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[rigelmejo]

Here is how I've studied Chinese over the past 4-5 years.

Note: I cram studied a lot of hanzi, words, and grammar in the first year. I got a lot of 'review' by reading graded readers in Pleco app and just looking up words over and over until I learned them, and watching cdramas with english and chinese subtitles and looking up words in Pleco or Google Translate as I got curious. This is what worked best for me, because I cannot stick to something like anki long term - if you can stick to anki long term, then doing something like that regularly may have good results. I prefer to learn by doing what I want to do - which for me, was read.

I also started trying to read and watch shows in just chinese in the first year - which in retrospect was probably harder than I needed to do. After 2 years, I started mostly following Heavenly Path Notion Site's recommended materials (graded readers, easier novels for native speakers etc) and my life got much easier as I started reading Easier stuff more often, and harder stuff less often. I highly recommend beginners check out all the resources linked on Heavenly Path, especially in their Reading Guide and Listening Guide. I did a mix of extensive reading (reading easy stuff where I could guess unknown words from context - I might just read with a TTS to hear the word pronounced), and intensive reading (looking up every unknown word/most unknown words for it's translation in Pleco or Readibu app).

For Hanzi, and Reading:

Read about how hanzi work. I read all the articles I linked on this post about learning hanzi. It will help you in the future to know radicals exist, and to know what mnemonics are since a lot of learning resources recommend them for learning hanzi. I did not memorize radicals, but I did get a basic familiarity with the fact they exist and read over a chart of them once. Later as I studied hanzi, I learned the radicals more in the context of the hanzi they're in.

Downloaded Pleco app, and Google Translate, started looking up a word or phrase whenever I was curious, when I was watching cdramas. If you're watching shows, it's pretty easy to see chinese hard subs on many shows on youtube, and just look up a word or two when you feel curious.

I used this book, I just read through it in like 3 months, aiming for basic familiarity not memorization. Learning Chinese Characters: (HSK Levels 1-3) A Revolutionary New Way to Learn the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters; Includes All Characters for the AP & HSK 1-3 Exams. I love this book, I credit this book to giving me a decent foundation in hanzi, the mnemonic stories in the book worked well for me, as did the example words. This book is often cheaply used, and can be found free in many libraries and elibraries.

Because I'm a lot, I kept trying to read parallel text webnovels on mtlnovel.com (it has a parallel text chinese/english option if you're logged in). I read some MoDu and some ZhenHun, and it was very hard. In retrospect I would have probably spent my time better with more graded readers, and easier webnovels after lol. I also kept trying to read chinese webnovels with Pleco's click-translate feature. It wasn't bad, I think it helped me a lot, but I did this all from month 1 onward. And it would probably have been easier to wait until I had built more of a foundation to do this.

I used a 2000 Common Word Ben Whatley memrise course which no longer exists, and cram studied 1000 words in a week then reviewed the next 2 weeks, then read some graded readers, and then the next month cram studied 1000 words and then reviewed the next 2 weeks, then read some more. I did reading as most of my actual reviews, because I don't like anki decks and I can't focus on them for more than a few weeks (as my study patterns show lol). I would recommend someone use the Spoonfed Chinese Anki deck if trying to emulate what I did, or ideally any common words chinese deck with audio and hanzi, and ideally in sentence examples. I'd recommend if you're cram studying words to just do 1000-3000, because you'll run into those common words a LOT if you're also reading and watching shows and looking stuff up. So you'll get lots of review of those 3000 words even if you stop using anki, since you'll keep running into those words. After the 3000 most common, it might be more useful to prioritize studying words as you come across them in reading/watching, and either keep looking them up until you remember them or put those in anki (if you like anki).

I started reading Graded Readers in Pleco app, with click-translations. Mostly Mandarin Companion graded readers with 300 unique hanzi or less, then 500 unique hanzi or less, because it was good review in the context of reading for everything I'd just studied over the past few months. I suggest checking out Heavenly Path Notion Site's Reading Guide whenever you'd like to start reading, a lot of good tips in there and a lot of resources I used too (like Pleco app and Readibu app).

I used this book as reference, Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters: A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic Chinese Characters Original by Matthews, Alison, Matthews, Laurence (2007) Paperback. I've flipped through it a few times, never fully read all of it, but another person may find use in it. I liked it as a reference. This book is also easy to find cheap used, or in libraries and elibraries free.

I went through about half of the following anki deck, just cram studying 1500 hanzi cards in a couple weeks, doing a week of review, and then 'reviewing' by reading stuff in chinese and looking words up again and again. It's a great anki deck for studying hanzi.

*Mnemonics - 3018 Simplified Chinese Hanzi deck (I recommend this deck, if I had to go back and do it again)

*Mnemonics - 3035 Traditional Chinese Hanzi (I recommend this deck, if I had to go back and do it again)

 *Mnemonics - 4143 Traditional AND Simplified Chinese Hanzi (combines the 2 decks above)

After learning around 1500 hanzi through a combination of reading the books I linked, reading graded readers, and using the anki deck I linked, I just kept reading and looking up words I didn't know that seemed important to the overall meaning of the thing I was reading. Just looking up words, again and again, until I remembered them. Which was usually 2-20 times. I started reading manhua, then webnovels, again see Heavenly Path Notion Site for their recommendations on reading material at different difficulty levels. I was also reading cdrama subtitles, usually with both chinese and english subtitles on, but once in a while I tried to watch a show with just chinese subtitles. I'd look up 1 word every 5 minutes or so, to let myself look up key words that seemed important, but not stop constantly.

Yes, my study consisted of a LOT of 'cram study for basic familiarity of something' then read and watch, and look things I was basically familiar with over and over until they stick and I learn them.

For Grammar:

I read through this grammar guide website's HSK Grammar lessons in like 1 month, not to memorize just to get a basic familiarity. I wanted an idea of the grammar I'd be seeing later, and an idea of what to look up more information about if I got confused later. https://www.hskcourse.com/hsk-grammar-exercises/. I did this in the first few months.

