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Random Japanese Vocabulary ー( ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ

1.  領海 (りょうかい): territorial waters

2. 侵入 (しんにゅう):  invasion, intrusion, trespass.. ( 不法侵入: ふほうしんにゅう: trespassing, intrusion)

3. 周辺 (しゅうへん): circumference, outskirts, around, in the area of..

4. 幅広い (はばひろい): extensive, wide, broad

5. 予告 (よこく): advance notice, previous note, preliminary announcement [利用条件を予告なしに変更することがあります。], [立ち退きの予告を受けた。]

( 立ち退き -  たちのき: eviction + 立ち退き料: compensation for eviction; compensation for forced removal )

6. 航行 (こうこう): cruise, sailing, navigation

7. 脅迫 (きょうはく): threat, intimidation, coercion..

8. 道警 (どうけい): Hokkaido Prefectural Police [略称 - りゃくしょう: abbrevation of  北海道警察 ]

9. 接近 (せっきん): 1. getting closer, drawing nearer, approaching, 2. being not much different (age, skill, content etc..), 3. becoming close (i.e. friendly) +  接近禁止命令: せっきんきんしめいれい: restraining order

10. 挑発 (ちょうはつ): provocation, stirring up

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Basic Japanese Conjugations/Adverbs

Here are some pretty useful and simple conjugations and adverbs that 2nd/3rd graders in Japan start to learn!

更に (さらに/sarani) – Furthermore; Again; After All; Moreover

すると (suruto) – Thereupon; Hereupon

然し (しかし/shikashi) – However; But

然も (しかも/shikamo) – Moreover; Furthermore; Nevertheless

然して (そして/soshite) – And; Thus; And now; And finally

その上 (そのうえ/sonoue) – In addition; Furthermore; Above (which)

詰まり (つまり/tsumari) – That is to say; In other words; I mean; In short; In brief; Ultimately; In the end; When all is said and done

所で (ところで/tokorode) – By the way; Incidentally; Even if; No matter (who, what, when, where, why, how)

所が (ところが/tokoroga) – Even so; However; Still; Whereupon; Even though; Nevertheless

其れ共 (それとも/soretomo) – Or; Or else

其れでは (それでは/sorede(w)a) – Well; In that situation…; In which case 

其処で (そこで/sokode) – So; Accordingly; Now; Then; Thereupon; Therefore

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Summer Vocabulary in Korean

여름 - summer 6월 - june 7월 - july 8월 - august 여름 방학 - summer break 휴가 - vacation 해변 - beach  바다 - ocean 모래 - sand 모래성 - sandcastle 선글라스 - sunglasses 햇빛 - sunlight 폭염 - heat wave 수영복 - swimsuit 선크림 - sunscreen 레몬에이드 - lemonade 수박 - watermelon 아이스크림 - icecream 해바라기 - sunflower 공원 - park 물놀이 공원  - water park 수영장 - swimming pool 파도 - waves 야외 - outdoors 소풍 - picnic 샌들 - sandals 선풍기 - fan 캠핑하다 - to camp 등산하다 - to hike 수영하다 - to swim 낚시하다 - to fish 타다 - to tan 덥다 - to be hot 날씨가 맑다 - to be sunny

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Vocabulary: Must-Know Verbs

안녕, 여러분! Hey, y’all! Welcome to this vocab list! I want to show you some basic and important verbs (action words) that you might hear in everyday Korean. I know this list is pretty long, but take your time with it–there’s no rush! Let’s build up our vocab!!

