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milverton
duskandherembracex

I feel like I’m at a point in language learning where no matter what I do I’m not improving

It’s like I’m not fluent enough to read books or watch shows in the language but I’m fluent enough where all of the beginner learning materials are too easy

benkyoutobentou

I've been there, it sucks (still there in some aspects). But the only way out is through!

My first tip would be to pick something up. If a novel is too scary, go for some comics or a children's book. I'm a huge supporter of immersion learning and it tends to be a lifesaver for the intermediate plateau.

Then, pinpoint what specifically is giving you trouble. Are there too many unknown words? Are you understanding all the words in a sentence but not the sentence itself?

If you find that vocabulary is the issue, it's time to start cracking on those flash cards. Remember to keep reading and immersing while studying! I used to make my own flash cards from manga but got discouraged because I felt like I was putting words in and studying them, but never seeing them again outside of these flashcards. When I started reading my first novel, I was seeing so many of those words that I never thought I'd come across again and it improved my morale so much. If you don't want to make your own flash cards (I don't anymore), try searching for a premade deck for a specific book/series. I tend to study vocab from one book/series and then read other things outside that. Most of the time, words will come up in many different places and not be bound to a single book.

If you're finding that you understand most, if not all, of the words in a sentence but not the sentence itself, it's probably time to hit the grammar books. It can be easy to read a grammar explanation and have it go in one eye and out the other, even when you take notes on it. And review? Who wants to do that? Studyblr sin confession time: I very rarely review grammar points. I take notes on grammar and then wait for it to come up in my immersion. Sometimes I have to look back on my notes to refresh my brain, but most of the time, it'll come up enough in immersion to reinforce itself. Of course, this is different with more academic grammar points. There's also a difference i the way comics and novels are written and there are absolutely grammar points that you may come across often in novels, but almost never in a comics format. Basically what I'm trying to say here is to not get too lost in the study portion of grammar. Keep studying those grammar points, but it's integral to support it with proper immersion.

Don't be afraid of immersion. The beginning is lots of stopping to look things up and it might be best to start with just trying to get the overall meaning rather than looking up every little thing to understand the sentence perfectly (this is called extensive vs intensive immersion). Looking things up doesn't mean you've "failed" at your target language, it means there's something new to learn, and that should be considered a win!

TLDR; immerse, immerse, immerse!

i started to watch the vampire diaries in english (cause i wanted to see new episodes immediately) and i didn't get everything at first id have english and translated subtitles and at sime point i didnt need much of translation anymore but would look up some words and now id say im fluent (ish) but still obviously would look up some words there is always something new to learn languages linguistics
milverton
jessiarts

Hey, PSA:

On your phone, go to Settings> Security and Privacy> Privacy> Other Privacy Settings> Ads> Delete Advertising ID

Then go back to Other Privacy Settings> Google location history> Turn off Location History &/or Turn-on Auto-Delete (you can set a time period of how long to keep it)

Then, staying on Other Privacy Settings, go to ’+ See all activity controls’> Web & App activity> Turn off (you can also turn-on Auto-Delete for here too)
Then Scroll down to Personalized ads> My Ad Center> Turn Off Personalized Ads.

Google has no business knowing/storing everything you do online, and knowing/storing where you go everyday. Turn it off.

These instructions are for an Android phone, IOS might be different. If you have IOS or another operating system feel free to add on with your own map to where they’ve buried these settings in your phone to help others.

aristoteliancomplacency

iOS:

Settings -> privacy -> apple advertising -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iCloud analytics -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> analytics and improvements -> share iPhone analytics -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> tracking -> ‘allow apps to request to track’ -> turn off.

Settings -> privacy -> location services -> customise per app. Most you can set to ‘never’. Some will need ‘while using’.

And even for those apps, you can turn off ‘precise location’.

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ohsalome

Russians were planning the genocide from the very beginning

ohsalome

Employees of the National Museum of Ukrainian history have captured some russian documents in the freed Dymerka. From it, we have learned two things:


  1. Once again, it is the proof that “we didn’t know we were going into Ukrainian territory” is a lie russian soldiers were told to say in case of capture;
  2. The genocide that is happening right now is not a “plan B”, or “punishment of disobedient ukrs”, or “frustration of poor poor russian soldiers”, but a planned and coordinated policy of the russian federation


Below you can see the instructions left for common russian soldiers on how to communicate with the native Ukrainian population. You will notice a lot of similarities with russian narratives pushed by kremlin propaganda, and also those of the online “anti-war anti-escalation anti-everything-bad” crowd. My translation below

