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[Gappedcombo]

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

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Damn. I've come to realize I've pretty much played every visual novel or game within my general interests. That I'm aware of. I go to recommendations and pretty much see the same old. I wish there was a way to select individual tags for a search query just to weed out the bleh out of the like 350 pages in the regular game list. Seems I've played the majority of the plus games before I started being social around here.

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Someone told me that if I ever wanted to try to learn a new language to just watch kids shows like sesame street etc. in that language.

It's a shame how propaganda laden sesame street always was...but it didn't really matter, everyone knows the cookie monsters was the real top draw, not Elmo.

 

[MaxDongus]

It's a shame how propaganda laden sesame street always was...but it didn't really matter, everyone knows the cookie monsters was the real top draw, not Elmo.

Man, Grover is right there. And Elmo can be stone cold.

 

[MeatDagger]

It's a shame how propaganda laden sesame street always was...but it didn't really matter, everyone knows the cookie monsters was the real top draw, not Elmo.

I guess. I'm a little too old to care about the characters these days. But you be you man! sorry
Is that shit still airing these days? I bet it's just filled with political agendas more than anything. When I was a kid it was it seemed innocent. But the 90s were a different time.

 

[Miixi]

I joined a few months ago but I wasn't expecting things to just fall apart all at once on multiple sites. Just wild that things are happening so fast.

 

[dimodamo]

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

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Damn. I've come to realize I've pretty much played every visual novel or game within my general interests. That I'm aware of. I go to recommendations and pretty much see the same old. I wish there was a way to select individual tags for a search query just to weed out the bleh out of the like 350 pages in the regular game list. Seems I've played the majority of the plus games before I started being social around here.

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Someone told me that if I ever wanted to try to learn a new language to just watch kids shows like sesame street etc. in that language.

Yeah, it's all about exposure and training your ears and brain.

Back then I had a pretty good english teacher in middle school, but really put the practice playing snes rpgs, my first one ,if I remember right, being final fantasy VI, wich I played through, dictionary in hand, until I finished it. Then, when we got our own internet connection, I listened God knows how many let's plays and commentaries.

At some point, you stop translating to english in your mind, and instead you just start thinking in english, making reading, writing and listening a lot easier.

 

[FapBastion]

Man, Grover is right there. And Elmo can be stone cold.

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[MeatDagger]

Man, Grover is right there. And Elmo can be stone cold.

Hmm... Incestuous panda orgies, dead grandmother's, gambling, grammar and now sesame street. I think I like it here

 

[Yamirus]

Hmm... Incestuous panda orgies, dead grandmother's, gambling, grammar and now sesame street. I think I like it here

We like it here, I wonder how far can the topics go here

 

[MeatDagger]

I joined a few months ago but I wasn't expecting things to just fall apart all at once on multiple sites. Just wild that things are happening so fast.

The whole worlds been falling apart since COVID.

 

[Yamirus]

I have heard before that English is the hardest language to learn.

I believe as long as the language doesn't have new alphabets, it is still leasy to learn, skill ceiling might be different tho

 

[FapBastion]

I believe as long as the language doesn't have new alphabets, it is still leasy to learn, skill ceiling might be different tho

It's probably also the case with plenty of other languages, but english has so many arbitrary exceptions to the established linguistic rules that is becomes insanely confusing to even native speakers. And that's before you get to British vs. American, which is an entire can of worms on it's own.

 

[Miixi]

It's mostly the sheer amount of words, spelt the same but mean entirely different things, sound the same but spelt differently, and then slang, modifications of words, shortening the words and abbreviations that can be considered very difficult to learn.

 

[Yamirus]

It's probably also the case with plenty of other languages, but english has so many arbitrary exceptions to the established linguistic rules that is becomes insanely confusing to even native speakers. And that's before you get to British vs. American, which is an entire can of worms on it's own.

This alone is quite advanced, glad I understand tho, I see your point, it is rather hard to master while learning the surface level is easy

 

[FapBastion]

It's mostly the sheer amount of words, spelt the same but mean entirely different things, sound the same but spelt differently, and then slang, modifications of words, shortening the words and abbreviations that can be considered very difficult to learn.

Throw contractions into the mix if you really want an aneurysm, fuckin there, their, and they're can fuck anyone up if *they're* not paying super close attention.

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Jesus fuck this thread is moving fast now, I looked away for a couple of hours and it has almost 10 new pages

 

[Yamirus]

Throw contractions into the mix if you really want an aneurysm, fuckin there, their, and they're can fuck anyone up if *they're* not paying super close attention.

Hella punctuation and spelling, this is where most people fail at

 

[MeatDagger]

Throw contractions into the mix if you really want an aneurysm, fuckin there, their, and they're can fuck anyone up if *they're* not paying super close attention.

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Jesus fuck this thread is moving fast now, I looked away for a couple of hours and it has almost 10 new pages

I judge the fuck out of people who don't understand the difference between there, their and they're.
Like...are you?

 

[Republican Bear]

Well one thing I can't stand in this world is grammar Nazi's.

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[FapBastion]

I judge the fuck out of people who don't understand the difference between there, their and they're.
Like...are you?

Am I... what? And I used to as well, then I had the shocking realization that people fuck up sometimes and being a douche about it helps nobody.

 

[MaxDongus]

Hella punctuation and spelling, this is where most people fail at

You convinced me to finally review some quotation-mark rules that always confuse me.

 

[Yamirus]

You convinced me to finally review some quotation-mark rules that always confuse me.

Oh goodluck with it, I won't even try