I looked up grammar points later, as I'd read graded readers or watch shows, on this website All Set Learning Chinese Grammar Wiki. I found the explanations on this site helpful. I kept doing this, and still do this if any grammar point in particular is confusing me.

If you want to use anki to study grammar, these decks cover similar material: *Chinese Grammar Wiki Study Deck(if looking for a full grammar guide I recommend this one, which so far has been the most well formatted version and links to the AllSetLearning Grammar points so you can easily do background reading when needed). Ole’s Chinese Grammar Wiki A1, Chinese Grammar Wiki A2, Chinese Grammar Wiki B1, Chinese Grammar Wiki B2 (all adapted from AllSet Learning’s Chinese Grammar Wiki site)

For tones:

I went through the Pinyin Pronunciation Guide and tone trainer on this website dong-chinese.com in a month. Then again a few months later, went through it again.

I also used these:

Maorma.net Minimal Pair Test (I used this in the past, focusing on minimal pairs might help?)

Yoyo Chinese Tone Pairs Chart (may help)

Yoyo Pinyin Chart (has sound for each tone, this may help)

Basically I used everything on under my 'tones' tag. Feel free to browse for more resources. Mostly it was a lot of youtube videos, and explanations. I looked up videos on youtube about tone sandhi, tone pairs, actual tone pronunciation etc. I really liked Grace Mandarin Chinese's channel, and recently I've found Julesy's videos very useful like this one about pronunciation.

For Listening:

So I really HEAVILY focused on learning to read. As you can see above. I have only started focusing on listening more as of this year. If I could go back and give myself advice? I'd suggest to past me to listen to graded reader AUDIO a few times, before and after I read something. To listen to audiobook audio, or at least Microsoft Edge Read Aloud to webnovel pages I'm reading, or at least Pleco Dictation audio, MORE. I barely listened to audio when I read. 3 years in, I finally started reading along to audiobooks or listening to TTS when reading - to get my reading speed to become faster. It did make my reading speed closer to speaking speed, and it also helped my listening skills a lot. I wish I'd done more listening overall, any time I'd read things. Or before/after reading things.

I would also have told past me to Please check out some podcasts for learners, and practice listening earlier. And to try watching a cdrama, just once in a while, with no subs including no chinese subs. Because I can watch cdramas now, but I have to rely on chinese subs. If it's JUST audio it feels 4 times harder to me, and that might not be true right now if I had just... listened more in the last 4 years.

Now? I am watching comprehensible input chinese lessons on youtube (I have them linked here), I've been listening to learner podcasts so the language is easier than stuff I'd read (also linked there as the podcasts listed on some posts), and I've been posting about everything I've been listening to on the tag chinese listening experiment. Which has mostly been audiobooks of stuff I've read before in chinese and english, because as established, I read way more than I listen. So listening to stuff I have read before, is easier than listening to something brand new. It's going okay. Progress in listening skills are steady so the study plan is working out I guess.

For Speaking:

I've done very little to practice this. I still need to work a LOT on it. I used Tandem and Hellotalk for a while to speak with language partners - and using language exchange apps and websites is probably a good plan if you like talking to people. I used a putonghua pronunciation trainer app that is 1. no longer accessible on US app store and 2. no longer has any of the free 'grade your pronunciation' resources I used it for originally. I like as alternatives the apps: ChinesePronunciation Trainer (super simple free setup to shadow and compare your recording to the original), and Ka Learn Chinese Tones (which I've been playing with but I'm not sure about yet).

I plan to shadow audio eventually, and then talk to people more again. I will try speaking again after I've gotten a lot more listening practice in, maybe my speaking will be better. Or it'll still suck. Who knows.

Writing:

Haha... hahahaaaaaaa..... one day I'll practice... In all seriousness, I practice this when I message people on language exchange apps and sites. When I plan to work on this more, I'll probably do a combination of write some journals and message people more again.

I can type pretty fine, because you can type with pinyin and I know what the hanzi I mean looks like so I can select it. I cannot write by hand. I used to be able to write ni hao and xie xie and wo. Now I'm not confident I could do that from memory ;-;

Below the cut is a list of some things I read and listened to over the years, with commentary that is totally cool to skip entirely (I was rambling). I think I picked harder stuff than I needed to at first, and I'd really suggest beginners check Heavenly Path's recommendations for beginners, instead of whatever I was doing (which was sometimes super difficult for me).

Stuff I read:

Mandarin Companion Sherlock Holmes

Pleco Graded Reader Butterfly Lovers

Mandarin Companion Journey to the Center of the Earth

小王子 (extensively read, doable but I probably should have picked something easier, I was really excited to extensively read my first story and it really built reading stamina)

天涯客 (intensively read 20 chapters)

真魂 (intensively read 20 chapters, did listening reading method with same 20 chapters, must have reread the first 20 chapters at least 4 times, also listened to the first 20 audiobook chapters 3-6 times each so I'm very familiar with the words in them, I basically kept engaging until future chapters in this book were 95% comprehensible or more so I could extensively read my print copy)

寒舍 a dmbj fanfic (intensively read 60 chapters)

镇魂 (extensively read the first 30 chapters of my print copy, and the extras)

秃秃大王 (intensively read, but it was close to my reading level so I was only looking up maybe 5 words or less per 100 words. REALLY recommend this story. Easiest thing I read that wasn't a graded reader)

大林和小林 (intensively read, 95%+ comprehensible I was just looking up any basic words I still didn't know, same author as the novel above, probably the BEST novels for beginners to read after graded readers, I found them recommended on Heavenly Path Notionsite)

笑猫日记 1 (intensively read, but it was near my reading level so I was looking up 5 words or less per 100 words, learned a lot of chengyu from this)

笑猫日记 2 (extensively read, extensive reading built up my readind speed and stamina)

