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Jeff, stop making me remember stuff from school! It's Saturday 😭😭😭

I think it's so important to have a "nature" calendar in your head, like a way of tracking time that's completely separate from anything work or obligation related, not holidays or anything stressful. For instance I look forward to august because at 8pm every night house finches hang around my window for a few weeks. In spring I love waiting for the magnolias to blossom. Just ways of tracking the time with zero stakes that's completely removed from life's zeitgeist and that you really look forward to

Stay vigilant out there fellas!

does anyone have any tips or know any free ways to help me learn spanish? i already use duolingo but i really wanna do something more along with it. i appreciate any advice!

Maybe check out Lingopie. A friend recommended it to me to improve my Spanish grade. They have TV shows and movies with subtitles in the original language e.g. Spanish TV Show + Spanish subtitles. The subtitles, words and phrases are all clickable and give you an instant translation. Duolingo is helpful but I've seen quicker progress with this. Hope it helps!

REBLOG TO HELP A STUDENT OUT!!!!!!

in my experience if you're learning a language but you're worried about not pronouncing it right or sounding ridiculous in front of native speakers, I'm here to tell you that most people do not care. they don't care if you have an accent or if your mother tongue is peeking through, because in all honesty, everyone has an accent. it's unfair and frankly unrealistic to expect people to bear no remnants of their native tongue when speaking another. you've spent your entire life speaking your language, interacting with the world in it; your understanding of language is built on your native one and its natural sounds. no one can expect you to entirely shift how your brain processes words and sounds. most native speakers will just appreciate you trying at all. if it's comprehensible, if the gist of what you're saying gets across, then it's good enough. if you're trying, your accent is fine.

everyone goes through it, no one judges you. You can do it! Love this encouragement :)

Hey guys.... should we hold a vote cause Turkey looking a lil SUS

Speaking 4 languages makes my head ring sometimes, especially when spoken at short intervals or at the same time! This is so true

I feel like a lot of Duolingo discourse should acknowledge that the reason that they have basically every national European language on there is not because of a “European bias” but because of refugees. A huge number of refugees in Europe use it to learn the language of whatever country they’re moving to or living in; the site even talks about it in the “fun facts” on their waiting screen. Languages like Swedish and Norwegian aren’t there primarily for Minnesotans getting in touch with their heritage, but for African, Asian and Eastern European refugees in Sweden and Norway, and indeed they make up the majority of people using Duolingo to learn those languages. The app does need to add more non-European languages; it’s gradually doing this, as it recently added Zulu, Xhosa and Kreyòl, and its focus on indigenous languages like Navajo and Hawaiian is especially commendable. And yet there are still some pretty glaring omissions of major world languages from Asia and Africa that need to be addressed — and even “they’re edited by users” doesn’t cut it with how many people worldwide speak those whom they could seek out! But the fact that a free language app is doing its best to provide the language learning services that those actual countries routinely deny desperately-poor refugees is a good thing actually. Reserve your rage for the prioritizing of Esperanto, Klingon and High Valyrian over Bengali, Tagalog and Farsi.

genuinely curious how many people actually require those weird ones they added recently, although maybe they're running out of european stuff to add?

Wish I had this amount of free time to shitpost!