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by laurieg 5y ago
Would you mind posting some examples of the kind of cards you have in Anki?
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I've definitely noticed some pretty bad mistranslations in Netflix subtitles but not worse than general movie subtitles.
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How long does it take to learn programming is like asking "How long does it take to learn 'sport'?". You could learn the basics of football in an afternoon or spend a solid few years getting good. If you started playing
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Rhoticity (the r sound in words like butter). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English
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I remember in university I lived in a house with 8 people. We would all gather for dinner, often with a few extras from out of the house. It was such a wonderful feeling (and wonderfully efficient, you only had to cook once a week!). The i
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Since January, there has been a 10-storey office building under construction directly outside my apartment window. It has been a lesson in the debilitating effect of loud noise. Even in with the windows closed it is impossible to ignore. I
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I think this is a slightly more nuanced response than "just do it". It goes to the core of the problem: that avoidance can easily become a habit. Avoiding building that habit (by doing tasks when you notice the slightest resista
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I think the article touches on a few interesting points, but only at a fairly shallow. What I have noticed working with various levels of bilinguals is that native vs non-native often have different misunderstandings. A native person firi
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A Zebra Sarasa Dry pen. The ink always comes out smoothly but it is impossible to smudge.
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There's nothing more awkward than 1 good singer surrounded by bad singers at a karaoke box. It's amazing how they can completely nail a song and put everyone off singing.
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While I empathise with your struggles with kanji, the language itself provides a solution: furigana. Japanese is wonderful for having a very close mapping between letters and sounds. These easy to read and pronounce letters are often writ
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I broadly like the idea of "slicing up reality differently". Usually when this it comes up the focus is on grammar, but I think this explains the relative ease/difficulty of learning close/distant languages quite well.
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A few weeks ago I went to play a piece on the piano. I completely blanked, tried to piece together the intro by ear but wasn't really getting anywhere. My teacher played the intro and then boom, the whole thing was back under my finger
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by laurieg 5y ago
I love this post and how it shows that playful exploration can produce interesting results (and learning along the way). I've often felt that getting learners to ask "What if" rather than "Why" leads to a much more
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by laurieg 6y ago
I completely agree with this. I find that any etymology that has a neat little "just so" story behind it to be very suspect. In real life words generally get made by pretty obvious metaphors (it's gotta be obvious enough for
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by laurieg 6y ago
I use 15 minutes work with 3 minute breaks. As a tool against procrastination, pomodoro is far more effective that it has any right to be. With short timers you're always only a few minutes away from a break so it's easier to push
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by laurieg 6y ago
English "counters" are in some way worse because they aren't consistent. Slice of bread, slice of cheese but not slice paper. To be fair, Japanese has "everday use" counters and "trivia TV show" counters.
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A much closer analogue would be the words used in English together uncountable nouns: A loaf of bread, a grain of rice, a slice of cheese. These tend to be common everyday words but if you get them wrong things sound quite off.
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I'm definitely not a lawyer, but I believe that the court may draw an inference from your silence. You are innocent and decided to remain silent only to have a perfect explanation that fits will all evidence known to the police weeks
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Wasting Billionaires' Time(kamuiwhisky.substack.com)
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First of all: there is no silver bullet when it comes to addiction. No one tool, method, book, blog post, forum reply etc will make it all go away. (so try to stop looking for "the one perfect thing". It doesn't exist) I can
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In my experience, adult learners strongly dislike learning without translation. If you show an adult a picture of something and say this is a “flug”, only in the very simplest cases (where they are most likely just imagining their native wo
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I second this. Mumble across different continents has less latency than Zoom in the same city.
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Do you have any general tips for learning vim? I put some time into it but ultimately abandoned it. I found too often I would accidentally trigger some command or mode and not be able to undo or get back to a known good state.
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Now this is open to the public. You can purchase a small wooden ball and try it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36njD4LSleA
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Or you can side step the issue by avoiding chaining together long lists of adjectives. You're spot on with the articles though. When coming from a language like Japanese that doesn't have articles the using "a" and &quo
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I agree with the main thrust of the article. However, I don't think this is a particularly new idea. AI has always been this vague, amorphous idea in people's minds. Whenever it becomes concrete progress it generally stops bein
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One is actual physical film, the other is a digital camera using their tech to appear like film. It's like having a regular burger and lab-grown burger next to each other: not being able to tell the difference is the goal.
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Perhaps it's a bit reductive, but your story reads like "I went to a restaurant I like and they nearly refused service due to my ethnicity". A similar thing has happened to me and it doesn't make me want to go back.
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Please be aware that not everyone has the same capacity for memory about personal details as you. Not everyone using this tool is necessarily recording 1000 different details. Maybe they are just writing information about the 10 people the

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