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Free books: 100 legal sites to download literature

The Classics

Browse works by Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad and other famous authors here.

Classic Bookshelf: This site has put classic novels online, from Charles Dickens to Charlotte Bronte.

The Online Books Page: The University of Pennsylvania hosts this book search and database.

Project Gutenberg: This famous site has over 27,000 free books online.

Page by Page Books: Find books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and H.G. Wells, as well as speeches from George W. Bush on this site.

Classic Book Library: Genres here include historical fiction, history, science fiction, mystery, romance and children’s literature, but they’re all classics.

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Read Print: From George Orwell to Alexandre Dumas to George Eliot to Charles Darwin, this online library is stocked with the best classics.

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The Spectator Project: Montclair State University’s project features full-text, online versions of The Spectator and The Tatler.

Bibliomania: This site has more than 2,000 classic texts, plus study guides and reference books.

Online Library of Literature: Find full and unabridged texts of classic literature, including the Bronte sisters, Mark Twain and more.

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Free Classic Literature: Find British authors like Shakespeare and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, plus other authors like Jules Verne, Mark Twain, and more.

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Math and Science

Turn to this list to find books about math, science, engineering and technology.

FullBooks.com: This site has “thousands of full-text free books,” including a large amount of scientific essays and books.

Free online textbooks, lecture notes, tutorials and videos on mathematics: NYU links to several free resources for math students.

Online Mathematics Texts: Here you can find online textbooks likeElementary Linear Algebra and Complex Variables.

Science and Engineering Books for free download: These books range in topics from nanotechnology to compressible flow.

FreeScience.info: Find over 1800 math, engineering and science books here.

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For books about philosophy and religion, check out these websites.

Bored.com: Bored.com has music ebooks, cooking ebooks, and over 150 philosophy titles and over 1,000 religion titles.

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John T. Cullen: Read short stories from John T. Cullen here.

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History and Culture

Refresh your memory of world history, the classics and U.S. history here.

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Poetry

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The Literature Network: This site features forums, a copy of The King James Bible, and over 3,000 short stories and poems.

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Poem Hunter: Find free poems, lyrics and quotations on this site.

Famous Poetry Online: Read limericks, love poetry, and poems by Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Lord Byron and others.

Google Poetry: Google Books has a large selection of poetry, fromThe Canterbury Tales to Beowulf to Walt Whitman.

QuotesandPoem.com: Read poems by Maya Angelou, William Blake, Sylvia Plath and more.

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Free Online Novels: These novels are fully online and range from romance to religious fiction to historical fiction.

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Prize-winning books online: Use this directory to connect to full-text copies of Newbery winners, Nobel Prize winners and Pulitzer winners.

#books #need this

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Routledge Masterpost

Here are all of the Routledge Grammar PDFs that I currently have. I’ll be updating whenever I find more. Let me know if there’s one in particular you want me to look for^^

Last Update: 2017/04/24

Fixed Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook link

Added books for Czech, English, French, French Creoles, Persian, Ukranian

Added more books in Cantonese, Danish, Greek, Polish, Spanish, Swedish

Arabic

Arabic: An Essential Grammar Basic Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar

Cantonese

Basic Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar Intermediate Cantonese: A Grammar and Workbook

Czech

Czech: An Essential Grammar

Danish

Danish: A Comprehensive Grammar Danish: An Essential Grammar

Dutch

Basic Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook Dutch: A Comprehensive Grammar Dutch: An Essential Grammar Intermediate Dutch: A Grammar and Workbook

English

English: An Essential Grammar

Finnish

Finnish: An Essential Grammar

French

Modern French Grammar Workbook

French Creoles

French Creoles: A Comprehensive and Comparative Grammar

German

Basic German: A Grammar and Workbook German: An Essential Grammar Intermediate German: A Grammar and Workbook

Greek

Greek: A Comprehensive Grammar Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language

Hindi

Hindi: An Essential Grammar

Hebrew

Modern Hebrew: An Essential Grammar

Hungarian

Hungarian: An Essential Grammar

Indonesian

Indonesian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Irish

Basic Irish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Irish: A Grammar and Workbook

