Be prepared to receive the same help they sent Iraq, Vietnam, and South America.

I found starting with vocabulary the most effective. take A1 vocabulary lists, and make memorization a daily routine.

if the grammar of your target language is similar to a language you already speak, ignore it for now. if you need some grammar for comprehension, focus only on that. so don’t waste time (yet) on gender or case systems.

if you manage to stay dedicated, you can start reading and listening surprisingly quickly. ofc it should be either easy texts and audio, or stuff you’ve already familiar with.

other tips: don’t get frustrated by quitting, accept the break and start again; if you’re bored with one specific activity, switch it up. you need to practice listening, reading, writing, grammar, speaking, etc anyways; and if you don’t manage to motivate yourself, pay someone to do it for you (if you have the means ofc).

it’s probably not universal, but this worked for me.

technically yes, but my comment wasn’t meant as a moral indictment against you :)

just a heads up: learning a new language is an amazing experience, just consider alternatives to duolingo first

remember: none of the metrics duolingo keeps track of have anything to do with language proficiency. it’s a game not a learning tool.

yes: duolingo > doing nothing
but: any alternative learning method > duolingo

they stay relevant through viral marketing, that is often objectively funny, not through efficacy. the idea is that if you want to learn a language, your first thought is to use duolingo. then if it fails, you blame yourself: it cannot be the case that the most famous language-learning product doesn‘t actually help you learn a language.

Labour friends of Epstein doing its job again.

Never heard of carnivorous chairs? They will outrun you.

nhi

As a woman you have to be a virgin until marriage, but in your 50s, when your marriage is sagging, you get to be a femme fatale. You get to break as many twenty-year-olds hearts over your metaphorical knees as you want, really make them feel that precious experience. Circle closed. Good deal for all involved.

In 99 he came out and now he is LGBT. It says so in the meme.

yes

There is no evidence that Trump is substantially less confrontative with Russia and China than any other president in the last 30 years (my comment directly references this), so in that sense he is “balancing” geopolitics by keeping the world on the constant brink of WW3 “as any good president should”.

My problem with this “comic” is two fold. One, it implies that Trump is an anomaly in an otherwise continuous moral America. Two, it presents a world that is in a constant state of conflict between imperialists powers (What did a tankie just call Russia imperialist?!?) as a desirable state.

But yes, it’s me that is talking to straw men.

Indeed I would be rightfully sent to the gulag.

It‘s funny because historically America has always been the good guy, and Trump is the only anomaly. This is clear by the fact that the US is currently not involved in any proxy or trade war with any of the evil dictators on the other side.

Very sharp analysis by the cartoonist, they really must have a strong grip on reality.

Yeah but you forget that racism is just really cozy, really gets the Christmas vibes going.

makes about as much sense as the books she wrote 🤷‍♂️

I hope you understand that countries and political parties are incommensurable.

As a voter you have the choice to boycott a party that is complicit in genocide, I would strongly argue you even have the moral duty to do so.

In Germany there are multiple parties, you can vote for another. In Germany you have the right to found new parties and passive suffrage. The Greens can be dismantled wholly within legal and democratic means.

The party as an institution is complicit in genocide, there might be historic reasons for this, there might be individuals within that are unhappy about it, but once an institution is complicit in genocide, it’s time to dismantle it.

Don’t let the other parties get off this easily, it’s an elite project supported by the Greens, SPD, FDP, CDU and all major news organizations public or private.

Basically from the 17th of October 2023 onward it was a genocide, the intent had been made clear by multiple figures in the Israeli government and army, and it had been put into practice by indiscriminately bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure. The Ampel government was completely aware of this (any functioning country has departments whose job it is to know what is actually happening on the ground) and they decided to make this genocide Staatsräson.

This had nothing to do with Merz.

He’s doing his Biden impression. (safer for the eyes than his Trump impression)

we don’t need a revolution we need a transport restoration. back to l’ancien régime of public transport and walkable neighborhoods. la terreur des voitures has to stop.