cacti

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[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 7 points 11 hours ago

Respecting the belief of me deserving eternal torture because I do not desire to worship a cruel (and in all likelihood a nonexistant) god is a stupid as fuck sentiment.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What translator has tried to inject their agenda into any anime?

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

Use something like Vivaldi then, why Chrome?

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 6 points 2 days ago

Considering Twitch is owned by Amazon, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, I don't think it's really all that insane that Twitch allows this. And I'm sure as hell that Asmongold has made statements more unhinged than this.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 1 points 2 days ago

It's much better to just use a hardened fork like LibreWolf or Mullvad Browser from the start.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 12 points 4 days ago

This stuff still exists in my country, and the expensive toothpaste my mother bought is one of them ๐Ÿ™‚

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 2 points 5 days ago

No, it simply doesn't. If one doesn't want to learn a language, they simply shouldn't (and this includes wanting to want to learn a language). This is a personal issue, and it should not be an excuse for spreading any kind of misinformation about the topic.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social -3 points 6 days ago

The problem with your first point is that in the case of language acquisition, there is no "aptitude" for it. The process of language acquisition is more or less the exact same in every person, the only exceptions being people with literal neurological disorders. And you don't really need unlimited time for this process. It takes around 1.5 years of immersion at 18 hours per day to reach 10,000 hours, 3 years at 9 hours per day, and 6 years at 4.5 hours per day. The trick for reaching the 10,000 hours is just actively consuming compelling TL content whenever you're free and would normally consume native language content (active immersion), and then listening to them once again while on your way to work or brushing your teeth or something (passive immersion). As an example for compelling content, what drew me to learn English in the first place was mostly popsci and video game content that I was really interested in and that were simply not available in Turkish. I would also recommend having smaller weekly goals instead of one gigantic goal that you are likely to stress over (like the 10,000 hours).

And the concerns you list are mainly time & motivation related, but the OP is asking if some people are literally worse at/incapable of acquiring a foreign language, which is not the case at all.

The guide I mentioned in my comment covers more topics than I could ever fit in a comment, including different types of immersion (passive and active), different types of active immersion (intensive and free flow), SRS, software, other helpful websites, techniques and much more so I would just recommend giving it a read if one decides on diving into language acquisition.

[โ€“] cacti@ani.social 2 points 6 days ago

This thread is just bullshit.

 

In Firefox and its derivatives, you can add the non-AI version of DuckDuckGo as a search engine by going into Settings > Search > Search Shortcuts > Add and then giving it a name of your choice with https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s being put in the "URL with %s in place of search term" part. You have to remove the 25 part from the URL though, that seems to be a Lemmy quirk with posting a link.

I don't know when they made this available, but I'm learning about this now and it's super useful if you hate LLMs and also use a browser that clears cookies on close (such as Mullvad or LibreWolf).

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