#study corner
—manifesting
hi everyone! I posted this photo on instagram today ♡
check out my ig: areumiso for posts like these✨✨
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SEPTEMBER 2020 | I redecorated my desk today✨
I bought a white wallpaper and a cute lamp that would make my study corner look cute and neat✨
I took this photo at night so, sorry for the poor lighting :))) you can visit my ig anytime if you want to see more photos like this! Thank you everyone and have a nice week ahead of you ✊
ig: areumiso
grateful as always,
areumiso
it’s already end of January?!!
deskgram/studygram: @areuharu
i think yellow is going to be my happy color
studygram: @areuharu
✨ new desk setup ✨
check @areuharu on ig for more pictures^^
—another day of organizing my stationery
In case you didn’t know, I post more often in my instagram account: @areuharu :>!
— 03.05.21 ✨
My prelim exams are done ✨ but my instagram @/areumiso is having issues that I cannot simply fix so, I decided to make a new instagram account :<
I had my ig and tumblr for 4 years already and yes it’s hard to let go of my ig username (it’s special to me) but i’m still keeping it on my youtube and tumblr account :> pls don’t be surprised if i’m not active on my ig acc anymore :<<<
Okay I said a lot in this post I’m sorry friends I just want to say that if you still want to see more posts like these you may go check out my new instagram account: areuharu (it’s vvv new )
That’s all^^ thank you for taking the time to read this post :>> i hope to see you there!
grateful as always,
—areumiso✨
02/04/21 — currently in love with my new purchases✨
1. Cute cup + coaster + moon stirrer (which is my best purchase!!)
2. Mini calendar
3. Calligraphy pens
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A brand new study corner full of sun lights✨
“No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world” — Dead Poets Society
Here’s a recently decorated study corner. I’ve been feeling a bit autumnal again, even though it’s the hottest week ever. I’ve started watching Mary Shelley last week which reminded me of how much I loved my old minimally chaotic study setups.
I’m still reading Piranesi and There’s No Such Thing as an Easy Job because I’ve been in a slow reading mood. Although they’ve got completely opposite themes, the study of a person is the main connection between two reads. Both main characters deliberate over the approaching dangers.
Enjoy your Mondays!
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Me matching my books vol 2 (836148763871) and a new handmade crochet top from mum
The weather is so sunny again which is turning me into an energetic person but I kept having odd dreams. So I feel as if I’ve barely slept. I’m just super unlucky with sleeping at this point. On a positive note, I may have hit my 20th page of my thesis!!! Lately, I’ve been working on Scandinavian history because it’s where the film I’m analysing is set. I’m definitely not an expert on that location but I remember some useful information from Anglo-Saxon classes. Let’s see where it goes…
Wishing you a lovely May!
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I’ve started sharing some stuff on my insta again, if you wanna follow more of my stories!
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School Memories I forgot to post
It was quite fun to get out of the house for classes but now since I’m writing my theis, I haven’t been to school in months. I’m not “writing” writing but trying to write and then procrastinate a little.
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Studyblr/langblr Tips #1: How to study Chinese on YouTube/B站 (哔哩哔哩) using only your phone
Sometimes we are busy/no access to a desk, pen, paper or Computer but still want to study. This is how I Study bilibili videos when I only have my phone with me (such as being on a train etc.)
Firstly I set my phone to Autoroate and then split the screen. On the left is bilibili and a video I have chosen to study.
Another tip; bilibili has a function that allows you to listen to the video when the phone is off, and works like an audio, therefore I often listen to. Video material a few times before this step of. Noting the new vocab so I am already familiar with the content.
In another post I will recommend some good Bilibili users and study tips! Please stay tuned :)))
If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask in my ask box
Long time no post! I have been on my course since September, and the first semester was stressful to say the least. Would you guys like a detailed post on my course? I am currently studying enterprise management (企业管理) master course at Qingdao University. Before I started I couldn’t find any other people online/at my uni doing the master course in Chinese… so I had no other people to reference my experience to which I feel would have been helpful. Would you guys like to know about it?
Anyway onto the post…
Below is a preview of my university course notebook. The page you see is where I put an overview of my classes. You can see I have made a note of what study methods to use, info about exams and homework to do. To organise my homework I created a tag called ‘homework’. For each piece of homework I tag it as such. On the right hand panel you can see my tag summary (to open click home > find tags). I then filter to this notebook. I can then see all my tasks tagged 'homework’ from every page and its now organised as a bit to do list.
