"My speaking skills suck, I should really spend more time working on them!" *Continues to exclusively work on reading*

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"My speaking skills suck, I should really spend more time working on them!" *Continues to exclusively work on reading*

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Trying to track down the history of why Norwegian and Danish use æ and ø while Swedish uses ä and ö and all I'm getting is "Norwegian and Danish use æ and ø while Swedish uses ä and ö" and I'm like YES. I KNOW. BUT WHY. WHY DID THIS HAPPEN. WHY IS SWEDEN THE REBEL CHILD.
Commented on someone's post on HelloTalk and also told them the post contained no errors, the English was perfect, and their response was "well I used AI to write it :)" and ????? I'm so ??? confused ????? why the fuck are you on a language learning app if you're just gonna use AI to speak the language for you anyway?????
me: *doesn't practice my productive language skills* me: why aren't my productive language skills getting better :(
Oooh language discourse in my Pokemon game, delicious!

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Icelandic is right about þ and ð. We should bring those characters back into English.
Another HelloTalk experience that leaves me dumbfounded: people messaging me to say hi, looking on their profile and it says "I want to talk to people who have the same hobbies" and their hobbies are like, baseball, sushi and One Piece. I've never played or even watched a baseball game (nor do I have any interest in sports), I don't eat fish or seafood and I don't like One Piece. My interests are listed on my profile, so if you'd bothered to check you'd have realised we have absolutely nothing in common. So why the fuck did you message me.
More HelloTalk gripes:
SO many photos of shirtless guys. I am half tempted to start commenting on them being like "hey you forgot to get dressed" or "can you not afford a shirt"
You can search by city if you pay OR if you watch ads. The ads are near (or sometimes straight-up) impossible to exit once you've watched them and I keep accidentally ending up on the app store
And then half the time it DOESN'T EVEN LET ME DO THE DAMNED SEARCH AND JUST TELLS ME TO UPGRADE TO VIP
The incessant "upgrade to VIP!" pop ups are SO ANNOYING
I actually kinda hate this app BUT I am getting a lot of Japanese writing practice in and I've already learned and practised new grammar and had some pretty good conversations with people so I guess I'll stick with it :/