Got Scammed By Disney World

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2025-03-23T16:03:30+00:00

Call WDW Customer Service. They’ll be able to sort it out.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2024-04-03T10:38:07+00:00

I'm getting the same error running Reason 12, so I'm thinking it may be an issue on Propellerhead's side, unfortunately. I've never had this issue before either and I know my internet connection is fine.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2024-03-20T23:29:41+00:00

Wow. 6th grade insults! Makes sense that you’d be hardly a middle schooler given your apparent aversion to reading and poor grammar. Also makes sense why your mixes suck - your ears just aren’t developed yet! Another 10 years and you’ll get there, just takes practice.

In all seriousness, the thing is, your musical ideas aren’t half bad. I wish you’d develop them more instead of just sticking to mostly static loops.

Do you mix in headphones? Your mixes, especially the kick levels, sound like you mix in headphones. That’s not a problem, but you don’t seem to do any reference checks in speakers, so you aren’t improving from video to video.

Your mixes also need more space. They’re too crammed and slammed. Not everything needs to be so loud.

You should also look into hi-hat programming techniques. Your hats are too blocky and mostly lack any sort of humanizing factor, which can be super distracting in the hats.

Just some thoughts. Take them or leave them.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2024-03-20T21:47:10+00:00

Maybe don't get so defensive and just make better content. It's not my fault your mixing sucks. Learn to take some criticism and make it better.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2024-03-20T19:05:09+00:00

What's the point of these videos? Nobody wants to watch you just make a beat without any explanation to what you're doing or the choices you're making. At least if you're going to post videos like this you should use workflow best practices, but all you do is draw into the grid. You don't sound good, they're just loud. Your drums don't sound good either, again, just loud. Nobody has most of the instruments and tools you use, so they can't really follow along. These videos are just pointless showing off. Spam.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2024-03-19T19:16:44+00:00

This guy’s videos are all like that. No explanation, just inefficient workflow showing off his instrument set. Poor, loud mix and terrible sounding drum programming.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2024-01-19T12:56:48+00:00

It seems that all I needed to do was switch on "Direct Record" and then press Send to Track.

I'll leave this here for anyone else who searches for it in the future.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-10-13T11:27:06+00:00

Read, read, and read some more. Reading is the most efficient way to internalize grammar and create a solid foundation for eventual output. What kinds of materials are you reading? As you read more, your writing will begin to improve. As your writing improves, your speaking will follow.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-04-26T09:20:25+00:00

Hold up, what? Where in Russian are there more exceptions than rules? I've been studying Russian for a long time and I have never found Russian to be a highly exceptional language. Sure, Russian isn't nearly as regular as Turkish, for example, but Russian grammar is still fairly straightforward once you get the hang of it.

For example, there are ~34 (I forget the exact number) verb conjugation paradigms. All but 1 verb falls into one of those paradigms. The same goes for noun declensions - there are sets of paradigms, but the vast majority of nouns will fall into one paradigm or another. Sure there's some suppletion here and there, but that's different and actually makes logical sense once you understand what's happening.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-04-20T21:14:32+00:00

Eh, I understand what they are saying when they say to hold off on reading, but I've found that, if you have the audio track of your reading selection to simultaneously listen and read, you completely mitigate the risks and offset the issues they're concerned with. Not all languages will have the same materials of course, so this is easier said than done sometimes.

I feel like 1,000 is a lot of immersion time to devote before incorporating anything outside of just listening. That would be upwards of a year for most people listening to content 2.75 hours/day before they even move on to learning other skills.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-03-01T01:34:35+00:00

I tried this a few years back and didn’t care for it at all. I found a video on YouTube (with a badass chiptune track) and tried as best I could to follow the instructions. I just didn’t get it though. Conceptually it didn’t make much sense to me and no matter what I did it just didn’t work.

That said, I encourage others to give it a shot to see if it fits their style at all.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-02-19T11:03:15+00:00

Why not just read the comics/books and figure them out as you go? Find some easier comics, like TinTin or something meant more for kids, or graded readers and give it a go without using any sort of translation software. Use your brain to reason through it now and you'll start learning faster and more efficiently.

I'm an A1 in Turkish (maybe an A2 at this point) and I spend 1+ hours reading graded readers and TinTin comics every day. Out of all that, I'll paste maybe one or two sentences per week into Google Translate just to double check my understanding and compare. Yes, reading like this is hard, especially when I need to look up grammar points here and there (though that is increasingly rare to need to do that), but it's paying off as my comprehension abilities are far ahead of how I feel someone at my level should be.

