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by petodo 4y ago
Mandarin is language taught in Chinese kindergartens/schools regardless of province, so yes while their parents may speak different dialect at home, they learn it from very early age. And you know very well I meant that 90% of those Ch
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by petodo 4y ago
All styles I tried have first capitalized letter separated (not joined as it should be properly) and written in print writing, that's not really cursive by my standards.
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by petodo 4y ago
That's not really realistic, it can't even do normal cursive handwriting with first capital letter joined, I dunno anyone who writes like any of those 10 styles, maybe they are common in US, but certainly not in this part of Europ
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by petodo 4y ago
>> And why would I wanna speak with baker, cab driver, public transport workers, convenience store workers, deliverymen, etc.? > Yeah, why would you ever want to speak to people who aren't important. Fucking serfs, they should
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by petodo 4y ago
> That may be the real issue here. Mandarin has nearly as many speakers as English. Completely different league, English has by magnitude more speakers than Chinese. > Why should anyone be interested in people who don't "lea
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That's what happens in 4th most visited city in Europe, I can certainly relate to locals from Barcelona and Venice.
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by petodo 4y ago
Yes, they should, but not sure how is it relevant to what I WISHED for, I didn't tell anyone what to do and I'm clearly not an American.
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by petodo 4y ago
I mean it's quite obvious I am not native English speaker and I don't bother to perfect my language. > you need to understand that you had the time, resources and intelligence to learn it to a very proficient degree. English is
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by petodo 4y ago
We are talking here about country and country's culture. What you say works for homogenous societies, but there are plenty of countries with multiple official languages where none of the citizens would be part of their country culture
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by petodo 4y ago
> Ask any multilingual person and they'll tell you their personality changes from language to language. I disagree with this, I'm same person whether I communicate in English or my mother tongue, you could ask what people speak
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by petodo 4y ago
Almost anything is possible, even time travel, it's just not very realistic under certain circumstances. In case of learning Japanese in 6 months while working full time in English speaking enviroment with 0 Japanese foundations to sta
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by petodo 4y ago
> Honestly only place where you need to speak local language is communication with gov officials That's what I wrote. But how often you deal with gov officials and various forms, on average once or twice a year? Is it worth learning
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by petodo 4y ago
> 90% of people on the street won't speak English in big European cities, no. And who chose that percentage as some holy grail or something important? I'd say in big European cities at least 40-60% of people in productive age (
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by petodo 4y ago
You are working with assumption people don't live in their bubbles even when living in home country speaking mother tongue and that not breaking bubble is something bad. Many people voluntarily choose to live in bubbles which overlap w
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by petodo 4y ago
Let me introduce you to wild idea that language is just tool and has nothing to do really with the country/culture. I may loved China (at least first few years) where I lived for years without loving their politicians and learning lang
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by petodo 4y ago
> "Chinese is hard" -> 1.5B people figured it out. Yeah and at least 90% of them were immersed in it since birth at home. Learning mother language while growing is very different from learning foreign language as adult. >
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> Your local businesses won't speak English, your baker, the cab drivers, the people working the public transport, at your local convenience store, the government officials, the deliverymen, your child's school-teacher, other p
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by petodo 4y ago
> Permanent residents are allowed to apply for Japanese citizenship after five years. Is it really strange though? It's same in Czechia, first you must hold temporary residency for at least 5 years before gaining permanent residency
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by petodo 4y ago
German is not lingua franca spoken by people all around world, so yes, this comparison is ridiculous comparing lanugage taught everywhere in world with niche language, which is less popular than Chinese as foreign language.
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by petodo 4y ago
> Having a working knowledge of German, Italian, French, English was fun, valuable, and normal especially when doing business in diverse countries and with diverse peoples. That's nice with all these very similar languages using lat
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by petodo 4y ago
Who the heck downvotes this and think it's normal for person LIVING in country for years not being allowed to return to their home and family, just because they don't live there long enough to gain citizenship yet? It's extre
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by petodo 4y ago
This is also starting to happen in Prague city center, though the real reason is those overpriced tourist traps are not frequented by locals so there is no need for staff to speak local language, it should be enough warning for you (as loc
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> I spent about half my year in Japan and half my year in Sweden and I speak both languages. Yeah, I really doubt that you can move to Japan with zero Japanese and in half year learn enough to hold normal conversation and be able to read
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by petodo 4y ago
Have you lived in country with completely different language with characters instead of simple <30 letters alphabet for 10+ years? It's very different for English speaker to learn Spanish or German and learn Chinese or Japanese, cha
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by petodo 4y ago
They surely have sophisticated bombs in Japan when explosion artifacts flying through air hit only high school students and avoid younger kids.
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by petodo 4y ago
"Fax machines are still commonly used in Japan."
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Japan hunts for person who faxed bomb threats to schools(bbc.com)
3 points by petodo 4y ago|5 comments
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by petodo 4y ago
they are not making 18K per month, it's just revenue (MRR), so you are right as employee you will earn much more (at least at that stage in US)
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by petodo 4y ago
congrats, but title is misleading, you was not founder first two years, so it should be from 2000/month to 18K in 4 years, since you also counted years wrong, 2017-2022 is 7 years if you include first and last year and more importantly
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by petodo 4y ago
I used hckrnews but they are displaying either very few articles or too many, I find serializer.io better alternative where I switched from hckrnews + it remembers/synchronize what you read already through unique URL

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