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Can you recommend some essays about speech or language?

Here are a few essays and articles about language use (off the top of my head). I hope that you enjoy them as much as I do!

How Words Fail by Cathy Park Hong

Politics and the English Language by George Orwell

Of Strangeness That Wakes Us by Ilya Kaminsky

The Meanings of a Word by Gloria Naylor

Mother Tongue by Yoojin Grace Wuertz

Borrowing a Simile by Walt Whitman

Word Order by Lewis H. Lapham

Four Essays by Mikhail Bakhtin

Nature: Chapter IV Language by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Strange Persistence of First Languages by Julie Sedivy

What Do You Lose When You Lose Your Language? by Joshua Fishman

I'm in the mood for a college kdrama cause I'm low key too old to connect to high school stories anymore but I still want the whole school atmosphere. Do you have any recommendations?

I totally feel you about wanting the atmosphere of a group of kids learning together but being too old or jaded for high school stories! I totally have a list of kdramas, cdramas, and jdramas where the characters are college aged though of course there’s a mixed level of actual college plot-lines!

Age Of Youth/Hello My Twenties: This kdrama is basically the quintessential college drama out there. It’s got everything you could want from a group of girls living in the same dorm to the way each girl learns to grow up and discover who they are and what love is! The romances take a bit of a backseat because the friendships between the girls is at the forefront of this show and it’s such a highlight!

Bring It On, Ghost: Technically this kdrama is set around a college-aged male lead but honestly college is an pretty much an afterthought in this drama since most of it follows the antics of ghost-catching and the supernatural but I thought why not throw it onto the list anyway. There are some college friends and some college campus shenanigans though if that helps!

Cheese In The Trap: This kdrama is another really great one which actually uses college as an important setting. We actually see our leads go to class and take exams and worry about their futures while also looking for love. One of the highlights of this show is the group of students that are all in the same major that we see over and over so we get to know them. I’m a fan of the main romance (tbh hated the second male lead) but a lot of people don’t like it so keep that in mind if you check this one out!

Do You Like Brahms?: This kdrama is set in college but like a few other musical college dramas on this show, it focuses more on the music side than the college side though there is a lot of screen time given to the characters worrying about their futures after college which is something that’s super important for people in their 20s. There are of course music professors, department chatrooms, and lots of gossiping about campus couples so if you’re interested in any of that, I’d definitely check it out!

Good Morning Call: Campus Days: It’s been a while since I’ve seen this jdrama so a part of me worries that I’m not remembering it correctly but I do think this show had a pretty solid take on the college experience. There are plenty of moments where students go to class and meet up with each other and go on trips. Of course this one is a sequel to Good Morning Call which takes place in high school so you do probs want to check out the prequel before this one.

Heartstrings: Though this kdrama is set on a college campus, the fact that all of our students live at home kind of takes away from the whole college atmosphere of this drama. The kids never actually go to class and the only real time we see them on campus is for the musical so though we’ve got professors and everything, this drama doesn’t feel much different than a high school one especially with how the characters are treated by their parents. Having said that I do love the way music plays such a big role in the lives of our characters and I adore the main romance so I had to shout it out.

Hello Debate Opponent: This cdrama is another with a great college setting though the drama itself wasn’t one of my favorites. It follows a group of college students from the Literature Department who join the debate team and battle against other debate teams in the college. We see the kids find love for the first time, struggle with what to do after college, and there’s plenty of dorm shenanigans to be had!

Love O2O: Though I’d consider this cdrama more of a gaming show than a college one, our characters do spend a large chunk of the show living on a college campus so I think it counts! There is plenty of fun college moments to be had from dorm rooms to campus sports and the fun that comes from being a campus couple! This one has a soft spot in my heart cause I adore the romance between our leads even if the kissing is cringe-y!

Meteor Garden: I actually really adore this cdrama cause it’s an adaptation of the Hana Yori Dango/Boys Over Flower story but set in the college years which makes a lot of the crazy scenarios feel a little more realistic. There’s classes and exams and bar life and everything you’d want from a show set during college but whether you like this drama or not is dependent on whether you like the original story. I do think one of the highlights of this version is the fact that the secondary couple actually gets together in this unlike in Boys Over Flower where it’s mostly just hinted at.

Moorim School: Because this kdrama is set in a martial arts college it might kind of take away from the whole college experience you’d want in a drama because though the main characters do go to class and have exams and everything, they’re all martial arts themed so that might not be something you’re into. I personally had a blast with this drama and I loved the main romance as well as the bromance in this show and there’s plenty of fun dorm stuff in this show too!

My ID Is Gangnam Beauty: This kdrama is the absolutely perfect example of a drama set in college cause it gives you a perfect view of what college is like from the students you meet and the friends you make to the classes you have. The atmosphere of this show is incredibly realistic and the show touches on sensitive topics like bullying and body positivity and sexism while also delivering a swoon-worthy male lead!

My Little Princess: Like Heartstrings this cdrama is another one set in a college but really can’t be distinguished from a high school cause most of our characters live at home rather than in dorms but I always feel like this show is too underrated despite how cute it is so I wanted to shout it out! I think it’s unique cause the female lead begins the show feeling more like a second female lead than the lead with her spoiled/rich/thoughtless personality but the male lead helps her learn what’s right and wrong while also being so devoted to her!

My Mr Mermaid: You may know by now that this cdrama is my absolute favorite cdrama out there and so the fact that it can be added to this list is everything. The setting of this show is on a college campus (at which almost all the characters live except our female lead and second male lead who have jobs) so there are fun dorm shenanigans and there are some plots about failing classes and needing tutors but I’d describe this show more as a sporty romance. Our male lead is a swimmer on his college’s swim team and he falls in love with our female lead who’s a sports reporter.