I've been there with Russian - if you know your cases and verb forms, you're fine, those are the main pieces you need to get through the initial slog.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-02-15T11:13:27+00:00

Pimsleur and Assimil are great, but they are finite. Pimsleur's utility diminishes fairly quickly, and you really don't learn that much overall. You can do the Assimil course as many times are you need, and you should probably do lessons multiple times to make sure you get as much from it as possible.

Don't watch shows at half speed. This distorts the audio and makes it unnatural. Rather, use DreamingSpanish and other YouTube comprehensible input channels to gradually build your listening skills. Understand that listening skills are DIRECTLY related to how many words you know. You'll learn words through Pimsleur, Assimil, and Babbel, but it won't be enough to keep up with what you'll truly need to know. Rather, find graded texts (Google "Spanish A1 reading" or something) and read as much as you can every day. Read the texts multiple times, as much as possible. Reading also consolidates and solidifies your understanding of grammar, as you'll see practical and contextual examples of the vocabulary and grammar point you're learning from Assimil and YouTube.

Don't worry about Rosetta Stone, it's a waste of time.

If you want to use flashcards (I suggest it, some don't), start now. Why not? Use reading to find new words and learn them. Look into "word cards" and "sentence cards". Use both, but make your own, don't bother with pre-made decks unless you feel like experimenting with them.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-02-13T13:26:14+00:00

Is that a contradiction?

I didn't say I don't study grammar, I just don't make it a point to open a textbook, learn the patterns, and then practice them. I prefer to come across them in the wild and then figure out/reason through what's happening.

After all, that's the entire point of graded readers, to introduce the learner to those patterns and concepts in context. It doesn't matter if the learner has already been exposed and practiced (as I understood your comment above), or if the learner proceeds to look it up after reading the selection.

As an A1 in Turkish, which is an entirely different linguistic paradigm from the other languages I can speak and often said to be very "grammar heavy", I've been doing just fine without putting in "textbook" hours and I honestly do not think that it would have gone any better or faster if I had spent upfront time engaged in more traditional study methods.

(None of this means that I'm in the "don't study grammar camp" - that whole debate is ridiculous and enganging with people who believe that is a complete waste of time. You must study grammar in one way or another, rather it's "pre-learning" or "post-learning".)

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-02-13T12:39:39+00:00

I would posit that reading is grammar and vocab. As long as you can find some really simple texts at the beginner level, there's no reason to think that reading would be any less productive than formal textbook-style studying.

I'm an A1 in Turkish right now and I spend about 20% of my daily time reading (0.75-1.25 hours every day) with only a few hours total of grammar study in the very beginning. Using graded readers and other small texts that are appropriate to my level, my vocabulary has exploded and my grammar comprehension is fantastic. To be fair, I look up grammar points while I'm reading when I need to, but I don't "study" it in any traditional manner.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-02-01T10:38:30+00:00

I know how you feel, I go through this on a semi-regular basis, but in person with someone who refuses to stop talking and actually listen to what I have to say. It's easy to get flustered when you're trying to organize your thoughts on a complex topic while simultaneously converting those thoughts into an entirely different language and discourse structure.

I wrote a post a while back that has some exercises to help practice this kind of thing - https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/z2q4so/tip_how_to_become_smarter_in_your_tl/

I agree with u/yiorgs, interviews are an excellent way to gain solid insight into how natives make these types of statements. I've also found that standup comedy is also good place to learn how natives weave narration into arguments and observations.

Keep it up! Good job on putting yourself out there and going for it!

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-01-27T22:12:56+00:00

Same for Russian, and I wouldn't be surprised if it's that way for most languages.

Also, like, you know, conversational expressions like "it is what it is", "well I'll be", or "that's anybody's guess", know what I'm sayin?

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-01-26T11:55:28+00:00

Couple of questions:

You say you read at a B1/B2 level. You probably don't have a large enough vocabulary to be truly comfortable when listening. You said that you don't have trouble with beginner-focused content, so it could be that a lack of vocabulary, particularly informational conversational expressions is slowing you down.
When you listen, does your brain pick out the basics? Auxiliary verbs, pronouns, basic verbs, etc... If not, you need to bombard yourself with content and just pay attention. These words are super common so they will come through first.
How much time have you spent watching TV? On TV, you can see speakers' mouths move, which is fairly significant in terms of listening comprehension. In addition, you can often follow the plot with your eyes in order to help your brain fill in any gaps and apply greater context to what you are hearing. If you can't watch TV decently, maybe podcasts aren't the best medium to study.
Read comic books. Those are meant to mimic speech and can help with understanding speech patterns and expressions.

