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Some pages in my books 📓☕️☁️
you guys should be my friend on goodreads for more thought provoking commentary of me being played by the twists at the end of books
wednesday, 28th june 2023 🌱
i love my study space so much💗 and i have a really nice view outside
i started learning korean a few months ago! i’m taking weekly classes and study vocab + immersion in between
i also started studying for a big exam and i’m kinda stressed out, but really excited for the summer
also!! how amazing is ateez comeback???
📺: heartbreak high
🎧: spider-man: across the spider-verse soundtrack
happy may ! if you can’t tell i’m obsessed with shadow & bone 🤎

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book of shadows 🍁 ig: @frai.oh | stickers: patreon
book of shadows 🍁 ig: @frai.oh | stickers: patreon
𝑆𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑎𝑦, 16𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑏𝑒𝑟 |Finally rain stopped for like half an hour and I rushed to take these pictures, it has been pouring for 3 days now and the weather is super chilly. I have took out my hoodies and warm blankets I cannot wait for winter to take over.
Also continuing the tradition of mono-tober this year as well by dedicating the month to black white and grey colours, mono 4 year anniversary soon!
🎧: 𝐴𝑛𝑦𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒_𝑠𝑒𝑢𝑙𝑔𝑖 | 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑦𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚
4th week of September 2021 spread ✨
annotating one of the reads in our dark academia book club!
I used to be scandalized by the thought of annotating anything outside of my literature classes' texts (and even that made me feel guilty)... until a friend lent me a copy of a book they'd annotated. It was the most intimate and beautiful reading experience. Now, I like the idea of owning a unique copy of my favorite books.
I usually annotate books I'm reading for the first time as PDFs on my iPad, and I prefer to have two copies of any book I physically annotate. That way, I can lend out the "clean" one to people I don't want seeing my innermost thoughts...
As a perfectionist (in the worst way) annotating books has helped me work through the perfectionist and self-doubt issues that have previously stopped me from writing in all the beautiful notebooks I buy. Yeah, the ones that are made for writing in...
If the book is not a rare edition, and there are millions of copies of it out in the world, why not leave your mark? of all the books that gather dust, or get destroyed and go to landfills, before they are even read... why think that the one you've read so closely, and interacted with so indelibly, and annotated in pen and highlighter and bathwater and tears, is a waste?
Your thoughts are worth the paper they are written on, even if that paper already has words on it, even if your words are imperfect, and maybe especially because they are... 🖤

