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when you spell restaurant right on the first try

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// couples who hustle together stay together 💪💑

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If you are in the UK and you are eligible to vote in the EU referendum YOU HAVE TO REGISTER AND TURN UP TO VOTE

This referendum is so close that it will come down to voters turnout. Young people are the ones that are are more likely to want to stay in so if you want to stay in but then don’t vote, statistically we will end up leaving.

This is the most important referendum in Britain’s history for decades please vote if you’re eligible, this will affect our whole futures so vote or deal with the consequences of not voting and letting older generations decide our future

(Even if you’re not from Britain would you please signal boost for your British followers?)

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idk I just love how we Young People Today use ~improper~ punctuation/grammar in actually really defined ways to express tone without having to explicitly state tone like that’s just really fucking cool, like

no    =    “No,” she said. 

no.    =    "No,” she said sharply.

No    =    “No,” she stated firmly.

No.    =    “No,” she snapped.

NO    =    “No!” she shouted.

noooooo    =    “No,” she moaned.

no~    =    “No,” she said with a drawn-out sing-song.

~no~    =    “No,” she drawled sarcastically.

NOOOOO    =    “No!” she screamed dramatically.

no?!    =    “No,” she said incredulously.

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learner: I must never deviate from the standard grammatical forms of my non-native language, either in speaking or in writing, or else I will be found a sham and the stigma will be with my family for generations.

native speaker: lol im not gonna conjugate verbs today

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She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners (via wordsnquotes)

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J'aime me perdre dans tes yeux, c'est le seul endroit où je me sens bien, oui je suis en sécurité

(via celiaaa-1)

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Quand, le matin, je ne suis pas sociable avant mon 2ème café

When I’m not friendly before my 2nd coffee in the morning

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Sarah’s / @studeying to-do list printables! [ tag me with #studeying! ]

I was fiddling around a little, so here are just some to-do lists :-) idkidk hope you guys will use it !! (my other printables) 

Download links: (left to right, up to down)

[ one | two | three | four ] 

Thank you! 

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This started out as a post for the IB, but I realised it can be applied generally as well.

General Tips:

If you get to choose your topic, choose one that you find genuinely interesting, as you will be much more motivated. It should also be a topic that you’re fairly familiar with. If you’re really stuck for ideas, look at example essays online (but don’t steal!).

Have a specific focus.

Keep a log of all of your references. Make sure that you’re referencing in the correct format.

Find out if there are any competitions or scholarship contests that you could submit your essay to.

Introduction:

Try starting your essay with a claim related to the title/question.

Have a sentence which defines your whole essay; give the reader and idea of what you’re going to be arguing. Try to get the reader interested in your essay so that they’re motivated to read.

Don’t use “I” or “My” (we were always warned against this).

Know what conclusion you’re coming to at the end.

Think of essay introductions as covering what/why/how:

What the question is about – explain your interpretation of the question and what it is asking you to do.

Why the question is important – put the question into context and identify the main issues that are raised by the question.

How you are going to answer it – let the reader know what you are going to cover in your essay in order to answer the question.

Body:

Provide example to prove your thesis write or wrong.

Develop the idas and arguments outlined in your introduction.

Each paragraph should have a topic sentence, which acts like a mini introduction. This should clarify what you’re going to discuss in that paragraph. If your topic sentence doesn’t match what you discuss in the paragraph then it will read confused.

Think of each paragraph like a small essay.

Keep your essay question/title in front of you while you’re writing; it will help you stay focused.

Don’t be too general.

Keep your paragraphs well structured. Don’t jump from one idea to the next; there should be a link between the paragraphs, they should be consecutive. Try to show the flow of your though. Again, if this goes wrong, your essay will appear confused. This is something that I found online about how to structure a paragraph (included as a photo for the colour coding):

Don’t just state your ideas; have evidence, analysis, and comments. Remember, you’re trying to convince the reader that you’re right!

Conclusion:

Reread your essay, and conclude your ideas; all of your points should lead logically to this conclusion.

Your conclusion should capture the essence of your essay. Summarise your main points, and relate them back to the question. Think about what the reader knows now that they didn’t know when they began reading.

Don’t introduce any new information.

Don’t include apologies about the incompleteness of your argument (e.g. If I had more time….) although you can include some limitations.

Don’t end your conclusion with a rhetorical question; it leaves the reader unsatisfied.

For tips about other aspects of essay writing, see:

Planning & structuring your essay

Develop your essay writing

Academic writing

Reading, note-taking and referencing

Academic phrase masterpost: discussing findings (by under-grad)

Proofreding tips (by civilisedstudies)

How to write a university level essay (by healthyeyes)

How to write an essay in an hour in exams (by boarding-school)

How to actually write an essay in a nutshell (by englishlit-chic)

How to write a great essay (by englishlit-chic)

Organising essay notes using Excel (by studyspo)

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Hi you made a post a while back saying you were learning French, do you have any masterposts? Thank you!

Hey! Sorry it took me so long to respond! Here are some great masterposts for you!

