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亲吻 - qīnwěn - kiss

电影 - diànyǐng - movie

偎抱 - wēibào - cuddles

毛衣 - máoyī -sweater

枕头 - zhěntou - pillow

咖啡 - kāfēi - coffee

袜子 - wàzi - socks

书 - shū - book

安慰 - ānwèi -  comfort

毯子 - tǎnzi - blanket

小睡 - xiǎoshuì - nap

壁炉 - bìlú - fireplace

猫（咪） - māo(mī) -cat

暖意 - nuǎnyì - warmth

明星 - míngxīng - stars

查 - chá - tea

拥抱 - yǒngbào - hug

蜡烛 - làzhú - candle

柔软（的）- róuruǎn (de) - soft

娇嫩 （的）- jiāonèn (de) - delicate

甜蜜 （的）- tiánmì (de) - sweet

舒服 （的）- shūfú (de) - comfortable

暖和 （的）- nuǎnhuo (de) - warm

亲嘴 - qīnzuǐ - to kiss

抱抱 - bàobào -to hug

照料 - zhàoliào -to take care (of smb.)

躺下 - tǎngxià - to lie down

搂抱 - lǒubào - to cuddle / （依）偎 -  (yī) wēi is also commonly used

读书 - dúshū - to read (a book)

睡觉 - shuìjiào  - to sleep

休息 - xiūxí - to rest

No one is instantly a perfect student. It’s well known that ‘’perfect’’ studying requires some practice. Fortunately, there is a bunch of information available on this topic on the internet. In this way everyone can become a professional student.

1. Choosing the right study spot

Create a study space

Desk organisation

Study music (x) (x) (x)

Remove distractions

Study space guide

2. Being well equipped 

Studyblr on a budget

Organizing systems

How to stationery smart

Save money on stationery

School supplies shopping

Study apps everyone needs to use

Things you need in high school

Things that are useful in college

DIY school supplies

3. Getting focused

How to concentrate

Useful apps for focus

How to focus when a thousand things happen at the same time

Tips on staying focused

Academic goals

Getting started

4. Improve your handwriting

Handwriting goals 

Improve your handwriting (1) (2) (3)

Fake calligraphy

How to calligraphy

Some banners

Some fonts to try out

5. Taking useful notes

Cornell notes

Outline notes

Alternative to flashcards

Taking notes in class

Or during a lecture

Mindmaps

Highlighting

Typing your notes

Flashcards

Feymann’s technique

Colour coding

Sticky notes

Annotating

Decorate your notes

2 notebook method

Taking notes efficiently

6. Creating an efficient study routine in your life

How to create a study habit

Public transport productivity

Prevent the curve of forgetting

Make the most of your day

Study snacks

Succeed at school

Effective studying

Improve memory

Last minute studying

10 best study habits

After school routine

7. Planning your studies

Scheduling studying masterpost

Promodoro method

Plan during your study breaks

Bullet journalling

Plan for multiple tests using a calendar

Use printables

Use your productivity wisely

Be more productive with a planner

7 ways to better organise your study time

8. Study strategies

Types of learners + strategies

Study skills for test taking 

Study strategies masterpost

SQ3R reading method

Tips for effectively studying

Finding your perfect study method

How to memorise

Studying in a group

Study from textbooks

Quizing yourself

Secrets of a straigt A - student

My other masterposts

Scheduling studying

 DEATH

à l’article de la mort - at death’s door

la mort - death

casser sa pipe - to kick the bucket (argot)

clampser - to die/snuff it (very familiar)

claquer - to die (familiar)

une surdose - an overdose

décéder - to pass away (more formal)

décéder de mort naturelle - to die of natural causes (more formal)

mordre la poussière - to bite the dust

mourir (de) - to die (of)

mourir de mort naturelle - to die of natural causes

mourir de sa belle mort - to die a natural death (familiar)

mourir prématurément - to die an early death

nous quitter - to be taken away (euphemism for dying) e.g. un ami nous a quitté

partir - to depart this life (euphemism)

passer de vie à trépas - to pass on

passer l’arme à gauche - to go west (euphemism for dying)

perdre sa vie - to lose your life

rendre l’âme - to breathe/take your last breath

rendre son dernier souffle - to breathe/take your last breath

s’éteindre - to pass away (generally of old age)

s’en aller - depart this life (euphemism)

tomber raide mort - to drop dead

trouver sa mort - to pass away (generally because of an accident)

une mort paisible - a peaceful death

y laisser sa peau - to cost (sb) their life/to lose your life

y rester - to die/kick the bucket

GRIEF

accablé par le chagrin - grief-stricken

accablé de chagrin/douleur - grief-stricken

de chagrin - in grief (when mourning the death of sb)

en être tout retourné - to be bowled over/to be devastated~shocked by

être anéanti - to be torn in two

faire le deuil de (qqn) - to grieve/mourn (sb)

faire son deuil - to grieve/mourn

fou/folle de chagrin - mad with grief

la perte (d’un être cher) - bereavement

le deuil - grief

le chagrin - grief

la douleur - grief

la peine - grief

un psychologue spécialiste du deuil - a grief counselor

se complaire dans le malheur - to wallow in your grief

A lot of my French posts are related to how I feel when I write them.

