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(TL German) (but this goes for any language, really)
I’m trying to study enough each day to be on track to hit C1 in 2 years. I plan on studying abroad, but for now, I’m self-studying at home. I’m at the very beginning of studying, starting from zero. At this point, how many new things should I be covering per day in order to be on track? Grammar concepts, new words per day, etc..

For those of you who have learned multiple languages & learned them quickly, I’d really love to hear from you how you went about this at the beginning.

When my bag was initially lost they said it would be on the next flight out and could be back to me by that night. I flew from GOT —> CDG —> SFO on a Delta/Air France partner flight.

My checked suitcase made it through just fine, but when checking in at GOT, there was an option to “check your hand luggage as space is limited on the flight”.

I thought sure, it printed a similar bag tag except it said “HAND” on it, then checked my duffle bag full of souvenirs as well.

When I arrived at SFO they called me and about 5 other people’s names on a speaker & told us at the information desk our bags had been delayed. Apparently the family next to me also had their son’s duffle bag delayed.

I’ve called for six days straight now and all they can say is “it’s in tracing.”

I’ve been flying for years and never had a bag lost. I’m worried that if they truly knew where it was it would have already been on one of the next flights from CDG to SFO. When the bag was initially lost, the first agent I spoke to at SFO claimed that it made it on the first flight from GOT to CDG but did not make it from CDG to SFO. Now, no one I speak to on the phone has any information about anything. I don't even know if CDG is responding to the follow-ups about finding my bag.

I'm really worried. Has anyone heard success stories in this scenario?

When my bag was initially lost they said it would be on the next flight out and could be back to me by that night. I flew from GOT —> CDG —> SFO on a Delta/Air France partner flight.

My checked suitcase made it through just fine, but when checking in at GOT, there was an option to “check your hand luggage as space is limited on the flight”.

I thought sure, it printed a similar bag tag except it said “HAND” on it, then checked my duffle bag full of souvenirs as well.

When I arrived at SFO they called me and about 5 other people’s names on a speaker & told us at the information desk our bags had been delayed. Apparently the family next to me also had their son’s duffle bag delayed.

I’ve called for six days straight now and all they can say is “it’s in tracing.”

I’ve been flying for years and never had a bag lost. I’m worried that if they truly knew where it was it would have already been on one of the next flights from CDG to SFO. When the bag was initially lost, the first agent I spoke to at SFO claimed that it made it on the first flight from GOT to CDG but did not make it from CDG to SFO. Now, no one I speak to on the phone has any information about anything. I don't even know if CDG is responding to the follow-ups about finding my bag.

I'm really worried. Has anyone heard success stories in this scenario?

It’s been 2 days and I’m starting to get worried because when my bag was initially lost they said it would be on the next flight out and could be back to me by that night. I flew from GOT —> CDG —> SFO on a Delta/Air France partner flight. My checked suitcase made it through just fine, but when checking in at GOT, there was an option to “check your hand luggage as space is limited on the flight”. I thought sure, it printed a similar bag tag except it said “HAND” on it, then checked my duffle bag full of souvenirs as well.
When I arrived at SFO they called me and about 5 other people’s names on a speaker & told us at the information desk our bags had been delayed. Apparently the family next to me also had their son’s duffle bag delayed.
I’ve called for two days straight now and all they can say is “it’s in tracing.” I’ve been flying for years and never had a bag lost. I’m worried that if they truly knew where it was it would have already been on one of the next flights from CDG to SFO. When the bag was initially lost, the first agent I spoke to at SFO claimed that it made it on the first flight from GOT to CDG but did not make it from CDG to SFO. Now, no one I speak to on the phone has any information about anything.

Does anyone know more about how the bag tracing process works? I described the bag & the contents in full to the airline, no I didn’t have an AirTag in it.

I want to study abroad but can't afford to just pay my rent back in Berkeley while being out there for nearly six months. I live in pretty central Southside in a good location with two girls and my rent is $1300. Do people tend to prefer furnished or unfurnished? Is this doable?

