Don't Let Anyone Tell You Are Vain For Appreciating Your Own Looks

Don't let anyone tell you are vain for appreciating your own looks

There’s nothing more natural than enjoying how you look. You’re allowed to be satisfied with yourself without feeling guilty. Appreciation for your own self is what’s okay, bringing yourself down over your looks is not healthy. Unfortunately it is taught to a lot of young girls under the name of “modesty”. Let yourself acknowledge the beauty out of you just as well as in you. Sure, don’t go around telling everyone how good you look if you don’t want to, but think twice before saying you’re ugly too. Is that what you really think is true, or did someone teach you “modesty” at some point? You don’t have to act in a certain manner just so some guy can compliment you on something you already had but did not let yourself acknowledge and feel good about himself for being able to find you pretty.

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Hello! So, there are a lot of masterlists out there, so I decided to compile nearly everything all into one! If there’s something that’s not on here, or a link that doesn’t work, please message me and I’ll gladly fix or add it!

Money

How to Coupon (2) (3)

If you can’t Pay your Bills

See if you’re Paying too much for you Cellphone Bills

How to Save Money

How to Do your own Taxes

How to Budget

52 Week Money Challenge

Apps for Extra Money

Life Skills

(Also see the Money, Home, Emergency, Cooking and Baking, and Physical Health categories)

How to Clean a Car

What’s a Mortgage

First Apartment Checklist

Getting an Apartment

Time Management

Create a Resume

Find the Right Career

How to Pick a Major

How to Interview for a Job

How to Stop Procrastinating

100 Tips for Life

Tumblr Helps with Adult Life

How to Stay Safe Living Alone

How to Host a Party

The American Government

College

(Also see free books, school, and the life skills sections)

What to Bring/What Not (2)

Better Dorm Room (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

Broke College Kid Recipes

Life Hacks (2)

Free Books

Here

Textbooks (2) (3) (4) (5)

Here

Here

Other (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Audio Books

Reddit Thread

Home

Clean your Bathroom

Organize your Closet

Fix a Leaky Closet

Keep a Clean Kitchen

Remove Stains from your Carpet

How to Clean Windows

Corner Organizer

Homemade Laundry Basket

Home DIY

Home DIY tips

Garden

How to make Birdhouses

How to Guerrilla Garden

How to Care for Cacti and Succulents

Plant Care Masterpost

Kokedama String Garden

Hanging Plant Holder

Elegant Hanging Garden

Desert Terrariums

Mini Zen Garden

Cat Milk Carton Planter

Self Care and A Better You

If you’re sad

Get Compliments

Calming Noises (2) (3) (4) (5)

Nature Sounds (2)

The Most Calming Noise

Links for your Mood

The Quiet Place

Make Everything Okay with a Button

Weave Silk

Glitter Jars

Sort Through Something that’s Troubling You

Happy Things Masterpost

Leave Behind Your Childhood Traumas

How to Quit Smoking

How to Improve Your Self-Esteem

How to Stop Biting Your Nails

How to Stop Skipping Breakfast

How to Stop Micromanaging

How to Ask for Help

How to Stop Swearing

Learn How to Love Yourself

Coping Skills (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7)

More Self Care Masterlists (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) (14) (15) (16) (I’m sure those will give you anything you need for self care)

Anxiety Masterpost

Bipolar Disorder Masterpost

Depression Masterpost

Eating Disorder Masterpost

Mental Health Help Masterpost

Panic and Anxiety Information Masterpost

Recovery Resources Masterpost

Physical Health

How to Take Care of Yourself when you’re Sick

What to Bring to a Doctor’s Appointment

Your First Appointment with the Gynecologist

How to Make a Doctor’s Appointment

Understanding Health Insurance

List of Stress Relievers

When You Can’t Afford Therapy

How to Remove a Splinter

How to Avoid a Hangover

Emergency

If You’re Pulled Over by a Cop

Hotlines if in a Crisis

Things to Keep in Your Car

How to do the Heimlich Maneuver

Exercise and Sports

How to Start Bodybuilding

How to do Yoga

How to Skateboard

How to do Parkour

How to Surf

How to Play Golf

Free Charities

Donate to an Animal Shelter with a Click

Define Words to Give Rice

Click to Donate to Many Charities

Beauty, Fashion, and Cosplay

DIY Home Spa

Nail Art Tutorials

Chevron Friendship Bracelets

How to Make Jewelery

Make your own Perfume

Make Handmade Lotion Bars

Makeup Tips (2)

