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How to learn a language when you don’t know where to start:

General Plan:

Weeks 1 and 2: Purpose:

Learn the fundamentals sentence construction

Learn how to spell and count

Start building a phrase stockpile with basic greetings

The Alphabet

Numbers 1 - 100

Subject Pronouns

Common Greetings

Conjugate the Two Most Important Verbs: to be and to have

Basic Definite and Indefinite Articles

Weeks 3 and 4: Purpose:

Learn essential vocabulary for the day-to-day

Start conjugating regular verbs

Days of the Week and Months of the Year

How to tell the time

How to talk about the weather

Family Vocabulary

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 5 and 6: Purpose:

Warm up with the last of the day-to-day vocabulary

Add more complex types of sentences to your grammar

Colours

House vocabulary

How to ask questions

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Forming negatives

Weeks 7 and 8: Purpose:

Learn how to navigate basic situations in a region of your target language country

Finish memorising regular conjugation rules

Food Vocabulary and Ordering at Restaurants

Money and Shopping Phrases

Present Tense Conjugations Verbs

Weeks 9 and 10: Purpose:

Start constructing descriptive and more complex sentences

Adjectives

Reflective verbs

Places vocabulary

Weeks 11 and 12: Purpose:

Add more complex descriptions to your sentences with adverbs

Wrap up vocabulary essentials

Adverbs

Parts of the body and medical vocabulary

Tips for Learning a Foreign Language:

Learning Vocabulary:

What vocabulary should I be learning?

There are hundreds of thousands of words in every language, and the large majority of them won’t be immediately relevant to you when you’re starting out.Typically, the most frequent 3000 words make up 90% of the language that a native speaker uses on any given day. Instead try to learn the most useful words in a language, and then expand outwards from there according to your needs and interests.

Choose the words you want/need to learn.

Relate them to what you already know.

Review them until they’ve reached your long-term memory.

Record them so learning is never lost.

Use them in meaningful human conversation and communication.

How should I record the vocabulary?

Learners need to see and/or hear a new word of phrase 6 to 17 times before they really know a piece of vocabulary.

Keep a careful record of new vocabulary.

Record the vocabulary in a way that is helpful to you and will ensure that you will practice the vocabulary, e.g. flashcards.

Vocabulary should be organised so that words are easier to find, e.g. alphabetically or according to topic.

Ideally when noting vocabulary you should write down not only the meaning, but the grammatical class, and example in a sentence, and where needed information about structure.

How should I practice using the vocabulary?

Look, Say, Cover, Write and Check - Use this method for learning and remembering vocabulary. This method is really good for learning spellings.

Make flashcards. Write the vocabulary on the front with the definition and examples on the back.

Draw mind maps or make visual representations of the new vocabulary groups.

Stick labels or post it notes on corresponding objects, e.g when learning kitchen vocabulary you could label items in your house.

How often should I be practising vocabulary?

A valuable technique is ‘the principle of expanding rehearsal’. This means reviewing vocabulary shortly after first learning them then at increasingly longer intervals.

Ideally, words should be reviewed:

5-10 minutes later

24 hours later

One week later

1-2 months later

6 months later

Knowing a vocabulary item well enough to use it productively means knowing:

Its written and spoken forms (spelling and pronunciation).

Its grammatical category and other grammatical information

Related words and word families, e.g. adjective, adverb, verb, noun.

Common collocations (Words that often come before or after it).

Receptive Skills: Listening and Reading

Reading is probably one of the most effective ways of building vocabulary knowledge.

Listening is also important because it occupies a big chunk of the time we spend communicating.

Tips for reading in a foreign language:

Start basic and small.  Children’s books are great practice for beginners. Don’t try to dive into a novel or newspaper too early, since it can be discouraging and time consuming if you have to look up every other word.

Read things you’ve already read in your native language. The fact that you at least know the gist of the story will help you to pick up context clues, learn new vocabulary and grammatical constructions.

Read books with their accompanying audio books. Reading a book while listening to the accompanying audio will improve your “ear training”. It will also help you to learn the pronunciation of words.

Tips for listening in a foreign language:

Watch films in your target language.

Read a book while also listening along to the audio book version.

