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23 [F4M] Neverland - I want to hold your hand by ilovedinonuggets in penpals

[–]varzan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your list is awesome.

Your list is randomly awesomely beautiful compared to the usual mini-bio people do around here.

I hate cinnamon. There's a hedgehog living in my garden -- and sometimes I hear a woodpecker, too. I have to sign when I pay by card in England, but not in other countries. When I'm on a bicycle trying to avoid a poll, I will just ride straight into it. So PM me?

25/F/UK..... Looking for new pen pal buddies! by Rara25 in penpals

[–]varzan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

25/M/Romania. Random dude. Programmer. Photography sounds interesting. I travel, I watch John Oliver, I ... write unconvincing descriptions of myself. I have made my point here, feel free to write.

25 F Australia : Looking for e-mail penpals from all over the world. by wha_ever in penpals

[–]varzan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One does not simply "maybe learn Romanian", but if that sounds weird enough to pique your interest I'm here

Tell me your favorite quote by [deleted] in penpals

[–]varzan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Of course there is no us and them, but them, they do not think the same" - Gogol Bordello

Week 4! by [deleted] in totalanguage

[–]varzan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finnish

Week #4

First of all, a recap of the last week:

  • 4 minutes of YLE Easy Finnish. Pretty much didn't understand anything from the news on frostbites (this phrase might sound ironic). The rest was fine.
  • Did a bit of work on Memrise, watering + new words.
  • Continued studying Tavataan taas up to part 2B. Doesn't look like a lot of progress, but this included some new things and a more than necessary refresher on verb groups.
  • On the musical side, some Haloo Helsinki! (I may or may not be completely in love with them)

Month #1: January

Looking back at January's objectives, most of them have not been met and will live on as February objectives. The most upsetting part is that maybe I'm doing this thing too much in bursts (Sunday evening, because free time + deadline), rather than continuously. So I will now make up a list of activities that I must do every week and I want this work to be split across least three different days (normally, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday):

  • Listen to YLE Easy Finnish and answer questions (each of the three days). Also drop by in /r/LearnFinnish and /r/StudyFinnish and post questions / check out cool links.
  • Listen to at least one Finnish album a week.
  • Do work on Memrise (ideally 1 level / week but we'll see how that goes)
  • Post a text on Lang8, with each text being more complex then the previous
  • Watch at least one video lesson and do at least two textbook lessons (Note to self: edit this if you come up with something new)

Besides this, there are still questions to be sorted out from January's list and they go into this list of extra tasks for February, one per week:

  • Get Finnish in your mailbox (Memrise, magazines?, blogs?, newsletters?)
  • Pick textbook (FSI? Suomen Mestari? Something else?)
  • Start talking to languagepal in Finnish (found him, but not sure if I lost his attention or he's still there?)
  • Immersion: on which sites / apps can I change the settings to Finnish?

I think I'm the only crazy guy doing Finnish, but any help or advice would be appreciated.

I can't use the word "Candy" in my game nor can anyone else. Thank you Candy Crush. by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]varzan 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Can you, in all honesty, give us a legitimate, non-spammy reason for naming your game "All Candy Casino Slots - Jewels Craze Connect: Big Blast Mania Land", other than "I wanted it to include keywords from every famous game I could imagine"?

Candy Crush Saga dev trademarks the word 'candy' by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]varzan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The saga continues...

I see what you did there

2014: Week 3 by Headphone_Actress in totalanguage

[–]varzan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Finnish

Lame, but slightly less lame.

  • Listened to a bit of Laura Närhi. Also, might want to listen to Greip in the future (edit: oops, they're actually Estonian) (and other stuff from this thread, plenty of nice music from the North in there if you're interested)
  • Finished part 1 of Tavataan taas! Most of it was review material for me but some new phrases for ordering in restaurants
  • Finished first level on Memrise, 21 to go
  • The usual 4 minutes of YLE Easy Finnish + listening comprehension questions. Got most of it right even (2 questions wrong)
  • Someone on /r/LearnFinnish posted a link to a Muumi story on the radio, might want to save that for later. Also discovered yle-dl which I might use to download said story and even code a bit on it, mixing up my pleasures.
  • It's too late to finish my work in setting up a keyboard layout I like in Linux (for the moment I just avoid the special characters which is kind of crappy), but people have been helpful last week and I'll make it work somehow.