My uncle found my cousin dead in his apartment yesterday. Apparently he looked like he was sleeping. We lived in different cities and he was about 15 years older than me so we didn’t know each other very well. But my brother remembers that he gave him a tiger when he was little and that he was very kind to him. 

Some of the phrases I have provided may seem a little crass in light of this, but this post is still a learning tool and I want everyone to have a full and nuanced understanding of the vocabulary related to the subject.

Here is an example of some of the words in context:

Mon cousin s’en est allé hier. J’espère que c’était une mort paisible. Nous en étions tout retourné quand mon oncle nous a donné la nouvelle. Il est accablé de chagrin. Sa perte touche toute la famille, qui est maintenant plus petite qu’elle ne devrait être.

Feel free to remove this part when you reblog.

study in shorter intervals and take breaks (ie, 40 minutes studying and 20 minutes break)

during your break don’t watch tv or surf the internet. get outside if you can and go for a walk. or at least listen to some instrumental music and walk around your hall. or meditate or do some art. anything that doesn’t require super directed attention. this allows your attention to be replenished. it’s like a muscle and you gotta give it time to rest. tv doesn’t allow for that.

relate the information to yourself and your life. creating visual images will improve your memory.

when studying, take notes by hand and put them in your own words. generating material yourself will encode the material better in your brain, and you’ll remember it better

don’t just reread, rehearse! quiz yourself on the materials. if you use a visual image “memory palace” technique, walk yourself through it. you’re likely to remember information you’ve tested yourself on better.

organizing information into groups that make sense create more connections in your brain and allow you to remember things better. the more meaningful connections you make, the better.

make sure the last thing you do before bed is study. no phone, no netflix. your brain will process what you’ve just done while you sleep and this improve recall.

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A+ advice on writing cv’s

a guide to writing your resume

how to get a job fast as hell

resume writing tips

jobs and careers masterpost

how to answer interview questions

career and employment masterpost

resume template

strong words to use on a resume

34 crucial tips for your next job interview 

how to write a cv

resume cheat sheet

how to write a cover letter

job hunting resources

Find a job in your field

7 questions you should ask at the end of every interview

how to get a job before you graduate

how to be good at interviews

Hey guys! This post has been coming for a really long time, I’m sorry to have kept you all waiting but university readings have kept me very very busy! I have compiled a list of books which are classics (in their own way, some even being modern classics). Books that I’ve read and loved or other people in my life have loved have been italicised and this list includes links to my favourite covers/the edition of the book that I own since you all ask me where I buy my books from on my bookstagram (and that is from book depository!). I hope you enjoy this, stay bookish 📚

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 

The Great Gatsby; Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 

A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Great Expectations; Major Works by Charles Dickens

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer 

The Four Tragedies and The Four Histories; The Complete Works by William Shakespeare

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 

The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien 

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett 

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Northanger Abbey; Persuasion; Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Sense and Sensibility; Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare (*cough* my name is mentioned here *cough*)

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville 

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery 

Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut 

Tess of the D'Urbervilles; Far from the Madding Crowd; Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Middlemarch by George Eliot

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis 

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Stranger; The Fall; The Myth of Sisyphus; The Plague by Albert Camus

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Beowulf

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Candide by Voltaire

The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

The Bhagavad Gita

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Paradise Lost  by John Milton

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

To the Lighthouse; Mrs. Dalloway; A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf

The Trial; Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Antigone by Sophocles

The Republic by Plato

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Utopia by Thomas More

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank

The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

The Epic of Gilgamesh

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence

1984 by George Orwell

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Harry Potter by JK Rowling

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

The Brothers Karamazov; Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Confessions by St Augustine of Hippo

The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk

A Passage to India; A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins

The Plays by Christopher Marlowe

Norwegian Wood; Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

The Secret History; The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

[other links]

all my masterposts

my study/book instagram @ aristotelian

my goodreads @ mitochondrions [also snapchat if u wanna]

chr chr. ahem yes, more vocabulary revision with some new words mixed in. (-е-) and (-и-) mark the conjugation type of verbs, more difficult ones have the first and second person singular and the third person plural in brackets next to them. another long post.

а́дрес - Adresse - address Какой у тебя адрес? - Wie ist deine Adresse? - What is your address?  сосе́д - Nachbar - neighbour сосе́ди - Nachbarn - neighbours

дом - Haus - house одноэта́жный - einstöckig - single-storied двухэта́жный - zweistöckig - two-storied трёхэта́жный - dreistöckig - three-storied (note the position of primary stress) на пе́рвом этаже́ - im ersten Stock - on the first floor почто́вый я́щик - Briefkasten - mailbox сад - Garten - garden садо́вый забо́р - Gartenzaun - garden fence кварти́ра - Wohnung - flat общежи́тие - Wohnheim - dormitory обща́га - (ugs.) Wohnheim - (coll.) dorm снима́ть (-е-) кварти́ру - (ipf.) eine Wohnung mieten - (ipf.) to rent a flat (по)стро́ить (-и-) дом - ein Haus bauen - to build a house жить (живу́, живёшь, живу́т) - (ipf.) leben, wohnen - (ipf.) to live Где ты живёшь? - Wo wohnst du? - Where do you live?