寒舍 a dmbj fanfic (extensively read all 110 chapters, probably 95% comprehensible or more especially since I'd learned a lot of words in the early chapters from the first time I read it. Part of the time I listened to Edge's TTS as I read. Built up reading speed by listening as I read. Longest thing I had read and finished at that point, at over 100k words)

盗墓笔记1 (intensively read but it was close to my reading level so probably 92% or more words I already knew, first non-fanfiction I finished reading that was over 40k words)

盗墓笔记2 (extensively read except for a few specific artifact words of things they found in the tomb, first non-fanfiction novel I finished by extensively reading that was over 40k words)

盗墓笔记重��� manhua (extensively read all of it, super easy to read, very funny if you're into dmbj)

19天 (extensively read maybe 50 chapters? Cute, funny, super simple to read)

他们的故事 manhua (extensively read maybe 15 chapters, also very funny and cute and simple to read)

破云 manhua (extensively read 1st volume, I got a print copy, its a bit hard I mean even my copy has chinese definitions of some of the legal/crime terms at the bottom of the pages lol. It's doable to follow, probably because I'm used to crime mystery stories. I also watched the voiced version on bilibili so a little listening practice)

吞海 manhua (extensively read a few chapters, I could follow just like 破云, but I can't quite handle reading the books extensively)

烈火浇愁 manhua (extensively read 5 chapters, the historical bits were harder, the rest was fine. I felt comfortable extensively reading pretty much any manhua by this point. I'd love to read the novel version but I'm certain 烈火浇愁 and 残次品 are beyond my reading ability as of 3/2025, priest's novel 默读 which is a regular modern setting only became possible to extensively read 12/2024. So I don't think I could handle a sci fi setting yet).

半夜衣寒 dmbj fanfic by 夏灬安��� (extensively read, I just really like this person's writing style, and their writing is easier than priest for me to read and just perfect for me? I really enjoy their plots. This author's fanfics are who I credit for getting used to grammar in long sentences and getting used to "intuitively" understanding it, and for starting to do those kind of reading inferences of what is implied but not explicitly stated. Such as picking up character moods from physical descriptions, rather than words about their mood, and picking up hints about the ghost cases that hint things about characters in the stories as parallels. And I picked up familiarity with a ton of common adjectives and 4 hanzi descriptives from this author).

If anyone were going to copy what I did, my suggestion would be: check out Heavenly Path's reading recommendations list, pick novels in gradually increasing difficulty. Their easiest recommendations are extremely doable if you've been using graded readers for a while, and know around 1000 hanzi/HSK4 vocabulary. I think I struggled with a lot of material that was more difficult than it needed to be, at times. On the other hand? I feel that me frequently switching between intensively reading something somewhat above my reading level, and extensively reading something at my reading level or slightly above my reading level, helped me increase both my comfortable reading level and my reading stamina/speed. I think a mix of harder and easier material definitely helped me push through plateaus and onto more difficult novels I wanted to read, and it's still the strategy I use to work up to harder reading material. I would also recommend: listen while you read SOMETIMES. READ without audio sometimes (to practice reading skills), read with audio sometimes (to match pronunciation to words and push reading speed up closer to speaking speed), and listen to audio without text sometimes (build listening only skills). I did a bit of all 3 activities, but I speny the majority of my time reading without audio... and now I have to work harder on my listening skills to fix the large dfference between reading and listening skills.

Stuff I listened to:

Lazy Chinese (perfect for beginners, also any other Comorehensible Input Lessons youtube channels, see Comprehensible Input Wiki for more channels)

Peppa Pig (doable for beginners)

Maomi Chinese (easiest podcast I've found)

Astroboy Chinese dub (I have a lot of reading skills, cartoons for 5-10 years old are perfect for me)

Tea Time Chinese (intermediate podcast, doable for me)

Talk to Me in Chinese (intermediate podcast, doable ish for me)

Dashu Mandarin (advanced podcast, I don't quite understand it yet)

The Untamed condensed audio

Guardian condensed audio

Ice Fantasy condensed audio

镇魂 audiobook (I'm familiar with the plot, so it's doable, I am waiting to continue listening until I finish 默读)

默读 audiobook (I sure love working on difficult stuff I'm into lol, because I'm familiar with the plot it's doable)

HP audiobooks (they're on the easier end and I'm familiar with the plot, I'm going to keep going and see how much I get from it)

Twilight audiobooks (they're on the easier end and I'm familiar with the plot, I'm going to keep going and see how much I get from it)

SCI audiobook (I'm only 2 hours in, hoping it'll be doable soon)

撒野 (I'm only 1 hour in)

[betterlivingindustriesss]

my mom's been banning me from going out for a while but now that AP's are over I should have a little more leeway. I want to go to the coffee shop nearby and maybe get that iced horchata oatmilk shaken espresso with the points I have from forever ago.

To do :

physics lab

advertise art class

update Google doc for dante's inferno

return old English novel

study for Spanish verbal exam tomorrow

sort to do list (it never ends istg)

take the trash out

Expected Class Schedule

pe: basketball tournament

whap: new movie

english: reading cantos in class

physics: doing the ideal gas lab

lunch: amnesty international meeting (tell pe friend to join!)

spanish: calentamientos, finishing page 128, slides

math: next group presents

if I get the coffee I need to do all this I'm not even kidding that's my goal today get the coffee and finish all this

[gkbc-is-starting-a-studyblr]

Going into the last day of spring break...

Monday will be the beginning of a packed April leading up to my last ever AP exams

Here's hoping I'm not too burnt out to get a few days of studying out of myself.

On a lighter note, I've been doing some houseplant upkeep as it is the beginning of growing season and I find cutting up & shuffling around my plants strangely relaxing. Above is a new buddy in the collection! She's a Cissus Javana, also known as a vining rex begonia despite not even being closely related to begonias. Based on a brief Google they're actually part of the Grape family. I made her a growing structure today which I think turned out really well!

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Ethan Lee

1. Name, Year, Major, and Hometown

Ethan Lee, Third Year Computer Science Major, San Mateo CA

2. What is your earliest childhood memory? 

My earliest childhood memory is going to Chinatown for egg tarts and dim sum in preschool with my parents and grandparents.

