That right there is a good solid burger patty with the intriguing addition of middle eastern spices 👀👀👀 (and as we all know variety is the spice of life, and spice is the variety of food.) I’m also intrigued by how she put the patty in the pita(?) which makes it a sort of burger panini. It looks good and I am going to have to try it.

I want to make this for my family, but my mom’s pretty iffy on beef that is anything but well done (dry as fuck) so I’m wondering how to cook it throughly enough without burning the bread.

You can cook it in very thin pita with a thin layer of minced beef/lamb so that the meat is cooked brown all the way through in only 1 minute per side.

But also! Red Meat is "Well Done" at 160F/72C (white meat is 165F/75C). Bread actually doesn't even toast until 255F/123C!!

So, if you make the full size patties in a frying pan on a low-medium heat, or an oven set to 300F/150C, it will take about 20 minutes to cook instead of only 3 minutes, but it will DEFINITELY not burn the bread, and the meat will be VERY well done.

Here is the oven based recipe I suggested elsewhere on the post

@bananafosters In case you are interested also!

I made the pan fried version a couple of days ago and they were bussin. Highly recommend

Supermarkets Aldi.

by france.maps

I feel the need to inform Americans that both of these grocers also exist in the United States. You probably recognize Aldi’s South (blue). But you may not know that Aldi’s North exists in the US under different branding as Trader Joe’s.

Excerpt from Kató Lomb’s “Polyglot: How I Learn Languages”

My Chinese Vocab List

❀: General Knowledge 常识

❀: Personal information 个人信息

❀: Family 家庭

❀: School 学校

❀: Job 工作

❀: Walking around shopping centers 逛街

❀: Food 餐饮

❀: Hospital 医院

❀: Post Office, Bank & Police Station 邮局、银行和公安局

❀: Tourist Transportation and Travel 交通和旅行

❀: Entertainment and Hobbies 娱乐与休闲

❀: Actions and Feelings 行为与情感

❀: Weather and Seasons 天气和季节

❀: Art | Sports | Military Service 艺术| 体育| 军事

❀: The World 世界

My Chinese Grammar List

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50+ fundamental crime, suspense, & mystery Cdrama vocab words

I'm currently watching 《模仿犯》, so I was inspired to put together this list of essential vocab for 犯罪剧/悬疑剧/推理剧. I tend to gravitate towards dramas that fall into these genres.

I've sorted the words into categories. These were determined by vibes only. Definitions are adapted from MDBG, my loyal companion for nearly 10 years.

The Case

The Investigation

The Victim

Random list of a few of my favorite Chinese words so far:

电灯泡 - literally "light bulb," figuratively, an unwanted third wheel

放鸽子 - literally "to place/put a pigeon," figuratively, to stand someone up/no show

死定 - screwed (as in doomed, not as in fucked)

圣诞老人 - Old Man Christmas, Santa Claus

鹅毛大雪 - goose-feather snow, a heavy snow of fluffy flakes

Every single time a word is made "the same but more" by doubling it, or doubling characters in general for emphasis (高高兴兴，长长久久, 安安轻轻，大大小小, 酸酸甜甜，干巴巴，to name a few)

半边天 - literally "half the sky," figuratively womankind

The vast versatility of 蛋 as a way to insult people (坏蛋，笨蛋， 混蛋)

赖床 - laze about in bed

惊喜 - pleasantly surprised

大丈夫 - literally big husband, figuratively a manly man

厉害 - cool, awesome, incredible

干嘛 - why on earth...?

大姨妈 - literally great aunt, figuratively shark week/that time of the month/menstruation

想得美 - in your dreams!

My personal constant ability to confuse 妇女 and 妓女. (Woman and prostitute)

Likewise, my personal constant ability to confuse 瓜子 and 傻瓜. (Melon seeds and fool)

轮椅 - wheelchair

And, of course

饭圈 - fandom!

Chen zheyuan boyfriend lockscreen pt 2

Chen zheyuan boyfriend lockscreen pt 1

Moods in Chinese! 😊 PS: Learn Chinese with the best FREE online resources, just click here https://www.chineseclass101.com/?src=tumblr_infographic_moods_072523

I think a lot about how we as a culture have turned “forever” into the only acceptable definition of success.

Like… if you open a coffee shop and run it for a while and it makes you happy but then stuff gets too expensive and stressful and you want to do something else so you close it, it’s a “failed” business. If you write a book or two, then decide that you don’t actually want to keep doing that, you’re a “failed” writer. If you marry someone, and that marriage is good for a while, and then stops working and you get divorced, it’s a “failed” marriage.

The only acceptable “win condition” is “you keep doing that thing forever”. A friendship that lasts for a few years but then its time is done and you move on is considered less valuable or not a “real” friendship. A hobby that you do for a while and then are done with is a “phase” - or, alternatively, a “pity” that you don’t do that thing any more. A fandom is “dying” because people have had a lot of fun with it but are now moving on to other things.

I just think that something can be good, and also end, and that thing was still good. And it’s okay to be sad that it ended, too. But the idea that anything that ends is automatically less than this hypothetical eternal state of success… I don’t think that’s doing us any good at all.

