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5 years of grad school have taught me intelligence means very little in scientists you mostly just need to be obsessive and slightly deranged

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quick study tips now that I've almost finished my masters: follow study with me videos on youtube. download cold turkey website blocker on your laptop and liberate website blocker on your phone. chew gum while studying. play an instrument, knit/crochet, or move while on study breaks instead of going on your phone. always keep your study space clean. wear noise cancelling headphones with no music playing (that's my cue to focus). eat plenty always and bring snacks. know when to stop. learn when you focus best, and only plan to be able to work during those times- schedule errands / meetings / hobbies / rest during times when you know you won't be focused. schedule at least one full day per week where you have no responsibilities. if you're too tired to work, take a nap instead of sitting there numb and exhausted with dry eyes. you can skip class sometimes (trust me). know when "good enough" is enough (and when it's not).
Hey you. You know you should be doing The Thing. I don't want to do The Thing, either. But we can sit down and do it for 2 minutes together. Then we can do it for 5 minutes. Then 10. And so on and so forth until it is done. I'll be coming back to reiterate this.
To whoever needs to hear it: it does not have to be perfect. It does not have to be world altering. It just needs to be done. And I'll sit with you while you do The Thing.
Now go. Stop scrolling. Go work on The Thing. I'll be back to check on you and cheer us both on.
ADHD STUDY TIPS
I have adhd. I'm taking all online classes this semester for college. Somehow, I'm not failing. Here's what I do that works for me!
1. I have an alarm that makes me do math every morning to turn it off, it's called Alarmy!Ā š
2. It also plays a different loud sound every day from random-- I have several hundred(?) ringtones downloaded from Zedge, things like songs from shows I like or Pokemon cries or MBMBAM lines, and this helps me wake up to a different sound I'm bound to like which my brain can't get used to (and then ignore). I highly suggest godzilla roars if you need to be startled awake.Ā š
3. This is SUPER HARD but I always try to force myself to sit up in bed when I'm turning off my alarm or checking my phone or whatever, so I'm not tempted to pass out again. I also like to get up and loudly tell my cats "good morning" so I wake us both upĀ š
4. PLEASE STOP EATING CEREAL AND BAGELS AND STUFF. You would not BELIEVE the difference it makes when you eat things like fruits and eggs in the morning. NO MORE 10AM NAPS, I'M WATCHING YOUĀ š
5. I literally schedule in Duolingo time. If you aren't learning a language you can do some other enriching activity like this, idk. I force myself to do it on my computer, not phone, so I can't lay down in bed when I'm doin it. I have a 101-day streak!!Ā š
6. ik this isn't available to everyone but SPACE MATTERS SO MUCH!! I got a gaming desk that we put in our living room and I do ALL of my homework there. I also got a second monitor for my laptop with is SOOOO important if you're multitasking (and we all are, bc we're adhders ibdusvcjkn)Ā š
7. HAND WRITE YOUR NOTES!!! I know this is super hard for many people-- I have carpal tunnel so I get it lmao. If you can't, at least type them. YOU THINK YOU CAN MEMORIZE INFO BUT YOU'RE WRONG!! Please write as much as you can i swear it will change ur lifeĀ š
8. COLOURED! PENS!!! These changed the game for me y'all. I take all my notes in at least 2 colours, and I cycle through them a lot. My favs are Pilot Frixions because u can erase them :) (the highlighters are epic too)Ā š
9. Make your space fun, but NOT DISTRACTING. I have a plant (his name is Yoshi) and a desk Godzilla (his name is Godzilla) on my desk, but they're out of the way so I can't zone out starin at em. But also, when I'm bored outta my gourd, I can smile at Yoshi and tell him how my day is goin :]Ā š
