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Hi all! I figured I should share this playlist I made while I was in my final weeks of classes (aka the hell that is finals)! 

This is just a playlist of some slower, emotional, or soothing tracks for studying, relaxing, or whatever you want to do (I recommend baking!).

Note: This is super kpop heavy, but because I can’t really understand every single word, it helped my tune out the outside world and focus on my work. I wrote a whole lot of essays to this playlist. 

For my fellow Shawols: Hi friends, we’ve been through a lot lately, huh? Jjongie’s music appears on this playlist and I wanted make sure to give you a heads up, just in case you aren’t super comfortable listening yet (and that’s okay).

Even if you aren’t studying, I hope this playlist can give you all some peace of mind and some comfort too. 

Enjoy! ~Lisa <3  (ps. Got any recommendations for more songs? Let me know!)

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Armed with such [linguistic] knowledge, teachers could impart grammar not as an onslaught of desiccated definitions or things to underline, but puzzles to solve. Why does “She destroyed” not feel like a full sentence? (That allows the introduction of concepts such as “direct object”.) How does Shakespeare use “do” differently from modern writers? (Here you can sneak in historical linguistics.) Where might you hear “we was” instead of “we were”? (This can introduce class, dialect and situational appropriateness.) One study found that adding this kind of analysis—albeit in foreign-language classes, not English—made almost 60% of the pupils want to learn more linguistics, particularly language history. Meanwhile the “Linguistics Olympiad” is a popular extra-curricular contest that instils linguistic thinking; perhaps everyone should take part.

The agony and the ecstasy of grammar (via allthingslinguistic)

bro, i dont even care anymore. fuck it! *continues to try very hard*

use it, achieve your goals. // 17.09.2016

winwin being a big mood

How do you fall back in love with life?

clean your room.  clean space, uncluttered space, space that doesn’t have miasma clinging to it can work wonders.  clean the dishes.  sweep.  take out the trash.  peel the clothes off the floor and wash them, and then actually fold/hang them.  take a long shower.  scrub behind your knees.  brush your teeth.  (this can be utterly exhausting, but try to get it done in a day, if you can.  the end result is worth it.)

pull out your notebook.  it doesn’t need to be a new notebook, but preferably one that you don’t usually write in, or that you haven’t touched in a while.  fuck moleskins.  the yellow legal pad will work fine.  sit in your room, or in the park, or in the library, and write a list.  count clouds.  describe all the colors that you see, and note patterns that arise.  sketch the cracks in the walls.  note the shape light makes when it enters a space.  talk about what the air tastes like, smells like.  what sounds are there?  even the white nose, break that down: air planes, fans, cicadas, anything.  remind yourself that you are sitting in the middle of a space brimming with detail.  remind yourself that you are not in nothingness and emptiness.  your world is fathomless.  it has potential.

drink cold water and try to eat something that isn’t processed.  it does not need to be fancy.  buy yourself an apple with the change between your couch cushions.  eat it outside.  if you’re someone who walks, walk somewhere afterwards, just to stretch your legs.  take your fucking meds.  remember that its a good thing that you are inside your body.  your body is a fantastic and endlessly intricate machine, and even though society has smacked a bunch of poisonous ideas on it, that doesn’t change its inherent worth and splendor.  take care of it.

read a novel.  underline your favorite lines, and write phrases that twist your heart inside your chest on the back of your hand with an ink pen.  read a novel like it’s poetry.  read poetry, something decadent but unpretentious.  watch a movie you haven’t seen before.  if there are free art galleries near you, walk through one.  take your time.  let yourself bask.  if there are patterns in what makes your soul ache, write those patterns down – marbles arches or soot crumbling bricks or dandelions or descriptions of dresses or whatever it is, write them down.

your chosen family is important.  remember, they picked you as much as you picked them.  the love has no obligation.  it is given freely and it is given from a place of compassion.  you are not a burden.  if you need to breathe, take a minute by yourself and just exist, but remember to go back to your people.  when they need you, listen and be gracious.  always be gracious.  the universe sometimes remembers things like that.

