itsleightaylor:

I just tweeted it and I figure I should also post it here. 

This website literally GRADES YOUR ESSAYS. You can choose your grade level, if you’re using American or British english, what type of paper it is (essay, short story, biography…), and it even checks for plagiarism. THEN once it’s grading your essay, it shows you grammatical errors, suggestions for better sentence structure, and a lot of other things. Reblog to save a life. 

ioweyouasoul:

LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKERS

SEE THIS WEBSITE? 

ITS CALLED WOLFRAM ALPHA

THIS IS THE BEST GODDAMN WEBSITE FOR ACADEMIC SHIT. FUCK GOOGLE. 

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WILL LET YOU SEARCH “HOSPITAL BEDS IN CHAD VS. IRAN” 

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AND IT GIVES YOU A STRAIGHT GODDAMN ANSWER 

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED IN DOCTORNESS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES COOL SHIT 

HAVING TROUBLE WITH MATH?

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HOLY SHIT

OR MAYBE YOU WANNA DICK AROUND

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WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

Places that offer Student Discounts when you show your ID

queenofkanekiken:

Because school is coming up, I figured I would make a big list for everyone! This list is everywhere that I know but if you have any other places please feel free to add them! Please know that to get these discounts you must show your ID or ask when you order! I’ve included as many links as I can for the stores but if some don’t work please let me know! Happy savings, students 🙂

FOOD

BURGER KING: 10% off 
CHICK-FIL-A: free small drink with order
CHIPOTLE: free small drink with order
DAIRY QUEEN: their website says they have one but I haven’t gotten a chance to go in and ask yet. Their Student Discount section is towards the bottom under LOCAL COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS
FIREHOUSE SUBS: their discounts may require a partnership with the school so please ask about the discount to see if stores not near campus still offer the discount with your ID
HARD ROCK CAFE: offers a student/discounted menu. Hard Rock cafes are located in Hard Rock Casinos. (I’ve included a link of their locations)
KROGERS: 5% discount off total order
PIZZA HUT: 10-20% off  (depending on store)
SWEET TOMATOES: 10% off  (website says many stores but not all so please ask about it at your local store)
SUBWAY: 10% off  (again at specific locations so please ask about it at your local store)
TCBY: 15% off
WAFFLE HOUSE: 10% off

CLOTHING STORES AND ONLINE SHOPS

AMAZON: 6-month free trial on Amazon Prime
ANN TAYLOR: 20% ofF
ASOS: 10% off 
BANANA REPUBLIC: 15% off full-priced items
CHARLOTTE RUSSE: 10% off 
CLUB MONACO: 20% off items
EASTERN MOUNTAIN SPORTS: 20% full-priced in-store items
EDDIE BAUER: ask about discounts at local store
GOODWILL: 10% off  
J-CREW: 15% off in-store
JOANNS: 10% discount (Please know for people 14 and older, they offer discounts if you bring in your report card as well! They also require you to sign up online. Link in the name.)
JUICY COUTURE: 15% off 
KATE SPADE: 15% off
THE LIMITED: 15% off in-store
MADEWELL: 15% off in-store
MODCLOTH: 10% off
RALPH LAUREN: 15% off
SALLY’S BEAUTY SUPPLY: sign up online for coupons
SAM’S CLUB: requires membership 
STEVE MADDEN: 10% off
TARGET: varies, mainly online
TOM’S: 10% cash back
TOPSHOP: 10% off
URBAN OUTFITTERS: 10% off on Student Days. (You can sign up online for alerts when these are. Link in name)

ELECTRONICS AND TECH STUFF

ADOBE: 60% on Creative Cloud
APPLE: various savings (You must input your school and other information. Link in name)
AT&T: 10% discount (You must input your school email address. Link in name)
BEST BUY: sign up for student discounts and coupons
DAS KEYBOARD: special pricing through website
DELL:  discounts on laptops and tablets
FUJITSU: 5% on LIFEBOOK notebook and PCs. (You must call 1-800-FUJITSU for the deal)
HP: various discounts through website
JOURNEYED: various discounts through website
MICROSOFT: various discounts. (Check through your school as well to see if they have partnerships with Microsoft)
NORTON: various discounts through website
SONY: up to 10% off (You must register to get the discount. Link in name)
SPRINT: various discounts (Check with your provider. Link in name)
T-MOBILE: 10% off monthly bill (Check with your provider. Link in name)
VERIZON: up to 20% off monthly bill (Link in name is to the EMPLOYEE DISCOUNTS page. Input your school email to see if you qualify.)

