#memorization method

[coldabest]

Hey Tumblr! My Algebra ll teacher has a line of her own merch, (the Hogue Smiley), and she mentioned in class that it'd be great if it could spread because she'd love for this memorization method she made to be widespread. :)

Here's the post she made on Google Classroom. So, if anyone is bored and would like to make her day, it'd be appreciated. I'm sure she'd be super excited. She is my favorite teacher and by far probably the teacher who loves her job the most. She seemed very excited when we started using the Hogue Smiley.

Here's the Hogue Smiley method, you square, multiply, and square again. It's honestly such a wonderful memorization method. She also loves it because then she'll see smiley faces all over peoples homework.

And hey, if this gets enough attention for people to care enough, this is the Hogue Smiley instagram, (yes, there's a shop. And yes, she takes suggestions on different kinds of merch if she can make it work...shhh, don't tell her I sent you 👀):

https://www.instagram.com/hoguesmiley?igsh=MWl5djFtaHVycmRzdw==

[sometimesanequine]

horse wearing boots. which boots? perhaps cowboy boots, perhaps channel boots.........

converse boots

a 2014 vintage

[whenthecagebirdsings]

had a dream where there was a medical professional called an “odysiologist” who specialized in a specific eye related field. Can’t remember who or what it was about, but that part stuck with me because I woke up and imagined a doctor Odysseus scratching his chin going “hm” while inspecting Polyphemus’s very stabbed eye with his patient’s father breathing down his neck acting as if he wasn’t the one who caused it.

[duskfawnn]

any tips for studying for the ap world history exam? im looking specifically for tips regarding the multiple choice, although anything can help! im a strong writer so im not too concerned about the saq, dbq, and leq but often overthink the multiple choice and mix certain things up. if you can provide any tips it’s much appreciated 🤍 thank you!!

[lostandbackagain]

im having so much fun with this reread post-MFOM for so many reasons and rn it's because having heard skulduggery's thought process out loud it's even more obvious that he's coaching valkyrie and trying to train her observation skills and fluid thinking. much as she would like to think otherwise he's very rarely actually asking for answers he doesn't know

even better that realizing this eventually causes valkyrie to crash out because he "only hangs out with her because he likes her"

[myastoned]

i just know stannis baratheon would HATE how I use him to remember the correct order for the ous/ic method of naming metals

[shiozoku]

DRDT Ch1 Trial & Ch2 Trial Spoilers

praying this does not become a pattern chat!!!!

PLEAS I DONT WANT EDEN TO DIE😭😭😭😭😭 I LOVE U EDEN

[elprupneerg]

one of my group mates wrote one of the slides that i'm presenting and i need to figure out how to change it into something that's actually uh. competent. without insulting her by completely scrapping it and starting over

[rigelmejo]

Chinese Listening Experiment - Some Thoughts on how to apply Dreaming Spanish method to other languages when learning to read

If you are not familiar with Dreaming Spanish, the method is basically Comprehensible Input Method or ALG, and a decent portion of the people who learn using Dreaming Spanish just follow that method (purist approach) or use other study methods in addition to the Dreaming Spanish Method (non-purist approach). I find the subreddit for r/dreamingspanish quite friendly because it is welcoming to people who've taken traditional classes before/currently, who've studied with flashcards/anki, and anyone else who does things outside of Comprehensible Input for study. The subreddit r/dreaminglanguages is also friendly of people studying with mainly Comprehensible Input that have also done other methods of study before/may be doing other methods at the same time.

Comprehensible Input Method is basically watching videos (or taking in person classes or livestream classes) of a teacher speaking your target language only, and using visuals like images and gestures to give you enough context to understand what the main idea they're conveying is. So you learn the target language entirely IN the target language. You go through lessons for 'beginners,' 'intermediate' and 'advanced' learners (the lessons tend to be labelled or named for the level of learner they make the lesson 'comprehensible' for). Eventually you engage with other content in the target language - other stuff made for learners that's entirely in the target language (like learning podcasts for 'beginner' 'intermediate' 'advanced' and graded readers).

Then eventually you engage with content in the target language made for native speakers - whatever you can comprehend the main idea of (vlogs, shows, comics, stuff with visuals tends to be easiest). Anything you already know the context for, such as shows and books you've read before in a language you know, may be easier to comprehend sooner since you already know the main idea of the material. Over time, the amount of content made for native speakers that you understand increases, and you expand the content you engage with (like novels, shows that talk about abstract subjects, podcasts, audiobooks). Once you are using content in the target language made for native speakers that you comprehend the main idea of, you are basically 'immersing' and can look up immersion study tips. To do a pure comprehensible input method like Dreaming Spanish advises, you would look up no word translations, you would look up words in a target language dictionary if you wanted to look something up.

