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![Books, Confused, and Music: HOW TO GET BETTER AT LISTENING
COMPREHENSION
by rhubarbstudies
Listening comprehension: is a huge part of learning (and speaking) any language
1. It's about discrimination; isolating sounds and words while you practice
2. Pronunciation and comprehension go hand-in-hand. As
3. Listen with prejudice: listen for certain words, certain information.
one improves, so does the other
Best practice:
Listen to your target language often: 5 hours/week in class is a good start. Watching shows or
listening to music in your target language is a enough to significantly improve your understanding of
the language
Strategies and tips for improvement
Music: listen to music and read the words at the same time. The goal is to start training your
brain to recognize the letters that go with the sounds. The better you get, the more you'll be able to
understand the words when vou hear them without text.
Read out loud: just like when you learned your first language, reading aloud in your target
language is a basic way to advance your comprehension.
Use your book: its more than likely that your textbook has a section on listening, so use it
Dare to mispronounce: use the words often and out loud. The more familiar y
uth
muscles become with making the sounds, the better you will get at interpreting them.
→ Repetition: if you have listening exercises, repeat those over and over again. The more you use
them, the better you'll get.
HOW TO STUDY GRAMMAR
by rhubarbstudies
Grammar: is the nuts and bolts of language
Best practice:
Nightly review: good, organized notes & repetition for mechanical proficiency.
Think of grammar as the moving pieces of lanquage. It's flexible. There is rarely one right way to say
something
Study strategies for grammar (choose as needed)
→ Examples, examples, examples: write copious examples in your notes: the more ways you see
things done, the clearer the pattern is.
→ Look for patterns: most grammar is very clean, there are rules and the the grammar will follow
them in organized ways. When you notice a pattern, write it down, draw arrows and cartoons and
anything else that helps you remember.
→ Become familiar with the parts of speech: (in all languages) and what they do. These are the
building blocks of al language, and there are only seven.
For conjugations: practice new forms immediately. If you get them into memory, you'll never
think about them again, and you'll always have them ready
Montessori shapes: associate different elements of a sentence with shapes and colors. Use
whatever you can to help features stand out.
→ Translate this is the old school method. The more connections you forge between you current
language and your target language, the easier the target language is to understand.
Grammar drills: this is boring, but repetition has a huge success rate with grammar.
Meet with your teachers: they most likely understand the topic they're teaching, so meeting
with them is often the easiest thing you can do
HOW TO MEMORIZE VOCABULARY
by rhubarbstudies
Vocabulary:
the meat of the language-acquiring vocabulary is one of the most important parts of
study. The goal is to enter it into long-term memory (saving you work down the road)
Best practice:
Nightly review: no more than 5 minutes. Flashcards are the most efficient method
Other methods for working with vocabulary (choose as needed)
ord groups:
create charts if words grouped together that are similar, the more associations
between words, the easier they are to recall
Pictures:
associate new words with both images and definitions.
Vocabulary fan: write all the vocab down the side of a piece of paper, then fold it over and
write the definitions. Keep doing this until, you have filled the whole page, and the page will be
folded into an accordion shape
Recopying: some people find success with the traditional way of writing out lists and
definitions until you don't need the lists anymore
Vocab journal
this is what the pros do-keep a notebook purely for vocabulary. Any time you
come across a word you've had to look up more than three times, add it to the journal with a
definition.
Kinetic study:
associate movement with words and definitions. Engage your whole body in the
topic. Your body helps jog your memory.
Interactive notebooks: use foldable (like the vocabulary fan) to make flip books or flip boxes
that you paste into a notebook. The more senses you engage, the faster toy can assimilate the new
information.
Drawing
if you have a penchant for art, draw the ideas that come with the words.
sing your vocabulary; set it to music that sticks with you.
SongES
HOW TO GET BETTER AT HOMEWORK
by rhubarbstudies
Homework
is really a necessity in mastering new concepts because it's repetition.
Use your book & other resources:
if you have a textbook/workbook set, the homework you're
doing most likely has corresponding sections.