Makeup Colors

How to Contour

Perfect Eyeliner

Applying False Eyelashes

Perfect Eyebrows

Eyeliner Ref

Lipstick Color Ref

Bun Masterpost

Braid Masterpost

Dip-dying Hair

Good Semi-permanent Hair Dye

101 Hair Ideas

Cosplay Makeup Help

Bigger Eyes

Latex Elf Ears

Pointy Teeth

Fake Blood

Cheap Online Clothes (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9)

Customized Flower Crowns

How to Make a Flower Crown

Lolita on a Budget

Cheap Lolita

Old Fashioned Clothes

DIY Lavender Lotion

3 Homemade Lotions

Shea Butter Moisturizer

Games

Play Cute Games

Cool Philosophical Game

Play as a Stickman you Draw

Play a Cool Game

Cute Games Masterlist

Cute and Relaxing Games

Psychological Games Masterpost

CandyStand

Dress Up

Neopets

Big Fish

Create an Interactive Story (2)

AddictingGames

GirlsGoGames

Super Mario

Goatlings

QWOP

No One Has to Die

Off

The Grey Rainbow

Bastion

Coma

Loved

Don’t Look Back

Thomas was Alone

Color Tests

Old Nintendo Games

Pokemon Games

Arcade Games

Tetris

Make a Squid

Pun Generator

Online Games Masterpost

Entertainment

Itsstuckyinmyheads Tumblr Post Masterpost

LGBTQA Film Masterpost

Disney Films Masterpost

Watch Studio Ghibli Films

What do you mean I’m not 10 Anymore

Watch Anime Online

Free Movies

Free Movies/TV Shows, Totally Legal

Free Movies/TV Shows, Totally Legal

Documentaries (2)

Tearjerking Movies

Psychological Thriller Movies

True Terrifying Events

Foreign Horror Films

Creepy Lost Episodes

Old Nick Shows

Free Disney Movies

Good Movies

School

The Ultimate Study Playlist (Pt. 2) (Pt. 3)

Turn off Distractions so you can Study (Mac) (PC)

How to Stop Procrastinating

Harvard Essay Help

Academic Writing Tips

Persuasive and Argumentative Essays

Applications Essays

Research Papers

Solve Math Problems, Get Explanations

Scholarpedia

Effective All-Nighters

Flashcards and Study Games

Geography

How to Study

Study Tips

Calculators

Unit Conversion

Stay Focused App

Cliffsnotes

Sparksnotes

How to Make a Study Planner

Travel and Cultures

Ultimate Packing List

Traveling for Cheap

Travel Accessories

How to Pack a Suitcase

How to Read a Map

How to Apply for a Passport

How to Make a Travel Budget

Learn Another Language (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)

Etiquette in Other Countries

Writing

How to make Zines

How to do Freelance Writing

How to Get a Book Published

Character Development Questions

How to Write a Story

Body Language (2) (3) (4) (5)

Type the Definition, Get the Word

Remember Part of a Word/Definition

Find Words that Rhyme

Find Synonyms and Antonyms

Writing Tips Site (2) (3)

Improve Your Writing Habits

Add Sparkle to Your Writing

Getting Over Roleplaying Insecurities

Improve Your Paragraphs

Right Word Choices

Confidence in Your Writing

Writing Better than Normal

How’s My Driving?

Description

Voices

Skin Colors

Describing a Person

Emotions Vocabulary

Be More Descriptive

Describe Looks

Facial Expressions (Vocabulary)

Show Not Tell

Clothes

Actions

Tones, Feelings, and Emotions

Crying

Vocabulary (2) (3) (4)

Writer’s Block (2) (3) (4) (5)

Huge Writing Masterlist

Name Generator (Fantasy) (2)

Common Surnames

Word Frequency Counter

Cliche Finder

Names Masterpost

Art

Art Ref Blog

Make Origami (2) (3)

How to Make Pixel Art

How to Whittle

How to make Clay Figurines

Pose Generator

Different Types of Files (Digital Art)

Skin Tones

Color Palettes (2) (3) (4)

Drawing Cloth

Drawing Varying Faces

Better Shading

Body References

People with Wings (2)

Coloring/Shading (2)

Inspiring People

Drawing Gifs

Hands

Art Tutorial Blog

Drawing Guys

Lighting

Anime Eyes

Braids

Watercolors

Hats

Facial Expressions

Folds

Hair

Human Body- Insert Weight, Height

Good Youtube Art Channel

Music

How to Read Sheet Music

Learn to Play Guitar

Learn to Play Ukelele

Learn to make Chiptunes

Royalty Free Music

Jpop Radio

Find Any Song Within an Episode

How to Play Piano

Cooking and Baking

Sugar Cookies (Vegan)

How to make Candy

Make your own Tea

How to make Sushi

How to make Macarons (Video)

Swedish Meatballs

Recipes in Under 30 Minutes

Microwave Chocolate Mug Brownie

Cookie in a Mug

French Bread Pizza

Egg Tacos

Panera Mac n Cheese

Salad Recipes

Harry Potter Recipes

Healthy Recipes

Various Cookie Recipes

Lots of Chocolate and Sugar

S’mores Pie

Nutella Hot Chocolate

Starbucks Holiday Drinks

Different Lemonades

Make a Cheese Plate

Desert Recipes

40 on-the-go Breakfast Recipes

Cook with the Ingredients You Have

Quick and Easy Snacks

Healthier Food Substitutions

Quick and Easy Soup

Churro Bites

Grilled Banana Nutella Sandwich

Balloon Chocolate Bowls

Oreo Mousse

Lots of Hot Chocolate

Homemade Pizza

Computers and Technology

How to make a Tumblr Theme

Learn to Code (2) (3)

How to make Gifs

Pets and Animals

How to keep Chickens

How to Raise and Breed Butterflies

How to Take Care of a Baby Bird

Find Which Dog Breed’s Right for You

Find Which Cat Breed’s Right for You

Find Which Pet is Right for You

Foods Dangerous to Cats

Foods Dangerous to Dogs

Foods Dangerous to Birds

Foods Dangerous to Rabbits

Foods Dangerous to Reptiles

DOGS

Tumblr Themes

Rhaegara

The Theme Game

Heytonks

Theme Hunter

The Coder’s Club

It’s Photoshop

Starious

Misc. Skills and Hobbies

How to Sew (2)

Learn to Crochet (Video)

How to Embroider

How to Knit (Scarves)

How to Make Plushies (2) (Mochi Video)

How to Make Stuffed Animals

Develop your own Film

Make your own Terrarium

How to read Tarot Cards

Become an Amateur Astronomer

Yoyo Tricks

How to Start a Collection

How to Play Chess

How to Play Dungeons and Dragons

How to Juggle

How to do Magic Tricks

How to Arrange Flowers

How to Solve a Rubik’s Cube

Be an Online Voice Actor

How to Scrapbook

Make a Popsicle Stick Catapult

How to Fish

MBTI

How to Blow Glass

Other

Create Yourself as a Superhero (female)

Cute Animals

Build a Ship in a Bottle

How to Decorate Iphone Cases

Copy Emojis onto your Browser

Origami Butterflies

Explore Space

What Your Dash Would Look Like in 2011

Slap a Guy with an Eel

Bored?

Will You Press the Button?

Other Everything Masterposts

This One

This One

This Hobby Masterpost (I took most things from it)

This One

Tumblr Masterpost

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Yoga Master Post

For those that see all these cool yoga pictures online and are like, “I want to do that! But I have no idea where to even start,” this post is for you! This is a giant master post of yoga videos, guides, tutorials, tips and tricks for you to get started! Whether you’re doing yoga on your own at home, or plan on going to a studio, you can use this master post as a basic guide and reference.

For Beginner Yogis:

The Basics for Yoga Newbies

Yoga Journal 21 Day Challenge

Yoga Beginner’s Guide

Beginner Yoga Breakdown with Tara Stiles

Yoga Routine for Beginner’s with Tara Stiles

Basic Moves for Strength with Tara Stiles

Basic Moves for Balance with Tara Stiles

How-to: Downward Dog by Sara Beth

How-to: Yoga Breath Control by Sara Beth

Yoga for Flexibility

Beginner’s Vinyasa Flow Class

Gentle Flow Yoga Class

Yoga Tips For Beginners

Yoga Series for Beginners

For Intermediate Yogis:

Intermediate Yoga for a Beach Bod

Intermediate Crow Flow

Intermediate Hatha Yoga Flow

Heart-pumping Cardio Yoga Flow

Intermediate Level Poses

Intro to Arm Balances

How-to: Crow and Crane

Yoga For the Core

How to: Wheel Pose

How to: Camel Pose

For Advanced Yogis:

30 Minute Advanced Yoga Flow

45 Minute Advanced Yoga Flow

Advanced Vinyasa Flow

Hardcore Flow Routine by Tara Stiles

How-to: Perching and Flying Pigeon

How to: Fallen Angel

Forearm Stand to Scorpion Pose

Yoga for Scorpion Pose

6 Steps to Perfecting a Handstand

Perfecting Arm Balances

Side Crow to Fallen Angel

8 Angle Pose

For Everyone:

Energizing Morning Yoga Routine

Yoga For Detox and Digestion

Yoga For Runners

Yoga For Runners 2

Yoga For Menstrual Cramps

Yoga For Tired Legs

De-Stress Yoga

De-Stress Yoga 2

Yoga For Hip Openers

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This list is meant for educational purposes and to help aid your recovery. It is *not* meant for self-diagnosis. If you are concerned about your mental health, please see a professional. There are thousands more books and way more topics but this is just to get you started. I tried to stay away from religious books as well as books that focus on one gender over another. There are only a handful of memoirs because they can be triggering. ALWAYS USE CAUTION WITH READING MEMOIRS! Mental Health:

50 Signs of Mental Illness

8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance

Creativity and Madness

Family Guide to Mental Health Care

Holistic Mental Health

Mental Health, Naturally

Psychology of Creativity

Selecting Effective Treatments

Strong Imagination: Madness, Creativity, and Human Nature

The Integrated Self

The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy

Addiction & Substance Abuse:

12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone

Beyond Addiction

Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy

Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to Nagging, Pleading, and Threatening

Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction

Opiate Addiction

Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction

Powerless No Longer

Recovery and Renewal

Quitting Crystal Meth

Anxiety:

Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Compulsive Behavior

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Coping with OCD

Dying of Embarrassment

Loving Someone with OCD

Overcoming Obsessive Thoughts

The Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Sourcebook

Bipolar Disorder:

50 Shades of Bipolar: Poems and Reflections from a Twisted Mind

An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Madness and Mood

Beyond Bipolar

Bipolar Disorder: Insights for Recovery

Bipolar Strong

Break the Bipolar Cycle

Comes the Darkness, Comes the Light

Facing Bipolar

Finding Your Bipolar Muse

Intense Minds: Through the Eyes of Young People with Bipolar Disorder

In Two Minds: 50 Short Poems

I’m Not Crazy Just Bipolar

Living With Someone Who’s Living With Bipolar Disorder

Less Than Crazy

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

Manic

Manic Depression and Creativity

Mind Race

Navigating the Space Between Brilliance and Madness

Perfect Chaos

Preventing Bipolar Relapse

The Bipolar Disorder Survival Guide

The Bipolar Relationship

The Tao of Bipolar

The Natural Medicine Guide to Bipolar Disorder

Touched with Fire

Surviving Manic Depression

Welcome to the Jungle

When Someone You Love is Bipolar

Depression and Seasonal Affect Disorder:

How You Can Survive When They’re Depressed

Not Alone: Stories of Living with Depression

Positive Options for Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

Unstuck

What to Do When Someone You Love is Depressed

Dissociative Disorders:

All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body

Amongst Ourselves

Depersonalization: A New Look at a Neglected Syndrome

Feeling Unreal: Depersonalization Disorder and the Loss of the Self

Multiple Personality Disorder from the Inside Out

The Dissociative Identity Disorder Sourcebook

The Stranger in the Mirror

Down Syndrome:

Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome

Teaching Children with Down Syndrome About Their Bodies, Boundries, and Sexuality

The Down Syndrome Transition Handbook

The Guide to Good Health for Teens & Adults with Down Syndrome

Eating Disorders:

8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder

Beating Ana

Beating Eating Disorders Step by Step

Bigorexia: When Big isn’t Big Enough *

Binge No More

Biting Anorexia

Biting the Hand that Starves You

Brain Over Binge

Brave Girl Eating

Compulsive Exercise and The Eating Disorders

Crave

Decoding Anorexia

Eating Disorders and The Brain

Eating Disorders: A Guide to Medical Care and Complications

Eating Disorders in Sport

Eating Disorder: Something Deeper

Eat, Drink, and Be Mindful

Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating

Fit to Die: Men and Eating Disorders *

Food: The Good Girl’s Drug

Life Beyond Your Eating Disorder

Healing Your Hungry Heart

Making Weight *

Man Up to Eating Disorders *

Mindful Eating

Next to Nothing

Nutrition Counseling in the Treatment of Eating Disorders

Obsession: A Study of Male Body Obsession in the USA *

Overcoming Binge Eating

Please Eat

Regaining Your Self

The Adonis Complex *

The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession *

The Invisible Man *

The Rules of “Normal” Eating

Therapy for Eating Disorders

Reclaiming Yourself from Binge Eating

Restoring Our Bodies

Savor: Mindful Eating, Mindful Life

Stop Eating Your Heart Out

Telling ED No!

Medication:

Essentials of Psychiatric Diagnosis

Generic: The Unbranding of Modern Medicine

Mental Health Medications

Saving Normal

The Pill Book (15th Edition)

Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry

Pervasive Developmental Disorders and Sensory Processing Disorders:

Asperkids

Be Different

Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome?

How to Make & Keep Friends

Look Me in the Eye

Managing Meltdowns

Taking Care of Myself

The Asperkid’s (Secret) Book of Social Rules

The Autistic Brain

The Complete Guide to Asperger’s Syndrome

The Out-of-Sync Child

The Reason I Jump

Self-Regulation Interventions and Strategies

Personality Disorders:

Borderline Personality Disorder Demystified

Hard to Love: Understanding and Overcoming Male Borderline Personality Disorder

I Hate You—Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality

Lost in the Mirror

Overcoming Borderline Personality Disorder

Surviving a Borderline Parent

The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide

The Everything Guide to Narcissistic Personality Disorder

The Essential Family Guide to Borderline Personality Disorder

Pregnancy:

A Mother’s Climb Out of Darkness

Bipolar and Pregnant

The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book

The Postpartum Husband

Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness

Psychosis:

Back to Live, Back to Normality

Cognitive Therapy of Schizophrenia

Delusional Disorder: Paranoia and Related Illnesses

Getting Your Life Back Together When You Have Schizeophrenia

Psychosis, Trauma, and Dissociation

Stress Fracture: A Memoir of Psychosis

Surviving Schizophrenia

The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

The Complete Family Guide to Schizophrenia

Understanding Paranoia

Self Injury:

A Bright Red Scream

Bloodletting

Bodily Harm

Cutting

Inside A Cutter’s MindThe Tender Cut

Suicide:

Choosing to Live

Hello Cruel World

Suicide: The Forever Decision

Workbooks:

ACT Made Simple

Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence

Breaking the Cycle: Free Yourself from Sex Addiction, Porn Obsession, and Shame

Calming the Emotional Storm

CBT Skills Workbook

Co-Occuring Disorders Workbook

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation

Depressed and Anxious

DBT Made Simple

End Emotional Eating

Finding Life Beyond Trauma

Finding Your Voice Through Creativity

Freedom From Self Harm

Healing From Post-Traumatic Stress

Mastery of Your Anxiety and Panic Workbook

Mind-Body Workbook for Anger

Mind-Body Workbook for Anxiety

Mind-Body Workbook for PTSD

Mind-Body Workbook for Stress

Mindfulness for Borderline Personality Disorder

Mind Over Mood

Never Enough: A Recovery Workbook

Overcoming Bulimia

Overcoming Crystal Meth Addiction

Overcoming Paranoid and Suspicious Thoughts

Overcoming Social Anxiety

Overcoming Trauma and PTSD

Overcoming Your Alcohol or Drug Problem

Rational Recovery

Reflections: An Eating Disorders Recovery Workbook

REPAIR Your Life Workbook

The Addiction Workbook

The Anorexia Workbook

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook

The Binge Eating and Compulsive Overeating Workbook

The Bipolar II Disorder Workbook

The Body Image Workbook

The CBT Toolbox

The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Depression

The Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Workbook for Personality Disorders

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Anxiety

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Bulimia

The Grief Recovery Handbook

The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety

The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction

The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD

The OCD Workbook

The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook

The PTSD Workbook

The Sex Addiction Workbook

The Substance Abuse & Recovery Workbook

Stopping the Pain

Stop the Chaos Workbook

Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse Workbook

When Panic Attacks

Other:

Banish Your Body Image Thief

Bouncing Back

Broken Open

How to Train a Wild Elephant

Intuitive Self-Healing

Mind Whispering

Radical Acceptance

The Art of Comforting

The Book of Qualities

The Core Journey: Unleash Your Power to Thrive

The Dancing Self

The Exercise Balance

The Mindfulness Solution

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

The Mind-Made Prison

The User’s Guide to the Human Mind

Shut Up, Skinny Bitches!

Simple Abundance

You Are A Badass

Your Body Never Lies

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Tips to learn a new language

The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences

(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)

This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.

We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)

EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)      

‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.    

Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?    

Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.    

Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.    

Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.    

NOUNS (about 120 words)

Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.    

People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.    

Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.    

Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.    

Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.    

Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.    

PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)    

General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.    

Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.    

Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.    

Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.    

DETERMINERS (about 80 words)  

Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.    

Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.    

Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.    

ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)    

Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.    

Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.    

General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.    

Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.    

VERBS (about 100 words)    

arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.    

PRONOUNS (about 40 words)

Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.    

Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.    

Demonstrative: this, that.    

Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.    

Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.    

Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.    

ADVERBS (about 60 words)

Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.    

Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.    

Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.    

Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.    

CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)

Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.    

Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.    

Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.   

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How to take notes from a textbook

Knowing what to and what not to write down from a textbook is a often an issue when studying. Should I include this or is that completely necessary? Hopefully these few tips will help anyone struggle to use their textbook!

Read the textbook prior to taking notes - This helps give you a solid understanding of the material so you can summarise and shorten your notes. Have a good understanding is great to help shorten your notes, since you can avoid copying the menial information.

Highlight some key points, terms and concepts before taking notes - Remember not to over-highlight, keep it brief and minimal; key words, facts, and statistics!

Have a colour coding system - This helps to visualise your notes when trying to memorise information and also makes your notes more effective material to learn from. Making sure you’re using the same colours for highlighting your textbook and writing your notes. My colour coding system can be found here.

Use the layout of the textbook to organise your notes - I found copying the headings and subheadings really helped simplify and ensure I was learning each section. It’s much easy to find information when you’re skimming through notes. This also ensures that you can remember what topic areas relate to others, meaning you can add more into your essays under exam conditions!

Include different ways to show the information - Use mindmaps, bullet points, graphs, flow chats, and post-it notes to help visualise the content. Breaking up your notes with graphics is a good way to avoid full pages of writing and great for memorising statistics or key elements of a topic.

Supplement your notes - Use other textbooks and your own research to expand the depth of your notes. This is highly important for subjects that can require evidence, statistics and evaluations. Making sure this information is embedded into your notes is great for writing essays.

Add your own personal touch - Add doodles, acronyms, and abbreviations to help your study. Little things that make important information unique and standout will help you recall it later!

Summarise each chapter - Make a final summary of each chapter using sticky notes or flash cards. Once you’ve read your textbook, you’ll have a collection of chapter summaries ready to study from.

Each of these tips have helped me recreate notes that are well-rounded and full of brief but useful information. I hope this information helps. Let me know if it does! 

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