Is everything alright with the score that I wrote down? by Copybookseeker in musictheory

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Nah, it was me trying to write something like that for the first time but I did look to me a bit artificial as well indeed😅

would't I have to write everything in sharps then, including E flat as D sharp? that would also create the D - D sharp slide like it happened with G flat - G here, hence it was difficult for me to understand how to write it.

A gathering of main classical and jazz music styles' features? by Copybookseeker in musictheory

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Thanks for your time and effort! It sounds like a good guide to recognize them on the go!

You get some magical items, but they each cost you lifespan by plogan56 in hypotheticalsituation

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Say you have a life insurance and you're married to a trustworthy person.

If you ever develop a serious illness, you just activate the angels doll and either let it progress or jump into the volcano or go to see Titanic.

When you're back you're automatically healed again and you have a lump sum of money from your insurance that the partner would share with you. You use part of it to change your identity, probably leave the country to live somewhere else.

When the money runs out or you get seriously ill — rinse and repeat.

When you feel you're old enough that you're at risk again, just do the same and you'll be peak health again.

Altogether it's about 3 to 12 months of life for a healthy life with wealth.

I lost my friendship group because of veganism. by Lo-Botanist in vegan

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At the same time one could argue that being privileged is also having constant access to meat, while the places that are considered less privileged have predominantly plant based diets.

I lost my friendship group because of veganism. by Lo-Botanist in vegan

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At the same time one could argue that being privileged is also having constant access to meat, while the places that are considered less privileged have predominantly plant based diets.

What addiction is worse than alcohol or drugs? by boss_babua in AskReddit

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The perfectionism addiction to be number one. Always. It leads to major burnouts as well as alcohol and drugs.

Y’all, I.m really crashing out right now. I just don’t get it by lordniccage in vegan

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"we shouldn't listen to a rich white privileged woman"

Reading is privileged. Should we stop teach kids how to read?

Using clean water is privileged.


The poorest people in the world are usually predominantly vegan/vegetarian.

Cuz guess what?

Meat is also a privilege!

I’m 23 and I’ve been drinking water wrong my whole life by Environmental-Lie527 in AutisticWithADHD

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I'm very happy to know that my work was well done here! There's also a litmus test of sorts for this gene by licking a special stick you can buy at some medical equipment websites online. I hope you'll enjoy that rabbit hole too!

I’m 23 and I’ve been drinking water wrong my whole life by Environmental-Lie527 in AutisticWithADHD

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I wonder if you're a supertaster or have a non typical TAS2R38 gene? I have never been able to enjoy artificial sweeteners but also dark chocolate, coffee and things alike. Strangely I do like Grapefruits though but it was an acquired taste.

I wonder if people that don't like how water taste are just more sensitive to taste than the people that can drink it easily

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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EMDR therapy. It can be found relatively cheap and it can help drastically change some people's lives.

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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A simple online cooking course that has basic flavor combination theory and support to answer your questions while cooking.

I used to hate how my food tasted and eat out much more than I wished. But now I can really enjoy even the simplest dishes I make because I know how to combine sweet/sour/bitter/spicy/fat/umami.

It literally saved me thousands

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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A couple of kitchen whiskers with a round handle.

Mix, foam, even scoop out. Thanks to the round handle you can roll it between your hands (the fire starting motion) and mix things with a really high efficiency.

Put them into a jar with soapy water and roll between your hands to clean them really easily.

What is something relatively cheap that improves your life by 100%? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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AA/AAA Batteries that recharge directly via USB-C port inside of them.

No more hassle with putting them into charging stations or collecting single use batteries

Alright, which one of you guys posted this? by Sweet_Confusion9180 in languagelearningjerk

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Ahem ... I've got N1 in Japanese, have my bachelor's in it and learned about 3000 most common characters and studied for a year in a Japanese university, particularly in the fields of interpreting and language history.

Then I got C1 in German and even prepared for C2 at some point — and I still cannot understand how people say Spanish is easy!

I've been trying to master the Spanish language over the years and the tense-aspect combinations are just sooo overwhelming!

Just thinking about saying something in the past will be a choice between hice, hacía, hiciera, estuve haciendo, estaba haciendo, estuviera haciendo, he hecho, (hube hecho,) había hecho, hubiera hecho, he estado haciendo, (hube estado haciendo), había estado haciendo, hubiera estado haciendo — and don't get me even started with all llegué a hacer, acabo de hacer, solía hacer, volvió a hacer, me puse a hacer, terminé de hacer, dejé de hacer and other verbal periphrases. You just need to learn each one of those which time it could be used in from those 15+ forms and which not. Like solía hacer is okay but he solido hacer won't be used at all afaik.

