Spring Is Not Cancelled, Spring Is Not Cancelled, Spring Is Not Cancelled

Sunday studies

dissertation proposal: sent out

three papers worth 100% of my grade and three thousand words each: to be thought of at a later date

New morning, same cafe … | The Missing Bean, Oxford, 14 January 2020

10.07.17 // my sense of time is so messed, I typed 10.06.10 instead of 10.07.17

ig: kaiistudies (I’ve been more active here due to school so do check it out!!)

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.

🦉my day off in a nutshell | posting more on my instagram account lately, do you have a studygram? tell me in the comments and i will check it out. mine is: thomreads

studying for my history exam ⚜️

28.03.20 | throwback to the good ol’ times before the You Know What

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

What would be your advice to you from five years ago?

I always regret not shooting my shot for friendship in classes that I sometimes think about them after the course is over (what could have been a great friendship). Be that fucking person and say ‘hello’ first. Just stop holding back.