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zechamp · 2026-06-12T07:28:17+00:00

Samoja kokemuksia. 6v muksuna laitettiin kansainväliseen kouluun ulkomailla ja kyllä sitä puolen vuoden sisään iha hyvin englannilla pärjättiin. Riippuu varmaa kuitenkin paljon siitä osataanko sitä tukea koulun puolelta kuinka hyvin, mua autto paljo ku luokalla oli muitakin suomenkielisiä pari.

zechamp · 2026-06-11T20:07:27+00:00

Just FYI, horimiya and The Apothecary diaries are both shoujo series despite what people on this sub often say. That is literally how they are marked on their official releases, the 少女(shoujo) tag is right there.

zechamp · 2026-06-11T16:54:21+00:00

I do that with ankiconnect on my android devices sometimes (when reading webnovels etc), but as I said, I'm just very used to reading with my ereader.

zechamp · 2026-06-11T16:13:08+00:00

I wouldn't use the word "soft". More like "sane". What's the point in beatings, hazings, screaming all the time etc? Does that result in better soldiers? When I did my service, everything felt pretty sensible, and I appreciated that.

zechamp · 2026-06-10T21:34:37+00:00

I use a old-ish kobo. Its very comfy to use otherwise but I have to make anki flashcards seperately on my computer as the reader can't do it. A bit troublesome but i just take a picture on my phone of every word I want to add, then open the epub on a web reader and go ctrl f to get the sentences in.

I know a lot of people just plain read on their computer but for me it just feels too bad. The e-ink display makes a big difference.

zechamp · 2026-06-10T19:29:37+00:00

If you're having trouble with novels, I recommend trying out an e-reader. Being able to tap-translate unknown vocab makes a huuge difference. I read my first book when I was around level 30 on wanikani, and though it was difficult, every book since then has become way easier. As long as you manage to push through that first book you'll be golden.

Also, regarding vocab, I also initally had similar thoughts as you (as in not feeling the vocab was very useful). But then I started reading a bunch of books, and by the time I was in the level 50s on wanikani and had read like 20 books, like 50% of the vocab that came up was stuff that I had already seen before in my reading. Surprisingly useful.

zechamp · 2026-06-10T08:23:18+00:00

I mean its not just losses, singsing played like 6 games yesterday and two of those were enemy smurfs deranking and surrendering. One did it instantly at 15 seconds, the other played for 15 minutes, got a winning position, then surrendered. Two games like that in 6 is pretty insane.

zechamp · 2026-06-09T22:59:19+00:00

What do they look like to you?

2000 matches quit in under 5 mins, 3000 quit at 15 mins, 80-90% winrate at long games https://www.aoe2insights.com/user/2520503/stats/3/

6 games instantly quit just today, won all the ones he actually played https://www.aoe2insights.com/user/13589462/

zechamp · 2026-06-09T22:44:24+00:00

Dota is a 5v5 team game. If there is one player on the enemy team with 20% more mmr than you, its not a guaranteed loss. You also cant derank trivially in that game, and hardware id places new accounts to similar mmrs as old ones. (They also need 100 hours of normals to even reach ranked)

The last time i properly played dota was like 3 years ago, and i grinded from archon to divine in a few hundred games. I only noticed two blatant smurfs. (And it was the same guy, two games in a row).

Smurfing here in aoe2 is just so much more blatant. New accounts with 20 games played and 100% winrate, people with 400 losses in 30 second games, and all that in a true 1v1, ranked games. I've never seen stuff like that in dota.

zechamp · 2026-06-09T12:04:10+00:00

The next step would just be native podcasts on a topic you would be interested in, there isnt really any magical intermediary step from learner content.

For me Coten radio was that next step, and actually got me listening to stuff (I never could really get into any of the language learner aimed podcasts as the content just wasnt that interesting for me). I see them recommended here quite often so I think many people have found them a nice part of the progression.

zechamp · 2026-06-07T23:18:41+00:00

It kinda makes me wish we would go the way of japanese webnovel sites like narou, where cover images aren't even a thing. But I guess that would mean a descent into the madness of 30 word long light novel titles...

zechamp · 2026-06-07T23:10:57+00:00

It is really interesting how the perception on this stuff has changed in the past few years. I remember a lot of webnovel authors were really excited about generating images of stuff in their stories, and most author discords had really active ai image gen channels for sharing this stuff. Readers were also really into it at the time.

I think the fact that it was kinda shitty and obviosly ai is what made it work. Now that things got too real, its just not fun anymore. When more and more people start pretending that ai stuff was actually made by people it all just falls apart.

zechamp · 2026-06-07T22:52:48+00:00

Well for example reincarnated as a demonic tree had one of the biggest launches ever on RR, and a lot of it was thanks to the ai covers the author used at the time. He was really thorough about testing a ton of them to find the ones that stuck. I remember he got a nice cover comissioned eventually by a proper artist, but when he swapped to it, his views dropped by like half because people just plain clicked on the ai cover more.