ENTERTAINMENT (BOOKS, MOVIES, NEWS, MUSEUMS, ETC)

AMC THEATRES: discounted tickets on Thursdays (Check local listings)
AMTRAK:sign up for a Student Advantage Card and get 10% off tickets (Link for signing up in name)
BARNES AND NOBLE’S:various discounts through website (Link in name. If you don’t click SHOP through the above link the discount won’t go through!)
CARNEGIE HALL: $10 student rush tickets on select performances
CINEMARK THEATRES: discounted tickets on student days (Check local listings, Link in name)
GREYHOUND: sign up for a Student Advantage Discount Card and get up to 20% off tickets. (Link for signing up in name)
REGAL CINEMA: discounted tickets available (Check local listings)
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: offers student discounted tickets (Check local team pages)
MADAME TUSSAUDS: 15% your ticket
THE MET: register for The Met Student and receive discounted tickets (Link in name)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE: offers student discounted tickets (Check local team pages)
NEW YORK TIMES: discounted print and unlimited online (Requires signing up. Link in name)
WALL STREET JOURNAL: $1 a week (Requires signing up. Link in name)

In addition to all of these, check out your local museums and call local newspapers to see if they have discounts for students! I hope this helps everyone out! Please feel free to reblog and like, link on other social medias, add links and tips, anything you can think of. 🙂

4 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.

trublulotus:

mufasaaabitch:

jasminetyler01:

political-linguaphile:

howtodropoutofschool:

1. Open Culture:  Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.

2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.

3. Flat World Knowledge: The worlds largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. Humanitie texts are particularly difficult to come by, this site has a great selection in all disciplines.

4. Textbook Revolution:  Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.

5. Library Pirate: I’ve always had an addiction to torrent based pirating. When this site opened a few months ago, I went a little overboard. After dropping two hundred on a paperback spanish textbook, I downloaded the ebook version illegally. I also got a great Psyc text i’m obsessed with.  It will be interesting to see how this site grows- they already have a great selection. 

College bookstores completely rip off their students, so ALWAYS reblog free textbooks! 

Thank you, you amazing soul.

so-poeticallybred 

save a life, reblog

Everything Masterpost

trxyeisnotonfire:

So I love finding masterposts online, and I figured everyone else does too, so I decided to make one of my own. I’m constantly updating this/fixing links, so make sure to check back. If you need to find it, it’s linked on my navigation page.

Bored?

  • The Bored Button

Online Games

**psychological game, possibly triggering

  • Addicting Games
  • Girls Go Games
  • Super Mario
  • Goatlings (literally the coolest website ever. you make a goat and battle and dress it up and stuff and the options for gender are male, female, neutral, other, and hidden.)
  • Online Games Masterpost
  • Lots of relaxing games
  • More relaxing games
  • Helicopter Game
  • 2048
  • QWOP
  • Curveball
  • Robot Unicorn Attack
  • Cubefield
  • Choice of Dragon
  • Color Tests
  • The End**
  • No One Has To Die**
  • Off**
  • The Grey Rainbow**
  • The Color Tuesday RPG (TCT)**
  • Bastion**
  • Coma**
  • Loved**
  • Don’t Look Back**
  • Thomas Was Alone**

TV Shows/Movies/Music

  • Hulu (watch lots of shows/movies for free, but it does have ads, totally legal)
  • Anime List (with subtitles)
  • TV Series Masterpost Blog
  • Lesbian Movie/TV Show Masterpost
  • Crackle (lots of free movies/shows, totally legal)
  • Popcornflix (more free movies)
  • Watch Documentary (documentaries)
  • Masterpost with HUGE list of shows/movies
  • Make playlists
  • Download music from YouTube

Art

Tutorials/References

  • Skin tones
  • Color palettes
  • Drawing cloth
  • Drawing varying faces
  • Better shading
  • Color palettes/ref (2) (3)
  • Body references
  • People with wings (2)
  • Colouring/shading (2)
  • Different people to use as inspiration
  • Matching profiles to front facing people
  • Drawing gifs
  • Hands
  • Art tutorial blog (very helpful)
  • Drawing guys
  • Lighting
  • Anime eyes
  • Braids
  • Watercolors
  • Hats
  • Facial expressions
  • Folds
  • Hair
  • Need something to draw?

