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Book recommendations on self-growth and confidence?

Hi love! Here are some of my favorites that come to mind:

Book Recommendations for Self-Growth & Confidence:

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

Atomic Habits by James Clear

You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free by Terri Cole

The Confidence Formula: May Cause: Lower Self-Doubt, Higher Self-Esteem, and Comfort In Your Own Skin by Patrick King

The Mountain Is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery by Brianna Wiest

Choose Your Story, Change Your Life: Silence Your Inner Critic and Rewrite Your Life from the Inside Out by Kindra Hall

48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene

The Art of Seduction by Robert Greene

How To Win Friends & Influence People  by Dale Carnegie

Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss 

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini 

The 2-Hour Cocktail Party by Nick Gray 

Becoming The One by Sheleana Aiyana  

Radical Acceptance: Awakening The Love That Heals Fear and Shame by Tara Brach 

Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

Unbound: A Woman’s Guide To Power by Kasia Urbaniak 

Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer 

Confidence & Assertive Skills for Women by Angelina Williams 

A Single Revolution by Shani Silver 

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard 

Like She Owns the Place by Cara Alwill Leyba 

Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliot

Hope this helps xx

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Journal Prompts for Your Self-Esteem

The other day I was in the shower and I was thinking about things I could write about when I want to motivate myself or give myself a confidence boost. These are some of the ideas I came up with and I think they could be really beneficial and exciting.

While thinking about these things, you may begin to doubt yourself or compare yourself to other people, but I’m telling you right now: DON’T DO THAT. It does not matter how big or small you think these things are. These prompts are meant to generate big and small reminders of how dope you are :)

1. What are 10 (or more) things you like about yourself?

2. What things do you want to do or try that can help you feel good about yourself? For example, I’ve been considering trying out individual lashes and recently started looking into LHR. Also, going to the gym even if it’s just for a walk on the treadmill. Literally, if you go once a week for fun just do something.

3. Think about some of your accomplishments in recent years. Describe them to your younger self and imagine how they would feel.

4. What are 10 (or more) things that you like about your life?

5. What are your energy givers? The big and small things that you do that make you feel joy? I loveee my yoga matt. I can lay on it, do nothing, and be happy. It’s that simple. Also washing my face in the morning :)

I want to EMPHASIZE that these things can be simple, everyday things. Do it for yourself without comparing yourself to other people. This is for you and you onlyyy.

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Helpful Websites To Learn Languages

les-langues-sont-ma-vie:

French

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!

http://french.speak7.com/ 

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

http://www.learnalanguage.com/

French word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/french

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://learn101.org/french.php

http://www.memrise.com/topic/french/wordlists/

http://lightandmatter.com/french/

http://go.hrw.com/gopages/wl-fr.html

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/fr/

http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html#

http://oli.cmu.edu/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/

http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/statiques/accueil.asp

Podcast: http://www.coffeebreakfrench.com/

http://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?gclid=CMPphb2SrKgCFQI8gwodRnvuHQ

French in Mali: http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm#french

http://www.miscositas.com/french.html

http://www.transparent.com/learn-french/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm

Phonetics: http://phonetique.free.fr/index.htm

http://www.verb2verbe.com/

Listening activities: http://frenchlingq.com/

http://ielanguages.com/french.html

http://www.realfrench.net/grammar/games.php 

http://www.languageguide.org/french/

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/EF/EF.HTM

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/frlesson.html

http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=fra

http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/french1.html

German

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,9572,00.html -You have to register, but it’s a great way to learn German

http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/index.html 

http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/

http://www.fln.vcu.edu//menu.html

http://www.canoo.net/index_en.html

http://files.flageorgia.org/german/grammar/grammar.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/German.html

http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=deu

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/grammatik/index.html

http://learn-german-easily.com/index-basic-german

http://learn-to-speak-german.de/learn-with-songs

http://www.vorleser.net/

http://www.tagesschau.de/

http://german.speak7.com/

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=en&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed&sectHdr=on&spellToler=&search=

Italian

http://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-italian/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

http://easy-italian.tumblr.com/

http://nativeitalian.tumblr.com/

Linguistic Map of Italy: http://les-langues-sont-ma-vie.tumblr.com/image/20541832214

