January 11, 2024

📕 World Sketchnote Day 📕

✏️ The word ‘sketchnotes’ is a composition of the English words for “sketch” and “notes” ❤️ The art has a very large fan base.

📓 The very act of sketchnoting does two things: helps one remember better ✅ and it lifts the mood 💙 because of the cute graphics. It is based on good listening skills 🎧 and the ability to sift information to capture visually what is important 📌

➡️ If you have ever doodled while on a phone call, at a conference, or in a meeting, you are a prime candidate for sketchnoting❗️Read some available material ✏️ develop your ideas, and you are well on the way to becoming a sketchnoter 🎊

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Подсказка из скетчбука:

🔘Very – сам
🔘To sift – отсеивать
🔘To capture – уловить

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January 12, 2024

⭐️Stick to Your New Year’s Resolution Day⭐️

❗️It’s almost halfway through January, and we’re already starting to break our New Year resolutions 😱 If you, like us, could do with a renewed commitment to goals — today’s a great day to begin 🎉

➡️ Contrary to popular opinion, most people succeed at keeping New Year’s resolutions. Don’t believe us❓Many polls out there showcase wills of steel and endless possibility. It’s proof that adults (68% to be precise⚡️) can make and successfully smash their goals.

🔥 It’s hard to stick to the promises you make to yourself. We’ve found that sharing resolutions with a close friend or family member helps ❤️ Ask them to check in with you on how things are going 👍

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Решительная подсказка:

⚪Renewed – возобновленная
⚪Commitment – приверженность
⚪Poll – опрос
⚪To showcase – демонстрировать
⚪Will of steel – стальная воля
⚪To be precise – если быть точным

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If you still haven't made any resolutions for 2024 today is the day ✅

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January 13, 2024

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🎉 Calennig 🎉is the Welsh tradition of celebrating and welcoming the New Year🎄

🪩 While many countries have adopted the Gregorian calendar, a village in Wales, known as Cwm Gwaun, is still using the Julian calendar — hence celebrating New Year 13 days later 📅 Nonetheless, the celebration was, and still is spectacular! ✨

⏺On Calennig, people of Wales exchange gifts 🎁 sweets 🎂 or even money with their family and friends to welcome the new year on a good note 🎅

💡Till today, young boys visit each house in the village to splash the villagers with water ❄️ that they retrieved from the local well. This activity is seen as a symbol of good fortune 🍀 In return, the villagers are expected to give the Calennig — a small gift, usually in the form of copper coins🪙

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Уэльская подсказка:

⏺Hence – следовательно
⏺Nonetheless – тем не менее
⏺Spectacular – впечатляющий
⏺To splash – всплеск
⏺To retrieve – извлекать
⏺Well – колодец

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January 14, 2024

🕯Orthodox New Year🕯

🏚The Orthodox New Year is widely known as the Old New Year 🎄 and is marked as January 1 in the Julian calendar, which was used before the Gregorian calendar 🗓

🎊 It is a traditional holiday where people spend time with their families ❤️ It involves serious meditation about personal New Year’s resolutions 📨

🧁This is a good day to learn new dishes like Kutya – a porridge made of grain, honey, and poppy seeds, 😋 known to symbolize hope, happiness, and success🌟This will add to your cooking skills, and it’ll be a great way to start the year 🎀

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Старая подсказка:

🔹Orthodox – православный
🔹Porridge – овсянка
🔹Poppy seeds – семена мака

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January 15, 2024

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❗The meaning of this day is filled with controversy because it is supposedly the saddest day of the year 😭 Many of us find ourselves in subzero weather this time of year ❄️ looking at our post-Christmas credit card bills and realizing we might already be breaking our new year’s resolutions❄️

➡️There is a condition known as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) ☹️ which is a form of depression that may manifest in certain seasons.

🔗Be intentional about making Blue Monday a fantastic day! 🎉 Host an “anti-Blue Monday” party for friends and serve a signature blue drink of the night such as Blue Hawaiian or Blue Lagoon🍷

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Грустная подсказка:

➖To feel blue – грустить
➖Controversy – разногласия
➖Subzero – ниже нуля
➖To host – проводить
➖Signature – фирменный

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If you gonna be sad that let's be that today in Blue Monday ☹️

Here is a playlist that is perfect for such a mood 🎶:

🔗 https://music.yandex.ru/album/3232916

January 16, 2024

🐉 Appreciate a Dragon Day 🐉

🔴With loud flapping wings, flaming breath, and steely scales, dragons are viewed as unstoppable masters of chaos 🐉

They are also presented as tamable and friendly creatures that can be great buddies with humans 🐉

🐉 Facts about animal of new year

🔴They represent honor and courage 🐉 Dragons are used as warlike emblems, appearing on shields and ships, including the symbol of the imperial family and the Chinese flag for a time 🇨🇳

🔴They vary in types 🐲 There are two types of dragons depicted in art and literature 👩‍🏫 — Western dragons have bat-like wings and can be fearsome, whereas Eastern dragons have snake-like features 🐍 with no wings and are associated with royalty and heavenly forces ☁

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Подсказка от дракона:

🔴Flapping – хлопающий
🔴Flaming – пламенный
🔴Tamable – поддающийся укрощению
🔴Courage – мужество
🔴Heavenly force – небесная сила

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