listen to new music.  link jump on youtube or related artist jump on spotify or ask the chap beside you in the cafe what their favorite band is, and listen to that.  listen to something that you don’t usually listen to.  we tend to tie up a lot of memory with music.  we are falling in love again.  the soundtrack needs to be specific to that.  

allow yourself to indulge in romantics.  press flowers in old books.  play movies with subtitles and mouth the words.  dance in your room.  wear something that makes you feel good, even if you wouldn’t wear it in public.  write your chosen family letters, even if you hand deliver them.  write poetry, even awful poetry.  revel in its awfulness.  eat dark chocolate and when your chosen family want to go out, try to go out with them sometimes, even if its just to the market.  

Phrasal verbs › alphabetical list : C.

Call for › demander/réclamer.

Call in › faire appel à quelqu’un/obliger quelqu’un à rembourser sa dette.

Call off › annuler.

Call on someone › rendre visite à/faire appel à quelqu’un.

Call out › crier/appeler.

Call up (a file) › appeler/ouvrir (un fichier).

Care for › s’occuper de.

Carry on › continuer.

Carry out › réaliser. 

Get carried away by › s’emballer pour quelque chose.

Carry forward › reporter.

Carry off (an award) › remporter (un prix).

Carry through › mener à bonne fin/aider à réussir.

Cash in › se faire rembourser.

Cash up › faire la caisse.

Catch up › rattraper.

Catch on › devenir populaire/prendre.

Catch out › prendre en défaut/démasquer.

Cave in › s’effondrer/céder.

Change over (to) › passer à.

Check up on/check out › vérifier.

Check in (airport) › se présenter à l’enregistrement.

Check out (hotel) › payer sa note et partir.

Clean up › nettoyer/faire fortune/faire son beurre.

Clean (someone) out › nettoyer à fond/mettre quelqu’un à sec/dévaliser. 

Close down › fermer définitivement. 

Close in on › cerner. 

Too many phrasal verbs with To come, find it special post here. 

Conjure up › évoquer.

Cut across › toucher (pas au sens physique).

Cut back › réduire/diminuer.

Cut down (on) › réduire.

Cut off › couper/déshériter.

(feel) cut off › se sentir isoler.

(be) cut out for › avoir des dispositions pour quelque chose. 

To (be) cut up › être très affecté.

Ne forget pas les quatres food groupes mes amis!

KOREAN LEARNING MASTERLIST:

originally a quick bookmark that became a comprehensive, work-in-progress, reblog-able masterlist of all korean posts i’ve made and come across on tumblr, ordered by topic/theme. last updated: 04/05/2019

VOCABULARY:

Time + Space:

eojetbam-studies: five a day #21 — time related vocab

eojetbam-studies: position in korean 어디에 있어요?

eojetbam-studies: countries in korean — 어느 나라 사람이에요?

eojetbam-studies: days of the week

koreanstudytips: frequency adverbs

dailydoseofkorea: korean geographic vocab

Relationships:

eojetbam-studies: family in korean — 우리의 가족

Nouns:

koreanstudytips: animals in korean

eojetbam-studies: five a day #3 — thanksgiving related vocab

Adjectives:

eojetbam-studies: colors in korean — 한국어에 색들이

Verbs:

jesslearnslanguages: 25 common korean verbs

19tc: to like/to dislike

patroocle: sleep related vocab

Internet:

patroocle: on the internet

GRAMMAR:

Particles / Attached Endings:

learn-korean-with-alli: object particle 를/을

adventuresinkorean: contrastive ending (으)나

yasuistudies: future tense and probability (으)ㄹ 거예요

Taking Action:

koreanstudytips: let’s in korean

Negatives:

koreanstudytips: how to say don’t in korean

Other Grammar:

h-eonno: korean sentence structure

OTHER:

Honorifics:

koreanstudytips: 존댓말 vs. 반말