Software

  • Free software (2)

Crafts/DIY’s

  • Heart friendship bracelet
  • Cool cutout t-shirts
  • Homemade chalk paint
  • Finger knitting
  • Origami butterflies

Feel Better (tw: mental illness, self harm, suicide, eating disorders, body image)

Distractions/Cheer Up!

I put most of these here with anxiety/panic attacks in mind but they’re just simple, calming things, so they’re really good for anytime. This is probably going to be one of the longer sections, because there are so many amazing resources. This first section doesn’t have anything triggering except very small mentions of mental illness.

  • Ocean in a bottle
  • DIY microwave heat pads
  • Origami
  • Learn how to do things (masterpost)
  • Make sand art
  • Lots of soothing games
  • DIY relaxing glitter jar
  • DIY honey lavender bath melts
  • Soothing noise generator
  • The Fluffington Post
  • Draw a nebula
  • Get compliments
  • The Dawn Room (comfort and support)
  • Draw with silk
  • Explore space
  • The Thoughts Room (get rid of negative thoughts)
  • The Quiet Place (take a break and relax)
  • Get a hug
  • Distractions (2)
  • Emotional Baggage Check
  • Cute Roulette
  • Immunity cat
  • “To This Day"… for the bullied and the beautiful (video)
  • Gives Me Hope
  • Make everything okay
  • Just say yes!
  • Liquid particles
  • Paint (click for another color, hit space to clear)
  • Nice relaxing games

Self Harm

  • Simulate cutting **VERY TRIGGERING**
  • Alternatives
  • Recovery masterpost (including more alternatives)
  • Coping with thoughts of self harm masterpost (more alternatives here too)
  • Another recovery masterpost

Information/Helping Others/Self Help

This is a bit of an extension of the last few sections, but it’s basically a bunch of links that will help you help friends/yourself with anxiety/depression/eating disorders/anything like that.

  • With social anxiety
  • Info on anxiety
  • With depression
  • Info on depression
  • With self harm
  • Info on cutting/self harm
  • With eating/body image issues
  • Info on eating disorders
  • With a mental illness
  • Info on panic attacks
  • With a panic attack
  • What not to say during a panic attack
  • Info on (mostly physical) abuse
  • Info on abuse/types of abuse
  • How to support a friend
  • Self help masterpost
  • Helpful stuff/lots of info (includes abuse, anxiety/panic disorder, bipolar disorder, depression, eating disorders, grief and loss, LGBT, staying positive, self harm, substance abuse, suicidal thoughts/suicide prevention, trauma and PTSD, and a section of other links)
  • Suicide Prevention Lifeline (US)
  • International Association for Suicide Prevention (includes links to find help centers/lifelines near you)
  • Masterpost with suicide helplines for a lot of countries
  • Info on suicide
  • Info on bipolar disorder
  • Info on personality disorders
  • Info on PTSD and trauma
  • 7 Cups of Tea (talk to people trained to listen to you and help with your problems, completely free)

Fashion/Makeup/Hair/Beauty/Cosplay

There are a lot of crossovers so I’m just combining fashion and cosplay.

