u/myprettygaythrowaway

Bonjour à tous, j'suis un canadien qui a appris le français à l'école et un peu sur la rue. Mais voilà, depuis que j'ai quitté la région plus ou moins francophone du Canada, j'ai perdu beaucoup de mon comfort dans la langue, mettons. Pour ce qui concerne comprendre, y a pas de souci - si j'ai besoin d'écouter un film, une vidéo, un podcast, n'importe quoi, on est beau, peu importe que ce soît dans un accent québécois, africain, européen... La lecture, c'est aussi pas un problème. Mais j'ai beaucoup perdu le sens du naturel en ce qui concerne la composition - au parlé comme à l'écrit, j'suis plus instinctivement sûr de l'orthographe ou des conjugaisons, et j'suis certain que j'utilise beaucoup d'anglicismes sans m'en rendre compte... Parfois les mots me manquent, aussi.

La solution, pour moi, ce serait d'augmenter de manière dramatique ma consommation de français. Pour la lecture, y aura pas de problèmes; les bibliothèques sont remplis de qualité, et pour ce qui leur manque, on peut faire des prêts entre bibliothèques sans frais. Mais en ce qui concerne ce que je vais écouter, j'ai toujours un peu admiré l'accent marseillais, et (ma perception de) sa culture au large. Alors j'aimerais vos recommandations pour des podcasts, des émissions radio, de la télé et des films avec l'emphase sur Marseille! S'il y a de la lecture à ce niveau que vous conseillerez, ce ne serait pas de refus non plus.

Mettons que j'ai pas un but de "chanter" en parlant, mais si ça arrive...

Bonjour à tous, j'suis un canadien qui a appris le français à l'école et un peu sur la rue. Mais voilà, depuis que j'ai quitté la région plus ou moins francophone du Canada, j'ai perdu beaucoup de mon comfort dans la langue, mettons. Pour ce qui concerne comprendre, y a pas de souci - si j'ai besoin d'écouter un film, une vidéo, un podcast, n'importe quoi, on est beau, peu importe que ce soît dans un accent québécois, africain, européen... La lecture, c'est aussi pas un problème. Mais j'ai beaucoup perdu le sens du naturel en ce qui concerne la composition - au parlé comme à l'écrit, j'suis plus instinctivement sûr de l'orthographe ou des conjugaisons, et j'suis certain que j'utilise beaucoup d'anglicismes sans m'en rendre compte... Parfois les mots me manquent, aussi.

La solution, pour moi, ce serait d'augmenter de manière dramatique ma consommation de français. Pour la lecture, y aura pas de problèmes; les bibliothèques sont remplis de qualité, et pour ce qui leur manque, on peut faire des prêts entre bibliothèques sans frais. Mais en ce qui concerne ce que je vais écouter, j'ai toujours un peu admiré l'accent marseillais, et (ma perception de) sa culture au large. Alors j'aimerais vos recommandations pour des podcasts, des émissions radio, de la télé et des films avec l'emphase sur Marseille! S'il y a de la lecture à ce niveau que vous conseillerez, ce ne serait pas de refus non plus.

Mettons que j'ai pas un but de "chanter" en parlant, mais si ça arrive...

Looking into learning Persian, and as a Slav, I'm already pretty decent with Cyrillic. So starting with Tajik resources seems like a home run; get vocabulary & familiarity with the language through tons of reading, and figure out the abjad that might be a bit tricky for non-natives on the side without getting slowed down by it.

That being said, one of the biggest reasons I'm interested in Persian is the classical literature. I know I won't be able to read Rumi, Hafez, & such right out the gate, but I don't know what relationship Tajikistan's people and language have with the rest of the Persian sphere & its history. Is it shunned, embraced? Is there a sentiment that if you want to enjoy classical Persian literature, you should learn the script it was written in; or is there a healthy segment of transliterated classics in the publishing industry?

Recently returned a Pocketbook Verse I was very excited for, because it absolutely can't handle PDFs like the scans I request from libraries, and get off the Internet Archive, JSTOR, and other such. A good 20 seconds to open a smaller book, and then anywhere from 5 to 10 seconds per page.

I was already a bit disappointed by it not exactly being great for Canadian climates - I wouldn'tve been able to read it during my winter commutes, for example. Still, e-ink and some kind of Linux sweetened the deal enough for me until now. Since clearly my own research in this field was lacking, I'm hoping with this sub's experience, I'll be able to finally get started with ereaders!

Over the past few years, I've seen a couple of South African movies and series, most of them set in Cape Town, and seen some mentions of Cape Town jazz albums from back in the day. I'd like to know more about the culture of the city, past the sensationalised gang stuff I've mostly been exposed to.

I'm especially looking for good Cape Town writers - something like your guys' equivalent of Mordecai Richler. I was shocked with how much I learned about Montreal's history from just The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, and I'd like some similar recommendations for fiction writers that do great jobs of showing, even teaching about 20th century Cape Town. I could maybe go for 19th century and earlier, too...

I'd also like your recommendations for classic Cape Town music to look into. I'm gonna guess you guys have your own (sub)genres and local heroes in them. Any albums/artists you recommend as foundational, or that were foundational to yesteryear's scene maybe?

Finally, something that's really surprised me watching media set in Cape Town is that (especially, but not limited to, older) dudes dressing like late 20th century East Coast American dudes! Longer leather jackets, lotta knitwear... I don't know how cold it gets over there, but as a Canadian I'd probably look like I got off a braai if I went around in Africa in a leather jacket! If you can talk about Cape Town (and/or broader South African) trends in menswear, I'd be very interested. Are/were differences split more between cultures, or classes? Are/were there any "dandy" cultures in Cape Town, guys who make it a point to dress to the nines at all times?

Since updating a few days ago, Freetube won't run. I get this when trying to run it from terminal:

[426306:0716/105236.150387:FATAL:sandbox/linux/suid/client/setuid_sandbox_host.cc:166] The SUID sandbox helper binary was found, but is not configured correctly. Rather than run without sandboxing I'm aborting now. You need to make sure that /opt/FreeTube/chrome-sandbox is owned by root and has mode 4755.
Trace/breakpoint trap      (core dumped) freetube

Now I'll be honest, I don't really know what sandboxing is, and why it's a good thing, past the very general "insulates the program from the rest of your system to minimise your attack surface" thing I half-remember from a Reddit comment or something years ago. I've tried to fix this by updating FreeTube from the .pacman file on the website, and updating my system again. I don't wanna run —no-sandbox, which was suggested in earlier messages, or mess around with the helper binary like FreeTube suggests on my own, since I don't understand what this actually is and why it happened in the first place.

Why did this break after an update? Do you agree with the error message's suggestion? How can I prevent this in the future? For something like FreeTube, how big of a deal would it've been to just run it with —no-sandbox?