something that lodged in my brain over a post-excavation beer.

this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz

Burden "You are not a burden. You HAVE a burden, which by definition is too heavy to carry on your own."

Midnight Rain

When you first start learning a language the meaning of all of the words that you learn depend entirely on the equivalent word in a language you speak, and without that word to give it a meaning it would just be a random sound to you, but later on you don’t need that equivalent word for the new words you’ve learned to have meaning anymore and they just exist on their own in your brain without attachment to any other languages and I think that that’s my definition of fluency, when the words stop depending on another language for meaning in your mind

French verbs: all about stress

When learning French, I loved the verbs parler ('to talk') and aimer ('to love') because they were entirely regular. A thousand years ago, I wouldn't have been that happy. At that time, parler was irregular too: people said il/ele parole, not il/elle parle. And it wasn't aimer but amer, yet il/ele aime. Many more verbs that are now perfectly regular, used to have two different stems.

Click the video to hear a selection of these verbs evolve.

These irregularities were due to the regular sound changes that turned Latin into Old French. In Latin, word stress was different in the infinitive than in the third person, as indicated with an underline in the video. This stress difference had consequences for how the vowels developed:

a-MA-re > a-MER

A-mat > AI-me

On my Patreon (tier 1), I tell all about this phenomenon: how it affected vowels in a predictable way, the patterns that emerged (with a discussion of all of the forms in the video), and how the alternations were eventually eliminated. 1500 words, link in bio.

If you use Duolingo, maybe don't anymore? The company is moving to be "AI-first" and is using AI to generate their content. Meaning, AI is now generating your language lessons.

They announced that they were going to use AI for this a while back but now they're annoucing that they're getting rid of the contractors reviewing the AI generated content. So, very soon Duolingo is just going to be AI generated slop that might not even be correct.

For alternatives, I'd recommend checking with your local library. For instance, mine offers Rosetta Stone for free if you have a library card.