3. What’s stopping you?

The one thing that is stopping me is time.

4. What is something about yourself that you’re proud of?

Something about myself that I am proud of is not getting a parking ticket yet.

5. If you could have any one question answered truthfully, what would it be?

What are the powerball lottery numbers for next week?

6. Who is your celebrity/fictional crush? 

My celebrity crush is Saerom from fromis_9.

7. How would you spend your ideal birthday? 

I would ideally spend my birthday exploring a destination I have never been before such as Singapore, New York or Tokyo.

8. What food that starts with the first letter of your name would you only eat for the rest of your life?

One food that starts with the letter E and would eat for the rest of my life is egg tarts.

9. What’s one niche interest you have that you must share with the world?

like wasting time by looking at stocks and google flights.

10. What is a memory with your closest friend and how does it exemplify your friendship together and how you value friendship as a whole (250 words minimum)

During the end of senior year, I supported one of my friends who struggled during the college admissions process and helped her navigate alternative options when she dealt with unexpected admissions decisions. To many, she would be considered an outstanding student with good grades, heavy extracurricular and community involvement, and high scores in the SAT and AP exams. In particular, she was known to be an exceptional writer, often scoring the highest in the class on essays, research papers, and timed writes. She had future career aspirations in law and wanted to pursue a career in corporate law. To everyone’s surprise, she was rejected from every college she applied to except for the University of Wisconsin, where she was waitlisted. Devastated by her decisions, she had difficulty determining what her options were. Although she faced pressure from her family and other figures to attend the University of Wisconsin because it was the only college that accepted her, she had several hesitations including out-of-state tuition, the weather, overall campus culture, and location in the Midwest. Alternatively, her dream school was UC Santa Barbara, and her other option was attending community college and transferring to UCSB. Although some of our mutual friends believed she would have been successful attending UW Madison, the conversations I had with her about what she wanted in college and what she planned to do convinced her to attend community college. Two years later, she is a political science and sociology double major at UCSB and is currently preparing for the LSAT. She agrees that attending community college and transferring was the better option and allowed her to become more prepared and eager to pursue a career in law. Ultimately, this experience allowed me to recognize the importance of friendship and how unique each specific relationship is. Everyone has their own path in life and as a friend, I should do what's necessary to help them pursue their goals rather than having them conform to a specific expectation.

[kelly-no-jelly]

Links

P90x, Insanity and P90x3 are on archive.org

News:

Ap news

Reuters

Smart news

Watch sites:

Parmount

Abc

Nbc

Cw seed

Crackle

Disney+

Hulu

Netflix

Peacock

Pluto

Tubi

Vudu

Showtime

Plex

Documentary mania

Soap2day.la (movies tv)

Documentaryheaven.com (free documentaries)

Movies anywhere.com > Jumungi

Unified remote' app- for my mac to phone

https://www.nypl.org/spotlight/books-for-all

Calvin.edy/library/knightcite/index.php (citation site)

Pdfdrive.com

Z-lib.org (z- library)

librivox.org

gutenberg.org

archive.org

Udemy.com

Openstax.com

Reading-well.org/uk

Https://openlibrary.org

Oyc.yale.edu

Edx.org (courses)

Udacity.com (tech courses)

Coursera.org (courses)

Openculture.com (culture/educational media)

Dispatch health-medical care delivered

Beagle 401k-find old 401ks

Altitude sports-watch avs/nuggets

Jw.org

https://jewsforjesus.org/learn/the-three-branches-of-judaism

https://www.myss.com/free-resources/world-religions

https://www.sikhdharma.org/ideology-beliefs/?gclid=CjwKCAjw5pPnBRBJEiwAULZKvjmO9wOYOGlKn3fTs-hJbpixZtHTC7vqjCmk56UcFPsgDTdrZgtjqBoCt1kQAvD_BwE

https://www.azcentral.com/go-comics/

Crimemapping.com

https://apps.colorado.gov/apps/dps/sor/search/search-summary.jsf (sex offenders)

Couchsurfing.com

https://www.azcleanelections.gov/how-to-vote/voters-without-an-address

Cloudhiker.net (stumble upon)

Simplynoise.com (selection of white noise)

Mynoise.net (adjustable soundscapes-white noise)

Rainymood.com (rain noise)

Reelgood.com/roulette (netflix random show picker)

Www.snesfun.com (old nintendo games)

https://www.goldfishfun.com/

Crackerjack.com

Crackerjack.com/#/game/diamond-ski (ski game)

Justinguitar.com (free guitar lessons)

Howtoplaypiano.ca (free piano lessons)

Accountkiller.com(remove personal info from internet)

Openai.com

Thanaverage.xyz

Tinderinsights.com

doesthedogdie.com (reports of unpleasant scenes in movies, books etc without spoiling the plot)

fotoforensics.com (photoshop tester)

Sci-hub.se (removes paywall for scientific articles)

Desmos.com (graphing)

Remove.bg (removes image backgrounds)

'Safebrowing:(website)'- google this to see malware attempts on visitors

Google "site.edu: [subject] exam" to see examples and exam questions on said subject

Https://12ft.io/ (bypasses paywalls and removes ads from any webpagel

Ping.pe - your ip address

Boost for reddit

uBlock origin. Sponserblock- desktop adblock

Vanced- mobile adblock

Truecar

Car sharing

Free 2 ride

Getaround

Turo.com

Leasebusters.com

Carvana

Dealingdougautos.com

Carhop

Echo park auto

Medved

Sharpestrides.com

Toyautomotive

Freecampsites.net

Allstays

Swapalease.com

Be my eyes

Alibaba

fakespot.com (false review checker)

Review Meta (review checker)

[shannonvking]

Shannon Victoria King

Washington, DC

Summary

Ambitious and positive-minded curriculum development professional and teacher who is able to manage large scale, long term projects with multiple teams. Trilingual in Swedish, French, and English and literate in Swedish, French, English, Danish, and Norwegian with ability to apply linguistic knowledge across multiple disciplines, including but not limited to: second language pedagogy, linguistic analysis, research methods, semantics and pragmatics, intercultural communication, and marketing strategies. Seeking jobs in teaching, curriculum development, and consulting.

