French
50 Ways To Improve Your French
Barron’s French Idioms
Learn French: The Fast And Fun Way (This book has tons of great worksheets and everything. It’s great for learning French!)
2,001 Most Useful French Words
Say It Right in French: The Easy Way to Pronounce Correctly
Streetwise French
Berlitz Hide This French Phrase Book
Italian
50 Ways To Improve Your Italian
Berlitz Self-Teacher Italian (Personally, I don’t really care for these types of books, mainly because I don’t the things you learn in the first few chapters. Unless you have a base in the language, I don’t think this book will work for you.)
Learn Italian: The Fast And Fun Way (This book has tons of great worksheets and everything. It’s great for learning Italian!)
Barron’s Italian Idioms
Easy Italian Phrase Book: 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use
Correct Your Italian Blunders
Spanish
50 Ways To Improve Your Spanish
Correct Your Spanish Blunders
Just Enough Spanish
Dirty Spanish - Warning: This is really vulgar.
Barron’s Complete Spanish Grammar Review
Making Out in Spanish (I think this title is great. I’ve never read this book, but if you’re looking for slang/everyday Spanish, this seems like a pretty good book.)
Ven Conmigo! Grammar and Vocabulary Workbook: Level 1 (This is the actual workbook I use in my Spanish 1 class. It is great and I love it. If you want to teach yourself Spanish, I highly recommend getting a workbook like this.)
Hide This Spanish Book (This has a lot for a small book. Mainly just some basic phrases, along with some that are more vulgar.)
Hide This Spanish Book for Lovers (The title speaks for itself…)
Mierda! The Real Spanish You Were Never Taught In School
Say It Right In Spanish
German
50 Ways To Improve Your German
Dirty German - Warning: This is really vulgar.
Say It Right In German: The Easy Way to Pronounce Correctly
Easy Way to Enlarge Your German Vocabulary
Barron’s German Idioms
The Tell-Tale Heart - If you want to read in German, this seems like a pretty good book to get.
German-English Visual Dictionary
Scheisse!: The Real German You Were Never Taught In School - I love all these books. They have them in every language (The title means “Shit”). Although it doesn’t have the pronunciations, its still pretty great for the vocabulary it has. It’s a bit vulgar though, but not too bad.
Portuguese
Just Enough Portuguese: How to Get by and Be Easily Understood
Portuguese Verb and Essentials of Grammar
Berlitz Portuguese Phrase Books & Dictionary
51 Portuguese Idioms - Speak Like a Brazilian
Arabic
Arabic-English Visual Dictionary
The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read and Write It
First 100 Words In Arabic
Learn Arabic: The Fast and Fun Way
Making Out In Arabic
Instant Arabic!
Japanese
Berlitz Concise Dictionary
Essential Kanji: 2,000 Basic Japanese Characters
Colloquial Kansai Japanese: The Dialects and Culture of the Kansai Region
Speak Japanese Today
Making Out In Japanese - I just bought this book, and it seems pretty great.
More Making Out In Japanese
Korean
Say It Right In Korean
Korean Made Easy
Instant Korean
First 100 Words In Korean
Making Out In Korean
More Making Out In Korean
Korean For Travelers - I think this might only be a Nook book, which kind of sucks.
Dirty Korean - Warning: This is really vulgar.
Basic Korean: Workbook
Intermediate Korean: Workbook - I’m not sure if this is worth getting because of the price, but it seems like a helpful book
Korean At A Glance
Teach Me Everyday Korean
Chinese
Making Out In Chinese (I think this title is great. I’ve never read this book, but if you’re looking for slang/everyday Chinese, this seems like a pretty good book.)
Mandarin Chinese - English Visual Dictionary
Survival Chinese
Get Talking Chinese - This book is so great. It’s kind of like a children’s book, but for learning basic Chinese, it’s great.
Hide This Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book
Instant Chinese!
