I am listening to a book, a memoir, and it mentions suicide. The reader automatically skips over that part. Literally cannot force it to read it and if I was not reading alongside it I would have missed that part.
Is there a way to enable some adult mode?? I wanted to read American Psycho on it later but they’d probably ban me for that.
How big are they, when were they last renovated, do they have good sound, do they offer snacks or a cloak room, are they comfy, what is the usual turnout. Just describe your experience there.
I'm a native Czech speaker and I have to say the similarities sometimes confuse me more than they help. I am especially struggling forming sentences on my own. Like I can read and listen and understand much more than I can actually say or write myself. But even understanding some sentences can be hard for me.
Russian sometimes feels like a random mash of words and my most common question to my tutor is - I know what all these words mean but I have no idea what the sentence is trying to say and how I would even begin putting them together myself to make a coherent sentence with the same meaning.
You know that joke English speakers sometimes say - why say many word when few word do trick - this is how Russian feels to me sometimes, as if it was missing a lot of the filler that in my mind makes up a coherent sentence. And I am left guessing what it means.
I have been listening to a lot of this comprehensible input podcast and I really like the concept of having Russian explained in Russian using words I already know. But I don't know how to practice writing and speaking when I often know which words to use but not how.
Hledal jsem si jestli můžu dát výpověď s okamžitou platností, když mi šéf dá facku. Nemůžu. Ale on mě hned vyrazit může. Máte něco podobného, kdy se na každou stranu aplikují jiná pravidla, což vede k nerozporovatelné nespravedlnosti?
I am on the official website. I click one of the links DataNodes or FuckingFast, it doesn't matter. When I click download on those websites it ALWAYS redirects me and never starts the download. I tried this in Chrome and in Firefox. Ublock Origin. This used to work just fine. What changed?
Here is why it’s happening: https://www.reddit.com/r/PiratedGames/s/VW7l8DpBLE
Jezdím do práce autem, a pravidelně míjím jeden autobus, který má zastávku na hlavní silnici skrz vesnici, kde to kolikrát lidi práší 60-70. Zpoza toho autobusu kolikrát do silnice vejde dítě. Není tam ani přechod, takže se to tam dětma občas fakt hemží. Už se mi několikrát stalo že i ve 20-30 km/h jsem musel dupnout na brzdy, automaticky už tam jezdím pomalu i když na mě ostatní občas troubí. Jenže já vím že v tomhle místě už minimálně jednou někdo dítě srazil tak to ignoruju.
Vím že se u nás klade větší důraz na to, aby se děti chovaly uvědoměle než aby spoléhaly na pravidla, která je ochrání, ale přeci jen dětská mysl má limity a nedokáže jednat jako racionální dospělý. Myslím že třeba v tomhle případě by ta obousměrná stopka dávala smysl. Co vy na to?
It doesn’t feel different to touch but also the method with isopropyl alcohol that worked for my kindle 5th gen didn’t work. This plastic seems harder. Is there any way to clean it? I considered getting another one for parts from eBay but they cost as much as much newer second hand kindles so that doesn’t make much sense.
Posting on reddit has become a chore because nowadays it's not enough to read the rules, there's usually a hidden link to a wall of that that prohibits much more than the sidebar suggests. And even THAT doesn't guarantee your post won't get deleted as the interpretation of the rules is up to the mods. So you spend a lot of time curating your post to meet the standards of the subreddit but then it gets removed anyway and you message the mods. And they might eventually restore the post because of course it's fine, the filters are just bad.
But then your post is already invisible to other users because it is an old post with no upvotes.
I would prefer to hear from language tutors with experience and credentials who do it for a living, at least partially. I always wonder what my tutor is thinking or what her other students are like. I was never in a group, I am only using a one on one tutor. But I know that everyone is different and working with your students like this has to be challenging because you're trying to make it work for them specifically.
Like I tend to overthink everything which is due to my anxiety - we might have a simple exercise where there are two pictures of houses and I am to describe them using the words from a previous exercise except I find it difficult to use simple words like "big" or "beautiful" because that is not how I think about things in general. So she might want me to say "the first house is beautiful, the second house is big" but I am squirming in my seat because I want to say "the first house is big compared to other houses of that style but the second is bigger and beauty is subjective so the first one is nicer as it's old and detailed but it is dirty whereas the second is a modern high rise building so it looks clean and neat but is that beautiful?" but I don't know how to say that yet haha.
So often her work is about reminding me that this is not about telling the truth but practicing the language. And that is really hard for me to separate!