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Expressing your opinions (Spanish)

for: @91silk

Sentence starters: 

It seems to me that …-  A mí me parece que …

 In my opinion, …-  En mi opinión, …

I am of the opinion that …-  Soy de la opinión de que …

 I take the view that …-  Soy de la opinión de que …

My personal view is that …-  Mi opinión personal es que …

In my experience …-  En mi experiencia …

As far as I understand…-  Por lo que yo entiendo …

 As far as I can see…-  Por lo que yo puedo ver …

 As I see it, …-  Como yo lo veo, …

 From my point of view…-  Desde mi punto de vista …

 As far as I know…-  Por lo que yo sé …

 From what I know …-  Por lo que sé …

 I might be wrong but …-  Puedo estar equivocado, pero …

 If I am not mistaken …-  Si no me equivoco …

 I believe one can safely say …-  Creo que se puede decir con seguridad …

It is claimed that …-  Se dice que …

I must admit that …-  Tengo que admitir que …

 I cannot deny that …-  No puedo negar que …

 I can imagine that …-  Me imagino que …

 I think/believe/suppose …-  Creo / creo / supongo …

 Personally, I think …-  Personalmente, creo que …

That is why I think …-  Es por eso que creo que …

 I am sure/certain/convinced that …-  Estoy seguro / seguro / convencido de que …

 I am not sure/certain, but …-  No estoy seguro / seguro, pero …

 I am not sure, because I don’t know the situation exactly.-  No estoy seguro, porque no conozco la situación exacta.

I am not convinced that …-  No estoy convencido de que …

 I have read that …-  He leído que …

 I am of mixed opinions about …-  Tengo una opinión mixta sobre …

 I am of mixed opinions about on this.-  Tengo opiniones variadas sobre esto…

I have no opinion in this matter.-  No tengo ninguna opinión al respecto.   

I believe that…- creo que…

I think that…- pienso que…

I think that…- opino que…

I think that…- me parece que… 

Questions:

what do you think about…?/ what’s your opinion about…?-  ¿Qué opinas de…?

what do you believe about…?- ¿Qué crees de…?

what do you think about…?-  ¿Qué piensas de…?

what do you think about…?-  ¿Qué te parece…?

Useful Phrases:

I like- me gusta

I prefer- prefiero

I love- me encanta 

I don’t like- no me gusta

odio- I hate

detesto- I hate

de acuerdo- alright

vale- okay, fine

estoy de acuerdo- I agree

no estoy de acuerdo- I do not agree

de ninguna manera- no way 

Adjectives that can be useful when giving your opinion:

Aburrido/a-Boring

Afortunado/a-Lucky

Antiguo/a-Old

Barato/a-Cheap

Bueno/a-Good

Caro/a-Expensive

Decepcionante-Disappointing

Desagradable-Unpleasant

Difícil-Difficult

Distincto-Different/distinct

Duro/a-Hard/difficult

Emocionante-Exciting

Entretenido/a-Entertaining

Espléndido/a-Splendid

Estúpido/a-Stupid

Extraordinario/a-Extraordinary

Famoso/a-Famous

Fascinante-Fascinating

Favorable-Favourable

Fenomenal-Great

Genial-Brilliant/great

Horroroso/a-Terrible/awful

Importante-Important

Impresionante-Amazing/incredible

Inseguro/a-Insecure

Inútil-Useless

Malo/a-Bad

Moderno/a-Modern

Nuevo/a-New

Posible-Possible

Precioso/a-Lovely/beautiful

Profundo/a-Deep/profound

Regular-Regular/average

Seguro/a-Sure/secure

Sorprendido/a-Surprised

Tonto/a-Silly/stupid

Único/a-Unique/only

Aceptable-Acceptable

Agradable-Pleasant

Apropiado/a-Suitable

Bonito/a-Pretty

Decepcionado/a-Disappointed

Desafortunadamente-Unfortunately

Diferente-Different

Divertido/a-Fun/entertaining/funny

Económico/a-Economical

Encantador-Charming/delightful

Especial-Special

Estupendo/a-Great

Excelente-Excellent

Fácil-Easy

Fantástico/a-Fantastic

Fatal-Awful

Favorito/a-Favourite

Feo/a-Ugly

Hermoso/a-Beautiful/lovely

Ideal-Ideal

Imposible-Impossible

Increíble-Incredible

Interesante-Interesting

Malo/a-Bad

Maravilloso/a-Marvelous/wonderful

Negativo/a-Negative

Perfecto/a-Perfect

Positivo/a-Positive

Preferido/a-Preferred/favourite

Raro/a-Strange

Ridículo/a-Ridiculous

Sencillo/a-Simple/modest

Típico/a-Typical

Tranquilo/a-Quiet/calm

Útil-Useful

Viejo/a-Old

Agreeing politely

¡Totalmente! — Totally!

Estoy (completamente/totalmente) de acuerdo — I (completely/totally) agree

Estoy contigo — I’m with you on that

Por supuesto — Of course!