Italian

Basic Italian: A Grammar and Workbook

Japanese

Basic Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Japanese: A Grammar and Workbook Japanese: A Comprehensive Grammar

Korean

Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Korean: A Grammar and Workbook Korean: A Comprehensive Grammar

Latin

Intensive Basic Latin: A Grammar and Workbook Intensive Intermediate Latin: A Grammar and Workbook

Latvian

Latvian: An Essential Grammar

Mandarin Chinese

Basic Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Chinese: A Grammar and Workbook Chinese: A Comprehensive Grammar Chinese: An Essential Grammar

Norwegian

Norwegian: An Essential Grammar

Persian

Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Persian: A Grammar and Workbook

Polish

Basic Polish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Polish: A Grammar and Workbook Polish: A Comprehensive Grammar Polish: An Essential Grammar

Portuguese

Portuguese: An Essential Grammar

Romanian

Romanian: An Essential Grammar

Russian

Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Russian: A Grammar and Workbook

Serbian

Serbian: An Essential Grammar

Spanish

Basic Spanish: A Grammar and Workbook Intermediate Spanish: A Grammar and Workbook Spanish: An Essential Grammar

Swahili

Swahili Grammar and Workbook

Swedish

Swedish: A Comprehensive Grammar Swedish: An Essential Grammar

Thai

Thai: An Essential Grammar

Turkish

Turkish: A Comprehensive Grammar

Ukrainian

Ukrainian: A Comprehensive Grammar

Urdu

Urdu: An Essential Grammar

Welsh

Modern Welsh: A Comprehensive Grammar

Yiddish

Basic Yiddish: A Grammar and Textbook

Hope this helps everyone out a bit! Happy studying^^

-koreanbreeze

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Hiragana and Katakana tips for Beginners

A little snapshot of my own hiragana and katakana characters.

Many beginners encounter problems while learning Japanese writing systems: hiragana and katakana. I decided to take a look at the most common, in my opinion, mistakes made by learners.

Remember, the stroke order isn’t there to make your life harder (although it does most of the time). It is really important to write the characters the certain way as any other way makes them look slightly or completely different.

Before I begin I would like to explain the particular way I write き・さ・ふ・そ.

There are, as far as I know, two different ways to write a character. The way I write them is more of a caligraphic approach (the second line). Mostly, learners tend to choose the first approach.

I switched the way to write this characters as ふ is faster to write (three strokes instead of four). そ・さ・き plainly look better to me.

Getting to the gist of the post now - common mistakes made by beginners.

1. Mirroring

Even though hiragana is more complicated (more strokes and more curvy ones), the characters are fairly more distinguishable. Learners might however make mistakes by mirroring the characters (き・ち・さ・く are the trickiest ones among them).

2. Confusing hiragana り and katakana リ

The hiragana ri り is shown at the left side. The first stroke should go down and then a little up (shown at the bottom). Because of this ri り could be written in hiragana as the 2nd and 3rd example on the left side show.

The katakana ri リ however doesn’t have a pointed end in the first stroke (as shown on the right).

While writing a word in hiragana or katakana, you must make sure you write the correct ‘ri’. You musn’t write a word in one system and the throw a character from the other system!

e.g. Writing リんご ( リんご ) instead of りんご

3. Mixing up similar characters

I think this mistake applies more to katakana. The most common mistake is writting shi シ insted of tsu ツ and n ン instead of so ソ.

Confusing so ソ and n ン

You should start by writing the small line first. Then the longer one. The longer line in so ソ should be pointing high, while the one in ン should be lower.

Many Japanese people tend to make n ン really flat and so ソ higher (like me in the first picture).

Notice that the longer line is written from different sides!

Confusing shi シ and tsu ツ

The same goes for this characters. Shi シ is n ン with two small lines, while tsuツ is so ソ with two small lines.

Confusing ko コ (the first one) and ユ (the second one)

Ko コ and yu ユ have similar writing patterns. The last stroke in yu ユ should be long and going past the first one.