Polish
Say It In Polish
Berlitz Polish Concise Dictionary
Berlitz Polish Phrasebook and Dictionary
Polish: An Essential Grammar
Russian
Learn Russian: The Fast and Fun Way
Say It Right In Russian
Russian Vocabulary
Dermo!: The Real Russian Tolstoy Never Used
Russian At A Glance
Just Enough Russian
General Language Books
Barron’s 501 Verbs (comes in French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Latin, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, English and German)
Note: I love Berlitz and Barron books for learning languages. Most are just reference books for verbs, grammar, or basic phrases instead of textbooks. But once you have a base in the language, they help you improve so much. I highly recommend buying any Berlitz or Barron language books. I love the 50 Ways To Improve Your books. They are the best grammar/vocab/correction language books ever. I use the Spanish one to help teach myself Spanish, and I absolutely love it. And it isn’t very expensive either!
Just one last time 2008-2017
“I have infinite tenderness for you” blue is the warmest color •like and reblog•
starting a girl gang of girls aggressively supporting other girls so reblog if you want in because if we get enough people we’re getting jackets
The only acceptable reason to have kids is that you want to nurture and care for another being.
That’s it. That’s all of the good reasons.
Not because you want someone to take care of you on your old age, not because you want them to take on a certain career. None of that. To have such expectations of a child makes it unethical to have one imo, it lays the foundation for emotional blackmail; as in, ‘I brought you into this world and raised you, had you for this reason so give me that happiness’. No one owes you anything for the things you do out of your own will for your own sake, not even your children
if you don’t reblog in 500 seconds you will never be able to meet your fave band/artist
PASS IT ON MY BABIES
I wanna run away with someone in the middle of the night and go on adventures and see the world and eat at cheap truck stops and sit on top of our car and look at the stars and just be somewhere other than here.
• genre: fluff, soft, angst.
• pairings: reader x jisung, reader x chan.
• warnings: nothing really, a couple of cursing? there’ll be some making out in the future, but definitely not smut!
• summary: “gosh, i was getting delusional already… minho was right in judging me… is it really possible to be in love with two people at the same time? was this an actual thing? i couln’t even think straight these last few days…”
• author’s note: hey, i hope you enjoy this! if you want to read this first part listening to “the one” by sam kim i think that would be nice?! as always, sorry if it’s there any mistakes! and feedback would also be appreciated 💞
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jisung was watching a drama on his phone, my legs laid on his lap, his hands gently caressing the covered skin… i think that even him didn’t notice what he was doing, his focus were completely on the screen, immersed in whatever the characters were doing. his soft hair slightly falling on his eyes, but he couldn’t care less right now… i felt… infected, yes that’s the word i was looking for… i felt infected by his features. his beautiful skin seemed to glow under the weak lights of the room, and his cheeks?! oh gosh i loved his cheeks, i loved his eyes, his sweet smile, his voice… i loved it how he started to sing sam kim’s songs when he thought nobody noticed… but i notice, he didn’t knew this, how could him anyway?
“hey, what are you guys watching?” chan is finally out of shower, his hair still wet, his skin smelling like… peaches? i couldn’t really tell… his usual oversized black hoodie embraced him well, he smiled at me.
“there’s this new drama called "the light in your eyes” and it’s actually pretty good.“ jisung didn’t take long to answer chan’s question, his eyes still glued on the screen.
"isn’t this that actor that you have a crush on? the one that was a swimmer on that other drama you love?” he turns his cell phone in my direction so i can see what he’s talking about.
“yeah, that’s nam joo hyuk aka my future husband.” i sit up to take a look at the scene, meanwhile chan took the oportunity to sit on the couch himself, so when i lie down again, my head falls on his lap.
“you wish.” jisung laughs, turning the phone back to him, his hands still massaging my legs. this didn’t go unnoticed by chan, but he chooses not to say anything, his own hands going to my hair instead.
“i’m offended, shouldn’t i be your first option?” chan says, his eyes looking directly at mine, his hands doing a nice job on caressing my hair… i suddenly feel jisung’s grip tightening on my legs.
“i-” jisung interrupts me before i could even formulate a sentence.
“where’s minho with the snacks? i’m starving.” and just as he says that, minho arrives through the door, hyunjin and felix coming behind him.
“we’re home with the bacon, guys! prepare yourselves for the best meal of your lives.” minho shouts, lifting the bags that are in his hands.
“what? weren’t you supposed to bring some snacks and junk food?” jisung raises his head to ask, finally pausing the drama.
