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oh my goodness, one of dian fossey’s first close up observations with gorillas happened when she was trying to climb a tree to see them better, but so badly that by the time she’d gotten up the entire group had come out of hiding to look at her: “Nearly all members of the group had totally exposed themselves, forgetting about hiding coyly behind foliage screens because it was obvious to them that the observer had been distracted by tree-climbing problems, an activity they could understand.”

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i just want a boring love. a love that doesn’t need fights or arguments to keep the fire alive. a “let’s sit and read on opposite ends of the sofa” love. an “i thought of you when i was doing the dishes” love. an “i would rather be at home with the love of my life right now” love

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“dont wish ill upon a stranger” is great advice but remember if someone has slighted you they are no longer a stranger but an enemy ❤️ i hope this helps

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selfies are so cool my kids are gonna be so into it like wouldn’t you kill for a selfie of your mom or your dad like a day when your mom felt pretty or a picture of her with her best friend like mostly the only pics we have of our parents are posed school photos or blurry film pictures of them as kids but how many actual pictures do you have of your mom? your grandparents? like the next generation of kids are gonna have pictures of their parents in every single stage of their life like my kids are gonna know what I looked like on march 8, 2015 theyre gonna know what i wore on Christmas when I was 19 and theyre gonna see a picture taken on their birthday 20 years before they were born and think it’s the coolest version of timehop there’s ever gonna be. they’re gonna notice the same striped shirt in all my selfies and be like wow mom you liked that shirt. like? how is that not the most remarkable thing you’ve ever heard

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i love reading sad books bc when your own grief is stopped up inside you like a clogged drain you can grieve for a character on a page and understand that you're also grieving for yourself a little bit

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You have to have audacity in life. You must develop the strength to live the life you want. You must believe you are worth your best efforts because you are.

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Chinese websites 🇨🇳[MASTERPOST]

Last time when I posted the list with my fav websites where you can practice reading in Chinese, so many of you liked it and shared it! I appreciate it so much… and decided to make something extra, add more websites I found useful during Chinese learning process. 

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Reading in Chinese  

♡ Mandarin Bean (news in Chinese, HSK 1-6) 

♡ Chinese Reading Practice (stories, essays, legends, chengyu stories)  

♡ The Chairman’s Bao (news in Chinese, HSK 1-6) 

♡ HSK Reading (and more articles!) 

♡ My Chinese Reading (stories, scientific, business/politics, history etc)  

♡ BBC News in Chinese (for more advanced learners) 

♡ + Baidu Baike (something like Chinese wikipedia) 

Grammar and HSK websites

♡ Chinese Grammar Wiki (saved my as… I mean my life MANY times) 

♡ HSK Online (perfect place to test yourself, learn new words and gain a lot of knowledge how HSK looks like) 

Online courses 

♡ Courses on edX  

♡ Courses on Coursera (recommend these courses created by Peking University) 

Online Dictionaries 

♡ MDBG ♡ Yellow Bridge 

♡ Pleco (APP) ♡ Bohan (for 🇵🇱 ppl) 

YouTubers 

Teachers: 

♡ ShuoShuo Chinese 

♡ Mandarin Corner 

♡ Chinese Zero To Hero 

♡ Everyday Chinese  

♡ Learning Chinese through Stories 

♡ Daily Zhongwen 

♡ HSK Test Preparation and Practice  

♡ SyS Mandarin 

Chinese vloggers

♡ Elena Lin 

♡ Nuria Ma 

♡ Liziqi 

♡ WenWei 

Foreigners in/about China 

♡ Blondie in China

♡ Jen Tomski 

♡ Weronika Truszczyńska (Polish vlogger, her shoots are incredible; there are English subs) 

♡ Ychina 

Studygrams 

thomreads  ~ clickystudies ~ ramenstudie ~ smarttokki ~  study_with_danai  ~ chineselanguagestudygram  ~ gaojian_studygram ~ lindiebotes ~ languagehungry ~ nuomi_languages ~ hannahlanguagestudyjourney  ~ tingtingstudies ~ stellathepolyglot ~ lisslearns ~ studynotepad ~ pilot_polyglot ~ geiko4 ~ aentastic_  ~ ssikmk ~ aussieinasia ~ merukaru ~ language.wanderlust ~

Online Bookstores 

♡ Purple Culture 

♡ Sinolingua 

♡ ChinaBooks 

♡ Mandarin Companion 

Where you can watch Chinese drama/movies/cartoons? 

♡ YouTube (try to type the Chinese title, high possibilities it will show up! fe. THEY have quite a lot of dramas ;>  

♡ iQIYi 

♡ Netflix -> Taiwan on Netflix  + Movies from Mainland China on Netflix 

♡ Little Fox Chinese

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when i pass people on the duolingo leaderboards i hope they know i'm doing it with gleeful malice in my heart. i'm not doing it on accident and i'm not thinking haha yay i'm thinking everybody get fucked this is call of duty to me

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Korean and Spanish Vocabulary: Household Items/Appliances

냉장고 - el refrigerador - refrigerator

냉동고 - el freezer - freezer

전자레인지 - el microondas- microwave

오븐 - el horno - oven

커피 머신 - la máquina de café - coffee machine

토스터 - la tostadora - toaster

전기 밥솥 - la olla arrocera eléctrica - electric rice cooker

접시 - el plato - plate

그릇 - el bol - bowl

밀패 용기 - el recipiente - storage container

컵 - la copa - cup

유리잔 - el vaso - glass (cup)

