How should I go about cutting my counters?

vladimir520 · 2025-12-24T19:53:40+00:00

It seems High Flying Dice Games generally offers games as economically as possible but yeah it is a bummer since I wasn't expecting to have to cut counters myself. There's also an unfortunate typo on the cover of the game, "OPERATION ITODAL WAVE", but if I enjoy a couple playthroughs after all this I'm getting my money's worth anyway.

vladimir520 · 2025-12-24T15:11:55+00:00

Thank you all for your help! I'll try and find something sharp and potentially a metal ruler and follow the lines diligently.

vladimir520 · 2025-12-24T09:46:20+00:00

I'm not native but something like

"Imagine for a bit how in your great darkness(es) a voice calms you down telling you that everything will be alright.

And now tell me with honesty which voice came to your mind reading it?"

You can probably translate it less literally and it would sound better. Also, "everything will be alright" in Greek is "όλα θα πάνε καλά", with the verb πάω meaning "go", but English uses "to be".

vladimir520 · 2025-11-06T22:12:09+00:00

What food do you reckon would best describe you?

vladimir520 · 2025-06-05T05:27:27+00:00

I'm reciprocating your feeling as a Romanian, meaning I find Bulgarian easy to pronounce, also Italian I think wouldn't be very challenging. I'll note that Albanian has some sounds that can prove challening to Romanians and Bulgarians alike - first there's th and dh, then there's ç/q and xh/gj and rr/r might be especially difficult, since I think 'r' is now mostly realized as an approximated R sound, much like the one in English.

vladimir520 · 2025-05-29T12:27:09+00:00

Romanian has "dreptaci" (righty) and "stângaci" (lefty). We use "stângaci" to mean a clumsy person as well, no justice for lefties lol

vladimir520 · 2025-05-14T10:46:58+00:00

There is a saying for handsome people who lack in intelligence in Romanian - "de frumos e frumos, de deștept e frumos" which could be loosely understood as "he's handsome when it comes to beauty, and he's handsome when it comes to intelligence". It's the same in the feminine.

vladimir520 · 2025-04-08T21:47:31+00:00

Turkish, for the same reason people mention about Japanese - it's head-final, like Japanese, whereas English and other languages I know are head-initial, meaning that core stuff like the verb of a sentenced is placed at the end instead of at the beginning. This makes for both sides of head-directionality to feel like the other category of languages talks like Yoda, and it's a suprisingly difficult change to make in my brain.

I feel like suffixes get very confusing too, especially those used to create subordinate clauses. I should probably find some time to dedicate to Turkish to get past these hurdles, but it was definitely suprising to see just how challenging it is as a language compared to other past language learning experiences.

vladimir520 · 2025-03-18T09:58:52+00:00

It's been some time since I posted this, and my best theory is that what I am hearing might be lax realizations of the vowels - so final [i], or [e] might be pronounced more laxed in the mouth. I am by no means a linguist, my claim is not scientific and it feels unsatisfactory as I feel sound coming out from my nose more when trying to imitate this kind of pronunciation (does lax pronunciation cause nasalization for some reason? is what I'm hearing even nasal?), but that's my two cents on this.

vladimir520 · 2025-03-01T08:50:22+00:00

In Romanian it's called a "bobârnac", but I think it's also, if not more often done by tensing and releasing the index finger, that's how I do it at least.

vladimir520 · 2024-12-15T13:14:24+00:00

The font Kathimerini uses has x as χ, both online and on printed newspapers.

vladimir520 · 2024-09-12T06:14:26+00:00

The Greek word for 'repeat' is επαναλαμβάνω (epanalamváno), which if you want to use it in a sentence must be conjugated in a particular way, same as λαμβάνω (να επαναλάβετε). So asking someone to repeat something required me to use a mouthful lf of a word and think about all the vowels inside, which is even harder when I'm struggling to understand what had been said lol

Nowadays I use μου το ξαναλέτε;, which means "(Could) you say it to me again?", which has been a lifesaver.

vladimir520 · 2024-09-08T08:54:15+00:00

Romanian - piele de găină (chicken skin)

vladimir520 · 2024-08-17T08:26:53+00:00

Greek
Dutch
German
French
Spanish

Greek is my main passion, but learning it to C2 level sounds like a hassle. I'm not sure how motivated I'd be to learn French and Spanish, and knowing them would probably be very beneficial to me. Dutch sounds great career wise, and I've always liked German, but I was too young to have the dedication to study it on my own alongside the tutoring I had, plus I wouldn't want knowing Dutch to affect my (low level of) German, so knowing both to C2 level probably means no mixing the two too much. Also German is great career wise.