кры́ша - Dach - roof дымова́я труба́ - Schornstein - chimney балко́н - Balkon - balcony стена́ - Wand - wall потоло́к - Zimmerdecke - ceiling окно́ - Fenster - window пол - Fußboden - floor на полу́ - auf dem Fußboden - on the floor у́гол - Ecke - corner в углу́ - in der Ecke - in the corner прихо́жая - Vorraum, Diele - vestibule, hall коридо́р - Korridor, Flur - corridor, hallway фойе́ - Foyer - lobby ле́стница - Treppe - staircase идти́ по ле́стнице - die Treppe nehmen - to take the stairs (иду́, идёшь, иду́т) подва́л - Keller - basement черда́к - Dachboden - loft лифт - Aufzug - lift

ко́мната - Zimmer - room ку́хня - Küche - kitchen ку́хонька - Küchenzeile - kitchenette столо́вая - Esszimmer - dining room гости́ная - Wohnzimmer - living room спа́льня - Schlafzimmer - bedroom (по)спа́ть (сплю, спишь, спят) - schlafen - to sleep лечь спать (ля́гу, ля́жешь, ля́гут)‎ - (pf.) schlafen gehen - (pf.) to go to bed ложи́ться (-и-) спать - (ipf.) schlafen gehen - (ipf.) to go to bed встава́ть/встать - (ipf./pf.) aufstehen - (ipf./pf.) to get up (встаю́, встаёшь, встаю́т / вста́ну, вста́нешь, вста́нут) де́тская - Kinderzimmer - children’s room игру́шки (f. pl.) - Spielsachen - toys кабине́т - Büro, Studierzimmer - office, study ча́йная - Teehaus, Teestube - teahouse ва́нная - Badezimmer - bath (по)мы́ться (мо́юсь, мо́ешься, мо́ются) - sich waschen - to wash oneself принима́ть (-е-) душ - (ipf.) duschen - (ipf.) to shower принима́ть (-е-) ва́нну - (ipf.) baden - (ipf.) to take a bath туале́т - Toilette - toilet кладова́я - Abstellkammer, Vorratsraum  - pantry, storeroom

ме́бель (f.) - Möbel - furniture стол - Tisch - table ку́хонный стол - Küchentisch - kitchen table пи́сьменный стол - Schreibtisch - desk стул - Stuhl - chair сту́лья - Stühle - chairs кре́сло - Sessel - armchair дива́н - Sofa - couch ра́дио - Radio - radio телеви́зор - Fernseher - tv (по)смотре́ть (-и-) телеви́зор - fernsehen - to watch tv компью́тер - Computer - computer монито́р - Bildschirm - monitor клавиату́ра - Tastatur - keyboard мышь‎ (f) - (Computer-)Maus - (computer) mouse видеоигра́ - Computerspiel - video game включи́ть (-и-) / включа́ть (-е-) - an-/einschalten - to switch on вы́ключить (-и-) /выключа́ть (-е-) - ab-/ausschalten - to switch off кни́жная по́лка - Bücherregal - bookshelf ла́мпа - Lampe - lamp пиани́но - Klavier - piano игра́ть (-е-) на пиани́но - (ipf.) Klavier spielen - (ipf.) to play the piano  што́ра, занаве́ска - Vorhang - curtain карти́на - Gemälde, Bild - painting, picture ко́врик, ковёр - Teppich - carpet ковёр-самолёт - fliegender Teppich - magic carpet

крова́ть (f) - Bett - bed крова́ть-черда́к - Hochbett - loft bed де́тская крова́ть - Kinderbett - child’s bed крова́тка - Bettchen - crib поду́шка - Kissen - pillow одея́ло - Bettdecke - blanket простыня́ - Betttuch - bed sheet ту́мбочка - Nachttisch - bedside table буди́льник - Wecker - alarm clock (по)ста́вить (ста́влю, ста́вишь, ста́вят) буди́льник на … - den Wecker auf … stellen - to set the alarm for … буди́льник звони́т - (ipf.) der Wecker klingelt - (ipf.) the alarm clock is ringing шкаф - Schrank - closet батаре́я - Heizkörper - radiator, heater

плита́ - Herd - stove печь (f) - Ofen, Heizofen - furnace духо́вка - Ofen, Backofen - oven микроволно́вка - Mikrowelle - microwave ку́хонный ми́ксер - Küchenmaschine - kitchen machine холоди́льник - Kühlschrank - fridge морози́льник - Tiefkühltruhe - freezer посудомо́ечная маши́на - Spülmaschine - dishwasher посудомо́йка - (ugs.) Spülmaschine - ugs.) dishwasher стира́льная маши́на - Waschmaschine - washing machine стира́лка - (ugs.) Waschmaschine - (ugs.) washing machine