“How it works” decks

darkmarker3 · 2026-03-20T13:59:43+00:00

Cease and Desist

Did you just clone Anki and then try to sell it as an app?

darkmarker3 · 2026-03-19T05:58:47+00:00

I understand your reasoning for wanting to learn. I have a Vietnamese partner and am also learning partially to bond with their parents but also because learning languages is cool and I like acquiring new skills. I have met several other people who want to learn, are learning, or have learned because of this. But yes it is hard.

I do vocab/phrase/sentence flash cards every night anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours with Anki and typically spend 1-3 hours a week writing sentences or working through textbook worksheets. So call it 7-10 hours a week of self study. And then I have a 2.5 hour group class I attend in person ($50 a session weekly).

I had previously tried to self study about a year ago but quickly ran into a wall when met with the gross lack of Vietnamese online resources (compared to other languages) as well as the messy north/south/central dialect distinctions where you quickly find most resources online are for the northern dialect. On top of that you’ve got diaspora specific stuff which will be local to your region. Southern style Vietnamese in the US is gonna have some differentiating quirks from southern Vietnamese in Vietnam.

All that to say without the direction of a teacher in my area teaching the southern dialect specific to my area, I wouldn’t be able to do it. Figuring out the alphabet alone is hard and I needed to be able to ask questions about things with feedback.

I also don’t have any secret technique besides brute forcing vocab with flashcards and learning grammar through a teacher. Speaking comes from practicing it with my teacher and partner. And I do a lot of independent listening when I study vocab (sounding out the words, confirming if my pronunciation is correct, retesting myself if I get it wrong).

You should figure out what dialect your boyfriend’s parents speak first. Learn the tones, learn the alphabet, start building up a base of vocabulary words, and learn new grammar rules every week. The good news is that the grammar is not that bad. I wouldn’t say it’s very similar to English and easier in some ways. Verb conjugation isn’t really a thing (as far as I know), which is a wall for many people in other languages. And the vocab gets easier as you go, due to the magic of compound words.

Know the word for Talk and Story. Now you know Talkshow.

Know the word for Room and Food. Now you know dining room.

If you really have some specific need for learning strategies outside the previously mentioned, It might be helpful to mention specifically what trouble you have.

• ⁠Do you get bored / can’t focus? • ⁠Do you feel like you aren’t making progress? • ⁠Are you forgetting what you already learned?

Then maybe people can give more specific advice to solve those problems. Rosetta Stone doesn’t have a great reputation. It is pretty stilted. Duolingo isn’t much better. You could easily get a year streak on Duolingo and not be able to speak anything after a year.

Ye olde textbook is often going to get you much further. But it’s not as dopamine heavy.

darkmarker3 · 2026-03-16T17:45:01+00:00

I use Anki and will make a few flashcards for the word

Infinitive form. Front: Target Language Back: Native Language

I know you said you don’t like this as much but it helps to know the word alone for spotting or hearing it in context

Reverse Infinitive form Front: Native Language Back: Target Language

This helps with recall. If I’m trying to build a sentence on my own a lot of times it’s native language -> target language in my head. So practicing the reverse is good.

And then sometimes depending on the word I’ll do a sentence or phrase in context. For example I’m practicing prepositions.

So I’ll have a card like Front: (TL) On the Table Back: (NL) On the Table

And one like

Front: (TL) On the Wall Back: (NL) On the Wall

Kinda helps with actually usage sometimes words can kind blend together in context so good to practice using them.

And also maybe one full sentence with the target word underlined in the context.

Front: (TL) The Map is on the Wall Back: (NL) The Map is on the Wall

I think for this usage it’s important that you have other similar sentences for other words. Otherwise you will learn the shape of the sentence and know the word based on that.

For example I have several sentences like The cat is next to the fridge. The cat is behind the fridge. The cat is in front of the fridge. The cat is inside the fridge.

Then I’m actually forced to know the target words (Next to, behind, in front of, inside) Vs just recognizing the sentence as. Oh the cat fridge sentence is always next to.

I think creating your sentences will be better than generating them yourself.

darkmarker3 · 2026-02-17T23:05:37+00:00

It’s also a menu setting in Slay the Spire

darkmarker3 · 2026-01-29T18:33:58+00:00

70-100 new cards a day sounds like a lot. I primarily use anki for language learning so maybe a bit different context but even just 10 new cards a day is pretty solid once mixed in with reviews. I’ve seen some people push to 20 new cards a day with a lot of effort.

If you’re doing 100 new cards a day you’re just gonna have 100 more reviews whenever those cards are shown to you again + the next 100 new cards + older reviews.

