cutebutpsycho-666:

Gemstone

She is a precious gem,

Her pearlescent face is glowing,

Her eyes shine with sapphires and emeralds,

Her garnet lips glisten scarlet,

As the flame of rubies floods her cheeks,

Her eyelashes flutter onyx,

As her diamond tears stream down her cold skin,

She brushes away strands of opal hair,

Shivering and unfeeling,

Sinking under pressure,

She is a precious gem,

glowing amidst the coal streaked world,

Rough and jagged,

From years of growing,

She can be polished,

Cut,

And shaped,

But most beautiful in her raw state

(via loss-weight-yeah)

loss-weight-yeah:

When u r dainty they will care. When u r dainty u will matter. When u r dainty u will faint. And be fragile. And cold. Beautifully pale. Poetically ugly. Acceptably quiet. Romantically sick.

(via loss-weight-yeah)

xskinny-rosex:

I’m starving

But I don’t look like it

I don’t look like it

(via )

thisshitiscontagious:

repeat after me
my desire to be thin is stronger than my wish to eat.

(via thisshitiscontagious)

lostandtwisted:

“Who knew my mind could be this exhausting.”

- ( @lostandtwisted )

lostandtwisted:

“He can’t be in love with me as I cut my arms, no one can love me when I say goodbye. I don’t want to pass my pain onto others, I just want to eliminate myself from this world and take my pain with me.

- ( @lostandtwisted )

amateurlanguager:

thepolyglotblog:

darasteine:

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.   
  

Oh i love this concept!

I love it too! I love it mostly because it makes me feel less overwhelmed. When you break it down like this, everything seems so much more manageable. Like, hey, I could memorize 20 words at a time (even if ‘at a time’ varies wildly for me), and just do that like ten times. That’s a HUGE chunk of a language.

(And since I have the habit of doing languages that are similar to ones I’m already familiar with, the grammar part usually comes pretty easy, too.)

(via ixnay-on-the-oddk)

badmadwolf:

zumbadorcito:

’Girls should only have hair on their heads; it’s not natural to have hair any where else!’

where has this gif been all my life

(via iolanthemoss)

inklingblotspot:

When Ginny tells Harry that she’s pregnant, Harry’s second thought (after being incredibly overjoyed) is a dawning feeling of horror that the baby will be just. like. him.

“Ginny we flew a car to Hogwarts when we were twelve years old. You don’t understand.”

“Oh sweet Merlin we flew out of Gringotts on a dragon.”

“I caught the snitch in my mouth Ginny how will I survive a child that’s anything like me.”

“The boa constrictor just wanted to go to Brazil it seemed reasonable at the time.”

(via lissaalulu)