Confusing ku ク(the first one) and ke ケ (the second one)

Ku ク consists of two strokes, while ke ケ of three. The first and second line in ke ケ aren’t connected with their ends. The same goes for the second and third line.

Confusing wa わ and re れ (and ne ね)

Easily mistaken characters in hiragana.

From left to right: ne, re, wa

Plainly, wa わ should have a round stroke (like a belly) and re れ a little pointed end (like a leg). Ne ね has a little circle inside.

Notice that all three of them consist only of two strokes!

4. Ro ロ and its stroke order

Ro ロ has the same stroke order as the kanji for mouth 口. Don’t write it like a plain square. It has three strokes, not four! It looks different than normal when written using four or even two strokes.

Notice that the kanji looks bigger than ro ロ in normal digital font.

Hope I cleared up some things for you. If you have some questions regarding Japanese writing feel free to ask me!

以上。

#i need this #hiragana #japanese

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Beginners Japanese textbooks

So I get a lot of questions here and on Instagram about the books I use for Japanese and what I would recommend to beginners. So I thought I’d put together a little list of books I would suggest you start off with as a beginner in Japanese (these are all books I have used myself or had/would consider using) Obviously I’m not saying you need all of these books, pick one and see how it goes (although I do recommend using more than one resource)! I may do another post like this for intermediate learners if there’s enough interest (with the textbook series they will take you to a higher level, but this is just recommendations as a starting point) ^^

Learning Hiragana and Katakana Flashcards

Japanese Kanji Flashcards Volume 1

Japanese Kanji for Beginners

Japanese From Zero Series

Kana From Zero | Hiragana From Zero | Katakana From Zero | Kanji From Zero

Japanese From Zero 1 | Japanese From Zero 2 | Japanese From Zero 3 |

Japanese From Zero 4

Genki Series

Level 1 textbook | Level 1 workbook | Level 2 textbook | Level 2 workbook

Japanese For Busy People Series

Kana workbook | Level 1 kana ver | Level 1 romaji ver | Level 2

Basic Japanese

Japanese for Beginners

A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar

Essential Japanese Grammar

Essential Japanese Vocabulary

600 Basic Japanese Verbs

#i need this #just started learning japanese #it's hard oml

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สวัสดีค่ะ It’s feel sooooo weird to type Thai on tumblr. Anyway, just want to say Hi. I’m glad to meet another Thai native speakers. I’m soooooo ALONE here. ชอบบล็อกของเธอมากๆเลยค่ะ ดีใจที่ค้นเจอ อิอิ

สวัสดีค่า true though, it’s pretty rare to find our countrymen here hahahahah ขอบคุณมากๆเลยนะคะแงงง ㅠㅡㅠ

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Hello! im not sure if this is still active but im learning the thai constants rn and am a bit confused with the repeating sounds ones. Like say พ vs ผ, if they’re both pronounced p then how do you know to write one or the other? is it just that you’d have to memorize the words in which they are used or is there rules on when to use one and not the other? sorry if this is a dumb question but id appreciate any help! ขอบคุณค่ะ

to be honest, i literally just ask myself if i’m actually thai or not because i don’t know the differences between them asdfgjfkajdal jk

in the thai language, different consonants can share the same sound. for example, ท ธ ฑ ฒ ถ ฐ can all be pronounced as /t/. and in this case, พ ผ (and ภ as well) can be pronounced as /p/. there are no rules but you just gotta memorise which consonant is used with which words, and this applies to other thai consonants that share the same sounds as well.

but generally speaking, as a thai myself, the difference between the two is the tone. พ itself is pronounced in the mid tone. while ผ is pronounced in the rising tone. it’s pretty difficult to explain this but you can check its difference in pronunciation tone here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYdq1c1tZrw (2:18 for ผ and 2:30 for พ)

note : different consonants with same soundsin thai, we have 44 consonants (44 different characters) but with only 21 sounds. you can check the table below which consonants are in the same sound groups. (credits to https://sites.google.com/site/phasathiyhrrsa/seiyng-phyaychna-thiy)

#answered #xiutingxanon #araithaithai #thai #thai language

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Are you graduating this year? :)

not sure when i received this ask ((sorry for the very late reply)) but i’ll be graduating from high school on the 29th of march!