Makeup

  • Makeup tips (2)
  • What colors should you use?
  • How to contour
  • Perfect eyeliner
  • Applying false eyelashes (video) (pay attention this is so hard)
  • Perfect eyebrows (video)
  • Eyeliner ref
  • Lipstick color ref

Hair

  • Bun masterpost
  • Braid masterpost
  • Dip-dying your hair
  • Good semi-permanent hair dye
  • 101 hair ideas

Cosplay

  • Learn to sew
  • Cosplay makeup help
  • Bigger eyes (video)
  • Latex elf ears (video)
  • Pointy teeth (video)
  • Fake blood **LOTS OF BLOOD, COULD BE TRIGGERING**

Clothes

  • Cheap online clothes
  • Old fashioned clothes

Sexuality/Gender Identity

  • GLBT National Help Center (US)
  • The Trevor Project (crisis intervention and suicide prevention for young LGBTQ+ people) **TW: MENTIONS OF SUICIDE/ABUSE/ETC**
  • Coming out videos/LGBTQIA+ channels
  • Asexuality, types of attraction, and romantic orientation
  • Bisexuality and pansexuality
  • Intersex
  • Human Rights Campaign coming out resources
  • Coming out
  • Transgender info
  • GLAAD
  • LGBTQIA+ terms
  • Gender Diversity terminology
  • Gender Diversity

Writing

  • Huge masterpost
  • Writing tips site (2) (3)

Names

  • Character name generator
  • Fantasy character names
  • Various name generators
  • Common surnames

Character Profiles

  • Character profile generator
  • Teen character generator
  • Various character generators

Characters

  • Manipulative
  • Witty
  • Leader
  • Rebellious
  • Indifferent/distant
  • Bitchy
  • Popular
  • Young
  • Of a different gender (different than the writer)
  • Character of color
  • With a tragic backstory
  • Character development questions
  • Underused personalities/traits
  • Character virtues and vices
  • Character trait cheat sheet
  • Lots of character resources (includes: narrators, backstory, general stuff, sexuality, religion/culture, disabilities, and other stuff) (also has other writing resources)
  • Body language
  • Diversity Cross Check (diversifying characters while making sure to not offend people or use stereotypes. You can get in contact with all of the people who submitted profiles.)

Story/Plot

  • Outlining
  • Creating a compelling plot
  • The Snowflake Method
  • Beginning and end, but no middle?
  • Coggle (free online mind mapping)
  • How JK Rowling outlines books
  • Ways to outline your plot
  • LitLift (online writing where you can write and share stories if you want to. It has great organization, so you can keep track of settings, items, chapters, scenes, characters, and more.)

Essays

  • The five paragraph essay
  • Writing a basic essay
  • Harvard essay help
  • Essay structure
  • Using quotes
  • Academic writing tips (very helpful)
  • Writing an introduction
  • Writing a thesis statement
  • Transitions
  • Strong body paragraphs
  • Paragraphs
  • Conclusions
  • Developed and detailed conclusions
  • Persuasive and argumentative essays
  • Writing about poetry
  • Writing an expository essay
  • Essay map
  • Research papers
  • Application essays

Research

  • Lots of stuff
  • Mental illness
  • Limits of the human body
  • Fighting/self defense
  • Writing fight scenes
  • Flirting
  • Kissing (scroll to bottom for writing tips)
  • Sex scenes
  • Issues, -isms, and privilege
  • Mystery/crime resource references
  • Gun information
  • Forensics for writers
  • List of resources

Motivation/Help

  • Written? Kitten!
  • Write or Die
  • Tip Of Your Tongue
  • Mind mapping
  • Cliche finder
  • Word frequency counter
  • Prompts (2)
  • First line generator

School

  • Mathway (solve math problems + get an explanation)
  • Scholarpedia
  • Effective all-nighters
  • Quizlet (great for studying – make flashcards and study them as well as playing games with them)
  • Bibliography maker
  • Didn’t listen in class?
  • Finals survival
  • Geography
  • Wolfram Alpha (solves math problems and has great research/info)
  • Online ruler
  • How to study
  • Study tips
  • Stress analyst
  • Learn history
  • Etymology dictionary
  • A ton of calculators (engineering, net profit, etc)
  • Unit conversions
  • Free graphing calculator
  • Learn to use Excel
  • Free Microsoft Word alternative
  • Writing software

Food (tw: food)

  • Cook with the ingredients you have
  • Quick and easy snacks
  • Healthier food substitutions
  • Quick and easy soup
  • Study snacks
  • Guide to chocolate chip cookies

Microwave Food (aka things to make with a microwave and a mug)

