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Transportation Vocabulary in Korean
비행기 - Airplane
공항 - Airport
자전거 - Bicycle
버스 - Bus
버스 정류장 - Bus stop
자동차, 차 - Car
출구 - Exit of a subway station
페리 - Ferry
주유소 - Gas station
핼리콥터 - Helicopter
사거리 - Intersection
호선 - Line number
위치 - Location
오토바이 - Motorcycle
주차 - Parking
배 - Ship
역 - Station
길 - Street, Road
지하철, 전철 - Subway
전철역 - Subway station
택시 - Taxi
표 - Ticket
기차 - Train
기차역 - Train station
교통카드 - Transportation card
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DEALING WITH STRESS IN ACADEMIA
the mindset that stress = productivity seems to be common in academia, and if you’re not stressed, well you’re “just not working hard enough”. while low levels of stress can be healthy and lead to productivity (for example, when you’re under exam conditions or in the days leading up to a deadline), high amounts of stress will seriously affect your ability to learn. keeping calm, despite feeling like you’re working slower or less intensely, will ultimately make you more focused and productive in the long run.
1) coping with high levels of stress: stress is hard to manage and in exam season it can get out of control fairly quickly. if you find yourself spiralling, there are some quick ways to decrease your anxiety and help to get yourself back on track:
- exercise: if you’re feeling overwhelmed or like you’re no longer able to think, take yourself away from your work and do something active. running and yoga are great ways to relax, or even just going for a walk can really help. go outside, visit a local park or beach, listen to music and take some time to observe your surroundings.
- self care: if you’re still not feeling good, try and focus on yourself for a while. during my master’s i developed a routine for times where my brain was on overload: i would take myself out of the library and go for a run, then i would slowly cook dinner, shower, tidy my room and change my bed sheets. focusing on little, everyday tasks can help to stablise your mood, and i find that by taking care of yourself and your surroundings things feel less chaotic and you’ll me more equipped to deal with the stressful situation.
- breathe: this sounds ridiculous, but just breathe. using different breathing techniques have been proven to reduce stress. this is because our emotions are reflected in our breathing (when we’re angry, our breaths are short and shallow, when we’re calm, our breaths are deep and slow). by taking a few minutes each day just to focus on your breathing (in for four seconds, hold for four seconds, out for four seconds), you’ll begin to naturally feel calmer.
- sleep: if all else fails and you still feel exhausted and overwhelmed, just get some sleep and try again tomorrow - not every day can be productive!
2) avoiding burnout in the first place:
- find time to be in your comfort zone: whilst it’s really important to push yourself, in times where you feel pressured by coursework and exams, it’s good to spend time completely in your comfort zone. whether that’s spending time with close friends, or just spending some time alone, you should make time for doing something where you feel completely at ease.
- find your time: in the third year of my degree I burned myself out. i worked ridiculously long hours in the library and i thought i needed to be constantly busy to truly feel like i’d put enough effort in. it paid off, i got the grades, however, i was emotionally and physically exhausted by the end of it. when i went into my master’s my mindset slowly changed. yes, i still worked hard, but i began take a more relaxed approach. i came in with the mindset that everything always gets done, no matter how much you think it wont, and i stopped doing ridiculously long hours at the library and started just working from 8-1pm (the times that i was most productive). after this point if i wasn’t being productive i would just take myself out of the library and do something else, allowing myself to reset so i was ready for the next day. you don’t need to be erratic to be successful, and you don’t need to stop taking care of yourself in order to get everything done.
- develop a routine: once you’ve figured out the times when you’re most productive, develop a routine around it. schedule time to socialise and do things outside of academia, and time to study and work hard. by planning it in, you’ll feel less guilty about taking breaks. you don’t have to always stick to it, so if you’re having a productive day, study for longer than planned. alternatively, if things just aren’t happening, take some time off.
not every day can be productive, and everything usually works out in the end. staying calm is about finding out how you work and developing your habits around it. by learning to cope with and prevent stress you’ll be able to focus more on the task at hand and end up getting more done because of it. academia doesn’t need to always be stressful!
Multiple Language Learning Methods: One Isn’t Going to Cut It
Hi guys! Thank you for your patience as I get adjusted in China and try to find time to update my studyblr! Between studying my languages and teaching, it’s been a bit of a struggle. But I’ve finally got situated enough to get on Tumblr and get to work on a new post that I’m excited to finally share with you!
