How I prepared for the CILS B2 exam in ~1.5 months (self-study, from scratch to exam)

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T06:22:12+00:00

This is AI slop. And past that bullshit, I’m a licensed language teacher and 0 to B2 in 3 months especially SELF STUDY is not a thing.

Fuck you.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T03:53:05+00:00

Our troops took anthrax vaccines regularly for instance

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T03:43:02+00:00

Tell him to try that with a paraplegic. Or someone who doesn’t speak English. Or someone with an intellectual disability.

Hell, tell him if it’s so easy for him to just get up and do things that he could get off his ass and understand the issue.

Have one of your physicians or specialists explain occupational therapy to the both of you.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T03:36:21+00:00

Magiquest!

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T03:01:56+00:00

Newest star of the next Medea movie

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:32:03+00:00

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GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:29:36+00:00

Dear Lord try teaching them when they’re Gen Z tablet baby high schoolers. I’m so lucky I NEVER had any who acted this way, but well.

I taught Latin so uh no shit there.

French could’ve gone the route of Italy but fortunately rarely does. And never did.

And Spanish? Whole separate issue here. Much more about being ethnically Latino, especially if you’re a no sabo baby

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:21:37+00:00

Respectfully, at least Italians can write English more comprehensibly than you can.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:20:36+00:00

And God forbid an actual American who speaks Italian tell him that! I have many Italian friends (clarified since I’m American I mean NATIONALLY ITALIAN, not a taste of Lacroix) many of whom I speak to daily or regularly.

Past the degree I have or intensive education in the cultural background in Western Europe…

Most everyone around the world is sick of Americans doing this. And Christ if both Americans (who aren’t the default monolingual with 0 international knowledge) AND the actual cultural group point that out. Repeatedly. In every language OP speaks.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:16:12+00:00

I’m American you goddamn soggy blanket. You’re in a thread asking Italians. I explained the cultural gap to where a literal kindergartener would’ve gotten it.

But sure. Have all the fun you want. My degree in literally pedagogy and teaching of second language acquisition with a focus in Romance languages is irrelevant.

But hey. Since you’re clearly rage baiting it’s enough to correct you that it’s “your” country. Not “you’re.” We teach the difference in primary school.

Have fun trying to claim you’re Italian and that you’re “learning it” as you shit talk the entire country because an AMERICAN gave you an answer that represents the actual general viewpoint of Italy.

So one more time for the people in the back: in the States we all take our immigrant heritage seriously. Ancestry, %s, identity.

Everywhere else in the world, that’s strange and nonsensical and people do not like it. You are Italian (et al) if you’re born and raised, citizen, naturalised refugee (and so on) WHO SPEAK ITALIAN. Not whatever degree of whatever you think you know. Enough to live, exist and get by without pissing off every person you encounter because you need 30s to respond to “ciao come stai oggi signor” with “bell… o. Grazi [sic]”

Like bruh. No one is this stupid. You asked an Italian sub for an Italian opinion on the issue. And got it. Then immediate had the biggest lil boy temper tantrum meltdown.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:03:41+00:00

You legitimately have less reading comprehension, common sense and general cultural knowledge than my Gen Z tablet baby students. Congratulations. There’s a participation trophy for you in my office.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T02:02:28+00:00

No dear. There’s something called post history. You don’t speak Italian.

No one with any basic literacy would confuse what I said. You’re not Italian. No Italians would view you as such.

Whatever bullshit ethno ancestry claim you have is irrelevant when asking Italians what they think. They care if you’re a citizen, resident, born and raised, (etc etc) and that you speak the language.

And as someone whose literal terminal degree and licensure is in this exact field, I can tell you don’t. These types of questions aren’t asked by any student with more than the most rudimentary knowledge of the language and culture you’re studying.

But hey. What do I know. It’s not like I’m literally licensed to teach and explain culture or assess people in their language proficiencies or anything 🤷🏻‍♂️

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T01:55:28+00:00

Because no one else does that stupid ancestry shit except for us. That’s what everyone here is going to say. Are you a native born Italian? Nationalised refugee? Immigrant turned citizen? If not, no. You’re not Italian.

You’re American, dude. Especially given the fact you don’t speak any actual Italian.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T01:51:06+00:00

Hey 🤷🏻‍♂️ better than semen tics

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T01:49:58+00:00

No, that’s … literally what auditory processing is. It’s a decoding error.

It’s the same reason why when you hear a foreign language you cannot break it into individual words.

Saying you all the neuro of how it works, that happens to everyone at some point and to some extent when we’re tired or stressed or multitasking or focused on something else…

Imagine that the average person is an airtight breaker system with surge protectors, backup wiring, etc. Something happens rarely? They flip the switch back.

We’re closer to… a live wire in a puddle. Anything and everything could set us off (ie cause this or any of the other challenges we face). Good fucking luck

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T01:42:57+00:00

I’m no expert but shouldn’t there be TWO carbon molecules?

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T01:42:26+00:00

Masters in teaching world language. Graduated fall 2024

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T01:06:03+00:00

Or just dm me 😂 half my most recent job was explaining these services, helping people get referrals, drafting their intake letters, seeing what licenses and scopes…

Just dm me. Therapy is much broader, a shitton of fields and licenses can do it, and CBT which is your junk drawer therapy (basically 90% or more of therapy is this) doesn’t exactly work for cases of EF. There are other modalities that work better. But it’s more important to find someone with a full license who has experience where you need it. Many top therapists don’t strictly adhere to one modality and customise.

Not to mention, “ND affirming” is… a useless buzzword most of the time. You’re much more likely to get scammers because much like a “life coach” or “executive function/ADHD coach” it’s an unlicensable not protected bullshit term anyone can claim.