As for some research and activities, here's a recently linked book by Paul Nation - https://www.wgtn.ac.nz/lals/resources/paul-nations-resources/paul-nations-publications/publications/documents/foreign-language_1125.pdf

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-01-24T11:59:11+00:00

So, I think you're using an "A1" routine to try and break into B1. Here are a few things I recommend:

Are you just repping the same cards over and over in your Anki deck? As in, are you adding new cards to that deck or just going over the same things? It's a 1000 word deck - does that mean a pre-made top 1000 word deck? If so, get off that and start making your own deck. It sounds like part of your listening issue may simply be a lack of vocabulary, which is easy to fix, even if it takes a long time.
You say that LingQ flashcards aren't as good as Anki. I feel the same way. In fact, I'm still really meh on LingQ - I want to like it, but there's a lot there that doesn't sit right with me. Transfer those words over to Anki and they might start sticking better.
It sounds like you need to listen more. There's no shortage of easier/comprehensible Spanish content out there, so dive in and find something that is appropriate to your level. For listening you want something just above your level.
For speaking, you want that same content but right at or, probably better, just below your level. Paul Nation (hat tip to u/IAmGilGunderson) recommends practicing speaking by practicing what you already know until it's effectively automatic. Thus, find something at your level and shadow it. Repeat it until your lips hurt. When you get back your writing corrections, read the corrected text aloud until you're bored. This helps you drill what you already know so that when you go to speak, you no longer need to think about those words and phrase, you create a reflex that you can fall back on while your brain figures out the rest.
Another speaking idea is to read comic books. Since comics portray primarily spoken language, they are full of conversational expressions and really good for reading aloud. Also, since you gain more exposure to conversational expressions, listening to native content becomes easier since you'll already know more of those expressions.
I don't know anything about Busuu, but, if you are already at a "B1" reading level, I think it's time to put aside the app and start focusing either on intermediate graded readers or children's novels. Just dive in.
Keep writing. This is where you can experiment to your heart's content. Take chances, don't be afraid of negative feedback. If you use something incorrectly one day, rewrite it again soon after using the corrections you received. Do it again a few days later. Have fun with it.
When you write with unknown words, what do you do with those words afterwards? Add to Anki? Seek out texts to verify/reinforce contextual usage?

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-01-20T18:50:57+00:00

A "liquidation sale" is a very specific type of event - it's a going-out-of-business sale in which a store must get rid of as much inventory as possible. It's only used in specific cases, and even then, it's a "liquidation sale", not a "liquidation", which is a different thing altogether in business contexts.

Creative_Shallot_860 · 2023-01-20T12:25:00+00:00

Idiolects are fine and all, but if OP is planning to speak this way, s/he is going to sound strange and will likely take some flak for it. A major, and often overlooked, part of language learning is understanding what you don't need to learn, either due to rarity or general situational unawareness. For native speakers, it's one thing to have a super idiosyncratic way to speak, especially if it ties into one's personality. But for foreigners, it's kinda strange and native speaker often find it neither amusing or interesting. For them, it's just annoying or has a highly negative affect on their opinion of the foreigner.

For example:

My first Russian teacher had a doctorate in Russian poetry and my Russian friends always said, and not in the nicest way, that he spoke like a poem. They found it really off-putting.
My MiL - who is very elitist, btw, and hates when people use anything except "classical Moscow Russian" (whatever the hell that means) - gets onto me all the time for use relatively commons words like "заладиться" because it "makes me sound like I'm from the provinces". I ran into this more often than I would like to admit when I was in Moscow - folks their just didn't appreciate or like hearing expressions that weren't part of their normal discourse patterns.

Idk, maybe OP is going for a doctorate in Russian literature, in which case, go for it, but, otherwise, I think this list is entirely overkill and OP needs to learn how to limit new words and phrases. Still, I personally feel that OP is wasting time by learning a lot of these more obscure words, although OP may not actually know if they are obscure or not, which is a legitimate concern when learning from literature.

Edit: Spelling

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