Tienes razón — You’re right

Disagreeing politely

No estamos de acuerdo — I don’t agree with you

No lo veo (tan) así — I don’t (really) see it like that

No creo — I don’t think so

Saying you’re unsure or showing partial agreement

Estoy de acuerdo hasta un cierto punto — I agree with you up to a point

Tal vez, pero… — Maybe, but…

No estoy muy segura/o — I’m not really sure

Nunca lo pensé — I’ve never thought about it

No tengo la menor idea — I have no idea

If there’s any questions about any of this, let me know!

Writing a job application in French!

Monsieur / Madame – dear sir / madam

Aux principaux concernes – to whom it may concern

Je souhaite poser ma candidature pour le poste de... – I would like to apply for the position of…

Je travaille actuellement pour… – I currently work for…

Je suis diplômé / diplômée en… – I am a graduate in…

Mes qualités principales sont… – my strengths are…

Mon domaine d'expertise est… – my area of expertise is…

Ma langue maternelle est… – My first language is…

Mais je parle aussi… – but I also speak…

J'ai une connaissance pratique de… – I have a working knowledge of…

Je suis un utilisateur confirmé de… – I am an experienced user of…

Je suis disponible pour un entretien le... – I am available for an interview on…

Veuillez agréer, Monsieur / Madame – Yours sincerely,

Capacité de communication – communication skills

Capacité de créativité – creative skills

Capacité d'encadrement – management skills

Capacité à résoudre les problemes – problem solving skills

Capacité à prendre la parole en public – public speaking skills

Compétences en organisation – organisational skills

Motivé / motivée - motivated

Travailleur / travailleuse – hardworking

Un CV – A CV

Une lettre de motivation – A cover letter

Une candidature à un emploi – A job application

The Last - Agust D

주소 - Address

화장실 - Bathroom, Washroom

갈등 - Conflict

일상 - Daily life, Everyday life

우울증 - Depression

꿈 - Dream

친구 - Friend

욕심 - Greed

기요틴 - Guillotine 

머리 - Head

주저 - Hesitation 

아이돌 - Idol

상상 - Imagination 

인생 - Life

기억 - Memory

정신 - Mentality, Mind

괴물 - Monster

강박 - OCD

자신 - Oneself 

부모님 - Parents

오염 - Pollution 

자존심 - Pride, Self-respect 

정신과 - Psychiatry clinic

랩퍼 - Rapper

현실 - Reality

롤렉스 - Rolex

근원 - Root, Cause

잠 - Sleep

가끔 - Sometimes

성공 - Success

시간 - Time

도쿄돔 - Tokyo Dome

누구 - Who

걱정 - Worry

청춘 - Youth

How I prepped for the academic job market

I am by no means an expert on academic jobs just because I now (miraculously?) have one. But I have been told that I am organized, and, yes, that is because being an anxious person sometimes means having a system for everything. So before I totally bury all memories of the academic job market, I thought I would put together a timeline of some of the things I did to get ready to search for academic jobs…

My to-do list started very informally in the first year of my PhD program. I know that sounds over-the-top-early but the job market takes a lot of work. Checking things off one at a time helped me to feel in control. Here’s how I prepared for the academic job market as a PhD student:

Year 1

Do research that excites you: Enthusiasm for my research ended up being my momentum through a lot of the hard stuff that came later. Try to set yourself up to do the research that you want to do right away. This might include some trial-and-error and trying out different topics until you find the one.

Read The Professor is In: My MA advisor insisted I read this the summer before I started the PhD and, as always, she was totally right. When I told other grad students I had read a book about how tough the job market is they either said “I don’t need to read that yet” or “I don’t want to know how bad it is.” Ummmm…denial is not a good strategy. Knowing what you’re getting into is a good strategy. Even though the information about prepping job market materials was not yet relevant, having a framework for what would be evaluated helped me to define my grad school goals.

Year 2

Write papers that help you figure out your research area: I was pretty bad at this in my MA (I wrote papers about everythingggg). It’s ok to spend some time exploring topics, but once I had a topic area, I tried to use grad seminar papers to narrow in on that topic. This involved writing some papers that ended up being duds, and some that ended up being important parts of my dissertation. This leads to…

Ask about publishing: In seminars, I tried to have meetings with professors where I told them I wanted an academic job and needed experience publishing. They were usually willing to help develop seminar papers that had (somewhat?) original arguments in them, which is necessary for publishing. I was also not afraid to ask for lots of publishing help–how does it work? where should I submit this? can I use a cover letter you have written as a template? Publishing is confusing and took me a while to get used to.

Network smarter, not harder: This was the year I realized that going to giant conferences and hoping to meet people who did similar things was just not working. I reassessed and submitted to several smaller conferences that had the explicit goal of having senior faculty mentor grad students. It was amazing! First, these conferences were genuinely helpful, second, they were genuinely…genuine. I didn’t feel that I had to do any super fake networking anymore because I was really there to have conversations that developed my research.