Italian word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/italian

http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/10-extraordinarily-useful-italian-phrases/

Audio, grammar, idioms, etc: http://www.oneworlditaliano.com/english/home.htm

Children’s books: http://www.ilnarrastorie.it/favole.famose/

http://www.zapitalian.com/

http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html

http://www.poliglo.com/English/english.html

Newspaper: http://www.repubblica.it/

http://italian.about.com/od/lessons/tp/italian-language-lessons.htm

Children’s songs and rhymes: http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=824&t=ec&c=120

http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/

Culture: http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/italy-country-profile.html

http://twitter.com/italianlanguage

http://www.iluss.it/schede_gram_free.html

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/italian/italian.htm

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://learn101.org/italian.php

http://www.memrise.com/topic/italian/wordlists/

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/it/

Podcast: http://radiolingua.com/shows/italian/one-minute-italian/

Podcast: http://radiolingua.com/shows/italian/my-daily-phrase-italian/

http://www.transparent.com/learn-italian/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html

http://www.italianizeyourself.com/

http://www.languageguide.org/italian/vocabulary/

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/EI/EI.HTM

Spanish

http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

http://www.123teachme.com/ - Has games, verb conjugations, text translator, grammar, quizzes, and more!

http://www.studyspanish.com/

http://spanish.speak7.com/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

http://www.learnalanguage.com/

Spanish word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/spanish

http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/

http://www.poliglo.com/English/english.html

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

Games: http://www.quia.com/shared/spanish/

Newspapers: http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247903

http://www.spanishdict.com/

http://learn101.org/spanish.php

http://www.memrise.com/home/

http://www.memrise.com/topic/spanish/wordlists/

Phonetics: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

Phonetics/Dialects in Spanish: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/dialects//#

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/es/

http://learner.org/series/destinos/

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php

http://www.miscositas.com/spanish.html

http://www.codyscuentos.com/

http://radiolingua.com/shows/spanish/coffee-break-spanish/

http://www.transparent.com/learn-spanish/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Spanish.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/spanish.html

http://www.learn-spanish.co.il/

http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/index.html

http://www.todo-claro.com/

http://www.spanicity.com/

http://www.languageguide.org/spanish/vocabulary/

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/ES/ES.HTM

http://learner.org/series/destinos/

http://www.spanishprograms.com/learning_module/tutorial_index.htm

http://www.expanish.com/free-spanish-study-guides.php

http://www.lingolex.com/accents.htm

http://www.codyscuentos.com/

http://www.spanishunlimited.com/

http://www.onlinefreespanish.com/

Chinese

http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese - What I love about this site is the pinyin to character tool 

http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/class_content_simplified_chinese/level1/class1-to-9/class1/short_en.htm

http://www.zapchinese.com/

http://www.yeschinese.org/learn-chinese/lesson-1-introduction-to-hanyu-pinyin/

Thai

http://www.thai-language.com/lessons

http://www.thai2english.com/

http://www.linguanaut.com/english_thai.htm

http://learn-thai-podcast.com/thai-language/

http://www.into-asia.com/thai_language/

http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL/VPA/Thai/pages/home.htm

http://learningthai.com/

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/Beginning_Thai_I_review/index.html

http://www.thai-lessons.com/trivial_game.php

Music: http://www.ethaimusic.com/index.php

Korean

http://www.voakorea.com/

http://www.learn-korean.net/

http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=kor

http://wiki.galbijim.com/Hanja

http://animara.com/hanghoul/ - shoot zombies by translating hangul!!

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ko.htm 

http://langintro.com/kintro/toc.htm

http://www.genkienglish.net/speakkorean/

http://www.infocobuild.com/language/korean/korean.html-

http://linguanaut.com/english_korean.htm

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm?Subject=writing

http://www.learn-korean.net/learn-korean-classes-listarticles-4.html

http://www.transparent.com/wotd/today/korean.html

http://rki.kbs.co.kr/learn_korean/lessons/e_index.htm

http://www.youtube.com/user/koreanclass101?feature=results_main

http://tunein.com/radio/Korean-g152/

Newspaper: http://chosun.com/

http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html

http://www.koreandictionary.net/

http://parksguide.blogspot.com.br/

http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/

http://ezcorean.com/korean_grammar/index.php?cfile=bb_index.php&subaction=vforum&home=grammar_forum

Japanese

http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/

http://www.learn-japanese.info/

http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/

http://www.learnjapanese.com/ - Has slang expressions, grammar, common phrases, vocabulary and more

http://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp/

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/

http://jisho.org/

http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html

http://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-lessons.html

http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247899

http://www.jgram.org

http://www.iknow.co.jp

http://www.guidetojapanese.org

http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SearchKanji3?OpenForm

Greek

http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon - Greek to English, English to Greek Dictionary (Modern and Ancient Greek)

http://www.101languages.net/greek/basics.html

http://www.biblicalgreek.org/grammar/

http://users.forthnet.gr/agn/drennolds1/

http://gr.voanews.com/

http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zgk1.htm

http://www.textkit.com/

http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/

http://mylanguages.org/learn_greek.php

http://www.e-radio.gr/

http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html

http://greek-language.com/Alphabet.html

ESL (English as a Second Language)

http://www.englishpage.com/

http://www.english-online.org.uk/course.htm

http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Writing_English_ESL/Writing_English_ESL.htm

https://sites.google.com/site/marysenglishcourse/home

http://englishlearner.com/index.shtml

http://www.brainpopjr.com/

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/index.html

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

http://www.ESLDesk.com/

http://www.zozanga.com/

http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm

Sign Language

www.aslpro.com

www.aslresource.com

http://www.asl.ms/

Esperanto

http://en.lernu.net/

Newspapers: http://eo.mondediplo.com/, http://www.liberafolio.org/

http://www.kurso.com.br/index.php?en

http://en.lernu.net/lernado/index.php

http://esperantofre.com/edu/kino01a.htm

http://www.esperanto-panorama.net/vortaro/eoen.htm

http://esperantofre.com/eeo/EoDktA/GerdaA/GerdaVoA.htm

http://esperanto-usa.org/

http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/

Russian

http://www.tasteofrussian.com/

http://speakrussian.blogspot.com/

http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm#russian

http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/technology/podcasts/

http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zru1.htm

http://russophilia.wordpress.com/

http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/

Arabic

http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm

http://www.alrashidmall.com/learn-arabic.htm

http://www.searchtruth.com/arabic/lessons/unit1_writing.php

http://arabic.speak7.com/

http://mylanguages.org/learn_arabic.php

http://arabic.tripod.com/

http://www.daadlanguage.com/

http://www.madinaharabic.com/start_learning.html

http://omanpocketguide.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=81

http://tunein.com/radio/Arabic-g135/

http://www.al-bab.com/arab/newspapers.htm

http://www.arabicgenie.com/arabicletters.html

http://www.arabic-alphabet.org/arabic-lessons/

http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-en-ar

http://www.firdaous.com/en/0023.htm

Norwegian

http://NorwegianLanguage.info/

http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/norwegian/grammar/grammar.html

http://www.apronus.com/norskaudio/samfunnslaere.htm

http://mylanguages.org/norwegian_alphabet.php-

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/nor.html

http://www.nrk.no/

Newspaper: http://www.aftenposten.no/

http://www.101languages.net/norwegian/vocabulary.html

http://iteslj.org/v/no/

http://norwegianlanguage.eu/2009/01/01/what-form-of-norwegian-to-learn-bokmal-or-nynorsk/

Swedish

http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/chap2.htm

http://www.onlineswedish.com/main.php

http://swedishalphabet.tripod.com/index.swf

http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/chap9.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish.html