Sweet Combat: Ironically I seem to have a ton of sports dramas set in college on this list but I promise it’s not on purpose cause it just so happens that dramas like to focus on sports and college at the same time! This cdrama is set at a sports college but our main leads are boxers and like many of the other dramas on this list, all the characters live off-campus but there are plenty of college competitions and campus fun to be had. The romance is super cute and I love that the male lead is so soft for the female lead!

Symphony’s Romance: This cdrama is actually a remake of a jdrama which was remade into a kdrama and honestly it’s the one and only time I’ve seen this version of the story so far! Though I can’t comment on which version is the best to watch, this drama was a lot of fun in my opinion. It follows a bunch of college students who study at a prestigious school for music and unlike something like Heartstrings, our kids mostly either live on campus or spend all their time on campus so it feels more like college than high school. There’s studying abroad and panic about graduating and plenty of fun to be had!

The Great Seducer/Tempted: This kdrama is another one that though our characters are college-aged, college really doesn’t play a big role in this drama especially since our male lead doesn’t go to college. The show follows a trio of rich kids who decide that the male lead needs to seduce the female lead for reasons only for the two to fall in love. There’s something so fun about this show and the production is top-notch despite the fact that the writing is low key all over the place so I thought I would recommend it anyway!

Thumping Spike 2: Though this kdrama is more of a miniseries than a full drama, it follows a pro-volleyball player who decides to give up volleyball and go to college only to end up joining the college’s volleyball team and falling in love with a classmate so I think it’s worth a watch! It’s super super cute and we spend a ton of time on the campus going to class and participating in college competitions!

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo: Despite not being my favorite kdrama, it definitely deserves to be on this list because it’s one of the better college dramas out there and I know it’s a favorite for a lot of people! Following a tough female weightlifter and a soft male swimmer at a sports college, we get to watch them fall in love and struggle with lying and anxiety and abandonment issues and body positivity! There’s so many fun dorm moments and campus coupling and the cast of friends is everything!

Anti anxiety.

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Nat’s 1K Celebration ↳ Favourite Romantic Comedy - 13 GOING ON 30 (2004) dir. Gary Winick (🎁 for @milesgmorales)​

allow me to introduce my favorite genre: supernaturals falling in love with humans

Kamisama Kiss

Fruits Basket

Noragami

Bed and Breakfast for Spirits

Spice and Wolf

Inuyasha

Inari konkon

educational youtube channels:

for when the burnout is real and all you really wanna do is lie in bed and watch things but you gotta at least try to study. these are mostly channels i’ve watched and subscribed to! (updated 17/12/2015)

sciences

veritasium

it’s okay to be smart

pbs space time

crash course: astronomy

crash course: ecology

crash course: biology

crash course: chemistry

crash course: anatomy and physiology 

crash course: psychology

the school of life: sociology

the school of life: psychotherapy

scishow

scishow space

asapscience

minute physics

minute earth

khan academy

the brain scoop

sexplanations 

healthcare triage

sixty symbols

periodic videos

deep sky videos

literature / art

crash course: literature

the school of life: literature

the school of life: art/architecture

art assignment

thug notes: shakespeare explained

thug notes: classic literature

history / geography / government

crash course: world history (season one)

crash course: world history (season two)

crash course: us history

it’s history: the industrial revolution

it’s history: the history of pirates

it’s history: battlefields (military history)

it’s history: the cold war

the school of life: history

alternate history hub

crash course: intellectual property

crash course: economics

crash course: u.s. government and politics

geography now

the school of life: political theory

it’s history: the history of china

it’s history: weapons of mass destruction

it’s history: the history of sex

extra credits: extra history

khan academy: history

khan academy: american civics

the great war

tom richey: ap euro review

tom richey: ap us history review

cgp grey

math

numberphile

khan academy

vihart

philosophy

the school of life: philosophy

the school of life: eastern philosophy

philosophy tube

8-bit philosophy

misc / no particular subject

crash course: big history

ted-ed

smarter every day

in a nutshell

vsauce

dnews

test tube news

test tube plus

seeker daily

the good stuff

thoughty2

how to adult

mental floss

hello~ i recently hit 6k on this blog so thank you all for following me and this little blog where all i do is throw gifset after gifset at y’all 💛 i have no idea where you all came from but i am appreciative nonetheless! and with the very exciting news that the three mxtx novels are getting official eng translations, i’m going to be doing a giveaway for the vol 1 pre-orders. 

as you may have noticed, i’m not actually in any of the fandoms for the mxtx novels lol but i still wanted to do something to show my support. also, if publishers see how well these sell, it may open doors for future official eng translations of all the other many wonderful c-novels we all love! 

✨giveaway rules✨

there will be three (3) winners - each person gets their choice of one vol 1 pre-order

reblogs only, likes are bookmarks (each user gets one entry regardless of how many times you reblog so please don’t spam)

you don’t have to be following me! i’m doing this because i want to support the translators and i’m happy that the books will go to someone who will love and appreciate them

book depository must be able to ship to you

ends August 20, 2021 at 11:59PM pst - i will use a random generator to pick the winners the next day and dm you

if winners don’t respond within 48hrs w/ their choice of book and address then i will pick someone else

yeee ok i think i’ve covered everything i needed to and hopefully this won’t flop lmao but if you have any questions, feel free me to send an ask!