weird how nothing about u is like, too small or too dumb to know bc it all comes together to become YOU. sending your friend a picture of your favorite snack is saying something important whether u realize it or not. wheres that palahniuk quote

zoo wee mama…

- Mahmoud Darwish from 'Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut c. 1982 (tr. Ibrahim Muhawi)

video essays about horror, fear and dread

green and pink are best friends. society isnt ready for this though

happy july 17

when will something lgbt happen to ME

visiting your grandparents when you’re not a kid anymore is like. this place was magical to me as a seven year old. it looks like a normal house now. i can remember thinking there was something hidden in the garden. there’s a feeling buried here i may never be able to reach again.

Im sleep deprived, I want to sleep so bad. But uni says no. Okay then.

no, queer stranger things fans are not just being over dramatic over their favorite character’s death or their ship not getting together. we’re mad because we were used as promotion and then tossed out in favor of straight ships and their fans.

dear lord, the women you put on this earth to play video games and sleep are being forced to integrate into society

as a lesbian, i love bisexual women

as a bisexual woman, i love lesbians

big masterpost of fun things to do this summer

hi :) i like to make a big list of things i want to do each summer, and i thought i’d share all the resources i collected this year with y'all in case you want to do any of these things too <3

learn a new language. 🦜

i’ve collected a bunch of resources for french, korean, and mandarin so i’ll be making separate posts for those languages. but here’s some of my favourite resources - most of them are based off of krashen’s comprehensible input theory which is why they are fun resources:

learn to draw. 🎨

this is more just a collection of art related resources. hope they help!

learn guitar. 🎸

i got a guitar last summer on a whim and have been having a really fun time learning it! here’s the main resource i’ve been using.

learn jazz piano. 🎹

similarly jazz piano is something i’ve wanted to get into for a while + improv. this person’s youtube channel is very cool!

write something and put it out into the world! ✍

i love to write and it took me a while to learn how to submit stuff to journals. hope these help you!

make your own video games. 🎮

by now if you follow me you know i love to make twine games. here are a couple of cool engines you can use for free!

take a free online course. 🧠

coursera has a lot of options, which i really like. i took Yale’s the science of well being a few years ago and it was great!

make your own music or learn how audio software works. 🎵

audionodes is a cool free browser software that lets you do this without downloading anything!

learn about personal finance. 💵

i feel like it’s hard to devote proper time to learning about personal finance so a lot of us rely on learning as we go, but there are some good resources and tools online that are quick and easy when you have 5-30 min to spare!

This video for the linguistic privilege of the Anglophones was very interesting to me. He doesn't say that if you go for a week to Greece you must learn the language (although some phrases would be nice). He doesn't say that having a common language between different nations is bad.

But he is talking about native English speakers who are able to stay in foreign countries for a long time and still don't learn the language because the locals around them can accommodate them by speaking English. These long-term visitors who are native English speakers (sometimes spouses and business partners) are not willing to learn the basics to survive in this country because they expect that someone around will know their language.

While this expectation might seem reasonable, it burdens the non English speakers to learn the language to the point we are considered unprofessional and unskilled if we don't speak English very well - in our own country!

Story time:

I was meeting with a large group of online friends for drinks and doing our collective hobby together and there was an Anglophone in the group. She had been staying in the country for 10 years, she was under 30 years old (you can definitely learn the language at that age) and couldn't communicate with us, making a dozen Greeks speak English to accommodate her.

Naturally, we didn't manage for long to center our conversations around her language when we could communicate better in ours. Still, the attitude of this woman and people like her still baffles me. If any of us were to go to her country for a month we would be automatically required to know English otherwise we would be ridiculed. We would certainly not survive a decade without learning the local language.

Routledge Masterpost

Here are all of the Routledge Grammar PDFs that I currently have. I’ll be updating whenever I find more. Let me know if there’s one in particular you want me to look for^^

Last Update: 2017/04/24

Arabic

Cantonese

Czech

Danish

Dutch

English

Finnish

French

French Creoles

German

Greek

Hindi

Hebrew

Hungarian

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Japanese

Korean

Latin

Latvian

Mandarin Chinese

Norwegian

Persian

Polish

Portuguese

Romanian

Russian

Serbian

Spanish

Swahili

Swedish

Thai

Turkish

Ukrainian

Urdu

Welsh

Yiddish

Hope this helps everyone out a bit! Happy studying^^

-koreanbreeze

Free Online Language Courses

Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos.  You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.

American Sign Language

Arabic

Catalan Sign Language

Chinese

Beginner

Intermediate

Dutch

English

Faroese

Finnish

French

Beginner

Intermediate & Advanced

Frisian

German

Beginner

Advanced

Hebrew

Hindi

Icelandic

Indonesian

Irish

Italian

Beginner

Intermediate & Advaned

Japanese

Kazakh

Korean

Beginner

Intermediate

Nepali

Norwegian

Portuguese

Russian

Beginner

Advanced

Spanish

Beginner

Intermediate

Advanced

Swedish

Ukrainian

Welsh

Multiple Languages

Last updated: March 1, 2017

bi people i love you so fucking much

bisexuality is so beautiful and awesome and bi people can explode things with their minds

French podcast recommendations - hello everyone, in case you are looking for a podcast in French to practice your listening and learn new works, I listen to these. Especially the Duolingo podcast because of the transcripts and also French through Stories since he explains each part in English

Study in a brain-friendly way: Making a week plan