#testing other methods

[destielgaysex]

going to carry around a pad of sticky notes and a pen at work today to scribble on . experimenting if this improves the quality of my day

[lake-snz]

Buildups and Coverups Galore (f)

For this wav, I wanted to try covering in a few different ways to see how it would affect the sound my sneezes make. It ended up being an interesting experiment! I tried a few methods: putting my finger under my nose, using my elbow, hands, back of my wrist, a tissue, my jacket collar, and down into my shirt. Let me know which you enjoyed the most! I personally got a lot of satisfaction from the last method, haha.

So itchyyyy!!

[moeblob]

Ohiwe

After Oh is split into two, their power is halved/divided. But! Other traits are not necessarily divided evenly. So she holds all the romantic love (unrequited) for Ymber. She also has the rhythm/ability to dance while the other half cannot keep a beat for the life of him.

[kingatrice]

I had to do it to them

[liquidstar]

hi! if i link this post can you guys see it? or does it just take you to an empty page or something?

[heretodefyfate]

Aero traded their coolass jacket for...whatever this is i made them wearing

[thatscarletflycatcher]

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[teeayohess]

i wonder what this could possibly be for.... 🤡

(thank you again @letomills for editing the mesh for me! you're awesome 🖤)

[rigelmejo]

Basically... no one online who's policing what's pure ALG or not is putting themselves out there to prove what they say with their own results. The ALG schools are, in that you can find teachers to ask about the ALG program (like David Long). But of course, when you find actual student results they tend to be B2 (which is great! Excellent results! Just not "like a native speaker" like marketed). I personally would recommend Not doing ALG unless you are doing an ALG school/program (and if you are - there are people you can find on youtube and reddit Thai subs sharing their experiences so far so you can see what to expect).

Dreaming Spanish has a lot of people sharing their experiences and results, so I personally find the Dreaming Spanish Roadmap useful if you're planning to use it as a self study plan, and want to do mainly extensive listening to comprehemsible input as your study activity. You can see on youtube and reddit many people who share their experiences during each Level in the roadmap, and get an idea of what's worked for people and what's realistic.

[luna-the-cretar]

Does anyone know how to download a song to put on flipaclip? iTunes refuses to pull anything from the library because of copyright (why even have the option then if it doesn’t work???), and I tried through…other means…but they did not work and I’m not about to go through digging shady sites and potentially get 20 million viruses on my tablet.

I mean, I have the Crooked Moon soundtrack in my tablets files, and I tested it and those work perfectly fine. I just can’t do it through outside sources apparently

[befuddled-calico-whump]

aww sleepy boi~

Sleepy boi who doesn't know about the good cop bad cop routine and how giving the whumpee an emotional rollercoaster will be more likely to break them than all pain~

Sleepy boi who doesn't remember day three :)

😭😭 poor boy

he anticipated an impersonal setting; just testing various methods and giving his own opinion on them. After all, it isn't like he hasn't been tortured before, and he doesn't expect anything beyond the usual: beatings, electrocution, various drugging and deprivations. All things he can handle.

But in past cases, his captors (and Vic) wanted to keep him alive and relatively whole, and didn't have access to healing technology, so he was in no way anticipating extreme methods that would be capable of killing him if not for the tech.

He also wasn't anticipating the lovely Technique Suppliers (you all) to be hell-bent on breaking him down :)

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

i was actually trying to do a completely different thing but ended up here because i got curious in testing shit out

i present to you the definitive neru lmao - a morph of high-pitched miku & low-pitched rin

(excerpt is from a shitty vpr i made myself from a midi [which i can no longer find] of "the bluefin tuna comes flying" , thumbnail is from this post)

[pynkhues]

Jacob and Sam are possibly the best on-screen kissers of all time (with each other I mean). Definitely up at the top.

