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It's important to look at resources that languages provide- English and Spanish also have immense amounts of media to listen to and read, and obviously a lot of people to talk with. I would say that helps far more than learning simple grammar.
My background is that I’ve used it while studying Korean. I’m at about 2,000 korean words now, of which Anki has helped me a lot. Each day I review 50 words and add 20 new ones. It sucks but it works.
As you see new words in reading material, etc, you can add it to Anki. That’s supposed to be how it’s done, but there are premade decks also.
The real beauty lies in anki’s customization. You can add pictures or custom fields and style them. You can reverse the deck so you’re seeing one side or the other when reviewing.
Anki is NOT helpful with a word’s context if you don’t know it or don’t add sample sentences. Which is why people recommend building your own deck over time by reading short stories or news, etc, and adding every word you don’t know, rather than using a premade 5k word deck.
If you have any other questions feel free to ask.
Learning a romanized version of a language is not learning a language. Sounds in one language don’t map neatly to English sounds, and beginner language learners who use romanization always have pronunciation issues because their headspace isn’t in the language, it’s in a romanized variant of that language.
What’s the point of learning Chinese or any other script language if you don’t learn the script?
Is there an actual explanation for this? Those are everyday colors... or have I been living on planet earth as an unwitting MKUltra subject?
With Korean, spoken language among roughly same-age friends is informal, of course. But if someone is older, then there's a different ending, unless you know them well enough to speak in informal language.
If you're speaking to your boss there's a different level of formality, and people like your grandparents get honorifics which are also conjugated, but alongside with formality.
It also reinforces social pressures of obeying your boss/elders, which stem from Korea's roots in Confucianism/Neo-Confuncianism.
It's no wonder people like to use English sometimes.
I also don't think it's appropriate for a woman to call a man a pet name like that either, but in a different sense.
I shouldn't have assumed an office environment, but it still stands for the most part. I can't think of any situation where I'd call a colleague `babe`, even if I've known them for many years.
I lived in Korea, not Japan, but they also have a word for foreigner—외국인. I never got the sense that a Korean person found the term offensive to us and still used the word. Korea, like Japan, is just so highly homogenized as a society that it’s common to refer to foreigners that way.
I think we find offense in the term, because as many people come to realize, foreigners generally get treated like a second class citizen. So then, being called a 외국인 is a reminder that we look different, and thus Koreans have premade assumptions (like that we don’t and won’t speak Korean). Which isn’t exactly wrong though, as many foreigners / expats / sexpats don’t bother to learn Korean.
Again, I don’t think Koreans are intentionally using the term to be offensive to us. It’s just a descriptor.
It’s not a magic bullet. But what you learn can be used in other languages, especially things like Map, Filter, and Reduce.
I totally recommend experimenting with Clojure or Haskell and implementing a project with a pure approach & immutable binding, or as much as you can.
Idioms are extremely common in English, and they’re common in other languages as well. Try talking for a week without any idioms at all and you’ll see what I mean.
Each dictionary has their own standards for what constitutes enough usage to be considered a word. Otherwise we’d have infinite dictionaries.
Dictionaries look at what many people say, and log those as words eventually. They’re decidedly Descriptivist.
First, who & whom are more rare in speech than its & it's which are fairly common.
Second, there is zero confusion about which one to use with its & it's. One is a contraction for "it is", and the other shows the possessive. These are very simple rules.
Who & whom, in my personal experience, don't get as much coverage in the English classroom. I'd be hard-pressed to find people who could tell me exactly when to use those versus its & its, as those come up less in day to day conversation.
Since its & it's have very clear rules and are used frequently, addressing the correct usage is important, same with your & you're and their, there, & they're.
That contortion of a sentence comes from the old Prescriptivist rule "never end a sentence with a preposition". Never mind that it leads to such odd sentences as that, and a loss of clarity.
This is a different sort of case than described in the article, but pushback here is inevitable.
[0]: https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/weg-mit-dem-kreuz-sec...
Similar to the McDonalds in Milan example in the article, Korea has LotteMart everywhere, and people do sometimes eat there instead of a local joint.
Koreans also study English just like other countries. The annual 수능 exam taken by students is considered to be extremely important for college applications. It has a section on English.
This is just a simple strawman.
It's not that hard to have a middle ground, just disallow apps from using things like your webcam or screen without your explicit permission. Just because 1 program uses that functionality doesn't necessitate it to be common to every single program you ever run.
iOS already manages this. Just have a notification pop up when you use the program to allow X access from system settings. Certain programs already do something similar by requesting access from Accessibility, like window managers (albeit that's to get around certain limitations).
There was a staggering amount of evidence, including TAS (Tool Assisted Speedruns) proving that Todd's time is physically impossible. That blew up in a 274-page thread, but ultimately I believe it took Robert T Mruczek's writeup to finally ban Todd.[1] Not surprising as Mcruzek is part of the "old guard".
I think this reflected very poorly on TG and I have no intention of using them in the future.
[1]: http://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/175364-Dispute-Di...
You can’t just give people a firehose of information. When you learn acoustic engineering, you have to first learn the prerequisite math needed to understand later concepts such as room architecture. It simply does not make sense to jam pack it all in at once, because 1) it won’t make sense and 2) nobody has that kind of memory.
Next, if you want to cover all possible use cases, that could take forever in certain domains.
Last, some of this stuff is objective as to what’s necessary, or what cases need to be covered.
No, what’s better is to give general knowledge as needed, and the student can seek out knowledge for various corner cases. It would be ridiculous otherwise.
If the PR is for adding a feature, then focus on that. Refactoring is better served by having its own dedicated focus and branches, respectively.
Stardew Valley became extraordinarily popular. It's just a game where you explicitly give up your corporate cubicle job to take over your grandfather's farm in a small village town. It's such a peaceful game but there's a strong yearning for what you mentioned in it.
The game was also a one person project over 4-5 years which is pretty inspiring, too.
How exactly do you plan on converting fiat to btc and then paying for transactions? Every step of the way is going to be on the. public. ledger. Forever. Linked to each step along the way. C'mon.
BTC is for people who don't want to be at the whim of banks or paypal. Or it was anyways, until the fees became too high and the transaction times became too long.
The serious use is with other coins like ETH (powering smart contracts, dApps) and BCH (hard fork of bitcoin from August that doesn't have BTC's current issues). Or altcoins. Raiblocks and XRP have extremely quick confirmation times.
All of which have a public ledger by the way. If you want to do illegal activities, you'd probably want to use Monero or NAV, but first you'd have to prove either are truly private.
Don't worry, in 18 months^, Lightning Network (TM) will come out and fix everything by adding a second layer to bitcoin, nevermind that the first layer will be ignored
^ Not accounting for perpetual delays as LN as been promised for a long time
And with Bitcoin Cash gaining in popularity, a fork is not an impossibility. In fact, BCH is popular because it's actually usable unlike BTC at the moment (extremely high fees, slow confirmation times).
They were talking about the blockchain and its public recordkeeping. There's nothing like Wells Fargo doing shady things and charging you money, or BofA randomly charging you money or changing their account rules, or freezing your account...
Coins have their downsides, but a public ledger for absolute truthkeeping is not one of them.
BTC was always about reducing control from a few centralized parties. I don't want my bank or paypal account being arbitrarily frozen.
Nowadays BTC is not very good at transactions due to exorbitant fees + very slow confirmation times, but things like ethereum, bitcoin cash, and altcoins offer options. ETH is very quick.