Look up words
and anything else you don't know. Understanding the directions and questions
is super important to sense of what your practicing
Try anyway
even if you get confused, try anyway. Giving up will only lead to getting behind
and more confusion down the line
identifying what you don't know is hugely helpful
write questions in the margins of your homework/book so that you can remember them
in class for next time or look them up on your own.
Ask for help
your teachers are most likely easy to contact and willing to give you homeworlk
support or a quick meeting to clarify things.
Keep up with your work and engage in class:
if you work out of your workbook/textbook a
lot, your quizzes and tests will most likely reflect your books. Keep them up to date. Correct wrong
answers and use the books together
rhubarbstudies:
[5/27/17]
My French teacher gave us these tips for studying a new language, so I typed them up for you guys! You can check out the original doc he gave us here](https://pics.me.me/thumb_how-to-get-better-at-listening-comprehension-by-rhubarbstudies-listening-43756133.png)
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![Apparently, Children, and Christmas: awkward.
@howtobeprada
imagine if you called the wrong number and
"mom?"
"no this is Morgan freeman"
Reply
Retweet Favorite
voroxpete:
arctic-hands:
therobotmonster:
kuroba101:
prismatic-bell:
HERE’S THE THING THOUGH
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click
And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
“No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it.”
I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
“Ma’am, this is a matter of national security.”
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
This is my new favourite story.
When I was in college I got a job working for a company that manages major air-travel data. It was a temp gig working their out of date system while they moved over to a new one, since my knowing MS Dos apparently made me qualified.
There was no MS Dos involved. Instead, there was a proprietary type-based OS and an actually-uses-transistors refrigerator-sized computer with switches I had to trip at certain times during the night as I watched the data flow from six pm to six AM on Fridays and weekends. If things got stuck, I reset the server.
The company handled everything from low-end data (hotel and car reservations) to flight plans and tower information. I was weighed every time I came in to make sure it was me. Areas of the building had retina scanners on doors.
During training. they took us through all the procedures. Including the procedures for the red phone. There was, literally, a red phone on the shelf above my desk. “This is a holdover from the cold war.” They said. “It isn’t going to come up, but here’s the deal. In case of nuclear war or other nation-wide disaster, the phone will ring. Pick up the phone, state your name and station, and await instructions. Do whatever you are told.”
So my third night there, it’s around 2am and there’s a ringing sound.
I look up, slowly. The Red phone is ringing.
So I reach out, I pick up the phone. I give my name and station number. And I hear every station head in the building do the exact same. One after another, voices giving names and numbers. Then silence for the space of two breaths. Silence broken by…
“Uh… Is Shantavia there?”
It turns out that every toll free, 1-900 or priority number has a corresponding local number that it routs to at its actual destination. Some poor teenage girl was trying to dial a friend of hers, mixed up the numbers, and got the atomic attack alert line for a major air-travel corporation’s command center in the mid-west United States.
There’s another pause, and the guys over in the main data room are cracking up. The overnight site head is saying “I think you have the wrong number, ma’am.” and I’m standing there having faced the specter of nuclear annihilation before I was old enough to legally drink.
The red phone never rang again while I was there, so the people doing my training were only slightly wrong in their estimation of how often the doomsday phone would ring.
Every time I try to find this story, I end up having to search google with a variety of terms that I’m sure have gotten me flagged by some watchlist, so I’m reblogging it again where I swear I’ve reblogged it before.
But none of these stories even come close to the best one of them all; a wrong number is how the NORAD Santa Tracker got started.
Seriously, this is legit.
In December 1955, Sears decided to run a Santa hotline. Here’s the ad they posted.
Only problem is, they misprinted the number. And the number they printed? It went straight through to fucking NORAD. This was in the middle of the Cold War, when early warning radar was the only thing keeping nuclear annihilation at bay. NORAD was the front line.
And it wasn’t just any number at NORAD. Oh no no no.
Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red
one. “Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the
number,” she says.
“This was the ‘50s, this was the Cold War,
and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack on
the United States,” Rick says.
