Pokemon Z-A in French is perfect, lol! I’ve been playing it for language learning too (Japanese). I think those games are pretty great for it, good low-stakes, familiar games that have a lot of text, but are also kid-approachable. Would be nice to have voice acting, but otherwise fantastic language immersion games.
What’s the vibe like at these meetups you’re going to? What kinds of things do you talk about, what are the people who go like? Sounds fun, though I think I’d be too self-conscious to attend.
For my part, I’ve been learning Japanese. It’s been good, but very slow. Focused on mostly Kanji, Anki, and listening/reading this year (rather than staying with my textbook). Feel like my foundation is way more solid now, and characters I don’t recognize are the exception (by a slight margin), rather than everywhere always.
Also check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz for this kind of discussion on the regular!
Yeah, it’s pretty sparse here all around. But don’t be afraid to try opening threads like the ones you mentioned in the comms people recommend.
A lot of communities here have subscribers, that just aren’t seeing anything to comment on. If you ask a question or give people a space to talk about themselves, sometimes a few will come out of the woodwork to chime in.
Did I forget the ending of the Mario movie? Lol, did not expect tiny Bowser. Probably I did forget, don’t think I watched it a second time yet.
Nice to see references to other 3D games too. And Rosalina seems pretty rad in this.
Logographic, or logogram maybe?
Other recommendation for grammar: check out bunpro. It does nag for log in and try to push subscription for SRS (flashcards), but the last time I used it, it did a great job of laying out the grammar points (by profiency level or following textbook order), and linking to various sources of info on them.
The helicopter game (though I guess now Flappy Bird would be the reference work) - http://arcade.flashgamearchive.com/game.php?game=Helicopter&m=0
Bejewled style match-3 puzzle game.
Yep, I think that’s the real terror of it, is that the line between ad and content will blur even further. There’s already everything ranging from astroturfing to paid endorsements, but eventually AI maybe can get good at finding that line of what you think is trustworthy and crossing it maliciously.
Pizza is also, like other foods, apparently a salad.
Super Paper Mario’s line “I love going on message boards and complaining about games I’ve never played.” is really good.
Pretty cool. Love to see some game OSTs on vinyl, and Nintendo publishing makes it that extra touch more official to probably push me into buying the small one.
BotW is an odd choice for an extensive soundtrack release though. I know it has some jams, but the bulk of the time playing it you mostly get this ambient feeling music that just drifts with the flow of things. Hard to see how they get 8 records out of that, but I’m sure if I looked up the tracks it’d make sense.
Sounds like a big promise.
Haven’t gotten to go watch it all yet, but it seems like this game has a whole lot going on! Love the Sakurai maximalism.
Year of Linux on the desktop. Why not say it? It’s been true for decades now.
The Cornell system is pretty famous note-taking method. I also saw while checking for the Wikipedia page for that, there’s a partial wikibook on Note-Taking with some various tips and links, and a Note-Taking article that outlines several methods.
But my advice would be not to stress too much about how you’re taking notes. Writing helps with memory, but from what I can tell it’s really the act of taking the information, choosing what to write down and how to re-word it that does the heavy lifting.
So basically, just do it, even though it’s imperfectly. Sit down to learn something, and as you read, watch, or practice, decide what’s important and jot down something on your paper that you think captures the idea.
Also be wary of the trap of buying nice pens and notebooks. That stuff is cool if it motivates you to actually start taking notes, but can drag you down if you let yourself get too particular about it.
I mean, yes, but I don’t think anyone is intending to do use packages only based one factor. Popularity is a reasonable heuristic for quality and long-term continued support. And my reading of OP is that they’re trying to gauge the popularity to use it for that. I think it’s also a decent enough measure for discovery, since usefulness (hopefully) should correlate with popularity and the latter is more measurable.
Libraries are awesome!
Had to go into one of their stores and look for something last week, stopped by the games while I was there. The Xbox section is already looking small and barren compared the others.
What made you want to learn Korean in the first place? Try to think about what you could do if you knew it, and set up goals that you want to reach.
I realized when I was young that I liked a lot about Japanese culture, and that languages were fun. But I put off serious learning for so many years (decades, tbh), and now I think a lot about how I could already be using it for all sorts of day to day (web browsing and entertainment) tasks if I had focused sooner. You learn a language, you can learn or do your other hobbies/interests in that language.