Make This Year About Yourself. Write A Journal With Your Thoughts And Ideas, Take Care Of Yourself And

dark duolingo show me the forbidden bonus skills

things that make me happy:

listening to my favorite song after school ends

starting a book and knowing it will  be great

taking the time to write my notes again with my favorite stationery

starting a new notebook with thousands of ideas

looking at my freshly-taken polaroid picture and seeing that it looks great

anticipating the release of a new book/album/video game

spending the weekend curled up in bed with Netflix

searching for new beautiful study spots

getting nice new messages on my blog

finally getting that A I worked for

when my new amazon delivery package arrives after weeks of waiting

starting a great new project or self-study course

Isn’t it just plain hilarious when you read something in a foreign language and understand it then realise that you don’t even learn that language but you can decode the meaning based on your knowledge of other languages?

i just want to have my own cute little apartment with big windows and bake fresh banana bread every morning and have lots of plants everywhere and read a lot of books and go on adventures w/ friends and watch sunsets from my rooftop

PSA

french vocab from the first half of my year abroad

I’m home for Christmas now, which means I’m back on Scottish soil with decent internet. It’s giving me a chance to reflect on my French and how much it has improved just in three months of living in France. So I thought I’d share some of the things that I learned from living in the Charente-Maritime: 

ah, bah, oui (expression) this seems to be the equivalent of ‘yeah but no’ when people have a false-start on a sentence. usually, i heard this in disagreements in my classroom when students were wanting to correct another student but couldn’t get the words out fast enough. i think it’s a hilarious thing to say and i’ve been trying to incorporate it into my way of speaking. 

en fait (expression) this literally means ‘in fact’ or ‘actually’, which i think can come off a little rude in english but is actually a common expression in french. french people i have encountered use ‘en fait’ to start sentences, to provide more information, to correct, basically just all the time! 

franchement (adverb) in english, i’m a big fan of using ‘tbh’ or ‘to be honest’, and this is the best french equivalent to that. it sounds so very french when it’s said and can mean ‘frankly’, ‘honestly’, ‘indisputably’ or ‘without hesitation’, depending on the context. 

rater (verb) i picked up this new verb when i was telling a class about how i failed my driving test. i knew that ‘rater’ can mean ‘to miss’, as in ‘i missed the train’, but one student turned to another and said that ‘elle a raté’ and it was explained to me that ‘rater’ can also mean ‘to fail’, or in my case ‘to mess up’ something. 

se tromper (verb) this verb means ‘to be mistaken’, and i definitely found myself saying ‘je me suis trompée’ a lot while I was just new to the country! 

une chocolatine (noun) I was living on the south-west coast of France in the Charente-Maritime region which means that I picked up some new and different ways of saying things. I was quickly informed by my students in the most sincere and serious way possible that the famous ‘pain au chocolat’ pastry does not exist in the Charente-Maritime and I was to ask for ‘une chocolatine’ at the local boulangerie instead. I now use both nouns interchangeably! 

ʚ 6th jan 2017 ɞ

continue making swedish notes♡ first week of the year at the school is not that bad tho (ㆀ˘･з･˘)

12.19.16 catching up on English journals

Language Moodboard ↠ German

basketball = le basket (m) football = le foot(ball) (m) handball = le handball (m) rugby = le rugby (m) volleyball = le volley (m)

badminton = le badminton (m) tennis = le tennis (m) billiards = le billard (m) golf = le golf (m) hockey = le hockey (m) skiing = le ski (m) cycling = le cyclisme (m) gymnastics = la gymnastique (f) horse riding = l’équitation (f) swimming = la natation (f) walking = la promenade (f) jogging = le footing (m) mountaineering = l’alpinisme (m)  judo = le judo (m)

aerobics = l’aérobic (f) athletics = l’athlétisme (m) wrestling = le catch (m) shooting = le tir (m) archery = le tir à l’arc (m)

water skiing = le ski nautique (m) windsurfing  = la planche à voile (f) sailing = la voile (f) rowing = l’aviron (m) paragliding = le parapente (m) ice skating = le patin à glace (m)

the ball = le ballon (m) the goal = le but (m) the stadium = le stade (m) the match = le match (m) the result = le résultat (m)