The red phone rang one day in
December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. “And then there was a
small voice that just asked, ‘Is this Santa Claus?’ ”
His
children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was
annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then,
Terri says, the little voice started crying.
“And Dad realized
that it wasn’t a joke,” her sister says. “So he talked to him,
ho-ho-ho’d and asked if he had been a good boy and, ‘May I talk to your
mother?’ And the mother got on and said, ‘You haven’t seen the paper
yet? There’s a phone number to call Santa. It’s in the Sears ad.’ Dad
looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had
children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the
phones to act like Santa Claus.”
“It got to be a big joke at the command center. You
know, ‘The old man’s really flipped his lid this time. We’re answering
Santa calls,’ ” Terri says.
And then, it got better.
“The airmen had this big glass board with the United States on it and
Canada, and when airplanes would come in they would track them,” Pam
says.
“And Christmas Eve of 1955, when Dad walked in, there was
a drawing of a sleigh with eight reindeer coming over the North Pole,”
Rick says.
“Dad said, ‘What is that?’ They say, ‘Colonel, we’re
sorry. We were just making a joke. Do you want us to take that down?’
Dad looked at it for a while, and next thing you know, Dad had called
the radio station and had said, ‘This is the commander at the Combat
Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. Why, it looks
like a sleigh.’ Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour
and say, ‘Where’s Santa now?’ ” Terri says.
For real.
“And later in life he got letters from all over the world, people
saying, ‘Thank you, Colonel,’ for having, you know, this sense of humor.
And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a
briefcase that had a lock on it like it was top-secret information,” she
says. “You know, he was an important guy, but this is the thing he’s
known for.”
“Yeah,” Rick [his son] says, “it’s probably the thing he was proudest of, too.”
So yeah. I think that might be the best wrong number of all time.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport](https://pics.me.me/thumb_awkward-howtobeprada-imagine-if-you-called-the-wrong-number-and-43230352.png)
![Apparently, Children, and Christmas: awkward.
@howtobeprada
imagine if you called the wrong number and
"mom?"
"no this is Morgan freeman"
Reply
Retweet Favorite
kkhendin:
voroxpete:
arctic-hands:
therobotmonster:
kuroba101:
prismatic-bell:
HERE’S THE THING THOUGH
I used to work for a call center and I was doing a political survey and I called this number that was randomly generated for me and the way our system worked was voice-activated so when the other person said hello you’d get connected to them, so I just launch right into my “Harvard University and NPR blah blah blah” thing and then there’s this long pause and I think the person’s hung up even though I didn’t hear a click
And then I hear “you shouldn’t be able to call this number.”
So I apologize and go into the preset spiel about because we aren’t selling anything, etc. etc. and the answer I get is
“No, I know that. What I mean is that it should be impossible for you to call this number, and I need to know how you got it.”
I explain that it’s randomly generated and I’m very sorry for bothering him, and go to hang up. And before I can click terminate, I hear:
“Ma’am, this is a matter of national security.”
I accidentally called the director of the FBI.
My job got investigated because a computer randomly spit out a number to the Pentagon.
This is my new favourite story.
When I was in college I got a job working for a company that manages major air-travel data. It was a temp gig working their out of date system while they moved over to a new one, since my knowing MS Dos apparently made me qualified.
There was no MS Dos involved. Instead, there was a proprietary type-based OS and an actually-uses-transistors refrigerator-sized computer with switches I had to trip at certain times during the night as I watched the data flow from six pm to six AM on Fridays and weekends. If things got stuck, I reset the server.
The company handled everything from low-end data (hotel and car reservations) to flight plans and tower information. I was weighed every time I came in to make sure it was me. Areas of the building had retina scanners on doors.
During training. they took us through all the procedures. Including the procedures for the red phone. There was, literally, a red phone on the shelf above my desk. “This is a holdover from the cold war.” They said. “It isn’t going to come up, but here’s the deal. In case of nuclear war or other nation-wide disaster, the phone will ring. Pick up the phone, state your name and station, and await instructions. Do whatever you are told.”
So my third night there, it’s around 2am and there’s a ringing sound.
I look up, slowly. The Red phone is ringing.