Year 3

Read job postings: If your discipline has a listserv, subscribe, if not, check out the InsideHigherEd job postings. Note any trends in hiring. I don’t think you can totally pivot toward every job (duh) but you can think about how to make your application more friendly to what everyone seems to want. In my case, people who teach organizational communication were often also being asked to teach several other classes, so I made sure to ask to teach one of those so it would be on my record before the job market.

Submit, submit, submit: This is the year I got the most journal submissions under review. Some got accepted, some got (mega) rejected. Most needed several rounds of hardcore revisions that took 12-14 months. Submitting in year 3 gave me time to do those revisions so that I could use the articles as writing samples on applications.

Year 4

Prep materials: I drew on as many resources as possible to prep my job market materials–career services helped with my CV, our graduate teaching program on campus helped me writing my teaching and diversity statements, I asked recent graduates for example cover letters, my advisor read and edited cover letters, my DAD read and edited cover letters (what can I say he loves helping with grammar). It takes a village. Use the village. Oh, now is also a good time to reread TPII book for tips on writing decent materials.

Get organized: I had a spreadsheet where I put all of the relevant job information, especially deadlines, keywords, and information about each department.

Ask your letter writers: I did this in August. I also made them all a “job application digest”–just a word document with all of the jobs I submitted to and some notes about what I had said in my cover letter, so they could tailor rec letters.

Throw yourself at your dissertation: Every interview asked how I was planning to finish the dissertation. Making real progress made this question much easier. I definitely lost myself to the job market for a solid month in November. Then, I realized that my dissertation was the only thing I had control over. So I got back to work.

And here are some other resources that I also enjoyed reading:

Thoughts on diversity statements: What the heck even are they?, plus thoughts on the hidden curriculum of college and designing inclusive teaching on campus (Ps don’t just use these to write a diversity statement use them to actually do work in your classroom and campus environment so that what you write on your diversity statement is genuine).

A breakdown on cover letters

Another great post on the job hunt

Campus visit small talk

This post originally appeared on my WordPress

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academia is 50% crying, 20% research, and 30% coming up with funny titles for every paper that you write

KOREAN LEARNING MASTERLIST:

originally a quick bookmark that became a comprehensive, work-in-progress, reblog-able masterlist of all korean posts i’ve made and come across on tumblr, ordered by topic/theme. last updated: 04/05/2019

VOCABULARY:

Time + Space:

eojetbam-studies: five a day #21 — time related vocab

eojetbam-studies: position in korean 어디에 있어요?

eojetbam-studies: countries in korean — 어느 나라 사람이에요?

eojetbam-studies: days of the week

koreanstudytips: frequency adverbs

dailydoseofkorea: korean geographic vocab

Relationships:

eojetbam-studies: family in korean — 우리의 가족

Nouns:

koreanstudytips: animals in korean

eojetbam-studies: five a day #3 — thanksgiving related vocab

Adjectives:

eojetbam-studies: colors in korean — 한국어에 색들이

Verbs:

jesslearnslanguages: 25 common korean verbs

19tc: to like/to dislike

patroocle: sleep related vocab

Internet:

patroocle: on the internet

GRAMMAR:

Particles / Attached Endings:

learn-korean-with-alli: object particle 를/을

adventuresinkorean: contrastive ending (으)나

yasuistudies: future tense and probability (으)ㄹ 거예요

Taking Action:

koreanstudytips: let’s in korean

Negatives:

koreanstudytips: how to say don’t in korean

Other Grammar:

h-eonno: korean sentence structure

OTHER:

Honorifics:

koreanstudytips: 존댓말 vs. 반말

Just knocked out a first draft of my first ever academic CV. Is this what productivity feels like?

cute things // cosas adorables

teddy bear - osito de peluche (m.)

angel - ángel (m.)

bee - abeja (f.)

butterfly - mariposa (f.)

dew - rocío (m.)

pond - balsa (f.) / estanque (m.)

kitten - gatito / gatita

orchard - huerto (m.)

snowfall - nevada (f.)

field - campo (m.)

mist - neblina (f.)

teacup - taza de té (f.)

dusty book - libro polvoriento (m.)

duckling - patito / patita

cotton - algodón (m.)

hug - abrazo (m.)

bouquet - ramo (m.)

enchanted - encantado

ethereal - etéreo

shimmering - reluciente

sweet - dolce

to cuddle - abrazarse

to blossom - florecer

to daydream - soñar despierto

to caress - acariciar

to hum - tararear

to whisper - susurrar

to giggle - reírse

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It’s been a while, y’all.

I’m in that twilight zone between graduation and graduate school. So applying for jobs is like: Hi I want to work for you but only for like a year so hope you don’t hate me. 

Luckily, there is going to be a graduate school fair near me soon so I can talk to actual humans in person about my choices. 

Just had to get that out there. Love y’all and hope whatever kind of day you’re having gets better!

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