Getting An Early Start With 2 Straight Hours Of Writing (exhausting!), A Vegan Croissant (delightful!)

coffee break || i learned how to make gifs from video in photoshop, so here’s my first go at it!

2022.09.09 // 17:28  getting back into the routine of going to classes! i like taking handwritten notes in class and then typing them up in notion afterward

pic: the A train over jamaica bay, queens, n.y.

being sick sucks

34/100 days of productivity

a bad anxiety day today, with my final manuscript deadline tonight. i managed to get it in early so i can spend lots of time relaxing tonight 

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I'd like to thank iced coffee for getting me through some rough times, she's always been there for me

04.10.21 || moshi moshi ! recently i have watched a ted talk on how to learn any language in six months by Chris Lonsdale. i took some notes from the video and i thought it would be great to share these with all of you. here are 7 actions for rapid language acquisition —

listen a lot! it's called brain soaking. you put yourself in a context where you're hearing tons and tons and tons of a language and it doesn't matter if you don't understand it or not. what matters is you're listening to the rhythms, to patterns that repeat.

focus on the meaning FIRST before the words, focus on the body languages!

start mixing! if you've got 10 verbs, 10 pronouns and 10 adjectives you can say 1000 different things. language is a creative process. it doesn't have to be perfect, just has to work. remember how babies communicate - “me hungry eat’’ learn language like a baby!

focus on the core! any language is high frequency content. in English, 1000 words cover 85% of anything you're ever gonna say in daily conversation.

get yourself a language parent! who's somebody interested in you as a person who will communicate with you essentially as an equal but pay attention to help you understand the message.

copy the face. if you can look at a native speaker and just observe how they use their face, let your unconscious mind absorb the rules, then you're gonna be able to pick it up.

“direct connect’’ to mental images. when you hear the word fire, you think of smoke you go into that imagery and you become more and more skilled at just connecting the new sounds to those images that you already have into that internal representation. you prolly heard of associating a picture or a drawing when you're learning a new word in your target language. it means the exact same thing.

27.04.2018 [26/100 days of productivity]

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Studygram: hristinasview Personal ig: slavovahrii

did my may habit trackers!! it’s been a while since i have made any, so i went extra ham on the design for these 😊 i’ve really been missing flowers!!

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