가다 = to go

가져가다 = to take (something)

가져오다 = to bring (something)

걷다 = to walk

공부하다 = to study

가르치다 = to teach

날다 = to fly

나가다 = to go out

나오다 = to come out

놀다 = to play/to hang out (w/someone)

느끼다 = to feel

들어가다 = to go in

들어오다 = to come in

달리다 = to run

들다 = to listen/to hear

뛰다 = to run/to jump

만들다 = to make

먹다 = to eat

마시다 = to drink

받다 =to receive (can also mean to pick up a phone call)

보다 = to see/to watch/to look

부르다 = to call/to sing (would be conjugated in the present tense as 불러요)

배우다 = to learn

사다 = to buy

살다 = to live

사랑하다 = to love

샤워하다 = to shower

싫다 = to hate/to not like/to not want

수영하다 = to swim

알다 = to know

이다 = to be

아니다 = to not be

일하다 = to work

있다 = to have/to be there

없다 = to no have/to not be there

오다 = to come

웃다 = to smile/to laugh

울다 = to cry

운전하다 = to drive

운동하다 = to exercise

요리하다 = to cook

전화하다 = to call (on the phone)

좋아하다 = to like

주다 = to give

자다 = to sleep

찾다 = to find/ to look for

청소하다 = to clean

하다 = to do

우와! Wow, this is a long list! I thought all of these verbs were pretty important/useful, but you can focus on the ones you find most important :). I hope this was helpful to build up your vocabulary! Thanks for studying with me! 안녕!

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FAKE LOVE - BTS

모든 - All, Every

인형 - Doll

꿈 - Dream

꽃 - Flower

숲 - Forest

거짓(말) - Lie

사랑 - Love

거울 - Mirror

내 - My

완벽 - Perfect, Perfection

기쁘다 - To be happy, To be glad

예쁘다 - To be pretty

강하다 - To be strong

피우다 - To bloom, To blossom 

변하다 - To change

지우다 - To erase

아프다 - To hurt, To be painful

우리 - We, Our, Us

약점 - Weakness

누구 - Who

세상 - World

너 - You

너의 - Your

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Yeah, that’s me @ me

I took a serious glance at my study plan and decided to reschedule it completely. I planned WAY TOO MUCH for every single day and was sometimes conflicted between studying and having some rest or fun (it’s summer after all, it’s my holiday time, yet I was sitting with books longer than usually, even during school time). So yeah, here’s the new improved version of it. It probably will take longer to finish, since I decided to technically start over, but I think I shouldn’t sacrifice my wellbeing and mental health, even for education and knowledge. My therapist pointed out that I’m not assertive even towards myself and I—— Yeah, she was right and I didn’t know how to respond to this. It was almost like an personal attack, but completely justified one. (And one I pay for, lmao).

So here’s my new study plan, at least for the week one. I decided that I will just plan things for whole week and then decided what I will be doing on each day. For now, my main focus in on Japanese literature, revising first year of university and Korean. Wish me luck guys, I don’t want to rewrite whole thing for the third time only because I overestimated how many things I can do during one day. It turns not so many, but it’s fine.

Wellbeing >>>> studying

And a dancing Mang for @adastraandcoffee c;

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Starting a bullet journal - a tutorial

Tips for anyone who’d like to start a bullet journal but doesn’t know how/where to begin :)

Keep reading

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how's the study plan going so far? any updates? anything you're proud of accomplishing, no matter how small? you've got this!!! (-galaxystudies)

Awww thank you for checking up on me! TWT I’ve started my internship and I’ve fallen a bit behind with it, but I managed to finish first level of Talk to me in Korean and I’m slowly getting through my literature textbook. 💞🥺

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How to Really Comprehend a Scientific Paper

**credit to my research advisor, she’s an amazing mentor and I aspire to be just like her someday :)

Read the abstract. Write down what the paper says it is going to be about.

Read the introduction. Write down what the paper says it is looking to accomplish and how.

Read the conclusion. Write down what the paper actually did accomplish.

Go through and find all the pictures, graphs, or diagrams. Write notes explaining these images to yourself.

Read the whole paper start to finish. Write a summary of the paper as though you are explaining it to a layperson, and then another summary as though you are explaining it to a colleague.

Throughout all of the above steps:

If there are words you don’t know google them and write down the definitions

If the paper defines a formula, law, variable, etc in a certain way write that down

If there are references to or recommendations of other literature write those down. After the last step if there’s anything you’re uncertain about or would like more information on look to that list for further reading

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I believe in free education, one that’s available to everyone; no matter their race, gender, age, wealth, etc… This masterpost was created for every knowledge hungry individual out there. I hope it will serve you well. Enjoy!

