u/TheChimaChannel-YT

Hej hej, Im Teun (Dutch 21M) and started learning danish earlier this month. I was hoping any danish speakers would like to do/attempt a playthrough of BG3, portal 2 or (modded) terraria with me. Hope to talk to some of yall soon ^^

If you want to play another co-op game let me know, Im open to other games too ^^

PS, in the 1% chance you are a danish person that wants to learn dutch I have the perfect game for you ^^

I hoped some people would be down to spend an evening playing some games together with me on discord. I prefer learning languages naturally so I figured the best way to practise talking would be to just have some fun together.

I'd love anything like civilization or overwatch but I'm open for anything! (Even learning League of Legends) I'm pretty inexperienced actually talking danish though, so dont expect too much.

Mange tak til jer alle ^^

I began learning Danish 6 days ago (7 days just sounded better xD) and I wanted to share my experience. (even if no one would care)
When I tried to write the title of this post myself I could get it to: 'Min erfaret af forste 7 dage laerde dansk'. (google didnt agree with it being correct though so rip)

Ive seen people talk about how hard it is and how much headaches it causes. I'm having problems with it too however they do not line up well with other people ive seen writing about it.
Danish grammar, to me, seems to behave pretty similar to dutch. The vocab sounds very familiar to german (which sounds familiar) and it has clear similarities with english.
Right now I get 60+ percent of the words correct (if i get to think a few seconds about it first). Most mistakes are english sounding words that provoke me to sound too english.
Does this sound familiar to anyone that knows dutch/german?

I started by just watching a season of my favorite show in danish. I tried to really understand what was said by using subtitles and looking up specific words.
Spelling is a bit chaotic, just like with dutch some words change spelling when putting them in different ways. Getting more and more right does feel great though.
Im really enjoying learning it as my second language besides english, it sounds better than swedish to me too. Also from what i can gather the danish community is really wholesome.

Thank you for reading so far xD. Mange tak skal du have!

Also if any danish speaking people would be interested in playing some games together or just chatting on discord hit me up, i'd love to 🙏

Lets assume we have travel 10+ years into the future and grab the best consumer display glasses. FOV, handtracking, heat, connectivity, etc are all so good they arent an issue.

Right now I use my Galaxy Watch as a trackpad and a big mouse + cheap foldable keyboard when I need to get real things done. This is fine but its not perfect, the trackpad is a trackpad so typing is a slog, carrying the keyboard is not great and a decent mouse is impractical.

Personally I care a lot about how invasive an input method is. I like the watch because its always on me and I have to make almost no noticable movements to use it. I like the foldable keyboard because its very portable and even though its noticable, a keyboard telegraphs exactly what I'm doing, what it is and that people don't need pay more attention to me then they already have. The buttons on my glasses are pushing my limits but theyre fine. They don't telegraph well what I'm doing while also attracting attention which, if people would see or think they see a camera, might make them uncomfortable or worse.

Gestures ^((not tracking))
I actually have a tapstrap2 which lets you make so many gestures you can use it as an one handed keyboard! Safe to say I have experience with gestures. The thing is just that gestures as a primary or even secondary input method have an extremely non-userfriendly learning curve. They also either require to be in view of a sensor of some kind or decent physical feedback. Even if there will be big accuracy improvements I still feel like you need to invest too much to make it worth it. Imo gestures can be fine but I do not find myself preferring them over most other methods.
Gestures just dont do anything better than any other input methods. Theyre best use case is shortcuts/macros, especially how customizable good gesture products generally are.
So a decent tertiary input method.

Eye Tracking
I have never used eye tracking and dont know much about it. I think eye tracking could be amazing as a secondary input method though. I can see many situations where I would prefer to use it. It also one of the only input methods I like that would be on the glasses themselves.
I also assume eye tracking could be great for things like foviated rendering or similar things.

Hand Tracking
Hand tracking would be practically perfect in most situations in 10+ years so accuracy wont be a problem. Its just that using your hand as a pointer looks weird, especially if future display glasses become hard to recognise. Besides looks it also requires me to move my arm a lot. A handtracked keyboard could be great as a backup primary input method. For any ar input like interacting with spatial windows, models, etc hand tracking is amazing though.
I think hand tracking is a fantastic secondary input method, just not a primary one.

Voice Input
There also is the option of voice commands/speech to text but personally I despise using it. It feels really uncomfortable to me, looks weird in public, environment dependent, etc. Even if a few of these would get improve I, again, personally really really dont like verbal input. Besides, its likely still very clunky for random tasks you find hard to describe. You could say AI interpretation can fix this but it doesnt, you are just trading in autonomy for speed.

Mouthpad (no really)
For those who dont know; a mouthpad is basically a customly tailored shaped trackpad for your tongue. Its a pretty crazy input method but I actually think there is potential behind its hurdles. Lets assume the price and tailor issues get better/fixed. Right you can already talk normally while using it and even drink water, if they get enough development to get to the point where you can use it without worrying about (most) what you consume that would be a big plus. They'd also need a good way to quickly toggle it on and off.
The glaring issue is how user invasive it is though. I dont think many people are comfortable or willing to put a trackpad in their mouth. Still if all the aformentioned issues magically get fixed on top of them somehow making it comfortable enough to forget you have it in it would be a niche but, in my opinion, a fantastic primary/secondary input method; it would be invisible, wearable, precise, user-friendly, long lasting input method. Its the perfect trackpad, which also is its downfall as a watch is like 70% as good as a mouthpad while also being simple. On top of that trackpads are just objectively worse mice.

Neural Magic
Welp, whats there to say? If a cost and user friendly neural input device gets good enough it will just be one of the best input methods. For real office productivity it might be too mentally straining to choose over a mouse and keyboard but only science and affordability are the limit :D

What are you guys' opinions?