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Jambo! We’re excited to introduce our new ‘Learn a Lingo’ posts! Always wanted to learn Swahili? Here are five key phrases you need to know! Hakuna Matata! 

Habari - hi/hello

Habari gani - how are you

Nzuri - I’m good

Ndiyo - yes

Hapana - no

Sawa - okay

Asante - thank you

Ninaitwa… - my name is…

Samahani/pole - sorry

Saa ngapi - What time is it 

 Naelewa - I understand 

Tafadhali - please

A

Andorra - Andorra Afghanistan - Afghanistan Afrika Kusini - South Africa Albania - Albania Algeria - Algeria Angola - Angola Antigua na Barbuda - Antigua and Barbuda Argentina - Argentina Armenia - Armenia Australia - Australia Austria - Austria Azerbaijan - Azerbaijan

B

Bahamas - Bahamas Bahrain - Bahrain Bangladesh - Bangladesh Barbados - Barbados Belarus - Belarus Belize - Belize Benin - Benin Bhutan - Bhutan Bolivia - Bolivia Bosnia na Herzegovina - Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana - Botswana  Brazil - Brazil Brunei - Brunei Bulgaria - Bulgaria Burkina Faso - Burkina Faso Burundi - Burundi

C

Cabo Verde - Cape Verde Chad - Chad Chile - Chile China - China Cote d’Ivoire - Côte d’Ivoire

D

Denmark - Denmark Dominica - Dominica

E

Eire - Ireland Ekuador - Ecuador El Salvador - El Salvador Eritrea - Eritrea Estonia - Estonia Ethiopia - Ethiopia

F

Falme za Kiarabu - United Arab Emirates Fiji - Fiji

G

Gabon - Gabon Gambia - Gambia Georgia - Georgia Ghana - Ghana Grenada - Grenada Guatemala - Guatemala Guinea Bissau - Guinea-Bissau Guinea ya Ikweta - Equatorial Guinea Guyana - Guyana

H

Haiti - Haiti Hispania - Spain Honduras - Honduras Hungaria - Hungary

I

Iceland - Iceland Indonesia - Indonesia Iraq - Iraq Israel - Israel Italia - Italy

J

Jamaika - Jamaica Jamhuri ya Afrika ya Kati - Central African Republic Jamhuri ya Dominika - Dominican Republic Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo - Democratic Republic of the Congo Jamhuri ya Kongo - Republic of the Congo Jamhuri ya Masedonia - Republic of Macedonia Japani - Japan Jibuti - Djibouti

K

Kamboja - Cambodia Kazakhstan - Kazakhstan Kiribati - Kiribati Kirigizia - Kyrgyzstan Kolombia - Colombia Komori - Comoros Kosta Rika - Costa Rica Korea Kaskazini - North Korea Korea Kusini - South Korea Kroatia - Croatia Kuba - Cuba Kupro - Cyprus Kuwait - Kuwait

L

Laos - Laos Latvia - Latvia Lebanoni - Lebanon Lesotho - Lesotho Liberia - Liberia Libya - Libya Liechtenstein - Liechtenstein Lituanya - Lithuania Luxemburg - Luxembourg

M

Madagaska - Madagascar Malawi - Malawi Malaysia - Malaysia Maldivi - Maldives Mali - Mali Malta - Malta Marekani - United States of America Mexiko - Mexico Mikronesia - Micronesia Misri - Egypt Moldova - Moldova Monako - Monaco Mongolia - Mongolia Montenegro - Montenegro Morisi - Mauritius Moroko - Morocco Msumbiji - Mozambique Myanmar - Myanmar

N

Namibia - Namibia Nauru - Nauru Nepal - Nepal New Zealand - New Zealand Nikaragua - Nicaragua Niger - Niger Nigeria - Nigeria Norwei - Norway

O

Omani - Oman

P

Pakistan - Pakistan Palau - Palau Panama - Panama Papua Guinea Mpya - Papua New Guinea Paraguay - Paraguay Peru - Peru Poland - Poland

