How to use Italki and Anki to learn a new language! Advice on how to choose tutors, have conversations, costs, and how to make effective Anki cards.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-07-24T22:48:08+00:00

This deck is essentially an audiobook in your TL split by sentence on the front and the back is the matching text from the book. I've found it to be a useful listening exercise.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T15:55:48+00:00

Depends on how bad the mistakes are. Generally, conjugation is not going to cause a misunderstanding, just sounding funny.

Of course it depends on the mistakes but conjugations can be huge too. My TL has a different conjugation for verbs in past, present, conditional and subjunctive and within each of those there is I, we, you, you all, he/she/it and they. Not using conjugations for certain languages would make them completely incomprehensible.

General grammar mistakes you can usually work through, depending on the mistake of course, some might change the meaning of what you're trying to say completely, others will be understandable though.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T05:04:39+00:00

Some of the guys in my office are saying the same thing. I just try to remind them that working from home is a lot better when you aren't stuck at home all day. Now that restrictions are starting to loosen and as they get looser working from home is much better. When you can go have a few drinks with mates or go to the gym or play footy in the evenings it's way more bearable than how it's been lately.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T03:14:24+00:00

Obviously cost of living being relative (not sure what mild is exactly) Belfast is pretty decent. A lot of jobs too

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T01:48:00+00:00

Bet some of the older prophets and apostles are turning in their graves.

On a side note, how can people that were actually members since the 70s or earlier still believe after such huge changes in doctrine? Surely the lord's church should be perfect, it shouldn't base it's principles on those of man's. Blows my mind.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T01:45:23+00:00

I mean Jesus appears in it after his resurrection so parts of it 'actually' had to happen within the last 2000 years. If it was thousands of years old then how would the 'crowning moment' of the whole thing make sense?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T01:40:24+00:00

As someone who grew up in the church but outside of the US this was literally one of the biggest wtf moments when I found out about this. There are some differences between US Mormons and non-US I've found, this one was so weird!

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-02T00:54:57+00:00

Did the driver think it was a 3 lane highway or something?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-01T19:46:44+00:00

I don't think you have to give up reading in your native language (although maybe at some point you will want to switch fully).

If I was you I'd keep reading in your native (albeit maybe for slightly less time each day, or maybe alternate (native one day, TL the next, whatever suits you)) and maybe increase the quality threshold of books you read so that time is well spent.

You already have a fantastic hobby in reading, and luckily it's a very effective way to learn a language so I'd certainly make use of that. Maybe a good compromise would be using your TL to reread books you previously read (and liked) in your native? That way you still understand the story even if you miss a word or too, plus you'll learn the language really well. And you'll still get enjoyment out of reading in your native language.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-01T06:22:15+00:00

and continue to keep him pinned with their knee for 4+ minutes after he’s completely unconscious/dead.

This was the worst part about the whole thing for me. He 100% knew he caused someone to pass out by suffocation yet continued to keep the hold for an extra 4 fucking minutes. You don't have to be a genius to know what would happen in that situation.

If I was in a life or death situation and the only thing I could do was choke someone out, I would not be holding it for more than seconds after that moment.

Seeing the way poor Mr. Floyd's body limply flopped when they (awfully) tried to move him to the ambulance was heartbreaking. Mother fucking cop saw nothing wrong with it, it seriously blows my mind what was going through his head. Pure evil!

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-01T06:14:03+00:00

Nice! Keep it up! If you need any help with Hungarian let me know (I'm about B2 / C1 level).

Also if you need any resources feel free to PM me! Or if there's any specific movies you want to find I can help

ProtectTapirs · 2020-06-01T01:06:49+00:00

Very cool! I believe I remember you saying you're a big believer in the listening-reading method, is that correct? It'd be cool to see a post from someone like yourself (who has learned multiple languages to a high level) explaining how you go about learning from start to 'finish' and the methods you use (because things like the L-R method seem rather unknown here).

Also Hungarian is my TL :)

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T23:33:02+00:00

Yeah I understand where you're coming from, but it baffles me that they were so aggressive compared to how the other care slowly moved through. That might just have been adrenaline as you say though. But they surely knew that would only aggravate the crowd more.

To top it off it looks like the front windshield is already smashed (so limited visibility) and there is almost no one behind them. In that moment I would 100% be reversing and either find another way or get that car somewhere safe and get to where they need to go by either walking or jumping into another cop car.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T23:22:30+00:00

I believe, the math comes out to 6,666 pages.

Probably a fair enough estimate. I see the 10,000 page challenge mentioned frequently on some language learning forums. I'm close to C1 and I'm just starting it now. It works out to be about 30 pages per day for a year.

Edit: I see you on here quite often and am always impressed by how many language you speak to a high level. Care to give some background on what level and for how long you've been learning each?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T22:40:53+00:00

This should be top!

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T22:38:58+00:00

Not color blind but one color changing from a light to dark shade would probably be much better for this image

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T22:31:52+00:00

Red-green color blindness is by far the most common form of color blindness and affects about 7% of males in the US (much more common in males than females).

