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Starting bar review (or at least the German version of it - so state examination review?) tomorrow and I‘m really anxious excited but also scared of not being able to perform or properly learn in the new environment. Going to finish up preparations now and then enjoy the calm before the storm.
16.04.2021 | the longest journal entry I’ve written in a while.
I got a new Moleskine notebook as a freebie for my coffee order a few days ago and decided to use it as my daily journal. Surprisingly, my fountain pen ink doesn’t bleed through. They’re ghosting, of course, but the overall quality is quite nice. I don’t know the company has improved its papers or my ink just works very well on thin papers. Anyway, I missed writing long entries like this. I haven’t been so much consistent with journaling lately. But since it’s after Thai New Year (Songkran), starting fresh is something nice to do, isn’t it?
song of the day: eaJ x keshi - pillows
Finished the Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo in one sitting today, didn’t even notice the day go by. I looked out the window for one second, it was daylight and the next time I looked outside it was past midnight. Already got the next book on my kindle ready for tomorrow. Cant wait to see how the triology ends
dedicated day x || ft. afternoon bed study vibes
i got up late because i didn’t sleep well, and between a meeting and being super tired, i finished everything super late today. luckily my roommate made dinner today, and it was easy to clean up after! the most exciting news is that i got 70% on a uWorld block for the first time!! promptly followed by, like, 59%, but that just goes to show how luck can play a role 😂
04.10.21 || moshi moshi ! recently i have watched a ted talk on how to learn any language in six months by Chris Lonsdale. i took some notes from the video and i thought it would be great to share these with all of you. here are 7 actions for rapid language acquisition —
listen a lot! it's called brain soaking. you put yourself in a context where you're hearing tons and tons and tons of a language and it doesn't matter if you don't understand it or not. what matters is you're listening to the rhythms, to patterns that repeat.
focus on the meaning FIRST before the words, focus on the body languages!
start mixing! if you've got 10 verbs, 10 pronouns and 10 adjectives you can say 1000 different things. language is a creative process. it doesn't have to be perfect, just has to work. remember how babies communicate - “me hungry eat’’ learn language like a baby!
focus on the core! any language is high frequency content. in English, 1000 words cover 85% of anything you're ever gonna say in daily conversation.
get yourself a language parent! who's somebody interested in you as a person who will communicate with you essentially as an equal but pay attention to help you understand the message.
copy the face. if you can look at a native speaker and just observe how they use their face, let your unconscious mind absorb the rules, then you're gonna be able to pick it up.
“direct connect’’ to mental images. when you hear the word fire, you think of smoke you go into that imagery and you become more and more skilled at just connecting the new sounds to those images that you already have into that internal representation. you prolly heard of associating a picture or a drawing when you're learning a new word in your target language. it means the exact same thing.
I used to take it one day at a time now it has turned into one hour at a time. Life is so unpredictable at the moment. I want to run away somewhere and start all over again.
Also an old picture of a cat because it makes me happy.
The book's called 'Springboard' by G. Richard Shell.
this long holiday break got me so productive that i managed to create my own study vlog channel! you can watch my first vlog here.
so far, this week:
started reading a new oscar wilde play
submitted another commissioned article
cleaned my bookshelf and some parts of the house
currently editing my second study vlog
it’s quite different from my dark academic posts because i wanted to show a different kind of aesthetic that i also live by.
𝑻𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚,4 𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉• how is already March!? I'm really having internal crisis™ usually it's the most stressful month, because exams but not this year as everything is delayed for me atleast so we will see how it goes :') apart from that the vibe is like arrival of spring so I did this plants with a mix of cottagecore-ish theme,I just feel like it suits this month well (◍•ᴗ•◍)✧*。
🎧: 𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍_𝒔𝒖𝒏𝒎𝒊
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25.3.2021 | thursday
some new courses started recently and they seem really interesting but i’m just super stressed about the workload. some days are a lot more productive than others and it’s important to just accept that some days you won’t get that much done and it’s okay because rest is also productive. having things to look forward to is what keeps me going these days, even if those things are small, like tv shows or books. i’m excited about the shadow and bone tv show coming in a month and also there’s a new falcon and the winter soldier episode every week so to me that’s something that keeps me going lmao.