Q

Qatar - Qatar

R

Romania - Romania Rwanda - Rwanda

S

Saint Kitts na Nevis - Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia - Saint Lucia Saint Vincent na Grenadini - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Samoa - Samoa San Marino - San Marino Sao Tome na Principe - Sao Tome and Principe Saudia - Saudi Arabia Senegal - Senegal Serbia - Serbia Shelisheli - Seychelles Sierra Leone - Sierra Leone Singapuri - Singapore Slovakia - Slovakia Slovenia - Slovenia Somalia - Somalia Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Sudan - Sudan Sudan Kusini - South Sudan Surinam - Suriname Syria - Syria

T

Tajikistan - Tajikistan Tanzania - Tanzania Timor ya Mashariki - East Timor Togo - Togo Tonga - Tonga Trinidad na Tobago - Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia - Tunisia Turkmenistan - Turkmenistan Tuvalu - Tuvalu

U

Uajemi - Iran Ubelgiji - Belgium Ucheki - Czech Republic/Czechia Ufaransa - France Ufini - Finland Ufilipino - Philippines Uganda - Uganda Ugiriki - Greece Uhindi - India Uholanzi - Netherlands Ujerumani - Germany Ukraine - Ukraine Uingereza - United Kingdom Ureno - Portugal Uruguay - Uruguay Urusi - Russia Uswazi - Swaziland Uswidi - Sweden Uswisi - Switzerland Uthai - Thailand Uturuki - Turkey Uzbekistan - Uzbekistan

V

Vanuatu - Vanuatu Venezuela - Venezuela Vietnam - Vietnam Visiwa vya Marshall - Marshall Islands Visiwa vya Solomon - Solomon Islands

W

X

Y

Yemen - Yemen Yordani - Jordan

Z

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    

​☕️Hey! Haven’t posed in a decade☕️

🍰I love this brush and drawing watercolors so much🍰

september 15, 2016 | 5:08 pm | 12/100

Bookmark Printables (via Google Drive) 

Would you guys be interested in free bookmark printables?

I’ve never done these before so feedback would be appreciated (good or bad!). If you guys like these then I could maybe make a better (more pretty) series or even custom ones.   

The lobotomy was first performed in 1935 by a Portuguese neurologist named Egas Moniz. He believed that severing the connecting fibres in the brain would eliminate the vast proportion of mental disorders. The procedure involves drilling two holes in the patient’s skull, either at the top or at the side. A sharp tool known as a leucotome would then be forced through the holes and into the brain, where it would be swept from left to right, ensuring the connections between the frontal lobe and the rest of the brain were severed. Over time, the procedure was adapted to the one shown above; where the eyelid was lifted and a leucotome was placed against the top corner of the eye socket. Using a mallet, the leucotome was then hammered in through the skull and into the brain. The surgical instrument was then moved around inside the skull, ensuring the brain tissue was cut.

The lobotomy became increasingly popular in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 1940s, where it was being labelled by the medical community as the miracle cure to insanity. Although many psychiatrists opposed the procedure, the lobotomy became one of the most popular forms of mental health treatment, used to treat disorders including OCD, depression and schizophrenia. Over 1,000 lobotomies were carried out each year in clinics across the UK. The lobotomy finally began to lose popularity in the late 1950s due to the increase of adverse side-effects and the rise in the production of pharmaceutical drugs, thus eliminating the need for the lobotomy and changing the management of mental illnesses completely.

‘to support academic freedom, we do not support accessibility for students who have overcome trauma to work for their education’

‘in this class, there will be no accessibility for students who have overcome trauma to work for their education’

february 11 2017 // first post!!!

1. First, don’t isolate yourself – When you’re feeling lonely it is hard to go out and be with others who seem to be OK, and don’t really notice how lonely you feel. But putting up a wall and withdrawing from your friends will only intensify that sense of loneliness, and will further undermine your self-esteem.

2. Second, keep yourself busy – Do things that you normally enjoy with others. For example, listening to a band or maybe going to watch a game … or you could always try something that’s new, but interests you! That would allow you to connect in a non-threatening way … as it takes the focus off talking, and off you.

3. Third, be kind to yourself - It’s likely that you regularly beat yourself up, criticise yourself and are unrealistic in the kinds of expectations that you have for yourself. So what, if it goes wrong? You can always try again – just learn what you can from the experience. And notice your successes and the times when it goes well. It’s likely that this happens a lot more than you think!

4. Fourth, recognise that we ALL battle loneliness at times - You’re not some kind of freak – it’s actually quite normal. It something we’ve all known and understand.