Listen to the radio in your target language.

Watch videos online in your target language.

Activities to do to show that you’ve understood what you’ve been listening to:

Try drawing a picture of what was said.

Ask yourself some questions about it and try to answer them.

Provide a summary of what was said.

Suggest what might come next in the “story.”

Translate what was said into another language.

“Talk back” to the speaker to engage in imaginary conversation.

Productive Skills: Speaking and Writing

Tips for speaking in a foreign language:

If you can, try to speak the language every day either out loud to yourself or chat to another native speaker whether it is a colleague, a friend, a tutor or a language exchange partner. 

Write a list of topics and think about what you could say about each one. First you could write out your thoughts and then read them out loud. Look up the words you don’t know. You could also come up with questions at the end to ask someone else.

A really good way to improve your own speaking is to listen to how native speakers talk and imitate their accent, their rhythm of speech and tone of voice. Watch how their lips move and pay attention to the stressed sounds. You could watch interviews on YouTube or online news websites and pause every so often to copy what you have just heard. You could even sing along to songs sung in the target language.

Walk around the house and describe what you say. Say what you like or dislike about the room or the furniture or the decor. Talk about what you want to change.This gets you to practise every day vocabulary.

Tips for writing in a foreign language:

Practice writing in your target language. Keep it simple to start with. Beginner vocabulary and grammar concepts are generally very descriptive and concrete.

Practice writing by hand. Here are some things you can write out by hand:

Diary entries

Shopping lists

Reminders

What could I write about?

Write about your day, an interesting event, how you’re feeling, or what you’re thinking.

Make up a conversation between two people. 

Write a letter to a friend, yourself, or a celebrity. You don’t need to send it; just writing it will be helpful.

Translate a text you’ve written in your native language into your foreign language.

Write a review or a book you’ve recently read or a film you’ve recently watched.

Write Facebook statuses, Tweets or Tumblr posts (whether you post them or not will be up to you).

Write a short story or poem.

Writing is one of the hardest things to do well as a non-native speaker of a language, because there’s no room to hide. 

There are lots of ways to improve your writing ability, but they can be essentially boiled down to three key components:

Read a lot

Write a lot

Get your writing corrected

Things I expect every woman above 17 to know.

It is not characteristic of the truth to bend itself to fit perspective. When it does so it's called illusion. The truth is the truth, take it as it is because there isn't a single thing you can do about it. It is exactly what is it, that's that. Do what you can with it and let go. It is what it is ,it will not change because you do not like it.

It is characteristic of a social species to a) bully it's weak and b) ostracize it's different (or defected). If you show weakness you will be bullied, that's that. If you are different, you will be ostracized . It's that. Back to point 1. - it is what it is. Take the truth and do something with it, as is. You can not change it.

The only thing people respect in women is beauty and power. That's it. Your brains only count when you're already rich and pretty. Your character only counts as a bonus to your looks and bank. Money. Beauty. These - then a bonus of intelligence because what's a pretty face with no brains. A pretty face can get ahead no brains like Marylin Monroe projected but a beautiful brain with no beauty will get walked over like that one nerd id in class that's painfully smart and kind and intelligent but still gets bullied and walked over. It is what it is. Take it and do with it what you can. A woman's power is her beauty and money (& intelligence. There's a reason we evolved to be smarter than them. With no brains you can get around but will be used left right center). When you level up, you start with making a crazy ton of money and being pretty. Then people will care.

Systems are innately unfair because people have different needs and it is impossible to serve everyone at the same time. It's a flaw of personality - every system out there is inconveniencing someone. Learn this now. When you still can. On the same not- there is no such thing as freedom or fairness because we have to deal with other people and one will ALWAYS have the upper hand and more power- because it is the characteristic of a social species to be hierarchical in nature. When you eat the rich someone else will replace them. When you abolish the patriarchy something else will replace it. Whoever made the rules we follow now had to change the ones that came before. A flaw of a progressive time- space reality.

It is better the devil you do not know than the angel you do. Familiarity breeds disrespect, the more time you spend with people the more disrespectful they get. Exhibit A- the family you grew up with. In conjunction with this it is important to remind you human beings are wired to assume everything they do not know as a threat- and for something to be a threat it has to be better and more powerful than you. Which is to say people that you are not familiar with automatically assume you are better than them and powerful and all that, while people that are familiar with you have you boxed and are sticking to the version of you they have the most power over because it keeps them at ease and helps them coexist with you without the risk of having you as a threat.

Human beings are animals. A survival species that has survived by elimination of competition and tearing each other apart. Like a pack of wolves they (we) unite when faced by an outside threat only to tear each other apart in the absence of one. It's not a you thing it is an animal thing. Under pressure people break . Understanding this will free you from most of your trauma, trust me. It's not a you thing & it's a survival game. You also turn into an animal under enough pressure do not act holy. Free yourself of the self centered narcissistic idea that they did it to you because you are you. They did it because we are animals and this is how we are. Let it go, it wasn't a you thing. Why drag it around. Also, it's a survival game. Learn to play it.

It is a characteristic of a social species to depend on each other for survival. No man is an island. Sigma female is just trauma announcing it's existence and going ghost is counterproductive and false, it will never work. You need people. Social skills >>>> literally every single thing out there and social politics is survival politics.

Do with this what you must.

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next time if you ever feel like falling back to old habits just remember this

personally, there's no better motivation than remembering that there's probably many people out there who don't want me to succeed.

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How suppressing emotions affects your body

We may think holding back feelings, especially difficult ones, helps us cope. However, neuroscience shows that bottling up emotions, particularly negative ones, directly impacts our brain and body

Fear, anger, and anxiety trigger the body's "fight or flight" response. Suppressing them keeps the body in a prolonged stress state, leading to cortisol release, a weaker immune system, high blood pressure, and increased heart disease risk

Suppressing emotions doesn’t stop stress—it lets it fester. Ever feel your shoulders tense or jaw tighten when stressed? That’s your body storing emotions, which can cause chronic muscle pain, headaches, and tension

The brain and gut are deeply connected. When overwhelmed with suppressed emotions, the gut responds with bloating, constipation, and IBS. Emotional suppression also affects mental health, increasing anxiety, depression, and emotional numbness. The brain struggles to regulate emotions when they remain unprocessed

Long term suppression raises inflammation levels, contributing to autoimmune diseases, diabetes, and heart disease. A mental block can escalate into serious health issues if emotional stress is ignored

No emotion, good or bad, is harmful—emotions are signals guiding us. Anger can push us to take action, sadness helps us process loss, and fear prepares us for challenges. The issue isn’t the emotions themselves but how we handle them. Suppressing them only prolongs their impact

By embracing our emotions we can maintain a healthier mind and body. It’s not the emotions themselves that cause harm, but our resistance to them

It’s okay to feel. Your body and mind will thank you

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Another life changing read?

These are just two of my beauty bibles! I literally say this all the time but beauty starts from within. What foods you put inside of your body matters a lot more than you think and if you want to have clear skin, glow with health, look vibrant, grow thick shiny hair and strong nails, and radiate beauty overall you should consider refining your dietary habits. You need to eat pretty to be pretty.

I continually refer to this book as a trusted source of information and whenever I need to freshen up my knowledge, overhaul my diet, need new recipe ideas or feel like I am becoming lax. It's filled with information on how to have a good relationship with food, its implications for our health , and how to prevent damage and support our bodies. The author's philosophy encourages holistic health, the book doesn't espouse anything harmful or restrictive ideas though.

The book is filled with lessons that are clear and straightforward, absolutely beautiful graphics, lists, tables that I love to revisit and it has helped me a great deal to improve my diet, give my fridge and kitchen cabinets a makeover, create my own eat pretty pantry staples, and turn the kitchen into a beauty command center. The first book is also structured into seasonal chapters, each featuring the staples of that season.

As someone who has undergone extensive education and coursework in biology and chemistry, I appreciate the thorough explanations regarding ingredients and their impact on our physiology, specific roles of various phytochemicals and nutrients, and how we can switch our genes on and off with food and lifestyle. The book is firmly rooted in science and supported by substantiated facts.

A healthy diet is one of the best ways to honor your beauty and body.

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