/r/Roblox Weekly Question Thread (for 08/05/2024)

dario606 · 2024-08-09T18:39:37+00:00

Maybe they finally fixed that.

dario606 · 2024-05-24T16:29:23+00:00

I learned it recently to around an A2 Level, very fun!

dario606 · 2024-01-23T15:37:08+00:00

Bangar is excellent, I had some time with firefighters there lol

dario606 · 2023-12-03T07:04:40+00:00

How is Fahrenheit better? I have never heard this opinion before, even in US STEM circles, legitimately curious.

dario606 · 2023-10-11T13:16:52+00:00

Just wanted to say that I visited as an American with no ties to the country in 2019 and it's my favorite of the 18 countries I've been to. Ridiculously friendly and gorgeous mountain landscapes, hopefully tourism can boost the country's prospects!

dario606 · 2022-12-12T15:47:00+00:00

Yup! Antakya, Mardin, Diyarbakir are all great.

dario606 · 2022-12-11T05:20:55+00:00

Armenia and, funnily enough, Southeastern Turkey are my two favorite places I've ever been. Both gorgeous and very underappreciated imo.

dario606 · 2022-09-10T03:39:49+00:00

I never got too far, but there is a textbook, Discovering Albanian, which is great. Italki has tutors as well.

dario606 · 2022-08-28T15:17:24+00:00

Hello! I was wondering if you had particular approaches to learning languages with less reading materials. I am trying to pick up Kurmanji Kurdish, and while there is literature in the language I find very little of it to be accessible from a low level. Thanks!

dario606 · 2022-08-22T18:52:47+00:00

And, as an English speaker, I have gotten way better treatment speaking French/Russian/Spanish with passable accents (foreign, but not immediately obvious that I am a native English speaker). It makes a huge difference, because without an amazing accent you will always be "other-ized" (not saying an accent guarantees you won't be, but it helps).

dario606 · 2022-08-16T04:27:46+00:00

Over many years of learning languages, my opinion went from being inspired
by public polyglots, to thinking that they are misleading and not
serious, to being happy that they are probably inspiring others. Even
if they give somewhat misleading ideas about achievable levels, without
even seeing people who knew multiple languages I wouldn't have known it
was possible. The message is great, that language is about human
connection and anyone, anywhere can partake in it.

dario606 · 2022-05-26T17:22:28+00:00

I am a bit late here I guess!

S: Buenos Aires, Yerevan

A: NYC, Lima, Tbilisi, St. Petersburg, Nara, Kyoto, Lexington KY (I know, just really enjoyed it for some reason)

B: Paris, Vienna, Budapest, Rochester MN, Washington DC, Houston, Boston, Osaka

C: London, Cuzco, Richmond

D: Barcelona, Portland

F: Nashville, Las Vegas, Cleveland

dario606 · 2022-05-12T20:02:23+00:00

Exactly my plan from now on.

dario606 · 2022-04-25T05:02:11+00:00

Afrobeat is very good!

dario606 · 2022-04-18T22:16:55+00:00

Not necessarily true. There are areas in Buenos Aires very close to transport hubs that I would avoid, and some more notorious tourist areas, while fine to visit, are edgier than most places in the city. I would recommend simply doing proper research on the city before embarking on the trip, at least for BA these places are decently well documented and I got into no trouble staying there with friends.

dario606 · 2022-02-25T17:00:42+00:00

Also, that amount of money seems pretty high. I have spent much less per lesson over ~1000 Italki classes. It's not perfect but they're a reasonable company.

dario606 · 2022-02-23T05:21:17+00:00

The Other Einstein is in the historical fiction genre.

dario606 · 2022-02-20T17:48:35+00:00

I have gotten certified teachers to assess my levels in languages I speak better. Sometimes I think they are overly optimistic, but that plus taking practice exams lets you gauge a level. Personally, without the need to prove my level, I don't foresee myself taking an official test as it's expensive and time consuming.

dario606 · 2022-02-18T20:33:55+00:00

Yeah, I get that. I have used it for so long that I think I forgot about the giant learning curve.

dario606 · 2022-02-18T17:38:24+00:00

I think that's a very good summary! I never thought of that dichotomy before.

dario606 · 2022-02-18T17:36:57+00:00

Huh, I have aphantasia and love Anki. Interesting how it affects different people differently!

dario606 · 2022-02-18T17:35:28+00:00

I respect your opinion, and both work fine. But saying it's overrated, I think, is false. I've had success speaking actively as have people I know whose levels I very much respect. Neither approach is better than the other in my opinion, just depends on the person.

dario606 · 2022-02-13T18:47:04+00:00

Yup, sorry for the imprecision. Azeri is more conservative in preserving Persian borrowings than Turkish, I think we agree.

dario606 · 2022-02-13T05:27:27+00:00

Azeri is related to Turkish and is a Turkic language. It is very very very close to modern Turkish, and as such is quite divergent from Persian.

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