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16.06.25 - I love to loiter!!!!!

I made a coffee in my beloved bialetti moka. Had a pastry. Studied German and prepared for my internship for a few hours and then sketched!!

🎧- give me one reason - Tracy Chapman

📖- Carry On- Rainbow Rowell (I want to reread my old favs!!!)

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James Earl Jones as Othello and Christopher Plummer as Iago

Othello

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Possible unpopular opinion: treating having a special interest as equivalent to being an expert on the topic is another form of the savant stereotype.

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2:19pm / 6:50pm / 8:37pm

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Happy National Library Week!! A great time to ask everyone you know if they have a library card.

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learning that addiction is a progressive narrowing of the range of things that make one happy was kinda life changing for me. i apply it to everything not even just addiction i am always checking to ask if i am narrowing my range of happiness or widening it

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its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

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btw I am doing it afraid

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“I don’t learn this in school :(“

Hey here’s a question what steps have you taken to increase your education and knowledge since graduating?

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same painting different stages

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my best tip for anyone trying to get back into reading is to remember that you can read books to avoid other responsibilities in ur life and it can become a vice if you play your cards right

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Currently studying for my upcoming exam on Cardiac and Vascular Surgery while also attending Neurology and Neurosurgery lectures which are so interesting!!! And I have so much catching up on German that I HAVE to get done 🥲

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Kitchen Herb Garden - Felicity House , 2019.

British , b. 1950 -

Soft pastel over watercolor underpainting on Art Spectrum Colourfix pastel paper , 19 x. 18 in. 48 x. 46 cm.

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Story learning with Annie is another nice comprehensible input lessons channel for Mandarin:

And Lingaflow Chinese, which is making gaming lesson videos:

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it's so silly!! i say it's so frustrating to only have x time to do this hobby, and how do i choose what to do with this limited time and people are like yeah, hah, familiar concept carpe diem etc etc.

but like what i'm trying to say is that this is the first time in my life that i've had so many cool things to do that i have to pick between them. this is the healthiest, the happiest i've ever been, and i never knew a person could be frustrated by the unlimited choices between a thousand different amazing things!!! i'm tearing up just thinkign about it!!!! i could really truly become a professional cellist, or write and publish a collection of poetry, or learn five languages and travel the world!!!! i could do all of those things, even, or a million other very cool very specific things!!!!!!!

how do you decide?! how do you balance the effort, decide how much time and love and attention to give something?!

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What's your favorite language learning methods?

Salut !

This is a hard question, especially because I'm a big fan of the concept of "acquiring" a language rather than "learning" it.

I would say that comprehensible input is for me the holy grail of language learning acquisition.

You don't waste time translating words in your head, and you immediatly associate an object with their name in your target language (not really practical if you want to work in the field of translation).

This is basically how I learned Spanish : the telenovela I was watching had only 10 episodes with subtitles, I didn't want to stop so I just continued without the subtitles and voilà... I can now watch Mexican shows without subs (at first it was more " incomprehensible input " than anything but I've figured it out by being directly exposed to the language).

Ex: Every time someone leaves a room they say "con permiso", do I need to know how to translate it into French ? Well no, I just understand that it's a polite way to excuse yourself from a room. Do I need to write it down ? No, they say it 10 times per episode, I've already acquired it.

I immerse myself in the language, I watch a ton of media in the languages I'm learning. I have 10hours playlists of songs in my different target languages -> You get a good idea of what you're supposed to sound like when speaking, you get to know the culture, you can bond with locals about music/shows that they've also listened to/watched AND you're enjoying yourself at the same time...parfait non ?

I do have to force myself to do some grammar, but I mostly look for explanation of patterns/structures that I've already heard/seen before.

I don't learn sentences or vocabulary from text books because you ended up learning stuff that no one says in real life (cf. the famous mandarin sentence "ni hao ma?" that absolutly no one uses).

Sorry for the long post. J'ai clairement raconté ma vie.

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random poll. i assembled these options from a wikipedia list of languages with the most speakers