Hi everyone! I'm a Year 3 NUS Nursing student, and I'm here to share everything you need to know about the course and the school! I can understand how daunting it can be - especially since you’re signing up for a specialized course / professional degree where you know exactly what you’ll be at the end - a nurse.
I just wanna say that contrary to whatever stigma we may have been led to believe: nursing is an incredible profession. We managed to bring my dad home from the hospital to spend his last few days at home, despite all the medications and machines he needed, all because of the things I learnt in nursing. I owe it all to everything I learnt in this profession.
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Initially I didn't really wanna be known - posting anonymously every year. But since I'm not doing anything bad, there's no harm introducing myself now right! Hi y'allz my name is Paula, and I'm the author of ALL ABOUT NUS NURSING 2.0, 1.0, and this personal post. Every year, I only use reddit to post that super long NUS Nursing factsheet :p
This year I wanted to change it up a little. I know some people are more auditory/visual learners, and I am a little tired of typing. So instead of doing another SUPER long post, I did a series of videos instead! They are split into 5 parts, namely:
- NUS Nursing Curriculum: Lectures, Lessons, and is it hard?
- NUS Nursing Hospital Clinical Postings: What's it like?
- NUS Nursing Student Life: Electives, VIA, Leadership, Exchange Programmes
- NUS Nursing Interview: Tips on How to Ace it!
- Available Nursing Scholarships/Sponsorships in Singapore
Check them out on the links above, or here!
I'm also going live on the NUS Nursing IG and my own account on 6 March 2021, 2pm onwards. If you have any other qns after watch
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hunɡarian does not have the dental fricatives θ and ð, and thus, when a Hunɡarian person speaks Enɡlish and either can't or doesn't want to pronounce them, they ɡet replaced. Here comes the interestinɡ part: I noticed that while θ usually ɡets replaced by the voiceless alveolar fricative s, ð is more likely to ɡet replaced by voiced alveolar plosive d. (Thouɡh it's possible that I encounter these versions more frequently merely by chance.) I'd expect people to use either the s/z or the t/d voiceless/voiced pair. How would you explain this, and what about other lanɡuaɡes?
(I sliɡhtly edited the post before anyone answered.)
BACKGROUND: In previous years I delegated all homeschooling of DD1 (11 years old) and DD2 (9 years old) to my wife, counting on her and a part-time arts enrichment program to develop their English. They are at grade level in the Japanese school system, which is pretty thorough except for English and history of course. Late last year (2020) I finally became alarmed at how far behind they had fallen in English and decided to take over this part of their education.
Since Thanksgiving I’ve been using a curriculum system called Logic Of English by Kimber Iverson. It is quite different from how I learned English in the 1970s.
One premise of this approach is that English is not actually as haphazard as most people think. Iverson asserts there is a complex but finite set of rules that govern how 98% of words are pronounced. Learn those, and you can read any word. Evidently teachers knew this a couple generations ago, and this knowledge was lost when less effective “modern” methods were mandated.
Another premise is that many children are suffering with reading and writing because they’ve not fully mastered decoding — converting written words to how they’re pronounced. As I understand the claim, fMRI research suggests we still hear words when we read them. We won’t read fluently without auditory representation. Children are taught an inconsistent and incomplete system of “phonics” that doesn’t serve them when it comes to ordinary text. For example, why does have end with E? I was taught that silent E makes short vowels long, but never learned its other purposes. English has 15 vowel sounds that don’t quite match the five official Japanese vowels あ い う え お. U alone has four different sounds: up, pupil, flute, put. No wonder they weren’t picking this up with conventional children’s books and random flash cards!