냄비 - la olla - pot

뚜껑 - la tapa - lid

가스 스토브 - cocina de gas - gas stove

전기 스토브 - estufa eléctrica - electric stove

배기 후드 - la campana - exhaust hood

후라이팬 - la sartén - frying pan

전기 주전자 - el hervidor elécrtico - electric kettle

믹서기 - la batidora - mixer

식품 가공기 - el procesador de alimientos - food processor

블렌더 - licuadora de inmersión - immersion blender

다리미 - la plancha - iron

다리미판 - la tabla de planchar - ironing board

헤어드라이어 - el secador de pelo - hairdryer

고데기 - plancha de pelo - hair straightener

진공청소기 - la aspiradora - vacuum cleaner

세탁기 - la lavadora - washing machine

잔디 깎는 기계 - la cortadora de césped - lawn mower

전구 - la bombilla - lightbulb

스탠드 - la lámpara - lamp

수도꼭지 - la llave - faucet

싱크대 - el lavabo (in bathroom) - sink

식탁 - la mesa - table

의자 - la silla - chair

탁자 - la mesa de centro - coffee table

소파 - el sofá - sofa

식기 세척기 - el lavaplatos - dishwasher

재봉틀 - la máquina de coser - sewing machine

실 - el hilo - thread

바늘 - la aguja - needle

그림 - el cuadro - a painting

쓰레기통 - la papelera - trash bin

알람 시계 - el despertador - alarm clock

이불 - la manta - blanket

베개 - la almohada - pillow

커튼 - la cortina - curtains

러그 - la alfombra - rug

창문 - la ventana - window

실내용 화초 - planta de la casa - house plant

옷걸이 - la percha - hanger

옷장 - el armario - closet

열쇠 - la llave - keys

*Please let me know if you see any mistakes as I’m not a native Korean or Spanish speaker*

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mary oliver, upstream

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“in this essay i will explore” memes piss me off because it implies y’all still using first person pronouns when writing academically. childish ass

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im sorry but writing enemies to lovers on ao3 is so fucking funny. one of them will go a whole paragraph saying how much they hate, absolutely despise, have genuine burning contempt for the other and we’re all here knowing damn well that enemies to lovers tag is just sat there. like we already know what’s coming bro you’re just embarrassing yourself

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Hey! So I learnt Italian for years, from when I was about 5, but for the last few years I've neglected it. I want to start again so I was wondering if you had time if you knew any good Italian novels which might be good for an intermediate speaker? (That preferably avoid the passato remoto because 😨)

Hi 😊 I'm super happy to help, and very glad you know/study Italian!

Sorry if it took me a little while to answer, but I had to dig around a bit. Unfortunately passato remoto is THE narrative tense in Italian, and there aren't a huge number of novels that use presente or even passato prossimo, but I found some nonetheless!

Here they are, listed extremely loosely from easier to more complex (language-wise; themes vary wildly):

Cecilia va alla guerra, Lia Levi — ww1 from the perspective of a young girl

Zorro nella neve, Paola Zannoner — a snow rescue dog, and two teens who meet through their love for dogs

La repubblica delle farfalle, Matteo Corradini — kids and teens create a literary paper while held in the nazi camp of Terezin, in the Czech Republic

L'amore complicato, Paola Zannoner — a story about young (toxic) love

La gallina volante, Paola Mastrocola — work and quirks of a high school teacher with a passion for hen breeding

Io non ho paura, Niccolò Ammaniti — during a South Italian summer, young Michele finds a kid in a secluded hole in the ground

Bianca come il latte, rossa come il sangue, Alessandro D'Avenia — a year in the life of a teenage boy, dealing with family, school, first love, and tragedy

Tutte le mie preghiere guardano verso ovest, Paolo Cognetti — a memoir about the author's life in NYC

Tentativi di botanica degli affetti, Beatrice Masini — life in the Lombardy house of a famous poet in the early 1800s, told through the eyes of a young female artist employed by the family

Then there are these 3 series of crime novels (of which I'm listing the first book), all with a fun and smart female MC:

L'allieva, Alessia Gazzola — a newly-graduated medical examiner gets swept up in the investigations (and by the chief) of her lab

L'imprevedibile piano della scrittrice senza nome, Alice Basso — a very observant ghost writer juggles literary work and the investigation the police asked her for help with

Il morso della vipera, Alice Basso — a young woman in 1935 Turin lands a new job... and a role in an anti-fascist conspiracy

Lastly, if you want to challenge yourself with something quite more literary (with a bit of dialect thrown in, too), I suggest:

Ciò che inferno non è, Alessandro D'Avenia — a teen grows up in 1990s Palermo, mainly thanks to the example of one of his teachers, anti-mafia priest (and future Blessed) Pino Puglisi

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, Italo Calvino — ww2 anti-fascist Resistance in Central Italy through the naive, fantasy-prone eyes of a kid who joins a Brigata Partigiana

I'm sure there are many other books, but I've read these ones and I can vouch for their quality. Let me know if you find something to your liking! 😊

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People try and frame the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as some ancient religious conflict to obscure the fact that the conflict is younger than the vacuum cleaner

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