Native English speaker attempting to qualify to apply to graduate school in Germany. I will try to study abroad for a semester. Otherwise— do you think this could be possible with intense study / at-home immersion? I will be taking German classes and even if I study to outpace my class I will still have to wake up and spend 1 hour studying German at 9 am five days a week or else my grades drop (though I would study more than 1h per day). What would you do starting today if you were me?

Yes I know it will be hard but I cannot give up on this. It will change my life to be able to move to this country for grad school but I need to get to C1 and right now I know zero. Native English —> German. I will try to study abroad for a semester. Immersion and speaking are key. But on the language exchange apps there’s not many Germans and honestly I don’t get anywhere far with them. I will be taking German classes starting in the fall (German 1) so I have to study it five days a week and get homework for it etc. Even if I get ahead of my classes at least it makes it easy and I can reinforce what I learned. There are people online who claim to become fluent very quickly but I don’t know what they do, especially given I also need to study to obtain an actual certificate. What would you do in this situation? Is zero —> C1 achievable by Summer/Fall 2028 if I start now?

(19F) It’s 4:31 am as I’m writing this, and I’ve just lost another good night’s sleep because I froze up stimming on my phone for 3 hours straight, doomscrolling while biting my nails or stroking the same strand of hair over and over while listening to a type of electronic music that scratches some itch in my brain. During the daytime I stress over not looking as good as I want to .. but it’s like.. how am I supposed to look healthy & glowy and not inflamed and tired when my cortisol is genuinely through the roof all day. I just hop on my phone when I don’t want to be doing the things I have to do, but at this point, my anxiety is so high and I am so overwhelmed that it is genuinely a challenge to stay away from my phone. I’ll meet people or see where my friends who aren’t on their phone all day are at, and I just feel like an actual loser. Through my childhood and early teenage years I just didn’t have the opportunity to do much outside. But I still had hobbies. I learned languages (which I’ve now forgotten), did at home yoga & pilates, focused on wellness.. and now I just do nothing. I don’t do anything besides being on my phone. I got myself into a good college and now am surrounded by opportunity but I don’t do anything because I get so glued to my phone. It feels sad and pathetic. I just don’t even feel the urge to do anything anymore. My friends go rock climbing, they’re learning to dance, they work out, they read, they study languages, they do content creation.. and when I try to do any of these things, I get bored and just quit after five minutes to go back on my phone. I just stay wired on my phone all day every day until the sun comes up & hardly even have the energy to do other things, even eating. I don’t know if I need a hard reset or what, or how to even do it. I know it’s an issue but the bigger issue is that I don’t feel the urge or passion to do other things. I’m currently on 100mg Wellbutrin and have been for the last few months.
Does anyone have any advice at all on how to get out of this? Do you feel the same way / have you been here before?

I’m going to BTS and was going to rely on the train to get me back to Back Bay but apparently it’s a really rough situation getting out of there. How do you realistically get back to Boston after a large concert like that without a car?

Registered to vote here in 2024 so I could mail in my ballot for the presidential election and since then I've just been registered in Alameda County. I went to my hometown in SoCal and can't go back in time for the primary but really want to vote. My ballot was mailed there. Can I walk in and do in-person early voting in SoCal on May 30?

19F. I was raised completely secular as my parents had gone through religious trauma. Even though I was raised without religion I have just been having a lot of thoughts lately about the types of people around me.. the things I experience.. and the only way I can honestly characterize it is just that I feel like I am surrounded by sin.. abuse, lust, greed.. being in lots of situations i should never be in. I step back a lot and feel like for some reason in this life I was given all of the opportunity that I have for a reason and feel like I have just been experiencing the worst in people recently.. i feel very very lost. don’t really know what to do about it. trying to find purpose in my life. i have been dissociating a lot and see the world surrounding me for what feels like the first time, multiple times a week. and it makes me feel just so disappointed with the current state of everyone? I feel like im just surrounded by & seeing demons. i don’t really know what to do about it and do not want to join any specific church. has anyone been here? any recommendations for things to explore / steps to take?