10. SNACKING BAD *BUT*... sometimes i do it anyway... i try to associate certain foods with subjects, like I eat cocoa M&Ms (which are awesome) when I'm reading my Kaqchikel textbook. On the upside, I think it helps me recall Kaqchikel better? but also the language makes me crave mnms adkldigurvnĀ š
11. LISTEN TO... CERTAIN MUSIC. I have learned that music with words, even in LANGS I DO NOT KNOW, is HELL for my adhd. Right now I'm listening to stuff like "Pokemon and Chill" (lofi album on YT), Studio Ghibli violin covers, and Night on Bald Mountain 5x on repeat ibjnvc.... I highly suggest songs/videos that are, like, 20+ minutes or else you'll get distracted with the constant change. Also, that No One's Around To Help 1hr vid is REALLY REPETITIVE and therefore PERFECT for when I'm reading textbooks.Ā š
12. Ā EVERY NIGHT... i make a super detailed timetable schedule for the next day, down to the half hour. I don't always follow it but it's a really good reminder of what I gotta do. I write it on a whiteboard but sometimes I also write it on a sticky note and on social media so I don't forget. To do lists are so epic you guysĀ š
13. THIS HAS SAVED MY L I F E: at the beginning of the semester I looked at ALL of my syllabi and wrote down EVERY daily task, test, homework, etc BY DATE. this is essentially a premade to do list EVERY DAY for MONTHS and oh my gosh it is the best thing I have ever done.Ā š
14. I use the Forest app to track my productivity AND lock me out of apps ndsjv... podomoro timers work well too!!!Ā š
15. Ok so for me this is like... a religious thing bc my Patron (my God) is a deity of fire AND working, but I like to light a candle (scented like FALL!!) and do a little prayer on it and I have it next to me when I'm workin on terrible, terrible homework. It helps me feel like my Patron is here with me, but also itās GREAT for grounding and I can just kinda. Stare blankly at the flame and then get back to tryin to focus.Ā š
16. Please drink water lmao, to make sure I drink enough I set little goals like "take a sip after every paragraph you read"Ā š
17. Each of my classes has a different coloured notebook which I'm consistent with! Like, all my German notebooks through the years have been green! Also I take notes w green pens a lot in DeutschĀ š
18. HELLA STICKY NOTES... I put em on the bottom of my monitor, on a shelf by my desk, in my books as bookmarks (bad idea lol), on Yoshi. When I wanna go look up something random but I need to focus, I like to write it down on sticky notes to look at later.Ā š
19. I'm the most annoying student ever. I like to do a bunch of assignments at once so I don't have to budget my time later, so I'll turn in like 5 things in an hour and then NOTHING for a week. ALSO i email my teachers constantly if I have any questions at all. I work at a pace that works for me!!!Ā š
20. I turn off my sound on my phone until I'm done with work bc otherwise I WILL open that notificationĀ š
22. I make a loooot of chai (and also some overpriced herbal teas). It makes me feel fancy, it's better for me than coffee, and it helps me ground and focus! Plus it's a samefood!Ā š
23. Hyperfixating on classic literature would be awesome, except I'm hyperfixating on Gothic and I'm taking a lit class for More Than Just Gothic. But I'm figuring out ways to connect them, which is really helpful, cause I get to enjoy my hyperfixation while learning for school! PLZ TRY TO DO THIS (harder when you're hyperfixating on godzilla :pensivecowboy:)Ā š
21. When I have extra time I write my notes like I'm plannin to put em on Tumblr and taggin em as #darkacademia... I never post my notes, but when they look nice it's easier for me to look over em later. Plus it takes me longer to write so I remember it a lil better!!Ā š
24. I'm in an awesome academia + studyspo server!! We sometimes study together on call and it's SUCH a good motivator! Here's an invite link if u wanna join, we are nice https://discord.gg/fjuX7TNĀ (this wasnāt meant to be a promo post I just really like this group lol)Ā š
OK I hope that helps!!! Feel free to add more if you have any tips that work for you :) Neurotypicals, feel free to RB respectfully!