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Learning by doing: my approach to self-studying languages
Hi! I have a very short attention span, and I have never really been able to make it through a course or textbook without giving up straight away, so I have never really been able to learn languages in the traditional way. I also very easily get bored with learners material, so I mostly stick to native material to consume my target language. Here is how I do it at the beginner level!
I usually start off with an app to learn the basics of the alphabet, vocabulary and grammar. Most of the times, I use Duolingo. I rarely get past the first few units before I jump into native material. Still, this is a good jumping off point.
When I start with native material, I usually use YouTube videos (with subtitles in the target language), and focus on spoken language, because spoken language is less overwhelming, and involves less complex language and grammar. At this point, I find that books are far too dense and complex for me to handle. Others might enjoy the challenge. My current favourites for this are LingoPie (for French, Spanish, German, Italian and Russian) and Viki (for Korean, Japanese and Mandarin Chinese).
I learn the most important words and phrases as I go. I do NOT look up every word, unless I can understand at least 70% of the language. For this, I will try and write the words and phrases down, and memorise them. I might use a flashcard app too (Anki is my fave, but Quizlet and Memrise are good too). For languages like Japanese and Chinese that have lots of characters to memorise, I will use an app (wanikani and chineasy are my faves). I always make sure that I know how to pronounce and understand each word or phrase.
I will start texting native speakers in my target language on apps like Tandem and HelloTalk. I look up words as I go, and will ocasionally try speaking.
I start shadowing (i.e. repeat after native speakers, imitating the intonation and pronunciation). I use Easy Languages for this.
After a while, I start reading. I’ll usually start with wikihow articles, or fluentu articles in my target language. I’ll write down new words, test myself on them until I get them correct, and then put them into anki to review.
After a while, I’ll formally study some grammar. I’ll usually use a textbook for this. However, I don’t necessarily do it in a traditional way. I go through the entire textbook and make a cheat sheet which condenses all the information in it to a few pages. I’ll review it regularly, and do LOTS of writing practice. For irregular verbs, I’ll just use flashcards, and write them down repeatedly.
Then, I’ll get a speaking buddy (I usually find one on discord) and speak with them a few times a week.
After a while of doing all of this, I start reading fanfiction (usually translations of my faves). It’s difficult, but I try to read intensively (i.e. look up every word).
At this point, I start journaling, and posting on the website journaly.
I’ll listen to podcasts like innovative languages, coffee break languages and language transfer. These are usually good for learning about grammar.
I start intensively reading serious content once I feel like I’m at a confident B1 level. I would suggest using proper newspapers (like le monde for French or BBC for English) and try studying one article daily. After a while, you can start reading a YA book (try something you’ve never read before in any language). Study it chapter by chapter fairly intensively, and then reread it again and again until you understand the story. After you’re finished with a chapter, put the new vocabulary into an app and review fairly regularly.
At the B1 level, listen using two sources: intermediate podcasts and native material. Intermediate podcasts are usually labelled as such, and are IN the target language, but about various topics, like culture or history (innovative languages have some, for french there is inner french, piece of french, news in slow french and RFI:Savoirs, for Spanish there is dreaming Spanish and news in slow spanish, and for Korean there is Iyagi). For native material, continue watching youtube videos about topics that interest you, and consider watching both the news and films/TV shows.
At this point you should be able to construct gramatically correct (mostly - if you still have problems then go through a grammar course, or work through a textbook) and fairly complex texts. I would suggest now learning some essay phrases and writing an essay. You’ll be terrible at first, BELIEVE me, but the more you practice the better you get. You could also start trying to write fanfiction (tip: use full phrases you have found in other books or fanfiction).
Continue doing what you are doing (reading intensively and widely, speaking with your buddy, listening, writing essays and short stories) and I think that after a while you will be able to say you are conversational in another language.
Thanks for reading this post! I hope it was useful! (Also haha ig my break from langblr is over lol).
dark academia book list
The Secret History by Donna Tart
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Lake of Dead Languages by Carol Goodman
A deadly Education by Naomi Novik
The Decay of Living by Oscar Wilde
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Dead Poets Society by Nancy H Kleinbaum
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
The Little Friend by Donan Tartt
Vicious by V. E. Schwab
Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marissa Pessl
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Gentlemen and Players by Joan Harris
The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
Maurice by E. M. Forster
A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde
Vita Nostra by Marina and Serhiy Dyachenko
Poems by Oscar Wilde
The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson
Ace of Spades by Fradiah Àbíke-Íyímídé
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
The Lessons by Naomi Alderman
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wilder Girls by Rory Powers
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
The Bellweather Revivals by Benjamin Wood
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Truants by Kate Weinberg
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
In the Woods by Tana French
The Atlas Six by Olivia Blake
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
Persuasion by Jane Austen
The Lying Game by Ruth Ware
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Love and Friendship by Jane Austen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas
Bunny by Mona Awad
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong
A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee
How We Fall Apart by Katie Zhao
The Ivies by Alexa Donne
For Your Own Good by Samantha Downing
The Mary Shelley Club by Goldy Moldavsky
Emma by Jane Austen
The Watsons by Jane Austen
The Devil Makes Three by Tori Bovalino
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
The Tenth Girl by Sara Faring
Confessions by Kanae Minato
Truth Exercise by Susan Choi
We Wish You Luck by Caroline Zancan
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handle
Confessions by Kanae Minato
Lady Susan by Jane Austen
taken from my instagram, just some accomplished goals ✨
october 16, 2020 [click for hq]
today’s rather short lecture notes ft. an unedited photo of today’s sunrise,, i kinda wanted to take more notes because i found it rather ~therapeutic~ also i got this this ballpoint pen from a hotel during my stay in Germany :)) i miss Germany a lot;;
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this is probably one of my fave spreads, it’s from back when the bts comeback happened :’) god i’m still completely obsessed with their album.
ig: booksnjournals

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I feel great.