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1. Learn a sizable vocabulary, there is a good list of 625 words you should know in your target language. Spend time building this up and be sure to practice your pronunciation that is vital. To learn vocabulary there are many methods: flashcards, lists, apps, mindmaps etc. I personally use the app Quizlet as it has many learning tools and flashcards so you can practice on the go.

2. Learn basic grammar, for this you can use a book or there are plenty of websites online that will have resources. You just need to have master a section at a time so you have the basic learnt.

3. Listen to the spoken language, if you are in the country awesome but chances you are not so some ways to this are: listening to audio files, using apps (I know Duolingo has a aspect that reads stories), watch YouTube videos in that language, watch films and listen to the radio (there are lots of streams online).

4. Practice speaking, pronunciation is vital plus saying things over and over again can help move it to the long term memory. It will make you feel much more confident in your abilities. To practice speaking it would be ideal to find someone who is fluent in your target language but if not there are speaking exercises online, you could try read a book out loud or even learn a song.

5. Stick to it, this is probably the most important part if you don’t keep practicing regularly you will forget it all. Even if it is just something small it is better than nothing and will be worth it when you can speak a whole new language.

Good Websites

BBC Languages

Duolingo

Dictionaries

Quizlet

Memrise

Babbel

Fluent Forever

Feel free to add more helpful tips, tricks etc below.

LGBT

nouns

die Lesbe - the lesbian

die LGBT-Community - the LGBT community

der Regenbogen - the rainbow

die Pride/das Pride-Festival - the pride (festival)

die Fahne/die Flagge - the flag

der/die Bi/Pan/A/Homosexuelle - the bi/pan/homosexual (i know h*m*sexual is considered a slur by some in english, but i am not sure about how it is in german. i personally would be uncomfortable with it, so ask people first before you apply it to them)

die Ehe für alle - the same-sex/gender marriage (lit. marriage for everyone)

die Polyamorie - the polyamory

die Polygamie - the polygamy

die Beziehung - the relationship

die Hormone - the hormones

die Geschlechtsangleichung - i dont know how to translate this one, but it can be used both for taking hormones and the surgeries transgender people can get, basically it means aligning your social/biological gender/sex to your actual one

das Östrogen - the estrogen

das Testosteron  - the testosterone

die Hormontherapie - the hormone replacement therapy

adjectives

schwul - gay (only to be used by men in my experience)

lesbisch - lesbian

bi/pan/a/homosexuell - bi/pan/a/homosexual

transgender - transgender

transgeschlechtlich - transgender

transsexuell - transsexual (also considered outdated and misleading by most germans)

LGBT - LGBT

out - out

stolz - proud

nicht-binär/nichtbinär - nonbinary (i think its the same as in english, where whether you use the - or not depends on personal preference)

queer - queer (in german this is not really considered as much of a slur as it is in english and often used as an umbrella term, however there are people uncomfortable with it)

verbs

lieben - to love

feiern - to celebrate

sich outen - to come out

jemanden outen - to out someone

You have a cute smile - Du hast ein süßes Lächeln

I like the way you carry yourself - Ich mag deine Art

Do you come here often? - Bist du öfters hier?

That shirt suits you - Das Shirt steht dir

You look good - Du siehst gut aus

Oh really? - Ach wirklich?

Do you want to get coffee sometime? - Hast du Lust mal Kaffee trinken zu gehen?

I enjoy spending time with you - Ich verbringe gerne Zeit mit dir

You always look pretty - Du siehst immer hübsch aus

A list of useful verbs because my knowledge of verbs in German is very limited

sein - to be haben - to have gehen - to go laufen - to walk rennen - to run fahren - to drive reisen - to travel schwimmen - to swim stehen - to stand sitzen - to sit machen - to make/do erschaffen - to create kochen - to cook essen - to eat trinken - to drink sprechen - to speak sagen - to say fragen - to ask hören - to hear zuhören - to listen mögen - to like wissen - to know (a concept) kennen - to know (a person) denken - to think glauben - to believe wollen - to want können - to be able to brauchen - to need lernen - to learn schreiben - to write lesen - to read lernen - to study verstehen - to understand vergessen - to forget erinnern - to remember üben - to practice sehen - to see beobachten - to watch tragen - to wear aufwachen - to wake up schlafen - to sleep arbeiten - to work kaufen - to buy spielen - to play benutzen - to use bringen - to bring kommen - to come zurückkommen - to return (come back) geben - to give bekommen - to receive nehmen - to take schauen - to look finden - to find treffen - to meet anfangen - to start beenden - to finish versuchen - to try entscheiden - to decide geboren werden - to be born sterben - to die leben - to live (a life) wohnen - to live (in an area) helfen - to help schicken - to send verändern - to change (alter)

[French]

If there are any mistakes or better translations please let me know!

