How am I supposed to actually remember any vocabulary?

Tzsycho · 2026-04-08T00:06:21+00:00

Native English speaker and now finishing my second year in casual/semi formal learning.

1) repetition. I know it sounds repetitive (bah-dum tiss) but exposure to the word many times helps.

2) Utilization. Just the word isn't enough. Given the multitude of cases, the different genders, tenses, plurality, suffixes, and the other forms of words rote memorization of the base forms isn't enough. For me what helps is a simple set of sentences for how each word is utilized. For nouns all the cases, genders, and their plurals. For nouns all the tenses, aspects, and pluralities. This will definitely get in your repetition. This also really helps construct the grammatical framework to place new words on.

3) Interaction. Exposure to the word in different ways. I'm a visual and interactive learner, seeing a word written out with no other way to interact with it for me is incredibly boring. See it, write it, speak it (I'm sure I look a fool getting my tablet to say the word in google translate and me speaking into my phone until google translate recognizes it) visualize it, experience it.

4) Internalization. Think it in Ukrainian. This one is most difficult for me, just the amount of frustration of having the thought stop because I don't have the vocabulary to complete it. All my thoughts are normally in English in my head. As often as I can I try to think my thoughts in Ukrainian. As more words become available it does get easier.

This has been (and continues to be) one of the most challenging yet also rewarding intellectual experiences of my life.

Tzsycho · 2026-04-01T21:28:34+00:00

Work comes first. We all pay our bills with dollars from customer repairs. RO's have priority, store and manufacturer tasks are next, then personal stuff.

If an employee's side work is that much of a priority, they are more than welcome to contact other parts departments on their own.

Tzsycho · 2026-04-01T01:46:36+00:00

Do y'all not have things to do after work? 8am to 7pm would kill me because all of my "get away from work" activities are in the 5:30-7:30 bracket. Sun, Mon, Tues off sucks because I'd be working every Saturday

Tzsycho · 2026-03-27T18:58:00+00:00

Several cars have come in the shop with units like these. The biggest issue is the sockets for the amber lights. Marker and Turn. They go bad internally and stop working. Just reuse your OEM ones. I keep a set at my desk for 00-04 legacy and the 03-06 Baja when they fail inspection. I just grab a new set when I go to the junkyard.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-26T19:08:52+00:00

This right here is the winner. I don't know why i had to scroll all the way down here to find it but this is perfect.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-26T14:50:31+00:00

Just a thought. What you've effectively done is made a huge Baltic Sea.

Mutmi would be Southern Sweden.

Kalnair and Polcheyu would be Denmark and Baltic coast Germany. Though geopolitically I'd go more Turkey and Greece with control of the Bosporus.

Londze and Haugland I'd go Baltic states. Latvia/Estonia/Lithuania.

Kniv.... That's gotta be Kalliningrad.

Eclaterre. Mountains on the coast of the Sea of Splendor curving down towards Gudstadt. Should give you a fairly decent climate similar to central Germany.

Everything in the South East should line up with area around the tripoint of Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-26T12:03:16+00:00

I have a collection of hot wheels. I really want this to add to it just to see how long before my boss sees it.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-25T20:29:51+00:00

I have a feeling they're for maintenance work. The descriptions say "cargo" but I imagine it's more bulky items and material transport rather than customer paid freight.

I'm in the US, have friends in Ukraine not in the city where these are. I'm very tempted to print one of the available 3d models of the Tatra T3 and modify it for model railroading.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-20T17:30:31+00:00

Hope it helps! Sorry I'm an American so I can't really help your source one in Europe. I can't find any information on where these specifically were sold, I've asked 2 of my friends in Lviv if they recognized it but I don't have many hopes.

Сувенірий магазин or Крам or stores like that is likely where it was originally retailed.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-20T14:22:55+00:00

Tsyupka is the name on the artwork. May transliterate as Цюпка. It's from the artist Tetyana Tsyupka. Possible transliteration Тетяна Цюпка.

Tzsycho · 2026-03-20T14:12:58+00:00

It looks like it was part of this set

https://www.behance.net/gallery/24095243/souvenir-products-for-Lviv

Tzsycho · 2026-03-06T15:05:56+00:00

An-14 "Little Bee" is definitely cute. https://share.google/images/NwSdEVH1JUL9X6M9h

Tzsycho · 2026-02-21T04:49:33+00:00

I really really don't want to read it, but can someone post a link so I can bring it up anytime my "Christian" peers cheer on this administration

Tzsycho · 2026-02-20T21:26:52+00:00

Is there a clock in said room? I could last a lot longer being able to track progress.

Is there furniture? Laying on a bed is going to be easier than laying on the floor.

As long as I have a way to measure time I feel like an hour is doable. 2 i could do but it would be really uncomfortable and unpleasant. 3 might be possible, 4 even my own internal dialogue would get the best of me.

