It’s probably because you had a lot of exposure but insufficient engagement. I should probably have mentioned this in my original comment. You kind of developed a one way mastery of the language. Exposure will get you there after you get to a certain level but to get there you need lots of practice
Actually no, but I’ll try as soon as I have the opportunity. Thanks for the advice!
It’s completely unwatchable with voice dubs isn’t it? I don’t get how anyone puts up with it
I’ve had family tell me The Emperor’s New Groove is actually great with Dutch dubs but the title in Dutch just translates to “Emperor Cuzco”. No one is gonna convince me most jokes don’t get lost in translation when the first time it happens is in the title!
The Slavic languages are interesting but I don’t know a lot about them. It must be amusing to be aware of the various levels of mutual intelligibility. Do you know any jokes Eastern Europeans make about this among themselves?
No amount of exceptions and quirks will prevent you from learning any language as long as you have lots and lots of exposure. After your reach a certain base level you just keep improving as you use the language, and even the exceptions start to feel natural.
English is the only language other than my mother tongue I have achieved this level with. I’d like to think at least in writing it’s indistinguishable from a native speaker. Theoretically tho German should be easier for me as I’m Dutch. But my German never reached the same level because of the difference in exposure
At this point a dismissal of anything by Israel makes it more credible, not less
It’s obvious when you say it like that. I don’t like the idea of some prompt hacker looking at memes I sent to my coworker
I use Slack at work everyday. I suppose this does feel off in some way but I’m not sure I’m the right amount of upset about this? I don’t really mind if they use my data if it improves my user experience, as long as the platform doesn’t reveal anything sensitive or personal in a way that can be traced back to me.
Slack already does allow your admin to view all of your conversations, which is more alarming to me
What are the consequences of this
Like does this mean they could develop an app where you just have a library with all those nostalgic legacy games
If anything Hamas is the product of the systematic marginalization and humiliation of the Palestinians
Kurzgesagt did this video where they crammed all of Earth’s history in an hour. Basically you look at a barren wasteland for most of the time until life finally goes macroscopic and then all of humanity happens in less than a second
I sat through the whole thing and it’s still incomprehensible
Skip it across a lake
They’re fucking monsters. It seems like radicalizing the Palestinians is the point, so they don’t have to talk to them
Well I mean he’s interesting as a case study, his decisions have real world implications and it seems like he’s on a path to a meltdown that many people would love to witness in real time
And are a menace to society
It seems one needs to raise twins with a healthy dose of individuality or risk them becoming emotionally stunted in their development and being overly dependent on one another. Weirdly, this is the second time I’ve seen a video of Australian twins who are way too in to it
Add it to the list of atrocities committed committed by a government my country still backs
And a full retreat from the West Bank as well
Lovely. I used to have a Ukrainian coworker and she overheard me use the word ‘zoeken’ (search) and she thought I was swearing as I didn’t pronounce the ‘n’ strongly