How many methods do you use to study languages? If you say one, you’re probably studying wrong. When you were in grade school studying the alphabet, did you just read a textbook and BAM you knew the alphabet? OF COURSE NOT! As much as our parents and instructors would wish we did learn that easily, no one ever does! No one. The best way to learn something is to experience it in different ways, situations and formats. You listened to the alphabet spoken in class by your teacher, then by an audio cd, then on tv when you watched Sesame Street, then in a song at a babysitters house, then read them in a textbook, then maybe played computer games to help you practice on top of all that. You heard the same alphabet over and over in different contexts. I used to be a big fan of Between the Lions back in the day because they would teach you a letter then a few words, then use those words and letters over and over again in different skits during the show. If the word of the day was dig, then in the cartoon Cliff Hanger, Cliff would need to spell dig to figure out how to come down from the cliff (of course it never worked, but that’s besides the point), there would be a song with dig in it, there would be activities where you’d have to insert the missing letters, and then the lions themselves would get into situation where they would need to dig something and you’d learn the word dig AGAIN. You get the point. This stuff isn’t just for children. This stuff is gold for language learning as adults, so how do you tap into this knowledge? By giving yourself multiple methods of language study just like a kid! By creating multiple methods of language studying, you are cementing everything you have learned into your memory. With this in mind, you must always have at least three methods of study to pull out when you study every week. Here are mine:
Video/Audio lesson method (example: video based lessons, Youtube video lessons, TTMIK)
1. Watch/listen to video/audio lesson once all the way through (just listen and repeat)
2. Re-watch while writing down new vocabulary (listening writing)
3. Study new vocabulary (reading)
- Write out and use a joke or story to remember each word
- Look for examples of uses for words using videos or songs or something (Listening) (speaking)
(if learning Korean, use Naver. If learning Chinese or Japanese use Fluent U to search for videos, commercials, music videos, and episodes of shows containing your vocab word. For everything else just search Youtube)
- Write out each word ten times (writing)
4. Re-watch video/audio (Listening)
5. Repeat after video/audio (Speaking)
6. Study vocab again at end of the week
Textbook method
Tip: If you buy a textbook for self study, definitely get one with audio
1. Read textbook lesson with audio if included (reading) (listening)
2. Read lesson without audio
2. Study vocabulary (reading)
- Make and write a joke or saying or story to help you remember each word (Exam
4. Look for examples of uses for words using videos or songs or something (listening) (speaking)
5. Write character out ten times each (writing)
6. Repeat after audio if included (speaking)
Vocab lists (example: Tumblr, Pinterest, etc)
Say you find a list of interesting vocabulary on Tumblr or Pinterest. You can plan to use this during the week!
1. Read vocab list (reading)
2. Find corresponding audio and repeat. You can use a dictionary audio (listening) (speaking)
3. Study vocab words (reading)
- Make jokes or some story to help you remember
5. Look for examples of uses for words using videos or songs or something (reading) (speaking)
6. Repeat after audio (speaking)
Shows, Movies, Youtube Videos
1. Watch video 10 minutes at a time (listening) (DO NOT watch the whole thing unless it is short)
2. Study vocab and grammar (reading) (writing)
3. Make inside jokes or story to help remember vocabulary
4. Look for examples of uses for words using videos or songs or something (listening) (speaking)
5. Write vocab out 10 times (writing)
6. Make any relevant notes about culture and usage
7. Repeat after video sentences (speaking)
This method takes a long time over a course of weeks to finish a movie.
Music and Songs
1. Listen to entire song without looking at lyrics (listening)
2. Go find lyrics and study vocabulary line by line (reading)
3. Make jokes or a story to remember vocabulary
4. No need to look for examples of word usage if you don’t want to
5. Write out vocabulary 10 times
6. Stop studying after one paragraph or verse
7. Read the lyrics
8. Listen to the song and try to follow along
9. Do this until you learn the whole song
8. Make any cultural notes
Okay, so let me explain some details in the post. In every method, one of the steps is to make a joke or some kind of phrase to help you memorize a new vocabulary word. Let me explain. Sometimes it is very hard to remember vocabulary words unless there is a story behind them! Say your words is 苹果 (apple) so you write the English translation and then below it you write, “Sarah refuses to eat her 苹果 and has now tossed it onto the floor. Sarah is 24.” Now you’ve written a short and memorable story about apples and are more likely to remember the word 苹果 . Got it? They teach this stuff in kindergarten and now you’re going to do it for you!
Note: If you are learning Chinese, you can use the radicals to make a story if you’d like. But that would require learning the radicals for every single word, which I encourage you to do anyway, but you don’t have to.
So how do you plan these into your weekly schedule? Easy! Pick a method and do that for one week and then change it to something else the next week. Or you can change it everyday or every few days. I will talk about it more in another post!
Thank you for reading! I hope this was helpful!
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“I was quiet; but I was not blind.”— Jane Austen
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Months
“The months of the year are based on the Sino-Korean numerals. Each month, starting in January, is represented as a number followed by 월, which means “month”. As an example, March is the third month, so it is 3 (삼) followed by 월, making 삼월.”
1월 - January - 일월
2월 - February - 이월
3월 - March - 삼월
4월 - April - 사월
5월 - May - 오월
6월 - June - 유월
7월 - July - 칠월
8월 - August - 팔월
9월 - September - 구월
10월 - October - 시월
11월 - November - 십일월
12월 - December - 십이월
Ways to learn:
- Audio for each month by rocketlanguages.com
- A YouTube video by Korean Unnie explaining commonly made mistakes
- A Memrise course
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