Welcome to finals season, my dearly dear friends, where my brain is melting out my ears with remarkable speed. I have recently calculated that the highest grade I could currently be getting in Russian is 68%. At least my adventures with this language are amusing? I am writing a poem for my final project, and when I put the whole thing into Google ( Read more... )

So I'm almost 10,000 words in, and I'm already struggling. I have so much work to do for school and everything, and now I have to write two essays that are due tomorrow that I haven't even started. Doing the one for Anthropology first, since Linguistics is easy and I should finish fairly quickly. After all that writing, I still have 3323 words to ( Read more... )

Argh, no! My GPA dropped this semester. It's been steadily declining since I started. No fair!

I got:
Anthro - A
LatAm - A-
Psych - B+
Spanish - B+
Chorale - A
Folk Dance - Pass
Self Defense - Pass

So now my GPA is a 3.6 instead of the 3.7 I had first semester (oh, and I got an A- in my J-term class). Damn it, that GPA is supposed to go up, not

I'm okay. I'm busy. School ends in two weeks, my birthday's next weekend, it's all very... busy. I want to get the cartilage of my ear pierced, but part of me thinks I'm only doing it because of some desperate need to rebel against my parents and take control of something in my life. I'm the last one who gets a say in where I live, where I work, ( Read more... )

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I think my problem is I have no linguistic focus. I'm like, "Spanish, Japanese, German Italian, Spanish again, Portuguese, Norwegian, German again, Russian, Ukrainian!" and then I don't learn any languages at all. Well, I know some Spanish, but... I really should just focus.

Every now and then, I stumble across great ways to practice Spanish.
This is a great comic called "Knite." Here is the English original. This is the Mexican Spanish version. There are also translations in many different languages (Japanese, French, Russian, Bulgarian, and so on).
This is xkcd in Spanish (from Spain, I believe).
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Deportes extremos

Extreme sports

Sedentario

Sedentary

Ocioso

Lazy

Adivinanza

Guess, find, figure out

Caratula

Cover (of a book)

Miel

Honey

Cartero

Mailman

Arrepentirse

To regret

Atardeceres

Sunsets

Reflejar

To reflect (in a mirror)

Reflexionar

To reflect, to think
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Charcos

Puddle

Sobras

Shadows

Hallar

To find

Encontrar

To find

Salada

Salty

Huir

To flee

Suelo

Ground

En vano

In vain

Mitigar

To mitigate, to make less

Perecer

To perish

Antiamericanismo

Anti-Americanism

Piso

Ground

Destrozar

To destroy

Destruir
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