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The 2d of January, 2022

I have been preparing for my midterm exams for a week now & i feel a lil bit stressed as i wish to perform really well cause my marks can affect my diploma. Besides, i do want the best mark as an excellent performance can allow me to participate in an exchange programms. Thus i am afraid that all my efforts will be in vain but then this thought comes to my mind:

⚡ Well, really, believe it or not but HARD WORK ALWAYS PAYS OFF. seriously. When i was preparing for my final exams this spring i thought i would fail. But i did not. I passed my exams. I entered the best uni in my country. That is it. I kept working like Hermione Granger and i tried my best to believe that i can achieve anything.

Moreover, keep in mind the law of attraction. It does work. If you persuade yourself that you can do sth, then you can and you will.

I wish you all Happy New Year, may all our wishes come true, we do deserve it 💫

[youngn-unafraid]

The 2d of January, 2022

Hello there!

It's been a long time since i wrote something here. Actually, i used to be here a lot when i was studying at school and used to write abt my exams etc.

Good news: i have passed my finals w/ flyin' colors and entered the uni i had always wanted to get into. The major of mine is The economical international relations of Asia and Africa and my main language is Japanese!

But after starting uni i realized that i faced burnout and could not concentrate on my studies. This year i will try to become better, to improve my soft & hard skills and try out new hobbies and activities. Besidrs, i have set a goal for this year which is to post on Tumblr every day in English as it is my target language.

⚡ what cool things i can provide you with on this page?

- lots of insights and nice thoughts of mine. I tend to process my life round the clock. I attempt to make my life better, to build my own philosophy and just be happy. Think i can help u too :)

- i am sort of photographer and designer, so i can share some superb shots and works of mine right here for u to enjoy;

- recommendations of books, movies, music and much more;

- some material on English and Japanese languages as i learn them;

- captivating info devoted to economics, international relations, physics, philosophy, history, art, literature as i find these spherea quite awesome to read about;

- and i am just as happy to talk to you about all different things. If some u want it is cool to chat in Russian or Eng or even in Japanese but it's not well yet.

Things i am fond of so we can also discuss it:

Harry Potter (esp The Marauders era)

Star Wars

Arctic Monkeys

ANY BOOKS

History!!!Art!!

Andrew Gatfield haha

Anyway, i am just glad that i can use this page as the place for expressing my thoughts :)

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Sometimes you may come up with a terrible thought that life is darkness but actually it has always been believed that it is light that comes after so be patient

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Random insight #3

In fact, nothing comes easy so work hard every day, carry out things in order to become closer to your dreams and goals and bear in mind that hard work pays off. always.

Be kind to yourself, be patient, treat yourself like a friend and take care

I promise, that everything you work on is not in vain

Everything you put your mind to is possible

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random insight #2

The only person you have to listen and take care of is youtself. People come and go away but there will always be you and your dreams

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random insight #1

don't regret about the past but take it as a lesson

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One day i'll wake up in my own flat with a splendid view of New York but now i have to work harder to make my dreams come true.

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100 days of productivity

18.05.20

5/100

Wow, i've been mission for almost 5 days

During these days of absence i was a little bit under the pressure but i feel much better.

So, today:

I have accomplished four tests, including history, economics, law studies and social studies

I have finished an enormous geography homework

I have taken math test and got 84% (well, it is a pretty nice result for me)

I have managed to touch my toes for the 1st time in my life, for real. Tbh, it used to be extremely complicated for me 😅

Today i also plan to watch a film or a tv series

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100 days of productivity

14.05.20

4/100

(12 am) Plans for today:

To watch one episode of la casa de papel (i do not know spanish but i will turn on eng subtitles)

To help my classmates with english test (just 3 of them cause i appreciate and respect them and feel like i want to help them)

Carry out math homework

UPD 10 PM

Fortunately, done all things on my agenda plus started watching the 3d season of The Big Bang Theory (in English of course). Tbh, tv series and youtube videos have boosted my English skills greatly, especially listening.

