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Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   

UMM NO OFFENCE BUT START DOING THINGS THAT MAKE U HAPPY AND STOP PLEASING EVERYONE CAUSE TRUST ME NO ONE WILL EVER BE SATISFIED. PEOPLE WILL FOREVER LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH U AND JUDGE AND BELITTLE EVERY STEP U MAKE. DO THINGS FOR URSELF AND UR LIFE. ITS EASIER SAID THAN DONE I KNOW BUT SERIOUSLY JUST START DOING THAT AND SEE HOW MUCH HAPPIER AND SATISFIED U ARE WITH URSELF.

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“the art of ignoring people and things that bring you out of your element, so you can gravitate towards what feels more like you, more like home.”

— iambrillyant

Syrian kids deserve a chance to feel the childish joy of running out of their houses at the sound of an ice cream truck and buying ice cream

Pakistani kids deserve the chance to go to an amusement park and feel the rush of the wind in their face as they try the biggest rollercoaster in the park

Afghan kids deserve a day to sleep in and wake up lazily to the warm glow of the sun and the sound of happy voices coming from downstairs

A young Iraqi girl deserves the chance to discover the amazing world of cake decorating and realize that she was born to decorate incredibly stunning cakes

A boy from Uganda deserves to fulfill his dream of becoming a singer because his whole family and all his neighbours always praise his beautiful voice

A little Somali girl deserves to know all the different art mediums that exist so she can explore her God given talents as an artist and mesmerize everyone with her work

A brown man enslaved in Kuwait deserves to wake up early and surprise his wife with breakfast in bed and to hold her in his arms

A little boy in North Korea deserves to feel the nervous excitement as he gets on a plane to fulfill his dream of traveling the world

A Palestinian girl deserves her chance to stun the world with her superior acting skills, a surefire Oscar winner if the world ever knew it

A Kashmiri boy deserves a chance to delve into the world of literature and be the greatest poet we ever knew

A Native girl in Canada deserves to find out she’s an amazing swimmer and fulfill her dream of one day competing in the Olympics

A Sudani boy deserves to feel the excitement of seeing a magic trick for the first time and then putting on his own little magic show for the neighborhood

An Egyptian girl deserves to find out she can make the best blueberry muffins you ever tasted and she opens her own bakery to discover she’s a talented businesswoman as well

A black boy in America deserves the chance to graduate from his dream law school and become the best humanitarian lawyer to practice

A Nigerian boy deserves the chance to wake up at dawn and go on a beach trip with his friends so they can catch the sunrise and stare in awe at the explosion of colours against the sky A Yemeni girl deserves to feel the exhaustion after spending an entire day doing dares with her friends and she goes to sleep with a smile on her face

If they were born on this planet, they were meant to be here. Everyone deserves a chance at a life. They deserve to know peace.

The daily struggles of the children around the world should include arguing with their parents about not wearing a sweater because it’s not that cold out, not making sure they live to see another day.

Everyone deserves a chance at life.

Do what you can to save humanity. Change starts with you.

Books for Black Women of All Ages to Read

Marita Golden Don’t Play in the Sun

Coffee will make you black- April sinclair

Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson

Flygirl, by Sherri L. Smith

Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

(Middle school)

From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, by Meg Cabot

The Mighty Miss Malone, by Christopher Paul Curtis

Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg

Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s Poetry

Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna And Still Peace Did Not Come A Memoir of Reconciliation

Alaya Dawn Johnson The Summer Place

Alaya Dawn Johnson Love is the Drug

Alice Walker Now is the Time to Open Your Heart

Alice Walker In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women

Alice Walker The Color Purple

Alice Walker Meridian

Alice Walker Anything We Love Can be Saved

Alice Walker By the Light of My Father’s Smile

Angela Y Davis Blues Legacies & Black Feminism

Anne Moody Coming of age in Misssissi

Anne Schraff The One for Me

Antoinette Tuff Prepared for a Purpose

Antoinette Tuff Prepared For a Purpose

April Sinclair Coffee Will Make You Black

Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel

Babygirl Daniels 16 ½ on the Block A Babygirl Drama Vol. 2

Barbara Smith Home Girls

Bebe Moore Campbell Sweet Summer Growing Up With and Without My Dad

Bebe Moore Campbell Brothers and Sisters

Bell Hooks Bone Black Memories of Girlhood

Belle Antoinette Remains

Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is?

Brandon Montclare Halloween Eve

Brian K. Vaughn Saga Volume One

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All be Feminists

Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees

Chris Cleave Little Bee

Cleste O. Norfleet Download Drama

Coe Booth Kendra

Danielle L. McGuire At the Dark End of the Street

Dasha Kelly Almost Crimson

Dorothy Height Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir of Dorothy Height

Dorthy Spruill Redford Somerset Homecoming

Edwidge Danticat Claire of the Sea Light

Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!

Freddie Mae Baxter The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life

Gloria Naylor Mama Day

Grace F. Edwards No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery

Issa Rae The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Iyanla Vanzant Faith in the Valley

Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place

Janet Jackson True You

Janet Mock Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More

Jaquelin Thomas Divine Match-up

Jeremy Zimmerman Kensei

Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones

Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling

Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau

Justina Ireland Promise of Shadows

Karen Gibson Roc she & i Poems

Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds

Karen Tanabe The Gilded Years

Karin Tanabe Gilded Years

Kathryn Talalay Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler

Kia Dupree Silenced

Kimberla Lawson Roby Casting The First Stone

Kymberla Lawson Roby Casting the First Stone

Kyoko M. The Black Parade

Laura Resau The Queen of Water

Linda Joyce The Second Room on The Right

Lola Jaye Being Lara: A Novel

Lorene Cary The Price of a Child

Lynn Austin A Light to My Path

Marian Wright Edelman Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors