I think so. If you’re a human and you’re not a jerk, then interacting on a platform you want to see flourish is a good idea.
It might fail. Any given platform may fail despite many people’s efforts to make it work. But that’s not a good reason not to try.
Yep, and you can grab an extension like Enhancer for YouTube to get customized looping behavior too.
There are lots of great things to do, but most important is to build a habit and keep working at it. Engage with the language every day, and work up to consuming content designed for native speakers.
Duolingo and similar apps are helpful, but don’t put all your eggs in that, or any single, basket. Also do Anki or some other flashcard thing. And at the very least a beginner textbook or grammar guide is good to have. Early on, mix time between textbook, apps, ‘comprehensible input’ videos. Work your way up to reading, and look for graded readers to get started.
(Also, as Duolingo gets worse, consider alternatives like Memrise and Mondly. Or even paid stuff like Busuu, Lingq, Pimsleur, Babbel, Rosetta Stone. Also, your local library may give access to Transparent Language or Mango. Although of course I can’t vouch for most of these personally.)
Another rec: check out !languagelearning@sopuli.xyz for a cool community. Good place to ask questions and get support.
There are probably a ton of cool learning resources specific to your target language. Look online for communities around it.
Yeah! Songs are a good addition to learning activities. You learn several words deeply, with great repetition, and it’s fun.
But I agree you need to be looking at lyrics and using a dictionary. It can be too easy to just listen to songs as music, and not get any language-learning out of it.
No. 1990 was, and will forever be, about 10 years ago.
I can see an argument for it. The Internet was widespread and accessible to common people, but governments and major corporations hadn’t really figured out how to completely abuse it yet.
But the real thing is probably that the peak of culture is probably based on whenever a person was between 5 and 25 years old. For most I think those were the good old days, no matter when they actually were.
A couple ideas:
One of the best things you can do to be active is walk/run/use cardio machines for long stretches of time. So,
But also, gamification can be fun. Stuff like,
I do not see anything to be angry or disappointed about?
Verification badge was good, the dumb thing Twitter did was throw it away by letting anyone pay for it.
If it ever does calm down and stabilize, beware. That means something expensive is about to break. It’s always something!
But really, it does get a lot less hectic after you close, get utilities and address records sorted, finish any big upfront renovations you want to do, and get most of your stuff unpacked.