Instead of trying to memorize thousands of words, my children and I are learning 76 phonograms ( https://phonograms.logicofenglish.com/chart ), 30 spelling rules, and a bunch of morphemes (e.g. Latin and Greek roots and affixes). Instead of the random lists of spelling words I was given, they’re sequenced by related rules and phonograms learned at the same time. This morning DD1 showed me the words consistency and respect she saw on a poster had Latin roots we'd learned together: sist means “to stand” and spect means “to look, to see.” I don’t know if she also noticed consistency has “con” — which we co-learned means “with, tog
... keep reading on reddit ➡The auto-scanner declared the arrival of a craft was of unknown design. The visual link identified craft was bulky and completely gray with an unfamiliar script on the side that translator registered as an untranslated language (not the first time, some languages simply did not translate, why you would write on a ship the crew were not sure). Aside from being metal, shielded and possessing what looked suspiciously like weaponry (turrets and torpedo bays to be precise).
The craft was nearly twelve times larger than the small, unarmed and unarmoured research and exploration vessel it had encountered, suggesting a capital ship of some description.
“Captain, they are sending a broadband communication of binary data,” the communications officer informed their commanding officer, “I believe they are under the assumption we have a communications array and that it works similar to their own.”
“An uncontacted species?” Queried the Captain, “this is above our paygrade. Do we have any information on uncontacted species sightings in this quadrant?”
“We received thousands of untranslatable binary signals over the course of the past two centuries of steadily increasing size and regularity.” The intelligence officer informed them.
Binary signals were unusual to see in these times, quantum-computing had rendered it irrelevant for most space faring races. “Do we have anything that can send a binary signal to their craft?” The captain asked.
“We could attempt to use light pulses, to write code to attempt to send a message, assuming their computers run similar to old fashion binary code,” the communications officer suggested.
“Send them a basic greeting using that I guess,” the Captain said, rubbing his manipulators together in nervous habit.
“Captain, the craft has released a smaller craft that is now heading towards us!” The sensors officer informed them.
“A boarding craft?”
“Scans suggest negative, the craft is unarmoured, unshielded and unarmed. It is possibly attempting to initiate contact directly.”
The Captain frowned, that was poor protocol, it was entirely possible that the craft would carry pathogenic organisms or one species’ atmosphere would be toxic to another. “Are there any life signs aboard?”
“Negative, the small craft appears to be unmanned, electronics scans suggest the presence of electronics aboard beyond those required for the craft’s operation.”
“A robotic ambassador?” The communications officer suggested.
“Order the evacuation of storage
... keep reading on reddit ➡The funeral director was asking us what we think Mum should wear in her casket.
Mum always loved to wear sarongs (fabric wraps that go around the torso and drape downward a bit like a long skirt would), so my uncle suggested that she wear a sarong in there.
The funeral director looked a bit confused, as did some of our family members, to which my uncle added:
"What's sarong with that?"
I started laughing like an idiot. He was proud of it too. The funeral director was rather shocked. We assured her, and our more proper relatives, that Mum would've absolutely loved the joke (which is very true).
His delivery was perfect. I'll never forget the risk he took. We sometimes recall the moment as a way help cushion the blows of the grieving process.
--Edit-- I appreciate the condolences. I'm doing well and the worst is behind me and my family. But thanks :)
--Edit-- Massive thanks for all the awards and kind words. And the puns! Love 'em.
I would have a daughter
I have a request, and I think this might be the sub for an actual response.
After some absolutely wretched, lowest-common denominator responses from /r/languagelearning responding to questions I didn't ask or... who knows what they're on and then having my second post removed from /r/linguistics and being advised to repost in /r/languagelearning, I need your help. I can't go back to that sub. Please.
I would like to ask for your help in finding audio clips of learners of English or Spanish who have reached high levels of pronunciation, but started learning after the age of 25.
- I'm not interested in opinions on whether it's possible for an adult to reach native levels. (I think it's probably not, but again, not my question. Please don't comment on this.) Please share audio clips of people speaking English or Spanish that have reached the highest levels you've ever heard for an adult learner.
- I'm not interested in techniques about how to improve accent. That is a different conversation. Please share audio clips of people speaking English or Spanish that have reached the highest levels you've ever heard for an adult learner.
