throaway5445454

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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Yes and mine say things like "why pay 500 for a language course when I can do this?" Of course they ignore me when I say language meetups are free, because "im not at that level yet." It's usually anxiety.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Well that's all well and good, but the ignorant masses who called EA the most evil company did so for basically the same reasons that you'd critique those other companies. Big corporations that put out productions designed to do n
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
^^^^^
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
See, that's my issue. If Duo is only a good way to "get started," then it isn't a good way to LEARN a language, as in learn how to actually use it to a level approaching fluency. The whole thing is false advertising, not
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
lets do them ourselves, im done waiting around for those mooks!
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
I teach languages and teaching people how to functionally craft things with a language works much better in the medium to long term. By the time you get some basics down, you can actually have a conversation beyond "comment ca va, comm
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Theres a persistent myth that you can just "absorb" a language; you can't, you have to understand it either intuitively or unconsciously through experience. Duolingo took so much money from people by pushing this idea.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Sitting in an empty room beats doomscrolling!
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
It sucks balls. I learned more in one month of studying from a textbook and attending conversation classes than I did in two years using Duolingo. And its so much worse now than its ever been!
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
The bigger problem for Canadian universities is that they have never had their funding restored to pre-austerity levels by the various levels of government.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Just like every comment you read on the internet? See my reply to a poster below for links.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
You guys are reading too much into my statement and unfortunately must not read the news much: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/south-koreas-president-l... https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions&#x
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Well if you have knowledge that proves my comment wrong, please present it.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Im Canadian too and I fear our country becomes more American every year.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Canada just allowed the USA to have control over their nuclear plants and waste for 20 years. South Korea had to publicly come out and say they wanted to accept Trump's deal, but it had to have some concessions or else they would go in
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
No, it's not. There is a big difference between Chinese-level control of information and what is seen in the west. Naivete would be believing that the west has none, or maybe that the West has so much that it is somehow already an Orwe
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
also was the outcome fostered by the USSR
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
The problem with this statement is that your Chinese friend comes from a place where every information source allowed by the government can be safely assumed to be propaganda, by definition. That's how their system works. Not so in the
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
It's true to an extent, but its not what happened in Afghanistan.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
The entire effort by the British was to keep them as possessions. The wars continued after independence because non-communists took power.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
Mau Mau, Malaya, Kenya
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
The US totally blew it in Afghanistan and its well-documented how most of the initiatives there failed due to corruption and mismanagement.
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
water supply raises or lowers property values
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by throaway5445454 1y ago
prison life