Education

GEORGETOWN 2022-2024

MS in Applied Linguistics 

GPA: 3.72

Graduate Student Government Senator

UC SANTA CRUZ    2019-2022

GPA: 3.93

BA in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism with a Minor in Linguistics

TESOL Teaching Certificate 

NEWBURY PARK HIGH SCHOOL 2015-2019

GPA: 4.30, Honors/ AP/ IB Level Coursework

California Seal of Biliteracy in French

Experience

ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION LANGUAGE RESOURCE CENTER (AELRC)- Georgetown, Washington DC 09/2022 to Present

Project Manager, Research Assistant

Manages large scale critical language proficiency test development projects for the National Security Administration and the Department of Defense

Builds, reviews and maintains extensive Literature Reviews across multiple projects and teams through collaboration with outside scholars and organizations

Adheres to and meets strict deadlines across multiple projects and teams consistently set by both self and upper management

Conducts original research on applying linguistic research to classroom and business performance

Performs qualitative and quantitative analysis for multiple projects in addition to designing the analysis methodology 

Innovates and adapts digital content to promote ongoing and future linguistic projects for the center

Works and manages projects in all stages of completion

Attends conferences while representing a top 15 academic institution and building new professional academic relationships with other scholars

Handles secure testing materials professionally and proctors high stakes exams

Proficient in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, and Zoom

ATHLETICS TEAM TUTOR - Washington, DC       01/2024 to Present 

Tutor

Leads group tutoring sessions for a Division 1 athletics team in writing composition and comprehension

Manages multiple syllabi, student schedules, and materials in order to provide the highest quality of instruction

Performs regular Needs Analysises to ensure the best quality of instruction

PRIVATE TUTOR - USA, remote                           08/2018 to Present 

Tutor

Self-employed private tutor for elementary, middle school, and high school students

Teaches Math, English, French, History, and Science at various grade levels for multiple College Board and International Baccalaureate exams including but not limited to;

AP US History

AP European History

IB Language A: Language and Literature

Maintains a 100% pass rate on standardized tests

Specializes in Language Arts, French, writing/composition, and standardized test prep (ACT Writing, AP European History, AP US History, IB French)

Performs regular Needs Analysises to ensure the best quality of instruction

THRIVE ACADEMICS- Newbury Park, CA 09/2020 to 09/2023

Tutor

Tutored Math up to Algebra 2, K-12 English, K-12 Science, and K-12 History

Experienced with maintaining a professional profile and promoting an educational brand

BIOMONKEY LITERACY LABS- Santa Cruz, CA 05/2021 to 08/2021

Teacher

Wrote and developed an original curriculum for a middle school entry-level French course with over 50 original assessments, lesson plans and homeworks

Taught original curriculum to over 20 students split into 3 separate summer sessions

Had a 100% return rate of students wanting to continue learning French

Capable of teaching remotely, in person, and hybrid

LOWES HARDWARE STORE- Newbury Park, CA                                               08/2020 to 12/2020

Cashier/Customer Service Representative

Cashier of the Month: November, 2020

Knowledgeable of multiple Point of Sale systems 

Able to perform various transaction types on one order

Assessed the sales performance of departments and made suggestions for improvement based on observations

NPHS WRITING CENTER TUTOR - Thousand Oaks, CA                                         08/2018 to 06/2019

Tutor

Assisted students on a variety of written assignments including essays, lab reports, college applications, resumes, and personal statements

Performed and monitored administrative tasks such as student sign-ins and appointments

NPHS COLLEGE AND CAREER CENTER TA - Thousand Oaks, CA                       08/2018 to 06/2019

Student Assistant

Filed papers and work permits for students

Created spreadsheets and ran the copy machine

Assisted Career Center coordinators with paperwork and office management

SVENSKA SKOLAN - Thousand Oaks, CA remote 03/2017 to 06/2020

Volunteer & Student

Taught the Swedish language and culture with native speakers as a teacher’s assistant

Helped teachers with their American born students in a classroom environment

Tutored students in small groups, focusing on basic grammar and vocabulary

Assisted with standardized TISUS (test i svenska för universitets) test prep for older students

[rae-is-typing]

May I request #15 and #18 with hotch x teen reader?? Maybe some exam stress, cause it is ap season right now so maybe something where the reader’s overworking themselves studying for the exams??

Again, this was written a long time ago and has just been sitting in my google docs cause I felt guilty for not posting. Sorry for the wait and thank you for the patience.

Cramming

Description: You ignore your own needs in favor of test-prep

Characters: You. Uncle!Hotch

Warning: School, ignoring physical and mental needs in favor of studying

Word Count: 700 ish

15: “What are you doing up so late?”

18: “Have you eaten today?”

Color-coded note cards litter the floor like snowflakes in the first snow of winter. The packet you’re using as a reference has been since taken apart by section and placed with the corresponding color of note card. Cramps spread through your fingers to your elbow, but you didn’t dare stop for a break. The big final was in two weeks and you didn;t have time to spare. You were in four honors classes at this new school and you maintained a 4.0 GPA all year. And these classes offered college credit paid for by the school district. You weren’t about to pass up on the opportunity for free college credit. All you had to do was ace each one of the finals, and you were that much further with your education.