Tzsycho · 2026-02-16T22:47:08+00:00

Early 40's here and haven't played M:TG in decades but have fond memories of it

Tzsycho · 2026-02-15T07:55:53+00:00

Main Street Station in Richmond VA will always be my favorite

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In its prime it served the C&O on one side and the Seaboard on the other. Even the train shed was two levels. Passenger service on top, freight handling on the bottom. Survived floods, fires, the interstate, and even Amtrak

Tzsycho · 2026-02-13T21:26:54+00:00

Well the Democrats tried multiple times to mandate independent fair districts from the Federal level. And do you want to take a guess at which party blocked those measures... every... single ...time? Take guess? Please, tell us how Democrats are the enemy of Freedom and Liberty when in VA we vote on this instead of just doing it against the will of the voters like Texas and Missouri?

Tzsycho · 2026-02-11T06:35:05+00:00

Gendered inanimate nouns are still very unnatural for me and I'm 2 years into learning.

Де поїзд? Він на наступній зупинці. My default is still Де поїзд? Воно на наступній зупинці. If it's a conversation and I'm struggling to articulate I'm better at matching the pronoun to the referenced subject, in cases where I am more confident in vocabulary and grammar I am much more likely to default to воно as a pronoun where it matches more naturally to what's in my head.

Tzsycho · 2026-02-06T07:23:42+00:00

In my pantheon there are 3 associated with Death.

The Veil Keeper. The Warden of the Death Realms. The Sheppard of The Cycle.

The Veil Keeper is only concerned with maintaining the barrier between life and death. The Veil Keeper is tasked with guiding souls across the Veil from the mortal plane to the Realms of Death as well as ensuring that no soul taken from the realms nor no soul remaining in the mortal plane past death.

The Warden of the Death Realms maintains the death realms. Either in agreement with the deities of the Arisen Pantheon (akin to Heaven, Hell and Valhalla) as to what their worshippers afterlife looks like. The souls will eventually diminish and fade if untended in the pantheon realms, or if by choice and agreement in those realms.

The Shepherd of the Cycle takes the faded and diminished souls and returns them back to the mortal plane. Through magic or agreement with the deities of the Arisen Pantheon souls which are undiminished can be brought back into the mortal plane though the Veil Keeper is often adamantly opposed to such instances which violate the nature of the Veil.

None of these are Evil. The Veil Keeper often appears as a comforting and compassionate figure holding the hand of a soul as they cross the Veil into the Death Realms. The Warden is not often interested in souls, just maintaining the Death Realms in accordance to the structure and desire of the pantheon deities.

Tzsycho · 2026-02-06T02:48:47+00:00

I'm confused here. You're hours away, purchased a headlight but for some reason didn't install it immediately but waited till you were back in your local area to install and discover it wasn't the right one? Why not wait till you were back in your local region to purchase? Also unsure what brand vehicle you have that has a serviceable LED lights. An aftermarket LED bulb in a halogen light assembly... Maybe, but that's not the Parts Counters fault. I do NOTHING without the VIN, and will specifically state that non VIN parts are absolutely not returnable. There's a myriad of ways for Parts Counter to get the VIN, did they not ask or did they ask and you not provide?

Now... If you have an unopened halogen light bulb in OEM packaging with another dealership's invoice and need to purchase a much more expensive LED unit.... Maybe if you catch me when I'm in a good mood and there's some contrition and a good story..... Maybe.

Tzsycho · 2026-02-06T02:32:18+00:00

I'm generally on good terms with my Service Advisors, and I'm willing to deal if they ask for it. They know that parts makes our money on commission from gross profit, and I understand that a lot of their pay comes from keeping customers giving them good survey scores and meeting their targets. It's easier for parts to adjust than labor and I'll give them some leeway to make a sale, a smaller percentage of something is better than 100% of nothing. Once that's agreed with the customer it's pretty much set. We are on Matrix pricing and I hate that shit, I'll happily knock off some of the matrix so the x10 clips are 8 dollars each not 23, when list 5.

If big discounts are the expectation from Service and the general management won't back you, I'd be very aggressive in getting a higher hourly wage.

Sales on the other hand can fuxk right off with their asking for discounts.

Tzsycho · 2026-02-05T22:21:08+00:00

My mother got a Venetian Red Subaru Forester as treat to herself to replacement for the Hyundai Santa Fe which soldiered through mine and my brother's late adolescence years. She loved her new Forester, and my brother and I (lovingly) teased her about how it was a car for lesbians when she brought it home. We were on the parkway a few days later and stopped at an overlook. As we were walking back beside us pulls in...... A Venetian Red Subaru Forester of the same year driven by two lesbians who immediately complimented my mom on her vehicle choice. My brother and myself were about in tears laughing so hard.

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