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  1. Don’t say “shot”, “liquidated” or “killed” about pets, territorial defence of marauders. This affects the native population negatively. Instead, use the phrase “the problem was solved”.
  2. Don’t say “Death to ukrops* (note: ukrop - one of the slurs used by russians against Ukrainians), or “Forget about Ukraine, this is russia now”. Say “the people will choose by themselves how to live and by whom to be governed”. It will help shift the responsibility from russia to the locals, and their capability to accept responsibility until a certain moment.
  3. If people ask you “What are you doing here? What do you want from us?”, respond with “We brought you humanitarian help, because your government has abandoned you. Where is your administration? Where is the police?”. Explanation: you don’t need to explain who is killing the people in Donbas and that we came to solve this problem. Locals do not comprehend this. By answering a question with another question, you shift the need for reasoning to your opponent. 
  4. If people ask you “Why did you come with weapons? We are afraid”, say: “Don’t be afraid, we temporarily replace your police that have fled. The streets are dangerous because of marauders and criminals, who were weaponised by Zelensky (only in Kyiv he distributed 25 000 rifles to random people). Do not mention the word “war”. Don’t answer any questions about war. Answer the question that we have an answer for - that the administration and police have fled. Your purpose is to make people believe that the Ukrainian government is weak and that they were abandoned without food, salaries and pensions.
  5. If people say “We don’t have electricity, you have bombed our ETLs and substations”, respond with “Think about it, we are here with you, and we don’t have electricity either. Why would we need this? What really happened is that your administration and police, while fleeting, have set up explosives in the ETLs and substations! They don’t care about you!”. Another possible answer is “All north of Ukraine has been cut from electricity by the orders from Kyiv”. Your answers need to shift the blame on the Ukrainian government that has abandoned its people and left them on their own.
  6. On the question “Are you Ukrainians or russians?” answer “There are both Ukrainians and russians among us, but it isn’t important, because we are all orthodox Christians and we have no need for quarrel” (translator’s note: in reality majority of occupants were neither russian nor ukrainian, but indigenous people of the poorest regions of russia). Explanation: yes, we are russians, but avoid admitting it to escape confrontation. 9 years of propaganda have created an impression of a russian as an occupier. But the image of an orthodox Christian is pure. If people start arguing with you, talk about gay parades, the schism within the orthodox church, selling land to foreigners, and biolabs.
  7. Talking to the locals, don’t blame “Ukraine” or “hohols” (note: hohol - common slur against Ukrainians). Blame puppets Poroshenko, Zelensky and their masters in the USA. National conflicts are unnecessary. We will temporarily have to accept the usage of the terms “Ukraine” and “ukrainian” until we create and new government and establish new laws. 
  8. Don’t say “We came here to establish order”, or “Now that we’re here you’ll live orderly”. Instead, say “We will provide temporary help to the local people to find the trustworthy and honest among you, who can help their fellow citizens access responsibility for their city (village/town/etc). We need the locals to claim responsibility for their community. 
Source: t.me
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dreamer-from-elm-street
hazel2468

Something that I need people to understand, especially on this hellsite. Is that oppression does not depend on who you actually are.

It depends on how the world sees you.

If the world sees you as X identity. They will treat you as X identity, whether you are or not. If the world sees that you are not X identity, but they can use the oppression of X identity as a cudgel to make you act the way they want you to? They will use it.

Oppression is NOT dependent on who you actually are. It depends on how the world sees you. It depends on how people see you and what they decide to put on you because of that.

Oh. And when someone experiences a form of oppression that is NOT based in the reality of who they are? It's still that kind of oppression. It's not "misdirected"- it is still that kind of oppression being leveraged to maintain the current social climate.

semi-imaginary-place

#this is specifically inspired by all those annoying people#who think that trans men cannot experience sexism or misogyny#but let me tell you as a queer disabled Jew that shit also hits me on SO MANY other levels#oppression depends on how the world sees you#and honestly I think so many people are resistant to that idea because it is a fucking SCARY one#if oppression is based solely in who you actually are#then it's easy to say that certain things don't happen to certain people and there are rules to oppression#and like#I understand that is comforting to some but.... that isn't true#the only rule to oppression is that it will be used to keep everyone in line#and it will be swung at anyone and everyone in order to do that#and who you ACTUALLY are does not stop oppression from happening#sometimes it actually even makes it fucking worse

I vaguely remember a Sikh murdered for being muslim and a Korean-American murdered for being Chinese, bigots don't care who you actually are only what you appear to them as.

hazel2468

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Hi- if you're gonna make these kinds of shit additions on my posts? Stay the fuck off my damn blog.

Love how you antisemitic assholes will see a Jew saying "Hey, maybe wiping an entire state and all its people off the map is a bad idea" and 'Hey can we stop cheering the death of Israeli civilians" and you instantly jump to 'uwu Bad Jew!' and apply that to posts that LITERALLY have nothing to do with the i/p conflict.

I don't think I should have to make it clear that I think Netanyahu and his fucking cronies can go take a long walk off a short dick on literally every post I make about my experiences with oppression as a trans, disabled Jew, but APPARENTLY you motherfuckers can't be normal about it.

Anyway. Go fuck yourself. Because that addition on this post? Is a classic example of leftist antisemitism. And you can ALSO go take a long walk off a short dick.

la-vie-en-lys
girlfictions

A journalist stationed at a Gaza hospital who has been able to make a call via his Turkish sim:

"We’re in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. We have no idea what’s happening. There’s no connection, no Wi-Fi, no reporters. We’re cut off from everything.. People can’t call ambulances or civil defense. We are being bombed in an unprecedented manner. The sky around us just lights up [with explosions], and no one knows what’s going on. You can’t reach anyone, even if they’re only 500 meters away. Ambulances and medics are begging reporters to let them know which streets are getting bombarded to go rescue the victims but the reporters themselves don’t know where anything is happening [because of the connection loss]. We are trying to report the news but we have no idea what’s happening.”

palestine