However, the added pressure of free college credit came with an overwhelming sense of stress. And because of that stress, you went a little crazy with studying. For the past two days, Jessica had taken Jack. She understood the stress you were under and wanted you to succeed as much as everyone else in your life. In your opinion, the weeks leading up to finals were just as stressful as the actual week. The prep was grueling, hours and hours of non-stop studying, chugging day old cold brew and shitty energy drinks full of flavored syrups and sugars, and having study parties with your more studious friends in the same advanced classes as you. It was a constant feeling of pressure to do as much as you can in the limited time you had. Compiling all of the notes you needed for cramming alone took hours. You had a talent of compartmentalizing. You learned that when you were forced to fend for yourself after your father abandoned you and your mother spent more and more time in religious (cult) retreats. Aaron has tried his hardest to get you help, and some of it has worked, but unfortunately, this defense mechanism to stress was going to stay for a while longer. So why not take advantage of that?

Lately, you have managed to ignore your needs completely and focus solely on the material you had in front of you. This night was no different. You had long since abandoned your sense of linear time passage in favor of staring at the imbroglio of information that made your head hurt. You didn’t even realise that your uncle had left for a job until he came back and tried interacting with you.

You were vaguely aware of the door shutting. However, you assumed it was Jack and Jessica, so you didn’t react to it. Instead, you switch from pre-calc to chemistry. It is at times like these you wish you had Spencer’s mind.

Again, you don’t hear the door to your room opening. You don’t hear Aaron calling your name, you don’t feel him shaking your arm, and you don’t notice his other attempts to get your attention. You do, however, notice him take the packet out of your hands. You do a double take, only realizing that he was there after snatching the packet back.

“Hey, Aaron,” You begin, voice hoarse and throat aching. “How’s life?”

“What are you doing up so late, Y/N?” He asks, tilting his head with his lips pressed together in a thin line. He was absolutely profiling you.

“What do you mean?” “It’s almost midnight, you’re usually asleep or in bed by now.” “Huh.” You sit back in your hair, rubbing an eye with the back of your hand. “I guess I lost track of time.” “What time did you start?” He asks, folding his arms over his chest.

“Uh, earlier today. Around seven or something?” He grows more concerned by the second, brows furrowed and arms falling to his sides. “Have you eaten today?”

“Yeah? I don’t know?” Aaron sighs deeply, running a hand over his face. “All right, put this away. I’ll make you some food.”

You make a noise of protest, but he lifts his hand to stop you. “You are going to eat and then get at least nine hours of sleep.” His tone left no room for discussion. You sighed, hoisting yourself up and resigned yourself to food and bed.

[musicotd]

I am dying of mortification right now.

So, I made a new form for the tournament B side and it. It.

I titled it "Artist submissions pt 2"

My AP Seminar class is working on Performance Task 2 for the AP Exam

My AP Seminar class has a group drive where we put our drafts and presentations

The Performance Task 2 folder is labeled "PT 2"

Google thinks it is helpful.

It is not.

Anyways the form was in the folder for IWA drafts and I am dying and I will need a few days off to recover from this emotional pain.

[pompadourpink]

salut maman! im currently self studying for the AP french exam and was wondering if you have any tips for me? merci beaucoup (:

Hi dear,

Here are some tips:

Reading: no surprise, read read read. I would recommend Google actualités (news) + my Google drive (books); then spend some time on Vikidia learning about history, literature, etc.

Listening: check out podcasts (spooky Feu de camp), Youtube videos, radio stations, etc. Get used to crappy recordings and accept the fact that we don't enunciate.

Writing: brush up your conjunctions, prepositions + locutions, relative pronouns, contracted words, questions, En VS Dans, etc. Google things like 'either' questions, questions to get to know someone, controversial topics (...), write your answers down on Deepl/.com, and see how well you did.

Talking: review your pronunciation, of course. Same rule, but answer the questions orally and record yourself.

And because I've done something similar for English: during the free-response spoken part, the prompt has to be something you already know even vaguely about. Explore past-year exams and look for a list of similar topics. I had to defend the idea that students shouldn't be able to smoke at university and ended up roleplaying a dictator ("if they don't take breaks they can study more!") - they're focusing on your performance, not ethics. Be fast!

And of course, if you would like a lesson or two with me so I can give you some pointers the link is in my pinned post.

Hope this helps and good luck! x

[de-chans-heta-translations]

21st Century Hetalian Map+Announcement!

Hi people! I hope you all are doing well. Sorry for my long hiatus.

To put it kindly, spring was kicking my butt. First I need to finish an essay with 4000 words in a month, finish my AP research paper, take 6 exams back to back for 3 AICE classes (AKA AP but ✨British✨) while trying to keep my grades up. And after I was finally done with them and was starting to the editing of new pages, my computer’s hard disk decided to say さようなら to this world as it burned down; not just losing all of my progress in the new chapter, I also lost everything in my computer. And guess the genius who didn’t save her important documents but saved her travel videos in St.Augustine to Google Drive: Me :D

Now I am waiting for my Hard Disk to be replaced so that means I won’t be able to post just for a little while. I hope you can understand and I am really sorry for the hiatus! Until then, here’s a Hetalian Map of the World!

Hope you are having a good day and don’t forget to back up your files! (I lost Transformers Armada’s only Turkish dubbed episode and I am so sad for that TvT At least now I have a dubbed episode of Cybertron so that kinda makes that up :’D)

[unproductivesarilina]

Study Tips from an Advanced Procrasinator

Hi all! I'm just a regular student who procrastinates and panics. I'm not super aesthetic but I do my best to have pretty notes and a time table even if I never use it. 

Alright so as a current college, I have a few major tips 

Tip #1: Add Reminders on your Phone

Seriously, I recommend using google calendar so it can send you email reminders and phone notifications. Put in tests, study time, and personal events. Have extra-curricular? Pencil them in too! Now is this a guaranteed way to stay on track? Of course not, but it does help you keep your tasks in mind. 

Tip #2: What to do if you haven’t done the reading

LitCharts is a relatively new site/app that teachers haven’t caught on, if your teachers know about shmoop and similar sites. Secondly, search the book title and then essay or _____ analysis essay and you’ll find random essays that have some of if not all of the depth your teacher wants from you. 

Tip #3: Practices Tests

Let me just say a lot of teachers use text banks for their test. They’re simply too busy to create their own questions so they just copy, and paste a lot of the time from the internet. So, so often. AP tests in class have questions that come from past AP exams so if you practice u’ll questions u know. 

