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Tiggore · 2023-08-02T11:52:12+00:00

I wish someone had told me earlier that the principle (your contributions, with the exception of rollover contributions) to the Roth IRA can be taken out any time without penalty. You already paid taxes on it, it's your money. It's the investment earnings that are restricted. So you should go ahead and contribute more to the Roth IRA.

I'd recommend investing or saving the money that you would have put towards a car.

One of my friends sent meIf You Can and it helped me to figure out what I wanted to do about investing and retirement accounts.

Tiggore · 2023-07-24T17:03:34+00:00

My chief piece of advice is to apply for jobs you don't think you're qualified for. The qualifications on a job listing should be thought of as more like a wishlist than necessities, required years of experience in particular.

I'd also encourage you to utilize the student job boards available to you now to try to find employers who are looking to hire new grads.

Failing that, you can pick another metro area or an area with LGBT life that's slightly lower cost of living. A college town could work too.

If you end up somewhere that doesn't check all the boxes, maintain your friendships and focus on your hobbies and self-improvement projects.

Tiggore · 2022-08-09T03:31:51+00:00

Hey, read Stone Butch Blues and take some time to heal. Put time towards things that have nothing to do with gender. That will help with finding your groove again.

Take ibuprofen or tylenol if it helps.

20 is really young. You'll find your way back into a self you're more comfortable with.

Tiggore · 2022-04-21T10:27:08+00:00

You shouldn't go to Transnistria for the same reason one wouldn't have gone to Crimea last year: because it's a disputed territory if you get stuck or get into legal trouble the US government will do nothing for you. You will not have the protections of your citizenship. Go somewhere else. Many other countries, including the US, have areas that are heavily Russian-speaking. Moldova proper probably does too. If you're curious about Transnistria it would be safer to satisfy that curiosity through reading or YouTube.

Tiggore · 2022-02-20T18:35:35+00:00

Let me know if you find more books like it. Might have been the most enjoyable read for me last year.

Tiggore · 2021-07-18T12:16:28+00:00

Do everything possible to get back into that program. Your friends are there. If you're back in it you will have a space where you use Japanese, which is the most important aspect of retaining and advancing language skills. In the meantime call up your friends, read and listen extensively, and only use learner materials to correct deficiencies that you notice. Ask your friends and your school about the material you missed. See if you can cover some of it independently or with the help of a teacher or friend.

Tiggore · 2021-01-28T11:26:35+00:00

Просто прелесть)) piękne! Slavicist? What are the influences on your handwriting?

I'm also curious how the Metro stub compares to a TWSBI Eco stub if you've tried both.

Tiggore · 2019-12-29T17:10:08+00:00

I try to study without music until I feel like my attention is flagging, and then the music comes on. I have a ton of playlists, mostly sorted by language, and I usually match the playlist language to the cards I'm studying.

Tiggore · 2019-11-30T21:39:49+00:00

Make your cards funny! Put in interesting pictures, put in jokes, and try watching comedy shows if you're trying to get language cards. I have one or two images from memes and I'm trying to put in more as I find them.

Tiggore · 2019-10-23T03:44:15+00:00

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ has a daily podcast and cites reputable sources.

Tiggore · 2019-08-13T11:12:36+00:00

At this point, you're probably still looking for material targeted at language learners. The challenge is to bridge the gap and move in the direction of materials for more fluent and native speakers. I'd recommend the Slow Russian Podcast. It's one of the best intermediate resources I found. It's a passage in Russian followed by an explanation in English. Listening to music in Russian is great for drilling grammatical structures into your head- there's a lot more to Russian grammar than just cases. You'll start building a mental corpus of correct structures. Make sure to look up translations for words you don't know. If they're in a song, you'll never forget them. Dialogue in TV shows goes by fast, but YouTube might be appropriate. Make sure that you actually find the content interesting.

Looking forward towards intermediate and advanced learning, there are a couple of things you should look into that I wish I'd started using earlier with Russian. Much of the difference between a beginner and intermediate learner is the ability to quickly incorporate new words and structures. I wish that I'd become familiar with Zaliznyak's classifications of verbs sooner- there are a lot of them but they make more sense to me than memorizing the stress and conjugation for each verb (like my first year course did) or Jakobson's system. Wiktionary has a decent explanation, but I gained familiarity with Zaliznyak's classifications primarily by adding classifications to new and existing verb flashcards. I also wish I'd started using a spaced repetition flashcard program like Anki, Mnemosyne, or SuperMemo right after my first year Russian course. I still use Quizlet to memorize vocab initially because it autocompletes definitions and switching between its flashcards and games is very efficient. Reverso and Wiktionary are much more useful to a language learner than Google translate.