This is a closer look at the tags summary.
I also have a tag which is called 'to ask’, this tag is used when I come across something I don’t understand and need help. As you can see below I have tagged some words I don’t understand and need clarification. When I next meet my teacher I can simply go to the tags summary and click on each tag that takes me to a different page. This is powerful as you do not need to remember where you got stuck and look in all pages when you meet your teacher for help.
Lastly I have a tag called 'projects’, this is for mini 'projects’ that I want to learn about outside of my course (for example I want to learn some Tang poems, or studying starsigns in Chinese etc.)
Other tag ideas include
· Exam
· Remember for later (if I am in class I need to make a note.. e.g. add vocab to my pleco etc. but don’t have time, I’ll note it and execute after class)
In daily life I use such tags too (in my 'organiser’ notebook). One note doesn’t just organise my studies.. But my whole life! (if anyone would like some posts about organising in general then let me know.. I could make some posts).
Tags include…
· Groceries
· Recipes
· Wishlist
· TV show to watch
If you have any tag ideas let me know in the comments too :D
Hi all
Please see my list of resources and method for listening practice:
Podcast resource links:
Free with transcripts:
*https://www.slow-chinese.com/podcast/
http://justlearnchinese.com/mini-novels/
*https://www.learningchinesethroughstories.com/
Not free:
No transcripts:
Other video resource tips:
YouTube has a lot of individual user content, a bit like the sort of make up tutorial videos you may enjoy or best is users who create those ‘tag’ videos, daily vlogs or ‘story time’ videos… such as the video below. It is best as it is natural, unscripted spoken language.
As a female that’s the sort of content I like to see and I’m sure there is content geared for people who don’t really watch make up videos etc. (if anyone could suggest more ‘male oriented content’ in the comments that would be useful too :)
On YouTube videos you can slow down the speed on the video to x.75 under settings.
Another useful tool for MP3s is an app such as Audiopo which slows down/speeds up mp3 files that you have on your phone (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.ne.sakura.ccice.audipo&hl=en) [see my previous post for a demo].
How to study with the audio/video resources:
I use a similar fashion for studying audios as with reading [see my previous post] and will make a detailed future post. Essentially, I post a transcript and listen several times to the audio (whilst cooking, walking, doing sport etc.) and then read the transcript once I am familiar with the audio, highlight unknown words and add to Anki for my daily vocab review, continue to listen to audios and archive at the end of the week. [I do all this using OneNote and you can see exactly how I use it in my ‘reading’ post!
If you have any useful resources or tips for efficient language learning please feel free to share :D :D
Below I outline steps when I study a new lesson in a course book. Many (at least for chinese) are in the format of - 1. new words, 2. text, 3. grammar notes + exercises, 4. comprehension exercises, 5. speaking/writing task
I thus roughly follow that structure when I study the book.
1. preview new words + add to pleco (or other dictionary that has flashcard system built in)
2. write notes on the book next to vocab if necessary
3. read the text a first time only underlining words I don’t know but don’t look them up
4. go back in and look up the words + add to pleco
5. attempt the comprehension exercises (sometimes I will do this before looking up the unknown vocab for good practice but depends on the difficulty of the text)
6. look up answers and review what was wrong
7. read grammar notes + do the accompanying exercises. sometimes I add a ‘grammar structure’ or phrase or useful example sentence into pleco using the add a custom vocabulary function (e.g. below)
9. read back through the text a last time before moving on
10. outside of the specific blocks of time sitting down with the textbook, when I have a spare few minutes, waiting for the bus etc. I will play on pleco doing drills of the vocabulary added to it that week - see my previous posts on how I study, or check out ‘hackingchinese’ who has an amazing post of finding time with a ‘rock and sand and water’ model.
11. there will of course be times you don’t understand things in the textbook. I suggest you note these down, on onenote as you go along and use your teacher/exchange partner to help explain things you don’t understand.
12. another tip is to listen to the text audios if available - when you are doing other activities such as walking, cooking to squeeze precious study time in.
Do you have any tips you could share on how to learn effectively?
