Balaquina

joined 3 months ago
[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 2 points 16 hours ago

I'll check it out!

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 19 points 21 hours ago

The same language, but I only did about 15 minutes a day. I am more the "pick away at it a little bit" than an "immerse your entire life in it" kind of learner. I learned a lot, and can have basic conversations at this point, but I still have a long way to go and will continue using some kind of language app going forward. I watch media too which helps. Apps are just one tool of many.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 7 points 21 hours ago

I think it depends on your learning style. Duolingo was fantastic for me and taught me enough that for the first time in my life I was able to dip my toe in native content and actually understand what was going on.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 2 points 21 hours ago

As it should be.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 98 points 23 hours ago (11 children)

I had a streak of over 1200 days, and after years of reduction in quality and them constantly making the ad based version harder and harder to use, I finally left. AI was the last straw.

I have my eyes on Lingonaut, an app still in beta, and being created by volunteers for free to recreate the early days of Duolingo.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 59 points 2 days ago (16 children)

That powder is salt and will not sterilize the water. Used distilled water.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, we all know it, but with Elon saying it, shit is indeed about to get real...

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm real proud of my mom actually. She couldn't even navigate the desktop when she started, but she has turned into a real techie. I used to have to do everything for her, but these days if she has a problem she looks up solutions online and is usually able to sort things out herself. She's 79. The only "old person" thing she still does is store files on her desktop and also keep a billion tabs open on her web browser lol.

[–] Balaquina@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I got a notice and I don't even know what for as I have never spoken of Luigi. My best guess is that I responded to a poster talking about the inevitability of the USA rolling into Canada and taking everything and there's nothing we can do to stop it. I wrote back that Trump isn't getting anything and that I will die to protect my country. Boom, warning email from Reddit. Fuck them.

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