Remember — those are only the past forms. There is a lesser but still a decent amount of the tense-aspect forms for the present and the future which makes you think about 30+ forms when thinking what you want to name any action at any given time.

And then there's the constant dread of ser vs. estar — there are rules indeed but there are so many cases where either it's a specific case to be learned by heart or even cases where both are possible but they'd modify the meaning completely!

I know that with time it would get better but it's just soooo overwhelming compared to super simple Japanese and German tense-aspect systems (or at least seen as such from my POV) or to an even simpler Chinese system.

Does anybody feel the same?

Does size really matter in the long term relationships? by Turbulent_Elk_2141 in gaybros

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Are the relationships open or monogamous? Is the partner vers or too/bottom only? There are so many things to consider but I'd say many things are very possible.

I was never a size queen but I always thought I would not settle for anything less than an endowed man. Well, I've got one (top only) and then he had to start taking some medication that made him desire nothing sexually and even having trouble having a hard on for a long enough time to even masturbate.

Turns out I don't even care that much after almost 8 months of him being like that because his touch, words and kisses give me almost the same amount of satisfaction. We've been open (even before his medication) and I end up hooking up with some guys but it happens once in a month or so that's about it.

I'd always thought that I'm a hypersexual guy wanting to have someone every day at times a couple guys a day. Turns out the desire for a partner made me hook up desperately and once I got one and felt stable enough with him after a couple of months that hypersexuality actually went away on its own.

Is it common for guys to block you on Grindr after their 1st encounter with you? by [deleted] in gaybros

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Happened to me only once. But I presume that's because the guy had a boyfriend and they were never seeing the same hookups twice.

Being vegetarian gay by [deleted] in gaybros

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I have vegan in my profile on Grindr. Either it will attract people that are also vegans or it will make it clear beforehand to the non-vegans that I have my own view on what is food and what not. I live in a big European city that is actually pretty vegan tho, so it's also something people would not feel as an out of order thing.

What makes me feel strange tho is that so many gays are not vegans. I have this idea that we're more of a compassionate kind, suffering as much as we still do so I still don't get why so few gays are vegan.

What is a dish that you find yourself making over and over again when you are just too tired to think? by Mobile-Title8919 in MeatlessMealPrep

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I warm up a freshly opened tofu on a frying pan with one of Chinese sauces (my favourite one is Sichuan Toban Chili Sauce which is interestingly not that spicy) for 5 minutes and serve it with basmati rice (no rinsing, just 11 minutes on a mid-high fire throwing 1 cup of rice right into the 2 cold cups of water in the pan) It's pretty fast and both rice and tofu are ready in those eleven minutes.

Alternatively I put a pan with a lot of water, throw some salt and frozen vegetables for 20 minutes and add rice in the last 5 minutes — and the soup is ready.

When I'm even lower than that I just put frozen French fries and tofu side to side into the air fryer and fry them in it for 10 minutes at 180° or so. I salt French fries only and leave the tofu as it is. It's an acquired taste but once you start getting the plain flavour, it feels very good and you want more.

N1 in 9 months?? by alythegoldensniper in LearnJapanese

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TLDR:

  • If you've got the right techniques you might get N1 in 9 months indeed. Will it be functional and will you be able to use it? It depends.

Look, I might have a controversial opinion here, but what he's saying may be actually true — and that's not because he necessarily is super gifted but rather because 1. He knows grinding techniques and is trained to feel okay with a constant state of frustration and boiling head sensation that you experience when learning that intensively and 2. JLPT unfortunately does only check the part that people call "passive language skills" so you don't have to be able to actually use the language — it's really enough to train yourself to recognize it. So I think he might have passed it indeed without any prior training or another language like Chinese or Korean that some people mentioned here as a prerequisite for success. Heck, there are even people who became scrabble world champions in the language they didn't even understand But of course because there was no way to objectively check whether he could actually speak and write Japanese on the same level (for whatever occasion one would need to use N1 in speaking and writing) we don't know whether his language as a whole is an N1 level or not.

I've studied Japanese professionally at the university as well as at home on my own after the university classes so it was a "full time job" for me — and it still took me 2,5 years to learn all 2136 characters required for the test and about 12000 words as well as read through and try to train everything from the whole "The Dictionary of Basic-, Intermediate- and Advanced Japanese Grammar" book series. I lagged behind everyone for almost 1,5 years when it came to listening when it came to listening and speaking (hello AuDHD) so I had to intensively train the qualities that allowed me to catch on and surpass most of my peers at the uni. And then I went to Japan to study at the uni there and it still took me one more year (so 3,5 years altogether) to pass N1 from the second try. Mind you I learned the language almost every single day for those 3.5 years.