#apolloslesbian #answered

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I feel so proud of myself! I can recall all but like 5 consonants and vowels are still a bit tricky to remember but I'll get there.

well congratulations!! take your time, you got this!!

#anon #xiutingxanon #answered

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studytherin · 6 years

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are -ัวะ and -ัว vowels? in the video you suggested these popped up, but in your vowel pronunciation guide, you never mentioned it.

they were included in my vowel pronunciation guide though… right after เ-าะ -อ and before เ-ียะ เ-ีย

“-ัวะ and -ัว / อัวะ and อัว-ัวะ (short) = try saying “tour” in half a second ; consonant goes under ั but before วะ eg. ผลัวะ-ัว (long) = tour ; consonant goes under ั but before ว eg. บัว กลัว“

if there should be vowels that some people don’t consider as vowels, that would be ำ ไ ใ เอา ฤ ฤา ฦ ฦา instead

#answered #anon #xiutingxanon

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so how did you learn the thai alphabet? rn i'm learning how to write the letter, read the letter, and learn to read a few words containing the letter.

i personally can’t remember how i memorise and learn the thai alphabet,, it’s my native language so it naturally went into my head somehow.

yeah you can do that. and maybe you can try forming the words like putting vowels and consonants together.

#i’m a native thai speaker in case anyone of you still think i’m a thai learner #answered #anon #xiutingxanon #araithaithai

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is TOPIK 1 easy? any tips to get good grade?

i haven’t taken any korean classes before but still got 192/200 within 2 months so i guess i can say it’s pretty easy? unlike the intermediate level that i’m studying for oml this one is a nightmare

first off, here’s the link to my previous post on how i studied for topik i (1&2급)

1) practise makes perfect: check my previous post out, go to the resource section, then do all the practise tests i’ve linked down there. i did all that. i even did some twice or thrice. just do it over and over until you get used to the tests.

2) two most important things when it comes to learning a language are grammar and vocabulary. since this is the beginner level, there’s a limit amount of grammar and vocabulary you should know. if it exceeds this certain amount, then it would have gone into intermediate level already. so if you know all of the words required, you can definitely ace the test, and i’d say this is one of the biggest advantages of topik i. if you want to make sure you know it all, please study these

- Howtostudykorean’s memrise vocabulary lesson for unit 1

- Topik Guide’s beginner level vocabulary list

- Topik Guide’s beginner level grammar list

- Keytokorean’s beginner level vocabulary list

if you can memorise all vocabulary here, you have a really high chance of receiving 180-200. for grammar, you also have to memorise all of them and understand ALL of the meanings they can be interpreted/used. for example, 는데 doesn’t only mean ‘but’, but it can also be used to show the reasons, explain, etc.

here’s a bonus : some of those grammar appear only once, some appear for like 5-6 times throughout the test. my friend who also took the test learned the grammar that appeared only once but didn’t learn the one that appeared numerous time. so if you don’t want to get these wrong, make sure to study the grammar ~(으)면서 :’) i found it on almost every page of the test and literally thanked myself for learning this one, or else i might get so many items wrong.

3) for reading part: i personally think i lost 5 marks on this part. and if i’m not wrong, i lost the marks on the questions that ask about the name of the passage, main idea, etc. asdfghjfkhajkg with my experiences, i usually narrow my choices down to only 2 but eventually choose the wrong one because i think of it way too much. so, don’t think a lot. the answer is, most of the time, pretty obvious and can be seen within the reading passage itself. so even though it’s just a small reading passage, please READ EVERY SINGLE WORD of it carefully. the answer is somewhere within there and don’t imagine it on your own like me ahahhahahahahaha

lastly, best of luck!

#answered #anon #xiutingxanon #xiutingxkorean

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