  • Microwave snacks
  • Mac & cheese
  • Nutella hot chocolate
  • Cookie in a mug (so apparently this is actually a single serving cookie you bake…)
  • Blueberry muffin
  • French toast
  • Cinnamon roll
  • Coffee cake
  • Banana bread
  • Chocolate peanut butter cake
  • Nutella cake
  • Cheesecake
  • Chocolate fudge s’mores cake
  • Strawberry pie
  • Chocolate and caramel cake
  • Quiche
  • Rice Krispie Treat
  • Chocolate cake
  • Pumpkin pie
  • Dark chocolate and nutella cake
  • Magic Diet Coke chocolate cake
  • Pumpkin spice cake
  • Chocolate cake with ganache
  • Red velvet cake
  • Brownie
  • Cookies and cream cake
  • Sausage and cheese spaghetti dinner
  • Chicken pot pie
  • Mint chocolate chip cake

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Themes

A lot of these include tutorials, too.

  • Themes by Rhaegara
  • The Theme Gang
  • Themes by heytonks
  • Hunt down that theme
  • The Coders Club
  • It’s Photoshop
  • Thememakers List
  • Starious
  • Theme resources
  • Thmresources
  • Wonderfully Themes
  • Teenage Cloud
  • HTML Hotties
  • Polythemers
  • Html wizards
  • Aeterno themes

Theme/Coding Tutorials

  • Theme base code
  • Theme Hunters tutorials
  • The Coders Club tutorials
  • Starious tutorials
  • Theme resources
  • Html wizards tutorials

murikunt:

college students, Bigwords.com is a conventient sort of search site that rifles through all sorts of online stores and ads looking for the text books you need, newest edition, you can look specifically for used books or ones with a buyback program, and stuff. and can be a lot cheaper, saved me $400 one semester

4 Legal Ways To Get Free Textbooks.

political-linguaphile:

howtodropoutofschool:

1. Open Culture:  Not a large a selection, but high quality texts. If you just want to skim a book to brush up on a course you took in ninth grade, download one of these. I have yet to be disappointed.

2. Book Boon: Provides free college-level textbooks in a PDF format. Probably the widest range of subjects on the web. The site is also pretty.

3. Flat World Knowledge: The worlds largest publisher of free and open college textbooks. Humanitie texts are particularly difficult to come by, this site has a great selection in all disciplines.

4. Textbook Revolution:  Some of the books are PDF files, others are viewable online as e-books, or some are simply web sites containing course or multimedia content.

5. Library Pirate: I’ve always had an addiction to torrent based pirating. When this site opened a few months ago, I went a little overboard. After dropping two hundred on a paperback spanish textbook, I downloaded the ebook version illegally. I also got a great Psyc text i’m obsessed with.  It will be interesting to see how this site grows- they already have a great selection. 

College bookstores completely rip off their students, so ALWAYS reblog free textbooks! 

Top 10 Reasons to know Sign Langauge:

lazyleezard:

lilredsketch:

crayons-suck:

tomg84:

1. You can communicate through windows
2. Sign language is a 3-D Language
3. You can sign with your mouth full
4. Hearing parents can communicate with their Deaf child
5. You can sign underwater
6. Sign Language is a neat way to express yourself
7. You can communicate across a room or via mirror without shouting
8. Sign language is beautiful
9. You can make friends with Deaf people
10. Sign language brings together Hearing & Deaf people

Also if you really want to learn most deaf people are so happy that you are interested in learning and will be super patient and work with you. 

And it’s a really great thing to be able to do for any job because imagine having to go everywhere with someone that can translate for you or with paper to write or trying to read lips and just going to grab a cup of coffee and Hey, the barista knows sign language. They aren’t great but you get to speak with them and order your coffee in the way that’s natural to you like that would just make your day. Or a teacher that can talk and sign so classes don’t have to divide?? Or a therapist that can sign?? Hearing people signing 2k15 honestly.