FREE ONLINE COURSES (here are listed websites that provide huge variety of courses)

Alison 

Coursera

FutureLearn

open2study

Khan Academy

edX

P2P U

Academic Earth

iversity

Stanford Online

MIT Open Courseware

Open Yale Courses

BBC Learning

OpenLearn

Carnegie Mellon University OLI

University of Reddit

Saylor

IDEAS, INSPIRATION & NEWS (websites which deliver educational content meant to entertain you and stimulate your brain)

TED

FORA

Big Think 

99u

BBC Future

Seriously Amazing

How Stuff Works

Discovery News

National Geographic

Science News

Popular Science

IFLScience

YouTube Edu

NewScientist

DIY & HOW-TO’S (Don’t know how to do that? Want to learn how to do it yourself? Here are some great websites.)

wikiHow

Wonder How To

instructables

eHow

Howcast

MAKE

Do it yourself

FREE TEXTBOOKS & E-BOOKS

OpenStax CNX

Open Textbooks

Bookboon

Textbook Revolution

E-books Directory

FullBooks

Books Should Be Free

Classic Reader

Read Print

Project Gutenberg

AudioBooks For Free

LibriVox

Poem Hunter

Bartleby

MIT Classics

Many Books

Open Textbooks BCcampus

Open Textbook Library

WikiBooks

SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES & JOURNALS

Directory of Open Access Journals

Scitable

PLOS

Wiley Open Access

Springer Open

Oxford Open

Elsevier Open Access

ArXiv

Open Access Library

LEARN:

1. LANGUAGES

Duolingo

BBC Languages

Learn A Language

101languages

Memrise

Livemocha

Foreign Services Institute

My Languages

Surface Languages

Lingualia

OmniGlot

OpenCulture’s Language links

2. COMPUTER SCIENCE & PROGRAMMING

Codecademy

Programmr

GA Dash

CodeHS

w3schools

Code Avengers

Codelearn

The Code Player

Code School

Code.org

Programming Motherf*?$%#

Bento

Bucky’s room

WiBit

Learn Code the Hard Way

Mozilla Developer Network

Microsoft Virtual Academy

3. YOGA & MEDITATION

Learning Yoga

Learn Meditation

Yome

Free Meditation

Online Meditation

Do Yoga With Me

Yoga Learning Center

4. PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMMAKING

Exposure Guide

The Bastards Book of Photography

Cambridge in Color

Best Photo Lessons

Photography Course

Production Now

nyvs

Learn About Film

Film School Online

5. DRAWING & PAINTING

Enliighten

Ctrl+Paint

ArtGraphica

Google Cultural Institute

Drawspace

DragoArt

WetCanvas

6. INSTRUMENTS & MUSIC THEORY

Music Theory

Teoria

Music Theory Videos

Furmanczyk Academy of Music

Dave Conservatoire

Petrucci Music Library

Justin Guitar

Guitar Lessons

Piano Lessons

Zebra Keys

Play Bass Now

7. OTHER UNCATEGORIZED SKILLS

Investopedia

The Chess Website

Chesscademy

Chess.com

Spreeder

ReadSpeeder

First Aid for Free

First Aid Web

NHS Choices

Wolfram Demonstrations Project

Please feel free to add more learning focused websites. 

*There are a lot more learning websites out there, but I picked the ones that are, as far as I’m aware, completely free and in my opinion the best/ most useful.

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PSA

lifestyles and aesthetics are different things. lifestyles are toxic, aesthetics are not. 

examples:

lolita aesthetic: pink plaid skirts, cherry cola, dewy grass, picnics under the bright blue sky.

lolita lifestyle: taken advantage of by an old man, being manipulated, pedophiles, daddy issues, lifelong trust issues.

dark academia aesthetic: tweed blazers with elbow patches, winding forest paths, gothic architecture at your university, books scattered and random loose leaf pages.

dark academia lifestyle: drugs of all sorts, always sleep deprived and not in the fun way, obsession and destruction, mistrust, toxic relationships, living in fear.