Practicing Traditional (Taiwan) Mandarin while brewing my favorite tea!

Let me tell you all about my favorite tea of all time. Also figured I'd use this as an excuse to practice Chinese and read the instructions.

大禹陵茶 / dà yǔ líng chá / Dayu Ling Tea

This is an oolong tea that comes from a specific mountainous area in Taiwan, called 大禹陵 (hence the name of the tea) in Taichung at a high elevation (2600m+). It's also called 大禹嶺極品烏龍茶, which is literally: Dayu Ling Highest Quality Oolong Tea.

It's considered a "premium" quality tea. Therefore it's quite expensive, usually $50 (USD) for 2-3 oz of it.

Honestly, it's the best oolong I've ever had. It's no joke, and it worth this price.

The Instructions:

生詞 / New Vocab：( HSK 5 / HSK 6 )

Also note that 壹貳參 are archaic/traditional forms of 一二三！

My (very rough...) translation below:

radicals???

can someone give me tips/resources for learning radicals in mandarin? everything i find just confuses me further. should i be learning them early on or wait until i know more characters?

I am not qualified to answer this question since I am newer to studying Chinese and have not studied radicals in depth.

However, based on what I have seen and learned, I think its good to have a basic understanding of radicals if you intend to write and read Chinese. It makes character study less intimidating because it breaks the characters into smaller parts. Sometimes the meanings of the radicals help with defining the word they are a part of and sometimes not, but I thought it was helpful to spend some time learning them. 

The extent of my learning of radicals was done on an app called Drops and its sister app Scripts. I believe the free version only allows for a little practice each day and the paid version lets you do unlimited.

Anyone with more knowledge can feel free to give more intelligent insight.

*me barely avoiding doing the same exact mistake at the exact same location* Oooof redemption arc

Apps i use to learn languages

1. Babbel

This is a language app that also teaches grammar & offers grammar exercises. You can practise the vocab words you learned & it teaches you about the people & culture of your target country.

However, it only offers 14 languages (English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Dutch, Indonesian) and you need a payed subscription to unlock the courses and can only learn one language at a time.

2. Duolingo

This is a language learning app that offers dozens of languages, even fictional ones from Game of Thrones & Star Trek. You can access all courses without subscription and can learn several languages at a time.

However, it doesn't offer any grammar exercises and you can't revise the vocab you learned.

3. LingoClip

In this app, you can listen to songs in your target language & have to fill in the gaps in the lyrics. You get 3 free songs per day without a subscription.

The languages they offer are English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Polish, Swedish, Finnish, Catalan.

4. Beelinguapp

This app helps you practice reading texts in your target language by showing you the text in your native language & in your target language and reading it to you sentence by sentence.

The languages they offer are English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Turkish, Korean, Arabic, and Swedish.

5. LingQ

This app works similarly to Beelinguapp, but you can mark any words you know and don't know and practice the ones you didn't know.

The languages they offer are English, French, Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Portuguese, Swedish, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Greek, Finnish, Norwegian, Czech, Arabic, Hebrew, Turkish, Latin, Romanian, Esperanto, Ukrainian, Belarussian, Catalan, Bulgarian, Persian, Danish, Gujarati, Cantonese, Croatian, Hungarian, Armenian, Indonesian, Icelandic, Malaysian, Slovakian, Serbian, Tagalog, and Taiwanese Mandarin.

6. Quizlet

This is a vocab card app. I really like that it gives you translation suggestions when you type out a vocab word and it recognizes the language automatically. You can also use vocab lists from other users and from specific exercise books or courses, and you can sort your vocab lists into sets and files and share them with others if you'd like. If you subscribe to Quizlet, you can also keep track of your learning.

7. AnkiDroid

This is another vocab card app which i use for learning sign languages. You can put formulas, pictures, videos, and more on the vocab cards and you can synchronise the app with the pc programme.

8. Chatterbug

Chatterbug offers live streams in English, German, French, and Spanish where they explain grammar rules, cultural aspects, idioms, and more. They also offer private language lessons.

9. Slowly

On Slowly you can find penpals around the world that are learning your target language or people from your target language's country that want to learn your native language, so you can help each other.

personality test: when the flight attendant asks you what drink you want to have on the flight, what do you request?

god it's like nobody even cares that [problem i've taken great pains to make sure nobody will acknowledge] looks like i have no choice but to make it worse in isolation for reasons i can't articulate and don't understand

The countries that got tea via China through the Silk Road (land) referred to it in various forms of the word “cha”. On the other hand, the countries that traded with China via sea - through the Min Tan port called it in different forms of “te”.

I liked this so much I became curious… and it checks out! The explanation lies, unsurprisingly, in who was interacting with whom in early modern long-distance trade.

Share of people agreeing with the statement “most people can be trusted”, 2022.

literally though if you feel like your life is slipping through your fingers and every day goes too fast… try doing hard things, not just taking the easy route, like reading and making art and exercising and cooking a meal from scratch and journaling, doing these things without distraction, without being absorbed on a screen… the time will stretch and you’ll be reminded that life is long and beautiful if you make it so.