Plus sign language is simpler and faster to learn than written/spoken languages. And there are lots of resources online for any language you may want to learn:

  • School of Sign Language is great for British Sign Language (BSL)
  • ASLU looks less fancy but it’s great and super complete for learning American Sign Language(ASL)
  • Comunicación en LSE tiene unos video para los básicos muy básicos en Lengua de Signos Española (LSE)
  • I aquí hi ha una complicació ja feta d’on aprendre Llengua de Signes Catalana (LSC)

And you can always google for Deaf/Hard of hearing places/centers in your city and go ask, most of them offer free or really affordable courses 

city-fog-and-brave-dialogue:

ioweyouasoul:

LISTEN UP MOTHER FUCKERS

SEE THIS WEBSITE? 

ITS CALLED WOLFRAM ALPHA

THIS IS THE BEST GODDAMN WEBSITE FOR ACADEMIC SHIT. FUCK GOOGLE. 

THIS MOTHERFUCKER WILL LET YOU SEARCH “HOSPITAL BEDS IN CHAD VS. IRAN” 

image

AND IT GIVES YOU A STRAIGHT GODDAMN ANSWER 

MAYBE YOU’RE NOT INTERESTED IN DOCTORNESS OF THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES COOL SHIT 

HAVING TROUBLE WITH MATH?

image

HOLY SHIT

OR MAYBE YOU WANNA DICK AROUND

image

WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT

reasons why tumblr aids education

A faster way to start learning a language

funwithlanguages:

You can get to the point where you can express yourself in a language by learning basic grammar and just 200 words.

My test for being able to express myself is: Can I keep a diary in this language? Can I talk about what I did today and my opinions on just about any subject?

Too often, people who have been learning a language for months or even years say “no.” However, in my experience, it’s possible after learning just basic grammar and the 200 most useful words. If you wanted to go fast and learn 20 words a day (the default rate of Anki), then you could learn 200 words in a week and a half. (In my experience, learning basic grammar doesn’t take as long as learning the words, so the total time could be three weeks. However, I didn’t teach myself my first foreign language, so I can’t speak to that case – if you’re teaching yourself your first, kudos, and let me know how long the grammar takes!)

The key is that you have to learn the right 200 words. When I was teaching myself languages before, I could never find a good answer to the question: What words should I learn first? If you use Duolingo, they’ll start by teaching you words like “apple”, which aren’t very useful. I spent a lot of time writing and talking in order to determine which 200 words would let you express the most. I think I finally got it. But don’t take my word for it – see this demonstration.

I personally tested this method out with Esperanto and French and I’m now able to keep a diary in both languages, writing about anything that happened in my day and any thought that crosses my mind.

To be clear: 200 words won’t make you fluent, but they’ll allow you to express yourself, and it’s a lot easier to keep improving from there. Feel free to adapt the method based on what works for you. Here are the steps:

  1. If your language uses a non-Latin alphabet, learn the alphabet.
  2. Learn basic grammar
  3. Learn ~200 basic words
  4. Practice writing
    (This method is introvert friendly! You don’t have to talk to strangers if you don’t want to. But at this stage you can also practice by speaking, if you prefer.)

The first part of a Memrise course based on this guide is out for Spanish! I said that you can express yourself with 200 lemmas, but check out what you can do with only 28. 😉 Please fill out this quick survey to let me know if you’re interested in Memrise courses and for what languages.

If you run into any difficulties or if I can help you in any way, please let me know. Also, please send me your feedback! I’d love to know if this works for you or if it doesn’t. I welcome all comments, criticism, and suggestions for improvement. And if you think this guide could help other people, please consider reblogging it. 🙂

Additional notes:

  1. To be able to express yourself with 200 words, you’ll need to be able to rephrase things: e.g. “you comforted me” = “you made me feel better”. Even if it’s hard for you to rephrase things this way, the 200 basic words are a great starting vocabulary list.
  2. This is the order in which I usually learn an alphabetic language: basic writing and speaking, reading, listening, advanced writing and speaking. Being able to express yourself doesn’t mean that you’ll immediately be able to listen to the language and understand it, because native speakers may speak fast and use a wider vocabulary (though hopefully they’ll slow down and simplify for you in a conversation). But it’s a lot easier to keep improving from a point where you have basic writing and speaking skills than from one where you don’t.