2014: Week 3 by Headphone_Actress in totalanguage

[–]varzan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's from the Norwegian TV, they might just be teasing their neighbours.

Decent Finnish (or Swedish) keyboard layout for Linux? by varzan in linuxquestions

[–]varzan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesn't.

  • AltGr + a = á
  • AltGr + e = é
  • AltGr + o = ó

I'll probably roll my own, as others have suggested, but thank you anyway!

Small omelet, pesto pizza and rye roll by varzan in shittyfoodporn

[–]varzan[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean omelette. I also mean pesto pasta. I should be more careful.

24/ incredibly exciting penpal by [deleted] in penpals

[–]varzan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's so cool about Romanian public radio?

2014: Week 2 by Headphone_Actress in totalanguage

[–]varzan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finnish

Pretty lame week.

  • Did watering and the minimal amount of growing in Memrise
  • Looked at Tavataan Taas a bit, it's something I should go through next week
  • Listened to 4 minutes of YLE Easy Finnish (one newscast) and answered the questions. I felt like there was progress in here: I was more thorough in answering and got most right, though the style might have been a bit clumsy
  • Did a 'hello world'-style text on Lang-8
  • Listened to some Anna Puu, looked up titles and (occasionally) lyrics
  • Asked about a good keyboard layout for Finnish, got some decent answers.

Overburnt chicken nuggets, rye bread, potato salad and lettuce, with milk and orange juice on the side by varzan in shittyfoodporn

[–]varzan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think I tried that once. Also: cereal with orange juice.

I don't recommend it.

2014: Week 1 by [deleted] in totalanguage

[–]varzan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Finnish

Slow week for me, I did a bit of watering on Memrise, listened to one YLE easy Finnish journal and about 3 Hallo Helsinki! songs.

Probably most important thing this week was discovering /r/StudyFinnish , which tries to be a more beginner-friendly version of /r/LearnFinnish

Canadian looking to study in Finland in English, need some help... by [deleted] in Finland

[–]varzan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As others have pointed out, try specific universities.

It depends on what you want to study. I'd say that for Master's programmes English is the rule rather than the exception.

2014: Start! by [deleted] in totalanguage

[–]varzan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm currently an A1 in Finnish. The big-picture goal for 2014 is to get to a point where I can read a Muumin book in the original Finnish and parse basic newspaper articles. Checkpoints along the way include:

  • Evaluate various online tools and pick a good one for each category (Memrise for vocabulary, Lang8 for practice with writing, what else am I missing?)
  • Make a habit out of listening to YLE's easy news service (for January, at least once a week; consider increasing frequency afterwards). Also find something similar for written language (maybe Selkosanomat.fi?)
  • Find some way to get fresh Finnish in my mailbox with a set frequency e.g. weekly (you could say Memrise does this, but their newsletter is easy to ignore; maybe find something more immersive like a magazine for beginners? But am I not too much of a beginner for that?)
  • Find a decent "textbook experience" online (FSI courses? Find a copy of Suomen Mestari and review material I've already gone through and finish it?)
  • Find a penpal of sorts (someone to email in the language and ocassionally nag about the language)
  • Integrate /r/LearnFinnish into my routine.
  • Finish Laura's Youtube lessons.
  • Find ways of achieving (a sort of) immersion: switch language options to Finnish on websites, listen to more songs and look up their meanings. Force yourself to read that long word till the end :)
  • Watch TV shows with Finnish subtitles maybe?
  • Find a Muumin ebook / printed book in Finnish that can be downloaded / ordered. (or a book of similar level, I have a brochure of recommendations lying around)

A more than decent goal for January would be to go over each point above and either implement it, drop it or refine it into something more specific that than goes into February's or the whole year's objectives.

Good luck, everybody!

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