So I reach out, I pick up the phone. I give my name and station number. And I hear every station head in the building do the exact same. One after another, voices giving names and numbers. Then silence for the space of two breaths. Silence broken by…
“Uh… Is Shantavia there?”
It turns out that every toll free, 1-900 or priority number has a corresponding local number that it routs to at its actual destination. Some poor teenage girl was trying to dial a friend of hers, mixed up the numbers, and got the atomic attack alert line for a major air-travel corporation’s command center in the mid-west United States.
There’s another pause, and the guys over in the main data room are cracking up. The overnight site head is saying “I think you have the wrong number, ma’am.” and I’m standing there having faced the specter of nuclear annihilation before I was old enough to legally drink.
The red phone never rang again while I was there, so the people doing my training were only slightly wrong in their estimation of how often the doomsday phone would ring.
Every time I try to find this story, I end up having to search google with a variety of terms that I’m sure have gotten me flagged by some watchlist, so I’m reblogging it again where I swear I’ve reblogged it before.
But none of these stories even come close to the best one of them all; a wrong number is how the NORAD Santa Tracker got started.
Seriously, this is legit.
In December 1955, Sears decided to run a Santa hotline. Here’s the ad they posted.
Only problem is, they misprinted the number. And the number they printed? It went straight through to fucking NORAD. This was in the middle of the Cold War, when early warning radar was the only thing keeping nuclear annihilation at bay. NORAD was the front line.
And it wasn’t just any number at NORAD. Oh no no no.
Terri remembers her dad had two phones on his desk, including a red
one. “Only a four-star general at the Pentagon and my dad had the
number,” she says.
“This was the ‘50s, this was the Cold War,
and he would have been the first one to know if there was an attack on
the United States,” Rick says.
The red phone rang one day in
December 1955, and Shoup answered it, Pam says. “And then there was a
small voice that just asked, ‘Is this Santa Claus?’ ”
His
children remember Shoup as straight-laced and disciplined, and he was
annoyed and upset by the call and thought it was a joke — but then,
Terri says, the little voice started crying.
“And Dad realized
that it wasn’t a joke,” her sister says. “So he talked to him,
ho-ho-ho’d and asked if he had been a good boy and, ‘May I talk to your
mother?’ And the mother got on and said, ‘You haven’t seen the paper
yet? There’s a phone number to call Santa. It’s in the Sears ad.’ Dad
looked it up, and there it was, his red phone number. And they had
children calling one after another, so he put a couple of airmen on the
phones to act like Santa Claus.”
“It got to be a big joke at the command center. You
know, ‘The old man’s really flipped his lid this time. We’re answering
Santa calls,’ ” Terri says.
And then, it got better.
“The airmen had this big glass board with the United States on it and
Canada, and when airplanes would come in they would track them,” Pam
says.
“And Christmas Eve of 1955, when Dad walked in, there was
a drawing of a sleigh with eight reindeer coming over the North Pole,”
Rick says.
“Dad said, ‘What is that?’ They say, ‘Colonel, we’re
sorry. We were just making a joke. Do you want us to take that down?’
Dad looked at it for a while, and next thing you know, Dad had called
the radio station and had said, ‘This is the commander at the Combat
Alert Center, and we have an unidentified flying object. Why, it looks
like a sleigh.’ Well, the radio stations would call him like every hour
and say, ‘Where’s Santa now?’ ” Terri says.
For real.
“And later in life he got letters from all over the world, people
saying, ‘Thank you, Colonel,’ for having, you know, this sense of humor.
And in his 90s, he would carry those letters around with him in a
briefcase that had a lock on it like it was top-secret information,” she
says. “You know, he was an important guy, but this is the thing he’s
known for.”
“Yeah,” Rick [his son] says, “it’s probably the thing he was proudest of, too.”
So yeah. I think that might be the best wrong number of all time.
Source: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/19/371647099/norads-santa-tracker-began-with-a-typo-and-a-good-sport
It got better.](https://pics.me.me/thumb_awkward-howtobeprada-imagine-if-you-called-the-wrong-number-and-64702977.png)
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