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you want me to learn a language? the very thing that killed robin swift???

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the coolest thing happens when you see a post in a language you stopped studying and you understand some of it… it’s when you realize that’s why i always loved this language. it’s when you realize that all of the seemingly pointless hard work paid off. it may be a small thing: a sign, a tweet… but those are still triumphs to be celebrated. i think we forget as a community to celebrate the small things along with the large. it’s okay to not understand an entire song, but to grasp one new word out of what used to be gibberish… now that’s good shit 

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Podcasts

Knowledge :

au coeur de l’histoire (history)

les chasseurs de nazis (nazi hunters)

france musique 

on ne parle pas la bouche pleine (food + literature)

les chemins de la philosophie

le collège de france (advanced)

il était une fois (fairy tales)

la main verte (gardening)

la méthode scientifique

regardez voir (photography)

sur les épaules de darwin

very good trip (rock n roll)

chroniques du ciel (aviation)

la tête au carré (popularization)

les p’tits bateaux (pros answering children’s qs)

les grands musiciens (interview with a pro musician)

littérature moderne et contemporaine

Society :

arte radio (politics, health, history, tech…)

slate (similarish to ted talks)

hashtag (debating very current problems)

quoi de meuf (women talking about pop culture)

affaires sensibles (trials)

les gentilshommes (relationships men/women)

bouddhisme et méditation

kiffe ta race (about racial problematics)

le flow (well being)

sois gentille dis merci fais un bisou (portraits of women)

les couilles sur la table (men talking to women)

miroir miroir (destroy social norms)

du grain à moudre (debating sensible questions)

coucou le q (casual sex ed)

change ma vie (about personal growth)

la poudre (powerful women’s interviews)

nice to hear you (talks with creators, ceos, artists and nice humans)

mortel (to reconcile you with death and mortality)

la menstruelle (periods)

Movies + tech :

la cartouche (gaming)

la chronique ciné

studio 404 (tech)

geek inc (nerd chatter)

nouveau monde (innovations)

2h de perdues (shitty movies)

silence on joue (gaming)

radio rôliste (role playing, mmorpg)

nociné (pop culture/movies)

season one (to discover new shows)

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Italian resources

PDF Grammar textbooks [all in English]

Italian for Dummies

Colloquial Italian (with audio)

Ciao!

Teach Yourself Italian (with audio)

Teach Yourself - Italian conversation (with audio)

Teach Yourself - Beginner’s Italian (with audio)

Easy Italian Step-by-step

Routledge Intensive Italian course

Online free courses

Duolingo [available for English, French and Spanish speakers]

Memrise Italian course [in English]

Corso d'italiano (with dialogues) [in Italian]

ItalianPod101 [in English]

Babadum (flashcards with audio)

Basic phrases

Basic Italian phrases, vocabulary and grammar

Italian phrases

Useful Italian phrases

Verbs conjugators

Verbi italiani [available in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, English, German and Russian]

Conjugate Italian verbs [available in Italian, Spanish, English and Dutch]

Online dictionaries

Cambridge Dictionary (English-Italian)

Collins (English-Italian; Italian-English)

Corriere (English-Italian; Italian-English)

Wordreference (English-Italian; Italian-English)

Hoepli (Spanish-Italian; Italian-Spanish)

Radios

RAI radio 1

RAI radio 2

RAI radio 3 [Audiobooks are here]

Kiss Kiss Italia

RTL 102.5

Radio 105

R101

Television

RAIPlay (national public broadcaster)

Mediaset Play (commercial broadcaster)

Online newspapers

Corriere della sera

Mattino

Messaggero

Repubblica

Focus

Keep reading

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some of my favourite piano pieces + pressed flowers.

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hi there! i started learning latin this year (it’s an intensive course, which is like three years of latin in one), and i wanted to share some resources with you. i absolutely love the language, and i hope you will too!! 

why learn latin?

over 60% of all english words originally come from latin! it can help you figure out the meaning of words you don’t know (yay etymology!!)

it’s the basis of the romance languages, so it can help you with spanish, italian, french, portugese, and romanian!

mythology!!!!!!!

everything sounds better in latin it has a bunch of wonderful phrases, many of which are still used today! some of my favorites are:

ars longa vita brevis // art is long, life is short

ex nihilo nihil fit // out of nothing comes nothing

scientia potentia est // knowledge is power

studying techniques

try flashcards! these are v cute and work nicely

if that doesn’t work for you, study foldables are a great way to remember vocabulary terms as well!

it’s really important to remember case endings and verb conjugations, so repeating them verbally helps you retain them 

online resources

the best latin/english translator ever

memrise!! lots of mini latin courses by subject

latin library!! 

resources by topic

cambridge latin

find mentions of people in latin texts!

textbooks: latin via ovid, ecce romani

try google (or the library if you’re old fashioned like me) and see what else you can find!!

