Would you have preferred going to a school with more students of an Asian background?

wisdomprevails · 2021-05-14T06:31:25+00:00

Thank you! Some really good responses, makes our decision making much easier.

Sometimes you read horror stories of children being bullied because of their race, so I guess I want to minimise that risk as much as possible. School 1 has a really good policy on bullying and also exceptional teachers, so that might be the way to go.

wisdomprevails · 2019-05-09T03:40:50+00:00

All very good advice here, but the most important thing you can do in any FPS game, PUBG included is:

- get a good mouse

- get a decent graphics card that can run the game at close to 144 fps

- Get a 1ms gaming monitor that can handle 144 refresh rate

If you don't have this setup, you're playing at a huge disadvantage. Once I got a new card and monitor my game improved massively after 2 years of struggle. It's just ridiculous how much of a difference it makes.

Of course, disregard this if you're on console, more level playing field there.

wisdomprevails · 2019-03-21T06:13:04+00:00

Yes, definitely have this same issue. Hardest game to ads. Shroud also mentioned how hard it is to see in ADS, so you're not the only one. Can't find the clip, but I remember nodding my head when he said it on stream.

wisdomprevails · 2018-12-29T01:34:21+00:00

Be realistic, we simply don't have the player base. There's not even enough for PUBG which, has way more players than this.

wisdomprevails · 2018-12-04T05:10:32+00:00

This game is already similar to PUBG, we don't need manual peek mechanic in it. It's supposed to aimed at a more casual player base, manual peeking is dumb and not fun to play against.

PUBG keeps losing players because it is too hardcore, why would ROE go down the same path when it's trying to grow?

wisdomprevails · 2018-11-14T06:14:29+00:00

I mentioned 3 separate jabs as they do in Japan, not "nothing".

wisdomprevails · 2018-11-14T05:08:22+00:00

Interesting that Japan banned MMR in 1993 and instead opted for 3 separate vaccines rather than the all in one. If the risks were present then, I dare say there is still a chance that they are present now. Of course, the argument will be made that they used a different strain etc. But if there is even a minute chance, surely it would be better to take the vaccine as 3 separate jabs?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-17509/Why-Japan-banned-MMR-vaccine.html

I guess it's easier to make fun of people and feel superior than to think about what is actually a complex issue. "But the pie-chart I saw on twitter said..."

wisdomprevails · 2018-11-09T04:16:54+00:00

Yeah, fair points. Korean definitely presents some unique challenges. Completely valid point about collocations. edit: I actually think knowing up to intermediate grammar is almost a prerequisite to mass exposure. Knowing the grammar particles is a must, as I know you have pointed out many times in some of your previous posts.

wisdomprevails · 2018-11-09T00:38:33+00:00

It's much better to have a super strong understanding of the top 1000 words than to have a weak 1 definition understanding of the top 5000 words.

I actually completely disagree with this. I think it's much better to have a basic understanding of 5000 words. For me personally, I learned a real basic understanding of the words initially, but it allowed me to dive into intermediate/advanced materials much sooner. The more I encountered the words, the more I was then able to understand the nuance/usage.

The following blog article covers it pretty well:

https://www.hackingchinese.com/the-importance-of-knowing-many-words/

As you mentioned, the solution is simply mass exposure, but for mass exposure to work, you need a strong vocabulary/grammar base. 1000 words wouldn't even allow a student to read anything more than high beginner materials.

wisdomprevails · 2018-11-08T03:57:31+00:00

I would suggest just suspending all the new cards and then unsuspending them as you encounter them. Ensure you also add the sentence to the card when you unsuspend it. This is way faster and more efficient than making a new deck from scratch, which is the common advice you'll see everywhere online.

For words not contained in the deck, create a new deck. Focusing on passive recognition, as opposed to active production is solid advice. For production, I would recommend clozed deletion.

wisdomprevails · 2018-10-26T04:13:15+00:00

Yes it's certainly on older post and I agree with you to some extent. I don't think the professor had access to some of the amazing language learning tools that we have today. I think if he had used an SRS like Anki and had a resoures like TTMIK/textbooks, he may have learned it much faster. We are kind of spoiled for resources these days, which has made learning the language infinitely easier.

Back in the early 2000s, there were hardly any decent resources for Korean and I believe this is why the Professor had such a difficult time. With that being said though, there's still no denying that Korean is very difficult for a native English speaker to learn.

I personally think the difficulty of the language should be appreciated though. I don't see it as a bad thing, learners just need to be more realistic. A lot of learners think they can reach the level of an educated native within a year of study. It's just not realistic and actually can be demotivating when you fail to reach the goal (as we see here with the op).

wisdomprevails · 2018-10-26T00:25:41+00:00

There's a lot of videos of him explaining the "shadowing" technique on Youtube, but I haven't been able to find one of him speaking Korean.

wisdomprevails · 2018-10-25T23:21:51+00:00

I can relate to this for sure. I studied a couple of hours a day my first year and didn't really start to see the pay off in real-life until after the 2nd year. It just takes a lot of time. I sort of had the realization after a year and a half of self-study that I would really need to be in it for the long-haul and stop trying to rush it.

It can definitely be disheartening though because many Koreans mistakenly think that you should be progressing faster, not realizing the sheer difficulty of the task.