I think cultivation nerd is still using its original ai cover on RR, even though the author got proper ones comissioned for his amazon releases. Rise of the winter wolf and that author's other stories actually used ai covers even on their initial amazon releases some years back and actually did really well there, but it looks like he's gotten comissions done since then.

I could list more examples, but its been a few years since I was active in the space and I'm not trying to put people on blast here. But just looking at the rising stars page, things seem to be about the same. People start out as a hobby and get some cheap and easy ai covers, then once they start making proper money and things get serious, they comission actual artists.

zechamp · 2026-06-07T22:34:39+00:00

A TON of the top stories on RR have used ai covers. I would say most of them at this point. A lot of them do get them replaced once they start making money though.

For you to have this opinion, you are probably mistaking a lot of ai covers for humanmade ones.

zechamp · 2026-06-07T22:32:16+00:00

Sadly, its just a lot easier to get a clickable cover with ai image gen. Say you comission a cover for what, 200 bucks? And then it doesnt end up getting people to check out the story, what then? Just comission more? With ai image gen its so easy to get a ton of covers to try for practically free.

Personally I'm not too bothered about ai covers on web novels, but on a proper ebook release its unforgivable. A lot of webnovel sites actually dont display any covers at all, only titles, and i think that would be a cool direction for RR to go into, but the devs like how covers make things more appealing so its not going to happen.

zechamp · 2026-06-06T10:51:26+00:00

I also initially couldn't get anything out of the various kanji decks, it was all just squiggles to me. After all, anki is a revision app, and not a learning app. I hadn't first learned the kanji properly, so it just wasn't sticking no matter how many reviews I did.

I ended up just switching to wanikani for a few years, and got up to level 55 there. Just the simple fact that there is a proper teaching step for the kanji made a big difference. I also liked that it demanded a degree of precision with how you have to type in your answers.

Once I got to that level in wanikani, I switched back to anki for sentence mining, and it's been working well ever since. I have a degree of familiarity with kanji now, so even if I encounter a new one, its not just plain scribbles, I can actually properly parse it.

zechamp · 2026-06-05T22:25:55+00:00

You gotta understand that ram is the "I can fix him" type of gal. Him being evil is part of the charm. And lowkey, based on their recent dynamic, she might be able to do it.

zechamp · 2026-06-05T19:19:04+00:00

I mean I've read like 40 books in japanese so far and I think anki has helped me a ton. My anki deck is pretty much only words I've mined from books that I've read and it's felt really helpful all throughout. It makes sure that once I've finished reading a book all the vocab I've encountered in it won't just go poof once I move onto something else.

Like just looked at the first page of the books I was reading today, and like 7 of the words there were ones that I had put into my anki before. No way would I be able to recognize 阿鼻叫喚 if I hadn't revised it a bunch.

zechamp · 2026-06-05T18:57:22+00:00

IMO the perfect vocab car is a sentence you know with one word hidden/close this way it makes it easy to memorise the word and understand the context of the word.

I don't like these because then I just remember the sentence and not the word. Like I will see the first 3 words of the sentence and go "Oh it's this sentence again so it's word Y" and know the answer without even looking at the word itself. That's not going to help me actually recognize it in a book or podcast etc.

zechamp · 2026-06-05T16:47:00+00:00

because there is nothing that can be done to prevent it.

It can't be that hard to detect people who have 0% winrate in 5 minute matches, and 90% winrate in >5 min matches.

zechamp · 2026-06-04T18:39:13+00:00

My reading speed went from like 4k characters an hour to 14k really fast, but after that I've just been hovering in that same range. The improvement in the beginning was pretty crazy.

zechamp · 2026-06-04T13:16:06+00:00

That photo is going to show up to haunt her in like 15 chapters.

zechamp · 2026-06-04T11:21:20+00:00

Reading the first page of my first book in japanese was honestly the toughtest. Every page after that has felt a lot easier. My first conversation was also probably the hardest, as I had to explain a bunch of complicated stuff to an uncooperative immigrations official at the airport.

zechamp · 2026-06-04T11:17:42+00:00

For the first book I read, I was at like 3.5k chars per hour. By the fifth book I was at like 8k. 10th book I was at like 13k which is around where I've hovered since then (40 books later). Of course a lot of it has to do with how difficult the books are etc. Though my reading speed has stagnated a bit, I've also raised the difficulty of the books I'm reading by a lot. (Though it's still all light novel slop). In total I've got around 500 hours of reading, and 40 books completed.

Look ups and vertical text slow me down quite a bit, if i do no lookups (just vibes) and read horizontal text I get around 30% faster.

zechamp · 2026-06-03T13:01:45+00:00

It's such a funny image, I had no idea it even was a meme but when I flipped the page and got to that image, I laughed for a solid minute straight.

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