Newspaper: http://www.dn.se/

http://www.svtplay.se/

http://sverigesradio.se/

http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Swedish-Dictionary/

Finnish

http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/finnishforforeigners/parts-index.htm

http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/supisuomea/sanasto/01.shtml

http://www.hs.fi/

http://watch.squidtv.net/europe/finland.html

http://www.fincd.com/

http://www.hei-finland.com/

http://www.hs.fi/english/extras/speakup

http://www.101languages.net/finnish/

http://www.oneness.vu.lt/

http://www.uuno.tamk.fi/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Finnish.htm

http://mylanguages.org/finnish_alphabet.php

http://www.infopankki.fi/en-gb/finnish_on_the_internet/

Polish

http://www.transparent.com/word-of-the-day/today/polish.html

http://www.transparent.com/learn-polish/proficiency-test.html

http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishwords.pdf

http://www.i-polish.com/

http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishshortstories.pdf

http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishgrammar.pdf

http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/kurs/

http://onestoppolish.com/useful_polish_phrases.htm

http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/

http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/tlumacz.html?qs=bread&tr=ang-auto&x=0&y=0

http://www.listenlive.eu/poland.html

http://www.tvp.pl/strony/przegapiles-w-tv-zobacz-w-internecie

Latin

http://www.cambridgescp.com/Lpage.php?p=clc%5Etop%5Ehome

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://learn101.org/latin.php

Newspaper: http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/index_en.htm

http://www.memrise.com/language/eng/lat/

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/la/

http://www.transparent.com/learn-latin/

http://ielanguages.com/latin1.html

http://www.textkit.com/latin_grammar.php

http://www.surfacelanguages.com/language/Latin

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Wheelock-Latin/

http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/alice.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/fun/

http://yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini/

http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/ghlectures.php

http://adamhoward.net/latin/latincomm.html

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishLatin/

http://www.ket.org/Education/latin/index.html

http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/chifiles.html

http://www.textkit.com/

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/classics.html

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bender/latinex.html

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/game.html

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/vocabmain.html

http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/latin/wheelock/

http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm

http://www.learnlatin.tk/

General Language Sites

http://www.fodors.com/language/ - Has Spanish, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese

http://www.omniglot.com/ - Has basic phrases in almost any language along with idioms and sayings

http://www.wordreference.com/ - Any language (French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc.) to English dictionary 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - Basic phrases and vocab in French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, and Portuguese. 

http://www.languagehelpers.com/ - Has Chinese, Czech, French, German, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish

http://www.smartphrase.com/index.shtml -Has Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, and Portuguese. Random phrase generator

http://www.101languages.net/vocabulary/vocabulary.html - Has Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish

http://www.livemocha.com/ - A few people have suggested this site, and it’s incredible. If you want to learn a language on your own, you need this. And it’s free! 

http://vinurminn.tumblr.com/post/15596816573/in-linguistics-a-filler-is-a-sound-or-word-that - Fillers in other languages. 

http://memrise.com/language/

http://www.lang-8.com/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/ - Has Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

http://www.forvo.com/languages/ - EVERY LANGUAGE STUDENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS SITE!! Pronounces words by native speakers in these languages: English, German, French, Russian, Tatar, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish, Persian, Hungarian, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Hindi, Wu, Danish, Cantonese, Hebrew, Bashkir, Irish, Esperanto, Galician, Norwegian (bokmål), Indonesian, Serbian, Latin, Interlingua, Lithuanian, Slovak, Icelandic, Croatian, Yiddish, Slovenian, Occitan, Belorussian, Thai, Ancient Greek, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Lombard, Kurdish, Tagalog, Asturian, Latvian, Welsh, Breton, Basque, Azerbaijani, Tamil, Sanskrit, Sicilian, Bosnian, Armenian, Estonian, Malay, Bengali, Neapolitan, Georgian, Klingon, Min Nan, Scottish Gaelic, Kabardian, Scots, Macedonian, Marathi, Faroese, Chuvash, Lakota, Swiss German, Bavarian, Zazaki, Mongolian and Swahili and many more.

http://www.internetpolyglot.com/mainMenu.html - Has English, Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Latin, Hindi, Polish, Tagalog, Swedish, Romanian, Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Farsi, Danish, Indonesian, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Amharic, Swahili, Bulgarian, and Croatian.

http://www.engoi.com/en/index.html - Has Greek, Czech, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish.

http://www.babelnation.com/  - Has French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Follow thelanguagecommunity.tumblr.com for even more websites!

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Masterpost of Language MOOC's

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. Some are short, some are very interactive, some are better than others. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.I checked each link to make sure they are functioning.