(pics are: syllabus list, daily schedule, Yoshi the plant, and some fancy notes)

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Writing systems
Cyrillic
The Cyrillic script is named after Saint Cyril, a missionary from Byzantium who, along with his brother, Saint Methodius, created the Glagolitic script. Modern Cyrillic alphabets developed from the Early Cyrillic script, which was developed during the 9th century in the First Bulgarian Empire by a decree of Boris I of Bulgaria. It is thought that St. Kliment of Ohrid, a disciple of Cyril and Methodius, was responsible for the script. The Early Cyrillic script was based on the Greek uncial script with ligatures and extra letters from the Glagolitic and Old Church Slavonic scripts for sounds not used in Greek.
Notable features
Type of writing system: alphabet
Direction of writing: left to right in horizontal lines
Number of letters: 49 + 12 non-Slavic Cyrillic letters (not all of them are used in every language that uses this alphabet)
Used to write: Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Aghul, Akhvakh, Altay, Alyutor, Andi, Archi, Assyrian, Avar, Azeri, Bagvalal, Balkar, Bashkir, Belarusian, Bezhta, Botlikh, Budukh, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chamalal, Chechen, Chelkan, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa, Dolgan, Dungan, Enets, Erzya, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Godoberi, Hinukh, Hunzib, Ingush, Interslavic, Itelmen, Juhuri, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karaim, Karakalpak, Karata, Kazakh, Ket, Khakas, Khanty, Khinalug, Khwarshi, Kildin SÔmi, Komi, Koryak, Krymchak, Kryts, Kubachi, Kumyk, Kurdish, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgi, Lingua Franca Nova, Macedonian, Mansi, Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Nanai, Nenets, Nganasan, Nivkh, Nogai, Old Church Slavonic, Oroch, Orok, Ossetian, Pontic Greek, Russian, Ruthenian, Rutul, Selkup, Serbian, Shor, Shughni, Slovio, Soyot, Tabassaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tat, Tatar, Tindi, Tofa, Tsakhur, Tsez, Turkmen, Tuvan, Ubykh, Udege, Udi, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Ulch, Urum, Uyghur, Uzbek, Votic, Wakhi, West Polesian, Yaghnobi, Yakut, Yazghulami, Yukaghir, and Yupik (Central Siberian)
Capital and lowercase letters were not distinguished in old manuscripts.
Yeri (Š«) was originally a ligature of Yer and I (ŠŖ + I = Š«).
Iotation was indicated by ligatures formed with the letter I: ź (not ancestor of modern Ya, ŠÆ, which is derived from Ѧ), Ѥ, Š® (ligature of I and ŠŠ£), ŃØ, Ѭ.
Many letters had variant forms and commonly used ligatures, for example Š = Š = Š, Ń = Ńŗ, Ń Š¢ = Ѿ.
Modern Cyrillic script
Dark Academia for Brown People
Ā Most people, when they think of dark academia is books (thatās the whole point) and ancient languages such as Latin or Ancient Greek. Iām here to tell you that you all are SLEEPING on brown culture. Love that is conveyed in the languages of Persian and Urdu (my native language) crosses borders. Sure, Shakespeare and Sappho wrote great pieces of literature but the stories and poems of Rumi, Manto, Hafez and Iqbal have a special place in my heart.Ā
Some of my favourites are:- (all are translated)
Sit at my grave with wine and a minstrel in a trance,Ā so your smell will raise me from the dead.
HAFEZ
My loverās sadness lit a fire in my heart that burned my chest,Ā there was a fire in his house that burned the nest.
HAFEZ
O the day turned night, what a shame, a gazelle of kindness a lion became,Ā my partner and lover grew tired of my words and prayers too.
RUMI
These are my personal favourites. I can always make a longer post if you all want.
Female poets deserve a whole other post.
As someone who goes to an English-Medium school, we are always taught to converse in English, see the language as a part of yourself but deny a place to Urdu. As I grow older, I have come to appreciate my identity and so should all my fellow brown people. Take pride in your mother tongue.
