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by laurieg 1y ago
I think you're right on this one. Children have an immense amount of practice time, support and social pressure to learn a language. The only thing that seems to be different between adult and child learners is acquiring specific sound
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by laurieg 1y ago
This is how things work in Japan. If you are not a Japanese citizen then the police can ask to see your residence card to confirm your status.
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by laurieg 1y ago
Really nice! I currently use ActivityWatch for tracking tasks on PC. Some things I would like to be able to do with software like this: - Identify the 'spark' of a distraction. For example, opening my email inbox to read a specifi
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by laurieg 1y ago
It is instantly awkward. If you are there with one other person and you start talking, they assume you are talking to them.
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by laurieg 1y ago
I'm a huge smart speaker user. I have one in every room. But as soon as guests come over I stop using them. I would never use Siri etc in public. Going from voice input to silent voice input is a huge step forward for UX.
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by laurieg 1y ago
There's something comforting about conversations with strangers. It gives me a feeling that we are all in this together. One subtle effect of living as a visible minority is people assume you can't speak the local language. Even i
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by laurieg 1y ago
Like with all home automation, you should use it to solve problems you have, not problems you want to have. Here are some ways I use security cameras: Check if my colleagues are in the office or not (and if they are in the middle of a live
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by laurieg 1y ago
The National Museum of Computing (next to but completely separate from Bletchly Park) is fantastic. Definitely book a tour if you go. Speaking to the volunteers about how they used the machines on display is a fantastic way to experience pa
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by laurieg 1y ago
> I ran a survey people said would love to pay 5$ a month but no one converted when I added premium modal. "Hey mom, what do you think of my app?" "That's a lovely app dear. I'd definitely pay $5 for it" You
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by laurieg 1y ago
It's similar to the blind spot in your visual field. Your brain fills in the blind spot with what it expects to be there. With the clock's second hand it's filling in temporally rather than spatially. Your brain goes back in
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by laurieg 1y ago
For the technical side of things, use ink script. There's an editor, plugins and it's a mature project. For the creative side I would recommend trying out all kinds of things. Should your player be able to get stuck/into a de
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by laurieg 2y ago
Short, pronounceable words are scarce. If you want a 4-6 character project name Japanese words often fit the bill. Japanese culture is also very well exported.
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by laurieg 2y ago
> If I were to play you a C major triad on the piano (C E G) then you'd easily be able to pick out those individual notes Unfortunately, that is exactly the thing I cannot do. I play the piano but I can't pick out multiple note
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by laurieg 2y ago
What's the gold standard for learning relative pitch? Related, how can you learn to hear multiple notes at the same time? It blows my mind that people can hear a piano chord and pick out individual notes.
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by laurieg 2y ago
I highly recommend the book "The Mom Test" for tips on how to speak to customers and what kind of information you can get. Just a few of the things I learnt from that book: Don't ask if people would use your product. It&#x27
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by laurieg 2y ago
Unfortunately, a simple normalization of kanji --> hiragana throws away pronunciation information.
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by laurieg 2y ago
I love catching these little translation flubs. Japanese movie and TV subtitles seem to have quite a few, probably because of the aforementioned time pressure. For example, I saw Oppenheimer in the theater and "crown" had been mi
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by laurieg 2y ago
Great resource, thanks for sharing. I thought the written text was very high quality and didn't show many of the usual tells of a non-native writer. Could you share some details of how you used AI tools to help write it?
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by laurieg 2y ago
I remember being given a large K'nex construction set as a toy at Christmas. I can still feel the visceral excitement of opening it up and looking at all the pieces, imagine what kind of things I'd build. I think the ferris wheel
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by laurieg 2y ago
I still remember phone numbers from radio ads I heard as a kid. I don't have any phone number memorized apart from my own
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by laurieg 2y ago
The framing of something can totally affect how you feel about it. If I set a goal to run 5km everyday and one day I run 4km I feel like I've failed. Somehow not meeting the goal invalidates any positive feelings of running the 4km. I
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by laurieg 2y ago
It is not referred to as a change in pitch, usually people call it intonation or accent, but the actual change in sounds is a change in pitch. The closest thing in English is "uh-oh" (said when you make a mistake). It goes high-lo
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by laurieg 2y ago
My favourite board game rulebook is Pictomania. It starts by giving a very high level view of what the whole game looks like. It's a single page in the rulebook and doesn't get bogged down in details. Then, it explains the small d
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by laurieg 2y ago
Not quite music, but I had quite the adventure learning pitch perception as it applies to languages. As an adult I learnt to speak Japanese. Japanese has a pitch accent that is used to discriminate certain words. For example 箸 (chopsticks)
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by laurieg 2y ago
I would temper your expectations. Singing lessons will improve your singing faster than practicing alone but it still may take years and years to develop. I had always enjoyed singing and I started singing and piano lessons at the same time
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by laurieg 2y ago
I've lived in Japan for over a decade and I think this article summarizes some aspects of English education well. I'd like to share a few of my thoughts and experiences too. English is often put on a very high pedestal. Speaking
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by laurieg 2y ago
15 years ago I was a student in Japan and worked a part-time job at one of these conversation places. One of the successful teachers put it best: "You're not a teacher, you're a chat show host". You're doing entert
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by laurieg 2y ago
It's worth giving Aisle a try. It's from Sam Barlow (creator of Her Story). You only have one command, and then the story "ends". It's an interesting way to tell a narrative. You can feel the DNA of Her Story in the
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by laurieg 2y ago
Is you are on a tourist visa then you cannot work. Actively working as a nomad ok a tourist visa waiver is breaking the law. Of course, nomads often did come and with in this status. They would exist in a grey area, arguing their with was m
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by laurieg 2y ago
He's how my microwave oven works Rotate knob to select power oven or microwave Press in knob to select. Rotate knob to select preheat or not. press in knob to select Rotate knob to select temperature. Press in knob. Rotate knob to sele

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