- Please don't tell me that we all of have different cognitive abilities and genes and for me to not worry about my accent. I'm not worried about it, having an accent isn't a bad thing. I'm just curious. Please share audio clips of people speaking English or Spanish that have reached the highest levels you've ever heard for an adult learner.
- Please don't tell me how you learned Spanish or English, unless accompanied by an audio clip of you speaking that you consider to be a very high level of accent/pronunciation that you learned as an adult.
- Please don't share examples of people who learned Spanish or English as children or teenagers, again, audio clips of adult learners please.
I don't care if the example is someone who is a genetically predisposed to have extremely good auditory abilities who moved to a foreign country at the age of 25 and then spent 50 years living in full 24/7 immersion while also being paid by government to take 40 hours a week of phonetics and pronunciation classes for years. That's fair game. The only thing I am looking for is the high bar of:
- Audio clips
- of learners of English or Spanish
- who began learning as adults
- which you consider to be the best you've ever heard.
Thank you! Sorry I'm so tilted!
But Bill kept the Windows
True story; it even happened last night. My 5-year-old son walks up behind me and out of the blue says, "hey."
I turn to him and say, "yeah, kiddo? What's up?"
He responds, "it's dead grass."
I'm really confused and trying to figure out what's wrong and what he wants from me. "What? There's dead grass? What's wrong with that?"
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He says, totally straight-faced, "hay is dead grass," and runs off.
Now it’s syncing.
He replied, "Well, stop going to those places then!"
She said how do you know he was headed to work?
I will find you. You have my Word.
“thank you for your cervix.”
...sails are going through the roof.
Made me smile
Mods said I'm a cereal reposter...
A taxi
But now I stand corrected.
Wait. Sorry, wrong sub.
Wookie mistake.
Theoretical Fizz-ics
Because you can’t ‘C’ in the dark
You officially hit rock bottom
so I had to ground him.
He's doing better currently.
And conducting himself properly.
An assassin
Who buys gummy worms hoping they’d taste as close to real worms as possible?
And then you will all be sorry.
BACKGROUND: We live in the US most of the time, but our daughters main language is Japanese. In previous years I delegated all homeschooling of DD1 (11 years old) and DD2 (9 years old) to my wife, counting on her and a part-time arts enrichment program to develop their English. They are at grade level in the Japanese school system, which is pretty thorough except for English and history of course. Late last year (2020) I finally became alarmed at how far behind they had fallen in English and decided to take over this part of their education.
Since Thanksgiving I’ve been using a curriculum system called Logic Of English by Kimber Iverson. It is quite different from how I learned English in the 1970s.
One premise of this approach is that English is not actually as haphazard as most people think. Iverson asserts there is a complex but finite set of rules that govern how 98% of words are pronounced. Learn those, and you can read any word. Evidently teachers knew this a couple generations ago, and this knowledge was lost when less effective “modern” methods were mandated.
Another premise is that many children are suffering with reading and writing because they’ve not fully mastered decoding — converting written words to how they’re pronounced. As I understand the claim, fMRI research suggests we still hear words when we read them. We won’t read fluently without auditory representation. Children are taught an inconsistent and incomplete system of “phonics” that doesn’t serve them when it comes to ordinary text. For example, why does have end with E? I was taught that silent E makes short vowels long, but never learned its other purposes. English has 15 vowel sounds that don’t quite match the five official Japanese vowels あ い う え お. U alone has four different sounds: up, pupil, flute, put. No wonder they weren’t picking this up with conventional children’s books and random flash cards!
Instead of trying to memorize thousands of words, my children and I are learning 76 phonograms ( https://phonograms.logicofenglish.com/chart ), 30 spelling rules, and a bunch of morphemes (e.g. Latin and Greek roots and affixes). Instead of the random lists of spelling words I was given, they’re sequenced by related rules and phonograms learned at the same time. This morning DD1 showed me the words consistency and respect she saw on a poster had Latin roots we'd learned together: sistmeans “to stand” and *spe
... keep reading on reddit ➡I said, “That makes two of us.”
Me: Can we change the subject?
My wife: Okay. More chores around the house need to be done by you.