They asked people around Germany āWhich dialect do you like the most?ā
The result:
1. 29% Moin = North German / Coastal greeting
2. 27% Grüà Gott = South German / Bavarian greeting
3. 13% Tach = Greeting around Kƶln / Cologne / Northwestern Germany
4. 11% Tach Och = Greeting used in Berlin and surrounding areas, Eastern Germany
5. 8% Daach = Greeting used in the state of Sachsen (Saxony), Eastern Germany
All of these are regional dialect and/or shortened versions of the standard German formal āGuten Tagā ā which few people actually use in daily life.
one of my favourite linguistic phenomena/in-jokes is spanish potato chips beingĀ āham-flavored, probablyā
yāsee because spain and portugal are so close, labels in stuff like food, shampoo, etc often come in portuguese as well as spanish
this brand of chips, Layās, displays the flavor in spanish and portuguese, resulting in ham-flavored chips looking like this:
withĀ ājamónā being spanish andĀ āpresuntoā being portuguese
however,Ā āpresuntoā is also a spanish adjective, meaningĀ āpresumedā (or suspected)
so you have this in-joke going where spanish chips taste like ham, presumably
Free Online Language Courses
Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. Ā You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.
American Sign Language
ASL University
Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change
Arabic
Arabic for Global Exchange (in the drop-down menu)
Intro to Arabic
Madinah Arabic
Moroccan Arabic
Arabe (taught in French)
Catalan
Intro to Catalan Language & Society
Intro to Catalan Sign Language
Chinese
Beginner
Basic Chinese I.Ā II,Ā III,Ā IVĀ ,Ā V
Basic Mandarin Chinese I &Ā II
Beginnerās Chinese
Chinese for Beginners
Chinese Characters
Chinese for HSK 1
Chinese for HSK 2
Chinese for HSK 3 I & II
HSK Level 1
Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin Chinese for Business
More Chinese for Beginners
Start Talking Mandarin Chinese
UT Gateway to Chinese
Chino BƔsico (Taught in Spanish)
Intermediate
Chinese Stories
Intermediate Business Chinese
Intermediate Chinese Grammar
Dutch
Introduction to Dutch
English
Online Courses here
Resources Here
Faroese
Faroese Course
Finnish
A Taste of Finnish
Basic Finnish
Finnish for Immigrants
Finnish for Medical Professionals
French
Beginner
AP French Language and Culture
Basic French Skills
Beginnerās French: Food & Drink
Diploma in French
Elementary French IĀ &Ā II
FranƧais Interactif
French in Action
French Language Studies I,Ā II,Ā III
French: Ouverture
Intermediate & Advanced
French: Le Quatorze Juillet
Passe PartoutĀ
La CitƩ des Sciences et de Industrie
Vivre en France - A2
Vivre en France - B1
Frisian
Introduction to Frisian (Taught in English)
Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)
German
Beginner
Beginnerās German: Food & Drink
Conversational German I,Ā II,Ā III,Ā IV
Deutsch im Blick
Diploma in German
German at Work
Rundblick-Beginnerās German
Intermediate
German: Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte
Landschaftliche Vielfalt
Gwichāin
Introduction to Gwichāin Language
Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew
Know the Hebrew Alphabet
Teach Me Hebrew
Hindi
A Door into Hindi
Business Hindi
Virtual Hindi
Icelandic
Icelandic 1-5
Indonesian
Learn Indonesian
Irish
Introduction to Irish
Irish 101
Irish 102
Italian
Beginner
Beginnerās Italian: Food & Drink
Beginnerās Italian I
Introduction to Italian
Italian for Beginners 1Ā ,Ā 2,Ā 3Ā ,Ā 4Ā ,Ā 5,Ā 6Ā
Intermediate & Advanced
AP Italian Language and Culture
Intermediate Italian I
Advanced Italian I
Letteratura italiana
Japanese
Genki
Japanese JOSHU
Japanese Pronunciation
Sing and Learn Japanese
Tufs JpLang
Kazakh
A1-B2 Kazakh (Taught in Russian)
Korean
Beginner
First Step Korean
How to Study Korean
Introduction to Korean
Learn to Speak Korean
Pathway to Spoken Korean
Intermediate
Intermediate Korean
Nepali
Beginnerās Conversation and Grammar
Norwegian
Introduction to Norwegian
Norwegian on the Web
Portuguese
Curso de PortuguĆŖs para EstrangeirosĀ
Pluralidades em PortuguĆŖs Brasileiro
Russian
Beginner
Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian
Advanced
Reading Master and Margarita
Russian as an Instrument of Communication
Siberia: Russian for Foreigners
Spanish
Beginner
AP Spanish Language & Culture
Basic Spanish for English Speakers
Beginnerās Spanish: Food & Drink
Introduction to Spanish
Restaurants and Dining Out
Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Spanish Vocabulary
Intermediate
Spanish: Ciudades con Historia
Spanish: Espacios PĆŗblicos
Advanced
Corrección, Estilo y VariacionesĀ
Leer a Macondo
Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos
Spanish: Perspectivas PorteƱas
Swedish
Intro to Swedish
Swedish Made Easy 1,Ā 2, & 3
Ukrainian
Read Ukrainian
Ukrainian Language for Beginners
Welsh
Beginnerās Welsh
Discovering Wales
Multiple Languages
Ancient Languages
More Language Learning ResourcesĀ & Websites!