Spanish

Beginner’s Spanish:Food & Drink

Spanish 103 - Review of Elementary Spanish

AP Spanish Language & Culture

Preparing for the AP Spanish Exam

Basic Spanish for English Speakers

Spanish:Reading, Grammar, and Composition For Intermediate Learners

Spanish:Ciudades con Historia For Intermediate Learners

Spanish:Espacios Públicos For Intermediate Learners

Leer a Macondo (Taught in Spanish)

Spanish:Con Mis Propias Manos For Advanced Learners

Spanish: Perspectivas Porteñas

French

AP French Language and Culture

Beginner’s French: Food & Drink

Français Interactif

Elementary French I

Elementary French II

French:Ouverture For Intermediate Learners

French: Le Quatorze Juillet For Intermediate Learners

French: Vacances For Intermediate Learners

Passe Partout For Intermediate- Advanced Learners

La Francophonie Essence Culturelle For Advanced Learners

La Cité des Sciences et de Industrie

Français Langue Etrangère For Advanced Learners

Portuguese

Brazilian Portuguese for Beginners

Italian

Survive Italy Without Being Fluent

Beginner’s Italian: Food & Drink

Italian Literature For Advanced Learners

Italian Novel of the Twentieth Century For Advanced Learners

Latin

Latin I (Taught in Italian)

Dutch

Introduction to Dutch

German

Beginner’s German: Food & Drink

German for Beginners

Rundblick-Beginner’s German

Basic German Grammar

Study German Language from Native Speakers

Stadte und Menschen For Intermediate Learners

Lebenszyklen For Intermediate Learners

German:Regionen Traditionen und Geschichte For Advanced Learners

Arabic

Introduction to Egyptian Arabic

Arabic Language for Beginners

Arabic for Global Exchange

Russian

Russian for Beginners

Easy Accelerated Learning for Russian

Business Russian For Advanced Learners

Let Us Speak Russian For Advanced Learners

Polish

First Year Polish

Chinese

First Year Chinese I

First Year Chinese II

Chinese for Beginners

Basic Mandarin Chinese

Beginner’s Chinese

Chinese Characters

Chinese Made Easy

Mandarin I

Intermediate Business Chinese

Intermediate Chinese Grammar

Japanese

Japanese Syllabary

Beginner’s Conversational Japanese

Learn 80 JLPT N5  Kanji

Korean

Intermediate Korean

Pathway to Spoken Korean

Irish

Introduction to Irish

Finnish

Basic Finnish

Introductory Finnish

Finnish for Medical Professionals

Frisian

Introduction to Frisian (Taught in Dutch)

Icelandic

Icelandic 1-5

Welsh

Beginner’s Welsh

I’ll keep an eye out for new courses and if you know of any, let me know so I can update this list. Last updated:11/06/2015

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How to Defeat Procrastination

1. Create and maintain a work-progress journal. In a notebook jot down what you plan to do that morning then at night how long it took and if you finished, then explain why if you didn’t. Get a friend or roomie to keep you accountable if you need to. This is a great habit to get into because you keep yourself accountable. I mean, imagine how big a blow your ego will take if you see a notebook filled with excuses of why you didn’t get things done. These excuses easily go unnoticed in passing thoughts if you don’t record them.

“It took 3 hours to complete this assignment.”

“I completed all my work for today plus more.”

“I couldn’t finish this piece of reading because blank too longer than expected.”

2. Keep the machine running with healthy, energizing foods. For you fitblrs our there, I don’t think I need to explain how important this is.

Drink water constantly (at least every 45 minutes)

Keep the caffeine intake down to only one beverage an hour

Don’t skip meals and always have snacks on hand!

Treat food as an energy source, not craving satisfaction

Good: Veggies, fruit, whole grains, lean proteins, peanuts, granola bars

Bad: Refined carbs (sugar, white flour)

3. Make an event out of the worst tasks. There’s inevitably some (okay, maybe a lot) of tasks you find yourself dreading to do and seriously procrastinate on. You know, that boring history research paper or that crazy amount of stats practice problems on queue. One way to counter this is to study somewhere an inconvenient distance away from your dorm room (or any place you might see your friends) such as a remote spot in the library or in the corner at a quiet cafe down the street.

