u/Pretend-Alps-6438

Hello all! I appreciate anyone sharing what methodology and order of studies worked for them, especially when those who started without a background in slavic languages prior to learning Ukrainian

I am not someone who is used to having to study, science and math brain that has had the field I'm in come naturally to me, but the language learning part of my brain is trash apparently 😅

I have purchased workbooks from Inna Sorpunchuk and have been trying to tackle the case system, verb conjugations, mass vocab memorization, with the goal of sentence building and comprehension for volunteer work I do in Ukraine.

However, I feel like the ADHD method of studying from several aspects at once that usually works for me is really hindering me with regards to the language learning field specifically, as though a more structured and step based approach would be more beneficial, efficient, and streamlined? I dont know. I just feel so incompetent for the first time in my life and it's been difficult finding a tutor who is helpful, and hoping someone has a specific ordered outline / game plan they used that helped them progress efficiently? Should I hold off on cases? Until when? What should i focus on first? Maybe just learn one case to start being able to use for work and then as I continue add in additional cases?

Happy to purchase whatever has actually proven useful for you guys, if you could just please explain why / how I felt helpful? Thus far I have tried Duolingo, pimsleur, ling q, but honestly Inna's channel and taking notes from that has been the most helpful thing for me

For anyone who has had tamales, these are the types of corn husks I am hoping to find to be able to make tamales

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Anywhere someone knows of that might sell these for cooking?

Hey there, for those who use the healthier comforts egg white powder, anyone try it as a replacement for eggs in cookie recipes yet? Wondering how well it would do 1:1 for eggs in regular recipes 🤔

I realize this is probably a long shot, but after reading about the Self-Employment and voluntary visas, I'm just curious. I am a US resident unfortunately, and spend a good bit of my year overseas for volunteer work. Because of travel healthcare contracts only lasting 3 months and paying fairly well, you can work for 6 months out of the year in broken up 3 month increments and do non-profit work for the rest of the time quite easily. I am curious if there is a Visa (possibly the nomad or self employed visas I was thinking?) I would actually be able to obtain in Italy that would allow me to leave Italy for the US to work those travel contracts for 3 months at a time. Has anyone happened to do this, or looked into it as a travel nurse?

To reiterate: the healthcare contracts I would be working as an independent contractor would be in the US, not Italy.

I realize this is probably a long shot, but after reading about the Self-Employment and voluntary visas, I'm just curious. I am a US resident unfortunately, and spend a good bit of my year overseas for volunteer work. Because of travel healthcare contracts only lasting 3 months and paying fairly well, you can work for 6 months or 9 months out of the year and do non-profit work for the rest of the time quite easily. I am curious if there is a Visa (possibly the nomad or self employed visas I was thinking?) I would actually be able to obtain in Italy that would allow me to leave Italy for the US to work those travel contracts for 3 months at a time. Has anyone happened to do this, or looked into it as a travel nurse?

Edit: thank you so much everyone for all the extremely thorough and helpful responses i really appreciate it so much! I feel a good bit less confused, (though still a good bit overwhelmed 😅), about it all now 🙏🏽

Okay, so I'm in my late 20's and have always worked paycheck to paycheck and been on my own since I was 16. As a result, I'm very careful/stringent with money, and bare bones a lot due to working multiple jobs and school and all. I've been graduated and in a really well paying job (~$10-13k/mo) for a year now though

A coworker was explaining some details about retirement account stuff to another coworker, and I asked her about it because I have nothing like that. I treat my checking account like a savings account, and only recently learned from a friend what a HYSA account is. I have never quite understood what a 401k really is or why you wouldn't just save your money like normal, loosely understood that it was for retirement but that you would have to put money into it, and as previously stated, since I was living paycheck to paycheck and didn't even have enough money for groceries, have never really stopped to think about putting money into any kind of retirement account nonsense.

Now that I'm no longer living paycheck to paycheck, I am curious to know what all of this means. My coworker went into great detail about her investments in numerous things, specifically referencing her Roth IRA, reverse interest savings account, sofi account, and something called a S&P 500?

Could someone explain to me, in simplest terms, what a 401k versus a IRA/ Roth IRA account is, and what an S&P 500 is? She used the word investing a great deal, so doesn't that mean there's a solid chance that your money could be lost? Just need simplified understanding of all this so I know what to do and best safest way to store my money 😅

Hello all and thank you very much in advance for any advice about this! I have been traveling overseas for a few years but only ever take a very carefully and efficiently packed carry on bag to last me for 2-4 months in ukraine. This time I am hoping to bring some things I cant find there in order to cook Mexican dishes from my childhood to share with my Ukrainian friend, since they would really like to try it, but finding things like masa harina or guayaba paste and dried chiles and certain spices there is impossible. And would be doing a checked bag for the first time ever as a result

My question is, my route goes from the US to Reykavik to Arlanda to Krakow. Would i need to pull out the packaged US bought food goods from my checked bag at each connecting flight to go through customs? Is there a decent chance they'll just seize the items?