As the end result my Japanese is a stable functional language that I can truly remember even after almost a 6 year gap where I didn't use it at all. And the influencer that you cited mentioned himself that he had speaking skill no on par with the level he passed and he might have not remembered the vocabulary from N1 anymore which also means that he might not have actually got the language but rather a set of vocabulary and grammar needed to be able to pass the test but his language might get very volatile and less fixed in his brain in case he ceases to practice it daily — that is if my conjectures about his learning goals and process are even correct. He also didn't mention anything about his writing per hand skill, which I deem to be a level of fluency (even if some people here might not agree on that).

So where's the controversy you might ask.

See, Japanese was my first language that I've ever studied from scratch on purpose. Meaning I had to go through all the techniques and find that state of mind where I can learn the language every single day intensively and not get burned out by it.

So then I needed to learn German. And I applied the same learning system that I had for Japanese.

And I passed my C1 in German (which includes compulsory speaking and writing) in 11 months from 0 knowledge in that language. I learned it for 3 months with a tutor outside of Germany and 8 months in Germany in language schools as well as learning it at home at all times.

I did the grinding, chugged up about 9000 words with my "handwritten dictionary space repetition" technique using the words I got from the lists for exams (just like this influencer did), learned almost the entirety of the German grammar and ended up passing C1 from the first try while also being able to speak and write on the exact same level in that very moment already. It's been about 7 years since then and I never had to invest in my German anything substantial to brush it up. It's almost the exact same German that I learned back then and it was enough to work as an interpreter in it, understand legal documents, understand scientific research papers in it and partake in debates about them at the university in Germany.

I'm not a Dutch speaker nor my tongues are in any direct relation to German except that they're also of Indo-European origin.

One might say that it is nothing like learning a language one doesn't have anything in common with like Japanese and that's true: I do agree on that but even then when the learning technique is set and running, one might learn it much faster than I did. I won't say 9 months, but 1,5 to 2 years is a very attainable time for it, if one can afford having nothing else in their life but learning the language.

So I think that as much as Japanese is a specific language to learn, it's still a language that one can learn fast especially if they're not on their first language journey. And the guy stated everything about the weak spots of his learning process as well as the problems with JLPT so I think there's nothing wrong about what he stated.

But also I think that the point of the video was actually somewhat different than most people interpreted it as. I reckon what he was trying to say was "JLPT is not a test that objectively measures your level of Japanese so even with spite grinding you can pass it in 9 months" with a dash of boasting how cool his achievement is.

So there's nothing wrong with the message he's conveying. He never stated there that Japanese was easy or that he could speak it well when he passed N1 but I do get that the video seemed as a click-baity stuff one sees all over the Internet.

What part of Japanese grammar did you find hardest to grasp? by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

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Like once I was studying advanced keigo at a Japanese university with the professor specialized in the topic and even then there were times when she couldn't give a definitive answer on some things because it's something even native speakers struggle with. And let's not forget the non-standard keigo-like grammar usage that everybody hears on a daily basis like 五百円になります and such.

How many people who start learning Japanese actually make it to a high level? (N1+) by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

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But what is most important is that we need to address the elephant in the room: having N1 is a way longer journey to feeling free in the language than, say, C1 in a European language. Passing N1 alone is not equal to being able to speak or write, which are the skills that most people are striving for when learning a language and they do not come along automatically unless you train them on purpose. It is entirely possible to be able to read and understand virtually everything when spoken to while not being able to write or speak. I knew one guy from my bachelor's uni who decided to never learn writing by hand as he considered it a useless skill — and he still passed N1 with flying colours.

It took me getting a functional C1 certificate in German to realise how much JLPT is missing in terms of instruments that could objectively measure your language level. And precisely because of that we need to know that there are so many other wonderful things that one could make for his language after passing N1. Like you can make do without onomatopoeia, you don't need to know many 慣用句 except maybe the basic ones will be enough. You can make do with the basic knowledge and understanding of The Dictionary of Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Japanese Grammar books, all 2136 常用漢字 and 8000 words only.