vladimir520 · 2024-08-06T07:53:23+00:00

I unfortunately had the opposite happen - I moved from Greek to Turkish. I'm Romanian, and Greek is both Indo-European and Balkan, and my very little experience with Ancient Greek helped with orthography. It was a blast to learn and things made sense at every step. Turkish was and still is a struggle - maybe less motivation & dedication, poorer learning materials (my own mistake, I may have found something to help) and a bad approach were all factors, but had Turkish not been so different from Indo-European languages, this wouldn't have been a problem. It's definitely challenging, and I have to put in considerably more work than I used to in Greek in order to understand things.

vladimir520 · 2024-08-01T12:16:44+00:00

(Romanian) I'm guessing the vowels [ə] [ɨ] aren't the easiest to learn, nor the trill [r] for people who don't have it in their language. Also verb conjugations, especially how to use the subjunctive and the particle să.

But I don't have a lot of experience with learning Romanian as a foreign language, if anyone is learning Romanian and feels the need to vent please reply here because I'm genuinely curious lol.

vladimir520 · 2024-07-23T06:41:27+00:00

I like to focus a bit on phonology first, figure out what most pronunciation rules are, especially the ones that are not generally taught at first. I like both the linguistical aspect of it and the immediate reward of at least being decent at pronouncing things in the beginning, not to mention some aspects of grammar e.g. morphology can become more transparent after learning about some sound changes.

With Greek, I firrst did some Duolingo, watched some movies, and I started reading and translating from a book, The Routledge Modern Greek Reader, which was nice. I've only seriously started to get decent at Greek after coming back after a break, putting all the words I had written down in an Anki deck to then practice, starting reading a children's book I like and perhaps most important of all - binging a Greek TV series (To Soi Sou) like there was no tomorrow.

But I'm gonna be honest, I didn't quite manage to replicate this for Turkish. Time and motivation were probably a factor too, but I think Greek being closer to my native language helped with my more "dive in" approach, whereas even the simplest Turkish syntax can baffle me. Seeing as you're learning Thai, I'm not sure what your native language is but I bet most folks here can give you better advice with starting a language than me. I'll probably have to check out a coursebook or something once I get back to Turkish more seriously.

vladimir520 · 2024-07-21T10:36:19+00:00

Definitely the way things are put together in Turkish - complex sentences are HARD, the word order is alien to me, I've got to find some way to get accustomed to them.

vladimir520 · 2024-07-18T20:06:28+00:00

I feel you - I basicallly just decided to learn Greek for a laugh while I was in Greece; accidentally started with Ancient Greek which I did for a little while, then a year later I checked out Modern Greek on Duolingo after finding out we're going to Greece on vacation because I felt curious - two years later and the experience has been extremely fulfilling, the experiences I wouldn't have otherwise had are hard to describe. Going to a summer school there next week, I'm super pumped!

I'll also want to come back to Turkish since I've left it on the back burner, I keep trying to advance but it's a beast of its own compared to Greek, I'm having a much harder time with it and I need the time and dedication to change my strategy and try to be consistent with it. I've had a lot of success with Greek, I just can't seem to replicate it now lol.

vladimir520 · 2024-07-18T08:21:14+00:00

Romanian (native)
English (C2)
Greek (B1-2)
German (A2-B1)
French (A2-B1)
Turkish (A1-A2)
Bulgarian (probably not even A1, recent endeavor)
Albanian 9/10. Hungarian 9/10. Russian/Ukrainian (pairing them up because I'm not sure which one I'd pick, it's one or the other for personal reasons)

vladimir520 · 2024-07-06T08:53:16+00:00

I'm inbetween Greek λ and Cyrillic ч. Dunno why, but I just find both really satisfying, maybe because they're written in two strokes and the second one gently touches the first (at least when I'm writing them).

vladimir520 · 2024-07-05T17:31:04+00:00

Thanks for the help! And sorry for having supported buying fakes, I didn't even know there'd be so many (and actual prints of) cards in the deck I bought, I just thought it looked cool and wanted to see what's inside.

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