droning_in_my_ears

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nice try, pickpocket

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

With different diameters so where would it be on the Y axis?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Where would a penny-farthing go?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What about all the lions vs all the lionfish?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can't get rid of it if I tried

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Get ready for the next battle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

That's perfectly fine. Don't worry about forgetting words. You will forget them, look them up again, forget them look them up again, eventually they'll stick. Focus on the reading. Don't treat it like a vocabulary lesson. Every day you're here to read, as long as you reach the end you're good, over months you'll realize you learned a lot of vocabs.

At first because the text will be so dense with new words yes it will take a long time to read, that's why I typically only read a short maybe half a page per day. Then gradually increase that as your vocabulary grows over months. The goal should be to encounter say 50-100 new words a day. Notice I said encounter not learn.

Those websites where you look up words are really useful. Make sure they have text to speech and read out loud in the language not in English even if you see the translation in English that's fine.

Also do a lot of listening along with the reading. I usually get myself an audio book and its corresponding text, chop it up into 1 minute and half a page segments, for each segment listen once, then read looking new words up, then listen while reading at the same time a few times, trying to follow a long, looking up any words I forgot, then listen without reading a dozen or so times until I can follow along. Then movd on to the next segment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Do a lot of reading and listening to material you find interesting. The learning happens in the background.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

You can probably check that out in the performance section of your browser dev tools

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do I register with one of these nickservs? I tried with an android client but I couldn't figure it out.

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