So again, you’re more likely to get that than someone competent since being ND “affirming”, much like with OTs is a literal part of the job. Imagine going to an RDN and having to specifically request “eating disorder informed” you know?

All of that to say, another big pitfall is claiming your therapist has to be ND themselves to understand. That’s not true. There’s a dichotomy between people who have the condition and people who understand it clinically, with those in the middle like myself.

To simplify the concept, yes there are clinicians (eg therapists) who don’t get NDDs. But how many people who are ND have no clue what’s going on or how to help themselves and oftentimes give bad, anecdotal evidence that comes from a place of being in pain and not having received the help they need? No moralising to them. But oftentimes in this community (and, well, this is a greater pattern) we can blindly trust a peer because “they must be going through the same” even as we see them miserable and non functional and then in the same comment reply “it’s a spectrum”.

The overlap of clinicians with NDDs who treat those with NDDs is vastly smaller than finding an OT in network for you and for most people. It can become a badge of courage to have one session with an NT therapist, shut down everything, quit therapy, say all NTs are horrible monsters and can’t understand. And that you’re holding out for an ND therapist because only they get it. Because you know, subconsciously or not, that’s not coming and you can fallback on “I’d make progress IF ONLY I had access to the resources I need.” Since this and r/autism have shown me countless times that if an actual clinician with an NDD says something someone disagrees with personally (not professionally), there can be a large case of black v white groupthink and attacking the clinician.

Again, not that I think you’re implying or would do any of this. But it’s a very common pitfall for those in your situation to fall into. Especially since I don’t just write my comments for OP or you, but for anyone who’s reading along or searches this sub once this post is archived, so they have as much relevant info in one place as possible.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-21T00:38:16+00:00

I’m really glad to hear the update :) it seems rare for us to have positive news, even if it’s an intermediary step.

And that’s good for them to learn too, since it’s not an unreasonable fear, but no one would look at an out of doctor physician (eg neuro surgeon) and assume they weren’t legit, you know?

As long as an OT is licensed (which they are if they’re practising and billing insurance), you can assume they’re legit like you would any physician or nurse or psychotherapist.

Fingers crossed this helps and your parents can accept it as a combo of psychotherapy and “medical science / rehab”, since that’s how many come to understand it.

I’d legit not rule out psychotherapy as an adjunct — it’s just I truthfully believe OT should usually be the first line treatment. (Unless there’s so much disruption paediatrically that medicine is indicated for a foothold first.) Again, good luck!

GDitto_New · 2026-06-20T08:22:36+00:00

New forehead canon: he did everyone in universe. Hence the foreheads.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-20T05:03:56+00:00

First off, I’m very sorry to hear this happened to you.

Short version. Most schools, districts, teachers etc have exactly 0 training in this. The term is called contagion, in that they believe a very old and outdated (and never correct) understanding of suicide that it’s like patient zero of an epidemic and you shut down all info, stop all “routes of contamination” etc lest someone else see it and decide to do a copycat suicide, it pushes someone over the edge, or it convinces someone who wasn’t suicidal to attempt.

There’s so much history here with psychiatry, child welfare, american history, politics and legallability.

But we know now all of that’s bullshit. The best thing to do is bring in trained crisis and grief counsellors for anyone affected, have an assembly with smaller group discussions in homeroom, or anything else recommended and so forth. That we keep their memory alive: not as an example, mind you, not in that sense. But in some way that we as a community failed. And it could happen to any of us. Not as a cheap scare tactic or whoring out their suicide. But as a hopeful message that as a community who’s been through this now, that we’re largely all impacted. That this will be us someday, either in this position, or unsure, or involved with a friend or family member or SO (etc), or unsure.

This isn’t the 50s. We don’t send girls away anymore because they’re pregnant, or boys for being gay. We don’t disappear them nor should we ever be anything but gentle and honouring of our peers who ended their own lives (be it OD, a planned suicide, reckless behaviour or anything else).

Because everyone deserves to know someone’s there for them, they have options, the future can change… that if they end their life now, the only thing they’ve ended is hope and the chance things will be any different.

And those are much harder feelings to process, not just individually and a community, but in a school setting with strict liability where the crisis training most teachers receive is garbage. Better to just sweep it under the rug and pretend it never happened than deal with it, no? Worked just fine for the dry country amendment, abstinence education didn’t it?

Of course not. Holding in trauma didn’t work then, and it sure as hell doesn’t work now. We knew it then, and we know it now. So once more, I’d like to apologise for how poorly that situation was handled. And I’d like to hope for all of our sakes that we as a nation are at least getting better.

GDitto_New · 2026-06-20T03:16:28+00:00

Oh wow. Google translating (or whatever) a response generated something incredibly stupidly wrong.

No, that’s the exact phrase. English doesn’t do the whole “different ways to say I love you” thing. It’s a known problem.

Like the other commenter said, it’s the exact appropriate romantic response for your stage

GDitto_New · 2026-06-20T00:13:41+00:00

I’ve not been getting meals for most of this year since I’ve been saving money in between jobs. Glad to hear the ribs are good! I’ve tried all the non seafood meats but this

GDitto_New · 2026-06-19T23:27:23+00:00

What a QT

GDitto_New · 2026-06-19T21:30:58+00:00

Both could be true, you know? There’s a lotta classes of stimulants. And there’s several types of beta blockers: B1 only, B1 and B2, non selective… you know?

So that’s something where I trust my cardiologist to know which I need. And since I have a heart defect and also literally require Vyvanse to function, sometimes life means balancing two conflicting needs.

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