Nebenordnende - Coordinating aka. normal verb placement

aber - but

denn - because, for

oder - or

sondern - but rather, instead

und - and

entweder…oder - either…or

weder…noch  - neither…nor

nicht nur…sondern auch - not only…but also

Unterordnende - Subordinating aka. verb kickers

als - when

bevor - before

bis - until

da - because, since

damit - so that

dass - that 

daher - therefore, thus

darum - therefore, thus

nachdem - after

ob - if, whether

obwohl - although

obgleich - although

seit - since

seitdem - since

sobald - as soon as

solang - as long as 

statt dass - instead of

während - while

wann - when

weil - because

Want to maintain or improve your writing skills in your target language this summer? Try this 30-day writing challenge for June: Every day, answer the following prompts in your target language (in a personal journal or in a tumblr post). Good luck!

Write a short letter to someone you haven’t talked to in a while.

What are your future career goals?

What’s your favorite childhood movie? Why?

If you could learn to cook anything this summer, what would it be and why?

List 5 (or more) things that make you happy.

What is your morning routine?

What is your night routine?

Who is one influential person in your life? Why?

Write a poem about someone (or something) you love :)

List 5 of your pet peeves.

What’s something about yourself that you want to improve?

What’s one place you’ve always wanted to visit? Why?

What’s one thing you’re looking forward to this summer?

What’s one of your favorite things about yourself? Why?

Write a haiku about summertime.

Describe a memorable dream you’ve had.

Who’s your celebrity crush? What do you like about them (besides how cute I’m sure they are lol)?

What’s your favorite summer memory?

Translate 3 of your favorite quotes into your target language.

Write 3 things that scare you and why.

Write about a challenge you’ve overcome!

Who is someone, dead or alive, you would love to meet? Why?

Who is your best friend and why do you love them?

What is your favorite item in your room?

What’s one book you had to read in school that you DIDN’T like? Rant about it.

What’s one good memory from school?

List an insecurity, then refute it by reminding yourself how great you are :)

How do you think someone would describe you?

How do you relax after a stressful or difficult day?

What was your favorite part of this month?

New post today! YAAAAY, I missed blogging sooooo much but I came back home to visit my parents.  You guys know, if you follow me on Instagram too, that I looooove the Bullet Journal method, I use it every day for my studies and right now for work too. So why not creating a new bullet journal only dedicated to language learning? Here’s what are the possible useful spreads I will create in the near future:

Yearly log: probably a vertical spread and for each month I will list the goals I want to reach in each language

Monthly log: a classic monthly log but with the days in the middle, on the left side I will list what are my daily goals and on the other one I will write what I actually did

Monthly tracker: for each day I’ll track how many hours or minutes I’ll spend for each language (color coding needed)

Level 10 fluency: for each language, I will list how much I feel fluent in each category (reading, writing, speaking, listening) from 1 to 10

Resources log: for each language, I will dedicate one page in order to list all the resources I use or I have in store and I’ll also track for which field it’s useful

Textbooks collection: for each language, I will list the textbooks, both physical and digital, I have 

Lag-podcasts collection: a list dedicated to languages podcasts I listen to and I will discover

Favorite Tumblr masterposts: you know that here on Tumblr there are tons and tons of very useful masterposts, so why not creating a collection for them in order to always remember them? 

What I learned this month: as the last page for one month, it would be nice to keep track of what you studied and understood

Website/Blog collection: I follow too many interesting blogs and sometimes I can’t even remember their names, this collection would be teeeeerribly useful for me

 Fluency tracker: let this Pinterest pic speak for me 

For Amy (@chocolates-and-cream) who asked:

Hey! First of all, I freaking love your blog and second, I need some help getting my life organised. Do you by any chance know some apps that are like planners/agendas I can use? Thanks in advance! :))))) -amy xx

Thank you so much! Here’s a few apps and extensions which I’ve found useful to sort my daily trainwreck of tasks…

APPS TO GET YOUR LIFE SORTED

Google Calendar

If you have a gmail account (who doesn’t? rip hotmail you were too good to me) this is the one for you.  You can sync all your events across all platforms (ty google) including your phone, laptop, basically anything that enables you to log onto your gmail account.  You can enable alarms and desktop notifications alerting you to important deadlines and events or alternatively, an email will be sent to your inbox. You can colour code/ sort all your events aswell (e.g. “school”, “subject A, subject B, subject C”, “home”, “work”)

With every event you can include;

+time +location (TY GOOGLE MAPS) and it can estimate your ETA +alerts +communicate to other invitees

Thanks to the juggernaut which is google (+google accounts) you can easily share your calendar with your contacts. This is particularly useful if you’re co-ordinating group projects or managing a team. Its much easier to invite your contacts to your events, given that you have immediate access to your entire email contact list/groups.