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it is okay to like the lolita aesthetic, the pink skirts and holding a plastic red cherry under the baby blue sky; it is not okay to think the only way to live up to it is to be with a man old enough to be your father.

it is okay to like the aesthetic of “the secret history”, the studying in the library with piles of books around you and plush divans; it is not okay to think you achieve this by murdering a classmate, doing drugs, smoking cigarettes, being obsessed with your studies so that they ruin your life.

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so many aesthetics, like the lolita aesthetic or dark academia aesthetic, get a bad reputation because people associate them with the toxic lifestyle, but liking the aesthetic is simply finding what is visually pleasing to you. act as pretentious as you please, but don’t put others down in the process. like schoolgirl fashion, but don’t do it to attract kinky old men.

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this is what you find visually pleasing vs. toxicity.

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When I first encountered the literary classic Lolita, I was the same age as the infamous female character. I was 15 and had heard about a book in which a grown man carries on a sexual relationship with a much younger girl. Naturally, I quickly sought out the book and devoured the entire contents on my bedroom floor, parsing through Humbert Humbert‘s French and his erotic fascination for his stepdaughter, the light of his life, the fire of his loins — Dolores Haze. I remember being in the ninth grade and turning over the cover that presented a coy pair of saddle shoes as I hurried through the final pages in homeroom.

Although I remember admiring the book for all its literary prowess, what I don’t recall is how much of the truth of that story resonated with me given that I was a kid myself. Because it wasn’t until I reread the book as an adult that I realized Lolita had been raped. She had been raped repeatedly, from the time she was 12 to when she was 15 years old.

As a young woman now, it’s startling to see how that fundamental crux of the novel has been obscured in contemporary culture with even the suggestion of what it means to be “a Lolita” these days. Tossed about now, a “Lolita” archetype has come to suggest a sexually precocious, flirtatious underage girl who invites the attention of older men despite her young age. A Lolita now implies a young girl who is sexy, despite her pigtails and lollipops, and who teases men even though she is supposed to be off-limits.

In describing his now banned perfume ad, Marc Jacobs was very frank about the intentions of his sexy child ad and why he chose young Dakota Fanning to be featured in it. The designer described the actress as a “contemporary Lolita,” adding that she was “seductive, yet sweet.” Propping her up in a child’s dress that was spread about her thighs, and with a flower bottle placed right between her legs, the styling was sufficient to make the 17-year-old look even younger. The text below read “Oh Lola!,” cementing the Lolita reference completely. The teenager looks about 12 years old in the sexualizing advertisement, which is the same age Lolita is when the book begins.

And yet Marc Jacobs’ interpretation of Lolita as “seductive” is completely false, as are all other usages of Lolita to imply a “seductive, yet sweet” little girl who desires sex with older men.

Lolita is narrated by a self-admitted pedophile whose penchant for extremely young girls dates all the way back to his youth. Twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was not the first of Humbert Humbert’s victims; she was just the last. His recounting of events is unreliable given that he is serially attracted to girl children or “nymphets” as he affectionately calls them. And his endless rationalizing of his”love” for Lolita, their “affair,” their “romance” glosses over his consistent sexual attacks on her beginning in the notorious hotel room shortly after her mother dies.

This man who marries Lolita’s mother, in a sole effort to get access to the child, fantasizes about drugging her in the hopes of raping her — a hypothetical scenario which eventually does come to fruition. Later on as he realizes that Lolita is aging out of his preferred age bracket, he entertains the thought of impregnating her with a daughter so that he can in turn rape that child when Lolita gets too old

Lolita does make repeated attempts to get away from her rapist and stepfather by trying to alert others as to how she is being abused. According to Humbert, she invites the company of anyone which annoys him given that the pervert doesn’t want to be discovered. And yet, he manipulates her from truly notifying the authorities by telling her that without him — her only living relative — she’ll become a ward of the state. By spoiling her with dresses and comic books and soda pop, he reminds her that going into the system will deny her such luxuries and so she is better off being raped by him whenever he pleases than living without new presents.

