Do you ever wonder how much you exist in other people’s lives? I’m always curious if people think of me when a certain song comes on, or when they pass through a certain town. I wonder how many stories I’ve been a part of that I may have forgotten. I wonder if I still I exist in the minds of people that I don’t speak to anymore. I wonder how many times a day I pass through someone’s head.
Heh, just wait till I get a boyfriend. It’s going to be game over. Game, set, fucking match.
He’s going to be in just about all of my snap stories.
My Twitter is going to be filled with sap shit.
He’s not going to be in my profile picture, but he sure as hell will be in my header and screensaver.
I have an abundance of love to give and boy oh boy, he’s going to be lucky asf.
We’ll watch anime together and listen to music at all times.
Hopefully he’ll play an instrument because I really wish to sing with him when we’re just chillin.
And there will be sex. Yes in deed, quite a bit of it.
I’m not saying that I’ll be perfect. Because I won’t. Besides, perfect is boring.
But I will be understanding, loving, and faithful. That’s all I can promise.
I’m going to be so freaking sweet and adorable that they’ll write stories about it.
Oh just wait till I get a boyfriend.
Oh just wait till I fall in love.
If a guy ever spreads a rumor that he slept with you, don’t deny it. One, because there will always be people who think it’s true, and two, because that dumbass boy just handed you the power to say anything you want about what he’s like in bed, and people will believe it. Say he bleats like a sheep when he orgasms. Say he put on pearl earrings and asked you to call him Daisy. Say he couldn’t get it up until he watched an old Billy Mays infomercial. The power is yours.
This is my new favorite post
The golden rule with learning a language is to do a little bit every day.
Even if it’s just 15 minutes, that still adds up to 1 hour 45 minutes a week. You can get a lot done in that time. But more importantly, it keeps the language fresh in your mind - repetition is key to learning and without it, you can forget an additional language very quickly.
The two basic areas you need to focus on to understand a language are vocabulary and grammar.
Vocabulary
- Check the syllabus for a list of words you are required to know. GCSEs and A Levels in the UK have these and I’m sure many other countries do to. Ask your teacher if you’re struggling to find it.
- Flashcards are particularly useful for learning vocab. These can be physical, or you can use websites or apps like Quizlet. The latter is useful because for most people, typing is quicker than writing, there’s no fussing with cutting up card, you can take them everywhere with you if you have a smartphone, and Quizlet in particular forces you to actually learn the spelling and special characters.
- Use the words in sentences! Writing in your target language (i.e. the one you’re learning) is a difficult but incredibly rewarding exercise and can really help you to get those words to stick in your head.
- If you need to learn everyday words – label things in your house! Label your door with the word for door, your computer with the word for computer etc. This might not go down so well if you try it on pets and family members though!
- Read widely! If you’re A level standard (according to UK universities, this is roughly AP standard but I have no experience with the US system), you should be able to read a newspaper from your target language’s country. I’m not saying that it will be easy, just that you can if you work at it. You can also get ‘readers’ aimed at your level of study. Ask your teacher if they have any or search online. Some old ones will be available online for free.
- When you come across a new word, add it to your flashcards or however you’ve chosen to learn vocabulary. Don’t just look at it once, go over it!
- If applicable, learn the gender and declension or conjugation of each word you learn. For nouns, learn the form of ‘the’ etc they take and how the word changes depending on its role in the sentence. Do the same for adjectives and so on. For verbs, learn the principal parts of the verb. These may change depending on the language – in Latin it’s the present indicative, present infinitive, perfect, and supine. From this you can form all form of the verb that you may need and should be able to work out the conjugation. If you struggle with that, just learn the conjugation along with it (e.g. amo, amare, amaui, amatus – 1st conjugation).
Grammar
- Confused by the terms I’ve used like conjugation, infinitive, indicative? Look them up! To be successful with a language at more advanced stages, you need to understand basic grammar terms, but they’re not always taught to you properly. A few minutes of googling will have you up to speed.
- Get the basics down! If you don’t understand how a noun declines, knowing all the unique uses of the subjunctive isn’t as important – in an assessment, you will come across many nouns and many declensions, but you will only run into a few of the more advanced grammatical concepts. Don’t lose easy marks. (Though I would still give the advanced stuff a quick glance, just try to get the basics firmly cemented in your head).
- If your target language has genders – use colours. I’m not a fan of the blue is for boys; pink is for girls idea, but that is how I label the genders in language (blue – masculine, pink – feminine, green – neuter). Use a system that you will remember.
- Rote learning can be helpful for learning the basics – write out declension tables over and over until you can recall them. You can also use flashcards for this to save your hand and the trees if that works for you.
- Do as many exercises as you can get your hands on – ask your teacher for more if you run out. You can also search online – again, old exercise books will be available online for free, and some kind teachers publish their exercises online. Practise makes perfect!
- Translate INTO your target language. In addition to helping you learn vocab, it also really tests your understanding of grammar. It is hard, especially in languages that you don’t necessarily have to speak – I struggle with English into Latin but can read supposedly some of the hardest authors. But it is such a useful thing to practise, I really can’t stress that enough. When you wade through treacle, you build stronger legs. When you work hard at translation, you build a stronger understanding of that language.
hey guys, hope your skin is clear and you get a text from someone you like real soon.
also that your lunch tastes good, you find twenty dollars on the ground, and that thing coming up that you were dreading turns out not so bad
Passing this good karma
I reblogged this 3 days ago and my skin got clear and I got a message from a guy who refers to me as queen yesterday. Good karma vibes all around.