I’ve had a couple of guy friends bring it up unprompted recently - both separately expressed that it genuinely matters to them to be someone women feel at ease around, not just physically but socially too.

It made me curious whether this is something men think about more broadly. Is being perceived as safe and trustworthy something men actively value or aspire to?

And on the flip side — for men who do make women uncomfortable, whether they’re aware of it or not, do they tend to recognize that about themselves?

Additionally / edit: I posted this because I was thinking about both mine and some of my friends’ exes, who have harassed, abused, stalked, r**ed, and hurt women. I think of these men, then I think of other men that have expressed seriously wanting to be perceived as “safe” and a “protector”, and I wonder - do these men understand that they hurt women?
Does this not damage their sense of self, knowing what they’ve inflicted on other people, let alone women and *only* women? It’s so wild to me.

US citizen, doing solo travel in Berlin and then going to Gothenburg to stay with a friend for Midsommar.

Accidentally set my hostel reservation to check out at 11 am the day before I go to Gothenburg, and my friend cannot pick me up until 8 pm the next day.

Does anyone who lives between these areas have any recommendations for a way to make this fun? I could just extend my hostel reservation one more day but that's no fun.

Overnight train? Cities to stop in for a day? Anything helps as I've never been to any of these places before, thank you!

I have been struggling so badly this semester. I put in all the effort I physically could to this class and I have a 74% in it. If I just don't take it and I bomb it I can purposely fail and get a 52% and retake the whole class (I don't know if this is possible actually) or if I get a 95/100 or higher my grade can go to a 80% / B-.

I missed my appointment with my advisor today because I was so tired that it was painful & I tried to take a 30 minute nap and my alarm never went off. Is there anything I can do at this point?

I was stalked and had my apartment broken into multiple times. I lived alone in a studio and my bed was right next to the window because that was the only place where it could fit. He was crazy and unpredictable from 3-4 am and had showed up at my apartment before at that hour but I had been sleeping at a friend’s for my safety. He’d never woke me up being at my window 3-4 am but every night I slept there felt so unsafe. The spam calls never stopped and he wouldn’t stop coming by. It was very difficult to go to sleep at night just thinking of him suddenly appearing at my window face to face with me.

This was 4-5 months ago and I have slept in a bed with men about 5 ish times since then. Each time, I wake up in the middle of the night, multiple times a night, and I jolt awake. It’s not even like a “I thought you were my ex” but just a “someone’s there” before I remember what happened. This hadn’t happened before this & it also hadn’t happened when I shared beds/rooms with women. It’s only with men. It’s interesting how fast I process that it’s a man vs a woman next to me even when it’s dark. Does anyone else experience this?

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A lot of the shows look like this. What happens?

Does anyone think Ticketmaster is using machine learning to predict what you'll spend and assign queue positions accordingly?

I've noticed my queue numbers feel way too consistent to be random, and they seem to correlate with what I typically buy for specific artists rather than anything obvious like account age or how many shows I've purchased overall.

For artists where I always buy VIP every tour, I've gotten incredibly low queue numbers (#60 in 100k+ queues) even for high demand shows. For artists / genres where I usually buy cheaper seats, I consistently land right at the threshold where those seats are still available but anything more expensive is already gone. It feels too precise to be coincidence. I queued for BTS 3 times, never bought kpop tickets on that account, but each time I got in early enough to where the $400+ and VIP tickets were sold out, but the cheaper nosebleeds and $90-300 tickets were available. It’s like it knew I was likely to buy tickets, didn’t need to get in early because I wouldn’t buy expensive ones, but would buy the cheapest ones available for that artist/genre.

The idea being that Ticketmaster has years of purchase data on every account and it would make complete business sense to prioritize the people most likely to buy the most expensive tickets first. Higher spenders get lower queue numbers, casual fans get pushed back.

Has anyone else noticed patterns in their queue numbers that feel non-random? Curious if this resonates with other people's experiences.