Many people do Comprehensible Input alongside other study methods, such as looking up word translations and making flashcards because they don't actually care if some of their study activities involve non-target language material. (I don't use purely comprehensible input method to study, I do other stuff, I look up translations often, and I sure read a bunch of grammar guides as a beginner). Like I mentioned, the subreddits r/dreamingspanish and r/dreaminglanguages are fairly friendly to people doing a 'non purist' approach, such as people who continue to use translation tools and flashcards, or people who took traditional classes in the past/currently (which tend to explain grammar and vocabulary meanings not in the target language but in the language the learner is assumed to already know).

For the purpose of this post, I am going to be reflecting on how to study in the Comprehensible Input Method way, like Dreaming Spanish suggests to study (more or less), and how to apply that to various languages.

For languages using the latin alphabet, if you already know the latin alphabet? Or for any language where you already know the symbols of the writing system. Follow the study suggestions as Dreaming Spanish lays it out, it should work fine. So whether you study Spanish, or French, or Portuguese, find beginner-intermediate-advanced comprehensible input lessons and complete them, use children's shows with a lot of visual context as additional comprehensible input, use podcasts made for learners (who are at your level of understanding - so for beginners etc) entirely in the target language (or as close to only in TL as you can find) as additional comprehensible input. Eventually use TV shows with a lot of visual context (like action shows or slice of life) or TV shows you've seen before (and already know the context) for additional comprehensible input. Optional: I would suggest you also find a Comprehensible Input Lesson video that goes over the alphabet/writing system and the name and pronunciation of each letter, ideally find a lesson video IN the target language. If you cannot find a lesson video on the writing system in the target language, finding a video or website that shows a chart of the letters and pronounces them will work. If you have to read some non-target language text, I guess that'll technically not be pure comprehensible input. The main point is to see the target language writing system and hear the pronunciation. This part is not recommended/necessary in Dreaming Spanish, but since children learn the alphabet when they start school or beforehand, it might be useful to also learn it to make your efforts learning to read easier.

Dreaming Spanish suggests you can start learning to read around 600-1000 hours of comprehensible input - and I suggest you start learning to read WHENEVER you want (if you don't care about strictly following the suggested roadmap Dreaming Spanish has). When you're ready to learn to read, I suggest starting by turning captions on the videos and shows you're watching. I would suggest not counting time with captions on as 'comprehensible input hours' in terms of listening skills since you will develop reading skills more while watching the captions, but ultimately your decision what to consider this activity. Reading the captions will allow you to learn to read words you have already learned in listening. Additional activities: if you listen to any learner podcasts or regular podcasts, if you can find the transcript then read along to the transcript, this will also allow you to learn to read the words you can understand in listening. Find Graded Readers, particularly any graded reading material with audio files included (or use Text To Speech tools) and read along to audio. Find audiobooks, and read along to the text version of the audio. Finally, once you feel you've read-listened to enough material to feel you can usually recognize the spelled version of words you know, practice reading without listening to audio.

If the language is a writing system that is phonetic, but not one you already know - so for example if you're an English speaker learning Russian or Korean: Mostly, do what I suggest above. The additional parts will be highly recommended: if you can find any Comprehensible Input Lessons for learners that go over the writing system sounds and pronunciation, watch them and rewatch them. For example here's Korean Hangul lessons in Korean. You can look up videos or webpages that just list the writing system and play the audio such as this video for Russian. Alternatively if you cannot find any video lessons in the target language that explain the writing system, go break the rules and watch a quick video that explains the writing system sounds in a language you understand - yes it's not pure Comprehensible input method, but children are taught X symbols have Y pronunciation when they start school, and you'll want that same basic knowledge to start reading. After learning the basic writing system pronunciation, you'll continue to learn to read the same as the other suggestions above: graded readers with audio, captions on videos, audiobooks with text, podcasts with transcript, and eventually practice reading with no audio.

If the writing system is not entirely phonetic (such as kanji in Japanese, or hanzi in Chinese): Do the same as above suggestions, with a few additional steps. If the language has a phonetic writing system it ALSO uses, learn that first - so Hiragana and Katakana if learning Japanese, pinyin or zhuyin if learning Chinese. Learning those phonetic systems, do the same as suggested above, find any lessons IN the target language that go over the writing system sounds, and if you can't find something entirely in the target language then just use any video/chart/resource that includes the writing system and pronunciations. For the parts of the writing system that are not phonetic, you have a few options. First, you can research how native speakers learn the non phonetic portions - for kanji I've seen the methods of learn by rote memorization and phonetic equivalent tests (write kana for the kanji you see), for hanzi one friend I have studied by writing them a lot and another friend learned a lot of information about each hanzi (the components that make it up, the radicals, a few example words that use the hanzi - since hanzi meanings vary a bit depending on word they're in). If you are not going for a pure comprehensible input approach, it may be time to research the 'fastest' or 'best' way people suggest studying the writing system, and then do trial and error until you find the method that works best for you. You might see some people suggest rote memorization, writing a lot, mnemonic stories, SRS flashcards or apps, sight reading. In foreign language classes, which were not pure comprehensible input, I've had classes mnemonic stories used to teach kanji, and pinyin/hanzi equivalent writing hanzi over and over.

If the language has no phonetic writing system, things will get tricky - if you'd like to do a pure comprehensible input approach, it may be time to research how native speakers learn the writing system. Then do that. If you don't care about doing a pure comprehensible input approach, you will want to research how other people learned the writing system. Then try different methods people have used successfully, until you find one that works for you.

Regardless of if there is a phonetic writing system or not, when you start reading, any text with audio is going to be helpful for learning the writing system. So captions on videos, graded reader text with audio, transcripts with podcast audio, text with audiobook. It's just that depending on you, you may want to do additional study of the writing system beyond just following along to text while listening to audio until you 'recognize' words in the writing system.

[lightyaoigami]

you know what. i may not have achieved much in my life but at least i sleep like a peaceful baby angel knowing that i was never in a cult based on hp fanfic.

[corvidconventicle]

Making your own flashcards is great and all, but I find flashcards more useful if I don't have to waste my time with making a card for every new word I've learnt.

Soooo if you don't want to waste time making cards, what I do is get Anki and download the largest shared deck for you TL, or if there aren't really any large decks you can download multiple decks and merge them.

Then suspend every card and as you learn new words you unsuspend those specific words in the deck. The bigger the deck the fewer cards you have to make, and by using the suspend/unsuspend function it's not showing you words you don't need yet.

Anki also lets you easily edit the card formats, so for example I hate having sentences on my vocab cards so I just delete the example sentence field and it removes them from all of those cards.

Also just personal preference but I set the daily new cards to 0 and review cards to 9999, so that way I can focus on the reviews first and then when I'm done I 'custom study' and increase today's new card limit to however many it says I have available (which is the number of new cards that are unsuspended)

[freebooter4ever]

It always takes me a few hours to do the research for voting on these small elections, i wish there was better organization for comparing and contrasting the candidates -_- but no that would make it too easy.

[airenyah]

9 People I Would Like to Get To Know Better

i was just tagged by @recentadultburnout and am using this as an excuse to procrasatinate studying. whoops.

last song: เพลงที่เพิ่งเขียนจบ (our song) from the bbs ost. it happened to come on earlier this afternoon when i was listening to music while doing the dishes and i stopped the playlist after this song bc i was done with the dishes and went to do some uni stuff

favorite color: i really like blue, especially navy blue. and i also like darker shades of red, like crimson (German speakers: think karminrot)

last movie/tv show: i watched wednesday club last night before going to sleep

sweet/spicy/savory: i like all of them, it really depends on my mood and the dish. i've got quite a sweet tooth but for example when it comes to strudels i much prefer the savory ones (my austrian hot take is that spinatstrudel >>>>> apfelstrudel). as a half-italian i also like to add peperoncino (chili) to my food a lot. for example, i haven't ordered my kebab "ohne scharf" (non-spicy) since my late teens

relationship status: single but lowkey trying to woo someone. maybe. i don't know. pretend i didn't say this. ok bye.

current obsession: i'm a bad buddy blog in its joongdunk era

last thing I googled: technically "navy blue" bc i wanted to make sure the colour i'm answering with for this tag game is the right colour that i like. but the last thing i googled before filling in this tag game was "sicilia trinacria" bc i wanted to show/explain to someone what it is

tagging: @newyearknwwme @killiru @visualtaehyun @moonkhao @lurkingteapot

[valentinesparda]

Hey Valentine!! Been thinking about DMC lately and was wondering if you could tell me some stuff about your DMC s/i? :0 perhaps what their relationship with Vergil is like? -[Wayfinderships]

