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vocabulary for learning a new language

I’m currently learning Mandarin (Chinese) at school and self-taught for Spanish. At first, I found that teaching myself a language is very tricky because I struggled and didn’t know where to start. Here are 30 topics that you can get start to learn a new language. Hope this can help!

1. Basic vowels, diphthongs, and consonants (different languages have different ways to pronounce them)

2. Greeting phrases (hello, how are you, what’s your name, how old are you)

3. Polite phrases (thank you, nice to meet you, i’m sorry, you’re welcome, excuse me, please)

4. Basic people (girl, boy, child, adult, he, she, I, me, you)

5. Number (1-1000, 1 million, phone number, house number)

6. Time (morning, afternoon, evening, night, o'clock, weekdays, months, years)

7. Basic verbs (drink, eat, speak, say, work, study)

8. Family (grandparents, parents, siblings, form sentence to introduce members in the family, where do you live)

9. Sentence structure (learn how to form one independent sentence)

10. Negative sentence structure (i’m not, i don’t have, i don’t know)

11. Question phrases (what, when, where, why, who, how, do you…)

12. Meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, brunch)

13. Food (vegetable, meat, fruits, noodles, rice, dessert, fast food, adjective related to food like delicious, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy)

14. Drinks (tea, milk, coke, juice, smoothie, soda)

15. Colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, brown, grey, black, white)

16. Emotions (happy, angry, sad, bored)

17. Transportations (bicycle, walk, bus, car, motorcycle, subway, train)

18. Clothing (accessories, shirts, t shirts, pants, jeans, shorts, dresses)

19. Directions (around, left, right, front, back, north, south, east, west)

20. Basic animal (dog, cat, cow, chicken, bear, fish)

21. Traveling (countries’ names, hotels, culture, customs, traditions)

22. Weather (sunny, rainy, snow, temperature, hot, cold, cool)

23. Seasons  (spring, summer, fall, winter)

24. State of being (i’m sick, i’m uncomfortable, i’m hungry, i’m thirsty)

25. Hobbies (drawing, singing, dancing, reading, writing, watching movies, listening to music, playing musical instrument)

26. Sports (swimming, soccer, volleyball, basketball, hockey, badminton, tennis, baseball, softball)

27. School (subjects like art, science, literature, math, classes, courses, when school starts/ends, classroom, exam, tests, book, pens, calculator, notebook)

28. More verbs (wake up, go to sleep, go to school, cook, play sports, buy)

29. Technology (phones, laptop, social media, app, benefits, disadvantage, internet, TV, chat, video call, call)

30. Occupations (doctor, nurse, architect, businessman, accountant, chef)

31. Past tense (i did…, i was…, i traveled…., yesterday, last week, last year)

32. Future tense (i will, i am going to, tomorrow, next week, next year)

33. Complex sentence structure (if…,then…; besides…, also…;however..,.;but)

34. Locations (school, building, office, cinema, shop, shopping center, library)

35. Body parts (eye, nose, mouth, ear, head, hair, arm, hand, leg, foot, teeth)

36. Description (tall, short, long, thin, fat, skin/hair/eye color, adjective like funny, intelligent, beautiful, handsome)

37. Environment (earth, environment, trees, trash, turn off light/electricity, plastic bags, pollution, recycle, climate change)

38. Cooking (add, stir, boil, grill, fry, chop, mix, bake)

39. Festivals (new year holiday, Christmas holiday, easter, halloween)

40. Preposition (above, below, under, next to, in front, at the back, opposite)

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productivity is over! i’m sick of her!

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this is a breakdown of how i go about doing research for my essays! do keep in mind i am an arts student, so i don’t know how well this method carries over into other disciplines. check out my other guides to writing essays here and here!

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Another Resources Masterpost

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See part 1 here | pt 3 | dividers source (described in alt text)

School Tips

ADHD Specific

ADHD masterpost

ADHD Friendly Study Tips

Books that give you tips for how to life with adhd

Studying

Active revision tips

Review tips and presentation advice

Studying with anxiety

How to do uni readings

Break ideas

How to study for an exam in a really short time | battling exam stress

Taking notes from a textbook

Dealing with a bad grade

School

Why the 5 paragraph essay thing sucks

What graders want to see: tips for papers, essays, and long exams

10 tips for smarter notetaking

How i got a 4.0 in college

How to do well in a class taught by a crappy teacher

Stuff u need to write essays (masterpost)

Asking for a letter of recommendation

How to: college applications

Online Class

How to survive online classes

Study tips for online classes

Online school/uni tips

Reviewing online learning tips

Misc

Advice/comments on impostor syndrome

How to handle having too much to do

School Resources

Books and Literature

Sites to download pdfs

Sites in india to buy books from (there are firsthand and secondhand options)

Stuff you can get at libraries

PdfDuck

Music

Study music masterpost

Masterpost of music by @werelivingarts

Tree.fm

Other Media

Museums you can visit online

Educational youtube channels

Photopea, which is basically photoshop but free and on the browser

General Resources

Broke college kid masterpost

Dear researchers of tumblr

Back to school masterpost

Misc resources

Reading

Unsettling short stories | more short stories (that arent unsettling)

Intro to literary theory

Non-anglocentric reading list

Books from Metropolitan museum of art

Languages

Chinese learning resources (masterpost)

20s english lingo because why not

What to write in a language journal

Studyblr and Academic Related

What to write in a journal

Job hunting

Real examples of job interview questions

CV/Cover letter/Resume advice

Other Topics

Handbook of clinical signs on black and brown skin

Glossary of health insurance terms

Med school apps

Black folklore

Evil biology facts

Free astronomy resources

How to start a podcast

Learn to code

Big bang of how to stuff

Random info

For those of you bored in quarantine

Hobbies masterpost | another

Request a masterpost and/or tag me using #heyrei!

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here’s a quick guide on how i proofread and edit my essays as an humanities undergrad! i tend to spend more time on research and editing and much less time on writing and my first drafts are often horrendous, so editing is really important for me :^)

i’ve also created guides on essay preparation, the 5-paragraph essay, how to research, and how to write essays. you can find all my other masterposts here.

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old spreads from august!!

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10th June 2017 — sorry for the inactivity!!! my mid-years are coming up and i’m gonna go on a semi-hiatus for a bit!!! ( ; _ ; )/~~~

find my studygram: @charlenestudies ☁️

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26.03.19

We love editing a rhetorical analysis essay. Speaking of actually, does anyone know how to actually write one of these and want to help me out? I’m terrible at this stuff.

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I need some studyblr friends!

Rb if you’d be into talking on a regular basis and sharing study tips and the likes 💗

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16•04•19

today i’m rewriting all my communications lecture notes into a new book as i’ve run out of space

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Day 2: A photo of your study space.

02/04/2019

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i wanna be one of those blogs everyone comes to out of the blue with their good news or worries or just to tell them about their crush or their day without the blog ever saying “talk to me” or “ask me things”

where do i apply

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28.02.16 that mess you see up there, is everything I studied this weekend :) I feel v proud of myself for completing everything I planned to do 😎

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14.03.19 // 17:13

Day 14/30 -  Send a friend (or multiple friends) - in real life or online, a message about why you’re thankful for them and to remind them that they’re an amazing person - got to spread positivity! (I find this particularly rewarding personally)

Realised I completely forgot to upload last week’s spread! Today we had a really long and difficult lab session, so it was really rewarding to spread a little positivity! One lab left of my first year…eek! 💛🌻

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