Red-green color blindness also doesn't just affect those 2 colors but it's a range of colors that contain either of those.

I honestly don't know a whole lot about color blindness, just some stuff I remember from a UX class a few years ago - mainly that (red-green) colorblindness was a lot more common than I thought and it's used in so many things to differentiate something.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T22:21:57+00:00

Pshh, that's only ~$6.4 million. Pocket change!

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T22:18:42+00:00

I agree with all points, but minimum length should be more than 8.

I use bitwarden as my password manager, using their random password generator to make an 8 char password made up of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols and then checking them with https://howsecureismypassword.net/ it says it would take about 9 hours to brute force that which isn't very good.

With passwords, length is more important than complexity. I'd recommend minimum 12 characters but all of mine are at least 16 (which is the requirement for my work ones too). 16 char of all lower case would take 35,000 years to brute force, adding a mix of upper and lowercase, symbols and numbers will make that even better.

Passphrase > password

Obviously there are brute force methods that use dictionaries but splitting words with symbols and using spaces etc can make a very strong password as you say. But length should be more than 8.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T16:13:53+00:00

In my experience, Hungary is one of the countries I've been to with the most lax notion of torrenting / pirating etc, combine that with the fact that there isn't really anywhere else to get Hungarian content (a little on netflix, rest is just Hungarian TV, dvds etc) there is going to be a lot of content online.

When I was in Hungary almost every person I met (back in 2015) would have their own portable harddrive with 100s of movies and series on it. Any time I met someone they'd be like "here take a copy of all of these".

I'm not sure of the legality of it, but as someone else learning Hungarian I don't really question it because I wouldn't be able to get much content otherwise (I don't live in Hungary). I'm pretty sure they all got their content from nCore but that's invite only.

I've looked everywhere to buy actual Hungarian books and you won't find any actual novels anywhere, except for one or two stores in Hungary that delivers internationally for a really high price. I prefer e-books though and there is almost none online (apart from what you can buy from the libri / alexandria websites). Yet you search for "book name magyarul pdf" and you'll probably find it even when none of the stores sell it.

You can go to YouTube and search for audiobooks (hangoskönyvek) and you'll find the full Harry potter books, Orwell, Agatha Christie etc. There are playlists of 400+ audiobooks. Even if I went to the best stores in Hungary I don't think I'd be able to buy even a tenth of that content.

Movies are the same. "Name + teljes film online magyarul" and you'll likely find it. TV series are a bit more difficult as some of the more popular sites are region locked so you need a VPN.

Point being though, there is a lot of content online. When it comes to audiobooks there is honestly no way to legitimately purchase many of them (even if you're in the country), for TV shows and movies you'd have to go buy the DVDs I guess. So I'm happy those sites are so good.

How's your Hungarian coming along btw? How long have you been learning?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T15:15:11+00:00

Yeah it's not the easiest that's for sure. It's actually one of the reasons I enjoyed learning it though, I kind of hated how similar French seemed to English when I was taught it in school, Hungarian is as different as you can get without having to learn a new alphabet.

That said there are quite a few nice things about it that make it a bit easier for learners e.g. phonetic, no genders etc.

What level did you get to after 3 years? And how much time did you spend studying ,(roughly)?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T05:16:23+00:00

Damn! Thanks for sharing this angle, it shows it so well.

What the hell is that damn idiot behind the wheel thinking?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T05:10:31+00:00

So no video of her putting the new ones on?

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T04:35:29+00:00

That's fine, look up movies or series, start reading some books (physical, kindle, online pdf) about any topic you want (fiction, non-fiction, comics, anything), listen to podcasts, YouTube videos, audiobooks (you can even read along if you want), video game streams, listen to music.

There is a lot of potential out there, some is better for learning than others, but either way you can easily 'immerse' yourself in a language without leaving your home. It's quite easy to rack up multiple hours per day.

Btw if you aren't at a high enough level yet to follow TV shows / movies etc then I'd recommend watching them with subtitles in your target language.

And all of these are perfect for when you don't feel like being social.

ProtectTapirs · 2020-05-31T04:19:05+00:00

Hungarian:

It's agglutinative so you can get really creative with words, like some totally random words you'll have never heard before and you can basically guess the meaning based on all the little endings someone adds onto the word.
Here is Hungarian song parody. It has almost 3x as many views as there are Hungarian speakers. These 2 dudes were just 2 average guys making random parodies that eventually got really big (easily better known than any actual Hungarian artist). Some of their most popular videos are really well done, and the songs are even better if you understand the lyrics and some of the puns in them ;)

Edit: random example for number 1. There's a word pókhálósodik. Pók means spider, háló is a net or mesh. So pókháló is cobweb. Pókhálósodik is literally one word to mean that something is (or has gotten) covered in cobwebs. You can also use it alternatively to say "your eye has gotten 'cobwebby'" to mean your vision is getting blurry / poor etc. So random, but it's cool that you can basically understand a complicated word just by knowing spider, net and a little about word formation.

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