The-antihero-of-the-story - 「ᴀɴᴛɪʜᴇʀø」

language learning is such a personal thing that there is no “right” or “wrong” way of doing it. it’s whatever works on bringing YOU closer to YOUR goal.

you want to watch tv shows but don’t really care for speaking with others? yay!! no speaking practice needed.

you want to learn quickly for an upcoming trip? yay! text book phrases and simple grammar.

you’re a beginner and it’s been 10 years? 2 weeks? 6 months? it doesn’t matter. as long as you are working towards bringing YOURSELF closer to what YOU want to achieve, you have succeeded: you are succeeding; you are doing great.

i find that so much demotivation comes from comparison and/or trying to follow other's advice too closely. if anki decks don't work for you, that's fine! if duolingo works well for you, then use it!

this language learning thing, it should be enjoyed. in the sea full of deceptive polyglot stories and videos on top of videos attempting to understand how to learn languages in "the fastest way possible" sometimes we should sit back and ask ourselves, "when is just learning things, enough"?

with that i hope you all continue working towards your dreams! whether you want to become a translator or just watch a few more movies in your target language, you can do it. i know you have it in you.

I'm convinced people who don't trust nuclear energy don't actual know anything about it beyond chernobyl

Nuclear plants have a ridiculous amount of safety precautions and procedures and nuclear is cleaner than fossil fuels even when you include nuclear waste.

And the two big disasters, Chernobyl and Fukushima both had factors other than the reactor that went wrong (chernobyl had workers being told to ignore the computers which said to shut down the reactor and Fukushima had both and earthquake and thusnami) and safety precautions were put in place to stop accidents in the same manner from happening

Nuclear is safe.

Feuer & feu

The German word Feuer looks a bit like French feu and both mean 'fire'. That's a coincidence, because they're not etymologically related in any way. Feuer, like English fire, comes from West Germanic *fuir, while feu stems from the unrelated Latin word focus, 'hearth', which only later came to mean 'fire'. Focus was borrowed into English and many other languages as focus, its meaning 'focus (of a lens; of an ellipse)' created by Johannes Kepler. My new infographic tells you all about these words.

He Has A Question

please look at this graffiti my sister saw in paris

“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.”

-Hayao Miyazaki on using AI