I loved the Wii as a kid. Mario Galaxy, super paper Mario, Twilight princess, Mario kart, smash bros and epic Mickey were all games that left big impressions on me. I haven’t felt the same glee with the switch and it’s games as I did with the games on the Wii, not that I haven’t enjoyed Xenoblade 3, Odyssey or breath of the wild but they haven’t left as big a mark for me.
I know all the right words for “want” and “kill”, I’m just not advanced enough to be able to correctly say “I want to kill you”. Maybe “SoH HoH jIneH”? I have SO much to learn.
Subliminal messaging by the Duolingo owl. But I’m surprised the messaging isn’t more homicidal, considering it’s constant threatening to murder me and my family if I don’t keep up my lessons.
I lost my streak yesterday… I fear for my life. Can any man, god or owl help me now, or am I truly beyond salvation? I plan to sacrifice hours in the name of the owl today.
You don’t need any app, although you could probably find dozens by searching ‘comprehensible input’ on YouTube. Comprehensible Input is achieved by watching and reading the content you enjoy in your target language and rely on context to understand and acquire it . I am a polyglot, and after mastering French, I transitioned to English around 2017. Now, enough people have told me that my English is decently good, so since January of this year, I am now learning Spanish by watching lets plays of indie games and reading tech news articles.
I will probably start watching cartoons too. Something like the early seasons of spongbob square pants would be great because each episode is self-contained and humorous.
Here are some tips:
Learn the bare minimum vocabulary needed to have a general understanding of what’s being said. Words such as conjunctions (and, but, etc.), prepositions (under, above, in, out, etc.), adverbs (fast, often, very, etc.), interrogatives (how, when, who, etc.), important adjectives (colors, tall, short, etc.), and the 100 most used verbs (be, have, want, do,say, go etc.). The goal is to later acquire new words from context.
At first, you will not be able to understand new words from context alone most of the time , so you’ll need to check the dictionary very often. Over time, you’ll rely on context more and more.
Depending on the target language, you don’t need to focus much on grammar, but don’t omit it completely. It’s easier to just learn why the sentence is the way it is, than to slowly memorize the correct structure.
Mastering a language is a long process. Depending on how far or close your target language is to your native one, it’ll probably take you from 6 months to 2 years to acquire enough of the language where you’ll unlock the full potential of passive learning and you’ll slowly master your target language by just consuming the media of said language.
I was just looking this up and it sounds like a teaching technique more than an alternative. Is there some website or app that uses that technique? It sounds great to me.
Duolingo is a good tool for stuff that flashcards are good for - learning letters/alphabets/symbols, learning new words, basic sentence structure/grammar, etc. It’s one good tool for language learning, but it won’t do the whole job by itself. Certainly not garbage, as long as you use the tool correctly.
Yeah that’s pretty much where I’m at. I joined my buddy in his wife’s Japanese club, but I know absolutely nothing. Trying Duolingo primarily to learn the alphabets. It’s not perfect, but I can recognize them all and read Hiragana, so it’s not completely worthless!
Didn’t help me learn how to wite at ALL though. Too little practice, it’s definitely a tool (for some languages as least) that’s meant to be used with other learning methods
Oh no my loved one is about to experience terrible pain that comes every few weeks, better complain about how this affects me and go do my own thing for awhile
More like he needs to know when to take a break when she’s most fertile so they can procreate. He’s already gone by the time she’s having “her time of the month”
Counterargument, Nintendo strikes nonprofit videos and tries to take down free and open source emulators such as Yuzu and Dolphin. The fact that this is so believable should give you an idea of the sort of shit Nintendo is known for.
Yuzu wasn’t completely free; that’s sort of what got them into hot water in the first place and the reason why Nintendo hasn’t also sued SNES9X into the dirt. Yuzu had a patreon with certain releases gated behind it. That’s what got them in trouble.
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