They were made in a lab to grab each other's faces and lock lips with one another <3

[quitedisastrous]

i wish i could just do nothing for a few days straight. maybe even just sleep for a few days straight. sooo excited for constant misery over the next 20 days

ranting in the tags. i would just scroll past if i were you

[doedipus]

I spent most of yesterday decluttering my closet bookshelf. deeply frustrating experience, for many reasons, but that's neither here nor there.

one of the lower shelves has a bunch of the books I read in high school, and while I was reorganizing it I ended up rereading the first chapter of one flew over the cuckoo's nest, and man, I think that's still far and away my favorite book I've read. like the prose of it is so fucking wild, it's frenetic and surreal and misanthropic and nauseating in a really compelling way.

usually terms like "psychedelic" are much easier to apply to visual or audio media than print, just because like, it doesn't have to spend as much time in the thinking part of your brain, there's an immediacy there, on some level it's pure sensory input that gets processed by instinct and doesn't have to route through your language unit before it hits your imagination. stu mackensey making a weird noise with a guitar pedal and saying some quasi-nonsense, or SHAFT using mixed media and nonliteral colors while painting the screen with arararagi guts is like, easy mode. your brain wants it. but ken kesey managing to elicit those kinds of feelings purely through written word the way he did is kind of fucking incredible.

I hope someday I can do that.

[rigelmejo]

audio study methods

Still working on that 'lazy' study plan post, since I am just not satisfied with any chinese grammar guide summaries online enough to recommend them as a small grammar intro. If anyone knows of any good 'grammar overview summary' articles or sites for chinese grammar, please let me know. (I like AllSetLearning's Chinese Grammar Wiki but it is huge and in depth and not something I'd recommend a learner 'just read through' on month 4 of learning, and the grammar guide summary site I used as a beginner that was very easy to read through in a few hours... no longer exists)

So in the meantime. Not a grammar study tip, but a general 'lazy' option for language learners who (like me) can't focus on stuff like anki, or just don't want to. I go more in depth about using audio lessons and audio flashcards on other posts, and on the lazy study plan post i'm drafting, but the short of it is: you can listen and learn while doing your normal daily activities. That's what makes the study method so convenient. You don't have to squeeze in any extra time, or change your daily life schedule to make time for chinese, to use audio lessons and audio flashcards.

You simply find some times during the day when you'd either normally listen to audio in the background (like if you listen to music when commuting or shopping, or if you listen to podcasts when working, or if you listen to youtube while exercising or browsing social media). As usual, the more time the better as you'll make faster progress if you study 1-2 hours a day or more. But anything is better than nothing. So lets say you commute to work 30 minutes in morning and evening, there's your hour of studying audio. Or you go for a walk at lunch for 15 minutes, and browse tumblr for an hour scrolling (that's 1 hour and 15 minutes of study). It's very easy to fit 30 minutes of audio study into a day, and it's fairly easy to fit even 2-4 hours of audio study if you're so inclined. I usually do 30 minutes - 2 hours of audio study some days, since when I walk I decide if I feel like listening to a youtube essay or chinese or japanese stuff, when driving I decide which I feel like listening to, and I want to listen to something in english 2/3 of the time.

How do you use audio study material? Well, the easy way is you just press play on it, let it play in the background while you do other stuff, and that's it. If you tend to avoid studying new stuff (like me), then I recommend PRIORITIZING listening to NEW AUDIO every time, until you get into the habit of listening to NEW stuff to learn. Then you can re-listen to stuff sometimes, as review, especially when you're doing activities you have less attention on audio during. So for example: you'd listen to new audio on the commute or when walking (when you can mostly focus on what you're hearing), and then re-listen to audio as review while working or scrolling tumblr and reading english (activities where you pay more attention to other things besides audio).

What can you listen to?

There's audio lessons - which would be something like ChinesePod101 (Immersive Language Chinese in the Hoopla library app), Coffee Break Chinese, youtube videos where teachers talk in english and explain chinese as they teach it. These are good for study material, because you comprehend what you're learning due to the english explanations of every word and grammar point you hear. These are good for beginners, because you will understand everything you're listening to, and learn new words and grammar, thanks to the explanations. The drawback with audio lessons is they require the most focus.

