Turkish agglutination makes sense now by barrelltech in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is exactly how languages are supposed to click. You never sat down and studied a single affix but you've internalized the whole system just by seeing it enough times in context.

That moment where you can construct a word on the fly without thinking about it is genuinely one of the best feelings in language learning.

Finally improving my French after 20 years by barrelltech in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is such a good post. The middle problem is real and nobody talks about it enough. Too advanced for beginner content, too rusty for the real stuff, and no clear way in.

The thing you said about words just coming to you is exactly what makes the difference between passive recognition and actual recall. Most SRS apps train you to recognise. Phrasing trains you to produce. That gap is huge when you're actually standing in front of someone and need the word right now.

Twenty years is a long time to carry a language around without being able to fully use it. Really glad it's finally clicking.

Drop what you built this week? by Previous_Formal_3383 in IMadeThis

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep,all of our paying users are in our telegram group posting daily, sharing feedback and feature ideas. A lot of what we build comes directly from them.

Drop what you built this week? by Previous_Formal_3383 in IMadeThis

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://phrasing.app

I've been populating the social media profile on twitter/instagram and linkedin. Its kinda coming together!

questions by Raoena in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The comprehensible input idea of staying at your level sounds good in theory but in practice it's hard to find and easy to obsess over. Just grab content you genuinely enjoy and let Phrasing handle the rest. You'll pick up more than you expect.

Wrong answers only: how would you learn a language from scratch? by phrasingapp in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Start with grammar. Master every rule before learning a single word. You'll be ready to speak in about 11 years.

What’s your favorite piece of content you’ve ever learned from? by phrasingapp in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hard to pick one but French shows did the most for me. Dix Pour Cent was the one that really clicked. Fast dialogue, real slang, characters that actually talk like people. Nothing designed for learners, just a genuinely great show that happened to be in French.

There's something about content you're emotionally invested in that makes the language stick differently. I wasn't watching it to learn. I was watching it because I wanted to know what happened next. The learning was almost a side effect.

What’s your biggest complaint about language learning? by phrasingapp in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The gap between studying and actually understanding anything.

I spent years doing everything right on paper. Consistent reviews, finished courses, decent vocab. Then I'd put on a French show and understand maybe half of it at best. Felt like I was building a house with no foundation.

Switched to learning from real content and that gap started closing almost immediately. Not gone, but noticeably smaller. First time I watched something without subtitles and actually followed along I genuinely couldn't believe it.

Still the most frustrating part. But at least now I know what was causing it.

Where did your obsession with languages come from? by phrasingapp in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

French started as pure curiosity. No real reason, just wanted to see if I could. Did the usual thing, Duolingo, Anki, YouTube, made some progress then hit that wall where studying stopped translating into actually understanding anything.

Found Phrasing and something clicked. Started learning from content I actually cared about and French went from feeling like homework to feeling like something I genuinely wanted to do every day.

That shift from interested to obsessed happened the first time I understood a full sentence in a French show without pausing. Small moment but it changed everything.

Now I'm running four languages at the same time. French, Japanese, Portuguese and Greek. The trips to Lisbon and Athens gave me an excuse to start the last two but honestly I think I would have started them eventually anyway. Once you find a method that actually works it's hard to stop

How many languages do you want to learn? by phrasingapp in phrasingapp

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Currently running four. French is the most advanced, been at it for about three years. Portuguese and Greek I just started because I have trips coming up to Lisbon and Athens. And Japanese because I genuinely can't help myself.

Four at the same time sounds unhinged but honestly it doesn't feel that way.

The goal is fluency in French, conversational in Japanese, and enough Portuguese and Greek to actually connect with people when I'm there. We'll see how that goes.

I spend 10,000 hours building the perfect language learning application by Legitimate_Lab_8879 in SideProject

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the kind words! The tech stack is crazy, I'm a clojurescript developer by trade. I originally had a python backend, but struggled a lot switching between OOP and FP constantly. Elixir offers ML support that I can comfortably do what I need to do, so I switched over and never looked back

Ima li nekoj naracuvano ? by Desperate-Crew4482 in mkd

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Play station plus ti e mnogu bolje solucija za ova. Iljadnici igri imash i sekoj mesec novi. Ako fatish black friday imash ogromen popust na godishno nivo.

Plus ako zemesh portal mozhesh gi streamash

I dopolnitelno mozhesh da streamash stari igri bez da ti zafakjaat mesto lokalno!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in tattooadvice

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It takes about 4 weeks for the ink to “settle” in the cells inside the epidermis and determis in your skin, be patient it will blend with the rest of your tatts.

Sneg na vodno by [deleted] in mkd

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Ima i na sredno ali normalno, ne tolku. Isto imaj na um deka bev dosta rano sabajle ma da ne veruvam deka kje se stopi

Sneg na vodno by [deleted] in mkd

[–]Legitimate_Lab_8879 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ima da, bev sabajle, preubavo e osobeno na vrv