u/real_gail

I‘m a sucker for pralines but not every chocolatier does good or interesting ones

Jacot in Lausanne were pretty good I remember

edit for precision: chocolate pralines. The little generally-square chocolates with stuff in/on them

Been learning German for some months now, going well, maybe you’ve seen me in the comments, I’ll do a proper write up when I have time etc.

My learning approach seems to have put me at much better production than comprehension which a) is very funny and possibly also speaks to my personality 😔 but b) means I want/need more input.

I’ve been doing a bit of German listening and generally I appreciate graded YouTube channels (eg „learn German with Falk“, „einfach deutsch“ (Flora), others) for giving me content at a slow enough pace that I can follow along. Unfortunately these kinds of videos also often follow simple ideas or stories at a slow pace and while often I can get through them other times I’m just… bored.

I want to watch real German stuff but I’m just not good enough, when I put on any of the random genuine German shows YouTube offers me I often only get a very general gist, and even that likely only thanks to the visual support and my guesses about what would make sense to say in the situation. I know I could sit and mine these videos for vocabulary and be serious about it but that’s not the context I’m watching them in, I just want to enjoy a bit of light German content on my phone before going to sleep.

Not sure what I’m asking for here but I guess help? In some way?

- Is this a phase? is it short?

- Do I have to just grit my teeth and watch the graded stuff?

- Can I dive into the real stuff and trust it will work out soon?

- do you know any ~B1ish fun videos to watch?

Thanks and happy learning

hey all, ill try and keep this to the point

1. i need a new laptop quick (have to hand the old work one in)

2. i want at least 1tb storage so neo is out

3. i code but don't get much time for it these days (baby), so i sadly recognise this will for the most part be a netflix and email machine. still i want a laptop strong enough for it not to be painful when i do

4. i want to write code that will use apple intelligence in the loop, and i do want to see the full or near-full potential of that intelligence in reasonable form (not some very weak model, if that's a thing that happens on weaker laptops?) so i have an accurate idea of what it can do

5. one day i may want to develop an app so i want the developer sdk to work well on this laptop too

6. i'm willing to buy a stronger computer once i do have to do heavy ai use, so i dont need this machine for crunching massive amounts of data - i just want to develop/tweak my pipelines on it and make sure that they work

Is a [ 13" Air M5 10-core GPU 1TB Storage 24GB Ram ] sufficient for this purpose, or do I need to look at a pro?

Thanks!

My childhood was majority in England rather than Israel and I did all my fun reading (ah to be a child with spare time) in English, and generally maintained a preference for English text from there (self feeding cycle). Now that we have a toddler and are translating various kids books for her (we have books in several languages) I realise how many words in Hebrew I never learned, despite fully considering it my native language. So here I am making flash cards for like farming and construction terms in my own language, and hoping they don’t interfere with my German learning…

Lucky at least that I was already doing some serious language learning so that I’m now aware of flashcard apps, else I’d be trying to figure this out with a list on some random notes app or something

Both seem to mean „currently“ - am I missing something? When would I use one over the other?

I understand:

jetzt - now

gerade - currently

nun - more formal/written „now“

but derzeit seems (as far as I have seen it so far) to be the same as gerade?

one guess I have - based on the few examples I currently have - is that gerade is for a one off event that is currently happening, while derzeit is for a recurring one? But it’s really a guess

any help appreciated

I’ve finally learned enough German to carry out minor errands in the language, provided the poor service provider dealing with me is willing to put up with it - and they often are!

Yesterday I bought a local travel pass at the office in German, and today I had a chit chat with the ladies at the nursery. Having a blast! Thank you Switzerland for being way more welcoming to strangers than you have a reputation for :)

Also - I doubt I’m even formally at A1, or if I am then certainly not A2. Talking is really it’s own thing and also in large part how much the people around you are inclined to figure you out and help you! I got here in maybe a month or 2 total of semi serious (~1hr a day total on various apps) learning and I’m hoping to get much further soon. Specifically all I have is (these are all the apps I use, and the free versions at that):

- level 14 Duolingo German

- ~300 words learned/learning on Vocabuo German

- first 100 words on ListLang German (could have more but I like to be sure I’ve nailed (or close) each batch before starting another)

- 14 days on Clozemaster

Maxing out the free versions of the last three comes in total to about ~230 „words in context“ (sentences with a single word to fill) a day (actually technically you could do even more with Vocabuo but I haven’t). (It‘s harder for me to say how much I’m exposed to in Duolingo as it doesn’t give convenient stats or hard limits in the same way the others do.)

Anyway all this to say the bar for talking is way lower than some posts here seem to think it is, just start saying stuff! people will often respond positively and you can also see it as a fun little riddle for how to convey what you want to say with the very few words that you do have