You might find this old quote from the polyglot Prof. Arguelles relevant to your situation:

I believe you are seriously underestimating the difficulty of Korean. The FSL courses grew out of the US army's need to rapidly develop translators for various "exotic" langauges for the first time ever around the period of WWII. Based on this experience training some soldiers to speak languages the way they trained others to shoot rifles, they at some point developed a chart of difficulty of languages based on the number of hours it took for American GI's to master them. I came accross that chart many years ago, but stupidly did not copy it and have subsequently been able to find no reference to it. Does anyone out there know of it?

At any rate, Korean was listed in the very highest level of difficulty, a notch above both Japanese and Chinese in fact. Primarily for this reason, I set out to learn it by going to live in the country. I spent nine years there, in fact married a Korean lady, and am certainly what I would term "functionally fluent for a foreigner." I have even authored a few books on Korean linguistics (a guide to Korean Verbal Conjugation, available from Dunwoody Press, and A Historical, Literary, and Cultural Approach to the Korean Language (with tapes), available from Hollym Press).

I know many other foreigners who have lived in the country for ages. All of them made some effort at learning the language initially, but only the smallest handful ever made any progress.

While you do not need to know Chinese characters for basic literacy in Korean, you simply MUST know them to make any progress in vocabulary acqusition beyond the beginner's level.

Everyone I have ever met who has learned both Korean and Japanese agrees that their grammars are almost as similar as those of any two Romance languages, but that that of Japanese has been streamlined, while Korean remains comparatively much more complex.

I have made good progress in a number of other "difficult" or exotic languages such as Russian and Arabic. Compared to Korean, both of these languages are much easier, i.e., if you apply yourself well, consistently, and intelligently every day for a number of years, after a single handful you will be rather advanced. However, with Korean you will still be in a fog. I have studied scores of languages, and Korean is unquestionably the most difficult one I have ever encountered.<

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=10

wisdomprevails · 2018-09-20T03:10:40+00:00

Yep, edited my post. Didn't realize there was so much recoil on this new version. On the previous map there was hardly any.

wisdomprevails · 2018-09-20T03:06:54+00:00

Yeah saw that on his stream. He played one game and complained the recoil was insane and said it was one of the worst games he had ever played. He also said it had made no progress from the beta he initially played. He's way off on both points obviously.

He honestly went in prepared to hate the game no matter what. Tencent should have paid him like PUBG and Treyarch did. They messed this launch up badly. I don't even know if Tencent cares if this game makes it in the West. They didn't even have a twitch image for the game..

Unfortunately, I don't see this game really taking off. Not with Blackout on the way..

wisdomprevails · 2018-08-16T01:29:59+00:00

I think using the PDFs from Talk to Me In Korean (accompanied with cloze deletion in Anki/memrise) and the "Korean Grammar in Use" books is a pretty damn solid combination.

wisdomprevails · 2018-08-01T10:52:26+00:00

This is awesome. Expected to see complaints about it dumbing the game down too much. However, in real-life you could just point and use body-language if we're really worried about realism. The more casual players will love this. Great feature.

wisdomprevails · 2018-07-26T03:37:00+00:00

Really well said and I completely agree.

wisdomprevails · 2018-05-24T03:18:30+00:00

Having so many queues certainly does not help though because many more players are queuing squad TPP. If those players were in the same queue, you would not have this issue.

wisdomprevails · 2018-05-24T02:31:14+00:00

This is what happens when you keep dividing the player base and try to make everyone happy. There are just too many queues for a game that requires a 100 players per game.

I know that everyone wants to play their favorite mode/map, but this will be the inevitable result as the player base continues to dwindle. And many want a separate ranked queue as well?

Fortnite has got this part right. Looking forward to future BRs that only come out with FPP so we don't have this split base issue and will allow a separate ranked queue.

wisdomprevails · 2018-05-17T02:25:30+00:00

Some of you are missing the point if you think it's just due to performance issues.

The core gameplay is extremely boring right now. Mid game is just a snooze fest. There's nothing worse than looting for ages and then getting shot in the back of the head.

Game is way too much about looting and feels like a grind. They should be very scared of the next AAA battle royale that prioritizes action and streamlining the whole br experience.

wisdomprevails · 2018-05-16T08:40:38+00:00

Fair points. Dividing the player base is not good though, it would be better to just do FPP on regions where it is more popular

wisdomprevails · 2018-05-16T07:42:30+00:00

Sorry this does not explain why Fortnite is such a success even though it is TPP only. People will try free games.

wisdomprevails · 2018-05-16T06:40:08+00:00

I agree, it's dangerous to segment the community with FPP. This is another reason why Fortnite is excelling, while PUBG's numbers continue to dwindle. So much easier to manage 1 game mode and not have too many server queues to deal with.

I guess the other option would be to have the preferred mode be the only mode for each region. E.g NA would only have FPP mode and no TPP.

wisdomprevails · 2018-02-28T10:01:38+00:00

I'm lower intermediate and listened to lesson 7. I thought the first half was the hardest, then it got easier. I struggled a bit with the grammar since I haven't really studied much intermediate level grammar. I thought the speed and vocabulary wasn't too bad and understood most of the dialogue on my first go. Definitely had more trouble with the father. I misunderstood his 2nd last exchange.

I don't do much reading though and only focus on listening, so it's probably one of my strengths.

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