P. S. i helped 3 girls from my class with that English test and all of them got the best results :)

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100 days of productivity

13.05.20

3/100

(8.30 am) Today i am about to accomplish lots of tasks:

Carry out all my homework assignments for tomorrow

Read a book (again several chapters)

To complete my geography homework in advance (or just a part of it)

To revise for russian exam

UPD 10 PM

Oh gosh, i screwed it up again. After lessons i was sick as a parrot and could not concentrate even on my homework. It took me like 4 hours to feel a lil better. The rest of the day was dedicated to my homework assignments. Btw, we were told that we gotta take aprx. 10 tests, including russian, russian literature, history, economics, social studies, law studies, psychology, mathematics (even two tests), and, just imagine, PE test!! I guess other subjects will be added as well 😭and i feel so bad about it since i lack any free time to do more crucial things such as history and english :(

Okay, i sincerely hope things will get better

[youngn-unafraid]

[100 days of productivity]

2/100

12.05.20

(8.26 am) Sincerely hope today i will be productive enough to finish off all my plans

So here is my agenda for today:

To complete my chemistry homework and send it to my teacher

To send my psychology homework

To revise English vocabulary

To revise stuff for Russian exam

To read a book (several chapters i guess)

(UPD. 6 pm) well, today i have completed all of my homework assignments including chemistry, psychology and law studies. Besides, i go ahead rereading Demons by Dostoevsky. The first time i managed to be introduced to this book was in winter 2019, and it turned out to be so capturing!

To be honest, i am getting sick of online lessons and after 7 classes i feel extremely tired as i gotta spend the whole day in front of the screen and it has a negative impact on my eyes. After such lessons i lack any motivation to prepare for exams. I feel like i'm in limbo and waste time on pointless stuff.

Anyway, i make lots efforts to be productive and finish everythingvwritten on my agenda, just do not wanna my actions and plans with at odds. Fortunately, only 3 weeks left before the end of this school year so i gotta pull myself together

[youngn-unafraid]

[100 days of productivity]

1/100 ~ 11.05.20

The 1st day.

Well, i have promised myself to be more patient and pay close attention to proper rest and healthy eating. In the morning i cleaned the whole flat and let some fresh air in. Afterwards i relaxed a lil bit and watched 3 episodea of The Big Bang Theory. Tbh, i took up watching this tv series in order to enhance my English skills but this show has turned out to be the most amusing form of entertainment!!! Besides, i am sooo chuffed i can clearly comprehend almost everything they talk about (apart from some physics words 😅). Moreover, i have come up with an awesome concept to record my voice while i speak English so i will be able to check my progress some time later. Tbh, i intend to record my voice for the next 100 days alongside this challenge.

Also i have completed some school assignments as tomorrow my classes will start again after one-week holiday.

P. S. I also have revised 5 modules with vocabulary on quizlet

Wasn't that productive but at least i enjoyed myself :)

[youngn-unafraid]

advanced english vocab

I saw a post a little while ago about people who might like some advanced English vocabulary lists so i decided to do up a small list. enjoy!

abhor (v): to hate, detest

amiable (adj): friendly

brazen (adj): excessively bold, clear, obvious

callous (adj): hard, cold, unfeeling

connive (v): to plot, scheme

demure (adj): quiet, modest, reserved

enmity (n): hatred, hostility

furtive (adj): secretive, sly

modicum (noun): small amount of something

obtuse (adj): lacking quickness of intellect

rife (adj): abundant

vex (v): to confuse or annoy

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PREPOSITIONS IN ENGLISH

If, like me, you struggle with knowing which preposition to use in English, this is for you :)

To depend ON To look AT something/someone To look AFTER someone To look FORWARD TO To respond TO To refer TO To belong TO To take care OF To begin WITH To agree WITH To provide WITH To start FROM To recover FROM To suffer FROM To borrow FROM To be interested IN  To believe IN  To suceed IN To wait FOR  To apply FOR To be responsible FOR To work FOR To wait FOR To be happy/concerned/anxious/worried/excited ABOUT

In front OF Instead OF Because OF On top OF In spite OF Outside OF The cause OF  In addition TO Thanks TO Due TO Similar TO Except FOR Good FOR/AT  Terrible AT  Such AS  As well AS Different FROM An increase IN 

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Some tips to improve your English

Stick with one useful resource to study grammar and my favorite one is the Oxford Learner’s Grammar

Use Italki feature called “Notebook” and write entries about anything you want (see Pinterest for some inspo) and you’ll receive corrections by native speakers, super useful to improve your writing skills

Tandem and Hello Talk are perfect to practice your speaking, English native speakers are EVERYWHERE! Don’t be afraid and use only voice messages

To improve your pronunciation I highly recommend to check out some basic linguistic knowledge because it makes easier, this helped me a lot and I highly recommend to check @maripolyglot YouTube video about it

WORK ON YOUR VOCABULARY! Type “English vocabulary or vocab list” in the search field. You’ll thank me later~

Translate, translate, translate. With translation you adapt grammar concepts into your own native language, this actually helps making connection and boost your confidence

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Do you know these times when you’re sitting in front of your textbook, trying to learn these boring af vocabs you’ve seen 1000 times but still can’t remember and just wish to do something different (or hoping that the world explodes so you can at least stop)?