There's learner podcasts like TeaTime Chinese and Slow Chinese, these are more often ENTIRELY in chinese. So these are better for practicing comprehension of stuff you've studied elsewhere, rather than for learning new things. You can learn new words and grammar from these, but if that is your goal then re-listen to learner podcasts a decent amount (5-20 times or more until you can't guess/figure out any more word meanings).

There's audio flashcards (which I love). These are sentence audio in english, then repeated in chinese. The order may vary, the chinese may be repeated more than once. These are good for beginners and upward, because you get a translation of every single thing you hear in chinese. You can pick up new words and grammar from audio flashcards. Audio flashcards require less focus than audio lessons, because you can learn from sentences while you pay attention and then if your attention drifts you can just focus again to the next sentence you hear and continue learning. The drawback is there are no explanations for which word specifically translates to what, some translations are not literal, and there's no explanation of why the grammar is the way it is. Audio flashcards require the listener to try and guess what means what by exposure to chinese sentences and their translations. So it's harder than audio lessons in terms of explanations, but easier than learner podcasts. Audio flashcards are the best substitute for traditional flashcards or SRS apps like anki, if you're trying to improve your vocabulary by hundreds of words ASAP. Audio flashcards are dense with new vocabulary (usually 1 new word or grammar point per sentence you can learn), so you'll learn more words than you would with an audio lesson that is paced slower with more english explanations or a learner podcast which would ideally be mostly words you know and only 20% or less new words.

There's Spoonfed Chinese Anki audio files (which I recommend since these start out very basic and increase in difficulty while also repeating words a lot so you can review, they're shared on reddit if you search, or ask me), if you search 'chinese english sentences' on youtube or bilibili (i've done this with chinese japanese sentences on bilibili) you'll find videos like this where you hear audio english then audio chinese. Old glossika cd files are basically this structure as well, which you can find the audio files of for free online or free in libraries (I'm using the new glossika app for japanese but I'm hesitant to recommend the modern app courses as there's significant errors in japanese so I'm not sure how good/bad the chinese one is). If you're a beginner, then the audio flashcard material you pick won't matter much as you need to learn a few thousand common words first which will be in most materials you find. But if you're an upper beginner, you may wish to prioritize finding audio flashcards with MORE unique words, more sentences, or may want to transition to using learner podcasts more for new vocabulary. If you aren't running into at least one new word for every 5 sentences you hear in audio flashcards (and ideally one new word for Every sentence), then that audio flashcard is way too easy for you and you know enough words to move onto new study material.

Audiobooks and audio dramas - use these like learner podcasts, listen to ones you can comprehend the main idea of, and then re-listen until you can't guess/figure out any more new words. If you're not very good at listening comprehension (like me lol), then you may want to listen to a given audiobook/audio drama file 3-5 times before deciding if you can comprehend the main idea (and use the material). When my listening skills are rusty, or just in general since my listening skills are bad, it can take me a few times of listening to recognize words I 'already know' and then a few more times of listening for my brain to put the words i recognize together into 'comprehending' what was communicated. So if you can read better than you can listen, you may want to listen 3-5+ times to a new audio file before deciding if you can follow the main idea or if it's too hard. And if you can READ the audio drama transcript, chapter text, but cannot understand the audio file? Then it probably IS at a good level for you to listen to, you just need a lot more practice hearing and recognizing the words you can read. So re-listen.

All of these listening study methods are good for:

Adding more study time into your day, since you can do them while doing other things.

Learning new words and grammar, when you don't have the time (or don't want) to spend time dedicated mainly to focusing on your study material.

Learning new words and grammar, if you don't use flashcards or SRS like anki but want the benefit of learning lots 'faster' than you would if you only picked up words during active study time (active study time being when you ONLY are focusing on study activities: like reading chinese, watching cdramas, chatting/texting people, and looking up words)