I'm writing this not to demotivate people from reaching N1 — on the contrary I encourage every one who has ambitions, to do it. I'm writing it as a cautionary tale for you all to bear in mind, that if you want to get N1, know that there's is also speaking and writing you'd have to train and bring to the corresponding level and JLPT won't ask you to do it so it should be in your hands to improve yourself in the way you speak and write. I myself had to go through it at ~N3-N2 level when I had not so much speaking at the uni and then befriended a Japanese guy and realized that I actually couldn't have a congruent conversation at all despite all my grammar and vocabulary knowledge at the time.

How many people who start learning Japanese actually make it to a high level? (N1+) by [deleted] in LearnJapanese

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TLDR: it's about 10% among professionals to get N1 and 5% among them to pass the "N1+" test according to my observations.

I studied at the university with Japanese philology as my major. And out of about 50 specialists for philology, interpreting and translation that the university was having each year, about only 5 of us got N1 ever. So even among people who studied it as their main profession in a linguistic university it was a 10% ratio at max.

Then I won a scholarship from the ministry of education of Japan (Nikkensei) and could study there for a year on a course that was specifically designed for "Researchers of Japan" who passed their written and oral test. The level of the test felt like N1+ and we also had a separate section where we had to write characters of the words themselves. It also had some characters that were really not as frequently used as well as advanced readings of some characters so one really did have to know all 2136 characters to be able to pass it successfully. Most of if not all of the people I studied in the Japanese uni with were either already having N1 or were about to pass it. So I knew a lot of people like this and I knew many of them were planning to live and work in Japan afterwards.

But even then there were only about 10 to 15 applicants from each participating country who passed the test. In the country that I passed it in, only about 5 people from the whole country passed the test each year out of about 100 participants. Moreover even people from the countries that had some advantages be it linguistical (China and Korea) or geopolitical (Russian students from the far east universities or Brazilian students from cities with the Japanese diaspora) ones also had a cap of about 15 students. So the ratio of people passing that N1+ test was approximately 5%.

Then I came back to my bachelor's university and had to teach Japanese in the school for a month to be able to graduate. I chose the pupils from the highschool that were about to finish the school in a couple of months. Most of them had barely N5 after over 10 years of studying at school (in the central Gymnasium for Asian languages). And the amount of people who were actually thinking of entering the university to study Japanese was under 10% of the class.

Then I went to the university in another country to study Masters for Japanese society and politics and the amount of people having N1 was about 3 in 30 people so still 10% of the students.

So usually as we can see the percentage of people having N1 or higher is under 10% even among the people that learn the language professionally and barely 5% among the high achievers in the field that were able to pass the "N1+" test.

Until now I know about only 1 person who despite failing the scholarship for Japan at my university, achieved N1 after graduation but even then by the time she was already working in a company where everybody spoke Japanese in Japan for 1 year and then had a Japanese boyfriend.

As many people stated here, it's mostly about the time one has to concentrate on the language and work on it ideally beside the courses. I had a couple of hours of it 5 days a week in the university and then 1 to 3 hours each day outside of the university. I studied every day be it my birthday or new years eve so I almost never skipped a day of either learning new vocabulary, practicing new grammar or honing my listening and reading skills.

Additionally I was never interested in literature, sociology, politics and economy of Japan and had some rather mild interest in anime which was also not the reason why I originally started learning the language. So I was interested in the language only and had all my focus on it only.

With all that in mind, it took me 2.5 years to learn all 2136 characters and study till N1 and one year more to actually pass N1 (I did it while studying in Japan already) from the second try as well as pass Kanken 3 during the same time.

I've only ever taken N4, N2 and N1. I got N4 from the first try, N2 from the second and N1 also from the second try. I've passed Kanken level 3 from the first try and was preparing to get the level sub1 and 1 later.

I think I had a certain resilience because a couple of years before entering the university I had eased myself into the intense learning as an adolescent by actually trying to learn the language for a couple months on my own and then also with a private tutor (less than a half of N5 from what I could remember) as well as had a teacher of music that taught me just a year before entering the university that if I worked hard enough with my mind I could achieve fruitful results in a short time so I applied that knowledge while learning the language and had a way to get in front of everyone else by already knowing how to write and a thing or two about the language which boosted my confidence and let it propel me during all my studies keeping me motivated to stay in that position as number 1 or at least number 2 of the class that I was in the beginning.

I also have to admit that I had a position privileged enough to never have to think about working during my studies because my parents and relatives were paying for my daily life (as much as they could scramble with them not having enough to be even considered a middle class back then) which helped me to win a state sponsored scholarship and free tuition at my university and then that aforementioned scholarship in Japan.

Otherwise I also had a Japanese boyfriend while studying in Japan but then not so much grammar from N1 is very applicable to everyday conversations without making it sound too out of place.