When he finally saw Yuuri, standing in front of the clinic next to his black Rolls-Royce Phantom, working on a cigarette without a care in the world, the dread finally lifted. The sight of him here, regal, gorgeous, safe – it felt like finally letting out a breath he’d been holding for the past two days.
Yuuri smiled when he approached. God, but he really was such a sight for sore eyes. “Where to?”
Oh, that’s lovely! It’s what a baby would see riding on its mother’s back!
I’m curious about how this was taken, and how it was that the next photograph in the series wasn’t “Pastel Darklord Beats the Shit Out of Photographer”.
Some succulents have translucent leaves to allow sunlight to penetrate deep inside their tissues.The glass-like Haworthia cooperi ‘Dodson’ has taken this phenomenon to the extreme.
You can TOTALLY see the difference in technique each of them uses in this gif.
Yuuri tenses his core, tightens his legs and keeps his posture. His back is straight, he’s curling up and clearly using his abs/core to pull himself up. He’s doing it right.
Yuri, on the other hand, is using his neck and arms to pull himself up, arching his back and relying on the hook of his legs in the rack to get himself started. His posture’s all wrong, he’s not activating his core, and I bet you his neck is KILLING him after he’s done with these.
In his determination to keep up with Katsuki, he’s thrown all Form to the wind.
It’s PLAIN to see the difference in body-types too. Willowy, thin Yuri and thick, tightly muscled Yuuri.
Flewent – translates a certain % of your article in your target language ReadLang – translates the words you click on and adds them to a flashcards deck Linguarana – same as ReadLang but it also translates expressions
Read as much as possible daily. Try to set a certain amount of pages daily/weekly.
When you listen to music, find the lyrics and follow the singers while they’re singing.
Use wattpad if you like fanfiction. The site/app allows you to receive stories in a certain language if you look at the settings. Bonus: if you add the story to the library, you can read offline on your phone.
When you watch movies, find subs in your target language; regardless the language of the movie.
Find an app/site with manga. Many apps/sites have a pretty large selection when it comes to languages and if you are a fast reader, you can read quite a lot in 10-15 minutes. Bonus: many apps allow you to read offline.
Beelinguapp is an app with fairytales in different languages. It’s pretty useful for beginners or for people who don’t feel confident enough to try something else.
Use audiobooks. If you want and have time, try reading the book at the same time. If you listen and read at the same time, you have more chances to remember the words and their spelling, pronunciation.
Choose a song in your target language. Read the lyrics and their translation once or twice. Then sing the song trying to remember the lyrics. Optional: listen to the song with the lyrics. I wouldn’t really recommend this because you might focus too much on the spelling and less on the pronunciation at some point.
Many movies and videos. It will be frustrating at first but after a while, you will get used to it and focus on what you know so you can guess what’s the meaning of what you don’t know.
Try using audiocourse or courses that focus a lot on interaction and listening like Pimsleur.
Use apps like HelloTalk, Tandem, Skype, the audio messages on Facebook etc. if you want to practice with natives.
When you learn vocabulary, try to find the pronunciation on Forvo or just choose resources with audio.
Apps/Sites like 50languages, awabe, duolingo, memrise, busuu, babbel, lingodeer etc. have audio for most of their languages so they are worth your time.
Change the speed of the videos you are watching. Youtube has such a setting.
Writing
Read a lot. When you read you pay attention to what kind of structures are used in a text and the more you read, the more you get a “feeling” if the spelling of a word is right or if the strutcure makes any sense. If i ask an advanced learner why they write “i think of” they won’t be able to explain why “of” is there and not something else but they will know at any time that it’s a construction that need to be like that.
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