4. Build a routine that includes doing the same sort of work weekly in a “protected” time frame. Morning is the best time for this as the day progress your mind will be bogged down by more distractions. Schedule it before your first class if you have a late morning class or right after if it’s early, and get it done at that time consistently.

Ex: MWF always do history reading at 10am, TuTh always work on Stats problems

5. Choose hard days and plan them in advance. Everyone seems to have those days where you are forced to work extremely hard because of a looming deadline. If you can plan these days before they drop on you then you can finish them with a feeling of accomplishment rather than feeling exhausted and drained. Be sure to plan relaxation breaks as well as activities before and after these days so you’re prepared for the next day to suck and the day after for recovery. Let your friends know about your planned days to avoid distractions and for extra accountability.

“If I work hard Saturday I can go hard that night and relax on Sunday.”

Procrastination is normal. It’s horrible for productivity, but the inevitable truth is that even straight A students have to battle with it. The key is to know how to manage it so you can stay productive.

(These tips were adapted from Cal Newport’s books.)

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antidotes to a bad day/when you don’t feel loved

clean your room. i mean really clean it. wash your sheets, vacuum, change the curtains, break out the oxyclean and get the stains out.

call an anonymous number that’s set up for secrets and stories. tell the number everything or make up a story or cry or do whatever you need to say outloud and tell someone who actually won’t tell a soul (imboycrazy’s 8886662045 is a good one)

have someone around for tea. take care of them and indulge them with your very best cooking.

if you can’t have someone over, skype and play word games.

talk to your mom. talk to her about your bad time, or ask her about her day. pick up the phone or go downstairs and reconnect.

memorize a song from a band you like but have never really listened to.

listen to someone talk about things that don’t involve you. NPR is good.

take a walk.

drink a bunch of cool water.

pull up youtube videos of yoga and do some.

make yourself look as lovely as possible, regardless of who’s gonna see you. dress up. be beautiful or handsome or anything.

wear your favourite clothes.

listen to starfucker and watch adventure time.

eat well. either indulge in a frozen pizza or be on your feet cooking for two hours- no middleground.

fold paper cranes, because if you fold 1000 you get a wish.

write letters to anyone, or no one, or yourself, but write letters. it’s hard at first but before you know it you’ll be writing pages.

smell good.

take a nap.

watch whatever makes you laugh, even if it’s tactless. who gives a fuck?

change your computer background to something new.

learn the difference between lonely and alone.

learn the difference between patience and being desperate. respect yourself.

even if the one you love most doesn’t love you back, know that by loving them in the first place is doing the most beautiful and selfless thing in the universe, and it’s not wrong.

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a quick tutorial on how i set up my one note bullet journal !! 

one note has recently released a new update so my version might look a little different, but it’s still reasonably similar so hopefully this is easy to follow (-:

obviously you can customise this as much as you like, but this is the base which i tend to follow lately. here are some of my older spreads as well:

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have a blank notebook but don’t know what to use it for? here’s some ideas!

bullet journal - obviously!! but if you already have one here are some more ideas… 

dream diary - i love looking back on my dreams, but do it in the morning before you forget them!

food journal - write down everything you eat for the day, maybe include water too!

memory book - write down your favorite memories to always look back on!

quotes journal - one place for all of your favorite quotes!

reviews journal - try a new restaurant? movie? book? food? write your review, how was it? did you enjoy it? would you do it again?

gratitude journal - write down everything your thankful for. 

daily journal - journal (almost) everyday. include anything you want, what you did for the day, what you ate, who you were with.

brain storming book - write down all of your awesome ideas in one place!

books of lists - if you love writing lists maybe you need a specific book to just write down all of your favorites!

recipe book - keep all of your favorite recipes here, or even recipes you want to try. 

wishlist book - keep a book of everything you want.

letters book - this could be rough drafts for letters, or letters you wish you could send to someone but know you’ll never have the courage to.

things to look up - have a space for everything you don’t want to forget to look up later or research more. 

news headlines book - write down the headlines from the day/week or important events that happened, how you felt about it. this will be interesting to look back on!

doodle book - are you a doodler when you’re talking on the phone or just watching TV? keep all of your doodles together!

let me know if you guys try any of these out! i’d love to know what you think xx

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