A french masterpost by @organisaticns

Intermediate-Advanced Resources by @languagestudyblr

French resource list by @openstudynotes

French masterpost by @nathalliastudies

French Resource Masterpost by @highschoolering

French masterpost by @jenaipassommeil

French Resources by @theperksofbeingstudying

Learning French Masterpost by @cortexfrontal

A conglomeration of masterposts put together by @areistotle

Conjugation Printables by @apamexico

French Tips by @studyspirits, but i couldn’t find the link to their blog, so this link will take you to it through wonderful @studyplants

I hope you succeed in French! Keep me posted on your progress!

*french accent* 

..how you say…… ah…. 

Au revoir, mon amie!

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hI! i'm coming to end of my first year of french at school and i'm looking for something to help me on the side but i'm having trouble finding resources for my level. duolingo is too basic and i'm not far enough to practice reading french books. do you have any suggestions? thanks!

If Duolingo is too basic for you, you should be alright with simpler books (ie: Harry Potter). Here are the pdfs for all 7 books in French: 

Harry Potter à l’École des Sorciers

Harry Potter et la Chambre des Secrets

Harry Potter et le Prisonnier d’Azkaban

Harry Potter et la Coupe de Feu

Harry Potter et l’Ordre du Phénix

Harry Potter et le Prince de Sang-Mêlé

Harry Potter et les Reliques de la Mort

Make tons of vocab lists from the books you read, put them into Memrise, or make them into Anki decks, and practice practice practice!

Read news articles and follow French people on Twitter (Twitter is usually good because tweets are short and generally straight-forward). Youtube is also a good place to go to for listening practice. Here’s a French Youtube masterpost.

To improve your writing skills, make sure you practice writing as much as you can! If you want, you can also post what you write on lang-8, so that native French speakers can help you out with grammar/vocabulary mistakes. 

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Who would have thought that this generation would feature a whole ton of teenagers just learning languages and linguistics like most young'ns are supposed to be out getting drunk and dealing drugs and making more young'ns but we’ve all collectively decided to just sit in our rooms and mumble words to ourselves.

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Also IPA! Learn the IPA grid of your target language! ^^

What's the best way to sound somewhat fluent in your target language. I'm having some trouble with pronunciation and was wondering if you had some advice?

- Listen to the language in lots of different contexts (radio, TV, music, movies, conversations, speeches, audiobooks etc.) and PARROT EVERYTHING. Even if you don’t understand it. Just. Repeat. Everything. You. Hear.- Pay really careful attention to the sounds that are different in that language to your native language(s) and any other languages you already speak, especially the vowels!!- Look up videos/instructions for how to pronounce the sounds that you find difficult and practise every day.- If your mouth doesn’t hurt or at least feel mildly uncomfortable at first, you’re probably not pronouncing it right.- Pronunciation and accent are two different things and it is necessary that you focus on both of these things in order to be able to replicate the sound of a native.- In essence it’s just about getting a lot of exposure and repeating everything over and over again.- Don’t worry if it takes you a while to get used to it or achieve a more natural sound, it will be worth it in the end and it will also improve your listening skills and ability to understand people slurring or mumbling.

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• @positivestreet •

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1. Teach yourself a useful skill like HTML, JAVA, or Python

Free online instructional websites like codeacademy and w3schools are great.

2. Teach yourself how to cook

Reverse recipe look-up websites like gojee and supercook are imperative.

3. Change your Facebook settings to learn a new language

Remember when you thought changing your Facebook to Pirate was comedic gold?

4. Or read magazines online in another language

5. Explore Wikipedia Simple English

You can learn about complicated things in plain, jargon-free, regular, human English.

6. Wikiversity too

7. Go to a lecture without having to physically move

Academicearth.org has free lectures and course material from universities like MIT, Johns Hopkins, Stanford and Columbia.

8. Watch documentaries and TED talks on Netflix

Nonfics.com has suggestions for the best documentaries currently on Netflix and the best places to find documentaries online. PBS is also a great resource, as is thisTimeout ranking of the 50 best documentaries of all time.

9. If you’re a college student, look into discounts and free admissions deals that your school offers for museums/shows

10. Download an app that will restrict you from websites that you spend too much time on

11. Find books that you’ll actually want to read

12. Or catch up on the latest and greatest articles that are available on the web

Longreads collects magazine pieces and articles for you.

13. If you just can’t keep your brain focused for an extended period of time, catch up on some short stories

Free classics online at Classic Shorts and American shorts at Americanliterature.com. Resources for Gabriel García Márquez and Alice Munro shorts at Openculture.com and a list that includes George Saunders at Flavorwire.com.

14. Attempt to learn to do something artistic like draw or play the guitar

Drawspace.com and Justinguitar.com can help with that respectively.

15. Listen to podcasts while you commute, cook or wait in line

Try Radiolab, Stuff You Should Know, How To Do Everything, The History of Our World, or Neil Degrasse Tyson’s StarTalk. Check out more podcast suggestions from CollegeInfoGeek.com

happy learning! x

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