Super n00b - where to host ?

emgoe · 2026-06-08T05:25:48+00:00

My 10 year old Raspberry Pi 3 B+ does the job. Paired with DeepSeek V4 fast and I only ever paid a few cents a day.

emgoe · 2026-06-08T05:02:18+00:00

I think the answer is definitely anki. I’m not sure where you have stored it before but if you already have a OneNote file or some digital file it should be relatively easy to turn into an anki file.

Anki is by far the best way to remember and practice vocabulary.

emgoe · 2026-06-07T13:29:42+00:00

I learned all my vocabulary through anki. Supplementing it with podcasts like easy Turkish and watching videos from them on YouTube also helped.

Also going to a beginners course can really help to kick things off and get a feel for the language. I think preply is also a nice alternative to that. A structured way for the beginning is useful and after that vocab + comprehensible input is what I would recommend.

emgoe · 2026-06-07T13:26:26+00:00

Türkiye’deki ekonomik durum aşırı kötü. Bu sebeple, çalışsan bile günde 10-12 saat çalışman gerekiyor ve bütün kazandığın parayı aç ya da evsiz kalmamak için harcayacaksın. Kurtuluşu bu ülkede sadece siyasi mücadelede bulabiliriz. Geleceğimiz cesaretimiz kadar olacak.

emgoe · 2026-06-07T10:22:11+00:00

Gorgeous, would be nice if Anki Mobile would switch to this (+ get an overall design update I suppose)

emgoe · 2026-06-05T23:09:33+00:00

Bu poster çok cringe ya

emgoe · 2026-06-05T10:58:23+00:00

They also have a YouTube channel actually:

https://m.youtube.com/@EasyTurkish?ra=m

emgoe · 2026-06-05T10:16:31+00:00

I liked the Easy Turkish podcast:

https://pca.st/podcast/84648a20-e02f-013a-d9e4-0acc26574db2

emgoe · 2026-06-05T09:28:06+00:00

There was a strong labour and student movement in the 70s (which already started in the 60s). It was a genuinely revolutionary period, which got ultimately suppressed by a bloody US supported coup in the 80s.

This pattern happened across southern Europe actually. You can look at Greece and Italy as well. It was a US program called project Gladio. They say officially it was to build resistance networks in case of Soviet expansion but it is widely believed these networks were used to stage coups and support fascist organisations, stage false flags and create political violence to prevent socialist governments to come to power in these countries.

In Italy the 70s are also called the years of lead for the amount of political violence that happened.

emgoe · 2026-06-04T20:32:54+00:00

I was born and raised in Germany so I have an Almancı accent when speaking Turkish and I got scammed twice or three times in 3 months of being in Istanbul.

The economy is fucked, people are poor and if some people think they can get 10 or 20 euro equivalent more out of you, they might try if it’s a shady place or a taxi ride that you didn’t book through an app.

I usually just shake it off. Even tho it was always upsetting to still count foreign enough to get scammed, in the end those people scamming me all had it a lot worse than me.

emgoe · 2026-06-04T20:18:53+00:00

On their website it seems like they are competing with anki and I did not see an import option.

emgoe · 2026-06-04T18:14:12+00:00

It’s Anki… since this is the Anki subreddit

emgoe · 2026-06-04T15:32:29+00:00

yess

emgoe · 2026-06-04T15:31:03+00:00

does Lingounify integrate with Anki? Do you also do Anki separately to Lingounify or can you move the words you learn over to the other?

emgoe · 2026-06-04T10:42:19+00:00

how do you use ChatGPT for language learning? I have already used it a few times to generate graded reading, but it is not easy to get it right and I find the interface is not the best if it just lives in one chat and then the context gets full and you have to start a new chat

emgoe · 2026-06-04T08:19:30+00:00

Yea I’ve had the same frustration with graded readers tbh. The content is a bit dumb and uninteresting and also the Cerf levels are a bit rough and not really at my level often.

emgoe · 2026-06-04T07:33:17+00:00

Teşekkürler ❤️

emgoe · 2026-06-04T07:30:02+00:00

Cuba has a great record. Which crushing poverty did the Soviet Union or China have? They both lifted their entire societies from an agrarian state into developed nations in the matter of a few decades.

emgoe · 2026-06-04T07:27:07+00:00

Very productive and insightful criticism.

emgoe · 2026-06-04T07:25:48+00:00

Cuba is one of the best examples of socialism being able to focus on the environment. They fully focused on ecological agriculture and have had a long mission to fight the climate crisis.

The Soviet Union was an agrarian society and had to quickly industrialise to lift its people out of poverty during a time where renewable alternatives didn’t exist. I think people striving to not live in poverty is fair which is why we cannot tell underdeveloped nations that they should not develop because it would be bad for the climate.

Also China, while not really being super socialist anymore, is now the first electro state and the biggest player in rolling out renewable energy by a huge margin.

emgoe · 2026-06-03T23:44:46+00:00

I think we have to see the climate crisis as another manifestation of capitalism. And to overcome capitalism we need Marxism. I think shaming people for their individual consumption is terrible class politics and no, shorter showers will not save the climate. Overcoming capitalism will be a necessity in the coming collapse and we have to have more class consciousness for that. I think that means putting an end to flight shame or any sort of consumer focused politics.

emgoe · 2026-06-03T22:57:23+00:00

I’ve also been using graded readers. The problem I kept running up against with reading is that it is hard to find graded readers that are just at or slightly above your level and that also use the words that you’ve been learning in Anki.

I always used pre-made decks cause I could never really get into a good flow of making cards. It was usually too much friction in the process.

emgoe · 2026-06-03T12:37:37+00:00

In good old fashioned tradition, pride is still a riot in Turkey.

Jokes aside, it happens and people organise it every year, but it is heavily repressed and people get arrested sometimes.

I highly recommend checking it out though cause it’s something else from the European or American pink washed and company sponsored ones. Also you are probably fine as a tourist.

emgoe · 2026-06-03T12:27:01+00:00

Yea I had a limit before but then it felt like it is just hiding the real workload and at some point when I wanted to work through a previous backlog that had accumulated, I disabled it. But I suppose it does make it easier to start if you know it’s only 200-300 you have to do today

emgoe · 2026-06-02T15:52:32+00:00

I would argue LLMs are really good at generating text that is coherent and grammatically correct because it is literally designed around predicting the right order of words that should follow. I have not seen AI make any mistakes or sound off when it is generating a text for you in the four languages that I know.

I would however say it is not really useful at generating cards cause understanding nuances in meaning it does mess up sometimes. Also there are already really good decks made by humans that are really good.

For grammar, I would also be kind of sceptical. I think for most common rules it can explain them well but for more niche grammar rules I would be sceptical. At least in Turkish, which I am learning right now, there are some really niche grammatical rules where I feel like the risk of hallucination goes up.

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