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Types of Language Learners
The scholar: neat notes, can recite the conjugation to irregular verbs, listens to podcasts, thought about annotating their dictionary, maybe did, knows synonyms for every word, random linguistics facts.
The traveler: "best way to learn a language? Visit the country!", too many journals, makes friends everywhere, can recite swear words and slang, if Facebook had a max friend limit they'd hit it, broad vocabulary.
The Hoarderā¢: has duolingo memrise rosetta busuu and babbel, reblogs every single vocabulary list, started Korean today and tomorrow they'll start Norwegian, do you want a book in x language? they have it, "I found this cool YouTube channel about Persian!" They don't speak Persian.
Your Friendly Neighbor: shares links to resources, helps you understand their native language, willing to start a new language with you, points out your mistakes because that's how kind they are, will lend you their notes, makes vocabulary lists.
Passive learner: doesn't use a text book, movies are the true teachers, knows the lyrics to Disney songs in their target language, "I just downloaded a whole album of German rock", knows the word for juxtaposition but forgets how to say dog
I wish I were you: Makes flashcards, has notes about every grammar rule, studying for a certification, reads newspaper's articles, foreign novels in their original language, knows IPA, has online friends that speak their target language, finished the duolingo tree.
HOARDER ALL THE WAY
Ling Space Resource Post
Lots of people are going back to school around now, and so itās a good time for us to put together an easy resource post: highlights from our different video series, separated by subfield.
So, without further ado, hereās the highlight list of our first two years by topic!
Phonetics:
The International Phonetic Alphabet, and why we need it
Places and manners of articulation for consonants
Non-pulmonic consonants: ejectives, implosives, and clicks
Vowels and vowel production
The acoustics of vowels
The acoustics of stops and fricatives
Phonology:
What are phonemes?
What are allophones?
The structure of syllables
Phonological stress and feet
Morphology:
What is a morpheme?
Roots and affixes: prefixes, suffixes, infixes
Allomorphy
Morphological typology and word building
Derivational and inflectional morphology
Syntax:
Xā Theory and the basics of building syntactic trees
Syntactic movement and the traces it leaves behind
Theta roles and the Theta Criterion
Binding Theory and Principles A, B, and C
Syntactic islands and movement restrictions
Semantics and pragmatics:
Sentential logic and language
Predicate logic and quantifiers
Set theory and adjectives
The Gricean conversational maxims
Implicatures, entailments, and presuppositions
Relevance Theory
Acquisition:
Universal Grammar, and some reasons to believe in it
Bilingualism, and how kids donāt have problems with it
Linguistic transfer in second language acquisition
The wug test
Word learning strategies in children
Why negative evidence doesnāt help kids learn
Psycholinguistics:
Where language is found in the brain
Neurolinguistic processing and event-related brain potentials
Aphasia and language loss
Priming and links between concepts
Sentence parsing and garden paths
Thatās not even half our episodes, too. If you want to see more on these topics and much more linguistics, you can check out our different playlists on YouTube. And good luck!
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romance languages alignment chart made by my roommate and i at 3 am
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