“yeah, change of plans, hyunjin is cooking tonight.” minho then goes to the kitchen, completely ignoring the shocked expression on hyunjin’s face.
“what? you said you were doing the damn thing! that’s the only reason why i agreed with this!” hyunjin angrily shouts at minho.
“well, i lied.” minho winks at him, going back to the living room.
“what are you guys watching?” minho pushes me on the couch not so gently. i take a deep breath, already impatient with the whole situation.
“here we go again…”
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“stop staring at him like that.” i was sit on the kitchen’s counter with minho by my side, eating some chips while the other boys prepared dinner.
“i’m not doing anything!” i go out on my own defense, taking the chips out of his hands.
“yes, you are! you’re looking at chan like you just wanna lick the side of his face. it’s disgusting.” i sigh in response. chan was laughing at something that changbin said, and he did not even realize how much this simple act affected me.
“well, maybe i do want to lick the side of his face, but that’s none of your concern ok!” i push the chips back at him, frustrated with myself.
suddenly jisung appears on the scene, sitting along with chan and changbin, smiling as brightly as ever, looking like a fucking masterpiece with his favorite grey hoodie on.
“oh shit! you’re in love with both of them right?!” minho laughs, looking at me as if i’m the most interesting thing in the world.
“oh shut up, you little shit!” i get up, lefting minho chuckling behind my back. why is he so annoying? did he was born like that? or did it got worse as he grown up? either way i just want to slap that pretty face of his sometimes.
i sit at jisung’s side on the couch, my head resting on his chest, his hand automatically wrapping my waist. i hug him, wanting to stay as close as possible.
“you’re clingy today.” he whispers in my ear, a soft smile on his lips.
chan still listens to what changbin is saying, but his eyes are stuck on me and jisung, more specifically on jisung’s hand caressing my waist lightly.
“can i go to your bed? i need a quick nap.” i look up at jisung just to find him staring at me, he nods gently.
“yeah… i will meet you there in a few minutes.”
“ok…” i got up, heading to the room that jisung shared with the younger boys. little did i knew his eyes followed me all the way through… and he wasn’t the only one.
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here’s the thing, when you get attach to someone, is hard not to get attach to the little things envolving that same person.
jisung’s sheets smelled just like him: a mix of the coffee he had every morning and his favorite shampoo. and, as i laid there, embracing his pillow as if it was my own, i couldn’t help imagine how would it be getting closer to him… in a fisical way… how would it feel to touch his soft hair while having his lips on mine, right here, in this same sheets.
gosh, i was getting delusional already… minho was right in judging me… is it really possible to be in love with two people at the same time? was this an actual thing? i couln’t even think straight these last few days…
sleep was finally getting into me, my eyes already feeling heavy… and when i was almost giving it in, i felt a body laying next to mine, cold hands envolving my waist under the thin fabric of my blue sweater, chills covering my whole body at the sensation.
“i was already thinking you were going to sleep with minho and leave me here.” i smiled to myself, my eyes closed, presuming it was jisung behind me, it was his bed after all…
“it’s me…” to my surprise, i hear chan’s rough voice, his hands still in touch with my bare skin, his breathe warm on my neck.
my heart starts to beat faster, and i try to control my own breathe, processing what it’s happening. why is he here?
“what are you doing here? this is not your bed.” i whisper softly, trying my best to formulate a phrase that makes sense.
“can you look at me?” he also whispers, like we are doing something forbidden, when actually we’re barely touching each other.
i gently turn in the bed, so we are now facing one another, his face so close to mine… his hand not wanting to leave my waist just yet.
“what does he have, that i’m lacking off?” he asks, his tone as low as it could be, his eyes staring right into mine. i could kiss him right now without even think about the consequences…
“what are you talking about?” i continue to whisper, his lips looked so soft, i coudn’t even focus on what he was saying… his cold hand in contact with my skin distracting me from the rest of the world.
“jisung y/n, why you don’t look at me the same way you look at him?”
there is something inside me that will always belong to you it is more like a hole but makes me feel so complete and no matter how many times i say i don’t love you anymore my waves will return to your shore
k.m (via fluohrine)