Given that Humbert is a pedophile, his first-person account is far from trustworthy when deciphering what actually happened to Lolita. But, Vladimir Nabokov does give us some clues despite our unreliable narrator. For their entire first year together on the road as they wade from town to town, Humbert recalls her bouts of crying and “moodiness” — perfectly understandable emotions considering that she is being raped day and night. A woman in town even inquires to Humbert what cat has been scratching him given the the marks on his arms — vigilant attempts by Lolita to get away from her attacker and guardian. He controls every aspect of her young life, consumed with the thought that she will leave him with the aid of too much allowance money or perhaps a boyfriend. He interrogates her constantly about her friends and eventually ransacks her bedroom revoking all her money. Lolita is often taunted with things she desires in exchange for sexual favors as Nabokov writes in one scene:

“How sweet it was to bring that coffee to her, and then deny it until she had done her morning duty.”

Lolita eventually does get away from her abusive stepfather by age 15, but the fact that she has been immortalized as this illicit literary vixen is not only deeply troublesome, it’s also a completely inaccurate reading of the book. And Marc Jacobs is not alone in his highly problematic misinterpretation of child rape and abuse as “sexy.” Some publications and publishing houses actually recognize the years of abuse as love.

On the 50th anniversary edition of Lolita, which I purchased for the sake of writing this piece, there sits on the back cover a quote from Vanity Fair which reads:

“The only convincing love story of our century.”

The edition, which was published by Vintage International, recounts the story as “Vladimir Nabokov’s most famous and controversial novel” but also as having something to say about love. The back cover concludes in its summary:

“Most of all, it is a meditation on love — love as outrage and hallucinations, madness and transformation.”

“Love” holds no space in this novel, which details the repeated sexual violation of a child. Although Humbert desperately tries to convince the reader that he is in love with his stepdaughter, the scratches on his arms imply something else entirely. Because the lecherous Humbert has couched his pedophilia in romantic language, the young girl he repeatedly violated seems to have passed through into pop culture as a tween temptress rather than a rape victim.

Conflating love or sexiness with the rape of literature’s most misunderstood child is dangerous in that it perpetuates the mythology that young girls are some how participating in their own violation. That they are instigating these attacks by encouraging and inciting the lust of men with their flirty demeanor and child-like innocence.

Let it be known that even Lolita, pop culture’s first “sexy little girl” was not looking to seduce her stepfather. Lolita, like a lot of young girls, was raped.

Source: http://www.mommyish.com/2011/11/16/lolita-novel-sex-rape-pedophilia-541/2/#ixzz3N4PFEyex

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Educate yourself on Toxic Postivity and how to avoid it!

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seems like just yesterday when i said goodbye to may, and yet here i am again, welcoming in july. very grateful for the time/capability to properly reflect & remember the months that pass 🌼

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chinese history - 元代的高壓統治 // 040720

okay two chapters down one more to go and it’s the last one but the exam is on monday so we’ll have to nyoom our way through it 🤠 i’m stopping for the night and watching hamilton now

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as thirteen reasons why season 2 approaches please keep these things in mind:

the show is not good for mentally ill people

the show romanticizes depression and suicidal people

the show glorifies it as a way to get revenge 

psychologists and suicide experts hated when it came out because when things that show suicide in this way get popular, suicide among teens skyrockets

13rw was tied to a rise in suicide related searches and is linked to at least two suicides

the show is garbage

it’s heterosexual garbage that uses mental health as an #edgy plot thread

if you value your heterosexual garbage over the voices of actual mentally ill ppl you’re garbage

if you support the show you’re garbage

if you support the show don’t act like you give a shit about mentally ill people

if you don’t tag your heterosexual garbage i’m blocking you 

and that’s just the way it is, kristen! 

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Silesian girls in love …and in traditional dresses.

Trans rights are human rights.