u/Thepsycoman

So I am in a situation where it would be highly beneficial for me to learn Mandarin, the issue is I've never been good with learning languages. Even English I did not learn the same as others. As a 13 year old I had terrible grammar and spelling, even though I would read A LOT.

It wasn't until I started doing written RP on sites such as roleplaygateway that I started to get better. At first it was me doing these with other people with similarly bad English, but then I found 'games' in which the people wanted everyone to have a better grasp on the language, and so I ended up having an interest which allowed me to more memorise/copy the grammar people used. Even with this, spellcheck if often useful to me when my brain just doesn't want to work with a specific word.

So anyway. I'm part Italian and I started trying to learn, at first I tried using apps like Duolingo, and it just didn't seem to work for me. I did a unit in uni on beginner Italian and I failed that. The way they teach the languages just doesn't work for me.

But now I have a partner who is Chinese and not only does she want me to learn her language, but her parents only speak Chinese and it does make it hard to be around them when I can't communicate at all.

So for those of you out there who learnt a second language as an adult without it being a special interest, any tips or tricks? Or just different programs/ ways of learning you found were more tism friendly?

So hi, I'm new to this sub but I've been into coffee a long time, a few years ago I finally got myself an entry level machine and an entry level electric grinder.

But that's due to money not interest or maybe even knowledge.

One thing I did learn after going from a hang grinder to electric is the single biggest difference I could make to my coffee with this entry level setup was slowing how fast I put beans into the grinder. I believe that tip came from Lance Hendrick, thanks bloke.

But here is the thing, over the last year or two I was theory crafting possible mods/3d prints to automatically rate limit the been flow. Because while it does make my coffee much better it makes my work flow annoying and since I have to keep the lid off the grinder... messy.

I failed, I can't think of any way to do it without an active mechanical aspect. Which fair enough.

Then I recently started getting ads for Cremaloop, and if you are thinking "damn this is a long ad", nope! That shit is stupid. While most grinders will do better with a slower feed it seems to me that the more budget the grinder the bigger impact you are likely to see. Hence me being a bit mad that this over engineered technically a solution to the issue actually costs more than my grinder (Baratza Encore ESP).

This is one part rant and one part, how do you all deal with feeding your beans into the hopper?