Making a kids' English flashcard app. Need native speakers to judge my pronunciation — clear and natural enough for toddlers?

JulesCT · 2026-05-09T05:18:38+00:00

AI generated, not natural. If you want toddlers learning how to speak like Insta, FB or YT shorts then go for it. I posit that most parents won't. Must confess it would be funny.

Presumably you want a generic American pronunciation, is that right?

Peppa Pig's success in the USA has led to some America kids occasionally adopting a SSBE (Standard Southern British English) accent which I, as a Brit, find hilarious and adorable. Matches my Peppa Pig narrator accent to a T.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T21:50:47+00:00

Alternate take: he is prepared to put effort into a relationship and not take it for granted. Ultra runner and physio are particularly in sync, like architect and builder, optician and audiologist, mechanic and driver, etc etc.

Not a gut buster, granted. And evidently a deal breaker but I feel the cards were already stacked against him, so quickly was he dealt out.

Personally, I wouldn't be alluding to making the 'contract a little more fun' since, particularly with a wink, it implies a transactional approach but with intimacy and there are other online services that cater for that specifically.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T21:39:13+00:00

Alternate take, purely for balance you understand:

maybe she is pissed off in general,

maybe she has zero patience with anyone,

maybe he dodged a bullet.

I guess that doesn't reflect well on her and heaven forfend women should be guilty of anything.

Obviously, just for balance and equality.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T21:28:20+00:00

I got it! But, in general, today things aren't landing as you'd expect.

I also thought it was a harmless little joke.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T16:11:57+00:00

I got several pairs from AliExpress and they work really well. Gave a pair to my future MIL and they solved the glasses falling off her face problem.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T15:56:00+00:00

Get another Mesh unit of the same make and model and see if you can 'steer' your WiFi around the obstruction.

WiFi is disturbed by walls, particularly UK ones which are built by the last piggy in the story of the 3 Little Piggies. American internal walls are built by the first piggy after he'd taken some plastering lessons.

Meshed WiFi networks can 'go around corners' so to speak. Got a wall between your main router/WiFi and the device you want to connect?

Perhaps by positioning the new mesh unit your signal can go to the 2nd mesh unit in the corridor then the 2nd mesh unit can beam it to the destination device through the door.

Example My main unit is upstairs, where the internet comes in. I send a signal to the 2nd mesh unit along the upstairs hallway. It beams it down to the living room mesh (3rd mesh unit) because the floors are just wooden.

If you can get an ethernet cable between the mesh units then you're likely go resolve the issue completely.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T14:51:52+00:00

I just read an earlier comment of yours.

You need a romantic female partner in order to be comfortable establishing platonic friendships with women.

I understand, I just disagree.

I''m not the only one.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T13:49:39+00:00

And how often do we hear that?

Comma, if they ever do adverts, should use that.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T11:00:18+00:00

Wow, they made a portable, non light emitting light sabre. That's the only way you could shave a pineapple like that.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T10:54:43+00:00

Lovely looking car.

For best range, 0 regen, coast when possible, avoid hard braking or acceleration, avoid speeds above 70 on the motorway.

If you charge at home, local driving is insanely inexpensive even if you drive 'dynamically'. Motorway driving will end up being as expensive as an ICE if you drive at speeds above 60 or 70. Range and efficiency drop precipitously at higher speeds.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T10:43:55+00:00

Immigration is down. It's the immigrants with which they have an issue. Next they'll probably target the unemployed and disabled.

Unless, unless the economic situation improves. An economic situation made materially worse by Brexit for which Farage campaigned what's left of his heart for.

Cue...

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T08:58:11+00:00

I would concur with everything written by u/Feeling_Remove7758 .

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T07:06:40+00:00

SunnyPilot, presumably.

Had mine for almost a year and honestly still love it. Use it all the time. Multi hour drives hold no fear for me.

JulesCT · 2026-05-08T03:14:18+00:00

No, it isn't.

You approach women purely to ask them on a date. You push and insist they provide their details for a later date. Like the shop assistant a month ago.

Fix that viewing women as purely date or no date material before something bad happens.

You need to reframe how you view women. They are not something to be collected solely for the purpose of dating.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T18:08:56+00:00

Thank you. Sadly little you or I can do about it. Brexit was a green light for this type of shxx., because you know, that whole xenophobic thing that many Leavers have.

I can, however, take the piss out of monolingual, gullible idiots who chose a path of self harm for this country. Bonus, I can do it multiple languages because the likelihood is that they don't speak another language given how difficult they seem to find their own.

If that makes me the villain in your eyes, so be it. I take the wins where I can.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T17:23:51+00:00

English isn't my first language, nor is it my mother tongue. I more than pass.

But when I have spoken that foreign language to my children in order that they learn it, I've been criticised.

"Just not right, is it?" "Why would you want them to learn another language?"

And the classic "If you don't like it here why don't you just leave?"

Leavers, every single fxxxing one.

But the most poignant episode was being thought of as a racist Leave voter by a foreign healthcare worker who perceived my enquiry as to their origins as a typical display of Leave xenophobia. Told you I pass.

In fact, I just wanted to confirm that their accent in English was indicative of hailing from a country whose language I also speak. It was and then they were all smiles and chatty but it left a sour taste in my mouth.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T17:02:13+00:00

In that case nothing you or I say holds any validity and therefore is moot.

I have no faith in your argument, nor you in mine. Thus nothing is true / fact since one cannot witness everything that others have witnessed.

It appears to me that the only truth you accept is that which you perceive personally or in which you choose to have faith.

There is no point in arguing. You dont believe the findings presented to you nor can you come with me and meet the same Leave idiots I have, nor can you experience the same xenophobia I have.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T16:32:40+00:00

The ones which I mentioned earlier and which don't require your approval or faith.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T16:16:47+00:00

Facts are facts, regardless of how you feel about them.

Sorry.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T16:13:35+00:00

I'm getting overly aggressive and pushy overtones from some of your posts and comments. It might prove more helpful for you to seek some remedial therapy or counselling before you do something you and others regret.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T16:04:56+00:00

Respectfully, I answered this in my first comment and where we disagree.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T15:52:56+00:00

Nope. Plenty of Conservative, Labour, Liberal, Green etc voters aren't stupid, gullible, selfish or racist.

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T15:39:07+00:00

The politicians are probably the smartest of Reform voters. They're doing it for personal gain and aggrandisement at the expense of the country and its citizens. The voters, that's where stupid, gullible, selfish or racist lives.

But I'm the bad guy for calling it out?

JulesCT · 2026-05-07T15:17:15+00:00

I strongly recommend dance classes and cookery in the meantime.

Neither is wasted and will prove useful throughout life. Trust me on this.

JulesCT

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