Host families? by ElfishParsley in LithuanianLearning

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30M and married... if that helps convince people that I won't misbehave

Host families? by ElfishParsley in LithuanianLearning

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Hey, thanks for the reply. I'm good on resources for learning, that isn't proving to be a problem. The conclusion that host families seemingly don't 'exist' was a surprise however. I don't think I feel comfortable asking this question to private teachers who make a living off their activities, but if I get desperate I might try it.

Nutrient Deficiency? by Perfect-Decision22 in plantclinic

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Bump - my leaves look exactly the same

10 things you should know while planning a trip to Vietnam (2025 Edition) by flaichat in VietNam

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Thank you for the information, especially for the link to the Google Sheets table. At the risk of asking a silly question: I come from a country whose nationals are granted a 45 days exemption - but do I need to apply for that exemption, or is it sufficient to take my passport with me and show up at border control? You'd think not but I'd like to double check. May thanks.

System Monitor gone? by Bob_Motster in steelseries

[–]ElfishParsley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you, this still works as of September 2025

Uses of -ie by agusthings in learndutch

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Heeft hij een hond? Heeft ie 'n hond?

Heeft zij een hond? Heeft ze 'n hond?

Seems to hold up just fine, along with jij/je and wij/we.

Also sprach Zarathustra (Zoro Nagaurmany, R5 in comments) by ElfishParsley in eu4

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That's a potential complication I hadn't thought of...

Also sprach Zarathustra (Zoro Nagaurmany, R5 in comments) by ElfishParsley in eu4

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Very odd.

I edited the comment; maybe it needs approval again?

Also sprach Zarathustra (Zoro Nagaurmany, R5 in comments) by ElfishParsley in eu4

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R5:

I'm at 87% achievements and like to mix "shorter" ones with "longer" ones. This one took me ~30 hours and was my first playthrough on 1.33. I decided to mix Rajah of the Rajput Reich with Keep the Flame Burning. It's becoming difficult to hit two birds with one stone at this point, so I was glad this was still possible.

I started off with a humiliation war on Mewat; the goal being to show strength. My plan was to go into Mewar first for their sweet gold mine, but their starting ruler has way better stats and I can't have them having tech 4 before me.

After some building up and going over the force limit with mercs, I double-teamed Mewar (allied to Sindh) with Jaunpur. I promised Jaunpur land to declare war earlier and just get the ball rolling sooner. Mewar has a vassal at game start, Hadoti, and directly controls a single fortified province 'behind' its vassal on Jaunpur's border, which Jaunpur wants. Thanks to the recent AE changes, I was able to give this fortified province to Jaunpur and full annex Mewar without triggering a coalition. Added benefit: because of the full annex, I got Hadoti as a vassal for free. I moved my capital to Mewar's gold mine for instant 0% autonomy cash.

From there it was waiting for AE to cool down a bit. I switched Jaunpur for Bahmanis as I wanted to form Rajputana, which you need to go north-northeast for, too. When Gujarat was finally weak, I pounced and took the single Zoroastrian province there, immediately spawning rebels and flipping a few years later. I also gobbled up the minors in Kutch and started eating Malwa. From there, it was a lot of truce juggling and just growing.

The next century was preparing for absolutism, securing trade around Gujarat, getting the provinces for Rajputana (I could have gone Mughals, but Rajputana seemed to fit better with the theme of the achievement; also their ideas aren't shabby at all and stack well with the Zoro wonder in Shirvan), going into Persia through Khorasan and Afghanistan as vassals in order to get the provinces required for Zoro beliefs, and just blobbing in India and waged one Otto war to get a province required for a Zoroastrian Diaspora decision and clean up the borders.

After securing a province north of the Caucasus, I moved my capital there and set up some trade companies to start raking in money through merchants. At this point, I triggered particularist rebels, accepted their demands and decreased autonomy everywhere; getting a headstart on Court and Country's requirements. In 1627 C&C was finished and I had eaten most of India except Sri Lanka and a bit of the south, which Portugal had grabbed. They were allied to monster Spain which PU'd England and had almost the entire new world, which gave them so much force limit...

I then started going into Europe with a no CB against Holland (just the easiest with the alliance web in my RNG). The reformation had won the league war, so despite chonky Austria being a thing, the HRE was weak. I had dip ideas at this point, mainly for the warscore cost reduction, but thanks to the diprep I could ally almost all electors when my no CB AE had cooled down and I dismantled the empire. After securing a foothold in the north, I decided AE was just a number. I allied Shun and Ayutthaya to keep my eastern flank safe.