[ao3feed-larry]

deFENCEless

by solvetheminourdreams

"I moved here first," Louis says with finality, crossing his arms over his chest.

Harry shoots him an unimpressed look before leaning forward, leaving only a tiny gap between them.

"Then get the fence first," he whispers, lips a mere inch or two away from Louis'.

  When Louis butts heads with his new neighbor who loves to garden a little too much, all he can do to protect his yard (and heart), is keep on building up his fence(s).

Words: 27337, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: One Direction (Band)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Clifford Tomlinson, Niall Horan, Liam Payne, Original Female Character(s)

Relationships: Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson, Zayn Malik/Liam Payne (but blink and you'll miss it)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Neighbors, Enemies to Lovers, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, high school teacher!louis, Gardener!Harry, photographer!harry, Gardens & Gardening, American AU, Fluff and Humor, Humor, Fluff, the suburbs, No Smut, Banter, Bad Puns, so many puns yall, im not sorry, i mean yall saw the title, Clifford is the Voice of Reason, He Also Plays Matchmaker, Foxes, Bees, Fences, yeah they're big enough plot points to get their own tags, nouiam friendship, had to google that, OT4 Friendship, Mentioned Zayn Malik, louis stresses over ap exams, impending, PROCTORED ap exams, he doesn't know who jeff is, Barbecue, niall and liam are also high school teachers, and they're hip they promise, lets see there are a few serious tags, serious allergic reaction, It turns out fine I promise, but an epipen is used so be mindful of that, did i mention gardening takes place in this fic, AH YES, lots of gardening, pollen season, no like legit pollen season not ... the other pollen, sry tagging system, anywho on with the fic

via AO3 works tagged 'Harry Styles/Louis Tomlinson' https://ift.tt/3pQO5Fk

[187days]

Day One Hundred Fifty-Three

Eight of my twenty-three seniors were in class today (four in each section). The rest either left early for spring break, had vaccination appointments, or were just done everything I’d assigned (they were either finishing tests or projects today, I wasn’t teaching anything new) and opted to stay home. It’s all good, though. 

AP exam day is the Monday when we return from spring break. That timing kind of sucks, but ehhh. It’s all right. I did one last AMA via Google Meet with anyone who was interested this afternoon, and my students all have their color-coded notes, quizlets, links to online cram sessions and live reviews, all of my materials, etc, etc, etc... to study with. They’re going to be as ready as they can.

It’s wild that we’re at the point when it’s out of my hands. 

This year has felt so, so fast.

The school day ended with a building-wide game of Kahoot (classroom vs classroom) in lieu of a pep rally, and then the drumline went marching through the halls, which was really fun. After that, it was time for track: plyos, 200m repeats, and starting block practice.

And now I’m on spring break.

And tomorrow I get my second shot of the vaccine.

Awesome. 

[cleanarchitectures]

I thought I’d compile some basic resources for anyone looking to learn programming and general development (thank you @vfollia for asking!) I will say many of these are useful for learning topics besides programming, just not sure everyone is aware of them.

For starters one might consider what they'd like to learn programming for. It could be to understand one of the greatest applications of math. It could be to learn frontend, backend, or both. You might not know what you even want to learn for. 

It all usually begins with a language. Most start with Python, Java, or C.

101 university courses:

Python has become the favorable language to begin teaching in many universities, and MIT’s OpenCourseWare offers the schools own Intro to Computer Science and Programming course (YouTube playlist here) among with so many other incredible courses. You could quite literally sit through all the lectures a student at MIT would, access all assignments... “Challenging” is a given (I myself am dipping my toes into different courses here as I’m still deciding on grad school, but it truly makes me feel ambitious). 

CS50 by Harvard University is another OCW project that’s more approachable as it covers programming broadly, in less time, with examples in multiple languages (such as C).

If you prefer concise, interactive guides (novice):

Khan Academy is nostalgic/familiar to many and offers a walkthrough for the College Board’s AP CS course that I took in high school. (Back when I took the exam it was in Java, now it’s in pseudocode)

Codeacademy has extremely straightforward lessons that will get you ready quickly. It additionally offers intro lessons on Data Science, Machine Learning, and Web Dev (HTML/CSS/JavaScript). 

Source control and even more open online courses:

edX has courses from 140+ international institutions that you can audit for free or even certify yourself in. 

The future looks like Coursera, which is even more extensive than edX. It has become a pain to find the free courses with its new unlimited access paid subscriptions, but this page outlines them clearly. Both edX and Coursera are founded by and work with the top institutions in CS.

Source control and working the terminal are some things all developers become proficient in, so I’d recommend learning about Git and GitHub once you want to get collaborative. Here is a thorough guide to version control.

Finally, StackOverflow is the place we all resort to when facing difficulties. A quick Google search of your error messages, which you will inevitably have, should lead you straight here. Don’t be discouraged.

[dontgotothenetherworld]

ap psychology

anonymous asked:  Can I request readers putting all her studying off till the week before AP exams and she starts studying an unhealthy amount, like sometimes forgetting to eat all day because of it and even made herself sick from stress over it but reader refuses to complain because she did it to herself and Lydia's just there helping her review and making sure she takes time to care for herself ect? Bonus if Reader thinks she did bad and Lydia assuring her she did fine and has an 'i told you don't moment? 

anonymous asked: Totally didn't request that bc that's my situation-

for some reason when i tried to queue this w/ the original ask, tumblr wanted to put the cut in the ask and i couldn’t delete it

this is out of date now, but i was uninspired to write for a hella long time sorry. also! i’m going to draw from my experiences w/ ap this year, and the only ap exam i had to take was psych, so that’s also going to be the case for reader :)

also, i feel like my lydia is a bit out of character? idk it’ll probably take a while to get back to the way i used to write her.

