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by jamager 2y ago
This is exactly correct. With graded readers, thou, you can have good reading experiences with around 3k words (ofc depending on language, book, etc).
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Gutenberg in the Whirlwind(heyscott.substack.com)
1 points by jamager 2y ago|0 comments
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by jamager 2y ago
Fiction: The little prince Non fiction: Maus ie. the best and worst that humans can be.
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by jamager 2y ago
I can second this! Almost the only book of its kind I actually liked, not going to say that "it changed my life", but it was quite eye opening
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by jamager 2y ago
> Duolingo isn't as good as in-person lessons, but it's still way better than nothing I disagree. Duolingo makes you feel that you are being productive and you are learning (when you actually don't). That is worse than not
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by jamager 2y ago
No, research doesn't show that it works. That research you link has been conducted by Xiangying Jiang and Bozena Pajak (first and last authors). If you want to contact them about how totally objective and unbiased they are, here are th
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by jamager 2y ago
The many ways in which Duolingo is unethical and abusive derive from the simple fact that if it actually worked, even the slightest, then you would stop using the thing and cashing them $$$ For me the worst is that when you indulge, you fee
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by jamager 2y ago
> They aren’t being “drilled” to learn “mama They actually are, thou. Small kids are repeated the same things over and over, hundreds of times. They watch the same Bluey episodes dozens of times, get them read the same books dozens of ti
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by jamager 2y ago
A language learning desktop application aimed at serious learners (especially at B1-C1 level) No gamification, no silly chat bots. Built from first principles after learnings from writing https://thehardway.guide Main challenge:
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by jamager 2y ago
A language learning desktop application aimed at serious learners (especially at B1-C1 level) No gamification, no silly chat bots. Built from first principles after learnings from writing https://thehardway.guide
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by jamager 2y ago
People are coming up with new methods and fancy terms for them, but essentially everything that works are variations of the same core ideas. This in fact is not so different from the Listening-Reading method...
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by jamager 2y ago
The FSI guidelines are shared a lot, but they are really bad because they are hardly applicable to anyone that is not an US diplomat. Check https://www.cambridge.org/elt/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/
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by jamager 3y ago
Only read the Floating Opera (brilliant) and The Sot-Weed Factor. I remember at that time not believing that such a book could be written by a single person. Such an impressive piece of literature.
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The Mystery and Occasional Poetry Of, Uh, Filled Pauses(atlasobscura.com)
2 points by jamager 3y ago|1 comments
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by jamager 3y ago
Onitama is brilliant. For me the best along with Hive and Santorini.
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QWOP Game(foddy.net)
1 points by jamager 3y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Considering Android after 1 decade of iOS, recommendations?
6 points by jamager 3y ago|6 comments
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by jamager 3y ago
Numbers in many languages tend to be harder to internalize, yes. Numbers in Danish are a whole other level, thou. Consider e.g. the number 157. That'd be 100 + 7 + ((-0,5 + 3) x 20), only that they don't pronounce the "x 20&q
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by jamager 3y ago
Language attrition: what we don't practice, we forget. Even the mother tongue.
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Free book: Web Browser Engineering(browser.engineering)
2 points by jamager 3y ago|0 comments
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The surprising public health benefit of unemployment(web.archive.org)
2 points by jamager 3y ago|0 comments
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by jamager 3y ago
Prosemirror user, it is fantastic. Didn't know Marijn was so prolific, all with free/open source projects. Wonder how can make a living...
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by jamager 3y ago
Gender salary gap is a man's privilege, even in your country, to put just one example: https://ourworldindata.org/economic-inequality-by-gender OTOH I am not going to ask what "privileges" women have in your
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by jamager 3y ago
Wishful thinking: I believe that the earth is round, even if I have not confirmed it with my own experience by walking around it. As I also believe that women are as willing and capable to learn "deep stuff" as men, regardless of
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by jamager 3y ago
I did interpret "understanding" as "being supportive to" and not as "comprehend incentives / PoV". In that case, fair enough, but I don't think there is a ton left to comprehend, as in, I am not seei
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by jamager 3y ago
Just in yesterday's news I read a telling stat: +40% of men think that women had gone too far in pursuing equal rights... in my country, a fairly progressive one. What's there to understand or forgive? This is unacceptable. Patria
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by jamager 3y ago
Where "generally" means pretty much "always" until a few years ago, and still a lot today. And not only in literature, of course. Lise Meitner, Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Rosalind Franklin are some very famous examples, bu
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by jamager 3y ago
Wow, are you seriously generalizing out of your anecdotes? This is incredibly harmful, and reason why women don't feel welcome in CS. So I guess I can tell you a couple of my anecdotes, to make up for that one, uh? One: I am an expat i
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by jamager 3y ago
This is great, thanks! What Good RSS are there these days?
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by jamager 3y ago
Nah, SicFi is so mainstream that that is not a valid argument anymore. Plus, they clearly made it for fans. It is barely comprehensible without having read the original.

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