I don't mean things like "don't ask a woman her age and a man his salary" but something you wouldn't talk about even in general (e.g. sex, bodily functions, deaths, etc.)?
I grew up almost exclusively hanging out with my family members. I was born with a weakened immune system and it was not recommended for me to be outside for too long in winter, spring and autumn when I was a kid. As a result, 9 out of 12 months a years I was left to hang out almost exclusively with my grandparents or parents. Looking back at it, I realise now that I must've missed an important period of learning how to communicate with peers. At the age when kids meet each other in a sandbox for the first time and learn to share their toys and build first social connections, I was with adults and more specifically with my family, people I didn't need to learn to communicate with and make friends. When I went to school, I of course was put in an environment filled with my peers but I already didn't feel comfortable there. I wanted to be with grown-ups, those kids were not interesting to me. I read a lot at home, got quite smart for my age. Guys at school didn't really want to hang out with a nerd like me, and I didn't want to be around with them either. When we became teenagers, some guys tried drinking and smoking, and I, being a good boy that my parents always wanted me to be, stayed as far away as possible from them. I've always been shy, coming up to a person and asking anything, striking any conversation has always made me feel uncomfortable (also, in my culture small talk is pretty much non-existent). It didn't help at all that I moved to another country completely alone when I was 19. That's when I understood that 95% of people in my "people I can go talk to/hang out with" group were my family members. Since then I moved to another country again, I am a uni student and a part-time bartender (Can't wish for a better job to make new friends, huh?) and I understand that I need to re-learn how to make friends. Now, at the age of 25, I need to some how drag myself back into that sandbox I never stepped into and learn how to ask my peers to "share toys and play together". The only issues is, I'm no longer 3, and people around me have already weaved their own cocoons of friend groups. I've already missed out on golden teenage years when people party and build connections probably as easy as when they were 3, and I understand that with every year it will be only harder and harder to make friends.
Do you speak a specific dialect of a language or just have a regional accent? How is it different from those of other speakers of your language in terms of sounds and/or vocabulary?
Hello fellow geo-lovers! I'm a moving main player with 1700+ elo rating. I've mentioned a few times here how I work on my place name knowledge and some people commented they found my approach useful, so I thought I might as well create a post about it. What I do is I ask ChatGPT to give me a certain number of place names of a certain country or subdivision I want to focus on (See the last two pictures). I usually go for 100 for a country or a big enough subdivision (e.g. Rajastan, Ontario or New South Wales), copy that list into my excel spreadsheet and start scanning the map until I find every place. If I can't find a place for too long, I just look it up, but I believe scanning is better because I also see road numbers and other towns that I also remember subconsciously. For some places I also add area codes or other useful things to remember (e.g. in the first picture you can see that for Russian subdivisions I write down a license plate number and an area code). If a country uses a non-Latin script, I copy it from Google maps, paste into my table and try to read it letter-by-letter using this website (picture 5). This way I've already become decent at reading Devanagari, Bengali, Telugu, Bengali, Thai and Greek (Cyrillic is not here cause my native language uses this script anyway). Of course, after I've found 100 random towns in a country I won't remember their names and where they all are forever, but in my experience in works subconsciously. If I see a town name I'd seen and typed before, my brain during the game goes like: "Oh, we've found this thing on the map already! It was somewhere here..." And scanning takes way less time this way. Hope this post will be helpful for some ☺️
Hello everyone! I'm a moving main player, just hit 1,700 elo for the first time. I don't have a lot of people around me who are as passionate about GeoGuessr as me and it would be nice to find someone who shares my interest. I'm willing to coach if you are low-rated player (I'm also down to be coached in you're 1,700+ and especially in NM and NMPZ, my weakest game modes) or just to play games/improve/play team duels together. If you are interested, please message me privately.