I’ve been learning languages for the past 10 years or so, including English, the language I’m writing this message in, which is not my native language.

I certainly don’t know what the “best” way is, but what I do is get a lot of input, review vocabulary with Anki (spaced repetition software), and slowly make my way through the pile of grammar.

I honestly think the same, there’s too many weirdos out there.

Yes, I did stuff like this when I was a kid, everybody does, but no, I wasn’t actively encouraged to do so, au contraire, my parents always taught me how to behave in public and I’m grateful for it. Kids will become adults one day, if they are never taught how to behave they’ll probably end up being entitled pricks that think they can do whatever they want whenever they want.

The author admits to have let their kids, who are 2yo and 4yo roam free in restaurants to the point they have ended up in the kitchen, that right there tells you how responsible of a parent she is and how good of an approach hers is.

Not beating the crap outta your children is at the very least a good start.

The hammer is pure chaos, I love it!

Would love to use a MP3 player with wired earphones but the kinda decent ones are like $200 — which may not be much for some but it is for me and my third-world salary.

I need complete silence for stuff that require precision and concentration, working and reading are the main ones. I could read manga or something in a not so quiet environment but that’s it.

So that’s the trick to defeating American imperialism, pointy sticks.

February 14th is my birthday so of course I hate Valentine’s Day, I can’t hang out with my friends 'cause they’re hanging with their girlfriends, and if I’m in a relationship I have to go buy flowers and stuff the day of my birthday instead of just chilling and playing videogames which I honestly prefer. And don’t get me started on people assuming I like everything heart shaped and stuff…

If these two events were a separate thing I’d probably be OK with Valentine’s Day TBH.

We need a community called “Capitalism Gone Wild”.

Probably Tomodachi Life, just chill vibes for eternity, can’t complain.

Mostly the news, and JDramas when I feel like chilling but still want to do some listening.

Still think Elliot wins, it would totally depend on what the task is, but overall I think Elliot wins.

The PiedPiper core team is straight up incompetent, F Society wins.

Funny story, a guy I used to work with was like “hey, let’s study Japanese” and I was like “OK”, LOL. After that I spent the following 3 years studying Japanese and he quit after a week or so, which didn’t surprised me since he has that kind of personality, good kid tho. The hardest part was finding a way of studying effectively, it was the first time I tried learning a language by myself so I spent most of the time horsing around with methods that don’t work. Nowadays I mostly do Anki plus lots of input.

I mostly use my laptop for coding, language learning, and watching TV series. I do play games on it but rarely, I got enough consoles and handhelds and I prefer using them instead of the computer, I’d use the computer if I want to play a game for a console I don’t have tho.

I studied some Chinese in the past, Pleco is pretty good, even the base app offers a lot of features. I’m now learning Japanese too, LOL, started in 2016 and left it in 2019 or so, but recently I’ve fallen in love with the language again.

Anki and Pleco… May I assume you are studying Chinese ATM?

It wouldn’t be any different, the US is NOT a democracy either and is a global superpower 🤷‍♂️