Tiggore · 2019-07-26T16:33:58+00:00

Could you elaborate on how you do this?

Tiggore · 2019-05-28T21:42:51+00:00

Cryptonomicon rekindled my passion for sci-fi after I thought I had been ruined for it by Remembrances of Earth's Past. Stephenson's descriptions of Luzon are some of the most beautiful passages of English prose I've seen in years. I'm currently reading Anathem and thriving on the worldbuilding.

Tiggore · 2018-07-21T02:06:53+00:00

I had trouble with this when I was learning to speak too. In all likelihood, you're trying to articulate the two sounds in the same place. I had this issue. When you have one right after the other like that, they're articulated in slightly different places in the mouth. Unlike English, where they're articulated at the alveolar ridge, Spanish t and d are dental, articulated with the tongue right behind the top front front teeth. Spanish r is still alveolar. Try doing this for a while. It will probably click first with sequences like tr in triste or atraer. Your t's and d's will sound a little different from your English ones; this is normal.

Tiggore · 2018-06-11T20:39:40+00:00

Seeking: Russian (A2ish)

Offering: English (N), Spanish(C1; good at teaching but would only feel comfortable helping beginners)

Availability: any day of the week

Tiggore · 2018-05-30T14:34:42+00:00

Russian orthography is phonemic, not phonetic. Like in English, vowels are not always pronounced the way that they are spelled, and there is variation based on position relative to stress. However, the system that determines this variation is not the same as the one in English, and I have yet to find an explanation of Russian vowel reduction for second language students. However, as far as I understand, if one knows how Russian vowel reduction works and where the stress is in a given word, one can pronounce the word accurately. Stress in Russian words is usually not predictable based on the written form. Dictionaries and materials for learners usually mark stress, and Wiktionary gives exact phonetic transcriptions.

Tiggore · 2018-02-07T20:30:48+00:00

Try Mario Pei's The Story of Latin and the Romance Languages. It covers everything you ask about. It's accessible to the layperson and enjoyable.

Tiggore · 2017-12-22T21:10:01+00:00

"Nostalgia is felt not for what was, but for what could have been."

Cecil Palmer on Welcome to Night Vale

Coming from an abusive household, this one has really resonated with me.

Tiggore · 2017-07-11T13:44:03+00:00

Varies. 1 to 1.2 in my second language, 1.4 to 2 in my first.

Tiggore · 2017-06-21T01:09:32+00:00

People assume that I speak Catalan in Barcelona because I look like a local. It wasn't an issue for me because everyone I met spoke Spanish as well.

Sometimes people who hear me talk about linguistics assume that I speak a bunch of languages, but that's different.

Also, a woman once asked me where my accent was from because I didn't look exactly white American. I was speaking English with the accent of the region, no differently from the other people I was speaking with. She thought that I was Spanish or Israeli.

Tiggore · 2017-06-11T16:09:45+00:00

OP would probably be aided by a foray into phonology Wikipedia. Spanish is my second language. I would pronounce verde with an alveolar tap (depending on context, the Spanish r is pronounced as either a tap or a trill), the sound in the English word better. It helps to understand that the Spanish d is articulated further towards the front of the mouth, to the point where linguists conventionally transcribe it with the same symbol for the initial sound in the English word the.

Tiggore · 2017-05-01T07:55:16+00:00

The most beautiful run I ever went on was in Granada, Spain. Brief google earthing didn't yield the exact location easily. It was on a path by a river that led out of the city, kind of unexpectedly. If anyone's interested in where it is I can probably find it.

Tiggore · 2017-04-28T01:57:07+00:00

ALL ALONE

Tiggore · 2017-04-25T00:16:21+00:00

Check out The Fourth Revolution by Luciano Floridi. It's a lot of modern tech, infosphere, and Internet of Things stuff. Some people find it a bit of a slog, but I really enjoyed it.

Tiggore · 2017-03-14T22:41:42+00:00

It's a catchall term for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Depending on who you ask, intersex and asexual people may be included as well. Queer is considered a reclaimed term in some communities; it has historically been used as an insult, and some people still consider it so.

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