Well, there are more ways to learn a language and I think because we just learned how we “should” learn a language at school, we’re limited in creativity. Thanks to school it’s hard to think outside of this “textbook, vocab lists, tests, etc.” stuff but there are ENDLESS things you can do to learn a language. Remember: everything you do in your native language, you can try to do in your target language!

This is for all the people who are tired and exhausted, who are thinking about quitting or don’t have fun with their target language anymore. DON’T YOU DARE TO GIVE UP! YOU’VE COME SO FAR!

_____________________________________________ Examples for different ways of learning a language:

write a diary

summarise an article about a topic you like (cooking, fitness, etc.)

listen to a podcast/radio

listen to music (while reading the lyrics)

try to sing along with music

read out loud while reading a book/magazine/blog/etc.

watch movies/series/videos

record videos in your target language or about how studying is going (progress, problems, etc.)

write a blog (well hello there :))

use apps that make it more fun (duolingo, memrise, lingodeer)

chat with native speakers

actually talk to native speakers ( I know what a crazy idea)

read websites about things you’re interested in

use social media only available in your target language

change the language of your smartphone

change the language of your pc

change the language of your life

play games in your target language (like not necessarily for learning it, I mean just playing a normal game IN your target language)  

take online lessons with teachers that make you forget you’re learning

do a challenge! (I love this one so much)

find a learning group

be active in forums (no matter about language learning or a forum in your target language)

find a language exchange partner. (You should, seriously.)

watch lessons on youtube

read a (children-)book (with audio)

talk to yourself 

think in your target language (a fun way is to tell a story about your life while it’s happening like “I went down the road with a stranger always behind me, who could it be? What does he want? It got quite… too quite. I tried to keep calm but was it really a coincidence? All in the middle of nowhere?” I know I’m bad at this but I hope you get what I mean, think of it like reading a book.)

learn vocabs with pictures, type in the word you want to know and ONLY look for pictures, try to feel the word. If you google for “strawberry” (in your target language and don’t know what it means) look at the pictures, the colours, how could it smell? Make a sentence with the new word. When was the last time you ate it? How was it?

Write a story/book online or just for yourself.

Make a mindmap

Use a topic jar (a jar where you put in notes with different topics on it, you take one every day and write/talk about it)

use social media to find groups interested in learning a new language or your target language

translate texts and act like you’re a famous translator who’s the only person on earth who can translate your target language (for example if you’re reading articles about historical stuff, act like you’re the only one who can find out what happened back then and the whole world is counting on you!)

try to solve random online tests

listen to a song/audiobook/whatever and write down what you hear

search for words you want to learn and build up (funny!) sentences with them or even whole stories

read comics/mangas/etc.

search for receipts  in your target language and pray to god you’re doing it right… if not, well you won’t forget the vocab again. Win-win situation. :p

search for language learning groups near your living place and actually meet them (stay safe and check everything before)

listen to children songs (I still remember the first children song I learned in English lessons… like… 11 years ago in 5th grade) these songs are supposed to stick… *cough* head shoulders knees and toes knees and toes *cough* sorry where was I?

connect with language learners over Skype (useful groups of course like German trying to learn French, Frenchman trying to learn Turkish, Turk trying to learn German)

write a list (you know… like I do right know so I don’t forget English)

describe things you see (more fun with a partner)

teach your target language to others

listen to audio while sleeping

take notes in your target language (I don’t mean for grammar rules or something like that, I mean notes you would take in your native language anyway)

write a letter (so much better than an e-mail)

write an e-mail (who has time for letters)

learn rimes 

learn jokes (it’s also useful for social interaction)

talk to your pets (at least if they listen to you, if I start to talk to my cat she starts yelling into my face)

translate songs and learn the vocab of it so you have more fun listening to it later

think about a topic and write down every word you can think of and then translate them into your target language

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#100daysofproductivity

i guess it is the right time for me to take up this challenge again like for the 5th time? Tbh, i have not finished any yet, but this time i sincerely hope i will complete it with flying colors.

Honestly, this time i have lots of aspirations and ready to set a clear agenda for each day.

In one year i will take my finals so i am better off to start preparing for them. Whether i will get into the uni or not depends straight on my results so here i am, not so motivated but ready to study as hard as possible :)

Well, i DO wanna enroll into the uni in my city so i will obtain a golden opportunity to advance my English skills (and reach C2 level eventually), and to learn two oriental languages (i would prefer chinese and japanese).