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  • Ukraine’s drone war accelerates AI weapons race: FT

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  • They already do with tesla self driving vehicles.

  • Am I a dick if I don't want to meet an old friend for coffee if she brings her babies along?

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  • Coffee is not good for babies, save the babies, don't meet her. Call child protection. I don't think she is your friend if she is giving her babies coffee.

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  • Use free Anki and get a free 1k or 5k high-frequency community deck from Anki website. Or get Refold 1k deck (paid) for anki.

    If you find Anki too complicated and you don't mind paying a sub (look for discount/vouchers), use lingvist (paid) or memrise (not sure how this app is now after the changes) to learn 1k words. Any app that focuses on high frequency vocab is fine I think.

    Cancel subscription once you have learnt 1k words or can read comfortably a simple native book or graded books, or understand a podcast designed for learner (example InnerFrench), probably will take 1-3 months at about 10-30 words a day.

    The main difference between 1k and 5k decks is that the 5k decks include very common type of words like "the", "a", "he", "she", "is", "are", which are so high frequency that you will acquire them by just doing anything in the language. Either type of deck is fine, it is up to you.

    Try reading graded readers with audio at the same time as you are going through your deck so you are getting more context for new words you learn. You will encounter new words while reading before seeing them in the deck, which has a positive effect in remembering the word. Reading also helps serve to test how much you have improved in using the language.

    Read up on some basic high frequency grammar in your target language. Depending on language you will have to also actively learn the alphabet, numbers, phonic and so on before doing any of the above.

    The main idea of learning high frequency vocab is to start consuming content as soon as possible. Never forget that using(reading, listening, writing, speaking) the language is the main purpose of learning languages.

    If you like gamification and keeping scores, count the books/article read, count the words learnt, count the hours spend listening don't count coins or gems.

    Anki - https://apps.ankiweb.net/AnkiDroid - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ichi2.ankiAnki shared decks - https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks?search=frenchRefold decks - https://refold.la/category/decks/?show=allLingvist - https://lingvist.com/

  • ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard

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  • You don't like doing it so you ask something else to do it for you.

  • Trump says Putin ‘has gone absolutely CRAZY!’

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  • Sanction, trade embargoes, and military aid to save human lives speak louder than whining on social media. Whining on social media costs lives.

  • Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: 'I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do'

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  • Yea, i used to occasionally use it to test myself, about once a month.

    Once I learnt the basics from the teacher and learnt 1K high frequency words on my own from a anki deck, I found I could read books and understand podcasts meant for learners. This never happened when I was using duolingo. When I used Duolingo, I would try every few week to read some native stuff and I never saw much improvement compared to the improvement I saw immediately after some lesson with a teacher.

    After that I ditched duolingo and avoid other similar type of apps. I think apps that focus on high frequency vocab, like speakly (paid), clozemaster(paid), lingvist or 1k/5k high frequency ANKI deck are probably better, they are also using normal sentences.

    I am still a beginner but now I focus more on consuming the language. I also see no harm using duolingo as a way to test yourself every now and then since its free.

  • Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

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  • If you like religious topics for language learning, that is up to you. I could care less what topics you like.

    I won't go to that school to learn language since I am not interested in religious stuff. I know people who read the bible in Target language to learn. I know there are churches that conduct very extensive language learning courses where you learn a new language within 9 weeks.

    For me, i prefer to watch and read sci-fi, fantasy, conspiracy stuff, biography, crime and science topics to learn language. At the end of the day the topic has to be interesting enough for you to keep consuming content in the target language.

    if you like spiders, go and learn your TL by reading every book on spiders. I could care less what topic you use to learn a language.

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  • How many vanished last century?

    If need to, just preserve them into training material, movies, and other content, anyone wanting to learn them for whatever reason can do so in the future. Linguist are probably already doing this. Preserving them in some kind of library could also be useful resource when making movies/games from those olden period and using the actual spoken language from that time in the film/game.

    I think most people learn/acquire languages for economic reasons to feed their families. Shouldn't be forcing people to learn language they don't need.

    Actually, looking at history, no language will survive. Modern English is only 400 years old. In a few hundred years, all languages will be very different from what they are now. Different enough to be considered a different language. It is normal.

    "Old English, a Germanic language, was spoken in England for centuries. The Norman Conquest in 1066 brought French into England, and the two languages gradually merged, resulting in Middle English. " war caused the "death" of old english.

    Even language that will go extinct may be related to other languages so technically part of the language is still around. Korea share similarities to chinese, jap. Korean even share many words with Tamil language. So, just like old english went extinct or lost because it merged with others and became something else. Or a king could decide to create a new language, killing off existing language.

  • Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids

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  • Eating chillies is sadomasochism.

  • Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids

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  • nah, that only happens when you add seeds, corn and roots.

  • LA Times reports that Palm Springs bomber had an account on Lemmy.world

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  • Hitler subscribed to vegetarianism.

  • Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids

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  • same for chillies

  • Don't do Caffeine and Complex Analysis, kids

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  • What about 8 glasses of water, eggs, milk, fruits, yogurt, vegetables and nuts?

  • Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: 'I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do'

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  • Years ago, I used Duolingo only, every day for about 4-5 months until i reached a point where it was difficult enough that I was making too many mistakes.

    I later did about 10 lessons with an online teacher, starting from the basics, pronunciation, grammar, alphabet and etc. When I carried on with duolingo after the lessons, it was so much easier that I was getting 100% rights. Just 10 lessons were better than months on duolingo.

    Made me realise that duolingo and similar apps are not the best way to learn.

  • Duolingo CEO walks back AI-first comments: 'I do not see AI as replacing what our employees do'

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  • But we still see AI replacing you.

  • Stats show Russian economic growth faltering

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  • Lying to yourself and now talking about yourself again. Carry on and reply with "no, u" to prove my point.

  • Stats show Russian economic growth faltering

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  • Lol, If you insist on lying after being called out, carry on.

    • B : Most of them didn’t work the first time,
    • L : So some worked. The rest took more time.
    • B : Well they haven't worked yet.
    • L : So you were lying to yourself? (since some worked)
    • B : Result look good when you lie to yourself.
    • L : Carry on lying to yourself then.
    • B : No, u!
    • B : No, u.

  • Stats show Russian economic growth faltering

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  • The result speaks for themselves including your earlier admission that they worked. Unless you are lying to yourself.

  • Stats show Russian economic growth faltering

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  • Most of them didn’t work the first time,

    Yup, You were right to say some worked the first time. The rest took more time. Are you saying you are lying?