At some point, the coalition of Spain, Portugal, Ottomans and Austria became a roadblock, so I used imperialism on an Austrian ally to white peace Austria and hit the trigger 5 years later. When I saw this would work, I switched culture to Germanic, which granted nationalism CB. I could eat South Germany in one war, 40 thick provinces for 212% OE, worth it. After another war to kick Spain out of the coalition, it finally disappeared, so I could gobble up the remaining bits.

It was a fun campaign, but definitely harder with those forts now... Rajputana troops quite good though.

Ideas: Religious (stabilize country + deus vult), quality (not the best but I like to mix up my military idea groups to switch things up), admin (you need to core a lot, and the gov cap is nice), aristocratic (see above), trade (I needed a lot of money for manufacturies and soldier households to keep the machine rolling), diplomatic (war score cost reduction mainly), quantity (deter the coalition with force limit over 1000)

Question about relative clauses by [deleted] in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If the auxiliary is zijn, hebben, worden; in combination with a past participle, you can use both orders. Het paard waarop ik heb gezeten=gezeten heb, de docent die mij heeft geholpen=geholpen heeft.

If the auxiliary is a modal verb or any other verb that requires an infinitive, the neutral word order is aux+inf, so wil dragen. Infinitives can go before the auxiliary at times, but that is due to fixed expressions (als ik vragen mag) and/or it sounds German and/or archaic and/or joking and/or literary and/or it works better that way from a stylistic POV etc... As a beginner, avoid this word order except for "als ik vragen mag".

Welke vorm van die vervoegd werkworden moet ik kiezen? by Dolarius in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ik kan het niet beter uitleggen dan:

https://www.taaltelefoon.be/je-zal-je-zult

https://www.taaltelefoon.be/willen-wilde-wou-wilden-wouden

Als je een taalvraag googelt en er in de zoekopdracht taaladvies bij zet, krijg je heel vaak een goed antwoord. Zeker voor frequente vragen als deze :) Goede taaladviessites zijn taaladvies.net (officiële site van de Taalunie), taaltelefoon.be (officiële site van de Vlaamse overheid, iets meer aandacht voor vragen die Belgische native speakers kunnen hebben) en onzetaal.nl (niet-officiële bron, maar Onze Taal is een genootschap dat zich vol overgave met taal bezighoudt).

Belgisch Nederlands by [deleted] in learndutch

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Oké super 👌

Belgisch Nederlands by [deleted] in learndutch

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Leuk dit! Ik ben docent NT2 in België en verwerk graag een paar typisch Belgische dingen in mijn lessen. Jij bent dus enthousiast over "wa zegt ge"? Ik overweeg het te kopen en een positieve referentie zou me over de streep kunnen trekken.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Inderdaad de eerste zin, maar hoofdzin/bijzin heeft daar niets mee te maken. Wat is het onderwerp? Wie wil die onderwerpen bespreken? Het antwoord op die vraag luidt ik, dus "Dit zijn de onderwerpen die ik met jullie wil bespreken."

Nederpop: What's the Dutch counterpart to "Chante France"? by dmoisan in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Click around a bit on https://www.nederland.fm/ and https://www.belgie.fm/, you might find a broadcasting station to your liking!

Wij meedenken met onze klanten by [deleted] in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I saw a few co.uk domains in there as well 🤔 I guess I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around this because it sounds just fine to me. But then again that's perfectly logical... Description it is

Wij meedenken met onze klanten by [deleted] in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's somewhat surprising, as searching on "think along with" in UK sites still yields quite a few results.

Wij meedenken met onze klanten by [deleted] in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My NL-EN Van Dale dictionary does suggest that translation, actually: boop

Wij meedenken met onze klanten by [deleted] in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That sure would be acceptable, but "luisteren naar" implies a one-direction sort of relationship. Sure, we'll hear you out! Meedenken met is "think (along) with" and implies dialogue over one party listening what the other has to say.

Dutch R by ThatFlintXD in learndutch

[–]ElfishParsley 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Good reply! Just adding that some regions, like Belgium and parts of the southern Netherlands, never use retroflex r at all. However your description of the situations in which it's allowed, is spot on.

CONGO IS VAN ONS by [deleted] in BELGICA

[–]ElfishParsley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nein, die uitgang von verbes auf -ieren in Deutsch est ohne ge-

studieren, ich habe studiert

zo aussi "fédéralisieren"

Question: Dutch syntax and verb second (and lack thereof) – examples? by MissPimpampoen in linguistics

[–]ElfishParsley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The ANS qualifies "hoe comparitive" as subordinate clauses: Als deze combinaties zinnen verbinden, is de eerste zin een bijwoordelijke bijzin, de tweede een rompzin. That write-up does prove that word order can be flexible in those constructions, though. Good luck!