my other posts

how to reach your goals

what’s in my pen case?

vale (that’s goodbye) and good luck learning latin!! i hope this was helpful

-adi  ♡

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no more common app... society has progressed past the need for the common app

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anything can be dark academia if you add enough murder and liberal arts

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feeling catharsis after my ap exams. Not the good kinda catharsis like "wow i did it 😁🎆🎊😁🍀✴" but the kind I would imagine one might feel after escaping a serial killer

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I miss being able to study at the university instead of sitting at home all day long

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Tea Vocabulary in Romanian

I adore tea more than life itself so I was quick to make a tea vocab list in my new target language, română <3 let me know if I need to make any corrections!

tea : ceai 

mug : cană 

teapot : ceainic 

cup of tea : ceașcă de ceai

water : apă

green tea : ceai verde

black tea : ceai negru 

ginger tea : ceai de ghimbir

herbal tea : ceai de plante 

red tea : ceai roșu 

iced tea : ceai cu gheață 

mint tea : ceai de mentă 

tea bag : pliculeţ de ceai 

tea leaf : frunze de ceai 

tea caddy : cutie de ceai 

tea infuser : strecurătoare

tea garden : terasă de luat ceaiul 

tea shop : ceainărie

tea strainer : strecurătoare de ceai 

tea tray : tavă pentru servit ceaiul 

to infuse : a infuza

to boil : a pune la fiert, a fierbe

to drink : a bea 

to pour : a turna

to sip : a sorbi

to enjoy : a se bucura

to read tea leaves : a citi în frunze de ceai 

strong : puternic

weak : diluat

hot : fierbinte 

cold : rece 

sweet : dulce 

bitter : amar 

sugar : zahăr 

milk : lapte

cream : frișcă 

lemon : lămâie 

honey : miere 

cookie/biscuit : fursec 

sandwich : sandviş

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little women (2019) study vibes

jo: fountain pens, seemingly permanent ink stains, pulling 3 all-nighters in a row because you just had the perfect idea for your essay, messy bun with at least 3 pencils sticking out

meg: pomodoro method, color-coded notes, sitting in the front of the class, study groups at the café, carefully coded study plan

amy: doodling in the margins, passing funny notes in class, studying outside, going over flash cards with friends, refusing to compromise for second best

beth: classical music study playlist, renting a private study room, making your own tea, making study guides before every test, baking snacks for the teacher

laurie: studying with friends and doing more talking than studying, getting distracted looking out the window, 40-minute long "study breaks"

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Greenhouse and Palm House of Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew

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im trying to clean out my school binders and i dont know why but every time i go to throw away schoolwork i always hesitate. ‘what if i want to use this for studying later’ says i, the dumbass, who has not studied, for a single thing, in my entire goddamn life

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I want to show you guys this winter house 😍❄️❄️

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The physics of the "hardest move" in ballet

In the third act of “Swan Lake”, the Black Swan pulls off a seemingly endless series of turns, bobbing up and down on one pointed foot and spinning around and around and around … thirty-two times. It’s one of the toughest sequences in ballet, and for those thirty seconds or so, she’s like a human top in perpetual motion. 

Those spectacular turns are called fouettés, which means “whipped” in French, describing the dancer’s incredible ability to whip around without stopping. But while we’re marveling at the fouetté, can we unravel its physics? 

The dancer starts the fouetté by pushing off with her foot to generate torque. But the hard part is maintaining the rotation. As she turns, friction between her pointe shoe and the floor, and somewhat between her body and the air, reduces her momentum. So how does she keep turning? Between each turn, the dancer pauses for a split second and faces the audience. Her supporting foot flattens, and then twists as it rises back onto pointe, pushing against the floor to generate a tiny amount of new torque.

At the same time, her arms sweep open to help her keep her balance. The turns are most effective if her center of gravity stays constant, and a skilled dancer will be able to keep her turning axis vertical.

The extended arms and torque-generating foot both help drive the fouetté. But the real secret and the reason you hardly notice the pause is that her other leg never stops moving. During her momentary pause, the dancer’s elevated leg straightens and moves from the front to the side, before it folds back into her knee.

By staying in motion, that leg is storing some of the momentum of the turn. When the leg comes back in towards the body, that stored momentum gets transferred back to the dancer’s body, propelling her around as she rises back onto pointe.

As the ballerina extends and retracts her leg with each turn, momentum travels back and forth between leg and body, keeping her in motion. 

In Tchaikovsky’s ballet, the Black Swan is a sorceress, and her 32 captivating fouettés do seem almost supernatural. But it’s not magic that makes them possible. It’s physics.

From the TED-Ed Lesson The physics of the “hardest move” in ballet - Arleen Sugano 

Animation by Dancing Line Productions

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A little bit of physics