1303 words

cw: femreader. food

you cursed under your breath. months ago, months! you told yourself you would start studying for your ap exam. you only had the one exam to study for, so you told yourself that if you just did a little bit everyday, you would be fine.

but here you were, about three days until your ap psychology exam, and you hadn’t studied any of it. you had hardly even watched the videos your teacher had posted as the digital learning content. but to be fair, the stuff he was talking about in them were the last unit or two of psych, and you wouldn’t have to worry about them, because you weren’t going to be tested on them.

you groaned and dragged your feet downstairs, to where you hid your backpack. the friday weeks ago, when your school told everyone that classes would go digital for a few weeks because of the coronavirus, your teacher had come prepared. he gave everyone that showed up to class, which, granted, wasn’t that many but still- a huge packet covering everything that you had studied this year. it was some forty pages long.

okay, it was, like, thirty five because you crossed out the pages about personality and disorders. which was a shame, because those are the units that everyone takes psychology to learn about. no one goes, “oh boy, i can’t wait to learn about how to test if a baby has depth perception!” or “i can’t wait to learn about all the different types of visual illusions!” but whatever.

you flipped to page thirty five, to see how many questions you were in for. just over 250, except that’s counting all the charts as individual questions. yeah, that makes sense. one and a half pages of listing what researchers discovered what is equivalent to answering which cortex of the brain processes visual stimuli.

wait a minute. lydia was also taking psych. studying sucks, but if you could do it with your girlfriend, that’d be so much less painful.

you texted her, “hey lyds, have u finished the psych packet yet?”

”yea i finished it yesterday, why?” she texted back almost immediately.

shit. looks like you’ll have to suffer through this alone. “nvm”

you looked at the time, 1:46. damn, already? it felt like you had only just woken up. you made yourself a coffee, and set up shop on the desk you have never used in your bedroom, with laptop open beside you. you planned on googling everything, rather than going through your notes, mostly because you forgot where you put them, but this would still take ages.

an hour passed, and you felt like you were dying on the inside. if you had to answer one more question about behavioral psych, you were going to scream. behavioral psych is by far the worst part of psychology! watson and skinner be damned! people are people not some computer code! people have feelings! you can’t just ignore them! and the feeling you were feeling right now was not a good one!

you wanted to stop, but you weren’t sure if you stopped now if you’d be able to finish the packet. so you kept on going.

you went another five hours, taking five minute tik tok breaks every hour to keep you sane. you looked at the clock, and realized you hadn’t eaten anything today. you grabbed a box of cheez-its and made your way back upstairs, and went back to work. this time, you ate a cheez-it every time you finished a question, or you filled out a row in a chart.

you didn’t know when you fell asleep, but you woke up in the morning with about half the packet filled out. considering the exam was in one day, and four-ish hours, you thought that was good.

as you made your morning coffee, you checked the messages lydia had sent you. “are you doing okay? normally we talk a lot but…” “wait, are you working on the study guide?” “y/n! please take breaks! remember! you need food!” “and water!”

you sent back, “if i eat my cheez-its, and i drink my coffee while i study, then i don’t have to take breaks.”

you went back to your desk, and plugged your phone in across the room so you wouldn’t be distracted. but also because you forgot to charge it before you passed out, so it was at three percent, because apparently you had kept it open to tik tok all night, and the video just kept looping. oops.

for a while, the studying seemed easier. you felt like you had less to do, and you didn’t need to worry about getting it done in time, because you had more than enough of it. but because you didn’t need to rush, you became more productive.

you finished the second half of the packet by six that evening. you do admit, you got a bit lazy in the last few pages, but it was done!

shit. studying isn’t just writing stuff down, you have to read it over, right? you don’t really study that much.

but you decided to take an hour or two’s break for… breakfast? dinner? maybe even lunch? whatever, leftover pizza, because you had just only now just realized the intense rumbling in your stomach.

you checked your phone for the first time in hours. you were actually kind of proud of yourself. you usually were on your phone every waking hour, which was probably a problem, but you had shown enormous restraint… by spending every waking hour staring at your laptop. it’s all about choosing your battles.

you quickly dismissed some twitter notifications before tapping on a new message from lydia. “babe, i’m getting really worried about you, please call me when you see this.” you furrowed your brows. worried? about you? why?

you called lydia, and she picked up nearly immediately.

”y/n!” she gasped with relief, “don’t do that to me again!”

you felt stupid for wondering what she was talking about, but you kind of needed to know, “what do you mean?”

”you’ve been offline for hours, and i couldn’t get to you! and then when i heard what you were eating, that got me worried. have you eaten today?”

”three slices of pizza right now.” you swallowed a bite.

”is that your first meal today?”

”unless you count coffee, yeah. i’ll do better tomorrow, i promise. speaking of tomorrow, we’ve got the psych exam, and i need to keep studying. i’ll call after the exam, so like three?”

”y/n.”

”yeah?”

”you do realize this exam is online, right? and at home?”

”uh, yeah.” you swallowed.

”and you have both a laptop and a phone?”

”lydia, what are you saying?” cheating. she was definitely talking about cheating.

”i’m saying, that you don’t really need to know the definitions, because our dear old pal google can be there to help you out with those. and you’re smart, so i assume you know the concepts.”

”you think very highly, of me, my dear.” you took another bite of pizza. “so, what you’re saying is, i wasted two days studying?”

”yes, that is exactly what i’m saying.”

”shit. wait, why were you studying?”

”ugh, because i am nowhere near as good as you at being able to understand things.”

”you know, definitions explain the concept too.”

”what are you saying?” asked lydia.

”i think we’ve both wasted a lot of time studying when we didn’t need to.”

”fuck.” lydia breathed.

”yeah, we’re both idiots. do you wanna watch something on netflix? you haven’t finished parks and rec yet, right?”

”no, i just finished an episode before you called me.”

”which one?”

”season four, episode seven.”

”wait, is the next episode smallest park? we need to watch that, like, now.”

@meangirlsx @meangirlmurphy @eliza-is-confused @boredomimi @book--butterfly