@wayfinderships OH BOY OH BOY IVE BEEN THINKING ABOUT DMC RECENTLY TOO !!!! i miss my half demon husband. it sure has been a whole hot minute since I talked about gabriel in general, and it sure has just hit me that you and most of my current mutuals completely missed my dmc era, so!!

gabriel is my self insert, and they are a collector of demonic goods, a purveyor of powerful artefacts, and they meet vergil shortly before dmc3 is taking place, mostly because their paths cross through happenstance and they offer up information for him. they're around the same age as the twins at this point during the timeline, the two of them are kind of friends and kind of bickering back and forth, and eventually when Vergil Goes To Hell, they kind of dig themself into a hole of work since they're the apprentice to the actual collector they have been working for

um to make a long story short these are bullet points:

find a particular artefact associated to a general of hell named haures, who has his own little plans and manages to take possession of gabriel gradually over time, for the most part they function like they green goblin talking to his own mask

haures corrupts them and essentially demonizes them so they functionally stop aging / age so slowly that it isn't really noticeable

they are also hearing from haures about mundus and sparda and are doing their own little research, maybe in hopes of coming across that one weird white haired dude they met before

their research brings them to fortuna when nero is a little kid !! will expand upon that when i get back around to dmc4

they cross paths with dante a lot!! and he is their friend somewhat

the whole time they're doing all of this they are like actively dying from haures and have to stay in tip-top shape otherwise he will actually kill them!! but no one else can communicate with haures so he's just kind of their intrusive thoughts

badabadaba dmc5 rolls around and v shows up and suddenly it's like they're 20 again and experiencing feelings

anyways gabriel's relationship with vergil was initially a little fling for the short time that they knew each other when they were younger, and tidbits of that are echoed in meeting v. like gabriel wouldn't admit to it and they think they're doing such a good job of hiding it but everyone they know can SEE how they act

and then suddenly vergil is back!! and they are a dam in the process of breaking!! the two of them proceed to bicker like an old married couple and most of vergil's time spent as v winds up being mental anguish and maturity and confronting his own human emotions, so even though they are continuing on that leftover thread from when they were younger and they didn't spend very much time together, it's like they've known eachother forever. like they do care about eachother, clearly, but they're overall very sweet in their own ways and completely awkward in navigating their relationship and feelings. because they are eachothers first love or something. yucky. I'm not approaching the lady in red topic right now because if I do then I have to do mental gymnastics but it's fine, we'll just loophole it

anyways blah blah gabriel and vergil are like. aggressively embarrassed in how they interact with each other, because they're kind of too similar that it's funny, but they do genuinely like eachother. maybe it's just because they were each other's only friend when they were in their teens and were both being manipulated for someone else's gain lol. and after vergil's stay in hell and subsequent Speedrun of the human existence he calms down a little and lets himself learn to love, not just romantically but like, familially. he gets to learn about the people that he left behind again and the one he's never met before (his son), and that is just. so important to me

so gabriel is kind of the only person initially rooting for him, even if they would rather swallow glass than be vulnerable, but they can also have vergil help them control their corruption and possibly use haures to their advantage because i had it set up where he was yeah, a dumbass trying to usurp the throne, but I wanted to plan a whole plot surrounding him and maybe lore connecting him to sparda, specifically

I know i joke about them bickering and being unable to function as real people but i have a very special place in my heart for vergil, not just favourite character wise but also self ship wise. im personally very hardheaded and dragging my real feelings out of me is like literally pulling teeth, so I've hidden a lot of my affections behind jokes and that kind of is also reflected in how I talk about vergil. but i did eventually open up about it and that's where the handfasting ceremony came from. i finally just accepted that i loved him as a character and ive been trying to unlearn my bad behaviors and learn that it's okay to be vulnerable, and not to hold everything in all the time

i like. rambled but its to avoid having to voice how their relationship is in full detail, so all i really have to say is that it's complicated but also plainly simple how they work together, how they love. they do deeply care about the other, and while it takes some time to let the initial feelings go unsaid, they are at their center both very lonely people who have put their trust into someone that they can see themselves in, who know how the other one feels and expresses feelings, with the addition of v functioning as an a-ha moment for vergil while gabriel has had 30 years to think on the guy they first loved - and proceeded to immediately fall back in love with upon seeing again

[basictutor]

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[jakes3resin]

Remembering I have to pack and coordinate outfits for the wedding I'm leaving for instead of writing Modern Reincarnation AU and Stalag arc in my free time now