One of my favourite things about google calendar is that it’s so easy to import and export your calendar. You won’t have to worry about losing your data or scheduled events if you get a new phone/laptop etc. Its all on you google account. Perks! 

iCal

If you’ve sacrificed your first born to apple (as I have) this is the app for you. Think of it as google calendar, for apple. They share heaps of similar features.

Basically, iCal syncs all your events, deadlines (+ optional public holidays etc) across all platforms. There’s a daily, weekly and monthly view and it’s relatively easy to use. You can categorise each event (e.g. I have a sep colour for each subject). I love that you can add notes, attachments and links to every event. I usually attach the event flyer to the event so that I can have easy access to the dress code/ additional info handy. You can also add a google maps location to every event - be lost no more!

THE FEATURE THAT HAS SAVED MY ASS COUNTLESS TIMES IS the alert system which will send an email or a notification on your device prior to the event. If you set an alarm, it’ll simultaneously scream at you from all your devices (and your inbox, if you want).

As an added bonus, you can sync a bunch of other events from other apps (e.g. your google calendar).

Note: I find iCal convenient (despite its limitations) as most of my devices run on iOS/ Mac OSX. If you’re smart and haven’t outsourced your life to apple, obv a lot of the above will not apply.

Remember the Milk

Remember the Milk basically does what Google Calendar and iCal does with a few added features. You can ‘tag’ each event with things like “to do”, “priority”, “tomorrow” etc. This is incredibly handy esp with the advanced search function. Similarly to the above apps, you can receive notifications alerting you to upcoming deadlines etc across all platforms.

I absolutely love the “create lists” function. If you have a penchant for lists, Remember the Milk lets you create a to do list etc and then break it down into subtasks!

Note: You can import all your tasks from google calendar etc into Remember the Milk. This makes it incredibly easy to set up and to sync tasks. 

Lanes

The new Lanes update has a handy weekly planner. You can make a daily 'to do list’ or you can customise your own lists. Simply drag and drop to reorganise your tasks! Super handy if you need to reorganise your week.

My favourite feature is the 'Pomodoro’ tab. Lanes will automatically program your to do list into a timed Pomodoro session!

Note: Lanes is a chrome extension, not a stand-alone app. 

Planner 

Planner covers all the essentials the apps above can - notifications, lists, sub lists, you name it. All with the benefit of colour coding! One of its standout features is the project organisation + notes section. You can sort your to do list by each project (handy if you’ve got concurrent projects) and write detailed notes for each task. 

Note: The free version is extremely limited. There’s no week view, search function and doesn’t have a project function.

One Note

For daily lists on the go or notes, I highly recommend One Note. The 'list function’ on the mobile app automatically generates a checklist style list for all your tasks, and there’s an inbuilt tagging system (important/remember for later/ highlight etc) on the desktop version.

Other Tips 

Apps for a better life by @areistotle

App Masterpost by @studiyng 

Helpful Apps by @gracelearns 

Helpful Apps by @studypeaks 

Time and Task Management by @pensandmachine

Theres an app for that by @studygene

Chrome Extensions by @living-the-ib-life

Apps to help you survive school by @sturdystudy

TimeTune recommended by @shreestudies here 

Flattomato recommended by @study-well here

Hope this helps!!

- fuckstudy

Masterposts are posted every other Sunday (asia pacific)/ Saturday (everywhere else). See previous masterposts here. Feel free to request topics here.

I’m supposed to be studying some Italian, but instead, I was googling in my computer how to learn a new language (no, googling how to learn will not teach you shit, you have to sit down and learn your target language not how to do it, I know but I’m lazy.) and I came across LingoHut, and I have to share it.

I don’t know if someone ever talked about this page, but if they did is worth mentioning again.

So basically you go to the website and in the Home Page you have to choose what is your first language and what language are you trying to learn.

Once you choose it’ll take you to another page in which you have tons of lessons, for ex. In Italian, there are 109 lessons.

I haven’t checked every lesson yet but for example, the first one is greetings and such. You click that lesson and you have 16 flashcards that will show you the word in your target language and the translation, at the same time that someone pronounces the words.

Below the flashcards, you have this  ⬇️

And basically is a bunch of game, an easy matching words kind of game, some kind of tic tac toe with words, a memory game do you know the one that kids play in which they have to find the matching pictures? Same but with words and lastly a listening and matching game.

Below the bar of the games, we have the vocabulary list of the words we are taught in that lesson, and you can click the word and listen the pronunciation.

In the end, you have a bunch of the next lessons.

The lessons vary from the content it can be greetings, numbers, health stuff, office words, computer terminology, etc.

The website doesn’t have every language in the world, but it has a lot of them. choose your target language, in my case Italian, and enjoy, is fun and simple if you want to practice or do something related to your target language but you don’t have the willingness that day to study something more consistent like structure.