What “feeling Better” Can Look Like After Using A Coping Technique:

girl help i’m starting over again for the 1000th time & i’m beginning to think that life is a never-ending cycle of starting over & i actually have to make peace with that in order to move forward

soft reminder: don’t be so hard on yourself if you fall back into an old pattern!! habits are so hard to change especially when you’re not doing great. when we need the most comfort, old patterns seem like the quick comfort or relief. blaming yourself can make you feel worse and you don’t deserve it especially when you’re already suffering. as long as you pick yourself off the floor and try again, you’re doing good! keep trying until you feel at home in your new routines or habits (yes, it will happen). changing will take more time than expected, but that’s okay. you’re stronger than you feel and you can always try again tomorrow ✨

The calm feeling of wandering through an old and empty bookshop ♡

#learningfrench

L’alphabet phonétique

Les voyelles

[a] open front unrounded vowel - cinéma (cinema, m); hat

[ɑ] open back unrounded vowel - château (castle, m); hot

[e] close-mid front unrounded vowel - clé (key, f); may

[ɛ] open-mid front unrounded vowel - père (father, m), chêne (oak, m); bed

[ə] mid central vowel/schwa - jeu (game, m); bird

[i] close front unrounded vowel - souris (mouse, f); free

[o] close-mid back rounded vowel - rose (rose, f); UK yawn

[ɔ] open-mid back rounded vowel - océan (ocean, m); thought

[ø] close-mid front rounded vowel - jeudi (thursday)

[œ] open-mid front rounded vowel - peur (fear, f)

[u] close back rounded vowel - chou (cabbage, m); boot

[y] close front rounded vowel - tu (you); UK few

This vowel diagram shows the inside of the throat from the left side (pronounce /i/ “eee” and /ɑ/ “aaa” to feel the difference). Antérieur: front, postérieur: back, aperture: opening of the lips.

Les voyelles nasales (when followed by a consonant except -h- or ending a word)

[ɑ̃] > am, an, (é)en, em, aon - temps (time, m)

[ɛ̃] > aim, ain, eim, ein, em, (i)en, im, in, um, un, ym, yn - pain (bread, m)

[ɔ̃] > om, on - ombre (shadow, f), bonjour (hello)

[œ̃] > um, un - humble, un (one, m); dying, turning into [ɛ̃] 

N.B. When a nasal sound is produced, despite being made of two letters, they are to be pronounced as their own sound: in Bonjour, the /o/ and the /n/ shouldn’t be heard at all since they are followed by the consonant /j/, as opposed to the usual dragging of /o/ then /n/ like in Bonne journée.

Les semi-voyelles

[j] voiced palatal approximant - lieu (place, m); you

[ɥ] voiced labial–palatal approximant - huile (oil, f); wall

[w] voiced labial–velar approximant - oui (yes); witch

Les consonnes

[b] voiced bilabial plosive - bête (beast, f)

[d] voiced dental and alveolar plosive - déjeuner (lunch, m)

[f] voiceless labiodental fricative - faim (hunger, f)

[g] voiced velar plosive - gâteau (cake, m)

[ʒ] voiced postalveolar fricative - ange (angel, m); vision

[k] voiceless velar plosive - cadeau (gift, m)

[l] voiced apical alveolar approximant - lait (milk, m)

[p] voiceless bilabial plosive - pain (bread, m)

[ʁ] voiced uvular fricative - roi (king, m)

[s] voiceless alveolar fricative - sel (salt, m); nonsense

[t] voiceless denti-alveolar plosive - table (table, f)

[v] voiced labiodental fricative - violon (violin, m)

[z] voiced alveolar fricative - maison (house, f)

[ʃ] voiceless postalveolar fricative - chocolat (chocolate, m)

Les consonnes nasales

[m] voiced bilabial nasal - miel (honey, m)

[n] voiced denti-alveolar nasal - nez (nose, m)

[ɲ] voiced palatal nasal - montagne (mountain, f)

[ŋ] voiced velar nasal - connexion (connection, f); sing 

Voiced sounds are those that make our vocal chords vibrate when they are produced; voiceless sounds are produced from air passing through the mouth at different points. Fricatives are consonants with the characteristic that when they are produced, air escaped through a small passage and make a hissing sound; plosives are a type of consonant produced by forming a complete obstruction to the flow air out of the mouth.

Movie: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain - Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001

It’s a bright and beautiful sunny day a cool breeze and the sun shining down warmly on your face. You go for a drive. Bikini/beachwear on,you grab a cooler some drinks maybe some lunch. You park the car and you open your door and head for the trunk you grab your stuff and maybe you brought a dog. So you harsh your dog and start walking. You head for the sandy hill you go through the little bit of trees and past the picnic tables, the bbq grills and the bathrooms. You getting closer and closer to the hill. Now for the real exercise you make sure you have everything in the right position and start your climb. Once you reach the top there’s no going back. Fighting the sand and using all your leg muscles you reach the top. From here it gets easier you start towards the beach but before you can go to the water you have to find a place for your stuff. Usually you have little hills that are nice and private as most people usually choose to be closer to the water. You get situated and head towards the water. You feel the wind blowing in your face and you can see the waves crashing and the seagulls flying above. You dip your feet in the water. It’s ice cold but it feels amazing. After about two seconds the water gets warmer and you go even further out and the water starts hitting your face and getting you soaked. But you feel like a kid. You splash in the water and run your fingers through the water. You watch as wave after wave approaches you and you looks in the water to see the sand at the bottom. You look to see if you can spot any little animals. Whether it’s jellyfish,sand dollars and even crab,sometimes little fishies. It depends on the season. With ever step you take you feel the salt from the water touch your legs. Seaweed shells and other things picked up from the water brush up against your legs too. You stand in the water and stare at the bright blue sky with few clouds and the sun hitting your face. You feel at peace here. As beach lovers do.

#LearningMalayalam #sstellestudiess 1

Resource List for Learning Malayalam

Hello! Do you want to learn Malayalam but don't know where to start? Then I've got the perfect resource list for you and you can find its link below! Let me know if you have any suggestions to improve it. Here is what the resource list contains;

"Handmade" resources on certain grammar concepts for easy understanding.

Resources on learning the script.

Websites to practice reading the script.

Documents to enhance your vocabulary.

Notes on Colloquial.

Music playlists

List of podcasts/audiobooks And a compiled + organized list of websites you can use to get hold of grammar!

Google Docs

MALAYALAM RESOURCE LIST

MALAYALAM RESOURCE LIST Join South Asian Languages server for learning more about the Malayalam Language : https://discord.gg/H2Cj6gP6RW In

nature really did THAT with their sounds!

YT Rec for Mandarin!

I feel bad that I haven't been able to deliver on some post I've promised because life has been hectic lately, so I wanted to share a learning resource in the meantime~

Mandarin Melon (and her second channel for shorts!)

I really love her videos and find that they're a great resource for how to speak in a casual, natural manner. The video I linked below is great for learning common phrases—not simple phrases! It's not about how to say "Hello", but how to say phrases that are common in conversation like "Thanks anyway!" or "Fingers crossed!"

Also, I really love her video production. Her editing is really eye-catching without being distracting and improves so much from video to video!

#LearnIrish

site with a shitton of links to irish-language resources, although as far as i can tell it hasn't been updated since about 2012 so there's a strong chance a bunch of them are broken. could be interesting as a way to find the older sites and resources that might have been forgotten / not get recommended so much though