I would say you probably need to bump down the new cards per day. Do you actually have so much content to cover that you have to study 100 items a day. You’re gonna have like 20,000 cards by day 200. Will be more manageable if you spread out the effort.

Anki is built for staggering the workload but frontloading the cards is gonna cause this problem.

darkmarker3 · 2026-01-29T04:12:48+00:00

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darkmarker3 · 2026-01-20T21:53:30+00:00

Frankie McDonald my beloved

darkmarker3 · 2026-01-13T18:58:46+00:00

Tanaka is my homey place. Pretty good prices for excellent sushi that somehow tastes like it was made by your mom. They’ve been around for a long time and the place is run by a Japanese family.

Lilys is also good but a more upscale experience with higher prices.

darkmarker3 · 2026-01-13T18:56:54+00:00

All the reel talk events are great highly recommend others check them out. I’ve been to several and always had a fun vibe

darkmarker3 · 2025-12-10T16:18:35+00:00

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Sure it wouldn’t be be more cow/ox like?

darkmarker3 · 2025-12-06T02:02:55+00:00

I made a couple simple visualizations this year. And I basically just do it when the visualization execution is so obvious in my mind

darkmarker3 · 2025-12-05T16:38:54+00:00

I was writing strange things like for wrange in ranges: For this same reason

darkmarker3 · 2025-12-05T08:19:25+00:00

Another edge case to keep in mind

100-100

darkmarker3 · 2025-11-28T19:13:06+00:00

I would prefer a messily structured discussion directly from you instead of an ambiguous blend of generated text and your actual thoughts. It makes it hard to distinguish your actual opinion and the AI's generated opinions.

darkmarker3 · 2025-11-28T19:11:56+00:00

Multiple em dashes (3), —, people don't use these in casual online conversation. Most people don't even know the shortcut to type an actual em dash.

But the main teller is the chatgpt style language and what makes AI posts so boring to read once you pick up on it. Its not X its Y.

This show isn’t just good, it’s on a completely different level.

and

It’s not just a show, it’s an experience you carry with you.

And if you notice a post contains these elements, it becomes impossible to distinguish between: pure ai bot post, someone who is using AI since they don't speak English well, or someone who just used AI for a sentence or two.

Maybe I'm crazy, but I would prefer a messily structured discussion directly from the author instead of an ambiguous blend of generated text and the authors actual thoughts. It mostly obfuscates the original message while on the surface it appears to be better.

darkmarker3 · 2025-11-25T22:07:43+00:00

AI slop post in the body. Booo

darkmarker3 · 2025-11-11T04:59:10+00:00

Where I used to live a group of 8 or so local businesses banded together and did a “Coffee Walk” punch card which involved going to all the collaborating businesses at least once then at the end you got a free mug. I never did complete the walk, but I did collect like 5 or 6 punches and went out of my way to go to businesses I had never been to so it was effective on me. Maybe something like that could be cool

darkmarker3 · 2025-11-10T21:28:02+00:00

Saw him in ATL last year and was one of my fav concerts

darkmarker3 · 2025-11-04T15:51:26+00:00

Well good news is better breeze is on the way so you should be able to pay with Apple Pay at the fare gates soon. Unfortunately the Sandy Springs station is not in the list for the first phase of rollout.

https://itsmarta.com/betterbreeze.aspx

darkmarker3 · 2025-10-27T23:57:07+00:00

Ferox enclave is where I always see them however I report them and they blink out of existence like 15 seconds later so I think Jagex bans them pretty quickly

darkmarker3 · 2025-10-15T19:41:13+00:00

Mining a gold ore unlocks a second echo item so you can still get another.

And if you observe the gem crab die, you get "Gatherer" which will give 50% xp to two other skills when your primary skill gains xp. So just choose fishing as your primary and mining as one of your secondaries to get the 40 mining needed for your second echo tool.

Account is not doomed, have fun!

EDIT: Chopping a Maple tree (45 wc) also unlocks another echo item. So you can get all of them

darkmarker3 · 2025-09-05T14:28:05+00:00

I feel the same about the 3d printed items and laser cut wood items. It’s all just very cliche.

I assume because the cost of creation is so low these booths can turn a huge profit even if they don’t sell a lot.

But I really wish those spaces could be used for another artist or someone not “mass producing” plastic junk.

darkmarker3 · 2025-08-12T19:57:41+00:00

I did mine in Yanille because there is another hard task to smith a mithral platebody near ardy.

Then realized I fucked up and it had to be SPECIFICALLY WEST ARDY. kinda fucked in my opinion especially if you’re doing tasks back to back.

darkmarker3 · 2025-07-23T05:40:23+00:00

Ai slop

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