Happy Saturday!
I’m afraid I can’t visit your house on Clumsy Linguist today because I’m in quarantine, my dear citizen. It’s been eight days and I can safely say I’m going a little bonkers.
I also sleep like… eleven hours a day. I can’t wait to go out and walk and walk until I can’t walk anymore (which will happen fast because my body is exhausted from all the lazying around).
Without further ado, let’s get to the newsletter!
Writing Whispers
For Medium Members
I have 6 articles for you today:
Yes, Money Can Buy You Happiness (I got published in PGSG for the first time! Exciting!)
I’m Angry at My Boyfriend Because I Miss Him So Much
6 Signs You’re Highly Attractive No Matter How You Look
How to Deal with Learned Helplessness in Your Relationship
4 Upsetting Things I Wish Men Never Did to Women
5 Reasons Why Reading Long-Ass Novels Is a Really Cool Idea
For non-Medium Members
Most of the articles above can be found for free on my profile page on News Break here.
Language Lessons
Reading books in a foreign language can be really annoying when you have to look up vocabulary all the time. That’s why I always make an effort to understand the context rather than every single word. It makes me read faster and enjoy the story more.
I only look up words when they play a crucial role in my understanding of the passage or when they keep turning up over and over again, after which I lose patience and go, “Okay, okay. You’ve convinced me. You must be important.”
This makes learning much more fluid and fun. Subconscious learning is still learning!
Reading Recommendations
Image found on Goodreads
I said I’d finish 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami before we’d speak again in my last newsletter. And I delivered! I read all 1318 pages of 1Q84, and wow, that was something.
To be honest with you, I’m not entirely sure what I’ve read, in the sense that I don’t know how to explain the plot or just… what the hell happened there.
Basically, there are two points of view. A 30-year old writer and maths teacher Tengo helps rewrite a bestselling novel Air Chrystalis, while a 30-year old fitness instructor Aomame goes around and kills people. But then really weird things start happening. And by that, I mean properly weird. Marukami kind of weird. Focusing-on-strange-descriptions-and-having-completely-bizarre-and-absolutely-inappropriate-ideas kind of weird.
The rhythm of the book is really slow, and yet it’s so gripping!
I’m still not sure what I think about the novel. It kept me awake when I had to change trains five times during one night, though. I gave it four stars.
Clumsy Confessions
I seriously think I might be getting better at coordinating my body. Nothing major keeps happening!
Then again, I never go anywhere. It might all come back after lockdown (if that ever ends. Please make it end).
Thank you for reading. I hope you’re having a lovely weekend. I’ll see you in two weeks.
Kate x